B-Max Racing Co., Ltd also known as B-Max Racing Team and B-Max Engineering is a Japanese race car constructor and racing team headquartered in Ayase, Kanagawa, Japan.
History Byobugaura Kogyo Co., Ltd. established the race division "B-Max Engineering" in 2009, and started participating in Super FJ and Porsche Carrera Cup Japan in 2010. Since then, the participation category has been expanded. Ryūji Kumita, the president and team representative, competes in the race himself under the pseudonym "Dragon".
In 2014, the team name was changed to "B-Max Racing Team" (Vehicle Division). In addition, B-Max Racing participate in the Japanese Formula 3 Championship.2014年B-MAX with NDDP 参戦概要を発表しました - B-MAX Racing Team・2014年3月14日 In November 2017, spun off from Byobugaura Kogyo Co., Ltd. as B-MAX RACING Co., Ltd.
Super Formula The team have also participated in Super Formula Championship from 2017 with Takashi Kogure their first driver.B-MAX RACING TEAMが2017年 全日本スーパーフォーミュラ選手権に参戦を表明 - スーパーフォーミュラ・2016年10月27日 In 2019, they participated in Super Formula with two cars, in collaboration with the German racing team Motopark Academy.B-MAXとモトパークがコラボを発表。2019年のスーパーフォーミュラに2台体制で参戦へ - auto sport web・2018年11月14日 For 2021, B-Max & Motopark ended their partnership, and the team did not race for first round of the season. Nobuharu Matsushita: joined B-Max Racing from the second round at Suzuka. He was initially denied an engine lease from Honda, after signing a factory racing contract with Nissan in the Super GT Series. This prevented him from racing in the opening round at Fuji. Honda would reverse their decision after Masaya Nagai replaced Hiroshi Shimizu as the Director of Motorsport at Honda. They planned to enter two cars, after running just one car for Nobuharu Matsushita in 2021. They confirmed on 4 March that they would continue to run one car, after a failed attempt to enter a non-Japanese driver in their second car, as 2021 Formula Regional Americas Championship champion Kyffin Simpson declined the opportunity offered by Honda Performance Development (Honda's United States motorsport operation, which supplies engines to the Formula 4 United States and Formula Regional Americas championships) to the series champion because of pandemic-related restrictions. Raoul Hyman was awarded a Honda Super Formula scholarship for winning the 2022 Formula Regional Americas Championship title, and drove for B-Max Racing. The team is currently scheduled to downsize from running two cars in 2023 to a single-car entry in 2024, to be piloted by reigning Super Formula Lights champion Iori Kimura.
Super GT B-Max Racing venture in Super GT started in 2014 where they are set up with NDDP Racing which is the NISMO Nissan Driver Academy as they discontinued their partnership with Nova Engineering. Kazuki Hoshino as the leading senior driver, he has partnered up with Lucas Ordóñez, and Jann Mardenborough who won the Nissan Gran Turismo Academy. Mitsunori Takaboshi raced as well for two seasons. In 2018 NDDP Racing moved up to the GT500 class, entering as NDDP Racing with B-Max. They take the place of MOLA, who withdrew from the series at the end of 2017.日産/ニスモ、2018年のモータースポーツ活動を発表 - 日産自動車ニュースルーム・2018年2月12日 B-Max formed an all-new driver lineup: Kohei Hirate transferred to Nissan and secured his return to GT500 after a seventeen-year association with Toyota, while former Honda GT500 driver Frédéric Makowiecki returned to the series for the first time since 2014. For 2020 Katsumasa Chiyo, who raced full-time in the Intercontinental GT Challenge for Nissan in 2019, returns to GT500 on a full-time basis at NDDP Racing with B-Max, replacing Makowiecki. In 2022, NISMO takes over the NDDP Team, thus ends B-Max Racing program in Super GT.
Current series results Super Formula Year ChassisEngine Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points D.C. T.C.Pts2017Dallara SF14Honda HR-414E I4 t Takashi Kogure70000018th11th02018Dallara SF14Honda HR-414E I4 t Katsumasa Chiyo60000018th11th02019Dallara SF19Honda HR-417E I4 t Lucas Auer70011149th8th20 Harrison Newey70001615th2020Dallara SF19Honda HR-417E I4 t Nobuharu Matsushita400011615th9th16 Sérgio Sette Câmara10100320th Charles Milesi30000021st Mitsunori Takaboshi10000026th Teppei Natori000000NC2021Dallara SF19Honda HR-417E I4 t Nobuharu Matsushita6010233.58th8th29.52022Dallara SF19Honda HR-417E I4 t Nobuharu Matsushita1010012113th9th212023Dallara SF23Honda HR-417E I4 t Nobuharu Matsushita90000419th12th4 Raoul Hyman90000025th2024Dallara SF23Honda HR-417E I4 t Iori Kimura90010316th10th32025Dallara SF23Honda HR-417E I4 t Syun Koide120000516th9th5
In detail (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Drivers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 910 T.C. Points2017SUZOKAOKAFUJMOTAUTSUGSUZSUZ11th0 Takashi Kogure 15 18 15 13 17 12 14 C C2018SUZAUTSUGFUJMOTOKASUZ11th0 Katsumasa Chiyo 14 C Ret 17 19 15 102019SUZAUTSUGFUJMOTOKASUZ8th20 Lucas Auer 7 11 3 Ret 7 5 11 Harrison Newey Ret 17 Ret 16 19 3 202020MOTOKASUGAUTSUZSUZFUJ9th16 Teppei Natori DNS Mitsunori Takaboshi 14 Sérgio Sette Câmara Ret Nobuharu Matsushita 6 Ret 14 3 Charles Milesi 15 11 13 DNS2021FUJSUZAUTSUGMOTMOTSUZ8th29.5 Nobuharu Matsushita 13 3‡ 4 3 7 122022FUJFUJSUZAUTSUGFUJMOTMOTSUZSUZ9th21 Nobuharu Matsushita Ret 19 1 10 Ret Ret 11 11 17 Ret2023FUJFUJSUZAUTSUGFUJMOTSUZSUZ12th4 Nobuharu Matsushita 13 12 12 Ret Ret 13 Ret 13 7 Raoul Hyman 16 18 18 17 18 Ret 15 21 18
Super Formula Lights Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points D.C. T.C.2020Dallara 320-Volkswagen Sena Sakaguchi17452161162ndN/A Yoshiaki Katayama50001106th Mitsunori Takaboshi3000087th Mizuki Ishizaka20000311th "Dragon"170000212th Kiyoto Fujinami30000213th Masami Kageyama20000114th Sakon Yamamoto30000016th Satoshi Motoyama30000017th Nobuhiro Imada90000018th Motoyoshi Yoshida80000019th Takashi Hata60000020th2021Dallara 320-Spiess Nobuhiro Imada170000110th2nd "Dragon"170000012th Miki Koyama30000013th "Syuji"80000014th Takashi Hata60000017th2022Dallara 320-Spiess Iori Kimura183269853rd3rd Togo Suganami180001257th "Dragon"180000111th Nobuhiro Imada180000112th Roberto Merhi30000014th2023Dallara 320-Spiess Iori Kimura18648121131st1st Igor Fraga181117624th Togo Suganami92014396th David Vidales150001199th Nobuhiro Imada150000012th Takashi Hata100000014thDallara 320-TOMEI "Dragon"180000013th2024Dallara 324-TOM'S Syun Koide18867111151st2nd Kaylen Frederick181104465th Rin Arakawa90003446th600024th "Dragon"180000011th Makoto Fujiwara120000014th Nobuhiro Imada140000010th6th Togo Suganami30000013th Yasuhiro Shimizu180000015th8th2025Dallara 324-TOM'S Yuto Nomura181278161531st1st Kaylen Frederick151114355th Zachary David180001258th Kazuhisa Urabe180010510th "Dragon"180000018th Keito Matsui30000019th Takuya Otaki000000NC Tosei Moriyama30000012th5th Nobuhiro Imada120000015th ""30000014th6th Yasuhiro Shimizu180000016th7th2026Dallara 324-TOM'S Evan Giltaire1862415110.51st2nd Kotaro Shimbara181226515th Rintaro Sato150000179th4th "Dragon"180000013th ""180000012th6th Daichi Okamoto30000015th Yasuhiro Shimizu140000014th7th Nobuhiro Imada60000016th8th F4 Japanese Championship Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points D.C. T.C.2016Dome F110 Shinji Sawada1401051067th5th Motoyoshi Yoshida120000038th "Syuji"20000048th2017Dome F110 Shinji Sawada140002856th4th Ayumu Iwasa20000028th Chia Wing Hoong140000031st Motoyoshi Yoshida40000045th2018Dome F110 "Syuji"80000040thNC Motoyoshi Yoshida20000043rd "Dragon"200000NC2019Dome F110 "Dragon"120000022ndNC "Syuji"140000039th2021Dome F110 Nobuhiro Imada70000028thNC "Syuji"70000042nd2022Dome F110 Yuki Mishima40000221st12th "Dragon"140000035th Nobuhiro Imada30000046th2023Dome F110 Nobuhiro Imada120000037thNC "Dragon"140000040th Makoto Fujiwara140000036th2024Toray Carbon Magic MCSC-24 "Dragon"1355492021st1st Nobuhiro Imada1244110199.52nd Yuto Nomura13734102361st1st Ryota Horachi1316481672nd2025Toray Carbon Magic MCSC-24 Nobuhiro Imada14201112261st1st "Dragon"144339190.53rd Yasuhiro Shimizu410025510th Kazutaka Miura70010219th Kotaro Shimbara1423151274th3rd Syo Momose140002966th Tosei Moriyama140113888th5th Ayato Iwasaki1400002314th2026Toray Carbon Magic MCSC-24 Haruto Nakai Ryoki Minoura Syo Momose Kazuma Kurosawa "Dragon" Nobuhiro Imada Yasuhiro Shimizu "Syuji"
Formula Regional Japanese Championship Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points D.C. T.C.2020Dome F111/3 "Dragon"110000766th4th "Syuji"1200004110th Motoyoshi Yoshida50000022nd2021Dome F111/3 Nobuhiro Imada1000005410th5th "Takumi"1300004411th "Dragon"1000002018th "Syuji"800001019th2022Dome F111/3 Nobuhiro Imada500004011th9th2025Dome F111/3 Kazuhisa Urabe12310101873rd2nd Jia Zhanbin150010659th
Former series results Super GT (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Car Class No. Drivers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Pos Points 2012 Nissan GT-R GT300 3 Yuhi Sekiguchi Katsumasa Chiyo Daiki Sasaki OKA FUJ SEP SUG SUZ FUJ AUT MOT 4th 53 2013 3 Kazuki Hoshino Daiki Sasaki Lucas OrdóñezOKAFUJSEPSUGSUZFUJ FUJAUTMOT 17th 14 2014 3 Kazuki Hoshino Lucas Ordóñez Wolfgang Reip OKA FUJ AUT SUG FUJ SUZ BUR MOT 4th 48 2015 3 Kazuki Hoshino Mitsunori Takaboshi Wolfgang Reip OKA FUJ CHA FUJ SUZ SUG AUT MOT 4th 61 2016 3 Kazuki Hoshino Jann Mardenborough OKA FUJ SUG FUJ SUZ CHA MOT MOT 4th 52 2017 3 Kazuki Hoshino Mitsunori Takaboshi OKA FUJ AUT SUG FUJ SUZ CHA MOT 17th 17 2018 GT500 3 Satoshi Motoyama Katsumasa Chiyo OKA FUJ SUZ CHA FUJ SUG AUT MOT 17th 14 2019 3 Kohei Hirate Frederic Makowiecki OKA FUJ SUZ CHA FUJ AUT SUG MOT 9th 36 2020 3 Kohei Hirate Katsumasa Chiyo FUJ FUJ SUZ MOT FUJ SUZ MOT FUJ 13th 29 2021 3 Kohei Hirate Katsumasa Chiyo OKA FUJ MOT SUZ SUG AUT MOT FUJ 10th 39 ‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.
F3 Asian Championship Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points D.C. T.C.2018Tatuus F3 T-318 "Dragon"90000023rd11th Tairoku Yamaguchi30000024th2019 SummerTatuus F3 T-318 Miki Koyama†600001815th9th Kiyoto Fujinami300001416th "Dragon"30000021st Tairoku Yamaguchi30000022nd2019 WinterTatuus F3 T-318 Motoyoshi Yoshida600001114th6th Tairoku Yamaguchi90000715th "Dragon"30000016th Miki Koyama300000NC‡ † Koyama drove for BlackArts Racing Team in round 3. ‡ Guest driver
Formula 4 South East Asia Championship Year Car Drivers Races Wins Poles F.Laps Podiums Points 2023Tatuus F4-T421 "Dragon"30000227th10th
Timeline Current seriesF4 Japanese Championship2016–2019, 2021–presentSuper Formula Championship2017–presentSuper Formula Lights2020–presentFormula Regional Japanese Championship2020–2022, 2025–presentSRO Japan Cup2025–presentFormer SeriesJapanese Formula 3 Championship2011–2019Super GT2012–2021Formula Challenge Japan2013Super Taikyu Series2018 F3 Asian Championship 2018–2019Formula 4 South East Asia Championship2023
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External links Official website