The 2017 F4 Japanese Championship was the third season of the F4 Japanese Championship. It began on 7 April in Okayama and finished on 12 November on Twin Ring Motegi after seven double header rounds.[1] Ritomo Miyata defended his drivers' title successfully, continuing with TOM'S Spirit.[2]
The teams were announced on 11 March 2017.[3]
Team | Driver | Rounds | |
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TOM'S Spirit | 1 | Ritomo Miyata | All |
36 | Sota Ogawa | 7 | |
Team Right Way | 2 | Keiji Nakao[4] | 1–2, 4–7 |
Sutekina Racing Team | 3 | Mizuki Ishizaka | 1–6 |
Yuichi Sasaki | 4 | Yuichi Sasaki | 2, 4–5 |
Honda Formula Dream Project | 5 | Toshiki Oyu | All |
6 | Ukyo Sasahara[5] | All | |
7 | Takuya Otaki | All | |
8 | Yuki Tsunoda | All | |
Field Motorsport | 9 | Toshiki Haruyama | 1–3 |
Takashi Hata | 5–7 | ||
25 | Tomoki Takahashi | All | |
55 | Kiryu Hosoda | All | |
Rn-sports | 11 | Toshiki Komura | 1–2 |
B-MAX Racing Team | 13 | Motoyoshi Yoshida[6] | 2–3 |
Ayumu Iwasa | 7 | ||
50 | Shinji Sawada | All | |
68 | Chia Wing Hoong | All | |
Media Do Kageyama Racing | 15 | Hiromichi Hayase | All |
16 | Takuro Shinohara | All | |
Buzz International | 17 | Turbo Asahi | All |
18 | Junpei Kato | 1–4, 7 | |
Teppei Natori | 5–6 | ||
30 | "Dragon"[7] | 3 | |
VSR Lamborghini S.C. Formula Jr. | 19 | Akash Gowda[8] | 1–6 |
63 | Rikiya Kanazawa | All | |
RSS | 21 | Seiya Jin | 1–6 |
N-SPEED | 23 | "Yugo" | All |
Eagle Sport | 27 | Wataru Yamaki[9] | 6 |
Automotive Team MYST | 29 | Tatsuya Ota | 6 |
HubAuto Racing | 35 | Shunsuke Kohno[10] | All |
89 | Yuma Shoji | 7 | |
Saccess Racing | 38 | Miku Ikejima | 2 |
39 | Miku Ikejima | 1 | |
Yuki Urata | 2–7 | ||
NRS | 44 | Sho Onodera | All |
83 | Takumi Ueki | 1–3, 5–6 | |
"Rising" | 7 | ||
Silver Star Racing | 51 | Hiroyuki Kojima | 1 |
ARN Racing | 54 | Gerhard Rickert | All |
Le Beausset Motorsports | 60 | Kohta Kawaai | All |
61 | Reiji Hiraki | All | |
62 | Yuya Hiraki | All | |
leprix sport | 70 | Miki Koyama | All |
C.S.I.-Reon Kids Racing | 73 | Kotoka Goibuchi | 1–2, 4–5 |
Garage Chabatake | 77 | Takeshi Ohi | All |
OTG Motor Sports | 80 | Togo Suganami | All |
Zap Speed Racing Team | 86 | Hachiro Osaka | 1–2, 5–7 |
99 | Danial Frost | 7 |
All rounds were held in Japan and were part of the Super GT events.[1]
Only the best thirteen results counted towards the championship. Points were 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap † — Did not finish, but classified |
Pos | Tean | Pts. | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Honda Formula Dream Project | 314 | |
2 | TOM'S Spirit | 231 | |
3 | Le Beausset Motorsports | 102 | |
4 | B-Max Racing Team | 85 | |
5 | HubAuto Racing | 85 | |
6 | Media Do Kageyama Racing | 72 | |
7 | Field Motorsport | 61 | |
8 | Sutekina Racing Team | 41 | |
9 | Buzz International | 17 | |
10 | OTG Motor Sports | 8 | |
11 | Saccess Racing | 3 | |
12 | RSS | 2 |