Toshiki Oyu

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Toshiki Oyu
Nationality Japan Japanese
Born (1998-08-04) August 4, 1998 (age 25)
Sapporo, Japan
Super Formula career
Debut season 2020
Current team TCS Nakajima Racing
Car no. 64
Starts 14
Wins 1
Poles 0
Fastest laps 1
Best finish 5th in 2021
Super GT career
Debut season 2021
Current team ARTA
Car no. 8
Former teams Team Red Bull Mugen
Starts 16
Wins 0
Poles 1
Fastest laps 0
Best finish 14th in 2020
Previous series
2020
2018-19
2016-17		 Super GT GT300
Japanese F3
Japanese F4

Toshiki Oyu (大湯 都史樹 Ōyu Toshiki?) (born August 4, 1998) is a Japanese racing driver. He currently competes in Super GT for Team Mugen[1] and in Super Formula for TCS Nakajima Racing.[2]

Career

Early career

Oyu made his motorsport debut in karting in 2007. He raced mainly in Japan and won a number of championships there. In 2015, he made his formula racing debut in the Super FJ Okayama Challenge Cup, which he won. In 2016, he made the move to the JAF Japanese Formula 4 Championship, where he became champion in both the Western and Eastern divisions. He also competed in the Japanese Formula 4 Championship with the Rn-sports team. He won two races at the Sportsland SUGO and the Suzuka International Racing Course and also took the podium at the Twin Ring Motegi. With 126 points, he finished third in the standings behind Ritomo Miyata and Sena Sakaguchi.

In 2017, Oyu continued to drive in Japanese Formula 4 Championship, moving to the HFDP team as a Honda protégé. He took three wins at Autopolis, Fuji Speedway and Motegi and took four other podium finishes. However, he also had a number of retirements, eventually finishing fourth in the final standings with 166 points, behind Ritomo Miyata, Ukyo Sasahara and Yuki Tsunoda.

Formula 3

In 2018, Oyu made the move to the Japanese Formula 3 Championship, racing for the TODA Racing. He took four podium finishes at SUGO, the Okayama International Circuit and Motegi (twice) and finished sixth in the overall standings with 39 points. At the end of the season, he made his debut for Toda in the Macau Grand Prix, finishing sixteenth.

In 2019, Oyu remained active in Japanese Formula 3 with TODA. He won a race at SUGO and took five other podium finishes. With 60 points he finished fourth in the championship behind Sacha Fenestraz, Ritomo Miyata and Enaam Ahmed. He also drove his first races in Europe at the Silverstone Euroformula Open round with Team Motopark, replacing Yuki Tsunoda, who at the time was participating in the FIA Formula 3 Championship. Oyu took pole position and victory in both races to earn 52 championship points, which were enough to claim fourteenth place in the final standings.

Super Formula & Super GT

In 2020, Oyu made his debut in both Super Formula with the TCS Nakajima Racing team and in the GT300 class of the Super GT with ARTA in a Honda NSX GT3 Evo. In Super Formula he had a difficult start but at the end of the season he won a race at Suzuka and took a podium at Fuji to finish sixth in the championship with 41 points. In the Super GT, he shared the car with Shinichi Takagi and Nobuharu Matsushita, with whom he took two podium finishes at Fuji. He finished fourth overall with 45 points.

In 2021, Oyu remained active in Super Formula with Nakajima, and moved to the GT500 class within Super GT, where he shared the car with Ukyo Sasahara at Team Red Bull Mugen.

Racing record

Career summary

Season Series Team Races Wins Poles FLaps Podiums Points Position
2016 F4 Japanese Championship Rn-sports 13 2 1 2 3 126 3rd
2017 F4 Japanese Championship HFDP 13 3 4 2 7 166 4th
2018 Japanese Formula 3 Championship Toda Racing 19 0 0 0 4 39 6th
Macau Grand Prix 1 0 0 0 0 N/A 16th
2019 Japanese Formula 3 Championship Toda Racing 20 1 0 0 6 60 4th
Euroformula Open Championship Motopark 2 2 2 0 2 52 13th
2020 Super Formula TCS Nakajima Racing 7 1 0 0 2 41 6th
Super GT - GT300 ARTA 8 0 0 0 2 45 4th
2021 Super Formula TCS Nakajima Racing 7 0 0 2 2 41 5th
Super GT Team Red Bull Mugen 8 0 1 0 0 20 16th
2022 Super Formula TCS Nakajima Racing 10 0 1 1 1 43 8th
Super GT Team Red Bull Mugen 4 0 0 0 0 0.5* 14th*
2023 Super Formula TGM Grand Prix
Super GT ARTA

*Season still in progress

Complete Macau Grand Prix results

Year Team Car Qualifying Quali Race Main race
2018 Japan Toda Racing Dallara F317 26th 21st 16th

Complete Super Formula results

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 DC Points
2020 TCS Nakajima Racing MOT
15		 OKA
15		 SUG
12		 AUT
10		 SUZ
8		 SUZ
1		 FUJ
2		 6th 41
2021 TCS Nakajima Racing FUJ
2		 SUZ
10		 AUT
7		 SUG
2		 MOT
6		 MOT
14		 SUZ
11		 5th 41
2022 TCS Nakajima Racing FUJ
7		 FUJ
11		 SUZ
13		 AUT
Ret		 SUG
2		 FUJ
10		 MOT
Ret3		 MOT
5		 SUZ
43		 SUZ
7		 8th 43

* Season still in progress

Complete Super GT results

Year Team Car Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 DC Pts
2020 ARTA Honda NSX GT3 Evo GT300 FUJ
7		 FUJ
3		 SUZ
26		 MOT
7		 FUJ
2		 SUZ
7		 MOT
8		 FUJ
7		 4th 45
2021 Team Red Bull Mugen Honda NSX-GT GT500 OKA
11		 FUJ
11		 SUZ
4		 MOT
9		 SUG
9		 AUT
Ret		 MOT
5		 FUJ
10		 16th 20
2022 Team Red Bull Mugen Honda NSX-GT GT500 OKA
12		 FUJ
10‡		 SUZ
13		 FUJ
13		 SUZ
 SUG
 AUT
 MOT
 14th* 0.5*

‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.
* Season still in progress

References

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