After his worst SFormula finish in three years at Fuji, is it game over for Tomoki Nojiri's 'three-peat' hopes?
Nojiri trailed home a disappointing eighth in Sunday’s sixth round of the season, 26 seconds behind Mugen team-mate and race winner Liam Lawson, marking his lowest finishing position since the second round of the 2020 season at Okayama.
And while that may not sound like an insurmountable gap with 69 points left up for grabs , the fact is that a serious step up in terms of performance is going to be needed to have any chance at all of threatening Miyata and Lawson. The undercut effect got him temporarily ahead of late stoppers Naoki Yamamoto and Ryo Hirakawa, who came in on laps 24 and 30 respectively, but on older tyres he was always going to be vulnerable to the pair. He slipped behind Yamamoto at the start of lap 32 and two laps later he fell prey to Hirakawa, dropping him back to eighth for the finish.
It appears that the reigning champion has never fully managed to overcome his initial unease with the SF23, with its reduction in rear downforce compared to the old SF19.
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