Kalle Rovanperä’s open-wheel adventure continues to wander

He didn’t even have time to get a handle on his Formula Regional car this winter, and now former WRC star Kalle Rovanperä is testing his Super Formula car, and he’s two seconds off the pace. To be fair, multiple professional open-wheel drivers have horribly wrecked their Super Formula cars in Suzuka testing for this season, one of whom is no longer going to race Super Formula after all, and Rovanperä hasn’t done that yet. But the team around him is starting to make noises that sound like Kalle’s run at Formula 1 might be aborted if things don’t settle in soon.

Meanwhile, it’s about to be March, and we still have no idea how people outside of Japan are supposed to watch Super Formula this year.