# Seita Nonaka

Seita Nonaka (野中 誠太, Nonaka Seita, born 25 October 2000) 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. He is part of the TGR Driver Challenge Program.

## Career
### F4 Japan

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. 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.

### Super Formula Lights

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. Nonaka competed all but 1 from 6 rounds.
The next two 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 in 2022, and finished 7th with 4 podiums in 2023. He continues the series for the third season with TOM'S again.
And Nonaka stayed for his fourth season in 2024, and he stayed with TOM'S once again.

### Super GT

Nonaka makes his Super GT GT300 debut with Team Tsuchiya with Takashi Matsui partnering him. He continues racing with the same team, but with new partner Togo Suganami. 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. 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. Nonaka promoted to full time seat with 2023 GT300 champion team Saitama Green Brave as he replaces Kohta Kawaai.

### Other series

On 2023, Nonaka raced in GT World Challenge Asia with Toyota Gazoo Racing Indonesia. He claimed 5 wins from 6 races. Nonaka stayed with the team for SRO Japan Cup for two seasons in 2024 and 2025.

## Racing record
### Career summary

| 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 |
| 2021 | Super Formula Lights | TOM'S | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 24 | 7th |
| 2021 | 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 |
| 2022 | Super GT - GT300 | Hoppy Team Tsuchiya | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 34th |
| 2022 | Super Taikyu - ST-Z | Corolla Shin-Ibaraki CSIRacing | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 107‡ | 3rd‡ |
| 2022 | Super Taikyu - ST-Z | My Cars CSIRacing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 107‡ | 3rd‡ |
| 2023 | GT World Challenge Asia - GT4 | Toyota Gazoo Racing Indonesia | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 143 | 2nd |
| 2023 | Super Formula Lights | TOM'S | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 36 | 7th |
| 2023 | Super GT - GT300 | Hoppy Team Tsuchiya | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 25th |
| 2023 | Super GT - GT300 | Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 25th |
| 2023 | Super Taikyu - ST-Z | Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 174‡ | 1st‡ |
| 2024 | Super Formula Lights | TOM'S | 18 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 77 | 3rd |
| 2024 | SRO Japan Cup - GT4 | Toyota Gazoo Racing Indonesia | 6 | 1 | 4 | ? | 5 | 103 | 6th |
| 2024 | Super GT - GT300 | Saitama Green Brave | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 29 | 9th |
| 2024 | Super Taikyu - ST-Z | Saitama Green Brave | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 128‡ | 1st‡ |
| 2024 | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie - SP10 | Toyota Gazoo Racing | | | | | | | |
| 2024 | TGR GR86/BRZ Cup | Corolla Shin-Ibaraki CSIRacing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC |
| 2025 | Super GT - GT300 | Saitama Green Brave | | | | | | | |
| 2025 | Super Taikyu - ST-Z | Saitama Green Brave | | | | | | | |
| 2025 | SRO Japan Cup - GT4 | Toyota Gazoo Racing Indonesia | | | | | | | |
| 2025 | Super Formula | Itochu Enex Wecars Team Impul | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21st* |
| 2025 | Super Formula | Kids com Team KCMG | | | | | | 0 | 21st* |
| 2025 | Super Formula Lights | TOM'S | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC |
$^*$ Season still in progress. ‡ Team standings

### Complete F4 Japanese Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers)
| Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | DC | Points |
| 2019 | TOM'S Spirit | OKA 1 2 | OKA 2 3 | FUJ1 1 4 | FUJ1 2 8 | SUZ 1 35 | SUZ 2 7 | FUJ2 1 29 | FUJ2 2 11 | AUT 1 10 | AUT 2 10 | SUG 1 7 | SUG 2 4 | MOT 1 7 | MOT 2 6 | 8th | 89 |
| 2020 | TGR-DC Racing School | FUJ1 1 2 | FUJ1 2 3 | FUJ1 3 2 | SUZ 1 3 | SUZ 2 4 | SUZ 3 11 | MOT 1 3 | MOT 2 6 | MOT 3 4 | FUJ2 1 Ret | FUJ2 2 5 | FUJ2 3 7 | | | 3rd | 123 |
| 2021 | TGR-DC Racing School | FUJ1 1 3 | FUJ1 2 1 | SUZ 1 28 | SUZ 2 7 | MOT1 1 1 | MOT1 2 1 | MOT1 3 1 | SUG 1 5 | SUG 2 7 | SUG 3 2 | MOT2 1 4 | MOT2 2 Ret | FUJ2 1 1 | FUJ2 2 1 | 1st | 217 |

### 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 | TOM'S | FUJ 1 10 | FUJ 2 3 | FUJ 3 6 | SUZ 1 3 | SUZ 2 5 | SUZ 3 7 | AUT 1 Ret | AUT 2 5 | AUT 3 C | SUG 1 6 | SUG 2 Ret | SUG 3 7 | MOT 1 5 | MOT 2 5 | MOT 3 3 | MOT 1 | MOT 2 | MOT 3 | 7th | 24 |
| 2022 | TOM'S | FUJ 1 1 | FUJ 2 5 | FUJ 3 3 | SUZ 1 3 | SUZ 2 12 | SUZ 3 6 | AUT 1 3 | AUT 2 3 | AUT 3 3 | SUG 1 4 | SUG 2 6 | SUG 3 3 | MOT 1 9 | MOT 2 2 | MOT 3 8 | OKA 1 4 | OKA 2 7 | OKA 3 3 | 4th | 63 |
| 2023 | TOM'S | AUT 1 6 | AUT 2 5 | AUT 3 10 | SUG 1 6 | SUG 2 9 | SUG 3 4 | SUZ 1 3 | SUZ 2 3 | SUZ 3 3 | FUJ 1 7 | FUJ 2 6 | FUJ 3 9 | OKA 1 3 | OKA 2 5 | OKA 3 Ret | MOT 1 5 | MOT 2 4 | MOT 3 7 | 7th | 36 |
| 2024 | TOM'S | AUT 1 1 | AUT 2 3 | AUT 3 1 | SUG 1 4 | SUG 2 7 | SUG 3 1 | FUJ 1 7 | FUJ 2 4 | FUJ 3 3 | OKA 1 4 | OKA 2 Ret | OKA 3 4 | SUZ 1 1 | SUZ 2 4 | SUZ 3 1 | MOT 1 Ret | MOT 2 8 | MOT 3 6 | 3rd | 77 |
| 2025 | TOM'S | SUZ 1 WD | SUZ 2 WD | SUZ 3 WD | AUT 1 | AUT 2 | AUT 3 | OKA 1 | OKA 2 | OKA 3 | SUG 1 | SUG 2 | SUG 3 | FUJ 1 | FUJ 2 | FUJ 3 | MOT 1 | MOT 2 | MOT 3 | NC | 0 |

### Complete Super GT Results

| 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 | Hoppy Team Tsuchiya | Toyota GR Supra GT300 | GT300 | OKA 12 | FUJ 10 | SUZ 17 | FUJ Ret | SUZ | SUG | | | 25th | 1 |
| 2023 | Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave | Toyota GR Supra GT300 | GT300 | | | | | | | AUT 1 | MOT | 25th | 1 |
| 2024 | Saitama Green Brave | Toyota GR Supra GT300 | GT300 | OKA 4 | FUJ 3 | SUZ 5 | FUJ 23 | SUG DNS | AUT 18 | MOT 7 | SUZ 11 | 9th | 29 |
| 2025 | Saitama Green Brave | Toyota GR Supra GT300 | GT300 | OKA | FUJ | SEP | FUJ | SUZ | SUG | AUT | MOT | | |

### Complete Super Formula results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Team | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | DC | Points |
| 2025 | Itochu Enex Wecars Team Impul | Toyota | SUZ 17 | SUZ 19 | | | | | | | | | | | 21st* | 0 |
| 2025 | Kids com Team KCMG | Toyota | | | MOT | MOT | AUT | FUJ | FUJ | SUG | FUJ | FUJ | SUZ | SUZ | 21st* | 0 |
$^*$ Season still in progress.