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Can Toyota's 'tensai' driver finally live up to his huge potential?

Can Toyota's 'tensai' driver finally live up to his huge potential?

Super Formula's switch to common dampers has given Kondo Racing's Kenta Yamashita a spring in his step heading into new season...

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Can Toyota's 'tensai' driver finally live up to his huge potential?
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When it comes to drivers not realising their potential in Super Formula, there are fewer bigger offenders than Kenta Yamashita. Long regarded as perhaps the biggest natural talent in the Toyota domestic stable - a true ‘天才系’ (‘tensai-kei’) driver, as the Japanese say - it’s baffling that in seven seasons, he only has a single victory and …

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