2009 Formula Nippon Championship - Page 2

Ogami musashi · 1 Apr 2009, 15:17 (Ref:2430657)

the former lola was already really close to GP2 pace; IRCC the record with this car at fuji was already near the 1:25.

**gomick** · 2 Apr 2009, 10:15 (Ref:2431208)

Season starts this weekend at Fuji

META4 · 4 Apr 2009, 06:44 (Ref:2432953)

Free Practice Results

WEATHER : MOSTLY SUNNY, CONDITION : DRY
SESSION : FREE PRACTICE

Pos. Driver Team Time Laps
1. # 1 Tsugio MATSUDA (JPN) IMPUL/Toyota 1:25.611 -
2. #20 Kohei HIRATE (JPN) IMPUL/Toyota 1:25.679 -
3. #36 Andre LOTTERER (GER) TOM'S/Toyota 1:25.809 -
4. # 8 Hiroaki ISHIURA (JPN) LeMans/Toyota 1:25.822 -
5. # 2 Benoit TRELUYER (FRA) IMPUL/Toyota 1:25.851 -
6. #31 Loic DUVAL (FRA) Nakajima/Honda 1:25.918 -
7. #32 Takashi KOGURE (JPN) Nakajiam/Honda 1:26.028 -
8. #41 Takuya IZAWA (JPN) Dandelion/Honda 1:26.060 -
9. #40 Richard LYONS (GBR) Dandelion/Honda 1:26.299 -
10. # 7 Keisuke KUNIMOTO (JPN) LeMans/Toyota 1:26.306 -
11. #37 Kazuya OSHIMA (JPN) TOM'S/Toyota 1:26.861 -
12. #10 Kodai TSUKAKOSHI (JPN) HFDP/Honda 1:26.919 -
13. #48 Yuji TACHIKAWA (JPN) Cerumo/Toyota 1:27.188 -

META4 · 4 Apr 2009, 16:20 (Ref:2433374)

Qualifying Times

Kohei Hirate - Impul - Swift Toyota – 1’24”653
Takuya Izawa - Dandelion - Swift Toyota – 1’24”692
Benoit Treluyer - Impul - Swift Toyota – 1’24”756
Andre Lotterer - Tom's - Swift Toyota – 1’25”045
Takashi Kogure - Nakajima - Swift Honda – 1’25”187
Loic Duval - Nakajima - Swift Honda – 1’25”359
Hiroaki Ishiura - LeMans - Swift Toyota – 1’25”572
Tsugio Matsuda - Impul - Swift Toyota – 1’25”641
Keisuke Kunimoto - LeMans - Swift Toyota – 1’25”507
Richard Lyons - Dandelion - Swift Toyota – 1’25”612
Koudai Tsukakoshi - HFDP - Swift Honda – 1’25”718
Kazuya Oshima - Tom's - Swift Toyota – 1’26”116
Yuji Tachikawa - Cerumo/Inging - Swift Toyota – 1’26”270

META4 · 5 Apr 2009, 08:26 (Ref:2433740)

Race Result

1- Treluyer Impul
2- Izawa Docomo
3- Hirate ahead Impul
4- Duval Nakajima
5- Tachikawa Cerumo/IngIng
6- Tsukakoshi HFDP
7- Oshima Tom's
8- Kogure Nakajima
9- Kunimoto LeMans
10- Lotterer Tom's
11- Ishiura LeMans

Not Classified

12- Richard Lyons Docomo
13- Matsuda Impul

**gomick** · 5 Apr 2009, 09:36 (Ref:2433774)

Thats a great start to the season by the 2006 champ. Impressive drive by Takuya Izawa aswell...

**chunterer** · 5 Apr 2009, 17:53 (Ref:2434443)

Indeed, good result from Benoit, maybe we'll see him return to the form we all know he has in him.

**gomick** · 9 Apr 2009, 20:35 (Ref:2437715)

Here is the standings...

1. Benoit Treluyer - 15
2. Takuya Izawa - 12
3. Kohei Hirate - 11
4. Loic Duval - 8
5. Yuji Tachikawa - 6
6. Koudai Tsukakoshi - 5
7. Kazuya Oshima - 4
8. Takashi Kogure - 3
9. Keisuke Kunimoto - 2
10. Andre Lotterer - 1

Next round is at Suzuka on May 17...

swede9 · 15 Apr 2009, 15:38 (Ref:2441474)

Some Youtube videos from pre-season testing at Fuji before the snow came.

Circuit Safari -- in between sessions, two tour busses take to the track with media and VIP's to watch the cars run around them -- quite interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7OMiz_PVOg

Great video of the cars going by from inside the tour bus all while it's snowing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE_bkcuM ... re=related

**gomick** · 18 May 2009, 00:04 (Ref:2464236)

Round 2 was held at Suzuka with Benoit Treluyer starting on pole from Andre Lotterer...

Race winner

META4 · 19 May 2009, 07:41 (Ref:2464954)

Quote:

Originally Posted by gomick

Round 2 was held at Suzuka with Benoit Treluyer starting on pole from Andre Lotterer...

Race winner

Race Result

1-Loic Duval PIAA Nakajima
2-Benoit Treluyer Impul
3-Lotterer Tom's
4-Kohei Hirate Impul
5-Kodai Tsukakoshi HFDP
6-Richard Lyons Docomo
7-Tokuya Izawa Docomo
8-Hiroaki Ishiura LeMans
9-Keisuke Kunimoto LeMans

**gomick** · 24 May 2009, 04:13 (Ref:2467950)

Here is the points after 2 rounds...

Benoit Treluyer - 19
Loic Duval - 15
Kohei Hirate - 12
Takuya Izawa - 10
Koudai Tsukakoshi - 7
Andre Lotterer - 6
Yuji Tachikawa - 4
Richard Lyons - 3
Kazuya Oshima - 2
Hiroaki Ishiura - 1

**gomick** · 30 May 2009, 22:29 (Ref:2472339)

Motegi Qualifying - 13 cars...

1. Takashi Kogure 1:33.772
2. Loic Duval 1:34.139
3. Koudai Tsukakoshi 1:34.633
4. Hiroaki Ishiura 1:34.782
5. Andre Lotterer 1:35.110
6. Kohei Hirate 1:35.183

**gomick** · 31 May 2009, 23:15 (Ref:2472994)

Takashi Kogure won at Motegi from Benoit Treluyer & Hiroaki Ishiura...

Points after 3 rounds...

1. Benoit Treluyer - 27
2. Loic Duval - 15
3. Kohei Hirate - 12
4. Takashi Kogure - 12
5. Koudai Tsukakoshi - 12
6. Takuya Izawa - 10
7. Andre Lotterer - 10

**chunterer** · 1 Jun 2009, 15:21 (Ref:2473432)

Pretty substantial early points lead there for Treluyer?

**gomick** · 27 Jun 2009, 10:59 (Ref:2491540)

Loic Duval has pole for the Fuji double header round...

**gomick** · 11 Jul 2009, 10:13 (Ref:2499396)

Loic Duval got the pole at Suzuka - his 2nd in a row... 13 cars entered!

1. Loic Duval - 1:41.214
2. Takashi Kogure - 1:41.693
3. Koudai Tsukakoshi - 1:42.036
4. Tsugio Matsuda - 1:42.229
5. Hiroaki Ishiura - 1:42.499

**gomick** · 12 Jul 2009, 23:25 (Ref:2500435)

Loic Duval won the Suzuka round, his 2nd consecutive race win, new points leader too...

Results...

1. Loic Duval
2. Takashi Kogure
3. Benoit Treluyer
4. Hiroaki Ishiura
5. Kohei Hirate

Points after 5 rounds...

Loic Duval - 37
Benoit Treluyer - 33
Takashi Kogure - 22
Kohei Hirate - 20
Hiroaki Ishiura - 17
Koudai Tsukakoshi - 15

Japanese Samurai · 15 Jul 2009, 13:27 (Ref:2502223)

This is a test photo of FN09.
A red light on the roll bar displays the operation situation of the brake.
The light under that displays the operation situation of the accelerator.
It is uncertain when these lights are introduced into the race.
http://www1.as-web.jp/photonews/info.php?c_id=4&no=2478

**gomick** · 16 Jul 2009, 10:16 (Ref:2502673)

They sure are great looking cars the nippons

Kiwi3 · 17 Jul 2009, 08:14 (Ref:2503153)

I used to follow FNippon in the 90's but haven't for a few years now.

Would they be a lot better off running GP2 machinery (even the old ones if they had bought them instead of the meaningless GP2 Asia happening), as European drivers might be more motivated to race there in order to provide themselves in machinery that is universally known in Europe?

Or if grids continue to decline will they need to downgrade, e.g. WSR type machinery? I guess whatever is used needs to be acceptable to Toyota and Honda, which is a limitation.

Japanese Samurai · 17 Jul 2009, 10:51 (Ref:2503217)

FN was ever the last door to the F1.
However, the position is taken by GP2 and Euro F3 now.
Therefore JRP is going to do FN for the original race series independent of F1 such as IRL.
They think FN to be not the middle formula but a top category.
However, the popularity of FN continues falling.
The reason is because the Japanese fan watches of higher quality F1 and IRL.
The significance of existence of FN is asked.

**gomick** · 8 Aug 2009, 09:53 (Ref:2517761)

13 cars at Motegi - hopefully FNippon can ride the wave & come back even stronger in years ahead

Motegi Qualifying...

1. Takashi Kogure - 1:33.979
2. Loic Duval - 1:34.112
3. Hiroaki Ishiura - 1:34.798
4. Koudai Tsukakoshi - 1:34.930
5. Andre Lotterer - 1:34.964
6. Kazuya Oshima - 1:34.995
7. Benoit Treluyer - 1:35.067
8. Tsugio Matsuda - 1:35.120

**gomick** · 9 Aug 2009, 23:09 (Ref:2518524)

Andre Lotterer got his 1st race win of the season at Motegi. Loic Duval & Benoit Treluyer rounded out the podium...

Points after 6 of 8....

Loic Duval - 45
Benoit Treluyer - 39
Takashi Kogure - 26
Andre Lotterer - 23
Hiroaki Ishiura - 22
Kohei Hirate - 21

**chunterer** · 10 Aug 2009, 17:42 (Ref:2518977)

Yes I think Benoit needed that result as his big early season points lead was wiped out by Duval.

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