All Japan Super Formula Championship 2019
The 2019 Japanese Super Formula Championship is the 33rd season of premier Japanese open-wheel motor racing, and the seventh under the moniker of Super Formula. The season began on 21 April at Suzuka Circuit and will end on 27 October at the same location.
2019 marked the first season of the Dallara SF19 chassis package, while continuing the engine configuration of the preceding chassis.
There will be twenty drivers from eleven teams on the grid, one driver more than in 2018, over seven rounds at Japanese major race tracks – Suzuka (opening round and finale), Autopolis, Sugo, Fuji, Motegi and Okayama.
Last year, Naoki Yamamoto is the Japanese Super Formula champion for 2018. The 30-year-old driver of Team Mugen’s #16 Dallara-Honda has won the season’s finale at Suzuka Circuit and clinched his second Super Formula title in a career. Previously, he was a champion in 2013.
Paddock Pass
Special ticket which you can enjoy the Paddock Area and Pit Walk.
You can also enter the Hospitality Terrace (3rd floor of Pit Building).
Price
JPY 7,200 / Age 13+
JPY 1,600 / Age 12 and under
*Valid for Two(2) days
Features
› Entry to Pit Walk
› Entry to Hospitality Terrace (3rd floor of Pit Building)
› Entry to standing view area in the paddock
Cautions
› There are only limited number of tickets.
› Bringing in stepladder and umbrellas are not allowed in Pit Walk.
› Pit Walk may be change or cancelled without any prior notice.
› Kids under age 12 and under are not allowed to enter the Pit Walk by themselves.
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Fuji Speedway is a motorsport race track standing in the foothills of Mount Fuji, in Oyama, Suntō District, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It was built in the early 1960s. In the 1980s, Fuji Speedway was used for the FIA World Sportscar Championship and national racing. Originally managed by Mitsubishi Estate Co., Fuji Speedway was acquired by Toyota Motor Corporation in 2000. The circuit hosted the Formula One Japanese Grand Prix in 2007, after an absence of 30 years, replacing the Suzuka Circuit, owned by Honda. After Fuji Speedway hosted the 2008 race, the Japanese Grand Prix returned to Suzuka for the 2009-onward races. The Super GT Fuji 500 km race is held at the racetrack on Golden Week.
Fuji Speedway has one of the longest straights in motorsport tracks, at 1.475 km (0.917 mi) in length.[3] The circuit has FIA Grade 1 license.
History
1963–79: F1 launches in Japan
Fuji Speedway Corporation was established in 1963, as Japan NASCAR Corporation. At first, the circuit was planned to hold NASCAR-style races in Japan. Therefore, the track was originally designed to be a 4 km (2.5 mi) high-banked superspeedway, but there was not enough money to complete the project and thus only one of the bankings was ever designed. Mitsubishi Estate Co. invested in the circuit and took over the reins of management in October 1965.
Converted to a road course, the circuit opened in December 1965 and proved to be somewhat dangerous with the banked turn (named "Daiichi") regularly resulting in major accidents. Vic Elford said:
In 1969 I spent two months in Japan doing a test contract for Toyota and their Toyota 7 (5 litre V-8), which along with a big Nissan (6.3 litre V-12), was destined for CanAm. My last testing and then the subsequent Sports Car GP were at Fuji, but the track was run in a clockwise direction. The reason that banking was so horrific, was that at the end of the straight we went over a blind crest at around 190/200 mph and dropped into the banking. At other tracks (Daytona, Montlhéry, etc.) you climb up the banking. One of the results was that although there were many brave Japanese drivers there were not too many with great skill and the death toll from that one corner was horrendous. To such an extent that the big Gp 7 cars were then banned in Japan and thus, neither Nissan or Toyota ever made it to CanAm.
After a double fatal accident in 1974 on the Daiichi banking where drivers Hiroshi Kazato and Seiichi Suzuki were both killed in a fiery accident that injured 6 other people, a new part of track was built to counteract the problem, and the resultant 4.359 km (2.709 mi) course which also eliminated 5 other fast corners proved more successful. In 1966, the track hosted a USAC Indy Car non-championship race, won by Jackie Stewart. The track had a 24-hour race in 1967.
The speedway brought the first Formula One race to Japan at the end of the 1976 season. The race had a dramatic World Championship battle between James Hunt and Niki Lauda, and in awful rainy conditions, Hunt earned enough points to win the title. Mario Andretti won the race, with Lauda withdrawing due to the dangerous conditions.
In 1977, Gilles Villeneuve was involved in a crash that killed two spectators on the side of the track, leading to Formula One leaving the speedway. When Japan earned another race on the F1 schedule ten years later, it went to Suzuka instead. The Grand Prix returned to Fuji in 2007.
1980–2000: National racing venue
Fuji Speedway former layouts: Red 1965–1974, Blue 1975–1985, Green 1986–2004
The abandoned "30° Bank" of the old track
Fuji remained a popular sports car racing venue and FIA World Sportscar Championship visited the track between 1982–1988 and it was often used for national races. Speeds continued to be very high, and two chicanes were added to the track, one just past the first hairpin corner, the second at the entry to the very long, very fast final turn (300R). But even with these changes, the main feature of the track remained its approximately 1.5 km (0.93 mi) long straight, one of the longest in all of motorsports.
The long pit straight has also been utilised for drag racing. NHRA exhibitions were run in 1989, and in 1993 Shirley Muldowney ran a 5.30 on the quarter-mile strip at Fuji. Local drag races are common on the circuit.
The track continues to be used for Japanese national races, but plans to host a CART event in 1991 were abandoned and it was not until the autumn of 2000 that the majority of the stocks of the track was bought by Toyota from Mitsubishi Estate, as part of its motor racing plans for the future.
On May 3, 1998 there was a multi-car crash during a parade lap before a JGTC race, caused by a pace car going at twice the recommended speed in torrential rain. Ferrari driver Tetsuya Ota suffered serious burns over his entire body after being trapped in his car for almost 90 seconds. Porsche driver Tomohiko Sunako fractured his right leg.
2001–present: renovations
In 2003 the circuit was closed down to accommodate a major reprofiling of the track, using a new design from Hermann Tilke. The track was reopened on April 10, 2005. The circuit hosted its first Formula One championship event in 29 years on September 30, 2007. In circumstances similar to Fuji's first Grand Prix in 1976, the race was run in heavy rain and mist and the first 19 laps were run under the safety car, in a race won by Lewis Hamilton.
Rebuilt grandstand in the 2000s
The circuit has always hosted the NISMO Festival for historic Nissan racers, since the takeover and refurbishment in 2003, the event took place at TI Circuit. When the festival returned in 2005, the organisers allowed the circuit owner to bring in their Toyota 7 CanAm racer to re-enact the old Japanese GP battle. Toyota also hosts its own historic event a week before the NISMO festival called Toyota Motorsports Festival. Close to the circuit is a drifting course, which was built as part of the refurbishment under the supervision of "Drift King" Keiichi Tsuchiya. The short course nearby was built under the supervision of former works driver and Super GT team manager Masanori Sekiya and there is a Toyota Safety Education Center, a mini circuit. In addition to motorsports, Fuji also hosts the Udo Music Festival.
The only time the circuit is run on a reverse direction is during the D1 Grand Prix round as Keiichi Tsuchiya felt the new layout meant reduced entry speed, making it less suitable for drifting. The series has hosted its rounds since 2003, with the exception of the 2004 closure, the circuit became the first to take place on an international level racetrack and the first of the three to take place on an F1 circuit. The course starts from the 300R section, slide through the hairpin, then through 100R and ends past the Coca-Cola curve. With the reprofiling, as cars no longer run downbank, entry speeds have since been reduced, the hill at the exit making acceleration difficult.[8] As part of the 2003 renovations, most of the old banked section of track was demolished. Only a small section remains to this day.
Following both poor ticket sales and weather it was decided by FOM that the FIA Japanese Grand Prix would be shared between Fuji Speedway and Suzuka on alternate years with Suzuka holding the next race on Sunday, October 4, 2009. After the global recession and its own operational deficit, Toyota decided to discontinue the hosting of Japanese Grand Prix since 2010.
Fuji Speedway was announced to host the finish of the road cycling races at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
モータースポーツ（英: motorsports ）とは、人間の筋肉以外の機械的なモーターやエンジンなどの原動機を使用して稼働する乗り物を用いて行われる競技・スポーツ。カテゴリと呼ばれる競技ランクや競技種別の違いによって定められたルールやレギュレーションに従い「速さ」を競う競技である。
広義においてはモーターボートや飛行機など、いわゆる「車両」以外の乗り物を用いて行われるものを含めてモータースポーツと指す。陸上を走る四輪自動車やモーターサイクル（オートバイ）などの車両を使用したものが一般的であるため、それらを指す場合が多い。自動車を用いて行われる競技については自動車競技、オートバイを用いて行われる競技についてはオートバイ競技を参照のこと。
四輪自動車におけるモータースポーツの始まりは、1887年4月28日にフランスのパリで行われたものが最初となる。但し、記録として残る自動車競技は1894年7月22日に開催された、パリ - ルーアンレースが起源となる。当時の自動車は蒸気自動車とガソリン自動車とが混在する世の中であり、一般的に当時普及していた蒸気自動車に対し、これからの普及を目指していたガソリン自動車が性能の指標にしようという目論みもあった。 1930年代においては、各国がナショナルカラーを打ち出しての技術競争という要素が強かったが、第2次世界大戦の終結後では国際自動車連盟の発足などによって、四輪自動車におけるモータースポーツを各国で開催する運びとなり、国際競技としての立ち位置が強くなった。
スーパーフォーミュラ（SUPER FORMULA）は、2013年（平成25年）から日本を中心に開催されている自動車レースの1カテゴリーである。略称は「SF」、レース格式は国際。
日本では、2013年 - 2015年にかけて全日本選手権スーパーフォーミュラ、2016年より全日本スーパーフォーミュラ選手権として選手権が開催されている。
フォーミュラカー（オープンホイール）を使用した四輪レースで、日本レースプロモーション（JRP）を運営母体とし、日本自動車連盟（JAF）公認の下、フォーミュラ・ニッポンを引き継ぐ形で2013年にスタートした。
『日本一速い男 決定戦』とも呼ばれ日本最高峰のカテゴリーであったフォーミュラ・ニッポンを、アジアのスタンダードフォーミュラを目指しアジアを中心にグローバル展開を進めるにあたり、シリーズ名称の変更が行なわれた。初年度の2013年には韓国でのレース開催が発表され、新たに建設されたインジェ・スピーディウムでの開催が予定されたが、諸処の事情により中止された。 2015年の概要発表会では、当時のJRP社長である白井裕の口から「名実ともに世界の三大フォーミュラカーレースのひとつとして、F1、インディカーと並び称されるカテゴリーにまで発展させることを目標」と述べており、国内という枠からの脱却を目指している。
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