Formula Beat, known as until its rebranding in 2023, is a formula racing class in Japan. The class was founded in 1993 by the Japan Automobile Federation as a class above FJ1600 and below the former All-Japan Formula Three Championship and the current Formula Regional Japanese Championship and Super Formula Lights.
Car Formula Beat is an open chassis class, open for all chassis manufacturers. Since 2012 the engines have been limited to a maximum capacity of 2,000cc. Currently the cars are allowed to be fitted with a Honda K20A, Toyota 3ZR or Nissan SR20 engine. In the early 2010s, most cars were primarily built by Japanese constructor West Racing Cars, but the championship has since seen entries from older Dallara-built Formula 3 cars and Tatuus chassis.
Champions
1993-1996 SeasonSuzuka Champion TI ChampionTsukuba (1993-96)/Mine ChampionSuper F4 Champion 1993 Ryō Michigami Ryō MichigamiNot heldNot held1994 Hiroshi Sasaki Yutaka Okano1995 Shōta Mizuno Tatsuya Mizutani Yasuhisa Fujiwara1996 Tsuyoshi Takahashi Ryōhei Sakaguchi Takaya Tsubobayashi1997 Yūsuke Matsuura Akihiro Asai Seiji Yoshimura1998 Kōta Sasaki Naoki Yokobayashi Kōta Sasaki Naoki Yokobayashi1999Not held Hideki Nishimura Takeshi Ohtani2000 Shun Nakamura Takahiro Ogawa
1997-present SeasonKantō Champion Kansai ChampionAll-Japan Final Winner 1997 Akihiro Asai N/ANot held 1998 Takeyuki Kishi N/A 1999 Touya Higuchi Keita Sawa 2000 Issei Nishio Hideaki Nakao 2001 Naohiro Kawano Kenji Kanehisa 2002 Tetsuya Fujisawa Katsumasa Katayose 2003 Kei Idaka Kenji ŌtakiSeasonEast ChampionWest ChampionAll-Japan Final Winner 2004 Masanobu Katō Koudai TsukakoshiNot held 2005 Satoru Okada Masaki Tanaka 2006 Muneyuki Kurihara Taku Ikeda Muneyuki Kurihara 2007 Kei Idaka Yoshinari Tomimoto 2008 Yūsuke Tsuchiya Shōta Hanaoka Shōta Hanaoka 2009 Tsubasa Kondō Shōta Hanaoka Shōta Hanaoka 2010 Makoto Kanai Naoki Nishimoto Hiroki Yoshida 2011 Yuhi Sekiguchi Ryō Hirakawa Naoki Nishimoto 2012 Ryōsuke Takehira Kosuke Hattori Masayoshi Nakayama 2013 Kenta Yamashita Shintarō Kawabata Keishi Ishikawa 2014 Yuichi Mikasa Yūya Hiraki Takahiro Ban 2015 Tadasuke Makino Tadasuke Makino Tadasuke Makino 2016 Toshiki Ōyu Toshiki Ōyu Toshiki Ōyu 2017 Yūki Tsunoda Keisuke Ohara Yūki Tsunoda2018 Makoto Kanai Norio Kubo Kakunoshin OhtaChampionAll-Japan Final Winner2019 Kōhei Tokumasu Kakunoshin Ohta2020 Isao Nakajima Tatsuya Ōta2021 Seiya Motojima Satoshi Katō2022 Itsuki SatōNot held2023 Kōta Sasaki2024 Hammer Izawa
References
External links Formula Beat Japanese Japan Scholarship System Formula 4