The Haas Components 1 crew has introduced that Tremendous Components champion Sho Tsuboi will participate in a TPC take a look at with its VF-23 at Fuji Speedway subsequent month.
Toyota manufacturing unit driver Tsuboi will be part of Haas reserve Ryo Hirakawa for the two-day take a look at on the Japanese monitor, which final hosted a grand prix in 2008, on 6-7 August.
It would mark Tsuboi’s first-ever expertise of grand prix equipment, and follows his maiden Tremendous Components title triumph with Toyota flagship crew TOM’S final 12 months.
The 30-year-old wrote on social media: “Thanks to Crew Haas and TGR [Toyota Gazoo Racing] for giving me this glorious alternative. After all, I’m very a lot trying ahead to driving the F1 automotive. I wish to make this the right day and take this once-in-a-lifetime probability to make my desires come true!”
Tsuboi’s maiden F1 take a look at alternative is the most recent manifestation of the collaboration between Haas and Toyota that was introduced final 12 months.
Sho Tsuboi, VANTELIN TEAM TOM’S
Photograph by: Masahide Kamio
Hirakawa has already pushed for the crew on a number of events, together with FP1 outings this 12 months in Bahrain and Spain, whereas Tsuboi’s predecessor as Tremendous Components champion Ritomo Miyata additionally drove for Haas at Jerez in January.
Tsuboi took final 12 months’s Tremendous Components title after changing Miyata at TOM’S following the latter’s transfer to Components 2, profitable three races at Fuji on his strategy to the crown.
He at present sits third within the Tremendous Components standings forward of this weekend’s sixth and seventh rounds at Fuji, behind Tadasuke Makino and Kakunoshin Ohta.
Tsuboi can also be a three-time title winner in Tremendous GT with TOM’S, and leads the standings in that championship in his bid for a fourth title within the area of 5 years.
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