The 2005 Formula Nippon Championship was contested over 9 rounds. 8 teams and 17 drivers competed. All teams had to use Lola B3/51 chassis and Mugen Honda (Mugen MF308) engines.

Teams and drivers

Team	#	Driver	Chassis	Engine	Rounds
DoCoMo Team Dandelion Racing	1	Richard Lyons	Lola B3/51	Mugen MF308	All
	2	Naoki Hattori			All
Kondo Racing Team	3	Sakon Yamamoto	Lola B3/51	Mugen MF308	All
	4	Jaroslav Janiš			1–3
		Ronnie Quintarelli			4–9
Team 5ZIGEN	5	Tsugio Matsuda	Lola B3/51	Mugen MF308	All
Forum Engineering Team LeMans	7	Tatsuya Kataoka	Lola B3/51	Mugen MF308	All
	8	Takeshi Tsuchiya			All
Team Cerumo Takagi Planning with Cerumo	11	Katsuyuki Hiranaka	Lola B3/51	Mugen MF308	All
	12	Toranosuke Takagi			All
mobilecast Team Impul	19	Benoît Tréluyer	Lola B3/51	Mugen MF308	All
	20	Yuji Ide			All
arting Racing Team with Impul	23	Satoshi Motoyama	Lola B3/51	Mugen MF308	All
Carrozzerria Team MOHN	27	Masanobu Kato	Lola B3/51	Mugen MF308	1
	28	Hideki Noda			All
PIAA Nakajima Racing	31	André Lotterer	Lola B3/51	Mugen MF308	All
	32	Takashi Kogure			All

Race calendar and results

Suzuka

Motegi

Mine

Fuji

SUGO

2005 venues

All races were held in Japan.

Round	Track	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winner	Team
1	Twin Ring Motegi	3 April	Yuji Ide	Katsuyuki Hiranaka	Richard Lyons	DoCoMoTeam Dandelion Racing
2	Suzuka Circuit	17 April	Benoît Tréluyer	Takashi Kogure	Yuji Ide	mobilecast Team Impul
3	Sportsland SUGO	15 May	Takashi Kogure	Hideki Noda	Satoshi Motoyama	arting Team Impul
4	Fuji Speedway	5 June	Richard Lyons	Tsugio Matsuda	Benoît Tréluyer	mobilecast Team Impul
5	Suzuka Circuit	3 July	Satoshi Motoyama	Yuji Ide	Satoshi Motoyama	arting Team Impul
6	Mine Circuit	31 July	Benoît Tréluyer	Yuji Ide	Yuji Ide	mobilecast Team Impul
7	Fuji Speedway	28 August	Richard Lyons	Satoshi Motoyama	André Lotterer	Nakajima Racing
8	Twin Ring Motegi	23 October	Satoshi Motoyama	Sakon Yamamoto	Satoshi Motoyama	arting Team Impul
9	Suzuka Circuit	27 November	Tsugio Matsuda	Benoît Tréluyer	André Lotterer	PIAA Nakajima Racing

Calendar changes

• The race in Sepang was dropped.
• Fuji returned with two races.

Championship standings

Drivers' Championship

Scoring system

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
Points	10	6	4	3	2	1

Rank	Name	MOT	SUZ	SGO	FUJ	SUZ	MIN	FUJ	MOT	SUZ	Points
1	Satoshi Motoyama	4	4	1	2	1	3	13	1	2	52
2	Yuji Ide	2	1	5	7	8	1	3	4	3	39
3	Richard Lyons	1	5	2	4	3	Ret	4	13	5	30
4	André Lotterer	11	Ret	9	Ret	Ret	10	1	Ret	1	20
5	Takashi Kogure	Ret	3	3	8	2	Ret	11	9	6	15
6	Benoît Tréluyer	6	9	Ret	1	Ret	Ret	12	11	4	14
7	Tsugio Matsuda	10	2	Ret	3	6	4	9	10	8	14
8	Takeshi Tsuchiya	5	Ret	4	Ret	Ret	5	5	3	Ret	13
9	Ronnie Quintarelli				5	5	2	Ret	5	10	12
10	Sakon Yamamoto	14	Ret	Ret	Ret	4	8	Ret	2	11	9
11	Tatsuya Kataoka	7	8	8	Ret	Ret	7	2	6	7	7
12	Naoki Hattori	3	6	6	10	7	6	7	7	14	7
13	Katsuyuki Hiranaka	8	Ret	Ret	6	Ret	Ret	6	12	9	2
14	Jaroslav Janiš	12	7	7							0
15	Toranosuke Takagi	9	Ret	11	9	10	9	8	Ret	12	0
16	Hideki Noda	Ret	Ret	10	Ret	9	Ret	10	8	13	0
17	Masanobu Kato	13									0

External links

• 2005 Japanese Championship Formula Nippon