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]
Team | No. | Driver | Rounds |
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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 Kohno | 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 |
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 | |
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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 Kawaai | 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 |
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 |
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Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
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Bold – Pole |
Pos | Team | Pts. |
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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 |
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