Is Super Formula's quest to become more popular succeeding?

A look at Masahiko Kondo's first year-and-a-bit of chairing JRP and his quest to get back to the full grandstands of yesteryear...

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It’s been just over a year since Masahiko Kondo took over as chairman of JRP, the promoter of Super Formula. Last year, Kondo faced up to the fact that the Japanese single-seater series was not the force it once was, and boldly set out his goal for recreating the levels of popularity seen in the Japanese Formula 2 and Formula 3000 eras. “To ha…