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 TAZ31 1 Seita Nonaka[1] 1–5
Kazuto Kotaka[2] 6
36 Giuliano Alesi[2] All
37 Hibiki Taira[2] All
Toda Racing Spiess A41 2 Ren Sato[3] All
ALBIREX Racing Team Tomei TB14F3 2020 3 Lucca Allen[1] 1–2, 4
5 Seiya Jin[1] 1
Tsubasa Iriyama[4] 2
B-Max Engineering Spiess A41 4 Nobuhiro Imada[1] M All
30 "Dragon"[1] All
51 Miki Koyama[1] 1
Takashi Hata[4] M 2, 4
"Syuji" M 3, 5–6
B-Max Racing Team 50 Teppei Natori[1] All
52 Seiya Jin[5] 5–6
Rn-Sports Spiess A41 10 Atsushi Miyake[1] All
11 Masayuki Ueda[1] M 1–2, 4–6
RS Fine TOM'S TAZ31 35 Shunsuke Kohno[1] All
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 Teppei Natori Teppei Natori Teppei Natori B-Max Racing Team Nobuhiro Imada
R2 4 April Teppei Natori Ren Sato Ren Sato Toda Racing Nobuhiro Imada
R3 Ren Sato Atsushi Miyake Rn-Sports Masayuki Ueda
2 R4 Suzuka International Racing Course 24 April Teppei Natori Teppei Natori Teppei Natori B-Max Racing Team Nobuhiro Imada
R5 25 April Teppei Natori Teppei Natori Teppei Natori B-Max Racing Team Masayuki Ueda
R6 Ren Sato Teppei Natori B-Max Racing Team Nobuhiro Imada
3 R7 Autopolis 15 May Ren Sato[a] Atsushi Miyake Atsushi Miyake Rn-Sports Nobuhiro Imada
R8 16 May Ren Sato[b] Giuliano Alesi Teppei Natori B-Max Racing Team "Syuji"
R9 Race cancelled due to inclement weather.
4 R10 Sportsland SUGO 19 June Giuliano Alesi Giuliano Alesi Giuliano Alesi TOM'S Takashi Hata
R11 20 June Teppei Natori Teppei Natori Teppei Natori B-Max Racing Team Nobuhiro Imada
R12 Teppei Natori Giuliano Alesi TOM'S Nobuhiro Imada
5 R13 Twin Ring Motegi 28 August Ren Sato Ren Sato Ren Sato Toda Racing Nobuhiro Imada
R14 29 August Ren Sato Ren Sato Ren Sato Toda Racing Nobuhiro Imada
R9 Ren Sato Ren Sato Toda Racing Nobuhiro Imada
6 R15 Twin Ring Motegi 16 October Teppei Natori Giuliano Alesi Giuliano Alesi TOM'S Nobuhiro Imada
R16 17 October Giuliano Alesi Giuliano Alesi Ren Sato Toda Racing Masayuki Ueda
R17 Giuliano Alesi Giuliano Alesi TOM'S 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[c] SUG MOT1 MOT2 Points
R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3
1 Teppei Natori 1 2 2 1 1 1 5 1 C 2 1 2 2 4 7 4 10 8 109
2 Giuliano Alesi 3 6 3 2 3 2 2 2 C 1 4 1 3 2 2 1 12 1 103
3 Ren Sato 2 1 9 12† 2 5 9 9 C 7 2 6 1 1 1 2 1 4 92
4 Atsushi Miyake 6 5 1 4 6 4 1 6 C 5 5 4 6 3 5 3 6 2 57
5 Hibiki Taira 4 DNS 4 5 4 3 4 4 C 3 3 3 WD WD WD 6 4 5 41.5
6 Shunsuke Kohno 5 7 Ret 6 7 6 3 3 C 4 Ret 5 4 6 4 8 3 6 29.5
7 Seita Nonaka 10 3 6 3 5 7 Ret 5 C 6 Ret 7 5 5 3 24
8 Kazuto Kotaka 5 2 3 14
9 Seiya Jin Ret 4 5 7 7 6 7 5 7 8
10 Nobuhiro Imada 8 10 11 8 12† 10 6 10 C 9 7 10 9 9 9 9 9 9 1
11 Lucca Allen WD WD WD WD WD WD 11 6 8 1
12 "Dragon" 9 9 8 11 8 9 8 7 C Ret 8 9 8 8 8 10 7 11 0
13 Miki Koyama 7 8 7 0
14 "Syuji" 7 8 C 10 10 10 12 11 12 0
15 Tsubasa Iriyama 7 11 8 0
16 Masayuki Ueda 11 11 10 9 9 11 10 10 11 WD WD WD 11 8 10 0
17 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[d] SUG MOT1 MOT2 Points
R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3
1 Nobuhiro Imada 1 1 2 1 3† 1 1 2 C 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 156
2 Masayuki Ueda 2 2 1 2 1 2 3 3 2 WD WD WD 2 1 2 90
3 "Syuji" 2 1 C 2 2 2 3 3 3 48.5
4 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 134
2 TOM'S 102
3 Tomei Engine 6

Footnotes

  1. ^ 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.
  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. ^ Due to heavy fog only two of the 10 laps were completed under green flag conditions. Therefore, half points were awarded.
  4. ^ 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. ^ a b c Wood, Elliot (2021-02-12). "Toyota promotes Japanese F4 champion Hibiki Taira to SF Lights". Formula Scout. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  3. ^ Wood, Ida (15 January 2021). "Honda junior Ren Sato gets Super Formula Lights and Super GT seats". Formula Scout.
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  5. ^ "SUGO | 2021年 SFL シリーズカレンダー | superformula lights en". superformula-lights.com. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
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