One week after finishing third at the 6 Hours of Shanghai with his teammates Marcel Fässler and Benoît Tréluyer, André Lotterer returned to Japan and his single-seater of Petronas Team Tom's at the Suzuka circuit which hosts the last two rounds of the Super Formula season. The German driver has kept his chance alive to win a second time since 2011, the year of his first win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

After race 1, Lotterer won from pole position for the third time this season (and the second consecutive) but the third place finish of Hiroaki Ishiura, leader in the provisional standings, ended his last hopes. Forced to retire at race 2, he finally finished third overall, ahead of the 2015 champion Ishiura and his underling Kazuki Nakajima, first Japanese poleman at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Remember the latter, Toyota driver in the World Endurance Championship, is also Lotterer's teammate in Super Formula with Petronas Team Tom's.

On Saturday, November 21st, Lotterer will join at the 6 Hours of Bahrain Marcel Fässler and Benoît Tréluyer in the race for the drivers title in the 2015 World Endurance Championship, against provisional leaders Timo Bernhard-Brendon Hartley-Mark Webber. At Bahrain, Kazuki Nakajima will get back behind the wheel of the Toyota TS040 Hybrid he shares with Sébastien Buemi and Anthony Davidson.

Jean-Philippe Doret / ACO - Translation by Nikki Ehrhardt / ACO

Photo: SUZUKA (MIE PREFECTURE, JAPAN), SUZUKA INTERNATIONAL RACING COURSE, SUNDAY APRIL 19 2015. In 2015, André Lotterer won three victories in Super Formula in Japan: two at Suzuka (here the first of the season in April) and one at Sugo.