Williams F1 junior O’Sullivan lands 2025 Tremendous System seat with Kondo

Williams System 1 junior driver Zak O’Sullivan has been introduced at Kondo Racing as a part of a 13-strong Toyota roster for the 2025 Tremendous System season.

After driving on the ultimate day of the Suzuka post-season check earlier this month, O’Sullivan will race Kondo’s #4 automobile full-time subsequent season, becoming a member of Kenta Yamashita on the squad.

The ex-System 2 racer was one in every of three worldwide drivers who participated within the Suzuka check together with fellow Briton James Hedley and his former F2 rival Juan Manuel Correa.

O’Sullivan replaces Kazuto Kotaka at Kondo, however Kotaka will stay on the grid as a part of the newly-created TGMGP TGR-DC staff.

The staff, which carries the identify of Toyota’s home younger driver programme and boasts sponsorship from communications firm KDDI, will utilise employees from Servus Japan, which ran the TGM effort this yr with Honda engines.

Kotaka is joined within the staff by fellow Toyota junior Hibiki Taira, whereas Seita Nonaka, who impressed testing for KCMG at Suzuka this month, is known as as reserve.

Elsewhere within the Toyota line-up, Sacha Fenestraz is confirmed as Sho Tsuboi’s team-mate at TOM’S because the Argentinian driver takes on a double programme that can even see him return to the marque’s SUPER GT roster with Group SARD.

Ex-Jota World Endurance Championship racer Oliver Rasmussen has additionally earned a full-time seat with Group Impul off the again of his check displaying this yr.

The Danish driver joins Mitsunori Takaboshi at Impul, because the Nissan SUPER GT common steps up from his earlier function driving Toyota’s improvement automobile.

KCMG (Kamui Kobayashi/Nirei Fukuzumi), Inging (Sena Sakaguchi/Toshiki Oyu) and Rookie Racing (Kazuya Oshima) all function an identical line-ups to this season.

There is no such thing as a room within the expanded Toyota roster for Ukyo Sasahara, who was one other driver to check for Kondo however misplaced out to O’Sullivan in his bid for a full-time seat with the staff.