2024 F4 Japanese Championship

2024 F4 Japanese Championship

Champion Class Drivers' champion:
Yuto Nomura
Champion Class Teams' Champion:
HFDP with B-Max Racing Team
Independent Class Drivers' champion:
"Dragon"
Independent Class Teams' Champion:
B-Max Racing Team

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Parent series:
Super GT

The 2024 F4 Japanese Championship season was the tenth season of the F4 Japanese Championship. It was began on 3 May at Fuji Speedway and finished on 8 December at Suzuka International Racing Course.

This was the first season for the second-generation MCSC-24 chassis constructed by Toray Carbon Magic, and the new TOM'S TMA43 engine which produces 180 horsepower, 20 more than its predecessor. ^[1]

Teams and drivers

All teams were compete with an identical Toray Carbon Magic MCSC-24 chassis and TOM'S 2-litre naturally aspirated engine. ^[1]

Team	No.	Driver	Rounds
Champion Class
Akiland Racing	2	Aoto Nagahara [2]	5
Rn-sports	10	Hibiki Komatsu [3]	1
Zap Speed	14	Masaki Murata [3]	All
HYDRANGEA Kageyama Racing	16	Kotaro Shimbara [3]	All
Falcon Motorsport	26	Takumi Saigusa [3]	1–3, 6–7
Drago Corse	33	Itsuki Sato [3]	All
	34	Hironobu Shimizu [3]	All
TGR-DC Racing School	35	Yuki Sano [4]	All
	36	Kazuhisa Urabe [4]	All
	37	Tokiya Suzuki [4]	All
	38	Kiyoshi Umegaki [4]	All
PONOS Racing	45	Kento Omiya [3]	All
	54	Rintaro Sato [3]	All
Fujita Pharmacy Racing	46	Shouma Arimura [3]	All
HFPD with B-Max Racing Team	50	Yuto Nomura [5]	All
	51	Ryota Horachi [5]	All
TGM Grand Prix	53	Shota Sakai [6]	7
OTG Motor Sports	60	Kenta Kumagai [3]	All
HELM Motorsports	62	Tosei Moriyama [3]	All
	64	"Hirobon" [3]	1–2, 5
		Ethan Ho [7]	3
Skill Speed	77	Daiki Matsuda [3]	1–4, 7
Dr.Dry	87	Rio Shimono [3]	All
Buzz Racing	90	Lin Chenghua [3]	All
Bionic Jack Racing	97	Ryo Shirasaki [3]	All
Independent Class
Akiland Racing	2	Keiji Nakao [3]	1–3
	71	Masayoshi Oyama [3]	All
	96	Makio Saito [3]	All
DayDream Racing	4	Yuichi Sasaki [3]	All
Team 5ZIGEN	5	Motohiro Kotani [3]	All
Buzz Racing	9	"Ken Alex" [3]	All
Rn-sports	10	Isao Nakashima [8]	2–7
	11	Masayuki Ueda [3]	All
Eagle Sports	21	Tadakazu Kojima [6]	7
	40	Shoichiro Akamatsu [3]	All
N-SPEED	23	"Yugo” [3]	All
B-Max Racing Team	30	"Dragon" [9]	All
	44	Nobuhiro Imada [9]	All
Field Motorsports	55	"Kentaro" [3]	All
Zap Speed	57	Anri Sugihara [10]	6
HELM Motorsports	61	William Sakai [3]	1–3, 7
	63	Yutaka Toriba [3]	All
Dr.Dry	86	Hachiro Osaka [3]	All
Bionic Jack Racing	98	"Ikari" [3]	All

Race calendar

All rounds were held in Japan and supported the Super GT events. ^[11] On 28 August 2024, it was announced that the 2nd Suzuka round was postponed to 7–8 December due to the threat of Typhoon Shanshan. ^[12] After Race 11 was not held due to bad weather in Autopolis, the race was moved to the Mobility Resort Motegi round. ^[13]

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team	Independent Class winner
1	R1	Fuji Speedway, Oyama	3 May	Kotaro Shimbara	Ryota Horachi	Yuki Sano	TGR-DC Racing School	"Dragon"
	R2		4 May	Tosei Moriyama	Hironobu Shimizu	Tosei Moriyama	HELM Motorsports	"Kentaro"
2	R3	Suzuka International Racing Course, Suzuka	1 June	Yuto Nomura	Ryota Horachi	Yuto Nomura	HFDP with B-Max Racing Team	Nobuhiro Imada
	R4		2 June	Yuto Nomura	Tosei Moriyama	Yuto Nomura	HFDP with B-Max Racing Team	"Dragon"
3	R5	Fuji Speedway, Oyama	3 August	Ryota Horachi	Ryota Horachi	Ryota Horachi	HFDP with B-Max Racing Team	Yutaka Toriba
	R6		4 August	Ryota Horachi	Ryota Horachi	Hironobu Shimizu	Drago Corse	"Kentaro"
4	R9	Sportsland Sugo, Murata	21 September	Yuki Sano	Kento Omiya	Yuki Sano	TGR-DC Racing School	Nobuhiro Imada
	R10		22 September	Yuki Sano	Yuki Sano	Yuki Sano	TGR-DC Racing School	Nobuhiro Imada
5	R11	Autopolis, Hita	19 October	The race was cancelled due to severe bad weather. The race was rescheduled to the next round in Motegi.
	R12		20 October	Yuto Nomura	Yuto Nomura	Yuto Nomura	HFDP with B-Max Racing Team	"Dragon"
6	R11	Mobility Resort Motegi, Motegi	2 November	Ryota Horachi	Kiyoshi Umegaki	Yuto Nomura	HFDP with B-Max Racing Team	"Dragon"
	R13			Ryota Horachi	Yuto Nomura	Yuto Nomura	HFDP with B-Max Racing Team	Nobuhiro Imada
	R14		3 November		Yuto Nomura	Yuto Nomura	HFDP with B-Max Racing Team	"Dragon"
7	R7	Suzuka International Racing Course, Suzuka	7 December	Ryota Horachi	Yuto Nomura	Yuto Nomura	HFDP with B-Max Racing Team	Yutaka Toriba
	R8		8 December	Ryota Horachi	Tosei Moriyama	Kotaro Shimbara [a]	HYDRANGEA Kageyama Racing	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

Champion Class

Pos Driver FUJ1 SUZ1 FUJ2 SUG AUT MOT SUZ2 Pts R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R9 R10 [b] R11 R12 R11 R13 R14 R7 R8 1 Yuto Nomura 2 DNS 1 1 3 8 7 4 C 1 1 1 1 1 2 236 2 Ryota Horachi 3 DNS 2 3 1 2 8 5 C 4 2 3 4 3 DSQ 167 3 Kotaro Shimbara Ret 4 3 4 7 4 9 8 C 3 7 2 2 4 1 153 4 Yuki Sano 1 DNS 11 6 10 7 1 1 C 2 3 7 3 2 5 147 5 Tosei Moriyama 15 1 4 2 2 11 10 9 C Ret 15 Ret 11 5 3 99 6 Hironobu Shimizu 4 2 5 5 4 1 13 13 C 11 9 17 9 7 Ret 97 7 Kiyoshi Umegaki Ret DNS 9 7 6 5 6 10 C 5 6 6 8 9 4 78 8 Rintaro Sato 14 DNS 6 9 18 6 3 6 C 7 17 8 6 6 6 70 9 Kento Omiya 12 DNS 7 8 11 3 2 2 C 8 4 4 17 11 Ret 68 10 Tokiya Suzuki 7 DNS 12 13 5 16 5 7 C 6 10 16 7 16 7 47 11 Kazuhisa Urabe 5 DNS 8 10 20 Ret 4 3 C 9 13 5 Ret 14 Ret 39 12 Itsuki Sato Ret 3 10 11 9 10 11 12 C 10 8 10 5 13 9 37 13 Ryo Shirasaki 6 Ret 13 21 8 12 14 18 C 12 5 15 10 8 Ret 27 14 Kenta Kumagai 10 5 18 12 12 9 15 19 C 15 12 Ret 12 12 8 17 15 Takumi Saigusa 8 7 16 18 DNS DNS Ret 12 15 19 Ret 10 16 Hibiki Komatsu Ret 6 8 17 Daiki Matsuda 9 8 20 14 14 15 16 16 WD WD 6 18 Rio Shimono Ret 11 15 19 13 Ret 12 11 C 13 11 9 13 10 11 3 19 "Hirobon" Ret 9 14 15 C WD 2 20 Lin Chenghua Ret 10 21 20 19 Ret 19 17 C 16 18 14 16 18 14 1 21 Shota Sakai 15 10 1 22 Masaki Murata 13 Ret 19 16 15 17 17 14 C 17 14 11 14 Ret 12 0 23 Shouma Arimura 11 DNS 18 17 17 14 18 15 C 18 16 13 18 17 13 0 24 Ethan Ho 16 13 0 25 Aoto Nagahara C 14 0 Pos Driver R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R9 R10 [b] R11 R12 R11 R13 R14 R7 R8 Pts FUJ1 SUZ1 FUJ2 SUG AUT MOT SUZ2

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Other points position Blue Other classified position Not classified, finished (NC) Purple Not classified, retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Excluded (EX) Did not arrive (DNA) Withdrawn (WD) Did not enter (cell empty) Text formatting Meaning Bold Pole position Italics Fastest lap Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap † — Did not finish but classified

Independent Class

Pos	Driver	FUJ1		SUZ1		FUJ2		SUG		AUT		MOT			SUZ2		Pts
		R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R9	R10 [b]	R11	R12	R11	R13	R14	R7	R8
1	"Dragon"	1	DNS	2	1	9	4	3	2	C	1	1	7	1	Ret	3	202
2	Nobuhiro Imada	WD	WD	1	2	5	3	1	1	C	3	2	1	15	2	2	199.5
3	Makio Saito	7	2	4	5	Ret	2	11	6	C	6	4	5	4	13	6	118
4	"Kentaro"	4	1	3	7	2	1	Ret	9	C	9	Ret	8	9	Ret	7	114
5	Yutaka Toriba			13	6	1	Ret	7	11	C	12	9	2	13	1	1	109
6	Masayuki Ueda	WD	WD	6	4	3	8	6	5	C	5	3	9	2	Ret	5	107
7	Isao Nakashima			5	3	7	6	4	4	C	4	8	4	10	Ret	4	98
8	Shoichiro Akamatsu	6	6	8	16	6	7	5	7	C	8	5	14	5	3	8	90
9	"Ken Alex"	9	7	Ret	10	4	10	2	3	C	2	7	3	11	11	14	86.5
10	"Ikari"	3	5	7	9	8	5	9	12	C	13	13	12	3	5	11	74
11	Masayoshi Oyama	5	Ret	12	13	12	9	8	8	C	10	14	6	8	9	9	36
12	Yuichi Sasaki	WD	WD	11	11	13	14	10	13	C	7	6	15	7	4	12	33
13	Hachiro Osaka	10	4	14	12	14	13	12	10	C	11	11	10	6	6	13	31.5
14	Motohiro Kotani	8	3	Ret	15	10	11	13	14	C	Ret	10	11	14	7	17	27
15	Keiji Nakao	2	10	Ret	8	11	DNS										23
16	"Yugo”	11	8	10	17	15	15	Ret	15	C	14	12	13	12	12	15	5
17	Tadakazu Kojima														8	10	5
18	William Sakai	Ret	9	9	14	16	12								10	16	5
—	Anri Sugihara											WD	WD	WD			—
Pos	Driver	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R9	R10 [b]	R11	R12	R11	R13	R14	R7	R8	Pts
		FUJ1		SUZ1		FUJ2		SUG		AUT		MOT			SUZ2

Teams' standings

Only the best finisher scored points for their team.

Champion Class

Pos	Team	FUJ1		SUZ1		FUJ2		SUG		AUT		MOT			SUZ2		Pts
		R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R9	R10 [b]	R11	R12	R11	R13	R14	R7	R8
1	HFDP with B-Max Racing Team	2	DNS	1	1	1	2	7	4	C	1	1	1	1	1	2	260
2	TGR-DC Racing School	1	DNS	8	6	5	5	1	1	C	2	3	5	3	2	4	170
3	HYDRANGEA Kageyama Racing	Ret	4	3	4	7	4	9	8	C	3	7	2	2	4	1	153
4	Drago Corse	4	2	5	5	4	1	11	13	C	10	8	10	5	7	9	115
5	HELM Motorsports	15	1	4	2	2	11	10	9	C	Ret	15	Ret	11	5	3	99
6	PONOS Racing	12	DNS	6	8	11	3	2	2	C	7	4	4	6	6	6	99
7	Bionic Jack Racing	6	Ret	13	21	8	12	14	18	C	12	5	15	10	8	Ret	27
8	OTG Motor Sports	10	5	18	12	12	9	15	19	C	15	12	Ret	12	12	8	17
9	Falcon Motorsport	8	7	16	18	DNS	DNS					Ret	12	15	19	Ret	10
10	Rn-sports	Ret	6														8
11	Skill Speed	9	8	20	14	14	15	16	16						WD	WD	6
12	Dr. Dry	Ret	11	15	19	13	Ret	12	11	C	13	11	9	13	10	11	3
13	Buzz Racing	Ret	10	21	20	19	Ret	19	17	C	16	18	14	16	18	14	1
15	TGM Grand Prix														15	10	1
14	Zap Speed	13	Ret	19	16	15	17	17	14	C	17	14	11	14	Ret	12	0
16	Akiland Racing									C	14						0
Pos	Team	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R9	R10 [b]	R11	R12	R11	R13	R14	R7	R8	Pts
		FUJ1		SUZ1		FUJ2		SUG		AUT		MOT			SUZ2

Independent Class

Pos	Team	FUJ1		SUZ1		FUJ2		SUG		AUT		MOT			SUZ2		Pts
		R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R9	R10 [b]	R11	R12	R11	R13	R14	R7	R8
1	B-Max Racing Team	1	DNS	1	1	5	3	1	1	C	1	1	1	1	2	2	273.5
2	Akiland Racing	2	2	4	5	11	2	8	6	C	6	4	5	4	9	6	134
3	Rn-sports	WD	WD	5	3	3	8	4	4	C	5	3	4	2	Ret	4	135
4	Field Motorsports	4	1	3	7	2	1	Ret	9	C	9	Ret	8	9	Ret	7	114
5	HELM Motorsports	Ret	9	9	6	1	12	7	11	C	12	9	2	13	1	1	113
6	Eagle Sports	6	6	8	16	6	7	5	7	C	8	5	14	5	3	8	90
7	Buzz Racing	9	7	Ret	10	4	10	2	3	C	2	7	3	11	11	14	86.5
8	Bionic Jack Racing	3	5	7	9	8	5	9	12	C	13	13	12	3	5	11	74
9	DayDream Racing	WD	WD	11	11	13	14	10	14	C	7	6	15	7	4	12	33
10	Dr. Dry	10	4	14	12	14	13	12	10	C	11	11	10	6	6	13	31.5
11	Team 5ZIGEN	8	3	Ret	15	10	11	13	14	C	Ret	10	11	14	7	17	27
12	N-SPEED	11	8	10	17	15	15	Ret	15	C	14	12	13	12	12	15	5
—	Zap Speed											WD	WD	WD			—
Pos	Team	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R9	R10 [b]	R11	R12	R11	R13	R14	R7	R8	Pts
		FUJ1		SUZ1		FUJ2		SUG		AUT		MOT			SUZ2

Notes

1. Ryota Horachi finished first on track, but was later disqualified. Kotaro Shimbara, initially classified second, inherited the win.
2. The race was abandoned due to bad weather conditions before 75% of the race was completed. Therefore, half points were awarded for the Independent Class. In the Champion Class no points were awarded because only two laps were completed.

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External links

• Official website (in Japanese)