Ohta Dominates Motegi, Browning Stuns in Fourth

0:00It's April 5th. This is F1 News Today, powered by AI Everything Happening with your team. I'm Cory with the story. Cocoonishin Ota dominated the super formula race at Motegi, snagging victory from Pol for his eighth career win and a perfect weekend sweep. Luke Browning charged from 21st on the grid to finish a stunning 4th in his condo racing machine. Better weather helped Ota bounce back after losing the lead early to Toshiki OU with a safety car on lap 3 shaking things up when Rikuto. Kobayashi got stuck in gravel. Ota used his push to pass wisely, then overcut OU on pit stops around lap 10 to pull ahead by over 30 seconds. Sena Sakaguchi grabbed second, his first podium since his rookie year back in 2024, and injings first since then. Nirei Fukuzumi took third via late pit on lap 29, marking rookie racing's inaugural podium since joining the series in 2020. Browning stayed up forever on old tires, pitting on the second to last lap to lead pass

1:01the struggling OU into 4th, while Zakos Sullivan settled. For 6th, after a late scrap with Ayumu, Iwasa. Ota now leads the championship by 20 points early on, as drivers like Tata Suke Makino clawed to 13th and showed to boy hit 14th amid, opening lap chaos, underscoring how strategy ruled the day at Motegi.