2005 Formula Nippon Championship Explained

The 2005 Formula Nippon Championship was contested over 9 rounds. 8 teams and 17 drivers competed. All teams had to use Lola B3/51 chassis and Mugen Honda (Mugen MF308) engines.

Teams and drivers

Team		Driver	Chassis	Engine	Rounds
DoCoMo Team Dandelion Racing	1	Richard Lyons	Lola B3/51	Mugen MF308	All
	2	Naoki Hattori			All
Kondo Racing Team	3	Sakon Yamamoto	Lola B3/51	Mugen MF308	All
	4	Jaroslav Janiš			1–3
		Ronnie Quintarelli			4–9
Team 5ZIGEN	5	Tsugio Matsuda	Lola B3/51	Mugen MF308	All
Forum Engineering Team LeMans	7	Tatsuya Kataoka	Lola B3/51	Mugen MF308	All
	8	Takeshi Tsuchiya			All
Team Cerumo Takagi Planning with Cerumo	11	Katsuyuki Hiranaka	Lola B3/51	Mugen MF308	All
	12	Toranosuke Takagi			All
mobilecast Team Impul	19	Benoît Tréluyer	Lola B3/51	Mugen MF308	All
	20	Yuji Ide			All
arting Racing Team with Impul	23	Satoshi Motoyama	Lola B3/51	Mugen MF308	All
Carrozzerria Team MOHN	27	Masanobu Kato	Lola B3/51	Mugen MF308	1
	28	Hideki Noda			All
PIAA Nakajima Racing	31	André Lotterer	Lola B3/51	Mugen MF308	All
	32	Takashi Kogure			All

Race calendar and results

All races were held in Japan.

Round	Track	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winner	Team
1	Twin Ring Motegi	3 April	Yuji Ide		Richard Lyons	DoCoMoTeam Dandelion Racing
2	Suzuka Circuit	17 April	Benoît Tréluyer	Takashi Kogure	Yuji Ide	mobilecast Team Impul
3	Sportsland SUGO	15 May	Takashi Kogure	Hideki Noda	Satoshi Motoyama	arting Team Impul
4	Fuji Speedway	5 June	Richard Lyons	Tsugio Matsuda	Benoît Tréluyer	mobilecast Team Impul
5	Suzuka Circuit	3 July	Satoshi Motoyama	Yuji Ide	Satoshi Motoyama	arting Team Impul
6	Mine Circuit	31 July	Benoît Tréluyer	Yuji Ide	Yuji Ide	mobilecast Team Impul
7	Fuji Speedway	28 August	Richard Lyons	Satoshi Motoyama	André Lotterer	Nakajima Racing
8	Twin Ring Motegi	23 October	Satoshi Motoyama	Sakon Yamamoto	Satoshi Motoyama	arting Team Impul
9	Suzuka Circuit	27 November	Tsugio Matsuda	Benoît Tréluyer	André Lotterer	PIAA Nakajima Racing

Calendar changes

• The race in Sepang was dropped.
• Fuji returned with two races.

Championship standings

Drivers' Championship

Scoring system:

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
Points	10	6	4	3	2	1

Rank	Name	MOT	SUZ	SGO	FUJ	SUZ	MIN	FUJ	MOT	SUZ	Points
1		4	4	1	2	1	3	13	1	2	52
2		2	1	5	7	8	1	3	4	3	39
3		1	5	2	4	3	Ret	4	13	5	30
4	André Lotterer	11	Ret	9	Ret	Ret	10	1	Ret	1	20
5		Ret	3	3	8	2	Ret	11	9	6	15
6		6	9	Ret	1	Ret	Ret	12	11	4	14
7		10	2	Ret	3	6	4	9	10	8	14
8	Takeshi Tsuchiya	5	Ret	4	Ret	Ret	5	5	3	Ret	13
9					5	5	2	Ret	5	10	12
10		14	Ret	Ret	Ret	4	8	Ret	2	11	9
11	Tatsuya Kataoka	7	8	8	Ret	Ret	7	2	6	7	7
12		3	6	6	10	7	6	7	7	14	7
13		8	Ret	Ret	6	Ret	Ret	6	12	9	2
14	Jaroslav Janiš	12	7	7							0
15		9	Ret	11	9	10	9	8	Ret	12	0
16		Ret	Ret	10	Ret	9	Ret	10	8	13	0
17	Masanobu Kato	13									0

Teams' Championship

Rank	Team	Car	MOT	SUZ	SGO	FUJ	SUZ	MIN	FUJ	MOT	SUZ	Points
1	mobilecast Impul arting Impul	19	6	9	Ret	1	Ret	Ret	12	11	4	101
	20	2	1	5	7	8	1	3	4	3
	23	4	4	1	2	1	3	13	1	2
2	DoCoMo Dandelion	1	1	5	2	4	3	Ret	4	13	5	37
	2	3	6	6	10	7	6	7	7	14
3	PIAA Nakajima	31	11	Ret	9	Ret	Ret	10	1	Ret	1	35
	32	Ret	3	3	8	2	Ret	11	9	6
4	Kondo Racing Team	3	14	Ret	Ret	Ret	4	8	Ret	2	11	21
	4	12	7	7	5	5	2	Ret	5	10
5	Team LeMans	7	7	8	8	Ret	Ret	7	2	6	7	20
	8	5	Ret	4	Ret	Ret	5	5	3	Ret
6	5ZIGEN	5	10	2	Ret	3	6	4	9	10	8	14
7	Cerumo	11	8	Ret	Ret	6	Ret	Ret	6	12	9	2
	12	9	Ret	11	9	10	9	8	Ret	12
8	Team MOHN	27	13									0
	28	Ret	Ret	10	Ret	9	Ret	10	8	13

External links

• 2005 Japanese Championship Formula Nippon