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2016 F4 Japanese Championship

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 edit

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 edit

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]

Round Circuit Date Pole Position Fastest Lap Winning driver Winning team
1 R1 Okayama International Circuit, Mimasaka 9 April   Shintaro Kawabata   Sena Sakaguchi   Shintaro Kawabata   Succeed Sports
R2 10 April   Shintaro Kawabata   Mizuki Ishizaka   Shintaro Kawabata   Succeed Sports
2 R1 Fuji Speedway, Oyama 3 May   Ritomo Miyata   Shintaro Kawabata   Kazuto Kotaka   TOM'S Spirit
R2 4 May   Shinji Sawada   Kazuto Kotaka   Kazuto Kotaka   TOM'S Spirit
3 R1 Sportsland SUGO, Murata 23 July   Kazuto Kotaka   Toshiki Oyu   Toshiki Oyu   Rn-sports
R2 24 July   Kazuto Kotaka   Kazuto Kotaka   Kazuto Kotaka   TOM'S Spirit
4 R1 Fuji Speedway, Oyama 6 August   Ritomo Miyata   Takuro Shinohara   Ritomo Miyata   TOM'S Spirit
R2 7 August   Kazuto Kotaka   Tomoki Takahashi   Ritomo Miyata   TOM'S Spirit
R3   Takuro Shinohara   Ritomo Miyata   Yuya Hiraki   Le Beausset Motorsports
5 R1 Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka 27 August   Takuya Otaki   Sena Sakaguchi   Takuya Otaki   Honda Formula Dream Project
R2 28 August   Toshiki Oyu   Toshiki Oyu   Toshiki Oyu   Rn-sports
6 R1 Twin Ring Motegi, Motegi 12 November   Toshiki Oyu   Takuro Shinohara   Kohta Kawaai   Le Beausset Motorsports
R2   Toshiki Oyu   Ritomo Miyata   Sena Sakaguchi   Honda Formula Dream Project
R3 13 November   Takuro Shinohara   Ritomo Miyata   Yuya Hiraki   Le Beausset Motorsports

Championship standings edit

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 edit

Pos Driver OKA FUJ1 SUG FUJ2 SUZ MOT Points
1   Ritomo Miyata 5 Ret Ret 2 DSQ 2 1 1 4 6 6 22 2 11 142
2   Sena Sakaguchi 2 Ret 3 4 Ret 9 3 2 3 24 2 Ret 1 15 138
3   Toshiki Oyu 8 4 Ret 14 1 4 6 4 24 4 1 13 3 10 126
4   Mizuki Ishizaka 4 3 5 25 2 18 4 5 5 5 7 26 8 4 119
5   Kazuto Kotaka 10 10 1 1 DSQ 1 2 25 16 7 Ret 24 4 16 113
6   Yuya Hiraki Ret 5 15 8 4 5 10 14 1 8 11 3 18 1 106
7   Shinji Sawada 6 16 2 3 15 14 5 28 Ret 3 3 5 13 3 106
8   Takuro Shinohara 12 9 4 15 10 12 7 3 2 15 12 Ret 6 2 80
9   Shintaro Kawabata 1 1 Ret Ret Ret 6 28 8 6 12 8 15 26 8 78
10   Shunsuke Kohno 7 Ret Ret 5 6 Ret 9 6 26 13 9 2 11 5 64
11   Kohta Kawaai Ret 6 8 7 5 10 14 13 27 25 14 1 9 Ret 56
12   Takuya Otaki Ret 15 33 19 8 13 8 11 Ret 1 30 8 5 6 55
13   Yuki Nemoto 9 7 6 6 Ret 3 Ret 7 19 10 10 20 7 13 53
14   Yuta Kamimura 3 2 9 10 7 Ret 12 9 28 14 21 Ret 10 18 45
15   Tomoki Takahashi 11 14 7 29 3 8 13 22 18 26 5 14 14 7 41
16   Yuki Tsunoda 2 4 30
17   Yuya Taira 16 18 16 28 19 11 24 24 Ret 9 13 4 Ret 27 14
18   Turbo Asahi 14 8 10 9 22 21 Ret 18 9 Ret 17 Ret 16 20 9
19   Yuki Urata 22 30 13 Ret 6 32 Ret 8
20   Reiji Hiraki 25 13 12 11 Ret 7 32 23 Ret 11 20 21 12 9 8
21   Takuma Abe 30 27 20 24 12 26 Ret 12 7 17 28 12 DSQ DSQ 6
22   Junpei Kato 17 16 14 22 19 15 Ret 19 15 7 20 17 6
23   Yuga Katsumata 22 Ret 17 20 15 Ret 8 22 22 32 DNS DNS 4
24   Ryota Kiyohara 13 12 11 13 9 15 2
25   Seiya Jin 9 24 19 2
26   Riku Hashimoto 19 20 19 Ret 18 16 18 21 10 18 16 23 Ret 26 1
27   Ryosuke Takehira 20 21 23 Ret 13 19 11 20 Ret 23 19 10 15 12 1
28   Yuya Tezuka 23 10 Ret 1
29   Rikiya Kanazawa 11 19 14 0
30   "Dragon" 18 24 18 17 11 29 21 19 Ret 21 23 0
31   Miku Ikejima 24 20 21 20 20 17 11 27 25 Ret 0
32   Miki Koyama Ret 11 28 21 24 0
33   Hiroki Kokuzawa 31 23 14 32 16 30 16 26 12 0
34   Do Yun Hwang 17 25 28 12 Ret Ret 17 27 21 29 24 18 Ret 21 0
35   Yuichi Sasaki 30 22 23 23 26 31 13 Ret 27 28 0
36   Kuninori Nakane 26 26 29 26 24 Ret 29 29 14 27 27 25 28 Ret 0
37   Shigetomo Shimono000 15 17 21 18 17 24 Ret 16 22 16 18 0
38   Motoyoshi Yoshida 27 28 27 27 27 32 15 30 29 29 29 31 0
39   Kohei Tokumasu 19 17 22 0
40   Kotoka Goibuchi 25 21 26 25 17 22 23 0
41   Satoshi Anbe 26 30 22 35 17 0
42   Hiroki Inui 23 19 0
43   Lee Jung Woo 20 26 0
44   Toshihiko Hachiro
  "Osaka Hachiro" 		29 31 32 31 31 34 20 32 31 30 30 29 0
45   Takashi Hata 21 Ret Ret Ret 25 30 23 28 25 0
46   Ayaka Imahashi 24 22 Ret Ret 0
47   "Yugo" 28 29 31 23 27 28 30 33 25 31 Ret 31 31 30 0
48   "Syuji" 25 27 0
Pos Driver OKA FUJ1 SUG FUJ2 SUZ 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 edit

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 edit

  1. ^ "2016 Calendar". F4 Japanese Championship. GT-Association. 12 February 2016. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  2. ^ a b c "Honda 2016 Motorsports Program Overview". Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Honda Motor Co., Ltd. 12 February 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "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.

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