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]

2016 F4 Japanese Championship
Previous: 2015 Next: 2017
Parent series:
Super GT

Teams and drivers
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 Kouno 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

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 Kawaii 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

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
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 Kouno 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 Shimono     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
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 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
  1. "2016 Calendar". F4 Japanese Championship. GT-Association. 12 February 2016. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  2. "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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