The 2018 Japanese Formula 3 Championship was the 40th Japanese Formula 3 Championship season.
Team | Driver | Class | Engine | Rounds | |
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Championship Class | |||||
B-MAX Racing Team | 1 | Yu Kanamaru[1] | Dallara F312 | Volkswagen A41 (0XY) | All |
3 | Ai Miura | All | |||
21 | Bruno Carneiro | 1 | |||
Kazuki Hiramine[2] | 2 | ||||
"Syuji"[3] | 3 | ||||
Masayuki Ueda[4] | 4 | ||||
Kiyoto Fujinami[5] | 5, 7 | ||||
Takashi Hata[6] | 6 | ||||
Shinji Sawada[7] | 8 | ||||
Toda Racing | 2 | Sena Sakaguchi[8] | Dallara F316 | Toda TR-F301 | All |
93 | Toshiki Oyu | All | |||
Hanashima Racing | 5 | Katsuaki Kubota | Dallara F312 | Toyota TOM'S TAZ31 | 4–5 |
Kazuto Kotaka[9] | 7 | ||||
Riki Okusa | 8 | ||||
OIRC team YTB | 8 | Yoshiaki Katayama | Dallara F318 | Mercedes-Benz F3-414 | All |
ThreeBond Racing | 12 | Ukyo Sasahara | Dallara F318 | ThreeBond Tomei TB14F3 | All |
B-Max Engineering | 13 | Hideki Hirota | Dallara F312 | Volkswagen A41 (0XY) | 1 |
Motoyoshi Yoshida | 2–8 | ||||
30 | "Dragon" | Dallara F314 | All | ||
Albirex Racing Team | 14 | Yuki Nemoto | Dallara F315 | Mercedes-Benz F3-414 | 1–3, 5–7 |
Tatsuya Ota | 8 | ||||
Tairoku Racing | 28 | Tairoku Yamaguchi | Dallara F316 | Volkswagen A41 (0XY) | All |
RS Fine | 35 | Shunsuke Kohno | Dallara F318 | Mercedes-Benz F3-414 | All |
Team Tom's | 36 | Sho Tsuboi[10] | Dallara F317 | Toyota TOM'S TAZ31 | All |
37 | Ritomo Miyata | All | |||
National Class | |||||
NODA Racing | 10 | Jake Parsons | Dallara F312 | Volkswagen A18 | All |
Calendar for the 2018 season.[11] All races are scheduled to be held in Japan.
Race 9 at Okayama International Circuit was postponed due to severe weather conditions. The race was rescheduled for a later round at the same circuit, and was subsequently postponed again to be run at Sportsland SUGO.[12]
Round | Circuit | Date | Pole position | Fastest lap | Winning driver | Winning team | Supporting | |||
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1 | R1 | Suzuka Circuit | 21 April | nowrap | Ritomo Miyata | Sho Tsuboi | Sho Tsuboi | Team Tom's | Jake Parsons | Super Formula |
R2 | Sho Tsuboi | |||||||||
2 | R1 | Sportsland SUGO | 26 May | |||||||
R2 | 27 May | nowrap | Ritomo Miyata | |||||||
3 | R1 | Fuji Speedway | 7 July | nowrap | ||||||
R2 | 8 July | Ritomo Miyata | ||||||||
4 | R1 | Okayama International Circuit | 28 July | Ritomo Miyata | ||||||
R2 | ||||||||||
R3 | 29 July | Race postponed due to weather conditions[13] | ||||||||
5 | R1 | Twin Ring Motegi | 18 August | Team Tom's | Jake Parsons | Super Formula | ||||
R2 | 19 August | |||||||||
R3 | ||||||||||
6 | R1 | Okayama International Circuit | 8 September | |||||||
R2 | 9 September | |||||||||
R3 | Race postponed due to weather conditions[14] | |||||||||
7 | R1 | Sportsland SUGO | 29 September | Team Tom's | Jake Parsons | |||||
R2 | Ritomo Miyata | |||||||||
R3 | 30 September | Sho Tsuboi | ||||||||
R4 | ||||||||||
8 | R1 | Fuji Speedway | 13 October | Sho Tsuboi | FIA World Endurance Championship | |||||
R2 | 14 October |
Pos | Driver | SUZ | SUG1 | FUJ1 | OKA1 | MOT | OKA2 | SUG2 | FUJ2 | Points | ||||||||||||||
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1 | Sho Tsuboi | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | C | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | C | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 214 | |
2 | Ritomo Miyata | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | C | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | C | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 117 | |
3 | Ukyo Sasahara | 4 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | C | Ret | 4 | 7 | 4 | 2 | C | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | Ret | 2 | 65 | |
4 | Sena Sakaguchi | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | C | 5 | 5 | 9 | Ret | 4 | C | 8 | 5 | Ret | 4 | 2 | 6 | 52 | |
5 | Yu Kanamaru | 5 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 6 | C | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 | C | 4 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 13 | Ret | 40 | |
6 | Toshiki Oyu | 14 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Ret | 9 | 3 | C | 3 | 6 | 3 | Ret | 5 | C | 6 | 4 | Ret | DNS | 4 | 4 | 39 | |
7 | Yoshiaki Katayama | Ret | 4 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 7 | 6 | C | 6 | Ret | 5 | 7 | 7 | C | 5 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 11 | Ret | 14 | |
8 | Shunsuke Kohno | 10 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 8 | C | 7 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 8 | C | 11 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 13 | |
9 | Yuki Nemoto | 9 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 6 | C | 13 | 10 | 6 | Ret | 7 | ||||||
10 | Riki Okusa | 5 | 9 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Bruno Carneiro | 6 | 6 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Ai Miura | 7 | 11 | 11 | 12 | Ret | 7 | 8 | 9 | C | 10 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 10 | C | 16 | 13 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 1 | |
13 | Kazuto Kotaka | 7 | 8 | Ret | 6 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
14 | Kiyoto Fujinami | 9 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
15 | Tatsuya Ota | 10 | 7 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Tairoku Yamaguchi | 8 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 10 | C | 12 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 13 | C | 12 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 0 | |
17 | "Dragon" | 11 | Ret | Ret | 13 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 11 | C | 11 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 12 | C | 10 | 11 | Ret | 11 | 9 | 10 | 0 | |
18 | Jake Parsons | 13 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 14 | 13 | C | 14 | 14 | 15 | 10 | 11 | C | 14 | 15 | 9 | DNS | 14 | 12 | 0 | |
19 | Kazuki Hiramine | 10 | 10 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Katsuaki Kubota | 12 | 12 | C | 13 | 11 | 14 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
21 | Motoyoshi Yoshida | 14 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 15 | 15 | C | 15 | 15 | 16 | 13 | 15 | C | 15 | 16 | 12 | Ret | 12 | 13 | 0 | |||
22 | Syuji | 13 | 12 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Hideki Hirota | 12 | 14 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Takashi Hata | 12 | 14 | C | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
25 | Masayuki Ueda | 13 | 14 | C | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||
Pos | Driver | SUZ | SUG1 | FUJ1 | OKA1 | MOT | OKA2 | SUG2 | FUJ2 | Points |