Miyata, a race winner in each Tremendous Formulation and SUPER GT, will accomplice Takeshi Kimura and Scott Huffaker on the wheel of the CarGuy Racing-branded Kessel Ferrari 488 GTE for Sunday’s six-hour race.

The Toyota WEC Problem driver replaces manufacturing facility Ferrari racer Daniel Serra, who in line with an announcement launched by CarGuy is unable to journey to Japan as a result of “varied circumstances”.

Miyata was as a result of attend the Fuji race anyway with the Toyota squad, having additionally been current for the Le Mans 24 Hours and Monza rounds of the WEC as a part of his growth programme with the Japanese marque.

It’s going to mark Miyata’s first outing in GTE equipment and comes at a time that Toyota is weighing up whether or not to put him within the WEC subsequent season.

The 24-year-old is already a race winner at Fuji this 12 months, having taken victory alongside Sho Tsuboi for Toyota squad TOM’S within the first of two SUPER GT races to have taken place on the circuit in 2023.

He additionally leads the Tremendous Formulation standings forward of present AlphaTauri Formulation 1 driver Liam Lawson forward of subsequent month’s ultimate spherical of the season at Suzuka.

Elsewhere on the Fuji GTE Am entry listing, Kei Cozzolino and Hiroshi Koizumi will drive for the AF Corse workforce alongside Simon Mann.

The Japanese duo, who race collectively within the Michelin Le Mans Cup sequence, successfully substitute Ulysse de Pauw and Julien Piguet, Mann’s team-mates aboard the #21 Ferrari at Le Mans and Monza.

It’s going to mark gentleman racer Koizumi’s WEC debut, whereas sequence veteran Cozzolino might be making his second outing of the 12 months after showing at Le Mans as a part of an all-Japanese driver line-up for Kessel along with Naoki Yokomizo and Yorikatsu Tsujiko.