The 2017–18 Formula 4 South East Asia Championship season was the second season of the Formula 4 South East Asia Championship. It began on 30 September 2017 at the Sepang International Circuit and finished on 15 April 2018 at the same venue, after 29 races held across five rounds on three countries.

Drivers

Driver Rounds 1 Hibiki Taira 4–5 3 Kane Shepherd All 9 Shivin Sirinarinthon 1–2 10 Timothy Yeo 5 15 2 16 Benson Lin 4 17 Nazim Azman 1, 3, 5 19 Ben Grimes 2–3 Isyraf Danish 1 77 5 22 Alister Yoong 4 23 Muizz Musyaffa 4–5 27 Ugo de Wilde 3–4 28 Alessandro Ghiretti 5 29 Mitchell Cheah 4 30 Eshan Pieris 1, 4 31 Armand Johany 5 32 Presley Martono 5 33 Sam Grimes 2–3 38 Arsh Johany 5 42 Luke Thompson All 45 Sasakorn Chaimongkol 3 55 Daniel Cao All 66 Danial Frost 1 72 Nayan Chatterjee 1 78 Aaron Love 4 88 Perdana Putra Minang 1 93 Adam Khalid 2 95 4 99 Liam Lawrence 4

Race calendar and results

The final calendar was released on 4 July 2017. The first round at Sepang will be held in support the 2017 Malaysian Grand Prix, whereas the two final rounds in Buriram and Sepang will support the 2017–18 Asian Le Mans Series.

Due to an incident involving F1 driver Romain Grosjean, which required track fixing operations, the first race of the opening Sepang round had to be postponed. It was announced later that the round will be shortened to 5 races, with the sixth race being rescheduled at a later date.

On November 20, organizers cancelled round 3 at the Sentul International Circuit in Indonesia due lo logistical complications. It was later announced that the round would be rescheduled at Buriram for early December, and finally at Sepang for mid April as the season finale.

Round Circuit Date Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Supporting 2017 1 R1 Sepang International Circuit, Selangor 30 September Danial Frost Daniel Cao Daniel Cao R2 Daniel Cao Daniel Cao R3 Danial Frost Nayan Chatterjee Danial Frost R4 1 October Nayan Chatterjee Daniel Cao R5 Daniel Cao Nazim Azman R6 Race cancelled due to track repairs 2 R1 Clark International Speedway, Mabalacat 21 October Ben Grimes Ben Grimes Ben Grimes R2 Daniel Cao R3 22 October Daniel Cao Daniel Cao R4 Daniel Cao Ben Grimes Daniel Cao R5 Ben Grimes Ben Grimes R6 Daniel Cao Daniel Cao 2018 3 R1 Chang International Circuit, Buriram 12 January Ugo de Wilde Ugo de Wilde Daniel Cao Asian Le Mans Series R2 Ugo de Wilde Ugo de Wilde R3 Nazim Azman Ugo de Wilde R4 Ugo de Wilde Kane Shepherd Ugo de Wilde R5 13 January Ugo de Wilde Ugo de Wilde R6 Nazim Azman Nazim Azman 4 R1 Sepang International Circuit, Selangor 3 February Eshan Pieris Daniel Cao Daniel Cao Asian Le Mans Series R2 Eshan Pieris Eshan Pieris R3 Kane Shepherd Mitchell Cheah R4 4 February Eshan Pieris Ugo de Wilde Kane Shepherd R5 Kane Shepherd Ugo de Wilde R6 Hibiki Taira Kane Shepherd 5 R1 Sepang International Circuit, Selangor 13 April Daniel Cao Daniel Cao Kane Shepherd Blancpain GT Series AsiaMalaysia Championship Series R2 14 April Daniel Cao Daniel Cao R3 Nazim Azman Kane Shepherd R4 15 April Muizz Musyaffa Hibiki Taira Alessandro Ghiretti R5 Presley Martono Presley Martono R6 Kane Shepherd Muizz Musyaffa

Championship standings

The series follows the standard F1 points scoring system with the addition of 1 point for fastest lap and 3 points for pole. The best 24 results out of 30 races counted towards the championship.

The first and second fastest qualifying laps determine grid positions for race 1 and race 4 (In the opening round at Sepang for race 3 instead of race 4 due to cancelling of the race). The fastest laps in race 1 determine the grid positions for race 2, while the grid positions for race 3 are created by the finishing positions of race 2 with top half of the grid reversed. race 4 grid positions based on the drivers’ second fastest qualifying laps, while race 5 start is determined by the fastest laps of race 4 and the grid positions of race 6 are the finishing positions of race 5, with the top half of the grid reversed.

Due to miscalculation of the fuel level, no cars were able to finish full race distance of the third race in the opening round of the season at Sepang because of lack of petrol. The classification was declared after five race laps.

Points were awarded as follows: Position  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th  Points 25 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1 3 1

Drivers' standings Pos Driver SEP1 CLA CHA SEP2 SEP3 Pts 1 Daniel Cao 1 1 2 1 4 C 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 4 2 3 2 1 3 2 8 6 3 2 1 4 7 6 7 508 2 Kane Shepherd 4 5 4 4 2 C 3 3 4 3 4 2 2 3 3 5 5 3 7 5 8 1 4 1 1 5 1 5 Ret 4 377 3 Ugo de Wilde 3 1 1 1 1 6 3 8 Ret 2 1 5 212 4 Nazim Azman 5 4 6 3 1 C Ret 4 2 3 2 1 612 9 6 3 6 205 5 Ben Grimes 1 Ret 2 2 1 3 Ret 5 6 Ret 6 4 154 6 Hibiki Taira 5 2 Ret 4 2 2 5 8 7 4 8 5 127 7 Luke Thompson 8 7 8 8 8 C 7 6 7 6 7 6 WD WD WD WD WD WD 12 Ret 5 11 12 11 8 6 5 10 7 11 103 8 Muizz Musyaffa 10 10 6 6 10 7 4 7 11 2 5 1 99 9 Adam Khalid 4 4 3 Ret 5 5 4 6 Ret DNS 5 6 97 10 Presley Martono 10 2 3 3 1 3 93 11 Alessandro Ghiretti 3 3 2 1 2 10 92 12 Eshan Pieris 3 6 5 6 5 C 8 1 Ret DNS 8 Ret 88 13 Mitchell Cheah 6 4 1 5 3 4 85 14 Sam Grimes Ret 2 8 Ret 3 8 4 7 7 6 Ret 5 79 15 Nayan Chatterjee 6 3 3 2 3 C 76 16 Shivin Sirinarinthon 9 8 7 7 7 C 6 7 6 5 6 4 76 17 Danial Frost 2 2 1 9 9 C 71 18 Aaron Love 2 7 3 3 7 8 64 19 Isyraf Danish WD WD WD WD WD C 7 4 6 8 4 2 60 20 Timothy Yeo 5 5 5 4 8 7 12 10 8 9 Ret 12 59 21 Sasakorn Chaimongkol Ret 6 5 4 4 7 42 22 Perdana Putra Minang 7 9 9 5 6 C 28 23 Benson Lin 9 9 7 7 9 9 20 24 Alister Yoong 13 Ret 4 9 13 12 14 25 Armand Johany 11 9 10 Ret Ret 8 7 26 Arsh Johany 9 11 12 DNS 9 9 6 27 Liam Lawrence 11 11 9 10 11 10 4 Pos Driver SEP1 CLA CHA SEP2 SEP3 PtsBold – PoleItalics – Fastest Lap

Rookie Cup Pos Driver Pts 1 Kane Shepherd 377 2 Hibiki Taira 127 3 Muizz Musyaffa 99 4 Alessandro Ghiretti 92 5 Eshan Pieris 88 6 Mitchell Cheah 85 7 Sam Grimes 79 8 Shivin Sirinarinthon 76 9 Sasakorn Chaimongkol 42 10 Perdana Putra Minang 28 11 Benson Lin 20 12 Alister Yoong 13 14 Armand Johany 7 15 Arsh Johany 6 16 Liam Lawrence 4

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