🇯🇵 Souta Arao

Souta Arao is a professional single-seater and sportscar driver racing for Team Mach in Super GT's GT300 class, a multiclass endurance championship in Japan. He is a Honda Racing School scholar competing in his fifth season of racing on record, across five championships from 2022 to the present.[1]

Arao began in French F4 in 2022, taking two wins and nine podiums from twenty starts in a field mixing amateurs with graded professionals. He stepped up to GB3 in 2023 with Hitech Pulse-Eight, running sixteen rounds in the British single-seater championship. He moved into Super Formula Lights for two seasons from 2024, taking four podiums across twenty-one starts for Delightworks Racing. In 2026 he joined Team Mach in Super GT, where he has made four starts so far in a shared-drive endurance format; his team has fielded some of the strongest drivers in the index, most notably elite professional Tadasuke Makino.[2]

In Super Formula Lights Arao has finished regularly behind Rikuto Kobayashi, an established professional and FIA Gold driver with extensive experience across Super Formula Lights, Super GT and Super Formula. He runs closely matched with Yuga Furutani, a professional with nearly seventy Super Formula Lights starts. Arao has beaten both the 2022 British F4 champion Alex Dunne and Toshiki Oyu, an established professional and FIA Gold driver with sixty Super Formula starts, each once.