Team Goh has announced it will return to Super Formula competition under its own banner next season with a single Toyota-powered car.
The outfit, founded by Kazumichi Goh and best known for winning the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2004, is being relaunched after falling dormant since it last contested the Japanese single-seater series in 2022 with a pair of Honda-powered cars.
It will field a single car in next week’s post-season Suzuka test for Charlie Wurz, the son of ex-Formula 1 driver Alexander, who raced in FIA Formula 3 for Trident this season.
A statement issued by Team Goh on Friday announcing its relaunch underlined the team’s mission to “utilise Super Formula as a crucial platform to develop drivers capable of progressing to the highest levels of global motorsport”, as well as a desire to “contribute to enhancing the international value and reputation of the series itself”.
While the statement added its driver line-up will not be finalised until after the test, which runs for three days across 10-12 December, Wurz is expected to race for the team in 2026.
Team Goh first participated in Super Formula as an offshoot of Team Mugen before establishing its own two-car team in 2022 with the support of Red Bull.
It ran Red Bull junior driver Ren Sato and Atsushi Miyake that season, with both drivers scoring a single podium each, but morphed into TGM Grand Prix for the following season after Red Bull elected to reunite with Mugen ahead of the 2023 campaign.
TGM competed for two seasons as an independent team before switching from Honda to Toyota engines in 2025 as part of a deal to run the latter marque’s junior drivers.
Both Team Goh and TGM will run concurrently next season, with TGM set to field an all-new line-up comprising Toyota World Endurance Championship star Kamui Kobayashi and Super Formula Lights graduate Rikuto Kobayashi.
Super Formula revealed 33 of the 36 drivers that will participate in next week’s Suzuka test on Friday, with three slots still officially to be filled.
The entry list confirms Luke Browning will drive Kondo Racing’s #4 car on the second and third days of the test, with Super GT driver Teppei Natori filling in on the first day as Browning returns from his Williams F1 test duties in Abu Dhabi.
However, the #3 Kondo entry is still listed as 'TBN' amid widespread expectation that Browning and Alpine F1 outcast Jack Doohan will form the Toyota squad’s 2026 line-up.
TOM’S also has a pair of 'TBN' slots in its two Toyota-powered entries for the third day reserved for Super Formula rookies, with the team’s regular line-up of Sho Tsuboi and Sacha Fenestraz confirmed for the first two days of the test.
The entry list confirms that World Rally champion Kalle Rovanpera will be driving for KCMG on all three days of the test as he makes his Super Formula test debut.
Super Formula Lights driver Zach David is among the additional drivers named for the test on Friday, along with Honda junior Yuto Nomura, who won this year’s Lights title and is set to drive for B-Max Racing next year, and Japanese F4 champion Tokiya Suzuki.
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