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The 2014 Japanese Championship Super Formula season was the forty-second season of the premier series in Japanese open-wheel motor racing, and the second under the name of Super Formula. 2014 was also the first season using the new chassis, the Dallara SF14, which replaced the Swift SF09 used in previous seasons. The season began on 13 April and ended on 9 November after seven rounds.

2012 champion Kazuki Nakajima claimed his second title in three seasons, after a consistent campaign, in which he scored points in each of the nine races to be held. Nakajima won races at Fuji and Suzuka as the TOM'S driver won the championship by 6.5 points, ahead of Impul's João Paulo de Oliveira. De Oliveira was the season's most frequent winner, with three victories, winning at Fuji, Suzuka and Motegi. Third place in the championship went to Nakajima's team-mate, André Lotterer. Lotterer won races at Fuji and Autopolis, but missed out on a chance to compete for the championship, after missing the Motegi round to make his Formula One début with Caterham at the Belgian Grand Prix.

The only other drivers to win races during the season were Team LeMans' Loïc Duval, who won the season-opening round at Suzuka. Like Lotterer, he missed a race – at Fuji – as he was still recovering from his accident suffered during practice for the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Tomoki Nojiri was the season's other winner, winning at Sportsland SUGO for Team Dandelion Racing. The performances of Nakajima, Lotterer and Andrea Caldarelli (replacing Lotterer at Motegi) were enough for TOM'S to win the teams' championship, finishing 33.5 points clear of the next best team, Team LeMans.

Teams and drivers

Team	No.	Driver	Engine	Rounds
Team Mugen	1	Naoki Yamamoto	Honda HR-414E	All
	2	Yuhki Nakayama		All
Kondō Racing	3	James Rossiter	Toyota RI4A	All
Kygnus Sunoco Team LeMans	7	Ryō Hirakawa	Toyota RI4A	All
	8	Loïc Duval		1–2, 4–7
		Andrea Caldarelli		3
HP Real Racing	10	Koudai Tsukakoshi	Honda HR-414E	All
	11	Vitantonio Liuzzi		All
KCMG	18	Yuichi Nakayama	Toyota RI4A	All
Lenovo Team Impul	19	João Paulo de Oliveira	Toyota RI4A	All
	20	Narain Karthikeyan		All
Nakajima Racing	31	Daisuke Nakajima	Honda HR-414E	All
	32	Takashi Kogure		All
Drago Corse	34	Takuya Izawa	Honda HR-414E	6–7
Petronas Team TOM'S	36	André Lotterer	Toyota RI4A	1–3, 5–7
		Andrea Caldarelli		4
	37	Kazuki Nakajima		All
P.mu/cerumo・INGING	38	Hiroaki Ishiura	Toyota RI4A	All
	39	Yuji Kunimoto		All
Docomo Team Dandelion Racing	40	Tomoki Nojiri	Honda HR-414E	All
	41	Hideki Mutoh		All
Tochigi Le Beausset Motorsports	62	Koki Saga	Toyota RI4A	All

Race calendar and results

A provisional calendar for the 2014 season was released on 8 November 2013. All races were held in Japan.

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1		Suzuka Circuit	13 April	André Lotterer	João Paulo de Oliveira	Loïc Duval	Kygnus Sunoco Team LeMans
2	R1	Fuji Speedway	18 May	João Paulo de Oliveira	João Paulo de Oliveira	João Paulo de Oliveira	Lenovo Team Impul
	R2			André Lotterer	João Paulo de Oliveira	André Lotterer	Petronas Team TOM'S
3		Fuji Speedway	13 July	Andrea Caldarelli	João Paulo de Oliveira	Kazuki Nakajima	Petronas Team TOM'S
4		Twin Ring Motegi	24 August	João Paulo de Oliveira	João Paulo de Oliveira	João Paulo de Oliveira	Lenovo Team Impul
5		Autopolis	14 September	Naoki Yamamoto	André Lotterer	André Lotterer	Petronas Team TOM'S
6		Sportsland SUGO	28 September	Naoki Yamamoto	Yuichi Nakayama	Tomoki Nojiri	Docomo Team Dandelion Racing
7	R1	Suzuka Circuit	9 November	André Lotterer	João Paulo de Oliveira	João Paulo de Oliveira	Lenovo Team Impul
	R2			Kazuki Nakajima	Loïc Duval	Kazuki Nakajima	Petronas Team TOM'S

Championship standings

Drivers' Championship

Scoring system

Pos Driver SUZ FUJ FUJ MOT AUT SUG SUZ Points 1 Kazuki Nakajima 6 2 3 1 7 6 2 2 1 46 2 João Paulo de Oliveira 7 1 2 Ret 1 3 Ret 1 4 39.5 3 André Lotterer 5 4 1 6 1 Ret 3 2 34.5 4 Loïc Duval 1 3 4 4 15 3 11 3 29.5 5 Hiroaki Ishiura 3 Ret 11 4 2 8 6 5 7 26 6 James Rossiter 2 6 17 8 8 5 4 6 10 22 7 Yuji Kunimoto 13 5 7 3 13 2 9 4 Ret 19.5 8 Ryō Hirakawa 4 Ret 8 2 10 13 8 16 5 16.5 9 Naoki Yamamoto 11 Ret 5 5 15 7 7 7 6 14.5 10 Tomoki Nojiri 9 Ret 15 12 9 9 1 12 9 10 11 Koudai Tsukakoshi 14 DNS 9 Ret 6 4 Ret 8 13 8.5 12 Andrea Caldarelli Ret 3 7 13 Narain Karthikeyan Ret 7 6 7 Ret 17 11 10 8 5 14 Daisuke Nakajima Ret 9 14 9 16 12 5 9 15 4 15 Hideki Mutoh 10 10 12 11 5 10 12 13 12 4 16 Vitantonio Liuzzi 8 8 10 Ret 14 Ret Ret 15 11 1.5 17 Takashi Kogure Ret Ret DNS Ret 11 Ret 10 Ret 16 0 18 Yuichi Nakayama Ret 13 16 10 Ret 16 13 Ret 18 0 19 Koki Saga Ret 11 13 Ret 17 11 Ret Ret 19 0 20 Yuhki Nakayama 12 12 18 13 12 14 14 Ret 17 0 21 Takuya Izawa Ret 14 14 0 Pos Driver SUZ FUJ FUJ MOT AUT SUG SUZ Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

Teams' Championship

References

1. ^ "トヨタエンジン使用のSF参戦ドライバーが発表に". as-web.jp. 30 January 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
2. "道上龍が新チーム結成。ドライバーに伊沢拓也選手を起用". superformula.net. 29 August 2014. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
3. "SF第4戦もてぎのエントリーからロッテラーが消える". as-web.jp. 19 August 2014. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
4. "2014年日本選手権カレンダーについて" (PDF). Japan Automobile Federation. 8 November 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 December 2013. Retrieved 20 December 2013.

External links

• Japanese Championship Super Formula official website (in English)

• Super Formula
• 2014 in Japanese motorsport
• 2014 in formula racing