2005 Formula Nippon Championship

2005 Formula Nippon Championship

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The 2005 Formula Nippon Championship was contested over 9 rounds, 8 teams and 17 drivers competed in the series. All teams had to use Lola B3/51 chassis and Mugen Honda (Mugen MF308) engines.

Teams and drivers

Team	#	Driver	Chassis	Engine	Rounds
DoCoMo Team Dandelion Racing	1	Template:Flagicon Richard Lyons	Lola B3/51	Mugen MF308	All
	2	Template:Flagicon Naoki Hattori			All
Kondo Racing Team	3	Template:Flagicon Sakon Yamamoto	Lola B3/51	Mugen MF308	All
	4	Template:Flagicon Jaroslav Janiš			1–3
		Template:Flagicon Ronnie Quintarelli			4–9
Team 5ZIGEN	5	Template:Flagicon Tsugio Matsuda	Lola B3/51	Mugen MF308	All
Forum Engineering Team LeMans	7	Template:Flagicon Tatsuya Kataoka	Lola B3/51	Mugen MF308	All
	8	Template:Flagicon Takeshi Tsuchiya			All
Team Cerumo Takagi Planning with Cerumo	11	Template:Flagicon Katsuyuki Hiranaka	Lola B3/51	Mugen MF308	All
	12	Template:Flagicon Toranosuke Takagi			All
mobilecast Team Impul	19	Template:Flagicon Benoît Tréluyer	Lola B3/51	Mugen MF308	All
	20	Template:Flagicon Yuji Ide			All
arting Racing Team with Impul	23	Template:Flagicon Satoshi Motoyama	Lola B3/51	Mugen MF308	All
Carrozzerria Team MOHN	27	Template:Flagicon Masanobu Kato	Lola B3/51	Mugen MF308	1
	28	Template:Flagicon Hideki Noda			All
PIAA Nakajima Racing	31	Template:Flagicon André Lotterer	Lola B3/51	Mugen MF308	All
	32	Template:Flagicon Takashi Kogure			All

Race calendar and results

All races were held in Japan.

Round	Track	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winner	Team
1	Twin Ring Motegi	3 April	Template:Flagicon Yuji Ide	Template:Flagicon Katsuyuki Hiranaka	Template:Flagicon Richard Lyons	DoCoMoTeam Dandelion Racing
2	Suzuka Circuit	17 April	Template:Flagicon Benoît Tréluyer	Template:Flagicon Takashi Kogure	Template:Flagicon Yuji Ide	mobilecast Team Impul
3	Sportsland SUGO	15 May	Template:Flagicon Takashi Kogure	Template:Flagicon Hideki Noda	Template:Flagicon Satoshi Motoyama	arting Team Impul
4	Fuji Speedway	5 June	Template:Flagicon Richard Lyons	Template:Flagicon Tsugio Matsuda	Template:Flagicon Benoît Tréluyer	mobilecast Team Impul
5	Suzuka Circuit	3 July	Template:Flagicon Satoshi Motoyama	Template:Flagicon Yuji Ide	Template:Flagicon Satoshi Motoyama	arting Team Impul
6	Mine Circuit	31 July	Template:Flagicon Benoît Tréluyer	Template:Flagicon Yuji Ide	Template:Flagicon Yuji Ide	mobilecast Team Impul
7	Fuji Speedway	28 August	Template:Flagicon Richard Lyons	Template:Flagicon Satoshi Motoyama	Template:Flagicon André Lotterer	Nakajima Racing
8	Twin Ring Motegi	23 October	Template:Flagicon Satoshi Motoyama	Template:Flagicon Sakon Yamamoto	Template:Flagicon Satoshi Motoyama	arting Team Impul
9	Suzuka Circuit	27 November	Template:Flagicon Tsugio Matsuda	Template:Flagicon Benoît Tréluyer	Template:Flagicon André Lotterer	PIAA Nakajima Racing

Calendar changes

• The race in Sepang International Circuit was dropped, while Fuji returned with two races.

Championship standings

Drivers' Championship

Scoring system

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

Rank	Name	MOT	SUZ	SGO	FUJ	SUZ	MIN	FUJ	MOT	SUZ	Points
1	Template:Flagicon Satoshi Motoyama	4	4	1	2	1	3	13	1	2	52
2	Template:Flagicon Yuji Ide	2	1	5	7	8	1	3	4	3	39
3	Template:Flagicon Richard Lyons	1	5	2	4	3	Ret	4	13	5	30
4	Template:Flagicon André Lotterer	11	Ret	9	Ret	Ret	10	1	Ret	1	20
5	Template:Flagicon Takashi Kogure	Ret	3	3	8	2	Ret	11	9	6	15
6	Template:Flagicon Benoît Tréluyer	6	9	Ret	1	Ret	Ret	12	11	4	14
7	Template:Flagicon Tsugio Matsuda	10	2	Ret	3	6	4	9	10	8	14
8	Template:Flagicon Takeshi Tsuchiya	5	Ret	4	Ret	Ret	5	5	3	Ret	13
9	Template:Flagicon Ronnie Quintarelli				5	5	2	Ret	5	10	12
10	Template:Flagicon Sakon Yamamoto	14	Ret	Ret	Ret	4	8	Ret	2	11	9
11	Template:Flagicon Tatsuya Kataoka	7	8	8	Ret	Ret	7	2	6	7	7
12	Template:Flagicon Naoki Hattori	3	6	6	10	7	6	7	7	14	7
13	Template:Flagicon Katsuyuki Hiranaka	8	Ret	Ret	6	Ret	Ret	6	12	9	2
14	Template:Flagicon Jaroslav Janiš	12	7	7							0
15	Template:Flagicon Toranosuke Takagi	9	Ret	11	9	10	9	8	Ret	12	0
16	Template:Flagicon Hideki Noda	Ret	Ret	10	Ret	9	Ret	10	8	13	0
17	Template:Flagicon Masanobu Kato	13									0

Teams' Championship

Rank	Team	Car	MOT	SUZ	SGO	FUJ	SUZ	MIN	FUJ	MOT	SUZ	Points
1	mobilecast Impul arting Impul	19	6	9	Ret	1	Ret	Ret	12	11	4	101
		20	2	1	5	7	8	1	3	4	3
		23	4	4	1	2	1	3	13	1	2
2	DoCoMo Dandelion	1	1	5	2	4	3	Ret	4	13	5	37
		2	3	6	6	10	7	6	7	7	14
3	PIAA Nakajima	31	11	Ret	9	Ret	Ret	10	1	Ret	1	35
		32	Ret	3	3	8	2	Ret	11	9	6
4	Kondo Racing Team	3	14	Ret	Ret	Ret	4	8	Ret	2	11	21
		4	12	7	7	5	5	2	Ret	5	10
5	Team LeMans	7	7	8	8	Ret	Ret	7	2	6	7	20
		8	5	Ret	4	Ret	Ret	5	5	3	Ret
6	5ZIGEN	5	10	2	Ret	3	6	4	9	10	8	14
7	Cerumo	11	8	Ret	Ret	6	Ret	Ret	6	12	9	2
		12	9	Ret	11	9	10	9	8	Ret	12
8	Team MOHN	27	13									0
		28	Ret	Ret	10	Ret	9	Ret	10	8	13

External links

• 2005 Japanese Championship Formula Nippon