The 2013 Japanese Championship Super Formula season was the forty-first season of premier Japanese open-wheel motor racing, and the first under the new name of Super Formula. The series was contested over six rounds and a non-championship final round at Fuji Speedway as part of the JAF Grand Prix. 2013 was also the last season using the original chassis (SF13, known as FN09 in previous seasons) by Swift Engineering as for 2014 Dallara would supply a new chassis, the SF14, to the series. [1]
Naoki Yamamoto won his first drivers' championship with Team Mugen, while Petronas Team TOM's won the teams' championship. Yamamoto and André Lotterer finished the year with the same number of points. At the time, Super Formula had an unconventional championship tiebreaker method where the driver that scored the most points in the final round of the season would be declared the champion. [2] Lotterer had more wins, but had to miss the final round due to his commitments in the FIA World Endurance Championship, while Yamamoto finished first and third in the double-header finale at Suzuka to equal Lotterer's point total and win the championship.
In the same season, Loïc Duval won the Sportsland Sugo round, defeating Lotterer by 0.041 seconds. [3] It was the closest margin of victory in series history. [4]
Team | No. | Driver | Engine | Rounds |
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Petronas Team TOM'S | 1 | Kazuki Nakajima | Toyota RV8K | All |
2 | James Rossiter | 1, 6 | ||
André Lotterer | 2–5, NC | |||
Kondō Racing | 3 | Hironobu Yasuda | Toyota RV8K | All |
Kygnus Sunoco Team LeMans | 7 | Ryō Hirakawa | Toyota RV8K | All |
8 | Andrea Caldarelli | 1, 6 | ||
Loïc Duval | 2–5, NC | |||
HP Real Racing | 10 | Koudai Tsukakoshi [5] | Honda HR12E | All |
11 | Yuhki Nakayama [5] | All | ||
Team Mugen | 15 | Takuma Sato [5] | Honda HR12E | 1, 5–6, NC |
Takashi Kobayashi [5] | 2–4 | |||
16 | Naoki Yamamoto [5] | All | ||
KCMG | 18 | Richard Bradley [6] | Toyota RV8K | All |
Lenovo Team Impul | 19 | João Paulo de Oliveira | Toyota RV8K | All |
20 | Tsugio Matsuda | All | ||
Nakajima Racing | 31 | Daisuke Nakajima [5] | Honda HR12E | All |
32 | Takashi Kogure [5] | All | ||
P.mu/cerumo・INGING | 38 | Kohei Hirate | Toyota RV8K | All |
39 | Yuji Kunimoto | All | ||
Docomo Team Dandelion Racing | 40 | Takuya Izawa [5] | Honda HR12E | All |
41 | Hideki Mutoh [5] | All | ||
Tochigi Le Beausset Motorsports | 62 | Koki Saga | Toyota RV8K | All |
A provisional calendar for the 2013 season was released on 10 August 2012. [7] All races were held in Japan.
Round | Circuit | Date | Pole Position | Fastest Lap | Winning Driver | Winning Team |
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1 | Suzuka Circuit | 14 April | Takuya Izawa | Takashi Kogure | Takuya Izawa | Docomo Team Dandelion Racing |
2 | Autopolis | 2 June | André Lotterer | Kazuki Nakajima | André Lotterer | Petronas Team TOM'S |
3 | Fuji Speedway | 14 July | Loïc Duval | André Lotterer | André Lotterer | Petronas Team TOM'S |
4 | Twin Ring Motegi | 4 August | Kazuki Nakajima | André Lotterer | Kazuki Nakajima | Petronas Team TOM'S |
5 | Sportsland SUGO | 29 September | Loïc Duval | Takashi Kogure | Loïc Duval | Kygnus Sunoco Team LeMans |
6 | Suzuka Circuit | 10 November | Naoki Yamamoto | Ryō Hirakawa | Naoki Yamamoto | Team Mugen |
Naoki Yamamoto | Ryō Hirakawa | Kazuki Nakajima | Petronas Team TOM'S | |||
NC | Fuji Speedway Report | 24 November | Yuji Kunimoto | Takuya Izawa | Yuji Kunimoto | P.mu/cerumo・INGING |
Round | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | Pole |
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1–5 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
6 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2.5 | 2 | 1.5 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 |
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