All teams and drivers competed using the Dome F111/3 Regional F3 car, powered by an Alfa Romeo engine and with Dunlop tires.
The 2024 season began at Suzuka with 13 cars, the highest number in three years, and Bionic Jack’s Kizuku Hirota, BRP’s Michael Sauter and Sutekina’s Jiei Okuzumi shared pole positions.
The first race saw multiple drivers get caught out by slippery track conditions, with poleman Hirota among them as he spun and rejoined in seventh.
This saw Okuzumi inherit the lead and he held on through multiple safety car interruptions to win ahead of TOM'S’s Yoshiaki Nakamura and Bionic Jack’s Jesse Lacey.
A safety car restart with three laps to go then allowed Sauter to close up to leader Okuzumi to overtake him and win the race.
Nakamura took over first place, but Sauter kept close to him and made a move on him on lap eleven, taking the lead and winning the race.
That encounter was held in wet conditions, with Sauter able to build a gap and finish first as Lacey and Nakamura fought behind him.
He held his lead all race, while Sauter behind him first dropped behind Horio before taking second place back on the penultimate lap.
[16] The championship culminated in two rounds at Fuji Speedway, where the TGR-DC Racing School entered two Toyota juniors in Yuki Sano and Kazuhisa Urabe.
Sauter had to retire with a clutch problem, but with Manson stuck in the midfield, the Swiss was crowned champion in the pits.
With Sano starting the second race from pole position, he did not have to overtake anyone and ended his four-race season with a fourth win that saw him take fifth place in the standings.
Away from the championship fight, FRJ supported Super Formula for the first time in its history, and was rewarded with its highest entry numbers in years at the start and the end of the season.