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2012 All-Japan Formula Three Season
The 2012 Japanese Formula 3 Championship was an open wheel motor racing series held for Formula 3 cars based in Japan. It was the 34th edition of the Japanese Formula 3 Championship. It commenced on 14 April at Suzuka and ended on 14 October at Fuji Speedway after 15 races held at seven race meetings. Ryō Hirakawa of the RSS team has dominated the championship and won the title. Teams and drivers All teams were Japanese-registered. Race calendar and results All rounds were held in Japan. Championship standings Drivers' Championships *Points are awarded as follows: Overall National Class Teams' Championships *Points are awarded for races as follows: Engine Tuners' Championship *Points are awarded for races as follows: 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 ... [...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] |
Petronas
Petroliam Nasional Berhad, commonly known as PETRONAS (stylised in all caps), is a Malaysian Multinational corporation, multinational petroleum, oil and natural gas, gas company headquartered in Kuala Lumpur. Established in 1974, it is a legal entity incorporated under the Companies Act 1965, Malaysian Companies Act 1965 and reports to the company's Board of Directors. Petronas is vested with all oil and gas resources in Malaysia and is entrusted with the responsibility of developing and adding value to these resources. Petronas is a Vertical integration, vertically integrated company and actively in all areas of the oil and gas industry, including Hydrocarbon exploration, exploration and Extraction of petroleum, extraction, refining, Midstream, distribution and marketing, power generation, and Trade, trading. Petronas has operations in over 100 countries and has sales office in 22 countries, produced around 9 billion Barrel of oil equivalent, barrels of oil equivalent and 50 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryohei Sakaguchi
is a Japanese racing driver currently competing in Super GT for Pacific Racing Team. He won the 2003 Korean Formula 1800 Series and has five Super Taikyu titles to his name, two in ST-3 and three in ST-2. Super GT Gulf Racing with Pacific (2016) With Pacific Racing Team switching to the Porsche 911 for the 2016 season, Sakaguchi remained with the team alongside Hiroki Yoshida. EIcars Bentley and one-off outing for Team Mach (2017–2019) In early 2017, it was announced that EIcars Bentley TTO would join Super GT, with Sakaguchi and Yuji Ide as their drivers. Sakaguchi remained with EIcars Bentley for the 2018 season, partnering Ide for the second season in a row. At the second Fuji round, Sakaguchi scored the team's best result with 13th position. With the EIcars Bentley team ceasing operations in early 2019, Sakaguchi was left without a seat for most of the season, only making a one-off appearance for Team Mach at the fifth round of the season at Fuji as a third driver a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takamoto Katsuta
Takamoto Katsuta (勝田貴元, ''Katsuta Takamoto'', born 17 March 1993) is a Japanese rally driver who currently competes in the World Rally Championship for Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT. Katsuta rose to prominence after taking a surprise victory in the WRC-2 class at the 2018 Rally Sweden. He achieved his first World Rally Championship podium in the 2021 Safari Rally, finishing in second place. Early career Katsuta was born in Nagoya. He began karting at the age of 12. Following intermediate success in this category, he began racing in the Formula Challenge Japan series in 2010, and eventually became champion in 2011, aged 18. 2012–2014: Years in Formula 3 Seeing the successes Katsuta had in Formula Challenge Japan, the TOM'S team hired him to be one of their drivers for the Japanese Formula 3 Championship in 2012, racing in the National class. He finished third in this category overall, and was eventually promoted to full championship driver for 2013. Katsuta experienced grea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daiki Sasaki
is a Japanese racing driver who last competed in Super GT for Kondo Racing. He was champion of the National Class of the Japanese Formula 3 Championship in 2012. Career Sasaki has raced in Japanese Formula 3 Championship for 2 seasons in National class and one of the season in 2012 he won the title. He is a Nissan Driver Development Program (NDDP) Since 2011. He competed in Super GT in the GT300 Class in 2012 for 2 rounds, and competed full time in 2013 with NDDP Racing. Then promoted to the GT500 Class. He also competed back to Japanese Formula 3 for 2 seasons, in 2014 he competed full time with B-Max Racing Team with NDDP with Mitsunori Takaboshi. He continued compete in Japanese Formula 3 in 2015 & 2016, but only a few cameos. He also attended his first Macau Grand Prix. And most of his career competes in Super GT 500 racing with Kondo Racing from 2014 to 2017 and Team Impul from 2018 towards 2020. He returns to his old team, Kondo Racing in 2021 alongside his old teamm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Thompson (racing Driver)
Gary Thompson (born 31 May 1992 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish racecar driver. Career Thompson started racing in karts in 2003, finishing 5th in the Cadet Irish Championship. His karting career continued in the British Cadet Championship and later the British JICA Championship, where he finished 6th in 2006 and 3rd in 2007. In 2009 Thompson moved into Formula Cars and raced in the Formula BMW Pacific Championship, winning the opening race at the Sepang International Circuit, Malaysia. In total Thompson had 11 podium finishes and finished 2nd overall, winning the Rookie of the Year Cup. He spent the following years racing in the Japanese Formula 3 Championship with the KC Motorgroup (KCMG) team, while also testing Super Formula for the KCMG team at the Fuji Speedway. He briefly raced with the Romeo-Ferraris team in the FIA European Formula 3 Championship, but left the squad after two rounds. Following a successful F3 career he raced for KCMG team in the Asian Le Mans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naoya Gamou
is a Japanese professional racing driver who currently competes in Super GT for K2 R&D LEON Racing alongside Togo Suganami is a racing driver from Japan who currently competes in Super GT. Career Formula career Suganami started his first Formula racing in 2017 in F4 Japanese Championship until 2018 season which was his highest standing in 5th with 2 wins and 3 p .... He was champion of the 2018 season in the GT300 class. History Racing record Career summary ‡ Team standings Complete Super GT results ( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) * Season still in progress. References 1989 births Living people Japanese racing drivers Sportspeople from Okayama Prefecture Sportspeople from Kurashiki Super GT drivers TOM'S drivers Toyota Gazoo Racing drivers Nürburgring 24 Hours drivers KCMG drivers Japanese Formula 3 Championship drivers Long stubs with short prose {{Japan-autoracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Howson
Matthew Graham Howson (born 25 August 1983 in Norwich, Norfolk, England) is a British racing driver. Howson won the LMP2 class at the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans with Richard Bradley and Nicolas Lapierre Nicolas Camile Bernard Lapierre (born 2 April 1984) is a retired French professional racing driver and team principal. Notable for winning the LMP2 class four times at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Lapierre was a factory driver at Toyota during the ea .... Career results 24 Hours of Le Mans results References 1983 births Living people Sportspeople from Norwich English racing drivers 24 Hours of Le Mans drivers FIA World Endurance Championship drivers {{England-autoracing-bio-stub KCMG drivers Manor Motorsport drivers TCR Japan Touring Car Series drivers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KCMG (auto Racing Team)
KC Motorgroup Ltd, known as KCMG, is an auto racing team based in Hong Kong. Founded by former racing driver Paul Ip in 2007, KCMG has participated in a variety of championships across the world in touring car, sports car, and open-wheel racing. History KCMG entered the Formula Nippon series in 2010 as a Toyota customer team, with Katsuyuki Hiranaka finishing 12th. In 2011, Alexandre Imperatori finished 12th. In 2012, Ryo Orime finished 19th. In the 2013 Super Formula, Richard Bradley finished 21st. Yuichi Nakayama finished 20th in 2014, 16th in 2015, and 18th in 2016. In 2013, KCMG expanded outside Asia with an entry in the 24 Hours of Le Mans before entering the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2014, during which the team won three races. The team went on to win the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans in the LMP2 category on its way to a second-place finish in the 2015 WEC season. However, in the following year, KCMG pared down its LMP2 participation to a one-off entry at Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuki Hiramine
is a Japanese racing driver, currently racing in the Super GT Series as a Nissan factory driver with Team Impul. He won the Super GT GT500 Championship in 2022, alongside co-driver Bertrand Baguette. Racing career Early career Hiramine made the step up from karting to single-seaters in Europe, rather than his native Japan. He debuted in the 2008 Formula Renault BARC FR2000 Series finale at Silverstone with Eurotek Motorsport, then returned to the same team for the Formula Renault 2.0 UK Winter Cup. He finished 13th in the Winter Cup standings with a best finish of eighth at Rockingham Motor Speedway. He returned to Japan in 2009, graduated from the Suzuka Racing School Formula (SRS-F), and received a scholarship to compete in Formula Challenge Japan the following season with the backing of Honda. In his first Formula Challenge Japan season, Hiramine finished third in the championship, with seven podiums in 12 races. The following year, Hiramine won his first race at Fuji Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroshi Koizumi (racing Driver)
is a Japanese racing driver currently competing for TF Sport in the LMGT3 class of the European Le Mans Series. Career Early beginnings and National Japanese F3 title (2004–2015) Koizumi made his car-racing debut in 2004, racing in the Honda Integra Kanto Series, where he took a best result of second in the second round. The following year, he switched to Super Taikyu, racing in the ST-3 class for Tomei Sports alongside Akira Yoshitomi. Finishing sixth in class on debut at Sendai, Koizumi took his best result of the season at the following round at Suzuka despite incurring a 10-second penalty. Having completed four of the eight races in the Super Taikyu schedule, Koizumi and Tomei Sports finished 11th in the ST-3 standings. During 2005, Koizumi also raced in the Suzuka 1000 km for Gaikoku-ya Advan Porsche in the GT300 class. On his GT300 debut, Koizumi finished third in class and sixth overall. After racing in Formula Toyota in 2006, Koizumi returned to GT300 competition i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toyota S Engine
The Toyota S Series engines are a family of Straight-four engine, straight-four petrol (or CNG) Internal combustion engine, engines with displacements between 1.8 and 2.2 litres, produced by Toyota Motor Corporation from January 1980 to August 2007. The S series has cast iron engine blocks and aluminium cylinder heads. This engine was designed around the new LASRE technology for lighter weight – such as sintered hollow camshafts. Table of S-block engines 1S The 1S is the first version of the S-series engine. It is a member of Toyota's ''Lasre'' engine family (''Lightweight Advanced Super Response Engine''). Bore and stroke are 80.5 x 90.0 mm. The engine was first seen in 1981, and was fitted to a wide range of Toyotas, in both RWD and FWD applications. 1S (1S-U) Original ''1S'' engine, designed for longitudinal engine, longitudinal, rear-wheel-drive applications. Designated ''1S-U'' with Japanese emissions controls. * Production: June 1981 — June 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
