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]

2015 F4 Japanese Championship
Previous: none Next: 2016
Parent series:
Super GT

Teams and drivers
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 Do Yun Hwang[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

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

Drivers' Championships
  • Only the best eleven results counted towards the championship. Points were awarded as follows:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
20 15 12 10 8 6 4 3 2 1

Overall
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 Miyaka 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 Do Yun Hwang 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
ColourResult
GoldWinner
Silver2nd place
Bronze3rd place
GreenPoints finish
BlueNon-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
PurpleRetired (Ret)
RedDid not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
BlackDisqualified (DSQ)
WhiteDid not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not participate (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)

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

Teams' standings
Pos Driver 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

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