B-Max Racing Team
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Founded | 2010 |
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Base | Ayase, Kanagawa |
Founder(s) | Ryūji Kumita |
Current series | |
Former series | |
Current drivers |
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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.[1] In November 2017, spun off from Byobugaura Kogyo Co., Ltd. as B-MAX RACING Co., Ltd.[2]
Super Formula
The team have also participated in Super Formula Championship from 2017 with Takashi Kogure their first driver.[3] In 2019, they participated in Super Formula with two cars, in collaboration with the German racing team Motopark Academy.[4] 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.[5] 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. [6] 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.[7]
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.[8][9] 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.[10] 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.[11] In 2022, NISMO takes over the NDDP Team, thus ends B-Max Racing program in Super GT.
Current series results
Super Formula
Year | Chassis | Engine | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | F/Laps | Podiums | Points | D.C. | T.C. | Pts |
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2017 | Dallara SF14 | Honda HR-414E I4 t | Japan Takashi Kogure | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18th | 11th | 0 |
2018 | Dallara SF14 | Honda HR-414E I4 t | Japan Katsumasa Chiyo | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18th | 11th | 0 |
2019 | Dallara SF19 | Honda HR-417E I4 t | Austria Lucas Auer | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 9th | 8th | 20 |
United Kingdom Harrison Newey | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 15th | |||||
2020 | Dallara SF19 | Honda HR-417E I4 t | Japan Nobuharu Matsushita | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 15th | 9th | 16 |
Brazil Sérgio Sette Câmara | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 20th | |||||
France Charles Milesi | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21st | |||||
Japan Mitsunori Takaboshi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26th | |||||
Japan Teppei Natori | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |||||
2021 | Dallara SF19 | Honda HR-417E I4 t | Japan Nobuharu Matsushita | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 33.5 | 8th | 8th | 29.5 |
2022 | Dallara SF19 | Honda HR-417E I4 t | Japan Nobuharu Matsushita | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 13th | 9th | 21 |
2023 | Dallara SF23 | Honda HR-417E I4 t | Japan Nobuharu Matsushita | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 19th | 12th | 4 |
United Kingdom Raoul Hyman | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25th |
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 | 9 | 10 | T.C. | Points |
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2017 | SUZ | OKA | OKA | FUJ | MOT | AUT | SUG | SUZ | SUZ | 11th | 0 | ||
Japan Takashi Kogure | 15 | 18 | 15 | 13 | 17 | 12 | 14 | C | C | ||||
2018 | SUZ | AUT | SUG | FUJ | MOT | OKA | SUZ | 11th | 0 | ||||
Japan Katsumasa Chiyo | 14 | C | Ret | 17 | 19 | 15 | 10 | ||||||
2019 | SUZ | AUT | SUG | FUJ | MOT | OKA | SUZ | 8th | 20 | ||||
Austria Lucas Auer | 7 | 11 | 3 | Ret | 7 | 5 | 11 | ||||||
United Kingdom Harrison Newey | Ret | 17 | Ret | 16 | 19 | 3 | 20 | ||||||
2020 | MOT | OKA | SUG | AUT | SUZ | SUZ | FUJ | 9th | 16 | ||||
Japan Teppei Natori | DNS | ||||||||||||
Japan Mitsunori Takaboshi | 14 | ||||||||||||
Brazil Sérgio Sette Câmara | Ret | ||||||||||||
Japan Nobuharu Matsushita | 6 | Ret | 14 | 3 | |||||||||
France Charles Milesi | 15 | 11 | 13 | DNS | |||||||||
2021 | FUJ | SUZ | AUT | SUG | MOT | MOT | SUZ | 8th | 29.5 | ||||
Japan Nobuharu Matsushita | 13 | 3‡ | 4 | 3 | 7 | 12 | |||||||
2022 | FUJ | FUJ | SUZ | AUT | SUG | FUJ | MOT | MOT | SUZ | SUZ | 9th | 21 | |
Japan Nobuharu Matsushita | Ret | 19 | 1 | 10 | Ret | Ret | 11 | 11 | 17 | Ret | |||
2023 | FUJ | FUJ | SUZ | AUT | SUG | FUJ | MOT | SUZ | SUZ | 12th | 4 | ||
Japan Nobuharu Matsushita | 13 | 12 | 12 | Ret | Ret | 13 | Ret | 13 | 7 | ||||
United Kingdom 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. |
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2020 | Dallara 320-Volkswagen | Japan Sena Sakaguchi | 17 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 116 | 2nd | N/A |
Japan Yoshiaki Katayama | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 6th | |||
Japan Mitsunori Takaboshi | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 7th | |||
Japan Mizuki Ishizaka | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11th | |||
Japan "Dragon" | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12th | |||
Japan Kiyoto Fujinami | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13th | |||
Japan Masami Kageyama | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14th | |||
Japan Sakon Yamamoto | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16th | |||
Japan Satoshi Motoyama | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17th | |||
Japan Nobuhiro Imada | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18th | |||
Japan Motoyoshi Yoshida | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19th | |||
Japan Takashi Hata | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20th | |||
2021 | Dallara 320-Spiess | Japan Nobuhiro Imada | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10th | 2nd |
Japan "Dragon" | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12th | |||
Japan Miki Koyama | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13th | |||
Japan "Syuji" | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14th | |||
Japan Takashi Hata | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17th | |||
2022 | Dallara 320-Spiess | Japan Iori Kimura | 18 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 85 | 3rd | 3rd |
Japan Togo Suganami | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 7th | |||
Japan "Dragon" | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11th | |||
Japan Nobuhiro Imada | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12th | |||
Spain Roberto Merhi | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14th | |||
2023 | Dallara 320-Spiess | Japan Iori Kimura | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 113 | 1st | 1st |
Brazil Igor Fraga | 18 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 62 | 4th | |||
Japan Togo Suganami | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 39 | 6th | |||
Spain David Vidales | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 9th | |||
Japan Nobuhiro Imada | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12th | |||
Japan Takashi Hata | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14th | |||
Dallara 320-TOMEI | Japan "Dragon" | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13th | ||
2024 | Dallara 324-TOM'S | Japan Syun Koide | 18 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 115 | 1st | 2nd |
United States Kaylen Frederick | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 46 | 5th | |||
Japan Rin Arakawa | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 44 | 6th | |||
6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4th | |||||
Japan "Dragon" | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11th | |||
Japan Makoto Fujiwara | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14th | |||
Japan Nobuhiro Imada | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10th | 6th | ||
Japan Togo Suganami | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13th | |||
Japan Yasuhiro Shimizu | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15th | 8th |
Formula Regional Japanese Championship
Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | F/Laps | Podiums | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
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2020 | Dome F111/3 | Japan "Dragon" | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 76 | 6th | N/A |
Japan "Syuji" | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 10th | |||
Japan Motoyoshi Yoshida | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22nd | |||
2021 | Dome F111/3 | Japan Nobuhiro Imada | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 10th | 5th |
Japan "Takumi" | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 11th | |||
Japan "Dragon" | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 18th | |||
Japan "Syuji" | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 19th | |||
2022 | Dome F111/3 | Japan Nobuhiro Imada | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 11th | 9th |
F4 Japanese Championship
Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | F/Laps | Podiums | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
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2016 | Dome F110 | Japan Shinji Sawada | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 106 | 7th | 5th |
Japan Motoyoshi Yoshida | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38th | |||
Japan "Syuji" | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48th | |||
2017 | Dome F110 | Japan Shinji Sawada | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 85 | 6th | 4th |
Japan Ayumu Iwasa | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28th | |||
Malaysia Chia Wing Hoong | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31st | |||
Japan Motoyoshi Yoshida | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 45th | |||
2018 | Dome F110 | Japan "Syuji" | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40th | NC |
Japan Motoyoshi Yoshida | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43rd | |||
Japan "Dragon" | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |||
2019 | Dome F110 | Japan "Dragon" | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22nd | NC |
Japan "Syuji" | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39th | |||
2021 | Dome F110 | Japan Nobuhiro Imada | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28th | NC |
Japan "Syuji" | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42nd | |||
2022 | Dome F110 | Japan Yuki Mishima | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 21st | 12th |
Japan "Dragon" | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35th | |||
Japan Nobuhiro Imada | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46th | |||
2023 | Dome F110 | Japan Nobuhiro Imada | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37th | NC |
Japan "Dragon" | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40th | |||
Japan Makoto Fujiwara | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36th | |||
2024 | Toray Carbon Magic MCSC-24 | Japan "Dragon" | ||||||||
Japan Nobuhiro Imada | ||||||||||
Japan Yuto Nomura | ||||||||||
Japan Ryota Horachi |
Formula 4 South East Asia Championship
Year | Car | Drivers | Races | Wins | Poles | F.Laps | Podiums | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
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2023 | Tatuus F4-T421 | Japan "Dragon" | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 27th | 10th |
Former series results
Super GT
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
‡ 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. |
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2018 | Tatuus F3 T-318 | Japan "Dragon" | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23rd | 11th |
Japan Tairoku Yamaguchi | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24th | |||
2019 Summer | Tatuus F3 T-318 | Japan Miki Koyama† | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 15th | 9th |
Japan Kiyoto Fujinami | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 16th | |||
Japan "Dragon" | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21st | |||
Japan Tairoku Yamaguchi | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22nd | |||
2019 Winter | Tatuus F3 T-318 | Japan Motoyoshi Yoshida | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 14th | 6th |
Japan Tairoku Yamaguchi | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 15th | |||
Japan "Dragon" | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16th | |||
Japan Miki Koyama | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC‡ |
† Koyama drove for BlackArts Racing Team in round 3. ‡ Guest driver
Timeline
Current series | |
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F4 Japanese Championship | 2016–2019, 2021–present |
Super Formula Championship | 2017–present |
Super Formula Lights | 2020–present |
Formula 4 South East Asia Championship | 2023–present |
Former Series | |
Japanese Formula 3 Championship | 2011–2019 |
Super GT | 2012–2021 |
Formula Challenge Japan | 2013 |
Super Taikyu Series | 2018 |
F3 Asian Championship | 2018–2019 |
Formula Regional Japanese Championship | 2020–2022 |
References
- ↑ 2014年B-MAX with NDDP 参戦概要を発表しました Archived 2015-11-02 at the Wayback Machine - B-MAX Racing Team・2014年3月14日
- ↑ "新会社設立のご案内". Archived from the original on 2017-11-12. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ "Super Formula: Honda boss explains Nobuharu Matsushita saga". us.motorsport.com. Retrieved 2022-01-22.
- ↑ "B-Max Racing Team 2022 Race Structure". B-Max Racing Team (in 日本語). Retrieved 2022-03-03.
- ↑ O’Connell, RJ (12 December 2023). "Honda Announces 2024 GT500 Drivers". dailysportscar.com. Dailysportscar. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
- ↑ "Nissan & NISMO Announce 2018 Super GT Programmes". dailysportscar.com. 12 February 2018. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ "Nissan Announces Super GT Programme From Yokohama". dailysportscar.com. 7 February 2019. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
- ↑ "Rossiter loses Super GT seat as Nissan reveals 2020 drivers". motorsport.com. 10 January 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
External links
- Official website Archived 2021-06-15 at the Wayback Machine