B-Max Racing

B-Max Racing Co., Ltd is a race car builder and racing team headquartered in Ayase, Kanagawa.

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. Ryuji 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, from the same year, instead of Nova Engineering, B-Max Racing was entrusted with the team management of NDDP Racing, which they participate in the Super GT in the GT300 class and the Japanese Formula 3 Championship.^[1] They have also participated in Super Formula Championship since 2017,^[2] and in November of the same year, spun off from Byobugaura Kogyo Co., Ltd. as B-MAX RACING Co., Ltd.^[3] They participated in the Super GT in the GT500 class in 2018.^[4] In 2019, they participated in Super Formula with two cars, in collaboration with the German racing team Motopark Academy.^[5]

B-MAX NDDP GT-R in 2017.

Racing record[]

Complete Super GT results[]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Car	Class	No.	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Pos	Points
2012	Nissan GT-R	GT300	3	Yuhi Sekiguchi Katsumasa Chiyo Daiki Sasaki	OKA 19	FUJ 18	SEP 4	SUG 1	SUZ 2	FUJ 9	AUT 19	MOT 6		4th	53
2013			3	Kazuki Hoshino Daiki Sasaki Lucas Ordóñez	OKA Ret	FUJ Ret	SEP 10	SUG 9	SUZ 9	FUJ 5	FUJ	AUT Ret	MOT 9	17th	14
2014			3	Kazuki Hoshino Lucas Ordóñez	OKA 4	FUJ 5	AUT 4	SUG 9	FUJ 10	SUZ 19	BUR 1	MOT 8		4th	48
2015			3	Kazuki Hoshino	OKA 8	FUJ 2	CHA 1	FUJ Ret	SUZ 14	SUG 8	AUT 1	MOT Ret		4th	61
2016			3	Kazuki Hoshino Jann Mardenborough	OKA 10	FUJ 1	SUG 5	FUJ 6	SUZ 10	CHA 2	MOT 13	MOT 6		4th	52
2017			3	Kazuki Hoshino	OKA 7	FUJ 6	AUT 9	SUG 8	FUJ Ret	SUZ 14	CHA 9	MOT 10		17th	17
2018		GT500	3	Satoshi Motoyama Katsumasa Chiyo	OKA 7	FUJ 10	SUZ 7	CHA 13	FUJ 15	SUG 8	AUT 13	MOT 9		17th	14
2019			3	Kohei Hirate Frederic Makowiecki	OKA 4‡	FUJ 6	SUZ 9	CHA 6	FUJ 11	AUT 11	SUG 1	MOT DNS		9th	36
2020			3	Kohei Hirate Katsumasa Chiyo	FUJ 7	FUJ 8	SUZ 6	MOT 7	FUJ Ret	SUZ 4	MOT 15	FUJ 6		13th	29
2021			3	Kohei Hirate Katsumasa Chiyo	OKA 9	FUJ 5	MOT 6	SUZ	SUG	AUT	MOT	FUJ		9th*	13*

^‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.

Complete Super Formula results[]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Chassis	Engine	No.	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	T.C.	Points
2017	Dallara SF14	Honda	50	Takashi Kogure	SUZ 15	OKA 18	OKA 15	FUJ 13	MOT 17	AUT 12	SUG 14	SUZ C	SUZ C	11th	0
2018	Dallara SF14	Honda	50	Katsumasa Chiyo	SUZ 14	AUT C	SUG Ret	FUJ 17	MOT 19	OKA 15	SUZ 10			11th	0
2019	Dallara SF19	Honda	50	Lucas Auer	SUZ 7	AUT 11	SUG 3	FUJ Ret	MOT 7	OKA 5	SUZ 11			8th	20
			51	Harrison Newey	SUZ Ret	AUT 17	SUG Ret	FUJ 16	MOT 19	OKA 3	SUZ 20
2020	Dallara SF19	Honda	50	Teppei Natori	MOT DNS									9th	16
						OKA 14
				Sérgio Sette Câmara			SUG Ret
				Nobuharu Matsushita				AUT 6	SUZ Ret	SUZ 14	FUJ 3
			51	Charles Milesi	MOT	OKA	SUG	AUT 15	SUZ 11	SUZ 13	FUJ DNS
2021	Dallara SF19	Honda	51	Nobuharu Matsushita	FUJ	SUZ 13	AUT 3‡	SUG 4	MOT	MOT	SUZ			7th*	13.5*

References[]

External links[]

• Official website