2011 Formula Nippon Championship

The 2011 Formula Nippon Championship was the thirty-ninth season of the premier Japanese open-wheel motor racing series. The series for Formula Nippon racing cars was contested over seven rounds.

2011 Formula Nippon Championship

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Teams and drivers

Team	No.	Driver	Engine	Rounds
Team Impul	1	João Paulo de Oliveira[1]	Toyota RV8K	All *
	2	Kohei Hirate[1]	Toyota RV8K	All *
Kondō Racing	3	Andrea Caldarelli[2]	Toyota RV8K	All *
Team LeMans	7	Kazuya Oshima[1]	Toyota RV8K	All *
Team Kygnus Sunoco	8	Hiroaki Ishiura[1]	Toyota RV8K	All *
Real Racing	10	Takashi Kobayashi[1]	Honda HR10E	All *
	11	Hideki Mutoh[3]	Honda HR10E	4, 7
Team Mugen	16	Naoki Yamamoto[1]	Honda HR10E	All *
SGC by KCMG	18	Alexandre Imperatori[1]	Toyota RV8K	All
		Tsugio Matsuda[4]	Toyota RV8K	*
Nakajima Racing	31	Daisuke Nakajima[1]	Honda HR10E	All *
	32	Takashi Kogure[1]	Honda HR10E	All *
Project μ/cerumo・INGING	33	Yuji Kunimoto[1]	Toyota RV8K	All *
Petronas Team TOM'S	36	André Lotterer[1]	Toyota RV8K	1, 3–7 *
		Takuto Iguchi[5]	Toyota RV8K	2
	37	Kazuki Nakajima[1]	Toyota RV8K	All *
Docomo Team Dandelion Racing	40	Takuya Izawa[1]	Honda HR10E	All *
	41	Koudai Tsukakoshi[1]	Honda HR10E	All *
Le Beausset Motorsports	62	Koki Saga[1]	Toyota RV8K	All *

* Drivers who participated in the non-championship round at Fuji Speedway.

Race calendar and results

Suzuka

Motegi

Autopolis

Fuji

SUGO

2011 venues

• All races will be held in Japan. A non-championship round, entitled Super GT and Formula Nippon Sprint Cup 2011, will be held at the conclusion of the season.^[6] The opening round at Suzuka was rescheduled from 16–17 April to 14–15 May due to the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March.^[7] As a result, the first Twin Ring Motegi round scheduled for that weekend was rescheduled to 6 November with the originally scheduled Suzuka race moved forward to September.

Round	Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1	Suzuka Circuit	15 May	Naoki Yamamoto	Naoki Yamamoto	André Lotterer	Petronas Team TOM'S
2	Autopolis	5 June	Koudai Tsukakoshi	Kohei Hirate	Kazuki Nakajima	Petronas Team TOM'S
3	Fuji Speedway	17 July	João Paulo de Oliveira	João Paulo de Oliveira	André Lotterer	Petronas Team TOM'S
4	Twin Ring Motegi	7 August	João Paulo de Oliveira	João Paulo de Oliveira	João Paulo de Oliveira	Team Impul
5	Suzuka Circuit	4 September	Race cancelled due to Typhoon Talas
6	Sportsland SUGO	25 September	Kazuya Oshima	Hiroaki Ishiura	André Lotterer	Petronas Team TOM'S
7	Twin Ring Motegi	6 November	André Lotterer	Kazuki Nakajima	André Lotterer	Petronas Team TOM'S
			André Lotterer	André Lotterer	André Lotterer	Petronas Team TOM'S
NC	Fuji Speedway	13 November	João Paulo de Oliveira	João Paulo de Oliveira	João Paulo de Oliveira	Team Impul

Championship standings

Drivers' Championship

Scoring system

Round	Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	Pole
1–6	Points	10	8	6	5	4	3	2	1	1
7		8	4	3	2.5	2	1.5	1	0.5	1

Pos Driver SUZ AUT FUJ MOT SUZ SUG MOT FUJ Points 1 André Lotterer 1 1 2 C 1 1 1 5 56 2 Kazuki Nakajima 3 1 3 3 C 3 2 2 3 42 3 João Paulo de Oliveira 6 4 4 1 C DSQ 9 3 1 28 4 Koudai Tsukakoshi 7 3 5 4 C 4 3 8 7 26.5 5 Kazuya Oshima 5 2 12 8 C 6 Ret 5 4 19 6 Hiroaki Ishiura 8 10 6 7 C 2 6 6 2 17 7 Takashi Kogure 2 Ret 7 Ret C 7 5 4 12 16.5 8 Kohei Hirate 9 8 2 5 C 8 7 Ret 10 15 9 Takuya Izawa 4 6 10 6 C DSQ Ret 10 6 11 10 Yuji Kunimoto 13 11 15 12 C 5 4 Ret Ret 6.5 11 Naoki Yamamoto Ret 5 9 14 C 11 12 NC 8 5 12 Alexandre Imperatori 10 7 Ret 11 C 12 8 12 2.5 13 Daisuke Nakajima 11 Ret 8 9 C 10 11 7 Ret 2 14 Takashi Kobayashi Ret 9 11 15 C Ret 10 11 11 0 15 Hideki Mutoh 10 Ret 9 0 16 Andrea Caldarelli Ret Ret 13 13 C 9 Ret Ret 9 0 17 Koki Saga 12 Ret 14 16 C 13 13 Ret 13 0 18 Takuto Iguchi 12 0 Tsugio Matsuda 14 0 Pos Driver SUZ AUT FUJ MOT SUZ SUG MOT FUJ Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points classification Blue Non-points classification Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired, not classified (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

Teams' Championship

Pos Team SUZ AUT FUJ MOT SUZ SUG MOT Points 1 Petronas Team TOM'S 1 1 1 2 C 1 1 1 96 3 12 3 3 C 3 2 2 2 Team Impul 6 4 2 1 C 8 7 3 41 9 8 4 5 C DSQ 9 Ret 3 Docomo Team Dandelion Racing 4 3 5 4 C 4 3 8 36.5 7 6 10 6 C DSQ Ret 10 4 Team LeMans Team Kygnus Sunoco 5 2 6 7 C 2 Ret 5 32 8 10 12 8 C 6 5 Nakajima Racing 2 Ret 7 9 C 7 5 4 18.5 11 Ret 8 Ret C 10 11 7 6 Project μ/cerumo・INGING 13 11 15 12 C 5 4 Ret 6.5 7 Team Mugen Ret 5 9 14 C 11 12 NC 4 8 Team Kygnus Sunoco 6 6 3 9 SGC by KCMG 10 7 Ret 11 C 12 8 12 2.5 10 HP Real Racing Ret 9 11 10 C Ret 10 9 0 15 Ret 11 11 Kondō Racing Ret Ret 13 13 C 9 Ret Ret 0 12 Le Beausset Motorsports 12 Ret 14 16 C 13 13 Ret 0 Pos Team SUZ AUT FUJ MOT SUZ SUG MOT Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points classification Blue Non-points classification Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired, not classified (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX)