“The race operations and maintenance of race vehicles on the circuit site are all carried out by students from our motorsports department, except for the areas left to the engine tuner,” said Kanai Ryotada, Head of the Department of Motorsports Department.
NATS (Nippon Automobile University) has continued to participate in Formula Beat (hereinafter referred to as “F-Be”) as Team NATS since its predecessor, the JAF F4 era, and has made a solid presence as a leading F-Be team, with the Grand Champion of the time (the East and West Series Unified Champion) in 2010, and in 2018 it was a constructor and was also a series champion in the original vehicle.
This is one of the key points that introduced a curriculum in which a specialist automobile institution uses circuits as a place for students to practice lessons, but its biggest feature is that the school itself participates in the race as an entrant, and the students themselves take on the actual work on the team, and the biggest feature is that it is very different from the rest.
In “2025 Formula Beat CHAMPIONSHIP PADDOCK NEWS Vol. 3,” which is currently being serialized in the magazine “auto sport,” it focuses on the aims of NATS' efforts, as well as the work of students on the circuit site. You'll be surprised at how deeply it goes into the lesson.
