2024 F4 Japanese Championship

The 2024 F4 Japanese Championship season is the tenth season of the F4 Japanese Championship. It began on 3 May at Fuji Speedway and will end on 3 November at Mobility Resort Motegi.

This is the first season for the second-generation MCSC-24 chassis constructed by Toray Carbon Magic, and the new TOM'S TMA43 engine which produces 180 horsepower, 20 more than its predecessor.^[1]

All teams will compete with an identical Toray Carbon Magic MCSC-24 chassis and TOM'S 2-litre naturally aspirated engine.^[1]

Team No. Driver Class Rounds Akiland Racing 2 Keiji Nakao[2] I 1–3 71 Masayoshi Oyama[2] I 1–3 96 Makio Saito[2] I 1–3 DayDream Racing 4 Yuichi Sasaki[2] I 1–3 Team 5ZIGEN 5 Motohiro Kotani[2] I 1–3 Buzz Racing 9 "Ken Alex"[2] I 1–3 90 Lin Chenghua[2] C 1–3 Rn-sports 10 Hibiki Komatsu[2] C 1 Isao Nakashima[3] I 2–3 11 Masayuki Ueda[2] I 1–3 Zap Speed 14 Masaki Murata[2] C 1–3 HYDRANGEA Kageyama Racing 16 Kotaro Shimbara[2] C 1–3 N-SPEED 23 "Yugo”[2] I 1–3 Falcon Motorsport 26 Takumi Saigusa[2] C 1–3 B-Max Racing Team[a] HFPD with B-Max Racing Team[a] 30 "Dragon"[4] I 1–3 44 Nobuhiro Imada[4] I 1–3 50 Yuto Nomura[5] C 1–3 51 Ryota Horachi[5] C 1–3 Drago Corse 33 Itsuki Sato[2] C 1–3 34 Hironobu Shimizu[2] C 1–3 TGR-DC Racing School 35 Yuki Sano[6] C 1–3 36 Kazuhisa Urabe[6] C 1–3 37 Tokiya Suzuki[6] C 1–3 38 Kiyoshi Umegaki[6] C 1–3 Eagle Sports 40 Shoichiro Akamatsu[2] I 1–3 PONOS Racing 45 Kento Omiya[2] C 1–3 54 Rintaro Sato[2] C 1–3 Fujita Pharmacy Racing 46 Shouma Arimura[2] C 1–3 Field Motorsports 55 "Kentaro"[2] I 1–3 OTG Motor Sports 60 Kenta Kumagai[2] C 1–3 HELM Motorsports 61 William Sakai[2] I 1–3 62 Tosei Moriyama[2] C 1–3 63 Yutaka Toriba[2] I 2–3 64 "Hirobon"[2] C 1–2 Ethan Ho[7] C 3 Skill Speed 77 Daiki Matsuda[2] C 1–3 Dr.Dry 86 Hachiro Osaka[2] I 1–3 87 Rio Shimono[2] C 1–3 Bionic Jack Racing 97 Ryo Shirasaki[2] C 1–3 98 "Ikari"[2] I 1–3

Icon Class C Champion Class I Independent Class

All rounds were held in Japan and supported the Super GT events.^[8] On 28 August 2024, it was announced that the 2nd Suzuka round was postponed to 7–8 December due to the threat of Typhoon Shanshan.^[9]

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team	Independent Class winner
1	R1	Fuji Speedway, Oyama	3 May	Kotaro Shimbara	Ryota Horachi	Yuki Sano	TGR-DC Racing School	"Dragon"
	R2		4 May	Tosei Moriyama	Hironobu Shimizu	Tosei Moriyama	HELM Motorsports	"Kentaro"
2	R3	Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka	1 June	Yuto Nomura	Ryota Horachi	Yuto Nomura	HFDP with B-Max Racing Team	Nobuhiro Imada
	R4		2 June	Yuto Nomura	Tosei Moriyama	Yuto Nomura	HFDP with B-Max Racing Team	"Dragon"
3	R5	Fuji Speedway, Oyama	3 August	Ryota Horachi	Ryota Horachi	Ryota Horachi	HFDP with B-Max Racing Team	Yutaka Toriba
	R6		4 August	Ryota Horachi	Ryota Horachi	Hironobu Shimizu	Drago Corse	"Kentaro"
4	R9	Sportsland Sugo, Murata	21 September
	R10		22 September
5	R11	Autopolis, Hita	19 October
	R12		20 October
6	R13	Mobility Resort Motegi, Motegi	2 November
	R14		3 November
7	R7	Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka	7 December
	R8		8 December

Points were awarded as follows:

Pos Driver FUJ1 SUZ1 FUJ2 SUG AUT MOT SUZ2 Pts R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R9 R10 R11 R12 R13 R14 R7 R8 Champion Class 1 Ryota Horachi 3 DNS 2 3 1 2 91 2 Yuto Nomura 2 DNS 1 1 3 8 87 3 Hironobu Shimizu 4 2 5 5 4 1 87 4 Tosei Moriyama 15 1 4 2 2 11 73 5 Kotaro Shimbara Ret 4 3 4 7 4 57 6 Yuki Sano 1 DNS 11 6 10 7 40 7 Kiyoshi Umegaki Ret DNS 9 7 6 5 26 8 Kento Omiya 12 DNS 7 8 11 3 25 9 Itsuki Sato Ret 3 10 11 9 10 19 10 Rintaro Sato 14 DNS 6 9 18 6 18 11 Tokiya Suzuki 7 DNS 12 13 5 16 16 12 Kazuhisa Urabe 5 DNS 8 10 20 Ret 15 13 Kenta Kumagai 10 5 18 12 12 9 13 14 Ryo Shirasaki 6 Ret 13 21 8 12 12 15 Takumi Saigusa 8 7 16 18 DNS DNS 10 16 Hibiki Komatsu Ret 6 8 17 Daiki Matsuda 9 8 20 14 14 15 6 18 "Hirobon" Ret 9 14 15 2 19 Lin Chenghua Ret 10 21 20 19 Ret 1 20 Rio Shimono Ret 11 15 19 13 Ret 0 21 Shouma Arimura 11 DNS 18 17 17 14 0 22 Masaki Murata 13 Ret 19 16 15 17 0 23 Ethan Ho 16 13 0 Independent Class 1 "Kentaro" 4 1 3 7 2 1 101 2 "Dragon" 1 DNS 2 1 9 4 82 3 Nobuhiro Imada WD WD 1 2 5 3 68 4 Makio Saito 7 2 4 5 Ret 2 64 5 "Ikari" 3 5 7 9 8 5 47 6 Masayuki Ueda WD WD 6 4 3 8 39 7 Isao Nakashima 5 3 7 6 39 8 Shoichiro Akamatsu 6 6 8 16 6 7 34 9 Yutaka Toriba 13 6 1 Ret 33 10 Keiji Nakao 2 10 Ret 8 11 DNS 23 11 "Ken Alex" 9 7 Ret 10 4 10 22 12 Motohiro Kotani 8 3 Ret 15 10 11 20 13 Hachiro Osaka 10 4 14 12 14 13 13 14 Masayoshi Oyama 5 Ret 12 13 12 9 12 15 "Yugo” 11 8 10 17 15 15 5 16 William Sakai Ret 9 9 14 16 12 4 17 Yuichi Sasaki WD WD 11 11 13 14 0 Pos Driver R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R9 R10 R11 R12 R13 R14 R7 R8 Pts FUJ1 SUZ1 FUJ2 SUG AUT MOT SUZ2

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Other points position Blue Other classified position Not classified, finished (NC) Purple Not classified, retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Excluded (EX) Did not arrive (DNA) Withdrawn (WD) Did not enter (cell empty) Text formatting Meaning Bold Pole position Italics Fastest lap Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap † — Did not finish but classified

Only the best finisher scored points for their team.

• Official website (in Japanese)