Japanese Formula 4 Championship 2015

The 2015 Japanese Formula 4 Championship (officially F4 Japanese Championship certified by FIA 2015 ) was the first season of the Japanese Formula 4 Championship . There were 14 races. The season started on April 4th in Mimasaka and ended on November 15th in Motegi . Shou Tsuboi won the drivers' championship title.

It was the first season of an FIA-certified Formula 4 championship in Japan .

Starting field

All teams and drivers used the Dome F110 chassis . The TOM’S - Toyota 3ZR was used as the engine. The tires came from Sumitomo Rubber Industries under the brand name Dunlop .

team	No.	driver	Race weekend
Hanashima Racing	02	Katsuaki Kubota	1, 2, 7
		Shuma Sato	3-5
Sutekina Racing Team	03	Takahiro Ban	1
		Miku Ikejima	2, 3
		Sena Sakaguchi	4-7
RS Fine	04th	Shunsuke Kouno	1-7
	05	Yuya Hiraki	1-7
Masanori Yonekura Clear Corporation	06th	Masanori Yonekura	1, 3, 4, 6
Honda Formula Dream Project	07th	Hiroki Ohtsu	1-7
	08th	Yuta Kamimura	1-7
	09	Mizuki Ishizaka	1-7
	10	Katsuhide Kaneishi	1-7
Rn Sports	11	Tadasuke Makino	1-7
	57	Nobuhiro Yoshida	6th
Team A-One	12	Yuki Shiraishi	1-4, 6
KCMG	14th	Yuki Nemoto	1-7
	18th	James Munro	1, 2
		Paul Ip	3
Media Do Kageyama Racing	16	Tsubasa Mekaru	1-5
ARN Racing	17th	Hiroaki Nagai	5-7
VSR Lamborghini SC Formula Jr	19th	Takuro Shinohara	1-7
	63	Nicolas Costa	1-4
		Gustavo Myasava	5-7
miNami aoYama with SARD	20th	Kotoka Goibuchi	2, 4
		Ayaka Imahashi	3, 5
		Miki Koyama	6, 7
	28	Yoshiaki Katayama	1, 2
	39	Junpei Kato	1-7
RSS Takagi Racing	21st	Turbo Asahi	3, 4, 7
	22nd	Ritomo Miyata	5-7
N speed	23	Yugo Tanabe	1-7
Mars Racing Factory	24	Hideki Nakahara	7th
Field motorsport	25th	Tomoki Takahashi	2-4, 7th
	55	Takashi Hata	1, 2, 4, 6, 7
	75	Yuya Tezuka	1-7
ZAP Speed ​​Racing Team	27	Do Yun Hwang	1-4, 7
Shunsuke Sato	32	Shunsuke Sato	4th
Sfida Racing Team	34	Flying advice	2-4
	35	Motor Mouse	2-4
TOM'S Spirit	36	Shou Tsuboi	1-7
	37	Kazuto Kotaka	2-7
Garage Chabatake	38	Ryo Yamada	1-3
		Tsuyoshi Tajima	5, 7
Buzz International	44	View Yamauchi	1-7
	45	Yosuke Yamazaki	7th
B-Max Racing Team	50	Shinnosuke Yamada	1-7
	51	Yuichi Mikasa	1-7
Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave	52	Taku Bamba	1-3, 5-7
Le Beausset Motorsports	62	Noa Satomi	1-7
Skill speed	66	Riku Hashimoto	1-7
Leprix sport	70	Tsubasa Amano	2-7
NRS	80	Yudai Jinkawa	1
		Satoshi Kosugi	2
	81	Musashi Nakanishi	2, 3
		Yuichi Sasaki	7th
Succeed Sports	88	Shintaro Kawabata	1-7
	89	Takahiro Ban	3-5
		Ryota Kiyohara	6, 7

Racing calendar

There were seven race weekends with two races each. All races took place as part of the Super GT events.

No.	date	Racetrack	winner	Second	Third
01.	04. April	Mimasaka	Tadasuke Makino	Shou Tsuboi	Yuya Hiraki
02.	0April 5th		Tadasuke Makino	Shou Tsuboi	Hiroki Ohtsu
03.	02.May	Fuji	Shou Tsuboi	Tadasuke Makino	Shinnosuke Yamada
04th	0May 3rd		Tadasuke Makino	Yuichi Mikasa	Shinnosuke Yamada
05.	08th August	Fuji	Tadasuke Makino	Hiroki Ohtsu	Yuya Hiraki
06th	0August 9		Shou Tsuboi	Yuya Hiraki	Katsuhide Kaneishi
07th	29th August	Suzuka	Shou Tsuboi	Tadasuke Makino	Yuya Hiraki
08th.	August 30th		Shou Tsuboi	Tadasuke Makino	Yuya Hiraki
09.	September 19th	Sugo	Shou Tsuboi	Tadasuke Makino	Shunsuke Kouno
10.	September 20th		Shou Tsuboi	Shunsuke Kouno	Tadasuke Makino
11.	October 31	Kamitsue	Shou Tsuboi	Hiroki Ohtsu	Shinnosuke Yamada
12.	0November 1st		Shinnosuke Yamada	Hiroki Ohtsu	Ritomo Miyata
13.	14th November	Motegi	Tadasuke Makino	Yuki Nemoto	Sena Sakaguchi
14th	15th of November		Tadasuke Makino	Shou Tsuboi	Yuki Nemoto

Rating

Point system

Distribution of points
space	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10
Race 1-2	20th	15th	12	10	8th	6th	4th	3	2	1

The points were given to the first ten drivers. There was also a bonus point for the pole position.

Driver ranking

Item driver OKA FU1 FU2 SUZ SUG AUT MOT Points 01  S. Tsuboi 2 2 1 9 4th 1 1 1 1 1 1 17th 5 2 209 02  T. Makino 1 1 2 1 1 26th 2 2 2 3 9 5 1 1 206 03  H. Ohtsu 9 3 4th 11 2 4th 4th 17th 5 5 2 2 8th 24 109 04th  S. Yamada DNF DNF 3 3 7th 6th 7th 7th 10 DNF 3 1 6th 8th 84 04th  Y. Hiraki 3 7th 6th DNF 3 2 3 3 12 13 4th 20th DNF 13 84 06th  K. Kotaka     10 13 6th 5 6th 4th 6th 7th 8th 6th 16 11 50 07th  Y. Nemoto DNF 10 8th 7th 12 DNF 10 5 15th 14th 14th 8th 2 3 48 08th  S. Kouno 10 20th 17th 21st 17th 18th 9 9 3 2 10 10 9 6th 42 08th  M. Ishizaka DNS 16 13 5 5 DNF 5 14th 20th 16 6th 4th 11 9 42 10  S. Sakaguchi             30 * 6th 7th 8th 5 7th 3 7th 41 11  T. Shinohara 17th 18th DNF 4th 18th 8th 18th 8th 9 4th 7th 9 10 22nd 35 11  Y. Kamimura DNF 5 11 15th DNF 12 8th 10 8th 6th 16 15th 7th 4th 35 13  S. Kawabata 15th DNF 5 10 11 13 28 11 14th 11 15th 11 4th 5 27 14th  Y. Mikasa 5 DNF DNF 2 DNF 9 22nd 18th 13 12 21st 16 DNF 17th 25th 15th  R. Miyata                 4th 9 DNF 3 14th 27 24 16  K. Kaneishi 19th 9 21st 28 DNF 3 16 19th 21st 22nd 27 13 15th 12 16 17th  T. Mekaru 6th DNF 7th 32 * 8th 25th 12 13 16 15th         14th 18th  N. Costa 4th 15th 12 14th DNS 16 13 24             10 18th  J. Munro DNF 4th 16 DNF                     10 18th  Y. Shiraishi 7th 6th 18th 16 16 24 15th 15th     12 DNF     10 21st  M. Nakanishi     33 * 6th 21st 23                 6th 22nd  T. Asahi         10 7th 20th 30th         23 23 5 23  N. Satomi 20th 8th DNF 20th 19th 31 17th 16 17th DNF 11 12 12 DNF 3 23  R. Hashimoto 11 17th 19th 8th 24 DNF 19th 20th 27 21st 24 23 DNF 15th 3 23  R. Yamada 8th 12 15th DNF 20th 19th                 3 23  T. Bamba DNA DNA 9 12 14th 15th     18th 17th 13 21st DNF 10 3 27  T. Amano     22nd 19th 9 11 DNF 12 DNF 19th 18th 14th 17th 14th 2 28  Sm. Sato         13 14th 31 * 22nd 11 10         1 28  J. Kato 13 19th 14th 24 15th 10 14th DNS 26th 23 19th 27 DNF 25th 1 -  T. Ban 18th 11     26th 20th 32 * 23 23 26th         0 -  T. Takahashi     31 18th DNF 21st 11 26th         WD WD 0 -  M. Yonekura 12 23     WD WD 24 25th     26th 24     0 -  V. Yamauchi DNA DNA 20th 25th 22nd 17th DNF 31 24 24 25th 22nd 13 21st 0 -  Y. Katayama 21st 13 DNS DNF                     0 -  Y. Tezuka 22nd 14th 23 17th 23 22nd 21st 27 22nd 20th 17th 18th 19th DNF 0 -  K. Kubota 14th 22nd 26th 31                 DNF DNF 0 -  D. Hwang DNA DNA 25th DNF DNF 33 23 21st         25th 16 0 -  Y. Tanabe 16 24 32 29 DNF 32 29 33 30th 29 30th 28 28 32 0 -  G. Myasava                 19th 18th 23 DNF DNF 18th 0 -  Y. Yamazaki                         18th DNF 0 -  H. Nagai                 25th 25th 29 29 21st 19th 0 -  N. Yoshida                     22nd 19th     0 -  R. Kiyohara                     20th DNF DNF 20th 0 -  T. Hata DNF 21st 28 DNF     25th 29     DNF 25th 20th 30th 0 -  S. Kosugi     24 22nd                     0 -  T. Tajima                 29 28     22nd 31 0 -  K. Goibuchi     27 23     27 DNS             0 -  Y. Sasaki                         24 29 0 -  A. Imahashi         25th 28     28 27         0 -  M. Koyama                     28 26th 26th 26th 0 -  Motor Mouse     29 26th 27 27 WD WD             0 -  Flying advice     30th 27 28 30th 26th 32             0 -  H. Nakahara                         27 28 0 -  Sn. Sato             DNF 28             0 -  M. Ikejima     DNF 30th DNF 29                 0 -  Y. Jinkawa DNA DNA                         0 -  P. Ip         WD WD                 0 Item driver OKA FU1 FU2 SUZ SUG AUT MOT 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

Web links

• Official website of the Japanese Formula 4 Championship

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Abouts. fiaf4.jp, accessed December 6, 2015 .