2017–18 Formula 4 South East Asia Championship


The 2017–18 Formula 4 South East Asia Championship season was the second season of the Formula 4 South East Asia Championship. It began on 30 September 2017 at the Sepang International Circuit and finished on 15 April 2018 at the same venue, after 29 races held across five rounds on three countries.

Drivers

DriverRounds
1 Hibiki Taira4–5
3 Kane ShepherdAll
9 Shivin Sirinarinthon1–2
10 Timothy Yeo5
15 Timothy Yeo2
16 Benson Lin4
17 Nazim Azman1, 3, 5
19 Ben Grimes2–3
19 Isyraf Danish1
77 Isyraf Danish5
22 Alister Yoong4
23 Muizz Musyaffa4–5
27 Ugo de Wilde3–4
28 Alessandro Ghiretti5
29 Mitchell Cheah4
30 Eshan Pieris1, 4
31 Armand Johany5
32 Presley Martono5
33 Sam Grimes2–3
38 Arsh Johany5
42 Luke ThompsonAll
45 Sasakorn Chaimongkol3
55 Daniel CaoAll
66 Danial Frost1
72 Nayan Chatterjee1
78 Aaron Love4
88 Perdana Putra Minang1
93 Adam Khalid2
95 Adam Khalid4
99 Liam Lawrence4

Race calendar and results

The final calendar was released on 4 July 2017. The first round at Sepang will be held in support the 2017 Malaysian Grand Prix, whereas the two final rounds in Buriram and Sepang will support the 2017–18 Asian Le Mans Series.
Due to an incident involving F1 driver Romain Grosjean, which required track fixing operations, the first race of the opening Sepang round had to be postponed. It was announced later that the round will be shortened to 5 races, with the sixth race being rescheduled at a later date.
On November 20, organizers cancelled round 3 at the Sentul International Circuit in Indonesia due lo logistical complications. It was later announced that the round would be rescheduled at Buriram for early December, and finally at Sepang for mid April as the season finale.

Championship standings

Points are awarded as follows. The F4 SEA championship follows the standard F1 points scoring system, with the addition of 1 point for fastest lap and 3 points for pole. The best 24 results out of 30 races count towards the championship.
The first and second fastest qualifying laps determine grid positions for race 1 and race 4. The fastest laps in race 1 determine the grid positions for race 2, while the grid positions for race 3 are created by the finishing positions of race 2 with top half of the grid reversed. race 4 grid positions based on the drivers’ second fastest qualifying laps, while race 5 start is determined by the fastest laps of race 4 and the grid positions of race 6 are the finishing positions of race 5, with the top half of the grid reversed.
Due to miscalculation of the fuel level, no cars were able to finish full race distance of the third race in the opening round of the season at Sepang because of lack of petrol. The classification was declared after five race laps.
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Rookie Cup