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.

2021 Super Formula Lights Championship

Drivers' Champion: Teppei Natori
Masters' winner: Nobuhiro Imada
Teams' champion: TOM'S
Manufacturers' champion:
Siegfried Spiess Motorenbau GmbH

Previous

2020

Next

2022

Parent series:
Super Formula

Teams and drivers

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[lower-alpha 1] B-Max Racing Team[lower-alpha 1] 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

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[lower-alpha 2]	Atsushi Miyake	Atsushi Miyake	Rn-Sports	Nobuhiro Imada
	R8		16 May	Ren Sato[lower-alpha 3]	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[lower-alpha 4]			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[lower-alpha 5]			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 GmbH	134
2	TOM'S Co., Ltd.	102
3	Tomei Engine Co., Ltd.	6

Footnotes

1. 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

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.

External links

• Super Formula Lights official website – Japanese / English