2022 F4 Japanese Championship

2022 F4 Japanese Championship

Drivers' champion: Syun Koide
Teams' champion: Honda Formula Dream Project

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Parent series:
Super GT

The 2022 F4 Japanese Championship season was the eighth season of the F4 Japanese Championship. It was competed with 14 races over seven double-header rounds. ^[1]

Teams and drivers

All teams and drivers were Japanese-registered

Team No. Driver Class Rounds Field Motorsports 3 Sergeyevich Sato I 1–2 55 "Kentaro" I All Honda Formula Dream Project 5 Syun Koide All 6 Kazuma Nishimura All 7 Yusuke Mitsui All SD-Style 8 Takumi Sanada 1 Rn-sports 11 Itsuki Sato 1 Isao Nakashima I 2, 4 "Hirobon" I 6 "Daisuke" I 7 99 Yoshitsugu Kondo I All Hitotsuyama Racing 13 Daiki Fujiwara 1–5, 7 Zap Speed 14 Kotaro Shimbara All 86 Hachiro Osaka I All 87 Rio Shimono All Media Do Kageyama Racing 15 Wataru Yoshimura All 16 Takuya Otaki All Akiland Racing 18 Makoto Hotta I 1–2 Ryota Horachi 3–4, 7 Yuta Fujiwara 5–6 22 4, 7 71 Masayoshi Oyama I All 72 "Hirobon" I 7 96 Makio Saito I All KRac Motorsports 19 Shinnosuke Ito 1–5 N-SPEED 23 "Yugo" I All Tsuyoshi Usui 24 Tsuyoshi Usui I 2, 6 RSS 27 "Syuji" I All Saccess Racing 29 Yasushi Ide I 1 Daitetsu Ueno 2 Tadakazu Kojima I 3–7 39 Hikaru Jitosho All 40 Daitetsu Ueno 4 B-Max Racing Team 30 "Dragon" I All 44 Nobuhiro Imada I 1–2 50 Yuki Mishima 1–2 Buzz Racing 31 Jiei Okuzumi All 32 Shion Tsujimoto 1–2, 4–7 Daisuke Takaguchi 3 33 Katsunori Keihara I 1–3 Ayato Iwasaki 4, 6–7 Teppei Tsuruta 5 TGR-DC Racing School 35 Rin Arakawa All 36 Rikuto Kobayashi All 37 Jin Nakamura All 38 Ryoma Henzan All Team Hero's 41 Shunji Okumoto All Tokaidenso MD 45 Toshihiro Kubota I 7 Bionic Jack Racing 47 Yuta Fujiwara 1–3 Sena Yamamoto 6–7 81 Kazuhisa Urabe All 97 Yugo Iwasawa All HELM Motorsports 61 Takumi Sato 2–4, 7 Itsuki Sato 5 62 Fuma Horio All 63 Yutaka Toriba I All Team RCOM 68 Ryunosuke Shibata 2, 4 Skill Speed 77 Gento Miyashita All OTG Motor Sports 80 Reimei Ito All Sources: [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Icon Class I Independent Cup

Race calendar and results

All rounds were held in Japan and supported the Super GT events. ^[1]

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team	Independent Cup winner
1	R1	Fuji Speedway, Oyama	3 May	Syun Koide	Rin Arakawa	Yusuke Mitsui [a]	Honda Formula Dream Project	Yutaka Toriba
	R2		4 May	Syun Koide	Syun Koide	Syun Koide	Honda Formula Dream Project	Yutaka Toriba
2	R3	Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka	28 May	Syun Koide	Syun Koide	Syun Koide	Honda Formula Dream Project	Makio Saito
	R4		29 May	Syun Koide	Syun Koide	Syun Koide	Honda Formula Dream Project	Yutaka Toriba
3	R5	Fuji Speedway, Oyama	6 August	Syun Koide [b]	Rikuto Kobayashi	Syun Koide	Honda Formula Dream Project	Yutaka Toriba
	R6		7 August	Rikuto Kobayashi [c]	Yugo Iwasawa	Syun Koide	Honda Formula Dream Project	Yutaka Toriba
4	R7	Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka	27 August	Yusuke Mitsui	Syun Koide	Yusuke Mitsui	Honda Formula Dream Project	Yutaka Toriba
	R8		28 August	Yusuke Mitsui	Yusuke Mitsui	Yusuke Mitsui	Honda Formula Dream Project	Yutaka Toriba
5	R9	Sportsland Sugo, Murata	17 September	Syun Koide	Jin Nakamura	Syun Koide	Honda Formula Dream Project	Yutaka Toriba
	R10		18 September	Jin Nakamura	Jin Nakamura	Jin Nakamura	TGR-DC Racing School	Yutaka Toriba
6	R11	Autopolis, Hita	1 October	Syun Koide	Jin Nakamura	Syun Koide	Honda Formula Dream Project	"Hirobon"
	R12		2 October	Syun Koide	Syun Koide	Syun Koide	Honda Formula Dream Project	"Dragon"
7	R13	Mobility Resort Motegi, Motegi	5 November	Rikuto Kobayashi	Rikuto Kobayashi	Rikuto Kobayashi	TGR-DC Racing School	"Dragon"
	R14		6 November	Rikuto Kobayashi	Syun Koide	Syun Koide	Honda Formula Dream Project	Yutaka Toriba

Championship standings

Points were awarded as follows:

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 FUJ1 SUZ1 FUJ2 SUZ2 SUG AUT MOT Pts R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 1 Syun Koide Ret 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 26 1 1 2 1 279 2 Yusuke Mitsui 1 2 2 2 3 2 1 1 4 2 3 3 4 4 246 3 Rin Arakawa 4 21 3 15 2 4 3 3 8 3 2 2 3 2 175 4 Jin Nakamura 10 6 8 7 6 9 7 4 2 1 4 6 7 5 126 5 Yugo Iwasawa 2 4 5 4 4 3 9 Ret 12 5 6 4 6 7 125 6 Rikuto Kobayashi 8 5 15 8 7 5 4 5 3 7 5 DNS 1 6 120 7 Reimei Ito 3 3 10 6 5 7 11 9 10 10 10 7 9 Ret 68 8 Kazuma Nishimura 28 9 4 5 9 11 6 7 9 8 9 5 10 10 60 9 Gento Miyashita 11 7 11 Ret 10 8 5 6 7 12 16 16 8 3 54 10 Fuma Horio 14 10 16 18 11 6 26 15 5 4 11 10 16 15 32 11 Jiei Okuzumi 5 8 20 23 16 Ret 22 20 16 16 Ret 12 5 Ret 24 12 Takumi Sato 6 3 Ret Ret 17 11 Ret 12 23 13 Takuya Otaki 12 36 7 10 8 14 10 12 Ret 13 7 30 Ret 17 18 14 Ryoma Henzan 6 19 Ret 9 13 16 14 16 13 14 12 9 35† 8 16 15 Teppei Tsuruta 6 9 10 16 Ayato Iwasaki 20 31 8 8 Ret 9 10 17 Daiki Fujiwara 16 12 35 11 28 Ret 16 17 11 6 11 11 8 18 Kazuhisa Urabe 9 37 25 19 14 13 8 10 18 19 19 14 17 19 7 19 Shunji Okumoto 7 13 13 13 12 12 15 13 17 11 15 17 15 14 6 20 Kotaro Shimbara 13 11 14 12 15 10 12 8 15 17 13 13 12 33† 5 21 Yuki Mishima 17 Ret 9 21 2 22 Yuta Fujiwara 20 17 23 22 Ret 22 25 14 19 20 14 11 14 13 0 23 Daitetsu Ueno 12 14 36 19 0 24 Ryota Horachi 20 18 13 29 13 32† 0 25 Itsuki Sato 21 18 14 15 0 26 Shion Tsujimoto 18 14 26 Ret Ret 30 21 23 31 20 18 18 0 27 Wataru Yoshimura 15 Ret WD WD 17 15 21 22 Ret 21 17 Ret 33 22 0 28 Shinnosuke Ito Ret 15 21 Ret 18 21 19 Ret 20 22 0 29 Sena Yamamoto Ret 15 19 20 0 30 Hikaru Jitosho 19 Ret Ret 16 31 17 18 23 31 18 20 18 22 Ret 0 31 Rio Shimono 34 16 22 34 21 20 33 18 23 24 18 19 21 Ret 0 32 Yutaka Toriba 22 20 18 20 19 19 23 24 22 25 25 25 23 16 0 33 Ryunosuke Shibata 19 17 24 21 0 34 Makio Saito 25 23 17 24 23 23 27 Ret 24 Ret 22 24 24 23 0 35 "Dragon" 23 22 24 25 33 Ret 30 Ret Ret 30 Ret 21 20 21 0 36 "Hirobon" 21 31 Ret 31 0 37 Tadakazu Kojima 25 29 34 33 27 27 23 22 28 26 0 38 Daisuke Takaguchi 22 30 0 39 Yoshitsugu Kondo 27 28 30 35 26 Ret 29 25 25 28 Ret 23 26 Ret 0 40 Hachiro Osaka 30 29 33 26 24 24 28 26 Ret Ret 27 29 25 24 0 41 Sergeyevich Sato 24 24 29 36 0 42 Tsuyoshi Usui 32 27 24 28 0 43 "Kentaro" 36 33 34 29 30 25 31 28 26 31 26 27 27 25 0 44 Makoto Hotta 31 25 27 30 0 45 Masayoshi Oyama 32 27 28 31 27 26 35 27 28 29 30 26 30 27 0 46 Nobuhiro Imada 26 26 Ret DNS 0 47 "Syuji" 33 32 36 28 29 27 Ret 34 29 Ret 28 32 32 Ret 0 48 "Yugo" 38 34 37 33 32 28 32 32 30 Ret 29 33 34 30 0 49 Toshihiro Kubota 29 28 0 50 Takumi Sanada 29 31 0 50 "Daisuke" 31 29 0 52 Yasushi Ide 35 30 0 53 Isao Nakashima 31 37† 0 54 Katsunori Keihara 37 35 38 32 34 Ret 0 Pos Driver R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 Pts FUJ1 SUZ1 FUJ2 SUZ2 SUG AUT MOT

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap † — Did not finish but classified

Independent Cup

Pos	Driver	FUJ1		SUZ1		FUJ2		SUZ2		SUG		AUT		MOT		Pts
		R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2
1	Yutaka Toriba	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	5	5	2	1	306
2	Makio Saito	4	3	1	2	2	2	2	Ret	2	Ret	2	4	3	3	202
3	"Dragon"	2	2	3	3	10	Ret	5	Ret	Ret	5	Ret	1	1	2	155
4	Yoshitsugu Kondo	6	8	7	12	5	Ret	4	2	3	3	Ret	3	5	Ret	113
5	Hachiro Osaka	7	9	10	4	3	3	3	3	Ret	Ret	7	9	4	4	113
6	Tadakazu Kojima					4	8	8	7	5	2	3	2	7	6	101
7	"Kentaro"	12	12	11	7	8	4	6	5	4	6	6	7	6	5	92
8	Masayoshi Oyama	9	7	5	9	6	5	9	4	6	4	10	6	9	7	89
9	"Syuji"	10	11	12	6	7	6	Ret	8	7	Ret	8	11	11	Ret	37
10	Sergeyevich Sato	3	4	6	13											35
11	Makoto Hotta	8	5	4	8											30
12	"Yugo"	14	13	13	11	9	7	7	6	8	Ret	9	12	12	10	29
13	Tsuyoshi Usui			9	5							4	8			28
14	"Hirobon"											1	10	Ret	11	26
15	Nobuhiro Imada	5	6	Ret	DNS											18
16	Toshihiro Kubota													8	8	8
17	Isao Nakashima			8	14†											4
18	"Daisuke"													10	9	3
19	Katsunori Keihara	13	14	14	10	11	Ret									1
20	Yasushi Ide	11	10													1
Pos	Driver	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	Pts
		FUJ1		SUZ1		FUJ2		SUZ2		SUG		AUT		MOT

Teams' standings

Only the best finisher scores points for their team.

Pos	Team	Points
1	Honda Formula Dream Project	336
2	TGR-DC Racing School	225
3	Bionic Jack Racing	128
4	OTG Motor Sports	68
5	HELM Motorsports	55
6	Skill Speed	54
7	Buzz Racing	44
8	Media Do Kageyama Racing	18
9	Hitotsuyama Racing	8
10	Team Hero's	6
11	Zap Speed	5
12	B-Max Racing Team	2

Notes

1. Reimei Ito crossed the line first but was given a 5 second penalty. Mitsui inherited the win.
2. The qualifying session was cancelled due to heavy fog. The starting grid was set by the fastest overall times from the practice sessions.
3. Due to the cancellation of qualifying, the starting grid was set from the fastest lap times set in the first race.

References

1. "2022年日本レース選手権カレンダー". JAF Motorsport (in Japanese). 25 November 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-11-25.
2. "2022 第1戦・第2戦 富士スピードウェイ". Japanese FIA F4 Championship Official Site (in Japanese). Retrieved 27 April 2022.
3. "2022 第3戦・第4戦 鈴鹿サーキット". Japanese FIA F4 Championship Official Site (in Japanese). Retrieved 19 May 2022.
4. "2022 第5戦・第6戦 富士スピードウェイ". Japanese FIA F4 Championship Official Site (in Japanese). Retrieved 5 August 2022.
5. "2022 第7戦・第8戦 鈴鹿サーキット". Japanese FIA F4 Championship Official Site (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 August 2022.
6. "TOYOTA GAZOO Racing announced its 2023 motorsport team setups". Toyota Gazoo Racing. 25 November 2022. Retrieved 25 November 2022.

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)