Kiwi driver Nick Cassidy has won the 2019 Super Formula Series title after finishing second in Sundays final race at Suzuka in Japan.
“That was so, so tough,” commented Cassidy. “I don’t know what to say. My team are amazing. I’ve won every championship now with TOM’S in Japan. That doesn’t say everything about me, that says everything about them.
“They are a great group of people, they are like my family. I’m just happy to be the guy to repay them for that. “It’s so difficult. Emotionally, it’s very up and down. There are so many drivers in this championship that it’s hard to be the top all the time.
“It’s about the days that you’re not at the top to make the most. I think we did that well this year. When we were not fast we got a good result and when we were fast we could make the result.”
Having qualified sixth, Cassidy passed Koudai Tsukakoshi, Nirei Fukuzumi and chief rival Yamamoto to move up to third in the opening laps of the race. He then spent the remainder of the race shadowing Mugen driver Tomoki Nojiri, who secured his first series victory in five years. Second place gave Cassidy enough points to claim his first Super Formula crown
Race results
Pos Driver Laps Diff Int
1 Tomoki Nojiri 43
2 Nick Cassidy 43 +2.532 +2.532
3 Nirei Fukuzumi 43 +3.883 +1.351
4 Yuhi Sekiguchi 43 +6.254 +2.371
5 Naoki Yamamoto 43 +18.744 +12.490
6 Hiroaki Ishiura 43 +22.129 +3.385
7 Koudai Tsukakoshi 43 +31.628 +9.499
8 Ryo Hirakawa 43 +32.101 +0.473
9 Kenta Yamashita 43 +32.830 +0.729
10 Sho Tsuboi 43 +45.204 +12.374
11 Lucas Auer 43 +45.357 +0.153
12 Kamui Kobayashi 43 +45.584 +0.227
13 Tadasuke Makino 43 +49.398 +3.814
14 Kazuki Nakajima 43 +50.091 +0.693
15 Yuji Kunimoto 43 +54.610 +4.519
16 Yuichi Nakayama 43 +57.247 +2.637
17 Kazuya Oshima 43 +01’03.055 +5.808
18 Jüri Vips 43 +01’09.868 +6.813
19 Alex Palou 43 +01’11.817 +1.949
20 Harrison Newey 42 +1 Lap 1 Lap
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