Ritomo Miyata (Japanese: 宮田 莉朋, Hepburn: Miyata Ritomo; born 10 August 1999) is a Japanese racing driver who competes in the FIA Formula 2 Championship for Hitech TGR as part of the TGR Driver Challenge Program and serves as a reserve driver in the FIA World Endurance Championship for Toyota. In Japanese motorsport, Miyata won the Super Formula Championship and Super GT, both in 2023 with TOM'S.
A member of the TGR Driver Challenge Program from 2017 to 2021 and since 2025, Miyata has been competing in Formula 2 since 2024. He previously won the 2020 Super Formula Lights championship, as well as back-to-back titles in the F4 Japanese Championship.
Miyata is a graduate of Yokohama High School. His name comes from the Fiat Ritmo, named as such by his parents as they were car enthusiasts. He was diagnosed with autism early in his childhood and was unable to adjust to school life during his kindergarten and elementary schooling years, spending much of his early life receiving counseling at various hospitals; he uses racing as a method of subduing his traits.
Miyata is an avid gamer, bringing his computer and consoles to races. As of September 2023, Miyata has over 500 race wins from 1,000 starts in iRacing official events and also participates in esports racing events for BS+COMPETITION.
Miyata started his motorsport career in karting in 2004, winning the All-Japan Kart Championship KF class title in 2014. In 2015, after his sixteenth birthday, he made his formula racing debut in the Formula 4 Japanese Championship with the RSS team at the last three race weekends of the season. Despite his limited experience, he finished in the top-ten in three of the six races, including a podium finish at Autopolis. He finished 15th in the standings with 24 points.
First Japanese F4 championship (2016)
In 2016, Miyata made his full-time Japanese F4 debut with Toyota-backed TOM'S Spirit. He won two races at Fuji Speedway and took podium finishes in three other races, and won the championship by just four points over Honda-sponsored driver Ukyo Sasahara.
All-Japan Formula Three debut and second Japanese F4 championship (2017)
In 2017, Miyata raced a dual program in Japanese F4 and the All-Japan Formula Three Championship, driving in both series with TOM'S (TOM'S Spirit in F4). He won his second consecutive F4 title with four wins and 11 podiums, including a sweep of the two races at Fuji during the Golden Week holiday. He defeated Sasahara for the second year, this time by a margin of seven points, while finishing 58 points ahead of third-place driver Yuki Tsunoda.
In his debut Formula 3 season, Miyata achieved ten podium finishes and finished fourth in the championship with 79 points, behind Mitsunori Takaboshi, Sho Tsuboi and Álex Palou. At the end of the year, he made his debut in the Macau Grand Prix, finishing 12th.
All-Japan F3/Super Formula Lights (2018–2020)
Miyata continued in All-Japan F3 for a second season with TOM'S. He won his first race at Fuji on 8 July, followed by a second win at Okayama on 28 July. These two wins propelled him to second in the championship behind his teammate Tsuboi, who won the championship and the other seventeen races that year. Miyata finished 13th in his second Macau Grand Prix start.
Miyata returned for a third season of All-Japan F3 in 2019. Miyata won eight races, including five of the last eight, but finished second in the standings again, this time to former Renault Sport Academy driver Sacha Fenestraz of B-Max Racing Team.
2019 was the last season for the All-Japan Formula Three Championship, which was renamed Super Formula Lights in 2020. Miyata returned for a fourth season in this category. Beginning with a sweep of the opening round at Twin Ring Motegi, Miyata won 12 out of 17 races and clinched the championship with a win in the penultimate race meeting at Suzuka Circuit.
Super GT and Super Formula career
Miyata made his debut in Super GT in 2018, driving in the GT300 class for Lexus customer team LM corsa. At 18 years old, he recorded his first podium finish at Chang International Circuit in Buriram, Thailand, where he and co-driver Hiroki Yoshimoto finished third.
LM corsa changed tyre suppliers from Yokohama to Dunlop in 2019, and Miyata returned for his second season. In the sixth round at Autopolis, Miyata took his first career win after a late-race charge from Yoshimoto to take the lead with four laps to go. Miyata and Yoshimoto also won both races of the auto sport Web Sprint Cup, a GT3 and GT300-only support race held during the inaugural Super GT x DTM Dream Race weekend at Fuji Speedway.
Earlier that season, Miyata made his one-off GT500 debut at the Fuji GT 500 km Race, when he substituted for Kazuki Nakajima at TOM'S, driving the number 36 Lexus LC 500 alongside Yuhi Sekiguchi.