The 2017 Japanese Super Formula Championship was the forty-fifth season of premier Japanese open-wheelmotor racing, and the fifth under the moniker of Super Formula. Yuji Kunimoto is the defending series champion.[1]
Hiroaki Ishiura won his second Driver's Championship in three years, finishing only half a point ahead of Pierre Gasly after the final round was cancelled due to Typhoon Lan. The Cerumo INGING team won their second successive Team Championship.
GT Academy winner Jann Mardenborough makes his series debut with Team Impul.
2015 European F3 champion Felix Rosenqvist joins the series. He is joined at Team LeMans by Kazuya Oshima, making his full-time return to Super Formula for the first time since 2012.
^"Red Bull in talks to place Gasly in Super Formula". 4 November 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2016. One of the teams Red Bull has held discussions with about running Gasly is understood to be Nakajima Racing, which ran Daisuke Nakajima and Bertrand Baguette in this year’s championship.