2023 Super Formula Lights
The 2023 Super Formula Lights Championship is the fourth Super Formula Lights Championship season, after the Japanese Formula 3 Championship was rebranded following the end of the 2019 season. It features drivers competing in Dallara 320 chassis and with engines made by three different manufacturers, a similar regulation format to the Euroformula Open Championship. Teams and drivers

Team changes 
HELM Motorsport, who made their debut in the championship in 2022, left Super Formula Lights after already missing the final two rounds of 2022. Driver changes 
TOM'S signed 2021 Formula 4 UAE champion Enzo Trulli, who moved over to Japan to replace the reigning champion Kazuto Kotaka. Kotaka graduated to Super Formula with Kondō Racing. Toda Racing promoted reigning Japanese F4 champion Syun Koide to replace Kakunoshin Ohta at Toda Racing, as Ohta was promoted to Dandelion Racing in Super Formula. B-Max Racing's owner "Dragon" switched from using Spiess engines like the rest of his team to using a TOMEI engine for his car. The team signed two international drivers in David Vidales and Igor Fraga, both graduating from Formula 3, where the former came 16th in 2022 and the latter came 24th in 2020. Gentleman driver Takashi Hata rejoined the team after not competing in 2022, while Togo Suganami and Roberto Merhi left the series. HELM Motorsport's two drivers, Reiji and Yuya Hiraki, left the series when their team pulled out. Rn-sports saw all three of their drivers, gentleman driver Masayuki Ueda, as well as Kouta Kawaai and Seiya Motojima, who shared a cockpit in 2022, leave the series. The team signed Yuui Tsutsumi, who has been competing in Super GT since 2020. Mid-season changes 
Togo Suganami replaced Nobuhiro Imada in the No. 4 B-Max car for the Suzuka weekend. Imada was back for the round at Fuji, with Suganami switching to the No. 53 car of the same team to replace Takashi Hata. Both Hata and Imada returned for Okayama, so Suganami left the series. Yuui Tsutsumi and his team, Rn-sports, also did not attend round five. Race calendar 
The calendar for the 2023 season was announced on 30 November 2022. With the first event being in late May, the season started six weeks later than usual. Only three events will be held supporting the parent Super Formula Championship, a significant reduction from previous years. Race results

Championship standings 
The points are awarded as follows:

Every drivers' four worst results will be dropped. Drivers' championships

Overall

Masters' Class

Teams' standings

Engine manufacturer standings

References

Notes

External links 
 Super Formula Lights official website – Japanese / English

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