Toshiki Oyu

Toshiki Oyu
Nationality	Japanese
Born	(1998-08-04) August 4, 1998 Sapporo, Japan
Super Formula career
Debut season	2020
Current team	TCS Nakajima Racing
Car number	64
Starts	14
Wins	1
Podiums	4
Poles	0
Fastest laps	1
Best finish	5th in 2021
Super GT career
Debut season	2021
Current team	ARTA
Car number	8
Former teams	Team Red Bull Mugen
Starts	16
Wins	0
Podiums	1
Poles	1
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	14th in 2020
Previous series
2020 2018-19 2016-17	Super GT GT300 Japanese F3 Japanese F4

Toshiki Oyu (大湯 都史樹, Ōyu Toshiki) (born August 4, 1998) is a Japanese racing driver. He currently competes in Super GT for Team Mugen and in Super Formula for TCS Nakajima Racing.

Career

Early career

Oyu made his motorsport debut in karting in 2007. He raced mainly in Japan and won a number of championships there. In 2015, he made his formula racing debut in the Super FJ Okayama Challenge Cup, which he won. In 2016, he made the move to the JAF Japanese Formula 4 Championship, where he became champion in both the Western and Eastern divisions. He also competed in the Japanese Formula 4 Championship with the Rn-sports team. He won two races at the Sportsland SUGO and the Suzuka International Racing Course and also took the podium at the Twin Ring Motegi. With 126 points, he finished third in the standings behind Ritomo Miyata and Sena Sakaguchi.

In 2017, Oyu continued to drive in Japanese Formula 4 Championship, moving to the HFDP team as a Honda protégé. He took three wins at Autopolis, Fuji Speedway and Motegi and took four other podium finishes. However, he also had a number of retirements, eventually finishing fourth in the final standings with 166 points, behind Ritomo Miyata, Ukyo Sasahara and Yuki Tsunoda.

Formula 3

In 2018, Oyu made the move to the Japanese Formula 3 Championship, racing for the TODA Racing. He took four podium finishes at SUGO, the Okayama International Circuit and Motegi (twice) and finished sixth in the overall standings with 39 points. At the end of the season, he made his debut for Toda in the Macau Grand Prix, finishing sixteenth.

In 2019, Oyu remained active in Japanese Formula 3 with TODA. He won a race at SUGO and took five other podium finishes. With 60 points he finished fourth in the championship behind Sacha Fenestraz, Ritomo Miyata and Enaam Ahmed. He also drove his first races in Europe at the Silverstone Euroformula Open round with Team Motopark, replacing Yuki Tsunoda, who at the time was participating in the FIA Formula 3 Championship. Oyu took pole position and victory in both races to earn 52 championship points, which were enough to claim fourteenth place in the final standings.

Super Formula & Super GT

In 2020, Oyu made his debut in both Super Formula with the TCS Nakajima Racing team and in the GT300 class of the Super GT with ARTA in a Honda NSX GT3 Evo. In Super Formula he had a difficult start but at the end of the season he won a race at Suzuka and took a podium at Fuji to finish sixth in the championship with 41 points. In the Super GT, he shared the car with Shinichi Takagi and Nobuharu Matsushita, with whom he took two podium finishes at Fuji. He finished fourth overall with 45 points.

In 2021, Oyu remained active in Super Formula with Nakajima, and moved to the GT500 class within Super GT, where he shared the car with Ukyo Sasahara at Team Red Bull Mugen.

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	FLaps	Podiums	Points	Position
2016	F4 Japanese Championship	Rn-sports	13	2	1	2	3	126	3rd
2017	F4 Japanese Championship	HFDP	13	3	4	2	7	166	4th
2018	Japanese Formula 3 Championship	Toda Racing	19	0	0	0	4	39	6th
	Macau Grand Prix		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	16th
2019	Japanese Formula 3 Championship	Toda Racing	20	1	0	0	6	60	4th
	Euroformula Open Championship	Motopark	2	2	2	0	2	52	13th
2020	Super Formula	TCS Nakajima Racing	7	1	0	0	2	41	6th
	Super GT - GT300	ARTA	8	0	0	0	2	45	4th
2021	Super Formula	TCS Nakajima Racing	7	0	0	2	2	41	5th
	Super GT	Team Red Bull Mugen	8	0	1	0	0	20	16th
2022	Super Formula	TCS Nakajima Racing	10	0	1	1	1	43	8th
	Super GT	Team Red Bull Mugen	8	0	0	0	1	16.5	14th
2023	Super Formula	TGM Grand Prix	6	0	2	1	1	22*	8th*
	Super GT	ARTA	7	1	1	1	2	32*	10th*

*Season still in progress

Complete Macau Grand Prix results

Year	Team	Car	Qualifying	Quali Race	Main race
2018	Toda Racing	Dallara F317	26th	21st	16th

Complete Super Formula results

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	DC	Points
2020	TCS Nakajima Racing	MOT 15	OKA 15	SUG 12	AUT 10	SUZ 8	SUZ 1	FUJ 2				6th	41
2021	TCS Nakajima Racing	FUJ 2	SUZ 10	AUT 7	SUG 2	MOT 6	MOT 14	SUZ 11				5th	41
2022	TCS Nakajima Racing	FUJ 7	FUJ 11	SUZ 13	AUT Ret	SUG 2	FUJ 10	MOT Ret3	MOT 5	SUZ 43	SUZ 7	8th	43
2023	TGM Grand Prix	FUJ 7	FUJ 203	SUZ Ret1	AUT Ret	SUG Ret1	FUJ	MOT 3	SUZ	SUZ		8th*	22*

* Season still in progress

Complete Super GT results

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	DC	Pts
2020	ARTA	Honda NSX GT3 Evo	GT300	FUJ 7	FUJ 3	SUZ 26	MOT 7	FUJ 2	SUZ 7	MOT 8	FUJ 7	4th	45
2021	Team Red Bull Mugen	Honda NSX-GT	GT500	OKA 11	FUJ 11	SUZ 4	MOT 9	SUG 9	AUT Ret	MOT 5	FUJ 10	16th	20
2022	Team Red Bull Mugen	Honda NSX-GT	GT500	OKA 12	FUJ 10‡	SUZ 13	FUJ 13	SUZ 6	SUG 3	AUT 12	MOT 11	14th	16.5
2023	ARTA	Honda NSX-GT	GT500	OKA 3	FUJ 11	SUZ 12	FUJ 14	SUZ 14	SUG 1	AUT Ret	MOT	10th*	32*

^‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.
^* Season still in progress

External links

• Official website
• Toshiki Oyu career summary at DriverDB.com