2009 Formula Nippon Championship

The 2009 Formula Nippon Championship was the thirty-seventh season of the premier Japanese open-wheel motor racing series. The series for Formula Nippon racing cars was contested over eight rounds. Nakajima Racing's Loïc Duval claimed four victories en route to the championship, ending a six-year streak of championships by the Impul team.

• All drivers competed in Swift 017.n chassis and Honda HR09E or Toyota RV8K engines.

Team	#	Driver	Engine
Lawson Team Impul	1	Tsugio Matsuda	Toyota RV8K
	2	Benoît Tréluyer
Team LeMans	7	Keisuke Kunimoto	Toyota RV8K
	8	Hiroaki Ishiura
HFPD Racing	10	Koudai Tsukakoshi	Honda HR09E
ahead Team Impul	20	Kohei Hirate	Toyota RV8K
Nakajima Racing	31	Loïc Duval	Honda HR09E
	32	Takashi Kogure
Petronas Team TOM'S	36	André Lotterer	Toyota RV8K
	37	Kazuya Oshima
DoCoMo Team Dandelion Racing	40	Richard Lyons	Honda HR09E
	41	Takuya Izawa
Cerumo/Inging	48	Yuji Tachikawa	Toyota RV8K

Suzuka

Motegi

Autopolis

Fuji

SUGO

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2009 venues

• All races held in Japan.
• Okayama was replaced by Autopolis.

Round	Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1	Fuji Speedway	5 April	Kohei Hirate	André Lotterer	Benoît Tréluyer	Lawson Team Impul
2	Suzuka Circuit	17 May	Benoît Tréluyer	Loïc Duval	Loïc Duval	Nakajima Racing
3	Twin Ring Motegi	31 May	Takashi Kogure	Koudai Tsukakoshi	Takashi Kogure	Nakajima Racing
4	Fuji Speedway	28 June	Loïc Duval	Loïc Duval	Loïc Duval	Nakajima Racing
5	Suzuka Circuit	12 July	Loïc Duval	Takashi Kogure	Loïc Duval	Nakajima Racing
6	Twin Ring Motegi	9 August	Takashi Kogure	Takashi Kogure	André Lotterer	Petronas Team TOM'S
7	Autopolis	30 August	Takashi Kogure	Keisuke Kunimoto	Takashi Kogure	Nakajima Racing
8	Sportsland SUGO	27 September	Loïc Duval	Loïc Duval	Loïc Duval	Nakajima Racing

Scoring system

Pos Driver FUJ SUZ MOT FUJ SUZ MOT AUT SUG Points 1 Loïc Duval 4 1 Ret 1 1 2 3 1 62 2 Benoît Tréluyer 1 2 2 Ret 3 3 8 9 40 3 André Lotterer 10 3 5 8 7 1 2 2 39 4 Takashi Kogure 8 Ret 1 7 2 6 1 10 37 5 Kohei Hirate 3 4 Ret 5 5 8 4 3 32 6 Hiroaki Ishiura 11 8 3 4 4 4 5 5 30 7 Koudai Tsukakoshi 6 5 4 6 9 10 Ret 4 20 8 Takuya Izawa 2 7 Ret Ret 8 9 6 11 14 9 Kazuya Oshima 7 Ret Ret 2 10 11 9 6 13 10 Richard Lyons Ret 6 7 3 13 Ret 10 13 11 11 Tsugio Matsuda Ret Ret 6 Ret 12 5 7 7 11 12 Yuji Tachikawa 5 Ret Ret 9 6 7 Ret 12 9 13 Keisuke Kunimoto 9 9 Ret 10 11 Ret 11 8 1 Pos Driver FUJ SUZ MOT FUJ SUZ MOT AUT SUG 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

Scoring system

• 2009 Japanese Championship Formula Nippon