| Seita Nonaka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality: |  Japanese | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 25 October 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Saitama, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Racing Licence: | FIA Gold | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current Series: | Super GT - GT300 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Year: | 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current Team: | Saitama Green Brave | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Car Number: | 52 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former Teams: | Hoppy Team Tsuchiya | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Starts: | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins: | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Podiums: | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Poles: | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fastest Laps: | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best Finish: | 25th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Year: | 2023
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is a racing driver from Japan who currently competes in Super GT and Super Formula Lights. He was the former F4 Japanese Championship title winner in 2021.
Nonaka started racing in 2019, competing in F4 Japanese Championship with TOM'S Spirit and managed to claim 8th in his rookie season. He stayed in the same series, but joined TGR-DC Racing School.[1] In that season, he claimed 3rd place in the final standings. Nonaka once again continues to compete in the same series for the third season for 2021 with the same team from 2020. That season he clinches the title from Rin Arakawa & Iori Kimura in the last round at Fuji Speedway.[2] In the same year of 2021, he competed in Super Formula Lights where he replaces Kazuto Kotaka who originally should compete in the series, but have to race in Super Formula with KCMG covered Kamui Kobayashi who can't compete in Japan due to travel restrictions.[3] Nonaka competed all but 1 from 6 rounds. The next season Nonaka continues racing win Super Formula Lights with the same team, and he claimed a win and 9 podiums where he managed to be at 4th place.[4] He continues the series for the third season with TOM'S again.[5]
Nonaka stays with the team for his third season, unfortunate for him he did not win a race, and just managed to get cople of podiums and placed him in 7th place. After uneventful year, Nonaka gets another chance to continue to race in Super Formula Lights with TOM'S again.
Nonaka makes his Super GT GT300 debut with Team Tsuchiya with Takashi Matsui partnering him.[6] He continues racing with the same team, but with new partner Togo Suganami.[7] Unfortunately he only managed ot race for 4 rounds as the last round he did at Fuji Speedway, his car caught on fire and burned badly and Nonaka safely out from the incident..[8] Nonaka joined Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave as a third driver. He wins the race but did not take a single lap thus did not classified for points.[9]
On 2023, Nonaka raced in GT World Challenge Asia with Toyota Gazoo Racing Indonesia. He claimed 5 wins from 6 races.[10] Nonaka moves to recently 2023 GT300 champion team Saitama Green Brave as he replaces Kohta Kawaai.[11]
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Poles | FLaps | Podiums | Points | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | F4 Japanese Championship | TOM'S Spirit | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 89 | 8th |
| 2020 | F4 Japanese Championship | TGR-DC Racing School | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 123 | 3rd |
| 2021 | F4 Japanese Championship | TGR-DC Racing School | 14 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 217 | 1st |
| Super Formula Lights | TOM'S | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 24 | 7th | |
| Super Taikyu - ST-2 | Kobe Toyopet Motor Sports | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 100‡ | 3rd‡ | |
| 2022 | Super Formula Lights | TOM'S | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 63 | 4th |
| Super GT - GT300 | Hoppy Team Tsuchiya | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 34th | |
| Super Taikyu - ST-Z | Corolla Shin-Ibaraki CSIRacing | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 107‡ | 3rd‡ | |
| My Cars CSIRacing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||
| 2023 | Super Formula Lights | TOM'S | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 36 | 7th |
| Super GT - GT300 | Hoppy Team Tsuchiya | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 25th | |
| Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| GT World Challenge Asia - GT4 | Toyota Gazoo Racing Indonesia | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 143 | 2nd | |
| Super Taikyu - ST-Z | Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174‡ | 1st‡ | |
| 2024 | Super Formula Lights | TOM'S | |||||||
| Super GT - GT300 | Saitama Green Brave | ||||||||
| Super Taikyu - ST-Z | |||||||||
| Japan Cup Series - GT4 | Toyota Gazoo Racing Indonesia | ||||||||
| Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie - SP10 | Toyota Gazoo Racing |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers)
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Team | Car | Class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | DC | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Hoppy Team Tsuchiya | Toyota GR Supra GT300 | GT300 | OKA 22 | FUJ 11 | SUZ Ret | FUJ | SUZ 15 | SUG 10 | AUT 16 | MOT Ret | 34th | 1 |
| 2023 | OKA 12 | FUJ 10 | SUZ 17 | FUJ Ret | SUZ | SUG | 25th | 1 | |||||
| Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave | AUT 1 | MOT | |||||||||||
| 2024 | Saitama Green Brave | OKA | FUJ | SUZ | FUJ | SUZ | SUG | AUT | MOT |