Rising Sun Racing

Team Name

Rising Sun Racing

Team Owner Name

Hojo Oda Won

Team Headquaters

Kyoto, Japan

Team Primary Sponsor

The Rising Sun Consortium

Team Background

Rising Sun Racing is a Japanese Furmula One team competing in the 2021 F1 World Championship that will be based in Kyoto and Suzuka Japan.

The team was renamed Rising Sun Racing after Hojo Oda Won lead a consortium to by out it's predecessor, Hamad Force, after previous Emirati, Hamad Al Nahyan filed for liquidation in October 2020. Hojo Oda Won managed to negotiate a deal where he will take over all existing contracts associated with the Furmula One team and his partners within Tamashi Racing will take over the Hamad Force B Furmula Two operations.

The team will continue to operate out of Hamad Force's facilities within Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for the first half of the 2021 season with administation moving to a new office in Kyoto, Japan. During the summer-break the team is planned to move all equipment and departments to its new facility next to the Suzuka International Racing Course.

In February of 2021 Hojo Oda Won confirmed that Hideyoshi Hiro would join Rising Sun Racing as Team Principal, ariving from former Super Furmula champions Equiknox Team IDQK. Hiro's arrival was shortly preceded by the confirmation that Petri Saukkonen will continue his existing contract with the team. Salomé Montés, 2020 F2 Championship runner-up, was shortly confirmed to be promoted from the former Hamad Force B team to drive for Rising Sun Racing in 2021. Sources also suggest that Cassandra Ouellet was also approached by Hojo Oda Won to be a reserve driver for the team after her absense from the sport in 2020 but this was dismissed when she was signed by Cuzata Racing.