Formula Nippon

Lucasjeha · PostPosted: Sun May 27, 2012 1:33 am

Kodai Tsukakoshi sets the new track record, more than 2 seconds faster than the old record and starts from the pole position for the 2nd time in his career...

Formula Nippon 2012 – Round 3 – Autopolis – Qualifying:

Q3
01 - Kodai Tsukakoshi - JAP - DoCoMo Dandelion-Honda - 1:28.523
02 - Tsugio Matsuda - JAP - Team Impul-Toyota - 1:29.017
03 - Kazuya Oshima - JAP - Team LeMans-Toyota - 1:29.182
04 - Takuya Izawa - JAP - DoCoMo Dandelion-Honda - 1:29.380
05 - Loic Duval - FRA - Team Kygnus Sunoco-Toyota - 1:29.625
06 - Kohei Hirate - JAP - Project μ/Cerumo-Inging-Toyota - 1:29.663
07 - Kazuki Nakajima - JAP - Petronas Team TOM'S-Toyota - 1:29.903

Q2

08 - João Paulo de Oliveira - BRA - Team Impul-Toyota - 1:29.954
09 - Takashi Kogure - JAP - Nakajima Racing-Honda - 1:29.991
10 - Yuji Kunimoto - JAP - Project μ/Cerumo-Inging-Toyota - 1:30.001
11 - Toshihiro Kaneishi - JAP - HP Real Racing-Honda - 1:30.594
12 - Andre Lotterer - GER - Petronas Team TOM'S-Toyota - 1:31.535

Q3

13 - Hironobu Yasuda - JAP - Kondo Racing-Toyota - 1:30.384
14 - Daisuke Nakajima - JAP - Nakajima Racing-Honda - 1:30.816
15 - Koki Saga - JAP - Tochigi Le Beausset-Toyota - 1:31.736
16 - Ryo Orime - JAP - SGC by KCMG-Toyota - 1:32.422

DQ

17 - Naoki Yamamoto - JAP - Team Mugen-Honda - 1:28.942

The full article you can acess at...

http://www.formulanippon.blogspot.com.b ... polis.html

Yuya · PostPosted: Sun May 27, 2012 6:46 am

No battle, few cameras, no onborad cameras = very boring. worse year of F-Nippon, i dont watch race already.

Lucasjeha · PostPosted: Sun May 27, 2012 8:27 am

Yuya wrote:

No battle, few cameras, no onborad cameras = very boring. worse year of F-Nippon, i dont watch race already.

Totally agree with you! I hope they will make changes to the series for the next year as they are getting a new name, they need better views, more camera angles, more replays. But about the racing itself, even if there is not too much fights and overtakes, the championship fight is awesome, it seems that Tsukakoshi, Izawa, Nakajima, Lotterer and Oliveira will fight for the title point by point.

PS: Well, after all today was a nice race, some nice overtakes, of course we need a lot more, but it was great to see Tsukakoshi winning his first race with a Grand Chelem. The drivers table is amazing now, the fight for the title will be very very close!

Антон · PostPosted: Sun May 27, 2012 3:13 pm

Lucasjeha · PostPosted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 6:42 pm

As the rain hits the track during Q3, Nakajima has show some awesome skills in the wet and grab the pole position for the Round 4 at Fuji.

Антон · PostPosted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 7:09 pm

Lucasjeha · PostPosted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 7:44 am

We just had one of the most amazing races in F-Nippon history, there was overtakes in almost every lap, action everywhere, rain, side by side battles, and Lotterer winning from 9th in the grid. Nakajima is leading the championship now.

Антон · PostPosted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 3:39 pm

ptclaus98 · PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 11:01 pm

Her English is getting better.

NVirkkula · PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:18 am

ptclaus98 wrote:

Her English is getting better.

yeah, maybe next year they could make the highlights twice as long as today.

Lucasjeha · PostPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 3:32 am

Fully race article, in portuguese http://www.formulanippon.blogspot.com.b ... em-em.html

Formula Nippon 2012 – Round 4 – Fuji – Race Results:

01 – Andre Lotterer – GER – Petronas Team TOM’S-Toyota – 1:28:45.190 – 169.455Km/h – 55 Laps
02 – Kazuki Nakajima – JAP – Petronas Team TOM’S-Toyota - + 1.090
03 – Kazuya Oshima – JAP – Team LeMans-Toyota - + 4.584
04 – Loic Duval – FRA – Team Kygnus Sunoco-Toyota - + 30.292
05 – Tsugio Matsuda – JAP – Team Impul-Toyota - + 33.714
06 – João Paulo de Oliveira – BRA – Team Impul-Toyota - + 52.702
07 – Kohei Hirate – JAP - Project μ/Cerumo-Inging-Toyota - + 56.544
08 – Yuji Kunimoto – JAP - Project μ/Cerumo-Inging-Toyota - + 1:05.668
09 – Kodai Tsukakoshi – JAP – DoCoMo Dandelion-Honda - + 1:08.199
10 – Takashi Kogure – JAP – Nakajima Racing-Honda - + 1:13.398
11 – Daisuke Nakajima – JAP – Nakajima Racing-Honda - + 1:14.181
12 – Naoki Yamamoto – JAP – Team Mugen-Honda - + 1:30.390
13 – Takuya Izawa – JAP – DoCoMo Dandelion-Honda - + 1:30.715
14 – Koki Saga – JAP – Tochigi Le Beausset-Toyota - + 1 Lap
15 – Yuhki Nakayama – JAP – HP Real Racing-Honda - + 1 Lap
16 – Hironobu Yasuda – JAP – Kondo Racing-Toyota - + 2 Laps

Did Not Qualify

17 – Toshihiro Kaneishi – JAP – HP Real Racing-Honda - + 11 Laps
18 – Ryo Orime – JAP – SGC by KCMG-Toyota - + 18 Laps

Fastest Lap: João Paulo de Oliveira – BRA – Team Impul-Toyota – 1:29.031 – Lap 4

Driver’s Championship After Round 4

01 – Kazuki Nakajima – 29 Pts
02 – Andre Lotterer – 25 Pts
03 – Kodai Tsukakoshi – 23 Pts
04 – João Paulo de Oliveira – 17 Pts
05 – Takuya Izawa – 17 Pts
06 – Kazuya Oshima – 15 Pts
07 – Tsugio Matsuda – 13 Pts
08 – Loic Duval – 11 Pts
09 – Naoki Yamamoto – 04 Pts
10 – Kohei Hirate – 04 Pts
11 – Yuji Kunimoto – 02 Pts

Pole Position Points: Takuya Izawa (Suzuka), Andre Lotterer (Motegi), Kodai Tsukakoshi (Autopolis), Kazuki Nakajima (Fuji)

Team’s Championship After Round 4

01 – Petronas Team TOM’S – 52 Pts
02 – DoCoMo Dandelion – 38 Pts
03 – Team Impul – 30 Pts
04 – Team LeMans – 15 Pts
05 – Team Kygnus Sunoco – 11 Pts
06 - Project μ/Cerumo-Inging – 06 Pts
07 – Team Mugen – 04 Pts

Pole Position Points does not count for Team’s Championship

Lucasjeha · PostPosted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 6:49 pm

If you want to read a full article in english, I had one published at P1 Mag-ezine. Here's the link, its in the last edition "Content Issue No. 23"

http://grandprixinsider.wordpress.com/p ... hive-2012/

Have a nice read!