2013 Super Formula Championship

The 2013 Japanese Championship Super Formula season was the forty-first season of premier Japanese open-wheel motor racing, and the first under the new name of Super Formula. The series was contested over six rounds and a non-championship final round at Fuji Speedway as part of the JAF Grand Prix. 2013 was also the last season using the original chassis (SF13, known as FN09 in previous seasons) by Swift Engineering as for 2014 Dallara would supply a new chassis, the SF14, to the series.^[1]

2013 Super Formula Championship

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Naoki Yamamoto won his first drivers' championship with Team Mugen, while Petronas Team TOM's won the teams' championship. Yamamoto and André Lotterer finished the year with the same number of points. At the time, Super Formula had an unconventional championship tiebreaker method where the driver that scored the most points in the final round of the season would be declared the champion.^[2] Lotterer had more wins, but had to miss the final round due to his commitments in the FIA World Endurance Championship, while Yamamoto finished first and third in the double-header finale at Suzuka to equal Lotterer's point total and win the championship.

In the same season, Loïc Duval won the Sportsland Sugo round, defeating Lotterer by 0.041 seconds.^[3] It was the closest margin of victory in series history.^[4]

Teams and drivers

Team	No.	Driver	Engine	Rounds
Petronas Team TOM'S	1	Kazuki Nakajima	Toyota RV8K	All
	2	James Rossiter		1, 6
		André Lotterer		2–5, NC
Kondō Racing	3	Hironobu Yasuda	Toyota RV8K	All
Kygnus Sunoco Team LeMans	7	Ryō Hirakawa	Toyota RV8K	All
	8	Andrea Caldarelli		1, 6
		Loïc Duval		2–5, NC
HP Real Racing	10	Koudai Tsukakoshi[5]	Honda HR12E	All
	11	Yuhki Nakayama[5]		All
Team Mugen	15	Takuma Sato[5]	Honda HR12E	1, 5–6, NC
		Takashi Kobayashi[5]		2–4
	16	Naoki Yamamoto[5]		All
KCMG	18	Richard Bradley[6]	Toyota RV8K	All
Lenovo Team Impul	19	João Paulo de Oliveira	Toyota RV8K	All
	20	Tsugio Matsuda		All
Nakajima Racing	31	Daisuke Nakajima[5]	Honda HR12E	All
	32	Takashi Kogure[5]		All
P.mu/cerumo・INGING	38	Kohei Hirate	Toyota RV8K	All
	39	Yuji Kunimoto		All
Docomo Team Dandelion Racing	40	Takuya Izawa[5]	Honda HR12E	All
	41	Hideki Mutoh[5]		All
Tochigi Le Beausset Motorsports	62	Koki Saga	Toyota RV8K	All

Race calendar and results

A provisional calendar for the 2013 season was released on 10 August 2012.^[7] All races were held in Japan.

Round	Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1	Suzuka Circuit	14 April	Takuya Izawa	Takashi Kogure	Takuya Izawa	Docomo Team Dandelion Racing
2	Autopolis	2 June	André Lotterer	Kazuki Nakajima	André Lotterer	Petronas Team TOM'S
3	Fuji Speedway	14 July	Loïc Duval	André Lotterer	André Lotterer	Petronas Team TOM'S
4	Twin Ring Motegi	4 August	Kazuki Nakajima	André Lotterer	Kazuki Nakajima	Petronas Team TOM'S
5	Sportsland SUGO	29 September	Loïc Duval	Takashi Kogure	Loïc Duval	Kygnus Sunoco Team LeMans
6	Suzuka Circuit	10 November	Naoki Yamamoto	Ryō Hirakawa	Naoki Yamamoto	Team Mugen
			Naoki Yamamoto	Ryō Hirakawa	Kazuki Nakajima	Petronas Team TOM'S
NC	Fuji Speedway Report	24 November	Yuji Kunimoto	Takuya Izawa	Yuji Kunimoto	P.mu/cerumo・INGING

Calendar changes

• On 1 November the first Motegi round, scheduled for 12 May, was taken off the calendar for 2013.^[8]
• The race at Inje Speedium, scheduled for 25 August, was cancelled during the 2013 season.^[9]
• The non-championship JAF Grand Prix was originally scheduled for 17 November but was rescheduled to 24 November.^[10]

Championship standings

Drivers' Championship

Scoring system

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

Pos Driver SUZ AUT FUJ MOT SUG SUZ FUJ Points 1 Naoki Yamamoto 4 3 3 8 3 1 3 5 37 2 André Lotterer 1 1 2 2 7 37 3 Loïc Duval 2 4 3 1 2 31 4 Kazuki Nakajima 5 12 8 1 Ret Ret 1 4 24 5 João Paulo de Oliveira 6 4 6 4 Ret 3 17 6 19 6 Tsugio Matsuda 2 5 16 13 5 4 16 3 18.5 7 Takuya Izawa 1 Ret 5 Ret Ret 10 9 15 15 8 Takashi Kogure 3 Ret 14 5 8 15 2 18 15 9 Kohei Hirate 12 Ret 2 15 Ret 5 7 9 11 10 Yuji Kunimoto 10 10 7 6 4 Ret 15 1 10 11 Ryō Hirakawa 8 7 11 7 Ret 6 4 8 9 12 Daisuke Nakajima 16 Ret 11 10 7 2 11 Ret 6 13 Andrea Caldarelli 7 Ret 5 4 14 Hironobu Yasuda 14 9 12 Ret 6 8 13 11 3.5 15 Koudai Tsukakoshi 9 6 9 9 Ret Ret Ret 10 3 16 James Rossiter 11 7 6 2.5 17 Yuhki Nakayama 18 8 Ret 11 Ret 11 12 13 1 18 Takuma Sato 15 11 9 8 14 0.5 19 Koki Saga 17 11 Ret 16 9 14 14 16 0 20 Hideki Mutoh 13 Ret 13 12 10 12 10 12 0 21 Richard Bradley 19 Ret Ret 14 Ret 13 18 17 0 22 Takashi Kobayashi Ret 15 17 0 Pos Driver SUZ AUT FUJ MOT SUG SUZ 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 No. SUZ AUT FUJ MOT SUG SUZ FUJ Points 1 Petronas Team TOM'S 1 5 12 8 1 2 Ret 1 4 58.5 2 11 1 1 2 Ret 7 6 7 2 Kygnus Sunoco Team LeMans 7 8 7 11 7 Ret 6 4 8 42 8 7 2 4 3 1 Ret 5 2 3 Team Impul 19 6 4 6 4 Ret 3 17 6 37.5 20 2 5 16 13 5 4 16 3 4 Team Mugen 15 15 Ret 15 17 11 9 8 14 32.5 16 4 3 3 8 3 1 3 5 5 P.mu/cerumo・INGING 38 12 Ret 2 15 Ret 5 7 9 21 39 10 10 7 6 4 Ret 15 1 6 Nakajima Racing 31 16 Ret 11 10 7 2 11 Ret 21 32 3 Ret 14 5 8 Ret 2 18 7 Docomo Team Dandelion Racing 40 1 Ret 5 Ret Ret 10 9 15 13 41 13 Ret 13 12 10 12 10 12 8 HP Real Racing 10 9 6 9 9 Ret Ret Ret 10 4 11 18 8 Ret 11 Ret 11 12 13 9 Kondō Racing 3 14 9 12 Ret 6 8 13 11 3.5 Tochigi Le Beausset Motorsports 62 17 11 Ret 16 9 14 14 16 0 KCMG 18 19 Ret Ret 14 Ret 13 18 17 0 Pos Team No. SUZ AUT FUJ MOT SUG SUZ 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