2017 F4 Japanese Championship

The 2017 F4 Japanese Championship was the third season of the F4 Japanese Championship. It began on 7 April in Okayama and finished on 12 November on Twin Ring Motegi after seven double header rounds.[1] Ritomo Miyata will defend his drivers' title, continuing with TOM'S Spirit.[2]

2017 F4 Japanese Championship
Previous: 2016 Next: 2018
Parent series:
Super GT

Teams and drivers

The teams were announced on 11 March 2017.[3]

Team No. Driver Rounds
TOM'S Spirit 1 Ritomo Miyata[4] All
36 Sota Ogawa 7
Team Right Way 2 Keiji Nakao[4] 1–2, 4–7
Sutekina Racing Team 3 Mizuki Ishizaka[4] 1–6
Yuichi Sasaki 4 Yuichi Sasaki[5] 2, 4–5
Honda Formula Dream Project 5 Toshiki Oyu[4] All
6 Ukyo Sasahara[6] All
7 Takuya Otaki[4] All
8 Yuki Tsunoda[4] All
Field Motorsport 9 Toshiki Haruyama[4] 1–3
Takashi Hata 5–7
25 Tomoki Takahashi[4] All
55 Kiryu Hosoda[4] All
Rn-sports 11 Toshiki Komura[4] 1–2
B-MAX Racing Team 13 Motoyoshi Yoshida[5] 2–3
Ayumu Iwasa 7
50 Shinji Sawada[4] All
68 Chia Wing Hoong[4] All
Media Do Kageyama Racing 15 Hiromichi Hayase[4] All
16 Takuro Shinohara[4] All
Buzz International 17 Turbo Asahi[4] All
18 Junpei Kato[4] 1–4, 7
Teppei Natori 5–6
30 "Dragon"[7] 3
VSR Lamborghini S.C. Formula Jr. 19 Akash Gowda[8] 1–6
63 Rikiya Kanazawa[4] All
RSS 21 Seiya Jin[4] 1–6
N-SPEED 23 "Yugo"[4] All
Eagle Sport 27 Wataru Yamaki[9] 6
Automotive Team MYST 29 Tatsuya Ota[9] 6
HubAuto Racing 35 Shunsuke Kohno[10] All
89 Yuma Shoji 7
Saccess Racing 38 Miku Ikejima[5] 2
39 Miku Ikejima[4] 1
Yuki Urata[5] 2–7
NRS 44 Sho Onodera[4] All
83 Takumi Ueki[4] 1–3, 5–6
"Rising" 7
Silver Star Racing 51 Hiroyuki Kojima[4] 1
ARN Racing 54 Gerhard Rickert[4] All
Le Beausset Motorsports 60 Kohta Kawaai[4] All
61 Reiji Hiraki[4] All
62 Yuya Hiraki[4] All
leprix sport 70 Miki Koyama[4] All
C.S.I.-Reon Kids Racing 73 Kotoka Goibuchi[4] 1–2, 4–5
Garage Chabatake 77 Takeshi Ohi[4] All
OTG Motor Sports 80 Tougo Suganami[4] All
Zap Speed Racing Team 86 Hachiro Osaka[4] 1–2, 5–7
99 Danial Nielsen Frost 7

Race calendar and results

All rounds were held in Japan and were part of the Super GT events.[1]

Round Circuit Date Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team
1 R1 Okayama International Circuit, Mimasaka 7 April Ritomo Miyata Ritomo Miyata Ukyo Sasahara Honda Formula Dream Project
R2 8 April Ritomo Miyata Toshiki Oyu Yuki Tsunoda Honda Formula Dream Project
2 R1 Fuji Speedway, Oyama 3 May Toshiki Oyu Tomoki Takahashi Ritomo Miyata TOM'S Spirit
R2 4 May Ritomo Miyata Ukyo Sasahara Ritomo Miyata TOM'S Spirit
3 R1 Autopolis, Hita 20 May Ukyo Sasahara Toshiki Oyu Ukyo Sasahara Honda Formula Dream Project
R2 21 May Toshiki Oyu Tougo Suganami Toshiki Oyu Honda Formula Dream Project
4 R1 Sportsland SUGO, Murata 22 July Yuki Tsunoda Ukyo Sasahara Ukyo Sasahara Honda Formula Dream Project
R2 23 July Yuki Tsunoda Ritomo Miyata Takuya Otaki Honda Formula Dream Project
5 R1 Fuji Speedway, Oyama 5 August Toshiki Oyu Ritomo Miyata Yuki Tsunoda Honda Formula Dream Project
R2 6 August Toshiki Oyu Ukyo Sasahara Toshiki Oyu Honda Formula Dream Project
6 R1 Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka 26 August Yuki Tsunoda Yuki Tsunoda Yuki Tsunoda Honda Formula Dream Project
R2 27 August Yuki Tsunoda Ritomo Miyata Ritomo Miyata TOM'S Spirit
7 R1 Twin Ring Motegi, Motegi 11 November Ritomo Miyata Ritomo Miyata Ritomo Miyata TOM'S Spirit
R2 12 November Ritomo Miyata Ritomo Miyata Toshiki Oyu Honda Formula Dream Project

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 AUT SUG FUJ2 SUZ MOT Points
1 Ritomo Miyata 2 6 1 1 3 4 Ret 3 3 3 2 1 1 3 231
2 Ukyo Sasahara 1 2 3 3 1 3 1 Ret 2 2 4 2 5 5 224
3 Yuki Tsunoda 3 1 11 5 9 2 5 Ret 1 4 1 3 8 4 173
4 Toshiki Oyu 24 5 2 2 2 1 Ret Ret DNS 1 3 4 Ret 1 166
5 Takuya Otaki 7 3 14 13 Ret 12 2 1 6 9 7 8 7 8 94
6 Shinji Sawada 5 4 Ret 7 13 23 4 4 25 Ret 18 14 3 2 85
7 Shunsuke Kohno 11 11 6 6 5 8 8 6 4 5 5 5 10 12 85
8 Kohta Kawaai Ret 7 7 9 4 5 9 Ret 7 21 6 7 4 7 76
9 Takuro Shinohara 8 Ret 5 12 6 14 6 Ret 8 6 9 9 2 6 72
10 Tomoki Takahashi 4 9 4 4 7 19 7 5 13 27 Ret 13 11 13 60
11 Yuya Hiraki 6 8 10 8 8 6 10 7 5 7 8 DSQ 12 11 56
12 Mizuki Ishizaka 10 NC 20 10 27 7 3 2 12 17 11 15 41
13 Teppei Natori 9 8 Ret 6 14
14 Sota Ogawa 6 9 10
15 Tougo Suganami 9 10 9 11 DNS 15 14 9 11 10 19 25 17 29 8
16 Reiji Hiraki 15 13 8 15 11 11 11 10 10 11 13 16 14 16 6
17 Kiryu Hosoda 17 22 Ret Ret 14 Ret 12 8 15 15 23 11 32 10 5
18 Turbo Asahi 13 21 12 18 20 10 15 24 17 12 12 26 9 17 3
19 Yuki Urata Ret 14 16 9 Ret 21 19 13 Ret 10 31 14 3
20 Seiya Jin 12 Ret 13 17 10 18 13 22 14 16 10 12 2
21 Junpei Kato 16 14 Ret 29 12 13 Ret 11 19 19 0
22 Rikiya Kanazawa 18 17 16 Ret 15 17 16 12 22 14 16 Ret 16 23 0
23 Hirokuni Kojima 14 12 0
24 Akash Gowda 21 18 17 20 Ret 16 23 13 16 20 15 Ret 0
25 Yuma Shoji 13 18 0
26 Kotoka Goibuchi 19 15 19 30 19 14 23 24 0
27 Wataru Yamaki 14 18 0
28 Ayumu Iwasa 15 15 0
29 Takeshi Ohi 20 16 18 23 Ret 20 17 15 18 18 17 19 21 24 0
30 Toshiki Haruyama 23 24 15 16 WD WD 0
31 Chia Wing Hoong     29 20 21 19 17 Ret 18 16 21 19 22 20 26 22 0
32 Tatsuya Ota 20 17 0
33 Yuichi Sasaki WD WD 21 17 26 25 0
34 Miki Koyama 33 DSQ 23 22 18 21 Ret DNS 20 30 21 21 20 20 0
35 Danial Nielsen Frost 18 21 0
36 Gerhard Rickert 30 28 30 30 24 27 Ret 18 28 31 28 29 30 Ret 0
37 Keiji Nakao 27 19 24 24 DNS 19 Ret 23 25 23 23 32 0
38 Sho Onedera 26 25 25 Ret 19 Ret Ret DNS 24 26 24 22 24 26 0
39 Hiromichi Hayase 28 23 27 25 22 25 20 23 Ret 22 26 24 25 28 0
40 "Yugo" 32 30 29 28 26 28 22 20 27 28 27 28 29 31 0
41 Miku Ikejima 22 26 22 21 0
42 Takumi Ueki WD WD Ret Ret 21 24 WD WD WD WD 0
43 "Dragon" 23 22 0
44 Takashi Hata WD WD WD WD 22 25 0
45 Motoyoshi Yoshida 26 26 25 26 0
46 Toshiki Komura 25 29 WD WD 0
47 Hachiro Osaka 31 27 28 27 29 29 29 27 27 30 0
48 "Rising" 28 27 0
Pos Driver OKA FUJ1 AUT 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 314
2 TOM'S Spirit 231
3 Le Beausset Motorsports 102
4 B-Max Racing team 85
5 HubAuto Racing 85
6 Media Do Kageyama Racing 72
7 Field Motorsport 61
8 Sutekina Racing Team 41
9 Buzz International 17
10 OTG Motor Sports 8
11 Saccess Racing 3
12 RSS 2

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