The 2001 Japanese Formula 3 Championship was the 23rd edition of the Japanese Formula 3 Championship. It began on 25 March at Suzuka and ended on 21 October at Motegi.^[1] French driver Benoît Tréluyer took the championship title by winning 15 of 19 races.^[2]

• All teams were Japanese-registered. All cars were powered by Bridgestone tires.^[3]

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Team	No	Driver	Chassis	Engine	Rounds
TOM'S	0	Paolo Montin	Dallara F301	Toyota-TOM'S 3S-GE	All
	7	Sakon Yamamoto	Dallara F301		All
	8	Norihiko Tasaki	Dallara F301		All
Mugen Dome Project	1	Benoît Tréluyer	Dallara F300/301	Mugen-Honda MF204B	All
	11	Shinya Hosokawa	Dallara F300		10
Toda Racing	2	Masataka Yanagida	Dallara F399/301	Toda-Honda MF204B	All
Inging	3	Jeremie Dufour	Dallara F300	Torii-Toyota 3S-GE	All
	4	Bruce Jouanny	Dallara F399		10
XO Racing		Keiichi Nisimiya	XOR-99F	Torii-Toyota 3S-GE	2–3, 5
Team 5Zigen	5	Hideshi Nishimura	Dallara F300	Torii-Toyota 3S-GE	1–5, 7, 9
	6	Takahiro Ogawa	Dallara F300		1–6, 9–10
Pal Sport	9	Akitsugu Matsunaga	Dallara F300	Torii-Toyota 3S-GE	1–5
ThreeBond Racing	12	Yuji Ide	Dallara F399/301	Tomei Nissan SR20VE	All
Team Daikokuya	16	Yousuke Shimojima	Dallara F300	Toyota-TOM'S 3S-GE	10
Aim Sports		Hiroki Yoshimoto	Dallara F300	Torii-Toyota 3S-GE	9
	18	Shogo Mitsuyama	Dallara F399		All
Lian Racing	17	Peter Sundberg	Dallara F399	Toda-Honda MF204B	All
DTM	19	Keita Sawa	Dallara F399	Toyota-TOM'S 3S-GE	1–3, 7, 9–10
	20	Vladimir Tchekanine	Dallara F399		6
Team Echigoya	21	Shigeki Ebihara	Dallara F399	Toyota-TOM'S 3S-GE	1–2
Kondō Racing	24	Kazuyuki Nishizawa	Dallara F399	Toyota-TOM'S 3S-GE	1–2, 4–5, 9
Maejima	32	Saturo Gotou	Dallara F399	Torii-Toyota 3S-GE	2
		Shigeki Ebihara		Toyota-TOM'S	5–10
Now Motor Sports	33	Takashi Kogure	Dallara F399	Toyota-TOM'S 3S-GE	All
Nobel France Racing Team	37	Motonari Higuchi	Dallara F399	Torii-Toyota 3S-GE	1–2, 5
Nakajima Racing	64	Shinya Sato	Dallara F399	Mugen-Honda MF204B	All
Skill Speed	77	Hiroshi Nakamura	Dallara F399	Toda-Honda MF204B	2–10

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• Points are awarded as follows, with only the best 13 results to count:

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Pos Driver SUZ TSU FUJ MIN MOT SUZ SUG SEN OKA MOT Pts 1 Benoît Tréluyer 1 2 1 1 2 Ret 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 260 2 Paolo Montin 3 1 6 4 3 1 3 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 8 3 3 3 2 201 3 Jeremie Dufour 2 3 2 2 1 Ret 2 6 3 3 4 3 4 4 3 Ret 12 2 3 177 4 Sakon Yamamoto DNS 9 12 10 10 Ret Ret 9 5 4 3 Ret 3 3 4 2 2 5 4 117 5 Yuji Ide Ret 4 7 7 5 Ret 4 3 Ret 5 5 5 5 6 6 5 8 8 8 100 6 Peter Sundberg 4 Ret 3 6 4 2 7 Ret Ret 8 10 Ret Ret Ret 2 6 5 7 12 94 7 Masataka Yanagida DNS 8 13 5 14 Ret 6 4 4 6 7 8 9 7 9 7 Ret 4 5 80 8 Shinya Sato 9 7 8 3 Ret Ret 10 8 Ret 7 6 4 8 5 7 4 6 6 Ret 79 9 Shogo Mitsuyama 8 Ret 4 Ret 7 3 Ret Ret 6 9 8 10 6 Ret Ret 10 7 10 7 57 10 Norihiko Tasaki Ret 5 Ret Ret 8 4 9 7 12 Ret Ret 7 7 Ret 11 8 4 Ret 6 54 11 Takashi Kogure 6 Ret Ret Ret 9 Ret 5 5 7 Ret Ret 6 13 9 5 15 Ret 12 11 44 12 Keita Sawa 5 6 5 8 6 5 11 Ret 9 Ret 16 Ret 41 13 Takahiro Ogawa 10 Ret 10 Ret 11 6 13 Ret Ret 10 Ret 11 10 13 14 10 14 Akitsugu Matsunaga 7 10 14 12 Ret Ret 12 Ret 9 13 7 15 Hideshi Nishimura 11 11 9 13 12 Ret 8 Ret 14 Ret 13 12 16 9 7 16 Shigeki Ebihara 12 Ret Ret 16 11 11 9 12 11 8 12 14 Ret 15 Ret 5 17 Hiroshi Nakamura Ret 15 13 Ret 11 Ret 10 Ret 11 9 10 Ret 10 13 11 14 13 5 18 Kazuyuki Nishizawa 13 Ret Ret 11 Ret Ret 8 DNS 12 Ret 3 19 Bruce Jouanny 9 10 3 20 Saturo Gotou 11 9 2 21 Shinya Hosokawa 11 9 2 22 Motonari Higuchi Ret 12 Ret 14 13 12 0 23 Vladimir Tchekanine 12 0 24 Keiichi Nisimiya DNS DNS 15 Ret Ret Ret 0 25 Yousuke Shimojima 17 Ret 0 Hiroki Yoshimoto Ret Ret 0 Pos Driver SUZ TSU FUJ MIN MOT SUZ SUG SEN OKA MOT Pts

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

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