2007 Formula Nippon season

2007 Formula Nippon season
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The 2007 Formula Nippon season was contested over 9 rounds. 12 different teams, 22 different drivers competed. All teams had to use Lola chassis (Lola FN06) and use either a Mugen Honda (Mugen HF386E) or Toyota (Toyota RV8J) engine.

Teams and drivers

Team	#	Driver	Chassis	Engine	Rounds
mobilecast Team Impul	1	Benoît Tréluyer	Lola FN06	Toyota RV8J	All
	2	Tsugio Matsuda			All
Carchs Kondo Racing	3	Masataka Yanagida	Lola FN06	Toyota RV8J	All
	4	João Paulo de Oliveira			All
SG team 5ZIGEN	5	Katsuyuki Hiranaka	Lola FN06	Honda HF386E	All
	6	Hiroki Yoshimoto			All
Forum Engineering Team LeMans	7	Tatsuya Kataoka	Lola FN06	Toyota RV8J	All
	8	Toranosuke Takagi			All
Team Reckless Cerumo Team Cerumo	11	Yuji Tachikawa	Lola FN06	Toyota RV8J	All
	12	Kota Sasaki			1–5
Arabian Oasis Team Impul	19	Satoshi Motoyama	Lola FN06	Toyota RV8J	All
	20	Michael Krumm			All
Kanaan Racing	27	Tony Kanaan	Lola FN06	Honda HF386E	9
PIAA Nakajima Racing	31	Loïc Duval	Lola FN06	Honda HF386E	All
	32	Takashi Kogure			All
Team BOSS INGING Formula Nippon	33	Ronnie Quintarelli	Lola FN06	Toyota RV8J	All
	34	Naoki Yokomizo			All
DHG TOM'S Racing	36	André Lotterer	Lola FN06	Toyota RV8J	All
	37	Seiji Ara			All
DoCoMo Team Dandelion Racing	40	Björn Wirdheim	Lola FN06	Honda HF386E	All
	41	Fabio Carbone			All
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	55	Yuji Ide	Lola FN06	Honda HF386E	All
	56	Toshihiro Kaneishi			All

Race calendar and results

Suzuka

Motegi

Okayama

Fuji

SUGO

2007 venues

All races were held in Japan.

Round	Track	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Race Lap	Winner	Team
1	Fuji	1 April	Benoît Tréluyer	Benoît Tréluyer	Benoît Tréluyer	Team Impul
2	Suzuka	15 April	Tsugio Matsuda	Hiroki Yoshimoto	Satoshi Motoyama	Team Impul
3	Motegi	20 May	Tsugio Matsuda	Takashi Kogure	Takashi Kogure	Nakajima Racing
4	Okayama	10 June	Takashi Kogure	Tsugio Matsuda	Ronnie Quintarelli	Team Boss Inging
5	Suzuka	8 July	Tsugio Matsuda	Tsugio Matsuda	Satoshi Motoyama	Team Impul
6	Fuji	26 August	Satoshi Motoyama	Loïc Duval	André Lotterer	TOM'S Racing
7	SUGO	16 September	Takashi Kogure	Naoki Yokomizo	Takashi Kogure	Nakajima Racing
8	Motegi	21 October	Takashi Kogure	Takashi Kogure	Takashi Kogure	Nakajima Racing
9	Suzuka	18 November	Takashi Kogure	André Lotterer	Satoshi Motoyama	Team Impul

Notes:

• Tony Kanaan participated as a special entry under the authorization of JAF with no points to be scored.
• Okayama replaced Autopolis.

Championship standings

Drivers' Championship

Scoring system

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th
Points	10	8	6	5	4	3	2	1

Rank	Driver	FUJ	SUZ	MOT	OKA	SUZ	FUJ	SUG	MOT	SUZ	Points
1	Tsugio Matsuda	2	2	3	3	4	13	5	5	4	46
2	Benoît Tréluyer	1	Ret	4	2	Ret	2	2	3	Ret	45
3	Takashi Kogure	8	3	1	5	17	Ret	1	1	DSQ	41
4	Satoshi Motoyama	Ret	1	6	10	1	Ret	4	11	1	38
5	André Lotterer	Ret	5	2	Ret	13	1	7	4	2	37
6	Loïc Duval	3	4	Ret	19	11	3	3	2	Ret	31
7	Ronnie Quintarelli	5	6	5	1	Ret	7	8	6	14	27
8	Joao Paulo de Oliveira	DSQ	14	8	4	7	6	Ret	8	3	18
9	Björn Wirdheim	4	13	11	11	2	8	Ret	7	9	17
10	Michael Krumm	6	7	7	8	5	Ret	Ret	15	Ret	12
11	Seiji Ara	11	Ret	15	7	10	4	Ret	13	5	11
12	Yuji Tachikawa	16	8	12	5	12	5	6	9	13	11
13	Yuji Ide	14	10	16	Ret	3	16	Ret	Ret	10	6
14	Tatsuya Kataoka	7	Ret	Ret	9	Ret	Ret	Ret	10	7	5
15	Fabio Carbone	15	15	Ret	13	5	15	9	18	Ret	3
16	Toranosuke Takagi	Ret	12	9	16	8	9	10	12	8	3
17	Naoki Yokomizo	10	9	13	12	19	10	13	Ret	12	0
18	Toshihiro Kaneishi	12	17	10	Ret	9	11	Ret	14	Ret	0
19	Masataka Yanagida	9	18	Ret	15	14	12	12	16	Ret	0
20	Katsuyuki Hiranaka	Ret	11	17	14	18	14	11	17	11	0
21	Hiroki Yoshimoto	13	19	18	17	15	17	Ret	Ret	15	0
22	Kota Sasaki	17	16	14	18	16					0
–	Tony Kanaan									6	–

Teams' Championship

Rank	Team	Car	FUJ	SUZ	MOT	OKA	SUZ	FUJ	SUG	MOT	SUZ	Points
1	mobilecast IMPUL	1	1	Ret	4	2	Ret	2	2	3	Ret	91
		2	2	2	3	3	4	13	5	5	4
2	PIAA NAKAJIMA	31	3	4	Ret	19	11	3	3	2	Ret	72
		32	8	3	1	5	17	Ret	1	1	DSQ
3	Arabian Oasis IMPUL	19	Ret	1	6	10	1	Ret	4	11	1	50
		20	6	7	7	8	5	Ret	Ret	15	Ret
4	DHG TOM'S	36	Ret	5	2	Ret	13	1	7	4	2	48
		37	11	Ret	15	7	10	4	Ret	13	5
5	Boss INGING	33	5	6	5	1	Ret	7	8	6	14	27
		34	10	9	13	12	19	10	13	Ret	12
6	DoCoMo Team Dandelion Racing	40	4	13	11	11	2	8	Ret	7	8	20
		41	15	15	Ret	13	5	15	9	18	Ret
7	Carchs Kondo Racing	3	9	18	Ret	15	14	12	12	16	Ret	18
		4	DSQ	14	8	4	7	6	Ret	8	3
8	Forum Engineering Team LeMans	7	7	Ret	Ret	9	Ret	Ret	Ret	10	6	8
		8	Ret	12	9	16	8	9	10	12	7
9	Team Cerumo	11						5	6	9	13	7
10	Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	55	14	10	16	Ret	3	16	Ret	Ret	10	6
		56	12	17	10	Ret	9	11	Ret	14	Ret
11	Team Reckless Cerumo	11	16	8	12	5	12					4
		12	17	16	14	18	16

External links

• 2007 Japanese Championship Formula Nippon