2022 Super Formula Championship

The 2022 Japanese Super Formula Championship is the fiftieth season of premier Japanese open-wheel motor racing,[1] and the tenth under the moniker of Super Formula. It started in April 2022 and is due to be contested over ten rounds across seven race meetings. Tomoki Nojiri is the defending series champion.

Teams and drivers
Entrant Engine No. Driver name Rounds
Team Mugen[2][3] Honda 1 Tomoki Nojiri[2] 1–3
15 Ukyo Sasahara[3] 1–3
Docomo Team Dandelion Racing 5 Tadasuke Makino[2] 1–3
6 Hiroki Otsu[2] 1–3
ThreeBond Drago Corse 12 Nirei Fukuzumi[2] 1–3
B-Max Racing 50 Nobuharu Matsushita[2] 1–3
Team Goh[4] 53 Ren Sato[2] 1–3
55 Atsushi Miyake[5] 1–3
TCS Nakajima Racing 64 Naoki Yamamoto[2] 1–3
65 Toshiki Oyu[2] 1–3
Kondō Racing Toyota 3 Kenta Yamashita[6] 1–3
4 Sacha Fenestraz[6] 1–3
KCMG 7 Kamui Kobayashi[6] 1–3
18 Yuji Kunimoto[6] 1–3
docomo business ROOKIE 14 Kazuya Oshima[6] 1–3
Carenex Team Impul 19 Yuhi Sekiguchi[6] 1–3
20 Ryo Hirakawa[6] 1–3
Kuo Vantelin Team TOM’S 36 Giuliano Alesi[6] 1–3
37 Ritomo Miyata[6] 1–3
P.mu/Cerumo・INGING 38 Sho Tsuboi[6] 1–3
39 Sena Sakaguchi[6] 1–3

Team Changes
  • Team Goh, who partnered with Mugen to run the number 15 Red Bull sponsored car in 2021, operate as an independent two-car team with Honda engines. The team is operated by Servus Japan, a racing engineering outfit best known for operating Autobacs Racing Team Aguri (ARTA) in Super GT.[4]
  • B-Max Racing planned to enter two cars, after running just one car for Nobuharu Matsushita in 2021. They confirmed on 4 March that they will continue to run one car, after a failed attempt to enter a non-Japanese driver in their second car.[7]
  • With the initial plan to do one-car entry for this season, Team Mugen reverted back to run two cars this season, with the second car leased from B-Max Racing who originally planned to enter two cars.[3]

Driver changes

Race calendar

The provisional calendar was announced on 6 August 2021.[9] On 31 January, it was announced that three of the race meetings will be double-header rounds, consisting of two races per weekend: The opening weekend at Fuji Speedway in April, the mid-August weekend at Mobility Resort Motegi, and the season-ending JAF Grand Prix at Suzuka.[10]

Round Circuit Location Date
1 Fuji Speedway Oyama, Shizuoka 9 April
2 10 April
3 Suzuka International Racing Course Suzuka, Mie 24 April
4 Autopolis Hita, Oita 22 May
5 Sportsland SUGO Shibata, Miyagi 19 June
6 Fuji Speedway Oyama, Shizuoka 17 July
7 Mobility Resort Motegi Motegi, Tochigi 20 August
8 21 August
9 Suzuka International Racing Course Suzuka, Mie 29 October
10 30 October

Regulation changes

As a measure to help reduce the amount of tyre usage, qualifying now consists of two phases of knockout qualifying, Q1 and Q2, instead of three phases.[11] The field is split into two groups for Q1, and the fastest six drivers from each Q1 group advance to Q2.[12]

For single race meetings, there is a 90 minute free practice session held on Saturday prior to qualifying, and then a 30 minute free practice session before the race. For double-header weekends, there is a single 90 minute free practice session on Friday, and two separate qualifying sessions in the morning to set the grid for each afternoon's race.[10]

Points scored in all races now count towards the final championship standings. In 2020 and 2021, only the top five out of seven scores were counted towards the championship.[13]

Results

Season summary
Round Circuit Pole Position Fastest Lap Winning driver Winning team
1 Fuji Speedway Ukyo Sasahara Ryo Hirakawa Ryo Hirakawa Carenex Team Impul
2 Tomoki Nojiri Yuhi Sekiguchi Tomoki Nojiri Team Mugen
3 Suzuka International Racing Course Tomoki Nojiri Tomoki Nojiri Nobuharu Matsushita B-Max Racing
4 Autopolis
5 Sportsland SUGO
6 Fuji Speedway
7 Mobility Resort Motegi
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9 Suzuka International Racing Course
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Championship standings
Race points
Position  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th 
Points 20 15 11 8 6 5 4 3 2 1
Qualifying points
Position  1st   2nd   3rd 
Points 3 2 1

Overall
Pos Driver FUJ1 SUZ1 AUT SUG FUJ2 MOT SUZ2 Points
1 Tomoki Nojiri 2 11 21 56
2 Ryo Hirakawa 13 2 7 40
3 Nobuharu Matsushita Ret 19 1 20
4 Sacha Fenestraz 3 20 43 20
5 Ritomo Miyata 5 32 18 19
6 Tadasuke Makino 6 Ret 3 16
7 Yuhi Sekiguchi 4 6 11 13
8 Kenta Yamashita 11 4 162 10
9 Kamui Kobayashi 18 9 5 8
10 Atsushi Miyake 10 5 Ret 7
11 Hiroki Otsu 16 7 8 7
12 Yuji Kunimoto 13 15 6 5
13 Ren Sato 92 13 10 5
14 Ukyo Sasahara 191 103 14 5
15 Toshiki Oyu 7 11 13 4
16 Sho Tsuboi 8 12 20 3
17 Giuliano Alesi 17 8 15 3
18 Naoki Yamamoto 14 14 9 2
19 Sena Sakaguchi 12 17 12 0
20 Kazuya Oshima 15 18 19 0
21 Nirei Fukuzumi Ret 16 17 0
Pos Driver FUJ1 SUZ1 AUT SUG FUJ2 MOT SUZ2 Points

Teams' championship
Pos Team No. FUJ1 SUZ1 AUT SUG FUJ2 MOT SUZ2 Points
1 Carenex Team Impul 19 4 6 11 52
20 1 2 7
2 Team Mugen 1 2 1 2 51
15 19 10 14
3 Kondō Racing 3 11 4 20 27
4 3 20 4
4 Docomo Team Dandelion Racing 5 6 Ret 3 23
6 16 7 8
5 B-Max Racing 50 Ret 19 1 20
6 Kuo Vantelin Team TOM’S 36 17 8 15 18
37 5 3 18
7 KCMG 7 18 9 5 13
18 13 15 6
8 Team Goh 53 9 13 9 10
55 10 5 Ret
9 TCS Nakajima Racing 64 14 14 9 6
65 7 11 13
10 P.mu/Cerumo・INGING 38 8 12 20 3
39 12 17 12
11 docomo business ROOKIE 14 15 18 19 0
12 ThreeBond Drago Corse 12 Ret 16 17 0
Pos Team No. FUJ1 SUZ1 AUT SUG FUJ2 MOT SUZ2 Points

References
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  4. "Team Goh gets Red Bull backing for first Super Formula season". motorsport.com. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  5. "Super Formula: Team Goh hands second seat to Atsushi Miyake". www.motorsport.com. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  6. "TOYOTA GAZOO Racing announced its 2022 motorsport team setups". Toyota Gazoo Racing. 6 December 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  7. "B-Max Racing Team 2022 Race Structure". B-Max Racing Team (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  8. Klein, Jamie (2022-03-07). "Super Formula: Goh aiming to refer Honda juniors to Red Bull". www.motorsport.com. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  9. "Fuji gets second race on 2022 Super Formula calendar". www.motorsport.com. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
  10. "2022 Race Schedule | SUPER FORMULA Official Website". superformula.net. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
  11. "2022 SUPER FORMULA Season Outline - Creating a Next Generation of Motorsport Entertainment Experience in Conjunction with our SF NEXT 50 Partners - | SUPER FORMULA Official Website". superformula.net. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
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