Japanese Formula 3 Championship 2015

The 2015 Japanese Formula 3 Championship (officially Japanese Formula 3 Championship 2015 ) was the 37th season of the Japanese Formula 3 Championship . It began on April 18 in Suzuka and ended on October 18 in Sugo . Nick Cassidy won the drivers championship.

Teams and drivers

All drivers whose chassis was built before 2012 were also entitled to judge in the national class.

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	Race weekend
Toda Racing	02	Keishi Ishikawa	Dallara F312	Toda	1-8
Exedy Racing Team	03	Ai Miura	Dallara F307	Toyota TOM’S	1-8
KRC Hanashima Racing	05	Alex Yang	Dallara F306	Toyota TOM’S	1-8
Tairoku Hanashima Racing	28	Tairoku Yamaguchi	Dallara F312		1-8
HFDP Racing	07th	Nirei Fukuzumi	Dallara F312	Honda	1-8
	08th	Tsubasa Takahashi			1-8
RSS with B-Max Racing Team	13	Motoyoshi Yoshida	Dallara F312	Toyota TOM’S	1-5
			Dallara F306		6th
B-Max Racing Team with NDDP	22nd	Lucas Ordoñez	Dallara F312		1-3, 5-8
		Daiki Sasaki			4th
	23	Mitsunori Takaboshi	Dallara F315		1-8
B-Max Racing Team	30th	Dragon	Dallara F308		1-8
	50	Katsumasa Chiyo	Dallara F312		6th
		Yūhi Sekiguchi			7, 8
FSC Motorsport	18th	Guillaume Cunnington	Dallara F307	Toyota TOM’S	1-3, 6-8
KCMG	19th	Struan Moore	Dallara F312	Toyota TOM’S	1-8
Petronas Team TOM'S	36	Kenta Yamashita	Dallara F312	Toyota TOM’S	1-8
	37	Nick Cassidy	Dallara F314		1-8
TOM'S	38	Ryo Ogawa	Dallara F306		1-8
CMS	77	Masaru Miura	Dallara F306	Toyota TOM’S	1-8

Racing calendar

The 2015 season comprised eight race weekends with a total of 17 races. The first, third, sixth, seventh and eighth race weekend took place as part of the Super Formula .

No.	date	Racetrack	winner	Second	Third
1.	April 18	Suzuka	Mitsunori Takaboshi	Keishi Ishikawa	Tsubasa Takahashi
2.	April 19th		Nick Cassidy	Mitsunori Takaboshi	Kenta Yamashita
3.	0May 9	Motegi	Nick Cassidy	Kenta Yamashita	Mitsunori Takaboshi
4th	10th of May		Kenta Yamashita	Mitsunori Takaboshi	Nick Cassidy
5.			Kenta Yamashita	Nirei Fukuzumi	Nick Cassidy
6th	23. May	Mimasaka	Nick Cassidy	Lucas Ordoñez	Mitsunori Takaboshi
7th	May 24th		Kenta Yamashita	Nick Cassidy	Mitsunori Takaboshi
8th.	06th of June	Fuji	Kenta Yamashita	Nick Cassidy	Mitsunori Takaboshi
9.	0June 7th		Nick Cassidy	Mitsunori Takaboshi	Kenta Yamashita
10.	June 27th	Mimasaka	Mitsunori Takaboshi	Kenta Yamashita	Lucas Ordoñez
11.	June 28th		Mitsunori Takaboshi	Kenta Yamashita	Lucas Ordoñez
12.	July 18th	Fuji	Nick Cassidy	Nirei Fukuzumi	Mitsunori Takaboshi
13.	July 19		Kenta Yamashita	Nick Cassidy	Nirei Fukuzumi
14th	August 22nd	Motegi	Nirei Fukuzumi	Nick Cassidy	Kenta Yamashita
15th	August 23		Nirei Fukuzumi	Kenta Yamashita	Mitsunori Takaboshi
16.	October 17th	Sugo	Nick Cassidy	Lucas Ordoñez	Nirei Fukuzumi
17th	October 18		Nick Cassidy	Lucas Ordoñez	Kenta Yamashita

Ratings

Point system

The points were awarded according to the following scheme:

Distribution of points
space	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	PP	SR
Points	10	7th	5	3	2	1	1	1

Driver ranking

Item driver SUZ MO1 OK1 FU1 OK2 FU2 MO2 SUG Points 01  N. Cassidy 10 1 1 3 3 1 2 2 1 5 4th 1 2 2 5 1 1 129 02  K. Yamashita 16 * 3 2 1 1 8th 1 1 3 2 2 5 1 3 2 4th 3 113 03  M. Takaboshi 1 2 3 2 4th 3 3 3 2 1 1 3 DNF 4th 3 5 8th 92 04th  N. Fukuzumi 5 7th 4th 4th 2 7th 5 5 4th 4th 5 2 3 1 1 3 5 72 05  L. Ordoñez 4th 5 6th 6th 6th 2 4th 3 3 9 6th 9 DNF 2 2 43 06th  T. Takahashi 3 4th 5 5 5 5 6th 7th 8th 9 8th 4th DNF 8th 6th 8th 6th 22nd 07th  K. Ishikawa 2 6th 8th 8th 7th 13 * DNF 6th 6th 6th 6th 8th 7th 6th 4th 6th 4th 20th 08th  S. Moore 6th 8th 7th 7th 8th 4th 7th 8th 7th 7th 7th 7th 5 7th 7th 9 7th 6th 09  D. Sasaki 4th 5 5 10  K. Chiyo 6th 4th 4th 11  Y. Sekiguchi 5 DNF 7th 9 2 12  T. Yamaguchi 7th 9 9 9 9 6th 8th 9 9 8th 9 10 8th 10 8th 10 12 1 -  A. Miura 8th 11 10 11 11 DNF 10 11 11 10 11 12 10 12 10 12 11 0 -  R. Ogawa 9 10 11 10 10 9 9 10 10 11 10 11 9 11 9 11 10 0 -  A. Yang 13 15th DNF 14th 14th 10 13 DNF 15th 15th DNF 14th 13 DNF 12 DNF 15th 0 -  Dragon 11 12 12 12 12 DNF 11 12 12 12 12 13 11 13 11 13 13 0 -  M. Yoshida 12 14th 14th DNF DNF 11 12 13 13 14th 14th 17th 14th 0 -  M. Miura 14th 13 13 13 13 12 DNF 14th 14th 13 13 15th 12 14th 13 14th DNF 0 -  G. Cunnington 15th 16 15th 15th DNF WD WD 16 15th NC DNF 15th 14th 0 Item driver SUZ MO1 OK1 FU1 OK2 FU2 MO2 SUG Points

colour meaning gold winner silver 2nd place bronze 3rd place green Placement in the points blue Classified outside the point ranks violet Race not finished (DNF) not classified (NC) red not qualified (DNQ) black disqualified (DSQ) White not at the start (DNS) withdrawn (WD) Race canceled (C) Blank not participated injured or sick (INJ) excluded (EX) other formats and characters P / bold Pole position italic Fastest racing lap (in the GP2 series / FIA Formula 2 championship from 2008 for the fastest racing lap of the ten best drivers) * not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered underlined Leader in the overall standings

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2015 Point Standing. j-formula3.com, accessed on August 17, 2015 . 

Web links

• Official website of the Japanese Formula 3 Championship (English and Japanese)