# Miki Koyama

Miki Koyama (小山 美姫, Koyama Miki, born 5 September 1997 in Yokohama) is a Japanese racing driver, currently racing in the Super GT Series GT300 class as a reserve driver for R'Qs Motor Sports. She is best known for her time racing in the W Series from 2019 to 2021, and for becoming the first woman to win an FIA-sanctioned, all-gender single-seater championship when she won the 2022 Formula Regional Japanese Championship. She is part of the TGR Driver Challenge Program.

## Biography
### Early Career

Having started racing in karts, Koyama attended the Formula Toyota Racing School before moving to Japanese F4 in 2015. She was the first champion of the all-women's Kyojo Cup series in 2017, and repeated as champion in 2018.

### W Series

In 2019, Koyama was announced as one of the 18 permanent drivers for the inaugural season of the W Series. At the first W Series round at Hockenheim, Koyama qualified 17th and finished 7th after setting the fastest lap of the race. During the remainder of the season, Koyama earned three more points finishes en route to 7th in the championship, and was named as a returning competitor for the 2020 W Series. While the 2020 season was abandoned due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Koyama returned to the series when it resumed in 2021. She also made a one-off entry into the Super Formula Lights championship at Fuji Speedway.

### Formula Regional Japanese

After two seasons in the W Series, Koyama was named as a Toyota Gazoo Racing Driver Challenge (TGR-DC) academy driver for the 2022 season. She raced full-time in the Formula Regional Japanese Championship for Super License, with backing from Toyota. Koyama won seven races and clinched the series title at the September meeting at Fuji.

### Super GT & Super Taikyu

On 7 February 2023, Koyama was announced as the third driver for Anest Iwata Racing with Arnage in the 2023 Super GT Series. Koyama became the first woman to race in the championship since Cyndie Allemann in 2012. She successfully passed her rookie orientation test at Fuji Speedway on 21 April, and competed for the first time in the fourth round at Fuji where she finished 19th in class. Koyama returned to the series as the reserve driver in R'Qs Motor Sports Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo for 2024, twinning this with full-time participation in apr's Lexus RC F GT3 in Super Taikyu. In the fifth round of Super Taikyu at Suzuka, Koyama became the second female driver to win a Super Taikyu race outright, and first since Hisami Sato in 1993.
Koyama then joins apr's GT300 as she partnered up with Oliver Rasmussen and Yuki Nemoto in the Lexus LC500h GT300.

### Other Series

Koyama joined the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia season for 2024 with Iron Lynx Theodore Racing, competing with Hon Chio Leong. The pairing scored five second-place finishes en route to 2nd in the standings behind Dan Wells.
At the end of 2024, Koyama partook in pre-season testing for Formula E with Abt Sportsline, as well as post-season Super Formula testing with KCMG.

## Racing record
### Career summary

| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Poles | F/Laps | Podiums | Points | Position |
| 2015 | F4 Japanese Championship | miNami aoYama with SARD | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50th |
| 2016 | F4 Japanese Championship | miNami aoYama Project | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32nd |
| 2016 | F4 Japanese Championship | Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32nd |
| 2017 | F4 Japanese Championship | leprix sport | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34th |
| 2017 | Super Taikyu Series - ST-4 | T's Concept | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC |
| 2017 | Kyojo Cup | J-Gear | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 40 | 1st |
| 2018 | F4 Japanese Championship | Field Motorsports | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 15th |
| 2018 | Kyojo Cup | Privateer | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 75 | 1st |
| 2019 | W Series | Hitech GP | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 7th |
| 2019 | F3 Asian Winter Series | B-Max Racing | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC |
| 2019 | F3 Asian Championship | B-Max Racing | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 15th |
| 2019 | F3 Asian Championship | BlackArts Racing Team | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 15th |
| 2019 | F4 Japanese Championship | Honda Formula Dream Project | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 17th |
| 2019–20 | F3 Asian Championship | BlackArts Racing Team | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16th |
| 2020 | Formula Regional Japanese Championship | Zap Speed | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 20th |
| 2021 | W Series | Sirin Racing | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 14th |
| 2021 | Super Formula Lights | B-Max Engineering | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13th |
| 2022 | Formula Regional Japanese Championship | Super License | 17 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 349 | 1st |
| 2023 | Super GT - GT300 | Anest Iwata Racing with Arnage | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC |
| 2023 | Macau Formula 4 Race | Super License | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | DNF |
| 2023 | TGR GR86/BRZ Cup | Kobe Toyopet Motor Sports | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC |
| 2024 | Super GT - GT300 | R'Qs Motor Sports | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC |
| 2024 | Super Taikyu - ST-X | apr | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 116 | 4th‡ |
| 2024 | Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia | SJM Iron Lynx Theodore Racing | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 86* | 2nd* |
| 2025 | Super GT - GT300 | apr | | | | | | | |
* Season still in progress. $^†$ As Koyama was a guest driver, she was ineligible for points.

### Complete F4 Japanese Championship Results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Rank | Points |
| 2015 | miNami aoYama with SARD | OKA 1 | OKA 2 | FSW 1 | FSW 2 | FSW 1 | FSW 2 | SUZ 1 | SUZ 2 | SUG 1 | SUG 2 | AUT 1 28 | AUT 2 26 | MOT 1 26 | MOT 2 26 | 50th | 0 |
| 2016 | miNami aoYama Project | OKA 1 Ret | OKA 2 11 | FUJ1 1 | FUJ1 2 | SUG 1 | SUG 2 | FUJ2 1 | FUJ2 2 | FUJ2 3 | SUZ 1 | SUZ 2 | | | | 32nd | 0 |
| 2016 | Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave | | | | | | | | | | | | MOT 1 28 | MOT 2 21 | MOT 3 24 | 32nd | 0 |
| 2017 | leprix sport | OKA 1 33 | OKA 2 DSQ | FUJ1 1 23 | FUJ1 2 22 | AUT 1 18 | AUT 2 21 | SUG 1 Ret | SUG 2 DNS | FUJ2 1 20 | FUJ2 2 30 | SUZ 1 21 | SUZ 2 21 | MOT 1 20 | MOT 2 20 | 34th | 0 |
| 2018 | Field Motorsports | OKA 1 16 | OKA 2 12 | FUJ1 1 7 | FUJ1 2 14 | SUZ 1 14 | SUZ 2 13 | FUJ2 1 9 | FUJ2 2 9 | SUG 1 15 | SUG 2 17 | AUT 1 11 | AUT 2 16 | MOT 1 12 | MOT 2 Ret | 15th | 10 |
| 2019 | Honda Formula Dream Project | OKA 1 | OKA 2 | FUJ1 1 | FUJ1 2 | SUZ 1 17 | SUZ 2 Ret | FUJ2 1 8 | FUJ2 2 13 | AUT 1 13 | AUT 2 14 | SUG 1 13 | SUG 2 9 | MOT 1 10 | MOT 2 11 | 17th | 7 |

### Complete F3 Asian Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | DC | Points |
| 2019 | B-Max Racing Team | SEP 1 | SEP 2 | SEP 3 | CHA 1 9 | CHA 2 8 | CHA 3 11 | | | | | | | | | | 15th | 18 |
| 2019 | BlackArts Racing Team | | | | | | | SUZ 1 12 | SUZ 2 7 | SUZ 3 7 | SIC1 1 | SIC1 2 | SIC1 3 | SIC2 1 | SIC2 2 | SIC2 3 | 15th | 18 |
| 2019–20 | BlackArts Racing Team | SEP 1 | SEP 2 | SEP 3 | DUB 1 | DUB 2 | DUB 3 | ABU 1 | ABU 2 | ABU 3 | SEP 1 10 | SEP 2 10† | SEP 3 9 | CHA 1 | CHA 2 | CHA 3 | 16th | 6 |

### Complete W Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | DC | Points |
| 2019 | Hitech GP | HOC 7 | ZOL 8 | MIS 4 | NOR 6 | ASS Ret | BRH 20 | | | 7th | 30 |
| 2021 | Sirin Racing | RBR 5 | RBR 18 | SIL Ret | HUN 12 | SPA 9 | ZAN 10 | COA 10 | COA 12 | 14th | 14 |

### Complete Formula Regional Japanese Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Pos | Points |
| 2020 | Zap Speed | FUJ1 1 | FUJ1 2 | FUJ1 3 | SUG 1 | SUG 2 | SUG 3 | FUJ2 1 7 | FUJ2 2 5 | MOT 1 | MOT 2 | OKA 1 | OKA 2 | AUT 1 | AUT 2 | | | | 20th | 16 |
| 2022 | Super License | FUJ1 1 2 | FUJ1 2 2 | FUJ1 3 3 | OKA 1 2 | OKA 2 1 | OKA 3 1 | MOT 1 1 | MOT 2 1 | MOT 3 1 | SUG 1 2 | SUG 2 2 | SUG 3 1 | FUJ2 1 1 | FUJ2 2 2 | FUJ2 3 1 | SUZ 1 2 | SUZ 2 3 | 1st | 349 |

### Complete Super Formula Lights results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Pos | Points |
| 2021 | B-Max Engineering | FUJ 1 7 | FUJ 2 8 | FUJ 3 7 | SUZ 1 | SUZ 2 | SUZ 3 | AUT 1 | AUT 2 | AUT 3 | SUG 1 | SUG 2 | SUG 3 | MOT1 1 | MOT1 2 | MOT1 3 | MOT2 1 | MOT2 2 | MOT2 3 | 13th | 0 |

### Complete Super GT results

(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 | Points |
| 2023 | Anest Iwata Racing with Arnage | Lexus RC F GT3 | GT300 | OKA | FUJ 14 | SUZ 17 | FUJ 19 | SUZ 10† | SUG | AUT 11 | MOT | NC | 0 |
| 2024 | R'Qs Motor Sports | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | GT300 | OKA | FUJ | SUZ 24 | FUJ 21 | SUG | AUT 23 | MOT | SUZ | NC | 0 |
| 2025 | apr | Lexus LC 500h GT | GT300 | OKA | FUJ | SEP | FUJ | SUZ | SUG | AUT | MOT | | |
$^†$ Koyama did not run during the race as a third driver and was ineligible for championship points.

### Complete Formula 4 South East Asia Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Pos | Points |
| 2023 | Super License | ZHU 1 | ZHU 2 | ZHU 3 | MAC 1 11 | MAC 2 Ret | SEP 1 | SEP 2 | SEP 3 | SEP 1 | SEP 2 | SEP 3 | NC† | 0† |