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.

Seita Nonaka
Nonaka at the 2025 Super GT Malaysia Festival
Nationality	Japanese
Born	(2000-10-25) 25 October 2000 (age 24) Saitama, Japan
Super GT - GT300 career
Debut season	2022
Current team	Saitama Green Brave
Racing licence	FIA Gold
Car number	52
Former teams	Hoppy Team Tsuchiya
Starts	19
Wins	1
Podiums	2
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	9th in 2024
Previous series
2021-24 2023 2019-21	Super Formula Lights GT World Challenge Asia - GT4 F4 Japanese Championship
Championship titles
20221	F4 Japanese Championship

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.^[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]

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.^[3] 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.^[4] He continues the series for the third season with TOM'S again.^[5]

And Nonaka stayed for his fourth season in 2024, and he stayed with TOM'S once again.^[6]

Super GT

Nonaka makes his Super GT GT300 debut with Team Tsuchiya with Takashi Matsui partnering him.^[7] He continues racing with the same team, but with new partner Togo Suganami.^[8] 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.^[9] 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.^[10] Nonaka promoted to full time seat with 2023 GT300 champion team Saitama Green Brave as he replaces Kohta Kawaai.^[11]

Other series

On 2023, Nonaka raced in GT World Challenge Asia with Toyota Gazoo Racing Indonesia. He claimed 5 wins from 6 races.^[12] Nonaka stayed with the team for SRO Japan Cup for two seasons in 2024 and 2025.^[13][14]

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
	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	GT World Challenge Asia - GT4	Toyota Gazoo Racing Indonesia	6	5	4	4	6	143	2nd
	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
	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
	SRO Japan Cup - GT4	Toyota Gazoo Racing Indonesia	6	1	4	?	5	103	6th
	Super GT - GT300	Saitama Green Brave	8	0	0	0	1	29	9th
	Super Taikyu - ST-Z		7	2	1	0	4	128‡	1st‡
	Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie - SP10	Toyota Gazoo Racing
	TGR GR86/BRZ Cup	Corolla Shin-Ibaraki CSIRacing	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2025	Super GT - GT300	Saitama Green Brave	1	0	0	0	0	0*	NC*
	Super Taikyu - ST-Z		2	1	1	0	2	34‡*	1st‡*
	SRO Japan Cup - GT4	Toyota Gazoo Racing Indonesia
	Super Formula	Itochu Enex Wecars Team Impul	2	0	0	0	0	3	16th*
		Kids com Team KCMG	2	0	0	0	0
	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
	Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave	Toyota GR Supra GT300								AUT 1	MOT
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 Ret	FUJ	SEP	FUJ	SUZ	SUG	AUT	MOT	NC*	0*

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											16th*	3
	Kids com Team KCMG	Toyota			MOT 11	MOT 8	AUT
	KDDI TGMGP TGR-DC	Toyota						FUJ	FUJ	SUG	FUJ	FUJ	SUZ	SUZ

^* Season still in progress.