Kazuya Oshima

**Kazuya Oshima** (**大嶋 和也** in Japanese; born 30 April 1987) is a Japanese racing driver who competes for UOMO Sunoco Team LeMans in the 2019 Super Formula Championship. A veteran of both Super Formula and Super GT, **Oshima** has been a Toyota associated driver since making his SF debut in 2009, although has only competed in the series intermittently since 2012.

## Background

Oshima's career would begin with a few races in karting, before moving into his first race car seat in 2004, aged sixteen. Those outings were in the Formula Renault Asian Challenge, before Oshima secured a full-season in the Formula Toyota Series in 2005. It proved to be an excellent debut campaign for Oshima, with the Japanese racer ending the season as the Formula Toyota Champion with three wins.

### GTs and Formulas

Toyota signed Oshima as a factory affiliated driver as a result of his Formula Toyota exploits, with the Japanese racer duly fast tracked into Super GT in 2006. Oshima subsequently became the youngest ever starter in Super GT that season, en-route to fifteenth in the GT300 class. Oshima also gained a seat in the All-Japan Formula 3 Championship, and duly challenged for the title throughout, only to lose to Adrian Sutil on the final day.

2007 proved to be Oshima's best of his junior campaigns, with the Japanese ace sweeping to the title in Japanese F3. Oshima also helped his APR Toyota team to the GT300 title, and finished third in the Macau Grand Prix at the end of the season. For 2008 Oshima raced in a variety of series including the Formula 3 Euro Series, claiming one victory en-rote to nineteenth in the Championship.

## Super Formula History

Oshima was first handed a seat in the Formula Nippon Championship ahead of the 2009 campaign, signing for the Toyota backed Petronas Team TOM'S squad alongside André Lotterer.

## Full Super Formula Record

Shown below are a series of tables outlining Kazuya Oshima's career in Super Formula in statistical form.

### Super Formula Entries

The list below includes all of the teams and cars, as well as overall finishing positions for Kazuya Oshima during their SF career:

 2010 | Petronas Team TOM'S | 37
 2011 | Team LeMans | 7
 2012 | Team LeMans | 7
 2015 | Petronas Team TOM'S | 1
 2017 | Sunoco Team LeMans | 8
 2018 | UOMO Sunoco Team LeMans | 8
 2019 | UOMO Sunoco Team LeMans | 8

### Career Results

Below is a table showing Kazuya Oshima's full Super Formula record.

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## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Rachit Thukral, 'Markelov joins Super Formula as Toyota reveals 2019 drivers', *motorsport.com*, (Motorsport Network, 07/02/2019), https://www.motorsport.com/super-formula/news/toyota-super-formula-2019-line-up/4333541/, (Accessed 25/04/2019)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 'Kazuya Oshima', *driverdb.com*, (DriverDB AB, 2019), https://www.driverdb.com/drivers/kazuya-oshima/, (Accessed 05/05/2019)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 'Kazuya Oshima', *wikipedia.org*, (WikiMedia: Wikipedia, 30/11/2018), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuya\_Oshima, (Accessed 05/05/2019)
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