The 2019 Japanese Super Formula Championship was the forty-seventh season of premier Japanese

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, and the seventh under the moniker of Super Formula. The season began on 21 April at

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and ended on 27 October at the same location. 2019 marked the first season of the

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chassis package, while continuing the engine configuration of the preceding chassis.

Nick Cassidy Nick Cassidy (born 19 August 1994) is a New Zealand racing driver, currently competing in Formula E for Envision Racing, and in the World Endurance Championship and Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters with AF Corse. He has won the 2017 championship in ...

clinched his first Driver's Championship title, after finishing ahead of reigning champion Naoki Yamamoto at the season finale at Suzuka. Docomo Team Dandelion Racing won their first Teams' Championship title since

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, with Naoki Yamamoto and

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driving for them.

Teams and drivers

Team changes

*German team Motopark will enter the championship in collaboration with the B-MAX Racing Team.

Driver changes

Honda

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announce to joining Super Formula with B-MAX Motopark after

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shut down their DTM project. Former

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driver Harrison Newey was later confirmed in a second B-MAX car. *2018 champion Naoki Yamamoto moves to Team Dandelion Racing after eight seasons driving for Team Mugen. He is joined by

, who completed a partial season with Mugen in 2018 alongside FIA Formula 2.

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leaves Team Dandelion after a single season, returning to

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with Carlin. *

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moves from Team Dandelion to Team Mugen. He will be partnered by

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runner-up and two-time

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winner

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, who competed in two rounds for the team in 2018. *

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leaves Real Racing's Super Formula team after six seasons. He is replaced by Tristan Charpentier, who raced in the

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in 2018. Prior to the second round of the championship, it was announced that Tsukakoshi would be returning to the seat for the remainder of the season. *

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and

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are replaced at

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by Formula 2 race winner

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and former European and Japanese Formula Three driver

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. Karthikeyan will remain with the team in Super GT.

Toyota

*2018 series runner-up

will move from Kondō Racing to Team Tom's, replacing

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. *2016 champion

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will take Cassidy's place at Kondo Racing, after Toyota promoted 2018 Japanese F3 champion Sho Tsuboi to his former seat at cerumo・INGING. * Artem Markelov, a five-season veteran of the GP2 Series and FIA Formula 2 with Russian Time, joins Super Formula in the #7

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, which in 2018 was driven by both

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and

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Mid-season changes

* Tristan Charpentier left Real Racing after the first round. He had qualified two seconds off the pace in the first round and crashed heavily in the race. He was replaced by veteran racer

for the rest of the season. *

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left Team Mugen after the third round. He was dropped by the Red Bull Junior programme and subsequently lost his Super Formula drive. He was replaced by new Red Bull Junior,

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for the remainder of the season. However, O'Ward was dropped prior to the final round from the

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and thus for the final round, the seat was filled by Estonian

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. * Yuichi Nakayama replaced Artem Markelov at the sixth round due to Markelov being called up to race for BWT Arden in the

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Race calendar and results

The calendar with seven rounds was announced in August 2018.

Championship standings

Drivers' Championship

;Scoring system: ;Driver standings:

Teams' Championship

References

External links

Japanese Championship Super Formula official website
{{Japanese Formula 3000/Formula Nippon years

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