2021 Super Formula Lights

The 2021 Super Formula Lights Championship was the second Super Formula Lights Championship season, after the Japanese Formula 3 Championship was rebranded following the end of the 2019 season. It featured drivers competing in Formula 3 cars with Dallara 320 chassis and with engines made by three different manufacturers, a similar regulation format to the Euroformula Open Championship.

Teams and drivers

Team Engine No. Driver Status Rounds
TOM'S TOM'S Co., Ltd. 1 Japan Seita Nonaka 1–5
Japan Kazuto Kotaka[1] 6
36 France Giuliano Alesi All
37 Japan Hibiki Taira All
Toda Racing Siegfried Spiess Motorenbau GmbH 2 Japan Ren Sato[2] All
ALBIREX Racing Team Tomei Engine Co., Ltd. 3 Republic of Ireland Lucca Allen 1–2, 4
5 Japan Seiya Jin 1
Japan Tsubasa Iriyama 2
B-Max Engineering[a]

B-Max Racing Team[a] 		Siegfried Spiess Motorenbau GmbH 4 Japan Nobuhiro Imada M All
30 Japan "Dragon" All
50 Japan Teppei Natori All
51 Japan Miki Koyama 1
Japan Takashi Hata M 2, 4
Japan "Syuji" M 3, 5–6
52 Japan Seiya Jin 5–6
Rn-Sports Siegfried Spiess Motorenbau GmbH 10 Japan Atsushi Miyake All
11 Japan Masayuki Ueda M 1–2, 4–6
RS Fine TOM'S Co., Ltd. 35 Japan Shunsuke Kohno All
Source: [3][4][5]
Icon Class
M Masters' Cup.

Race Calendar

The calendar for the 2021 season was announced on 30 October 2020. The championship supported Super Formula at all of its races.[6] Because of this, the calendar change announced by Super Formula on 12 April 2021 was also adopted by Super Formula Lights.[7]

Round Circuit Date Pole Position Fastest Lap Winning Driver Winning Team Masters Winner
1 R1 Fuji Speedway 3 April Japan Teppei Natori Japan Teppei Natori Japan Teppei Natori B-Max Racing Team Japan Nobuhiro Imada
R2 4 April Japan Teppei Natori Japan Ren Sato Japan Ren Sato Toda Racing Japan Nobuhiro Imada
R3 Japan Ren Sato Japan Atsushi Miyake Rn-Sports Japan Masayuki Ueda
2 R4 Suzuka International Racing Course 24 April Japan Teppei Natori Japan Teppei Natori Japan Teppei Natori B-Max Racing Team Japan Nobuhiro Imada
R5 25 April Japan Teppei Natori Japan Teppei Natori Japan Teppei Natori B-Max Racing Team Japan Masayuki Ueda
R6 Japan Ren Sato Japan Teppei Natori B-Max Racing Team Japan Nobuhiro Imada
3 R7 Autopolis 15 May Japan Ren Sato[b] Japan Atsushi Miyake Japan Atsushi Miyake Rn-Sports Japan Nobuhiro Imada
R8 16 May Japan Ren Sato[c] France Giuliano Alesi Japan Teppei Natori B-Max Racing Team Japan "Syuji"
R9 Race cancelled due to inclement weather.
4 R10 Sportsland SUGO 19 June France Giuliano Alesi France Giuliano Alesi France Giuliano Alesi TOM'S Japan Takashi Hata
R11 20 June Japan Teppei Natori Japan Teppei Natori Japan Teppei Natori B-Max Racing Team Japan Nobuhiro Imada
R12 Japan Teppei Natori France Giuliano Alesi TOM'S Japan Nobuhiro Imada
5 R13 Twin Ring Motegi 28 August Japan Ren Sato Japan Ren Sato Japan Ren Sato Toda Racing Japan Nobuhiro Imada
R14 29 August Japan Ren Sato Japan Ren Sato Japan Ren Sato Toda Racing Japan Nobuhiro Imada
R9 Japan Ren Sato Japan Ren Sato Toda Racing Japan Nobuhiro Imada
6 R15 Twin Ring Motegi 16 October Japan Teppei Natori France Giuliano Alesi France Giuliano Alesi TOM'S Japan Nobuhiro Imada
R16 17 October France Giuliano Alesi France Giuliano Alesi Japan Ren Sato Toda Racing Japan Masayuki Ueda
R17 France Giuliano Alesi France Giuliano Alesi TOM'S Japan Nobuhiro Imada

Championship standings

The points were awarded as follows:

1 2 3 4 5 6 PP FL
10 7 5 3 2 1 1 1

Drivers' Championships

Overall

Pos Driver FUJ SUZ AUT[d] SUG MOT1 MOT2 Points
R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3
1 Japan Teppei Natori 1 2 2 1 1 1 5 1 C 2 1 2 2 4 7 4 10 8 109
2 France Giuliano Alesi 3 6 3 2 3 2 2 2 C 1 4 1 3 2 2 1 12 1 103
3 Japan Ren Sato 2 1 9 12† 2 5 9 9 C 7 2 6 1 1 1 2 1 4 92
4 Japan Atsushi Miyake 6 5 1 4 6 4 1 6 C 5 5 4 6 3 5 3 6 2 57
5 Japan Hibiki Taira 4 DNS 4 5 4 3 4 4 C 3 3 3 WD WD WD 6 4 5 41.5
6 Japan Shunsuke Kohno 5 7 Ret 6 7 6 3 3 C 4 Ret 5 4 6 4 8 3 6 29.5
7 Japan Seita Nonaka 10 3 6 3 5 7 Ret 5 C 6 Ret 7 5 5 3 24
8 Japan Kazuto Kotaka 5 2 3 14
9 Japan Seiya Jin Ret 4 5 7 7 6 7 5 7 8
10 Japan Nobuhiro Imada 8 10 11 8 12† 10 6 10 C 9 7 10 9 9 9 9 9 9 1
11 Republic of Ireland Lucca Allen WD WD WD WD WD WD 11 6 8 1
12 Japan "Dragon" 9 9 8 11 8 9 8 7 C Ret 8 9 8 8 8 10 7 11 0
13 Japan Miki Koyama 7 8 7 0
14 Japan "Syuji" 7 8 C 10 10 10 12 11 12 0
15 Japan Tsubasa Iriyama 7 11 8 0
16 Japan Masayuki Ueda 11 11 10 9 9 11 10 10 11 WD WD WD 11 8 10 0
17 Japan Takashi Hata 10 10 Ret 8 9 12 0
Pos Driver R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 Points
FUJ SUZ AUT SUG MOT1 MOT2

Masters Class

Pos Driver FUJ SUZ AUT[e] SUG MOT1 MOT2 Points
R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3
1 Japan Nobuhiro Imada 1 1 2 1 3† 1 1 2 C 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 156
2 Japan Masayuki Ueda 2 2 1 2 1 2 3 3 2 WD WD WD 2 1 2 90
3 Japan "Syuji" 2 1 C 2 2 2 3 3 3 48.5
4 Japan Takashi Hata 3 2 Ret 1 2 3 35
Pos Driver R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 Points
FUJ SUZ AUT SUG MOT1 MOT2

Teams' standings

Pos Team Points
1 TOM'S 102
2 B-Max Racing Team 98
3 Toda Racing 84
4 Rn-Sports 56
5 RS Fine 29.5
6 ALBIREX Racing Team 6
7 B-Max Engineering 1

Engine manufacturer standings

Pos Team Points
1 Siegfried Spiess Motorenbau GmbH 134
2 TOM'S Co., Ltd. 102
3 Tomei Engine Co., Ltd. 6

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b Car No. 4, 30 & 51 entered as B-Max Engineering, and car No. 50 & 52 entered as B-Max Racing Team
  2. ^ Qualifying was cancelled due to heavy rain. The grid was decided by times set during practice. No points were awarded for pole position in each class.
  3. ^ Qualifying was cancelled due to heavy rain. The grid was decided by times set during practice. No points were awarded for pole position in each class.
  4. ^ Due to heavy fog only two of the 10 laps were completed under green flag conditions. Therefore, half points were awarded.
  5. ^ Due to heavy fog only two of the 10 laps were completed under green flag conditions. Therefore, half points were awarded.

References

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  2. ^ Wood, Ida (15 January 2021). "Honda junior Ren Sato gets Super Formula Lights and Super GT seats". Formula Scout.
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