Japanese
Ritomo Miyata (born 10 August 1999) arrived in the FIA Formula 2 Championship as one of the most decorated graduates of Japan's domestic ladder — a driver who swept both of his country's premier single-seater and sports-car titles in the same season before crossing the world to chase the Formula 1 dream the long way round.
Career in Japan
A product of the Toyota Gazoo Racing Driver Challenge programme, Miyata won back-to-back FIA-sanctioned Japanese F4 championships in 2016 and 2017, then took the Super Formula Lights crown in 2020. He capped his domestic career in 2023 with a remarkable double: he won both the Super Formula championship — Japan's pinnacle single-seater series, and one of the fastest categories outside Formula 1 — and the Super GT GT500 title (the latter alongside Sho Tsuboi at TOM'S), becoming one of a tiny handful of drivers ever to claim both of Japan's top championships in a single year. He has also served as a reserve driver for Toyota in the FIA World Endurance Championship, underlining how highly the manufacturer rates him.
Formula 2
On the strength of that 2023 double, Toyota dispatched Miyata to Europe to test himself in Formula 2 — a brave late-career pivot for a driver who had already conquered his home scene. He made his rookie debut in 2024 with Rodin Motorsport alongside Zane Maloney, finishing 19th in the standings as he wrestled with unfamiliar cars, Pirelli tyres and circuits he had never seen. For 2025 he switched to ART Grand Prix, a perennial front-running team, and ended the year 17th. For 2026 he moved again, to Hitech TGR — a seat that further tightened Toyota's expanding ties to the team's wider racing operation, links underscored by the Toyota–Haas technical partnership that has even seen Miyata complete private F1 tests in a Haas. He lines up alongside American IndyCar star Colton Herta.
2026 / temporada actual
Miyata's Formula 2 results have so far been modest compared with his dominance back home, a candid reflection of the steep adjustment from Japanese machinery and circuits to Europe's notoriously unforgiving feeder series. Yet his domestic CV — two of Japan's biggest crowns in one season — remains among the strongest of any driver on the F2 grid, and at Hitech he has spoken of leaning on that hard-earned experience as he searches for the breakthrough that would justify Toyota's long-term investment.