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Japanese Formula 3 Championship

Auto racing championship in Japan

Field	Value
category	Single seaters
country/region	Japan
inaugural	1979
folded	2019
constructors	Dallara
engines	Toyota-TOM'S
Mugen-Honda
TODA Racing
champion driver	FRA Sacha Fenestraz
champion team	JPN B-Max Racing with Motopark
tyres	Yokohama
website

| country/region = Japan Mugen-Honda TODA Racing

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 rights to a Formula Regional championship in Japan to K2, promoters of the F4 Japanese Championship, which will name their series the Formula Regional Japanese Championship.

With the rebranding of the series to Super Formula Lights, the Japanese Formula 3 championship officially ended after 41 years. The Japan Formula 3 Association will continue to run the new championship as stated on 28 February 2020.

History

The first Formula Three championship to take place in Japan was held by Nippon Formula 3 Association (Japanese Formula 3 Association) in 1979, which was won by Toshio Suzuki. By 1981, it had evolved into a national-level series, the Japanese Championship, and was organised by the Japan Automobile Federation (JAF).

Foreign drivers' participation has increased since the 1980s and the majority of champions have been foreign since the beginning of the 1990s.

Since 2008 a two-tier championship system was adopted as a bid to increase driver and team participation. The "Championship" class was open to cars conforming to the current three-year cycle, whilst the lower tier "National" class was open to cars meeting the previous three-year cycle and using the spec Toyota engine.

Prior to the changing of super license requirements for the 2016 Formula One season onward, the series used to be one of the four major Formula Three championships that guaranteed the winner an FIA Super Licence. Under the new requirements the winner of the championship earns 10 points towards their super license, with drivers finishing from 2nd to 5th in the final standings receiving a smaller number of points.

Equipment

Like most Formula Three championships, competitors in the Japanese Championship are permitted to use any eligible chassis.

Chassis:
: Only Dallara chassis have been used since 2007. In the past, March, Reynard, Ralt, and Japanese manufacturers like TOM'S and Dome also had supplied chassis.
Engines:
: Engines are supplied by Toyota-TOM'S, Mugen-Honda, Toda Racing and ThreeBond (Nissan). Volkswagen, HKS (Mitsubishi), Fiat and Opel had previously supplied engines.
Tyres:
: Hankook supplied tyres in 2009 as the series' sole supplier. Bridgestone, Dunlop and Yokohama had supplied tyres until 1987. In 1988, Bridgestone took place of the series' sole tyre supplier and supplied until 2008.

Champions

Season	Champion	Team Champion
JPN Toshio Suzuki	JPN Heros Racing	not held
JPN	JPN Gallop Racing
JPN Osamu Nakako	JPN
JPN	JPN
JPN	JPN Umeda Racing
JPN Shuji Hyoudo	JPN
JPN	JPN Le Garage Cox Racing
JPN Akio Morimoto	JPN LeMans Company
USA Ross Cheever	JPN TOM'S
JPN Akihiko Nakaya	JPN Le Garage Cox Racing
JPN Masahiko Kageyama	JPN Leyton House Racing
JPN Naoki Hattori	JPN Le Garage Cox Racing
BRA Paulo Carcasci	JPN TOM'S
GBR Anthony Reid	JPN
DNK Tom Kristensen	JPN TOM'S
DEU Michael Krumm	JPN TOM'S
ESP Pedro de la Rosa	JPN TOM'S
JPN Juichi Wakisaka	JPN Nakajima Racing
NLD Tom Coronel	JPN TOM'S
GBR Peter Dumbreck	JPN TOM'S
GBR Darren Manning	JPN TOM'S
FRA Sébastien Philippe	JPN Mugen Dome Project
FRA Benoît Tréluyer	JPN TOM'S
JPN Takashi Kogure	JPN Dome Racing Team
AUS James Courtney	JPN TOM'S
ITA Ronnie Quintarelli	JPN Inging
BRA João Paulo de Oliveira	JPN TOM'S
DEU Adrian Sutil	JPN TOM'S
JPN Kazuya Oshima	JPN TOM'S
NLD Carlo van Dam	JPN TOM'S	JPN Hideki Yamauchi
SWE Marcus Ericsson	JPN TOM'S	JPN Naoki Yamamoto
JPN Yuji Kunimoto	JPN TOM'S	JPN Takashi Kobayashi
JPN Yuhi Sekiguchi	JPN ThreeBond Racing	JPN Katsumasa Chiyo
JPN Ryo Hirakawa	JPN RSS	JPN Daiki Sasaki
JPN Yuichi Nakayama	JPN TOM'S	JPN Mitsunori Takaboshi
JPN Nobuharu Matsushita	JPN TOM'S	JPN Hiroshi Koizumi
NZL Nick Cassidy	JPN TOM'S	JPN Ryo Ogawa
JPN Kenta Yamashita	JPN TOM'S	JPN Yoshiaki Katayama
JPN Mitsunori Takaboshi	JPN B-MAX Racing Team	JPN 'Dragon'
JPN Sho Tsuboi	JPN TOM'S	AUS Jake Parsons
FRA Sacha Fenestraz	JPN B-Max Racing Team with Motopark	JPN 'Dragon'

References

Thukral, Rachit. (17 August 2019). "All-Japan F3 rebranded as Super Formula Lights". [[Motorsport Network]].
(28 February 2020). "About Japanese Super Formula Lights Championship". Super Formula Lights.
(29 February 2020). "Super Formula Lights series champion will be privileged to test in the Super Formula". Super Formula Lights.
(2007-03-27). "APPENDIX L TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPORTING CODE". [[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile.
Noble, Jonathan. (6 January 2015). "FIA reveals details of new F1 superlicence points system — F1 news — AUTOSPORT.com". [[Haymarket Media Group.
link. All-Japan Formula Three official website. (2008-12-25)

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