Kvyat appears likely to participate in the Japanese single-seater’s traditional so-called ‘rookie test’ with Honda squad Nakajima Racing on 6-8 December.
The former Red Bull driver hasn’t raced a single-seater since his final season in F1 with AlphaTauri in 2020, although he did test a Formula E car for the NIO squad earlier this year in Berlin.
But an opportunity to sample the Super Formula car comes thanks to Kvyat’s former AlphaTauri/Toro Rosso boss Franz Tost and his long-standing links to Nakajima team manager Katsuhisa Homma, forged during Ralf Schumacher’s title-winning 1996 Formula Nippon campaign.
The final day of the Suzuka test is expected to be reserved for rookie drivers, meaning Kvyat would most likely get three days to sample the Dallara SF23.
While Nakajima’s full line-up for the test remains unclear, Naoki Yamamoto is highly unlikely to participate, having already been ruled out of this month’s Suzuka finale due to the neck injury he sustained in a crash in last month’s Sugo SUPER GT round.
Source: Autosport