Kvyat seems prone to take part within the Japanese single-seater’s conventional so-called ‘rookie check’ with Honda squad Nakajima Racing on 6-8 December.
The previous Pink Bull driver hasn’t raced a single-seater since his closing season in F1 with AlphaTauri in 2020, though he did check a System E automotive for the NIO squad earlier this yr in Berlin.
However a possibility to pattern the Tremendous System automotive comes due to Kvyat’s former AlphaTauri/Toro Rosso boss Franz Tost and his long-standing hyperlinks to Nakajima staff supervisor Katsuhisa Homma, cast throughout Ralf Schumacher’s title-winning 1996 System Nippon marketing campaign.
The ultimate day of the Suzuka check is predicted to be reserved for rookie drivers, that means Kvyat would almost definitely get three days to pattern the Dallara SF23.
Whereas Nakajima’s full line-up for the check stays unclear, Naoki Yamamoto is very unlikely to take part, having already been dominated out of this month’s Suzuka finale as a result of neck harm he sustained in a crash in final month’s Sugo SUPER GT spherical.
Kvyat driving within the Suzuka check inevitably raises the prospect of the 29-year-old turning into a full-season Tremendous System driver in 2024.
Tremendous System’s looming change to the damper laws, with the sequence banning open damper improvement in favour of normal elements, is prone to imply groups will intention to run their common drivers for 2024 within the rookie check.
The Suzuka check will mark the primary time that groups run the Ohlins dampers that might be mandated to be used subsequent yr.
Kvyat has already been named as a manufacturing unit Lamborghini driver for the Italian marque’s LMDh challenge, which is able to see it contest each the World Endurance Championship and IMSA SportsCar Championship subsequent season, however particular driver line-ups haven’t been revealed.
A Tremendous System marketing campaign wouldn’t be precluded by a marketing campaign within the WEC, as the 2 sequence characteristic no date conflicts. Toyota duo Ryo Hirakawa and Kamui Kobayashi have efficiently mixed the 2 championships in current seasons.
The potential for a high-profile identify resembling Kvyat to affix the Tremendous System grid subsequent yr comes as excellent news for the Japanese championship, particularly with Liam Lawson trying unlikely to return in 2024.
Whereas Lawson has missed his goal of being promoted to a F1 race seat with AlphaTauri in 2024, Pink Bull is prone to wish to have the New Zealander on name in any respect 24 grands prix subsequent season as a reserve driver for each its groups.
The 2024 Tremendous System calendar options six clashes with F1 occasions as issues stand.
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