The 2017 Japanese Super Formula Championship was the forty-fifth season of premier Japanese open-wheel motor racing, and the fifth under the moniker of Super Formula. Yuji Kunimoto was the defending series champion.[1]
Hiroaki Ishiura won his second Driver's Championship in three years, finishing only half a point ahead of Pierre Gasly after the final round was cancelled due to Typhoon Lan. The Cerumo INGING team won their second successive Team Championship.
Every Honda-powered car used a Honda HR-414E engine and every Toyota-powered car used a Toyota RI4A engine.
Manufacturer | Engine | No. | Driver | Rounds |
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P.mu/cerumo・INGING[2] | Toyota | 1 | Yuji Kunimoto[2] | All |
2 | Hiroaki Ishiura[2] | All | ||
Kondō Racing[2] | Toyota | 3 | Nick Cassidy[2] | All |
4 | Kenta Yamashita[2] | All | ||
SUNOCO Team LeMans[2] | Toyota | 7 | Felix Rosenqvist[3] | All |
8 | Kazuya Oshima[2] | All | ||
Real Racing[4] | Honda | 10 | Koudai Tsukakoshi[4] | All |
Team Mugen[4] | Honda | 15 | Pierre Gasly[5] | All |
16 | Naoki Yamamoto[4] | All | ||
KCMG[2] | Toyota | 18 | Kamui Kobayashi[2] | All |
Itochu Enex Team Impul[2] | Toyota | 19 | Yuhi Sekiguchi[2] | All |
20 | Jann Mardenborough[6] | All | ||
Vantelin Team Tom's[7] | Toyota | 36 | André Lotterer[2] | All |
37 | Kazuki Nakajima[2] | All | ||
Docomo Team Dandelion Racing[4] | Honda | 40 | Tomoki Nojiri[4] | All |
41 | Takuya Izawa[4] | All | ||
B-MAX Racing Team[8] | Honda | 50 | Takashi Kogure[4] | All |
TCS Nakajima Racing[9] | Honda | 64 | Daisuke Nakajima[4] | All |
65 | Narain Karthikeyan[4] | All |
Round | Circuit | Date | Pole Position | Fastest Lap | Winning Driver | Winning Team | |
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1 | Suzuka Circuit | 23 April | Kazuki Nakajima | Koudai Tsukakoshi | Kazuki Nakajima | Vantelin Team Tom's | |
2 | R1 | Okayama International Circuit | 27 May | Yuhi Sekiguchi | Felix Rosenqvist | André Lotterer | Vantelin Team Tom's |
R2 | 28 May | Hiroaki Ishiura | Kamui Kobayashi | Yuhi Sekiguchi | Itochu Enex Team Impul | ||
3 | Fuji Speedway | 9 July | Yuji Kunimoto | Felix Rosenqvist | Hiroaki Ishiura | P.mu/cerumo・INGING | |
4 | Twin Ring Motegi | 20 August | Kenta Yamashita | Koudai Tsukakoshi | Pierre Gasly | Team Mugen | |
5 | Autopolis | 10 September | Tomoki Nojiri | Jann Mardenborough | Pierre Gasly | Team Mugen | |
6 | Sportsland SUGO | 24 September | Nick Cassidy | Hiroaki Ishiura | Yuhi Sekiguchi | Itochu Enex Team Impul | |
7 | R1 | Suzuka Circuit | 22 October | André Lotterer | Races cancelled due to Typhoon Lan[11] | ||
R2 | Jann Mardenborough | ||||||
Source:[12] |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Pole | |
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Rounds 1, 3-6 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Round 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2.5 | 2 | 1.5 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 |
Round 7 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2.5 | 2 | 1.5 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 |
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Bold – Pole |
Pos | Team | No. | SUZ | OKA | FUJ | MOT | AUT | SUG | SUZ | Points | ||
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1 | P.mu/cerumo・INGING | 1 | 3 | 10 | 9 | Ret | 15 | 5 | 4 | C | C | 47.5 |
2 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | C | C | |||
2 | Team Mugen | 15 | 10 | 19 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | C | C | 43.5 |
16 | 2 | 5 | 8 | Ret | 13 | Ret | 18 | C | C | |||
3 | Vantelin Team TOM's | 36 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | Ret | 10 | C | C | 41 |
37 | 1 | 9 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 3 | C | C | |||
4 | SUNOCO Team LeMans | 7 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | C | C | 34.5 |
8 | Ret | 15 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 15 | C | C | |||
5 | ITOCHU ENEX Team Impul | 19 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 10 | 1 | C | C | 27.5 |
20 | 18 | 6 | 17 | 8 | 14 | 8 | 17 | C | C | |||
6 | KCMG | 18 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 2 | 7 | 7 | C | C | 16.5 |
7 | Kondo Racing | 3 | 17 | 3 | 11 | Ret | 5 | Ret | 19 | C | C | 12.5 |
4 | 14 | 7 | 6 | Ret | 6 | 13 | 11 | C | C | |||
8 | DOCOMO Team Dandelion Racing | 40 | 16 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 12 | C | C | 6 |
41 | 8 | 14 | Ret | 6 | Ret | 15 | 8 | C | C | |||
9 | Real Racing | 10 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 16 | C | C | 3 |
10 | TCS Nakajima Racing | 64 | 7 | 16 | 14 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 17 | C | C | 2 |
65 | 13 | 17 | 13 | 14 | Ret | Ret | 13 | C | C | |||
11 | B-MAX Racing Team | 50 | 15 | 18 | 15 | 13 | 17 | 12 | 14 | C | C | 0 |
Pos | Team | No. | SUZ | OKA | FUJ | MOT | AUT | SUG | SUZ | Points |
While the TOM'S line-up of Kazuki Nakajima and Andre Lotterer is set to remain unchanged
One of the teams Red Bull has held discussions with about running Gasly is understood to be Nakajima Racing, which ran Daisuke Nakajima and Bertrand Baguette in this year's championship.