2015 F4 Japanese Championship

The 2015 F4 Japanese Championship was the inaugural season of the F4 Japanese Championship. It began on 4 April in Okayama and finished on 15 November on Twin Ring Motegi after seven double header rounds.[1]

Teams and drivers

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Team No. Driver Rounds
  Hanashima Racing[2] 2   Katsuaki Kubota[3] 1–2, 7
  Shuma Sato 3–5
  Sutekina Racing Team[2] 3   Takahiro Ban[3] 1
  Miku Ikejima 2–3
  Sena Sakaguchi 4–7
  RS Fine[2] 4   Shunsuke Kohno[3] All
5   Yuya Hiraki[3] All
  Clear Corporation 6   Masanori Yonekura[3] 1, 3–4, 6
  Honda Formula Dream Project[2] 7   Hiroki Otsu[4] All
8   Yuta Kamimura[4] All
9   Mizuki Ishizaka[4] All
10   Katsuhide Kaneishi[3] All
  Rn-sports[2] 11   Tadasuke Makino[3] All
57   Nobuhiro Yoshida 6
  Team A-ONE with SECNA[2] 12   Yuki Shiraishi[3] 1–4, 6
  KCMG[2] 14   Yuki Nemoto[5] All
18   James Munro[3] 1–2
  Paul Ip 3
  Media Do Kageyama Racing[2] 16   Tsubasa Mekaru[6] 1–5
  ARN Racing 17   Hiroaki Nagai 5–7
  VSR Lamborghini S.C.Formula Jr[7] 19   Takuro Shinohara[7] All
63   Nicolas Costa[3] 1–4
  Gustavo Myasava 5–7
  miNami aoYama with SARD[2][8] 20   Kotoka Goibuchi 2, 4
  Ayaka Imahashi 3, 5
  Miki Koyama 6–7
28   Yoshiaki Katayama[3] 1–2
39   Junpei Kato[3] All
  RSS 21   Turbo Asahi 3–4, 7
22   Ritomo Miyata 5–7
  N-SPEED[2] 23   Yugo Tanabe[3] All
  Mars Racing Factory 24   Hideki Nakahara 7
  Field Motorsport[2] 25   Tomoki Takahashi 2–4, 7
55   Takashi Hata[3] 1–2, 4, 6–7
75   Yuya Tezuka[3] All
  Zap Speed Racing Team[9] 27   Hwang Do-yun[9] 1–4, 7
  Shunsuke Sato 32   Shunsuke Sato 4
  Sfida Racing Team 34   "Flying Rat" 2–4
35   "Motor Mouse" 2–4
  TOM'S Spirit[2] 36   Sho Tsuboi[3] All
37   Kazuto Kotaka 2–7
  Garage Chabatake[2] 38   Ryo Yamada[3] 1–3
  Tsuyoshi Tajima 5, 7
  Buzz International[10] 44   View Yamauchi[10] All
45   Yosuke Yamazaki 7
  B-MAX Racing Team[11] 50   Shinnosuke Yamada[11] All
51   Yuichi Mikasa[11] All
  Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave[2] 52   Taku Bamba[3] 1–3, 5–7
  Le Beausset Motorsports[12] 62   Noa Satomi[12] All
  Skill Speed[2] 66   Riku Hashimoto[3] All
  leprix sport 70   Tsubasa Amano 2–7
  NRS[2] 80   Yudai Jinkawa[3] 1
  Satoshi Kosugi 2
81   Musashi Nakanishi 2–3
  Yuichi Sasaki 7
  Succeed Sports[2] 88   Shintaro Kawabata[3] All
89   Takahiro Ban 3–5
  Ryota Kiyohara 6–7

Race calendar and results

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The calendar was published on 19 January 2015.[1] All rounds were held in Japan and were part of the Super GT events.

Round Circuit Date Pole Position Fastest Lap Winning driver Winning team
1 R1 Okayama International Circuit, Mimasaka 4 April   Sho Tsuboi   Tadasuke Makino   Tadasuke Makino   Rn-sports
R2 5 April   Tsubasa Mekaru   Tadasuke Makino   Tadasuke Makino   Rn-sports
2 R1 Fuji Speedway, Oyama 2 May   Tadasuke Makino   Sho Tsuboi   Sho Tsuboi   TOM'S Spirit
R2 3 May   Tadasuke Makino   Sho Tsuboi   Tadasuke Makino   Rn-sports
3 R1 Fuji Speedway, Oyama 8 August   Katsuhide Kaneishi   Yuya Hiraki   Tadasuke Makino   Rn-sports
R2 9 August   Katsuhide Kaneishi   Yuya Hiraki   Sho Tsuboi   TOM'S Spirit
4 R1 Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka 29 August   Sho Tsuboi   Yuya Hiraki   Sho Tsuboi   TOM'S Spirit
R2 30 August   Tadasuke Makino   Tadasuke Makino   Sho Tsuboi   TOM'S Spirit
5 R1 Sportsland SUGO, Murata 19 September   Sho Tsuboi   Shunsuke Kohno   Sho Tsuboi   TOM'S Spirit
R2 20 September   Sho Tsuboi   Sena Sakaguchi   Sho Tsuboi   TOM'S Spirit
6 R1 Autopolis, Hita 31 October   Hiroki Otsu   Sho Tsuboi   Sho Tsuboi   TOM'S Spirit
R2 1 November   Yuya Hiraki   Kazuto Kotaka   Shinnosuke Yamada   B-MAX Racing Team
7 R1 Twin Ring Motegi, Motegi 14 November   Yuki Nemoto   Yuta Kamimura   Tadasuke Makino   Rn-sports
R2 15 November   Tadasuke Makino   Sho Tsuboi   Tadasuke Makino   Rn-sports

Championship standings

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Drivers' Championships

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  • Only the best eleven results counted towards the championship. Points were awarded as follows:
Position  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th 
Points 20 15 12 10 8 6 4 3 2 1

Overall

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Pos Driver OKA FUJ1 FUJ2 SUZ SUG AUT MOT Points
1   Sho Tsuboi 2 2 1 9 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 17 5 2 195
2   Tadasuke Makino 1 1 2 1 1 26 2 2 2 3 9 5 1 1 192
3   Hiroki Otsu 9 3 4 11 2 4 4 17 5 7 2 2 3 24 108
4   Shinnosuke Yamada Ret Ret 3 3 7 6 7 7 10 Ret 3 1 6 8 84
5   Yuya Hiraki 3 7 6 Ret 3 2 3 3 12 13 4 20 Ret 13 83
6   Kazuto Kotaka 10 13 6 5 6 4 6 7 8 6 16 11 50
7   Yuki Nemoto Ret 10 8 7 12 Ret 10 5 15 14 14 8 2 3 47
8   Shunsuke Kohno 10 20 17 21 17 18 9 9 3 2 10 10 9 6 42
9   Mizuki Ishizaka DNS 16 13 5 5 Ret 5 14 20 16 6 4 11 9 42
10   Sena Sakaguchi 30† 6 7 8 5 7 3 7 41
11   Takuro Shinohara 17 18 Ret 4 18 8 18 8 9 4 7 9 10 22 35
12   Yuta Kamimura Ret 5 11 15 Ret 12 8 10 8 6 16 15 7 4 35
13   Shintaro Kawabata 15 Ret 5 10 11 13 28 11 14 11 15 11 4 5 27
14   Yuichi Mikasa 5 Ret Ret 2 Ret 9 22 18 13 12 21 16 Ret 17 25
15   Ritomo Miyata 4 9 Ret 3 14 27 24
16   Katsuhide Kaneishi 19 9 21 28 Ret 3 16 19 21 22 27 13 15 12 14
17   Tsubasa Mekaru 6 Ret 7 32† 8 25 12 13 16 15 13
18   Nicolas Costa 4 15 12 14 DNS 16 13 24 10
19   James Munro Ret 4 16 Ret 10
20   Yuki Shiraishi 7 6 18 16 16 24 15 15 12 Ret 10
21   Musashi Nakanishi 33† 6 21 23 6
22   Turbo Asahi 10 7 20 30 23 23 5
23   Noa Satomi 20 8 Ret 20 19 31 17 16 17 Ret 11 12 12 Ret 3
24   Riku Hashimoto 11 17 19 8 24 Ret 19 20 27 21 24 23 15 Ret 3
25   Ryo Yamada 8 12 15 Ret 20 19 3
26   Taku Bamba WD WD 9 12 14 15 18 17 13 21 Ret 10 3
27   Tsubasa Amano 22 19 9 11 Ret 12 Ret 19 18 14 17 14 2
28   Shuma Sato 13 14 31† 22 11 10 1
29   Junpei Kato 13 19 14 24 15 10 14 DNS 26 23 19 27 Ret 25 1
30   Takahiro Ban 18 11 26 20 32† 23 23 26 0
31   Tomoki Takahashi 31 18 Ret 21 11 26 WD WD 0
32   Masanori Yonekura 12 23† WD WD 24 25 26 24 0
33   View Yamauchi WD WD 20 25 22 17 Ret 31 24 24 25 22 13 21 0
34   Yoshiaki Katayama 21 13 DNS Ret 0
35   Yuya Tezuka 22 14 23 17 23 22 21 27 22 20 17 18 19 Ret 0
36   Katsuaki Kubota 14 22 26 31 Ret Ret 0
37   Hwang Do-yun WD WD 25 Ret Ret 33 23 21 25 16 0
38   Yugo Tanabe 16 24 32 29 Ret 32 29 33 30 29 30 28 28 32 0
39   Gustavo Myasava 19 38 23 Ret Ret 18 0
40   Yosuke Yamazaki 18 Ret 0
41   Hiroaki Nagai 25 25 29 29† 21 19 0
42   Nobuhiro Yoshida 22 19 0
43   Ryota Kiyohara 20 Ret Ret 20 0
44   Takashi Hata Ret 21 28 Ret 25 29 Ret 25 20 30 0
45   Satoshi Kosugi 24 22 0
46   Tsuyoshi Tajima 29 28 22 31 0
47   Kotoka Goibuchi 27 23 27 DNS 0
48   Yuichi Sasaki 24 29 0
49   Ayaka Imahashi 25 28 0
50   Miki Koyama 28 26 26 26 0
51   "Motor Mouse" 29 26 27 27 WD WD 0
52   "Flying Rat" 30 27 28 30 26 32 0
53   Hideki Nakahara 27 28 0
54   Shunsuke Sato Ret 28 0
55   Miku Ikejima Ret 30 Ret 29 0
  Yudai Jinkawa WD WD 0
  Paul Ip WD WD 0
Pos Driver OKA FUJ1 FUJ2 SUZ SUG AUT MOT Points
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver Second place
Bronze Third place
Green Points finish
Blue Non-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Retired (Ret)
Red Did not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black Disqualified (DSQ)
White Did not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not practice (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest Lap
† — Did not finish, but classified

Teams' standings

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Pos Team Pts.
1   TOM'S Spirit 225
2   Rn-sports 216
3   Honda Formula Dream Project 144
4   RS Fine 133
5   B-Max Racing Team 109
6   KCMG 70
7   VSR Lamborghini S.C.Formula Jr 59
8   Sutekina Racing Team 55
9   Succeed Sports 41
10   RSS 39
11   Media Do Kageyama Racing 23
12   Eagle Sport 20
13   Le Beausset Motorsports 17
14   Skill Speed 17
15   miNami aoYama with SARD 14
16   N-Speed 14
17   Field Motorsport 14
18   Leprix Sport 14
19   Garage Chabatake 13
20   Hanamashima Racing 13
21   Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave 13
22   NRS 10
23   Buzz International 10
24   Zap Speed Racing Team 8
25   Sfida Racing Team 6
26   Clear Corporation 6
27   ARN Racing 6

References

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