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]
Team | No. | Driver | Rounds |
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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 | Hwang Do-yun [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 |
The calendar was published on 19 January 2015. [1] All rounds were held in Japan and were part of the Super GT events.
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
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Points | 20 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
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Bold – Pole |
Pos | Team | Pts. |
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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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