2023 F4 Japanese Championship

The 2023 F4 Japanese Championship season is the ninth season of the F4 Japanese Championship. It is competed with 14 races over seven double-header rounds.[1]

Teams and drivers

All teams & drivers are Japanese-registered.

Team No. Driver Class Rounds
Akiland Racing 2 Keiji Nakao I 1
10 Masayuki Ueda I 1
12 Ryota Horachi 1
18 Kazuya Oshima 1
22 Yuta Fujiwara 1
71 Masayoshi Oyama I 1
96 Makio Saito I 1
Honda Formula Dream Project 5 Yusuke Mitsui 1
6 Yuto Nomura 1
7 Tosei Moriyama 1
Team GMB 8 Masamune Handa 1
Rn-sports 11 Isao Nakashima I 1
99 Yoshitsugu Kondo I 1
B-Max Racing Team 13 Makoto Fujiwara I 1
30 "Dragon" I 1
44 Nobuhiro Imada I 1
Zap Speed 14 Souryuu Tagami 1
86 Hachiro Osaka I 1
87 Rio Shimono 1
88 Rin Arakawa 1
Media Do Kageyama Racing 15 Tomohito Watabe 1
16 Kazuma Nishimura 1
26 Reijiro Yamazaki I 1
Eagle Sports 21 Tadakazu Kojima I 1
49 Bunsei Okawa I 1
NSPEED 23 "Yugo" I 1
TOM'S Youth 28 Yoshiaki Nakamura 1
Buzz Racing 31 Ryoma Henzan 1
32 TBA TBC
41 Masahiro Aoai I 1
Drago Corse 34 Hironobu Shimizu 1
TGR-DC Racing School 35 Jin Nakamura 1
36 Rikuto Kobayashi 1
37 Yuki Sano 1
38 Shunji Okumoto 1
PONOS Racing 45 Kento Omiya 1
Fujita Pharmacy Racing 46 Kohei Tokumasu 1
48 Fuma Horio 1
Field Motorsports 55 "Kentaro" I 1
HELM Motorsports 62 Itsuki Sato 1
63 Yutaka Toriba I 1
Skill Speed 77 Hibiki Komatsu 1
78 Yohei Ono 1
OTG Motor Sports 80 Yuto Nozawa 1
Bionic Jack Racing 81 Kazuhisa Urabe 1
97 Shion Tsujimoto 1
98 Yuki Mishima 1
Sources: [2]
Icon Class
I Independent Cup

Race calendar and results

All rounds are held in Japan and support 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 Rikuto Kobayashi Rin Arakawa Rikuto Kobayashi TGR-DC Racing School Yutaka Toriba
R2 4 May Rikuto Kobayashi Yusuke Mitsui Jin Nakamura[lower-alpha 1] TGR-DC Racing School Makoto Fujiwara
2 R3 Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka 3 June
R4 4 June
3 R5 Fuji Speedway, Oyama 5 August
R6 6 August
4 R7 Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka 26 August
R8 27 August
5 R9 Sportsland Sugo, Murata 16 September
R10 17 September
6 R11 Autopolis, Hita 14 October
R12 15 October
7 R13 Mobility Resort Motegi, Motegi 4 November
R14 5 November

Championship standings

Points are 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 Rikuto Kobayashi 1 3 40
2 Jin Nakamura Ret 1 25
3 Shunji Okumoto 2 7 24
4 Yuto Nomura Ret 2 18
5 Yuki Sano 3 9 17
6 Kazuma Nishimura 4 12 12
7 Rin Arakawa 34 4 12
8 Tosei Moriyama 9 5 12
9 Yuki Mishima 5 10 11
10 Ryota Horachi 6 13 8
11 Itsuki Sato 28 6 8
12 Rio Shimono 7 18 6
13 Hibiki Komatsu 8 19 4
14 Kazuhisa Urabe 20 8 4
15 Yuta Fujiwara 10 14 1
16 Tomohito Watabe 11 37 0
17 Hironobu Shimizu Ret 11 0
18 Souryuu Tagami 12 15 0
19 Kazuya Oshima 13 16 0
20 Yoshiaki Nakamura 14 DNS 0
21 Kento Omiya 15 Ret 0
22 Yutaka Toriba 16 Ret 0
23 Keiji Nakao 17 23 0
24 Kohei Tokumasu Ret 17 0
25 Fuma Horio 18 Ret 0
26 Yuto Nozawa 19 20 0
27 Makoto Fujiwara 22 21 0
28 Nobuhiro Imada 21 38 0
29 Masayuki Ueda 38 22 0
30 "Dragon" 23 24 0
31 Reijiro Yamazaki 24 25 0
32 Yoshitsugu Kondo 25 29 0
33 Yohei Ono 27 26 0
34 Makio Saito 26 33 0
35 Masamune Handa 33 27 0
36 Yusuke Mitsui Ret 28 0
37 Hachiro Osaka 29 Ret 0
38 "Kentaro" 31 30 0
39 Tadakazu Kojima 30 36 0
40 Isao Nakashima 35 31 0
41 Masayoshi Oyama 32 32 0
42 Masahiro Aoai 37 34 0
43 Bunsei Okawa 36 35 0
– Ryoma Henzan Ret Ret –
– Shion Tsujimoto Ret Ret –
– "Yugo" DNQ DNQ –
Pos Driver R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 Pts
FUJ1 SUZ1 FUJ2 SUZ2 SUG AUT MOT
ColourResult
GoldWinner
SilverSecond place
BronzeThird place
GreenPoints finish
BlueNon-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
PurpleRetired (Ret)
RedDid not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
BlackDisqualified (DSQ)
WhiteDid 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 Makoto Fujiwara 4 1 37
2 Keiji Nakao 2 3 33
3 Yutaka Toriba 1 Ret 25
4 "Dragon" 5 4 22
5 Masayuki Ueda 16 2 18
6 Reijiro Yamazaki 6 5 18
7 Nobuhiro Imada 3 14 15
8 Yoshitsugu Kondo 7 6 14
9 "Kentaro" 11 7 6
10 Makio Saito 8 10 5
11 Isao Nakashima 13 8 4
12 Masayoshi Oyama 12 9 2
13 Hachiro Osaka 9 Ret 2
14 Tadakazu Kojima 10 13 1
15 Masahiro Aoai 15 11 0
16 Bunsei Okawa 14 12 0
– "Yugo" DNQ DNQ –
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 TGR-DC Racing School 50
2 Honda Formula Dream Project 20
3 Zap Speed 18
4 Bionic Jack Racing 14
5 Media Do Kageyama Racing 12
6 HELM Motorsports 8
7 Akiland Racing 8
8 Skill Speed 4

Notes
  1. Mitsui finished as the first but received a drive through penalty converted into 40 seconds for an illegal start on a safety car restart. Nakamura inherited the win.

References
  1. "2023年地方レース選手権カレンダー". JAF Motorsport (in Japanese). 12 December 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. "参戦台数は過去最多の46台。2023年FIA-F4選手権 第1戦・第2戦富士 エントリーリスト". AUTO SPORT web (in Japanese). 2023-05-02.
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