Motegi Super Formula: Yamamoto scores first pole for Nakajima
Yamamoto, who hadn’t qualified higher than 10th all season and only scraped through his Q1 group in sixth place, pulled out a lap of 1m30.423s in the Q2 pole shootout to beat Sacha Fenestraz to pole position by 0.316 seconds.
It marks Yamamoto’s first pole since the 2020 Suzuka round, and the first for Nakajima Racing since IndyCar champion Alex Palou’s pole at the same track in 2019.
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