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2001 Japanese Formula 3 Championship ...
The 2001 Japanese Formula 3 Championship was the 23rd edition of the Japanese Formula 3 Championship. It began on 25 March at Suzuka and ended on 21 October at Motegi. French driver Benoît Tréluyer took the championship title by winning 15 of 19 races. Teams and drivers * All teams were Japanese-registered. All cars were powered by Bridgestone tires. Race calendar and results Standings *Points are awarded as follows, with only the best 13 results to count: References External links Official Site {{All-Japan F3 Seasons Formula Three Japanese Formula 3 Championship seasons Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Montin
Paolo Montin (born 8 November 1976) is an Italian racecar driver. Career Montin finished 2nd in the Italian Formula 3 championship in 1998 driving for Team Ghinzani with 1 win and 113 points. He raced for the team at the Macau GP in the same season, finishing 10th. In 1999 he switched to Italian F3000, driving for Durango, across 7 races securing 1 podium finish. He also raced at the prestigious Macau GP and Korean Super Prix Formula 3 races for Carlin. Montin would finish 2nd in the 2000 Macau GP driving for Target Racing. In 2001, Montin went to Japan and joined the TOM's racing team. He competed in the Japanese Formula 3 Championship, finishing 2nd with 201 points. The season included 3 wins, 16 podium finishes, 2 pole positions and 6 fastest laps. He also completed his first Super GT race in the TOM's Toyota Supra, finishing 5th at Twin Ring Motegi. For 2002, Montin continued driving for TOM's, finishing 2nd again in the Japanese Formula 3 Championship, this time with 269 p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Formula 3 Championship
was a national motor racing championship that takes place in Japan. It is a junior-level feeder formula that uses small single seater Formula Three chassis. As a result of Formula 3 naming regulations by the FIA, on 13 August 2019, series promoter Japan Race Promotion (jp), split from the FIA Formula Regional regulations and rebranded their series as Super Formula Lights to comply with FIA regulations, and remain as the Super Formula feeder championship since the series is prohibited from using "Formula 3" (which belongs to the FIA for the European-based FIA Formula 3 Championship) and "Formula Regional" (which all regional Formula 3 series are being renamed by the 2020 season, first with the Formula Regional European Championship in 2019 for Europe, and the renaming of the North American F3 championship from Formula 3 Americas to Formula Regional Americas Championship). The Series will adopt Euroformula Open Championship regulations. Subsequently, the FIA awarded right ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Jouanny
Bruce Jouanny (born 11 June 1978 in Paris, France) is a French racing driver. He started his career in his homeland of France, before moving on to international series. In 2000, he won his only career title to date – the Formula Palmer Audi Junior series. He progressed onwards to Formula Three series around the world, including the British Formula Three Championship. His best series standing in the British version was 4th in 2002. He then moved on to World Series by Nissan, now known as World Series by Renault, which he participated in the 2003 season, 2004 season and 2006 season. His best series standing was 9th in 2004. He now participates in the Le Mans Series and the Le Mans 24 hours, with a best 24 Hours of Le Mans ranking of 8th in the 2009 race. He currently drives for Pescarolo Sport in the Le Mans Series. He is the official car developer and test driver of the Superleague Formula Superleague Formula was an Open wheel car, open wheel single seater Formula ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nakajima Racing
Nakajima Planning Co., Ltd, racing as Nakajima Racing, is a Super Formula and Super GT team organized and founded by Satoru Nakajima in 1983. The team has fielded four championship winners in the Formula Nippon racing series: Tom Coronel, Toranosuke Takagi, Ralph Firman and Loïc Duval. The organization races exclusively in Japan, although the drivers have different nationalities, and competes almost exclusively with Honda or Mugen based cars/engines. Drivers and veteran drivers * Tom Coronel * Loïc Duval * Ralph Firman * Paolo Barilla * Takashi Kogure * André Lotterer * Tsugio Matsuda * Hidetoshi Mitsusada * Hideki Mutoh * Toranosuke Takagi * Naoki Yamamoto * Daisuke Nakajima * Bertrand Baguette * Kosuke Matsuura is a Japanese race car driver currently competing in the Super GT series. He previously competed in the Formula Nippon and IRL IndyCar Series. Early career After winning the Japanese Formula Dream Championship in 2001, Kosuke attracted the at ... Racing res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motonari Higuchi
Motonari Higuchi is a Japanese race car driver who competed in twelve All-Japan Formula Three Championship in 2000 and 2001 for the Nobel France team. He also drove in one Japanese Formula 3000 race in 1995 at Mine Circuit Mine Circuit (みねサーキット) was a motor racing circuit in Nagao, Nishiatsu-cho, Mine, Yamaguchi, Mine, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. It used to be known as ''Nishinihon''. The track closed in February 2006 as it was sold to Mazda for deve .... ''Driver Database'', Retrieved 2013-01-31 References Japanese Formula 3000 Championship drivers[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takashi Kogure
is a Japanese racing driver who currently competes in Super GT, driving the No. 88 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 2 for JLOC in the GT300 class. He is the reigning champion of Super GT's GT300 class alongside teammate Yuya Motojima. He previously competed in Super GT's flagship GT500 class, winning the championship in 2010 alongside Loïc Duval, making him one of only three drivers in Super GT history to win championship titles in both classes. He also competed in Super Formula (known as Formula Nippon until 2013) for fifteen seasons between 2003 and 2017. Career Formula Three Kogure made his professional single-seater début in 2001, driving a Dallara F300 in the All-Japan Formula Three Championship for Now Motorsports. He finished in eleventh place in the championship standings. The following season, Kogure moved to Mugen× Dome Project and claimed the championship by ten points from Paolo Montin. Kogure won eleven of the season's twenty races, finishing on the podium on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuyuki Nishizawa
Kazuyuki Nishizawa (西澤 和之 - Nishizawa Kazuyuki; born October 11, 1967) is a Japanese professional racing driver. Complete JGTC/Super GT Results ( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) References 1967 births Living people Racing drivers from Kanagawa Prefecture Japanese racing drivers Super GT drivers 24 Hours of Le Mans drivers {{Japan-autoracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masahiko Kondō
, or Matchy, is a Japanese singer, lyricist, actor, racing car manager and former semi-professional racing driver. He was a member of the Tanokin Trio. Kondō is also a semi-professional racing driver and a racing team owner. He founded the racing team Kondo Racing in 2000, which currently competes in both Super Formula and Super GT. Biography 1980–1987: Early recording career Kondō was born in Yokohama. Working for the agency Johnny & Associates, Kondō was signed to the record label RVC. His debut single "Sneaker Blues" debuted at number-one on the Oricon weekly single charts in December 1980. With the single, he became the first artist to have a debut single to go straight in at number one on Oricon at release. As of 2008, he is the only solo male singer to have a debut single to debut at number one in his teens in Oricon history. The single topped the Oricon charts for five consecutive weeks, and eventually sold over one million copies. On March 5, 1981, Kondō re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keita Sawa
is a Japanese racing driver. Racing record Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results References 1976 births Living people Japanese racing drivers Japanese Formula 3 Championship drivers Super GT drivers 24 Hours of Le Mans drivers {{Japan-autoracing-bio-stub FIA World Endurance Championship drivers AF Corse drivers 24H Series drivers Porsche Carrera Cup Asia drivers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Sundberg
Peter Hans Sundberg (born 10 May 1976) is a Swedish car racing driver with titles in several categories. He was born and grew up in the south of Spain, spending his teen years riding motocross. Sundberg finished near the top of numerous Formula Renault championships, then going into Formula Three where he won the Italian Formula Three Championship in 1999. He competed in the World Cup Formula 3 races in Macau and Korea, and went on to test for the Minardi Formula One team at the end of that year. Afterwards he competed in Spanish F3 and Japanese F3. He competed in the World Series by Nissan in 2002. He was away from racing until 2005 when he entered the Spanish GT Championship and won the title in 2007 and 2008 driving a Ferrari 430 The Ferrari F430 (Type F131) is a sports car produced by the Italian automobile manufacturer Ferrari from 2004 until 2009 as a successor to the Ferrari 360. The car is an update to the 360 with exterior and performance changes. It was unveiled a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroki Yoshimoto
(born 2 September 1980 in Osaka) is a Japanese race car driver. He raced in the 2005 GP2 Series for the BCN Competicion team, alongside the Venezuelan E. J. Viso. For 2006 he was initially teamed with the more experienced Timo Glock of Germany. In addition to his racing, he is also the vocalist for Japanese rock band doa under the name . In 2023, Yoshimoto and doa's members have announced departure from the agency Giza Studio and from September and became freelancer under Floodlight company, the announcement was made on doa's official website. Racing career Yoshimoto is the only driver in GP2 Series to have driven the bulk of his pre-GP2 career in Asia, the rest of the series mainly moving up the ranks in South America or Europe. Yoshimoto started out in 1999, competing in Japanese Formula Junior 1600. He moved for Japanese Formula Toyota in 2000, racing in Korean F1800 later in the year. A move to Japanese Formula Three for 2001 was his reward for hard work, although h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nissan SR Engine
The SR engine is a series of , or Inline-four engine, straight-four, four-stroke engine, four-stroke gasoline internal combustion engine, engines manufactured by Nissan Motors, Nissan. It has an aluminium head and block with steel Cylinder (engine)#Cylinder sleeving, sleeves and has a Overhead camshaft engine#Double overhead camshaft (DOHC), DOHC 4-valve design, with variable valve timing on select models. It was added to a new engine family name PLASMA (Powerful ＆ Economic, Lightweight, Accurate, Silent, Mighty, Advanced). The engine was used in many small to medium Nissan vehicles, including high-performance turbocharged variants. It was designed by Nissan as a replacement of the earlier Nissan CA engine, CA series of engines, and was replaced by the Nissan QR engine, QR and Nissan MR engine, MR series of engines. Power outputs are shown under Horsepower#Japanese Industrial Standard D 1001, JIS Net Horsepower#Metric horsepower (PS, cv, hk, pk, ks, ch), PS or Horsepower#Econo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
