SUPER FORMULA

MENU

Headline News

Super Formula Rd. 4 at Fuji Speedway Race Results

2018年7月8日

Rd.4 at Fuji Speedway got underway with cloudy skies. The outside temperature was 30℃ and track temperature at the start of the race was 37℃.

Pole winner Nick Cassidy and the cars in the next 4 grids behind him began the race on soft spec tires. Nick fended off a fierce fight from Hiroaki Ishiura and Yuki Sekiguchi, who got off to a fantastic start to the 250 km race. Nobuharu Matsushita also got off to a fine start, moving up 4 grids into P6.

At the lap 5 point in the race, Nick had a 1.3 sec lead over P2 running Ishiura. Sekiguchi was running in P3. P19 starter Daniel Ticktum gained 6 places and was in P13. Ticktum then fought for more positions and was in P10 by lap 9.

Takuya Izawa, Kamui Kobayashi, Tom Dillman were the first to complete the mandatory tire change for this race, and by lap 15, cars in P10 to P19 had all changed tires. Nick got stuck in traffic behind some of the cars that had gone into the pit, causing him to have less than a 1 sec. lead over Ishiura.

Sekiguchi went to the pit on lap 25. He came back on the track behind teammate Ryo Hirakawa. Then on lap 28, points leader Naoki Yamamoto pitted to change to medium spec tires. The top 3 at that point were Nick, P2 Ishiura, P3 Kazuki Nakajima.

Ticktum went to the pit on lap 30. He came out just in front of Nick, which caused Nick to lose the slight lead that he then had over Ishiura. It was only a 0.5 sec. lead between the 2 at that point. Ishiura tried to overtake Nick, but Nick pushed back even harder.

Nick’s team began preparing for a tire change on lap 34. Ishiura’s team did the same. Nick pitted on that lap, but Ishiura stayed on track. Nick’s tire change took 12.9 sec., which was faster than the 13.4 sec. by Ishiura’s team on lap 40. Ishiura lost time because of a jack problem after changing tires, which cost him the opportunity to possibly get back out on the track in front of Nick.

All the cars had changed tires by lap 44, so after that it was just a fight for championship points. Nick had built up a 3.1 sec. lead over Ishiura by that point, but Ishiura fight to try to catch up, but with no avail.

Nick was able to pull off his first Super Formula victory, which was a pole to pole showing. In P2 was Ishiura, P3 Yuji Kunimoto, P4 Ryo Hirakawa, P5 Kazuki Nakajima.

GO TO TOP

CIRCUIT

  • 鈴鹿サーキット
  • オートポリス
  • スポーツランドSUGO
  • 富士スピードウェイ
  • ツインリンクもてぎ
  • 岡山国際サーキット

TWEET #SFORMULA

Official Youtube

LINKS

SUPER FORMULA NEXT50 PARTNERS

SUPER FORMULA NEXT50 PARTNERS

SUPER FORMULA NEXT50 PATNERS

SUPER FORMULA NEXT50 PARTNERS

  • デロイト トーマツ コンサルティング合同会社
  • 株式会社ホンダレーシング
  • TOYOTA GAZOO Racing
  • 株式会社スリーボンド
  • 横浜ゴム株式会社
  • ダラーラ・アウトモビリ S.p.A
  • Bcomp Ltd.
  • Viron Japan 株式会社
  • 富士通株式会社
  • キングレコード株式会社
  

 

  • 株式会社M-TEC
  • 国立大学法人東京大学
  • 東京電力エナジーパートナー株式会社
  • 日本自然エネルギー株式会社
  • 伊藤忠エネクス
  • sgzk
  • RED
  • 人気酒造株式会社
  • 株式会社ジェイ・スポーツ
  • 株式会社マイクロン