Miki Koyama

**Mihime "Miki" Koyama** (**小山 美姫** in Japanese; born 5 September 1997 in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese racing driver, who competes in the 2020 BRSCC W Series Championship, using #85 as her race number. A veteran of the F4 Japanese Championship, **Koyama** entered the W Series in 2019, becoming the first driver to record fastest lap as she finished seventh in the 2019 Championship.

## Background

Koyama began her season racing in karts, before attending the Formula Toyota Racing School and obtaining a seat in the F4 Japanese Championship in 2015. After four appearances, Koyama would return for a handful of races in 2016, before getting the chance to complete a full Japanese F4 season in 2017. 34th in the Championship was the result as she failed to score, before claiming ten points in the 2018 edition of the Championship to claim fifteenth.

For 2019 Koyama secured a part-time seat in F4 Japan with the Honda Formula Dream Project, as well a few runs at the F3 Asian Championship.

## W Series History

Koyama was one of the original 55 drivers to submit an entry to the 2019 Driver Selection Test, and duly secured a full season seat for the 2019 BRSCC W Series Championship, registering #85 as her race number.

### A Japanese Hope: 2019

Koyama opened her season with a poor qualifying performance for the season opening 2019 Hockenheim Race, although she would carve her way back up the field with fastest lap to secure seventh. At the following round in Zolder Koyama would find herself once again having to fight up the field, making her way up to eighth for four points. The following round in Misano would be Koyama's strongest race of the season, as she rose from sixth on the grid to claim fourth, having elbowed her way past Vicky Piria and Marta García.

At the Norisring Koyama would have a lonely run to sixth from ninth on the grid, fending off Sabré Cook for most of the race. At the 2019 Assen Race Koyama would fare rather poorly however, as she was smacked by a spinning Tasmin Pepper and was forced to retire with damage. She then rounded out the season with a run to last at the Season Finale, receiving a drive-through penalty for starting out of position, before damaging her car with two off-track excursions.

Regardless of her poor end to the campaign, Koyama would finish the season in seventh in the Championship with 30 points, ensuring that she secured an automatic qualification spot for the following season.

### A Commanding Performance?: 2020

Koyama confirmed that she would return to the W Series for the 2020 season, once again using #55 as her race number.

## Full W Series Record

Shown below are a series of tables outlining Miki Koyama's career in the W Series in statistical form.

### W Series Entries

The list below includes all of the teams and cars, as well as overall finishing positions for Miki Koyama during their W Series career:

 2020 | 85

### Career Results

Below is a table showing Miki Koyama's full W Series record.

 *7th* | 8th

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 'W Series announces 18 drivers for 2020 season', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 21/10/2019), https://wseries.com/w-hub/w-series-announces-18-drivers-for-2020-season/, (Accessed 01/04/2020)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 [Archived] '2019 W Series Drivers', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20200321160627/https://wseries.com/2019-drivers/, (Accessed 04/04/2020) - Original
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 [Archived] 'The Weekend at Hockenheim', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20191013101433/https://wseries.com/races/hockenheim/, (Accessed 01/04/2020) - Original
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 'Miki Koyama', *driverdb.com*, (Driver Database, 2020), https://www.driverdb.com/drivers/miki-koyama/, (Accessed 07/04/2020)
5. ↑ [Archived] 'Zolder, Belgium', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506170558/https://wseries.com/races/zolder/, (Accessed 02/04/2020) - Original
6. ↑ [Archived] 'Misano, Italy', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506173425/https://wseries.com/races/misano/, (Accessed 02/04/2020) - Original
7. ↑ [Archived] 'Norisring, Germany', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506102913/https://wseries.com/races/norisring/, (Accessed 03/04/2020) - Original
8. ↑ [Archived] 'Assen, The Netherlands', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506100417/https://wseries.com/races/assen/, (Accessed 03/04/2020) - Original
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 [Archived] 'Brands Hatch, UK', *wseries.com*, (W Series Limited, 2019), https://web.archive.org/web/20190506194151/https://wseries.com/races/brands-hatch/, (Accessed 03/04/2020) - Original