2020 Formula Regional Japanese Championship
The 2020 Formula Regional Japanese Championship was a multi-event, Formula 3 open-wheel single seater motor racing championship held in Japan. The drivers were competing in Formula Regional cars that conform to the FIA Formula Regional regulations for the championship. This was the inaugural season of the championship, and was promoted by K2 Planet.[1]
The season started on 1 August at Fuji Speedway and ran until 13 December.
Teams and drivers
[edit]All teams and drivers competed using the Dome F111/3 Regional F3 car.[1]
Team | No. | Driver | Status | Rounds |
---|---|---|---|---|
Sutekina Racing Team | 3 | Sena Sakaguchi | 1, 3–6 | |
5 | Yu Kanamaru | 1, 6 | ||
Miku Ikejima | 3 | |||
8 | Takuro Shinohara | 1 | ||
Mizuki Ishizaka | 5 | |||
Miku Ikejima | 6 | |||
Eagle Sport | 4 | Nobuhiro Imada | M | 1 |
JMS Racing | 4 | Nobuhiro Imada | M | 2–5 |
Super License | 5 | Takashi Hata | 5 | |
6 | Tomoki Takahashi | 1–3 | ||
Ai Miura | 4–5 | |||
Zap Speed | 8 | Yuki Nemoto | 2 | |
Riki Okusa | 3 | |||
86 | Hachiro Osaka | M | 1 | |
Miki Koyama | 3 | |||
Rn-sports | 11 | Masayuki Ueda | M | 1–5 |
B-Max Engineering | 13 | Motoyoshi Yoshida | M | 1, 3 |
27 | Syuji | M | 1–5 | |
30 | "Dragon" | M | 1–5 | |
N-SPEED | 23 | Yugo | M | 3 |
TOM'S Youth | 28 | Yuga Furutani | All | |
CMS motor sports project | 34 | Masaru Miura | M | 1, 4 |
Saccess Racing | 39 | Daichi Okamoto | 3 | |
Team Goh | 55 | Satoshi Motoyama | M | 6 |
Field Racing | 78 | Ryohei Sakaguchi | 1 | |
Sources:[2][3][4][5][6][7] |
Race calendar
[edit]The initial calendar was announced on 27 December 2019.[8] After the COVID-19 pandemic forced the postponement of two races,[9] a revised schedule was announced on 17 June 2020, with 14 races across 6 meetings, starting on 1 August and running until December.[10]
Championship standings
[edit]Scoring system
[edit]Points were awarded to the top ten drivers.
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
Drivers' championship
[edit]Pos | Driver | FUJ1 | SUG | FUJ2 | MOT | OKA | AUT | Pts | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Sena Sakaguchi | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 275 | |||
2 | Yuga Furutani | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 223 |
3 | Tomoki Takahashi | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 139 | ||||||
4 | Masayuki Ueda | 9 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 79 | ||
5 | Nobuhiro Imada | 7 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 77 | ||
6 | "Dragon" | DNS | 7 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 6 | Ret | 7 | 5 | 76 | ||
7 | Yu Kanamaru | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 75 | |||||||||
8 | Yuki Nemoto | 3 | 1 | 2 | 58 | |||||||||||
9 | Takuro Shinohara | 3 | 2 | 5 | 43 | |||||||||||
10 | "Syuji" | 12 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 41 | ||
11 | Ai Miura | 3 | Ret | 4 | 4 | 39 | ||||||||||
12 | Mizuki Ishizaka | 3 | 3 | 30 | ||||||||||||
13 | Ryohei Sakaguchi | 5 | 6 | 6 | 26 | |||||||||||
14 | Riki Okusa | 5 | 3 | 25 | ||||||||||||
15 | Miku Ikejima | 10 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 25 | ||||||||||
16 | Satoshi Motoyama | 4 | 5 | 22 | ||||||||||||
17 | Daichi Okamoto | 4 | 6 | 20 | ||||||||||||
18 | Takashi Hata | 5 | 6 | 18 | ||||||||||||
19 | Masaru Miura | 8 | 9 | 10 | 5 | Ret | 17 | |||||||||
20 | Miki Koyama | 7 | 5 | 16 | ||||||||||||
21 | Hachiro Osaka | 10 | 12 | 11 | 1 | |||||||||||
22 | Motoyoshi Yoshida | 11 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 0 | |||||||||
23 | "Yugo" | 13 | 11 | 0 |
References
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- ^ "Round 5 スーパー耐久岡山大会". fia-fr.jp. Archived from the original on September 20, 2020. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
- ^ Wood, Elliot (2020-12-03). "Super Formula legend Satoshi Motoyama set to race in Regional F3". Formula Scout. Retrieved 2020-12-03.
- ^ "2020 年、FIA により策定された世界規格の新型車両による 新シリーズ「FORMULA REGIONAL JAPANESE CHAMPIONSHIP」 がいよいよスタート 開幕戦は S 耐富士 24 時間、最終戦は WEC 富士大会" (PDF). Formula Regional Japanese Championship. 27 December 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-01-13. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
- ^ Wood, Elliot (2020-04-26). "New Japanese F3 series delayed by COVID-19". Formula Scout. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
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