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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

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

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

Race Calendar

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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[b]   Atsushi Miyake   Atsushi Miyake Rn-Sports   Nobuhiro Imada
R8 16 May   Ren Sato[c]   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

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The points were awarded as follows:

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

Drivers' Championships

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Overall

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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   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

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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   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

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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

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

Footnotes

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  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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  1. ^ Wood, Elliot (2021-02-12). "Toyota promotes Japanese F4 champion Hibiki Taira to SF Lights". Formula Scout. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  2. ^ Wood, Ida (15 January 2021). "Honda junior Ren Sato gets Super Formula Lights and Super GT seats". Formula Scout.
  3. ^ "FUJI | 2021年 SFL シリーズカレンダー | superformula lights". superformula-lights.com. Retrieved 2021-03-30.
  4. ^ "Suzuka | 2021年 SFL シリーズカレンダー | superformula lights". superformula-lights.com. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
  5. ^ "SUGO | 2021年 SFL シリーズカレンダー | superformula lights en". superformula-lights.com. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
  6. ^ "全日本スーパーフォーミュラ・ライツ選手権 2021年カレンダーのご案内 | superformula lights". superformula-lights.com. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
  7. ^ "「2021年 全日本スーパーフォーミュラ選手権」第6戦の開催地、及び開催日程の変更について | SUPER FORMULA Official Website". JP SUPER FORMULA (in Japanese). Retrieved 2021-04-12.
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