2016 F4 Japanese Championship
Parent series:Super GT
The 2016 F4 Japanese Championship season was the second season of the F4 Japanese Championship. It began on 9 April in Okayama and finished on 13 November on Twin Ring Motegi after fourteen races held across six rounds.[1]
Teams and drivers
Team | No. | Driver | Rounds |
Yuichi Sasaki | 2 | Yuichi Sasaki | 2–4, 6 |
Sutekina Racing Team | 3 | Yuki Urata | 1–2 |
Miku Ikejima | 3–4, 6 |
Yuki Tsunoda | 5 |
Field Motorsport | 4 | Shunsuke Kohno | All |
25 | Tomoki Takahashi | All |
55 | Takashi Hata | 1–2, 4–5 |
75 | Yuya Tezuka | 4 |
Honda Formula Dream Project | 7 | Mizuki Ishizaka[2] | All |
8 | Yuta Kamimura[2] | All |
9 | Sena Sakaguchi[2] | All |
10 | Takuya Otaki | All |
Rn-sports | 11 | Toshiki Oyu | All |
B-MAX Racing Team | 13 | Motoyoshi Yoshida | 1–2, 4–6 |
"Syuji" | 3 |
50 | Shinji Sawada | All |
KCMG | 14 | Yuki Nemoto | All |
CMS Motorsports Project | 15 | Yuga Katsumata | 2–6 |
Media Do Kageyama Racing | 16 | Takuro Shinohara | All |
Buzz International | 17 | Hiroki Inui | 1 |
Junpei Kato | 2–6 |
18 | Shigetomo Shimono | 1–5 |
Yuki Urata | 6 |
VSR Lamborghini S.C. Formula Jr. | 19 | Rikiya Kanazawa | 6 |
63 | Do Yun Hwang | All |
RSS | 21 | "Dragon" | 1–5 |
Seiya Jin | 6 |
N-SPEED | 23 | "Yugo" | All |
Eagle Sport | 29 | Turbo Asahi | All |
30 | Kuninori Nakane | All |
miNami aoYama Project | 32 | Ayaka Imahashi | 1–2 |
33 | Miki Koyama | 1 |
Miku Ikejima | 2 |
TOM'S Spirit | 36 | Ritomo Miyata | All |
37 | Kazuto Kotaka | All |
Garage Chabatake | 38 | Satoshi Anbe | 2, 4 |
58 | Takuma Abe | All |
Team Right Way | 47 | Takahiro Ban | 6 |
Silver Star Racing | 51 | Kotoka Goibuchi | 2–3 |
Lee Jung Woo | 5 |
Kohei Tokumasu | 6 |
Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave | 52 | Hiroki Kokuzawa | 1–4 |
Miki Koyama | 6 |
Le Beausset Motorsports | 60 | Kohta Kawaai | All |
61 | Reiji Hiraki | All |
62 | Yuya Hiraki | All |
Skill Speed | 66 | Riku Hashimoto | All |
leprix sport | 70 | Yuya Taira | All |
Reon Kids Racing | 73 | Kotoka Goibuchi | 6 |
Team Plus 10 ・ NRS | 83 | Ryosuke Takehira | All |
Zap Speed Racing Team | 86 | Toshihiko Hachiro
"Osaka Hachiro" | 1–2, 4 5–6 |
Succeed Sports | 88 | Shintaro Kawabata | All |
89 | Ryota Kiyohara | 1–3 |
Race calendar and results
All rounds were held in Japan and were part of the Super GT events. The Autopolis round, initially scheduled for May 22nd, has been cancelled in the aftermath of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes.[3] On July 1, it was finally decided that one of the cancelled races will be held at the fourth round at Fuji and the other at the season finale at Motegi, both rounds becoming triple-header rounds.[4]
Championship standings
Only the best thirteen results counts towards the championship. Points are awarded to the top 10 classified finishers in each race. No points are awarded for pole position or fastest lap.
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
Drivers' standings
Teams' standings
Pos | Team | Pts. |
1 | Honda Formula Dream Project | 203 |
2 | TOM'S Spirit | 182 |
3 | Rn-sports | 125 |
4 | Le Beausset Motorsports | 99 |
5 | B-Max Racing Team | 91 |
6 | Field Motorsport | 79 |
7 | Succeed Sports | 76 |
8 | Media Do Kageyama Racing | 63 |
9 | KCMG | 53 |
10 | Sutekina Racing Team | 30 |
11 | Leprix Sport | 14 |
12 | Eagle Sport | 9 |
13 | Buzz International | 8 |
14 | Garage Chabatake | 6 |
15 | CMS Motorsports Project | 4 |
16 | RSS | 2 |
17 | Skill Speed | 1 |
18 | Team Plus 10 NRS | 1 |
References
- ^ "2016 Calendar". F4 Japanese Championship. GT-Association. 12 February 2016. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
- ^ a b c "Honda 2016 Motorsports Program Overview". Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Honda Motor Co., Ltd. 12 February 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
- ^ "2016 FIA-F4選手権第5戦・第6戦オートポリス大会は残念ながら中止が決定". F4 Japanese Championship. GT-Association. 9 May 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
- ^ "中止となったオートポリス大会の代替レースは8月富士大会と11月もてぎ大会での3レース開催へ". F4 Japanese Championship. GT-Association. 1 July 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
External links
- Official website (in Japanese)