The Japanese single-seater championship has held two pre-season exams in March lately, giving drivers 4 days of working forward of the season.

However this 12 months, Tremendous Method promoter JRP scrapped the second of these exams at Fuji, leaving simply two days of official working at Suzuka for groups and drivers to acquaint themselves with the brand new SF23 automotive, on prime of some additional ‘shakedown’ periods held on the Fan Thanks Day occasion.

The choice given for the transfer was a need to make the Japanese motorsport calendar in March much less congested: SUPER GT has two pre-season exams deliberate this month, the primary of which takes place at Okayama this weekend, whereas Tremendous Taikyu may also maintain its first race at Suzuka on March 18-19.

Nonetheless, the potential for Tremendous Method holding an in-season check was left open, and these plans at the moment are recognized to be transferring ahead.

Motorsport.com has discovered that the two-day check is slated for June 23-24, the week after the fifth spherical of the collection at Sugo.

It should give groups and drivers priceless monitor time at Fuji forward of the sixth spherical of the championship on the Shizuoka Prefecture venue on July 14-16.

Testing in Tremendous Method is prohibited outdoors of official periods, though some groups have been recognized to run Method 3 equipment previously to permit drivers to familiarise themselves with tracks they’ve by no means visited earlier than.

The brand new season is about to kick off with a double-header at Fuji on April 7-9.