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2009 Formula Nippon Season
The 2009 Formula Nippon Championship was the thirty-seventh season of the premier Japanese open-wheel motor racing series. The series for Formula Nippon racing cars was contested over eight rounds. Nakajima Racing's Loïc Duval claimed four victories en route to the championship, ending a six-year streak of championships by the Impul team. Teams and drivers * All drivers competed in Swift 017.n chassis and Honda HR09E or Toyota RV8K engines. Race calendar and results * All races held in Japan. * Okayama was replaced by Autopolis. Championship standings Drivers' Championship ;Scoring system: Teams' Championship ;Scoring system: External links2009 Japanese Championship Formula Nippon {{Japanese Formula 3000/Formula Nippon years Formula Nippon Super Formula Nippon Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kohei Hirate
is a Japanese race car driver. Hirate has won the Super GT series twice. Career Hirate began karting in 1999 when he was 13. After winning the All Japan Junior Kart Championship, coming third and fifth in the All Japan Kart Championship and coming third in the FIA Oceania Championship, he moved on to Formula Toyota, where he raced for the Tom's Spirit team and came second with four wins to his name. In 2003, he moved to Formula Renault, at the Prema Power team. In his two-year spell here he won 7 races and came second in the 2004 season. In 2004 he also raced for Prema Power's Formula Three Euroseries team twice, and in 2005 made the decision to race here. After coming twelfth for Team Rosberg, he was made a Toyota F1 test driver in 2006 and came third in the Formula Three Euroseries. In 2007 he continued as a Toyota test driver and also drove for GP2 team Trident Racing. Hirate returned to Japan in 2008, where he competed in both Formula Nippon and Super GT. He f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autopolis
is a international racing circuit located near Kamitsue, Ōita, Kamitsue village in Ōita Prefecture, Japan on the northeast of Kumamoto. Nippon Autopolis">F1 News - Grandprix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Circuits > Nippon Autopolis/ref> Tsurumaki ordered 30 Buick powered US built single seater race cars called "Sabre Cars" for a race to take place on his circuit's grand opening, in November 1990 consisting of a mixture of invited US Championship Auto Racing Teams, CART drivers such as Stan Fox, Johnny Rutherford, Dick Simon, Gary Bettenhausen, Gary and Tony Bettenhausen, against local Japanese drivers. After the grand opening, Tsurumaki planned on a series with the cars, known as Formula Crane 45. A few races were run in 1991, with only a handful of cars competing. The only major international race held at Autopolis was the final race of the 1991 World Sportscar Championship season, the 1991 430km of Autopolis, which was won by Michael Schumacher and Karl Wendlinger in a Mercedes- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twin Ring Motegi
Mobility Resort Motegi (モビリティリゾートもてぎ) is a motorsport venue located in Motegi, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. Originally Twin Ring Motegi (ツインリンクもてぎ), the venue's name came from the facility having two race tracks: a oval track and a road course. It was built in 1997 by Honda Motor Co., Ltd., as part of the company's effort to bring the Championship Auto Racing Teams series to Japan, helping to increase their knowledge of American open-wheel racing. The oval was last raced on in 2010 by the Indycar Series. On 1 March 2022, the name of the track was changed to Mobility Resort Motegi, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the facility. The road course's most notable event is the Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix which is currently held every year. The track also currently hosts rounds in the domestic Super Formula Championship and Super GT series each year. Speedway The oval course is the only one of its kind in Japan used for competiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzuka Circuit
The , the , is a long motorsport race track located in Ino, Suzuka, Mie, Suzuka City, Mie Prefecture, Japan and operated by Honda Mobilityland, a subsidiary of Honda, Honda Motor Co, Ltd. It has a capacity of 155,000. It is most well known by its use by both the international Formula One; and Japanese Super Formula championships. Introduction Soichiro Honda decided to develop a new permanent circuit in Mie prefecture in the late 1950s. Designed as a Honda test track in 1962 by Dutchman John Hugenholtz, John "Hans" Hugenholtz, the track has a figure-of-eight layout, with the long back straight passing over the front section by means of an overpass. It is the only FIA Grade 1 licensed track to have such a layout, after the Fiorano Circuit was downgraded to Grade 2 in 2024. The circuit has been modified at least eight times: In 1983 a chicane was inserted at the last curve to slow the cars into the pit straight; the original circuit was an extremely fast track with only one slo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuji Tachikawa
is a Japanese team executive and retired racing driver who competed in Super GT between 1996 and 2023, and in Formula Nippon between 1997 and 2009. He is a three-time Super GT champion in the GT500 class, having won the championship in its previous guise as the All-Japan Grand Touring Car Championship in 2001, and after its rebranding in 2005 and 2013. A longtime Toyota factory driver, he competed for the Cerumo Cerumo Co., Ltd. (stylized as CERUMO) is a Japanese racing team headquartered in Oyama, Shizuoka Prefecture. The competed in Super Formula together with INGING Motorsport, and participated in Super GT GT500 Class. In January 2016, former Bridg ... team for the majority of his racing career. Racing record Complete Japanese Formula 3 results ( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) Complete JGTC/Super GT results ( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) Complete For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerumo
Cerumo Co., Ltd. (stylized as CERUMO) is a Japanese racing team headquartered in Oyama, Shizuoka Prefecture. The competed in Super Formula together with INGING Motorsport, and participated in Super GT GT500 Class. In January 2016, former Bridgestone Scuderia Ferrari engineer Hirohide Hamashima joined the team and became general manager in both the Super GT and Super Formula categories. At the shareholders' meeting in February 2019, founder Masayuki Sato resigned as president, and Hamashima also resigned as general manager. In his place, Haruhisa Urabe will become president and chairman, and Hiroaki Ishiura will become a director. After that Yuji Tachikawa picked as the director. History The founder, Masayuki Sato, is a famous engineer known as "Bate-san" in the domestic racing world. As Tadashi Sakai's chief mechanic, he was in charge of machines such as the Fuji GC, and in 1981 he took over Sakai Engineering and established Cerumo. The company name is derived from the Italia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takuya Izawa
is a Japanese racing driver. He is a race winner in the Super Formula Championship, Super Formula and Super GT championships, as well as a podium finisher in the GP2 Series. Racing record Complete Japanese Formula 3 Championship results (:Template:Motorsport driver results legend, key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) Complete Super GT results ‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed. * Season still in progress. Complete Formula Nippon/Super Formula results (:Template:A1GP results legend, key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) Complete World Touring Car Championship results (:Template:Motorsport driver results legend, key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) Complete GP2 Series results (:Template:Motorsport driver results legend, key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Lyons (racing Driver)
Richard William Lyons (born 8 August 1979) is a British motor racing driver that competed in the Japanese Super GT series. Junior Formula Born in Hillsborough, County Down, Lyons started in Formula Vauxhall Junior in Britain winning the Winter Series in 1996, before finishing the regular championship sixth in 1997 and second in 1998. He then moved to Formula Palmer Audi, finishing second in the 1999 Championship. He drove in Formula Renault 2000 with not much success. Formula Nippon / A1 Grand Prix He drove Formula Nippon in Japan from 2001 to 2005 winning the Championship in 2004 and finishing third in 2005. He has also run in the A1 Grand Prix series for the A1 Team Ireland for the 2006–07 season. He started all up fourteen races with four top ten finishes. Japanese GT's He drove GT and Sports Cars in Japan for nine years between 2002 and 2010. His best finish was in 2004 where he won the All-Japan GT Championship GT500 Championship. All in all he started over se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dandelion Racing
Dandelion Racing is a Japanese racing team, mainly running in Super Formula. The team was founded by Kiyoshi Muraoka in 1989 as "Dandelion Racing Project". Early years (1993–1998) The team made a small sponsor contract with NTT Docomo in 1993. It made a way to enter the Japanese local racing series. The team ran in the All-Japan Formula Three Championship (1993 and 1994 seasons) and Japanese Touring Car Championship (1995 Japanese Touring Car Championship season, 1995, 1996 Japanese Touring Car Championship season, 1996, 1997 Japanese Touring Car Championship season, 1997, and 1998 Japanese Touring Car Championship season, 1998), and suffered from poor results through the 1990s. The relationship with NTT Docomo will continue to date, though there is no capital ties. Formula Nippon/Super Formula (1999–) In 1999 Formula Nippon season, 1999, the team switched from the defunct JTCC to Formula Nippon as a Honda engine user. Though the team continuously suffered from poor result ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuya Oshima
is a Japanese racing driver, currently racing in the Super GT Series and the Super Formula Championship for Toyota Gazoo Racing and ROOKIE Racing. Oshima is one of only three drivers that have won championships in both classes of Super GT, having won the GT300 Drivers' Championship in 2007, and the GT500 Drivers' Championship in 2019. He also won the 2009 Suzuka Summer Endurance race. Outside of Japan, is a five-time class winner at the Nürburgring 24 Hours (2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016) as a member of Gazoo Racing/Toyota Gazoo Racing. Career Junior career Oshima made his formula series debut in 2005 at Formula Toyota where he won the title. Then he jumped to Japanese Formula 3 Championship with TOM'S. He competed for 2 season, in 2006 he clinched runners up just lose out to the champion Adrian Sutil, while he managed to get 7th in Macau GP. Then he won the 2007 All-Japan Formula 3 Championship, also finished third in the 2007 Macau Grand Prix Formula 3 race. Then for 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
