Formula Nippon 2012 - Page 4

Mekola · 6 Oct 2012, 01:16 (Ref:3146891)

The same that they did with the Lola B03/50, or Reynard 99L (the previous chassises used). I remember that one of the G-Force GF03 used in FNippon was present at one of the European club formula series for gentlemen racers.

ivanalesi · 6 Oct 2012, 17:52 (Ref:3147147)

They should be a good alternative of 2008 spec GP2 cars, it'll be interesting to see how quick are these cars on Avons.

MagVanisher · 10 Oct 2012, 10:23 (Ref:3149308)

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Originally Posted by tbz

Press Release

Oh gee, they want to be like IndyCar or F1...

But you know, this series needs some help from the former and not the latter, like having invites to Indy 500 and Fuji Sprint Cup.

NaBUru38 · 10 Oct 2012, 16:40 (Ref:3149513)

Next moves the Super Formula should do:

o- Add races at Macau, Bathurst, Surfers Paradise and the Motegi oval.
o- Give a full-season scholarship to the Australian Formula 3 champion and a Macau GP scholarship to the Formula 3 Macau GP winner.

MagVanisher · 10 Oct 2012, 17:19 (Ref:3149533)

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Originally Posted by NaBUru38

Next moves the Super Formula should do:

o- Add races at Macau, Bathurst, Surfers Paradise and the Motegi oval.
o- Give a full-season scholarship to the Australian Formula 3 champion and a Macau GP scholarship to the Formula 3 Macau GP winner.

That would be awesome, especially for those Japan Super Formula to race in circles at the oval!

But you know what, they should train the Japanese on how to race in ovals, especially in Indianapolis.

ptclaus98 · 10 Oct 2012, 17:51 (Ref:3149557)

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Originally Posted by MagVanisher

That would be awesome, especially for those Japan Super Formula to race in circles at the oval!

But you know what, they should train the Japanese on how to race in ovals, especially in Indianapolis.

Lesson No.1

Stay away from Scottish **** in red car.

End of course.

W.A Trichlorostyrene · 10 Oct 2012, 18:33 (Ref:3149575)

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Originally Posted by MagVanisher

But you know, this series needs some help from the former and not the latter, like having invites to Indy 500 and Fuji Sprint Cup.

Reminds me of when JP de Oliveira got that Conquest ride at Motegi last year.

He was doing pretty good around midpack, until he ironically collided with Sato(IIRC).

MagVanisher · 11 Oct 2012, 01:46 (Ref:3149710)

Speaking of Indianapolis, I wonder if they would make a proposal to let those teams make aero parts for the new Dallara chassis just like IndyCar?

**gomick** · 29 Oct 2012, 23:37 (Ref:3159837)

Final round this weekend - double header at Suzuka...

STANDINGS (after 6 of 8)

Kazuki Nakajima - 38
Koudai Tsukakoshi - 37
Andre Lotterer - 33
Takuya Izawa - 32
Paulo de Oliveira - 31
Loic Duval - 20

Japanese Samurai · 2 Nov 2012, 09:04 (Ref:3161479)

Autosport reports the inside of competition bid of SF14.

In May, JRP selected two companies, Dallara and JMIA.
JMIA proposed very good conditions which do not require any deposit of development cost.
So JRP was going to choose JMIA as the winner.
However, Minoru Hayashi (chairman of JMIA) blamed JRP on JMIA website on June 12.
His comment hurt the JMIA backer's feeling.
Thereby, "the wind" changed to Dallara from JMIA.
Team owner meeting chose not JMIA but Dallara formally.

jondownunder · 2 Nov 2012, 09:30 (Ref:3161493)

Ugh, not another ugly spec Dallara!

tbz · 3 Nov 2012, 19:47 (Ref:3161990)

Suzuka #FNippon Final

Race1 LIVE Sunday at 2 a.m. CET / Sunday at 5 a.m. GMT / Saturday at 9 p.m. ET
Race2 LIVE Sunday at 6 a.m. CET / Sunday at 5 a.m. GMT / Sunday at 1 a.m. ET

kurski · 4 Nov 2012, 15:49 (Ref:3162406)

Petronas Team Tom's driver Kazuki Nakajima is the 2012 Formula Nippon drivers champion!

**chunterer** · 5 Nov 2012, 15:46 (Ref:3162929)

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Originally Posted by kurski

Petronas Team Tom's driver Kazuki Nakajima is the 2012 Formula Nippon drivers champion!

Congrats to him. Shame his F1 career never worked out but there is life outside F1 for talented drivers who maybe don't fit the F1 mould.

W.A Trichlorostyrene · 5 Nov 2012, 17:09 (Ref:3162964)

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Originally Posted by chunterer

Congrats to him. Shame his F1 career never worked out but there is life outside F1 for talented drivers who maybe don't fit the F1 mould.

Yes, congrats to him.

It's amazing how quickly the F1 universe forgot about him. Granted, he didn't exactly set the world on fire, and he probably wouldn't have been there if it wasn't for Toyota.

Amazing also how many team-mates Nico Rosberg destroyed, after a difficult maiden 2006 season. Wurz, Nakajima, and now TGF. Hamilton will be a much bigger task, though.

Juntos · 11 Nov 2012, 02:02 (Ref:3165052)

What is JMIA?

Japanese Samurai · 12 Nov 2012, 10:53 (Ref:3165438)

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Originally Posted by Juntos

What is JMIA?

Japan Motor-Racing Industry Association.
Dome, Mooncraft, Tom's etc are members.
http://www.jmia.jp/index.html

Japanese Samurai · 12 Nov 2012, 14:22 (Ref:3165504)

James Rossiter to participate in FN test!

On my way to Japan! Can't wait to test Formula Nippon next week at Fuji
https://twitter.com/Rossiterracing/s...35581332455424

Japanese Samurai · 14 Nov 2012, 06:46 (Ref:3166146)

Fuji joint test participation driver
http://www.f-nippon.co.jp/fn/media/1...4_fn_news2.pdf

PETRONAS TEAM TOM'S: Kazuki Nakajima, Andrea Caldarelli, Richard Bradley, James Rossiter
KONDO RACING: Hironobu Yasuda
Team LeMans: Ryo Hirakawa
Team KYGNUS SUNOCO: Hiroaki Ishiura
HP REAL RACING: Kodai Tsukakoshi, Hideki Mutoh
TEAM MUGEN: Naoki Yamamoto, TBN, TBN
SGC by KCMG: Mattew Howson, Gary Thompson
TEAM IMPUL: J.P de Oliveira, Tugio Matsuda
NAKAJIMA RACING: Daisuke Nakajima, Takashi Kogure
Project mu/ Cerumo INGING: 19/Kohei Hirate, Yuji Kunimoto, 20/Kazuya Oshima, Yuichi Nakayama
DOCOMO TEAM DANDELIONRACING: Takuya Izawa,
TOCHIGI Le Beausset Motorsports: Koki Saga

Japanese Samurai · 14 Nov 2012, 08:25 (Ref:3166157)

Sorry

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Originally Posted by Japanese Samurai

DOCOMO TEAM DANDELIONRACING: Takuya Izawa, Jean Karl Vernay

TF110 · 24 Jan 2013, 09:53 (Ref:3193624)

What's this "Super Formula"? Looks to replace F-Nippon in 2014? http://superformula.net/index.html I caught it off Nakajima's twitter as he did a simulator test with the new car. http://superformula.net/feature/movie-dallara-sf14.html

Alex K · 24 Jan 2013, 10:19 (Ref:3193634)

Name change, new car, don't know about new engine though?

mountainstar · 24 Jan 2013, 19:16 (Ref:3193812)

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Originally Posted by TF110

What's this "Super Formula"? Looks to replace F-Nippon in 2014? http://superformula.net/index.html I caught it off Nakajima's twitter as he did a simulator test with the new car. http://superformula.net/feature/movie-dallara-sf14.html

I can't tell what the formula/rules are, but it's probably time for a change.

tbz · 27 Jan 2013, 20:52 (Ref:3195002)

FNippon/SFormula will be held a race at Inje/Autopia (Korea) this season.

Marcus666 · 22 Jun 2013, 15:56 (Ref:3266860)

Gonna bump this thread and beware, I'm gonna go f*****G mental on Dallara.
Why the hell do they need to adapt the wings to F1 standards, the cars have been ugly all the way since 2009. At the same time in 2009, Swift introduced one heck of a beauty (FN.09) and it reminded me of the beautiful Panoz DP01.

Why do they need those higher/taller rear wings and snow plows as front wings? It's a spec series, everyone got the same dirty air behind and in front?

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