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Jaafar, Coletti, Stanaway in Super Formula test at Suzuka

IndyCar's Stefano Coletti, GP2's Richie Stanaway and FR3.5's Jazeman Jaafar will be among the drivers running in the upcoming Suzuka test in the Japanese Super Formula category.

Jazeman Jaafar, Fortec Motorsports

Photo by: Marc Fleury

Narain Karthikeyan, Team Dandelion Racing
Podium: race winner Richie Stanaway, Status Grand Prix
Richie Stanaway, Status Grand Prix
Race winner Jazeman Jaafar, Fortec Motorsports
Stefano Coletti, KV Racing Technology
Nick Cassidy, Three Bond with T-Sport Dallara F314 NBE
Loic Duval, Audi Sport Team Joest
 Race 1 Winner Stoffel Vandoorne, ART Grand Prix

The test, which is set to feature 23 drivers, will take place on Wednesday and Thursday.

GP2 race winner Stanaway, who had just ran with Audi in the WEC rookie test in Bahrain, will line up with Mugen at Suzuka alongside 2013 champion Naoki Yamamoto.

And while Jaafar and Coletti are both not on the official entry list, the Malaysian has confirmed he will be running alongside McLaren protege Stoffel Vandoorne at Docomo Team Dandelion, who scored podiums in 2015 with Tomoki Nojiri and Narain Karthikeyan.

Nojiri will also be present at the test and it is likely that Coletti will run with Docomo as well, although the Monegasque, who completed an IndyCar rookie campaign with KV in 2015, did not officially confirm the team he will be testing with.

Of the other notable additions, Japanese F3 champion Nick Cassidy will test in the #4 Kondo Racing entry, which was piloted by former FR3.5 racer Will Buller in 2015.

Finally, Loic Duval, who sat out 2015 after racing in the series for eight seasons straight, will be back at the wheel of a Team LeMans entry.

Suzuka Super Formula test

Team Drivers
Petronas Team TOM'S Kazuki Nakajima
Andre Lotterer
Kondo Racing James Rossiter
Nick Cassidy
Team LeMans Ryo Hirakawa
Loic Duval
Kamui Kobayashi
Real Racing Koudai Tsukakoshi
Takuya Izawa
Team Mugen Richie Stanaway
Naoki Yamamoto
KCMG Yuichi Nakayama
Lenovo Team Impul  Joao Paulo de Oliveira
Yuhi Sekiguchi
Drago Corse Takashi Kogure
Inging Hiroaki Ishiura
Yuji Kunimoto
Docomo Team Dandelion Stoffel Vandoorne
Jazeman Jaafar
Tomoki Nojiri
Stefano Coletti
Nakajima Racing Daisuke Nakajima
Bertrand Baguette

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