1995 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship Explained

The 1995 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the third season of Japan Automobile Federation GT premiere racing, and the second under the promotion of the GT Association (GTA). It was marked as well as the thirteenth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. Once again, the GT1 class champion was the #1 Calsonic Nissan Skyline GT-R driven by Masahiko Kageyama, and the GT2 class champion was the #70 Gaikokuya Nissan Skyline driven by Yoshimi Ishibashi and Kaoru Hoshino.

1995 saw the Toyota Supra win its first race in the GT1 category, at Sendai Hi-Land Raceway. The victory came just a week after Masanori Sekiya, driver of the winning Castrol TOM's Toyota Supra, became the first Japanese driver to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans overall. The series made its first official visit to Suzuka Circuit on April 2, 1995.

Schedule

Round	Race	Circuit	Date
1	Suzuka GT 300	Suzuka Circuit	April 2
2	All Japan Fuji GT Race	Fuji Speedway	May 4
3	HiLand GT&F3 Race	Sendai Hi-Land Raceway	June 25
4	Japan Special GT-Cup	Fuji Speedway	August 13
5	SUGO GT Championship	Sportsland SUGO	September 10
6	Sanyo Shinpan Cup Grand Touring Car Endurance Race	Mine Circuit	October 1

Teams & Drivers

GT1

Team	Make	Car	Engine		Drivers	Tyre	Rounds
Calsonic Hoshino Racing	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R (R32)	Nissan RB26DETT 2.6 L Twin Turbo I6	1	Masahiko Kageyama		1
		Nissan Skyline GT-R (R33)			Masahiko Kageyama	2–6
					Kazuyoshi Hoshino	3–6
Team Zexel	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R (R32)	Nissan RB26DETT 2.6 L Twin Turbo I6	2	Kenji Tohira		1–2
					Hiroyuki Kawai	1–2
		Nissan Skyline GT-R (R33)			Kenji Tohira	3–6
					Hiroyuki Kawai	3–6
Hasemi Motorsport	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R (R32)	Nissan RB26DETT 2.6 L Twin Turbo I6	3	Masahiro Hasemi		1
		Nissan Skyline GT-R (R33)			Masahiro Hasemi	2–6
Racing Team Nakaharu	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R (R32)	Nissan RB26DETT 2.6 L Twin Turbo I6	4	Hideo Fukuyama		4–5
					Mizunori Fumino	4–5
Rank Up Tomei Sports	Porsche	Porsche 911 GT2	Porsche M64/81 3.6 L Turbo F6	5	Koichi Kashiwabara		1–5
					Yukihiro Hane		1–2
					Minoru Tanaka		4–5
FET Racing Team	Toyota	Toyota Supra	Toyota 3S-GT 2.0 L Turbo I4	8	Naoki Nagasaka		All
					Kiyoshi Misaki		1
Nismo	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R (R33)	Nissan RB26DETT 2.6 L Twin Turbo I6	10	Akira Iida		3–6
					Toshio Suzuki		3
				55	Toshio Suzuki		1–2, 4–6
					Akira Iida		1–2
Prova Motorsport	Porsche	Porsche 964 RS	Porsche M64/04 3.8 L F6	15	Naohiro Furuya		All
					Hideyuki Tamamoto		4
					Hisashi Wada		5
					Scott Maxwell		6
Team-Jun	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R (R32)	Nissan SR20DET 2.0 L Turbo I4	19	Katsuo Kobayashi		All
Dandelion Racing	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R (R32)	Nissan RB26DETT 2.6 L Twin Turbo I6	22	Katsuo Mizunuma		5
					Mitsuo Akimoto		5
Team LeMans	Nissan	Nissan Fairlady Z LM	Nissan VH45DE 4.5 L V8	25	Masami Kageyama		1–2, 4–6
Team Take One	Porsche	Porsche 911 GT2	Porsche M64/81 3.6 L Turbo F6	30	Eiichi Tajima		All
					Yoji Yamada		1–2, 4–6
Team Taisan	Porsche	Porsche 911 GT2	Porsche M64/81 3.6 L Turbo F6	33	Hideshi Matsuda		2–3
					Kaoru Iida		2, 4
					Keiichi Suzuki		3–4
	Ferrari	Ferrari F40 LM	Ferrari F120B 2.9 L Twin Turbo V8	34	Anthony Reid		1–2
					Masahiko Kondo		2
	Porsche	Porsche 911 GT2	Porsche M64/81 3.6 L Turbo F6		Hideshi Matsuda		4–6
					Takeshi Tsuchiya		4
					Oscar Larrauri		5
					Keiichi Suzuki		6
				35	Keiichi Suzuki		1–2
					Hideshi Matsuda		1
					Takeshi Tsuchiya		2
					Anthony Reid		3–6
					Masahiko Kondo		3–6
	Ferrari	Ferrari F40 LM	Ferrari F120B 2.9 L Twin Turbo V8	40	Tetsuya Ota		1-2, 4, 6
					Oscar Larrauri		1, 4, 6
Castrol Toyota Team TOM'S	Toyota	Toyota Supra	Toyota 3S-GT 2.0 L Turbo I4	36	Masanori Sekiya		All
					Michael Krumm		All
Toyota Team Cerumo	Toyota	Toyota Supra	Toyota 3S-GT 2.0 L Turbo I4	38	Érik Comas		All
Toyota Team SARD	Toyota	Toyota Supra	Toyota 3S-GT 2.0 L Turbo I4	39	Jeff Krosnoff		All
Aiwa Racing Project	Nissan	Nissan Silvia (S13)	Nissan SR20DET 2.0 L Turbo I4	41	Kunio Date		1–2, 4–6
					Akira Ishikawa		1–2, 4–6
Team Razo	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R (R32)	Nissan RB26DETT 2.6 L Twin Turbo I6	66	Takahiko Hara		2
					Hisashi Wada		2
Endless Sports	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R (R33)	Nissan RB26DETT 2.6 L Twin Turbo I6	81	Mitsuhiro Kinoshita		4
					Yasushi Kikuchi		4
KEN WOLF with Terai Engineering	Lamborghini	Lamborghini Diablo Jota	Lamborghini BFR1244 5.7 L V12	88	Takao Wada		1, 3–6
					Satoshi Ikezawa		1, 3–5
					Tatsuhiko Kaneumi		6
Team Kunimitsu	Porsche	Porsche 964 RS	Porsche M64/04 3.8 L F6	99	Ryo Michigami		4–6
		Porsche 911 GT2	Porsche M64/81 3.6 L Turbo F6	100	Kunimitsu Takahashi		All
					Keiichi Tsuchiya		All

GT2

Team	Make	Car	Engine		Drivers	Tyre	Rounds
Schloss Motorsport	Porsche	Porsche 964 RS	Porsche M64/80 3.8 L F6	6	Tsunefumi Hioki		1
					Shunji Yashiro	1
RE Amemiya Racing	Mazda	Mazda RX-7 (FD3S)	Mazda RE13B 1.3 L 2-rotor	7	Hironori Takeuchi		2–6
					Haruhiko Matsumoto	2–6
M Factory Racing Club	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GTS-R (HR31)	Nissan SR20DET 2.0 L Turbo I4	11	Hiromoto Ishimori		2–5
Eimei Auto	Mitsubishi	Mitsubishi Mirage C53A	Mitsubishi 4G63 2.0 L I4	12	Akira Nagai		4
Amuze Racing	Mazda	Mazda RX-7 (FC3S)	Mazda RE31B 1.3 L 2-rotor	13	Atsushi Hayakawa		2
					Nobuhiro Yoshida	2
Kageisen Racing Team	Mazda	Mazda RX-7 (FC3S)	Mazda RE13B 1.3 L 2-rotor	17	Toshihiko Nogami		2–5
					Toshiaki Koshimizu	2–5
Elite Racing Corporation	Mazda	Mazda RX-7 (FC3S)	Mazda RE13B 1.3 L 2-rotor	18	Toshio Fukushima		2–5
					Tetsuya Kawasaki	2–3, 5
Hitotsuyama Racing	BMW	BMW M3 (E30)	BMW S14 2.5 L I4	21	Shoichi Ito		5
					Yosuke Hitotsuyama	5
B.H. Studio Racing	Porsche	Porsche 964 RSR	Porsche M64/80 3.8 L F6	23	Takashi Suzuki		3–5
					Naoto Sugita	3–5
Team Taisan	BMW	BMW M3 (E30)	BMW S14 2.5 L I4	26	Motoji Sekine		1–3
					Fumio Mutoh	1–3
					Junichi Yamanashi	4–5
					Masaoki Nagashima	4–5
				28	Motoji Sekine	5–6
					Fumio Mutoh	5–6
NAC West	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GTS-R (HR31)	Nissan SR20DET 2.0 L Turbo I4	27	Michiaki Hayashi		2, 4
					Toshikazu Kanamori	2
					Mamoru Suzuki	4
Cobra Racing Team	Porsche	Porsche 964 RSR	Porsche M64/80 3.8 L F6	31	Katsunori Iketani		2–5
					Masamitsu Ishihara	2–3
					Seiichi Sodeyama	5–6
Ohyama Racing	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R	Nissan RB26DETT 2.6 L Twin Turbo I6	32	Shigeru Ohyama		1–2
					Jun Okanoya	1–2
S2 Brain	Porsche	Porsche 964 RSR	Porsche M64/80 3.8 L F6	54	Seiichi Sodeyama		2–3
					Masahisa Nakada	2–3
Yoshimi Ishibashi	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GTS-R (HR31)	Nissan SR20DET 2.0 L Turbo I4	70	Yoshimi Ishibashi		All
					Kaoru Hoshino	All
Makiguchi Engineering	BMW	BMW M3 (E30)	BMW S14 2.5 L I4	71	Tsuyoshi Yamagishi		2–6
					Toshifumi Kurosu	2–5
					Kazuhiro Koizumi	6
				72	Katsuya Makiguchi	1
					Hideo Fukuyama	1
					Norio Makiguchi	2–5
					Toru Horigome	2–3
					Takayuki Kinoshita	4–5

Season results

Round	Circuit	GT1 Winning Team	GT2 Winning Team
		GT1 Winning Drivers	GT2 Winning Drivers
1	Suzuka Circuit	1 Calsonic Hoshino Racing GT-R	70 Team Gaikokuya Nissan Skyline
		Masahiko Kageyama	Yoshimi Ishibashi Kaoru Hoshino
2	Mt. Fuji	33 Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT2	70 Team Gaikokuya Nissan Skyline
		Hideshi Matsuda Kaoru Iida	Yoshimi Ishibashi Kaoru Hoshino
3	Sendai	36 Castrol TOM'S Toyota Supra	7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7
		Masanori Sekiya Michael Krumm	Hironori Takeuchi Haruhiko Matsumoto
4	Mt. Fuji	3 Hasemi Motorsports GT-R
		Masahiro Hasemi	Norio Makiguchi Takayuki Kinoshita
5	Sportsland SUGO	35 Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT2	31 Cobra Racing Team Porsche 993
		Anthony Reid Masahiko Kondō	Seiichi Sodeyama Katsunori Iketani
6	Mine Circuit	34 Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT2	7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7
		Hideshi Matsuda Keiichi Suzuki	Hironori Takeuchi Haruhiko Matsumoto

Point Ranking

GT1 Drivers' standings^{[1] [2]}

Drivers' standings

Scoring system:

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Points	20	15	12	10	8	6	4	3	2	1

Rank Driver SUZ FUJ SEN FUJ SUG MIN PTS 1 Masahiko Kageyama 1 10 2 7 2 3 67 2 Masahiro Hasemi 4 2 14 1 4 6 61 3 Toshio Suzuki 2 4 6 2 5 7 58 4 Hideshi Matsuda Ret 1 8 5 6 1 57 5 Michael Krumm 6 6 1 Ret 7 4 46 6 Masanori Sekiya 7 42 7 Anthony Reid 11 Ret 3 9 1 9 36 8 Jeff Krosnoff 3 12 5 16 3 11 32 9 Akira Iida 2 4 6 3 9 Ret 35 10 Kunimitsu Takahashi Keiichi Tsuchiya 14 3 4 8 8 Ret 28 12 Naoki Nagasaka 8 5 10 4 Ret Ret 22 13 Eiichi Tajima 10 Ret 7 10 Ret 2 21 14 Kazuyoshi Hoshino 2 7 2 3 19 15 Masahiko Kondo 11 3 9 1 9 16 16 Kenji Tohira Hiroyuki Kawai 9 15 11 Ret Ret 5 10 Koichi Kashiwabara 7 8 9 12 10 10 19 Érik Comas 5 14 15 Ret 11 DSQ 8 20 Ret 7 8 Ret 1 7 Yukihiro Hane 7 8 7 22 Hideo Fukuyama Mizunori Fumino 6 Ret 6 24 Takeshi Tsuchiya 7 5 4 25 8 3 Ryo Michigami 14 12 8 3 27 Tetsuya Ota Ret 9 18 12 2 Yoji Yamada 10 Ret 10 Ret 2 2 29 Katsuo Kobayashi Ret 13 12 11 Ret 10 1 Minoru Tanaka 12 10 1 - Kaoru Iida 1 Ret 0 - Oscar Larrauri Ret 18 6 12 0 - Kunio Date Akira Ishikawa Ret 11 Ret Ret 0 - Masami Kageyama 12 DNS Ret Ret Ret 0 - 15 13 13 Ret Ret 0 - Satoshi Ikezawa 0 - Naohiro Furuya 13 DNS Ret DNS Ret 0 - Mitsuhiro Kinoshita Yasushi Kikuchi 17 0 - Hisashi Wada Ret DNS 0 - Takahiko Hara Ret 0 - Katsuo Mizunuma Mitsuo Akimoto DNS Ret 0 - Tatsuhiko Kaneumi Ret 0 - Scott Maxwell Ret 0 Rank Driver SUZ FUJ SEN FUJ SUG MIN PTS

GT1 Teams' standings

For teams that entered multiple cars, only the best result from each round counted towards the teams' championship.

Rank	Team	No.	SUZ	FUJ	SEN	FUJ	SUG	MIN	PTS
1	Team Taisan	33		1	8	Ret			80
		34	11	Ret	3	5	6	1
		35	Ret	7		9	1	9
		40	Ret	9		18		12
2	Hoshino Racing	1	1	10	2	7	2	3	67
3	Hasemi Motorsports	3	4	2	14	1	4	6	61
4	Nismo	10				3	9	Ret	58
		55	2	4	6	2	5	7
5	Toyota Castrol Team TOM'S	36	6	6	1	Ret	7	4	46
6	Toyota Team SARD	39	3	12	5	16	3	11	32
7	Team Kunimitsu	99				14	12	8	30
		100	14	3	4	8	8	Ret
8	Team Take One	30	10	Ret	7	10	Ret	2	27
9	FET Racing Team	8	8	5	10	4	Ret	Ret	14
10	Rank Up Tomei Sports	32	7	8	9	12	10		10
10	Team Zexel	39	9	15	11	Ret	Ret	5	10
12	Toyota Team Cerumo	55	5	14	15	Ret	11	DSQ	8
13	Racing Team Nakaharu	30				6	Ret		6
14	Team-Jun	11	Ret	13	12	11	Ret	10	1
-	Aiwa Racing Project	88	Ret	11		Ret		Ret	0
-	Team LeMans	25	12	DNS		Ret	Ret	Ret	0
-	JLOC	88	15		13	13	Ret	Ret	0
-	Prova Motorsport	15	13	DNS	Ret		DNS	Ret	0
-	Endless Sports	81				17			0
-	Team Razo	66		Ret					0
-	Dandelion Racing	22				Ret	DNS		0
Rank	Team	No.	SUZ	FUJ	SEN	FUJ	SUG	MIN	PTS

GT2 Drivers' standings

Drivers' standings

Scoring system:

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Points	20	15	12	10	8	6	4	3	2	1

Rank Driver SUZ FUJ SEN FUJ SUG MIN PTS 1 Yoshimi Ishibashi Kaoru Hoshino 1 1 2 3 3 Ret 79 3 Hironori Takeuchi Haruhiko Matsumoto 9 1 2 Ret 1 57 5 Tsuyoshi Yamagishi 5 3 4 2 5 53 6 Norio Makiguchi 2 Ret 1 Ret 2 50 6 Katsunori Iketani 4 5 Ret 1 3 50 8 Kurosu Toshifumi 5 3 4 2 45 9 Motoji Sekine Fumio Mutoh 4 11 6 Ret 4 4 36 11 Takayuki Kinoshita 1 Ret 2 35 12 Hiromoto Ishimori 3 4 Ret 8 25 13 Shigeru Ohyama Jun Okanoya 2 7 19 15 Junichi Yamanashi Masaoki Nagashima 5 5 Ret 22 17 Toru Horigome 2 Ret 15 17 Seiichi Sodeyama Ret 8 1 3 15 19 Toshihiko Nogami Toshiaki Koshimizu 8 Ret 6 7 13 21 Tsunefumi Hioki Shunji Yashiro 3 12 23 Masamitsu Ishihara 4 5 8 23 Takashi Suzuki Naoto Sugita 7 7 Ret 8 26 Michiaki Hayashi 6 Ret 6 Toshikazu Kanamori 26 Shoichi Ito Yosuke Hitotsuyama 6 6 30 Masahisa Nakada Ret 8 3 30 Akira Nagai 8 3 32 Atsushi Hayakawa Nobuhiro Yoshida 10 Ret 1 NC Kazuhiro Koizumi 5 0 NC Toshio Fukushima Tetsuya Kawasaki Ret Ret Ret Ret 0 NC Katsuya Makiguchi Hideo Fukuyama Ret 0 NC Mamoru Suzuki Ret 0 Rank Driver SUZ FUJ SEN FUJ SUG MIN PTS

GT2 Teams' standings

For teams that entered multiple cars, only the best result from each round counted towards the teams' championship.

Rank	Team	No.	SUZ	FUJ	SEN	FUJ	SUG	MIN	PTS
1	Yoshimi Ishibashi	70	1	1	2	3	3	Ret	79
2	Makiguchi Engineering	71		5	3	4	2	5	77
		72	Ret	2	Ret	1	Ret	2
3	RE Amemiya Racing	7		9	1	2	Ret	1	57
4	Cobra Racing Team	31		4	5	Ret	1	3	50
5	Team Taisan	26	4	11	6	5	5	Ret	44
		28				Ret	4	4
6	M Factory Racing Club	11		3	4	Ret	8		25
7	Ohyama Racing	32	2	7					19
8	Kageisen Racing Team	17		8	Ret	6	7		13
9	Schloss Motorsport	6	3						12
10	B.H. Studio Racing	23			7	7	Ret		8
11	NAC West	27		6		Ret			6
12	Hitotsuyama Racing	21					6		14
13	S2 Brain	54		Ret	8				3
14	Eimei Auto	12				8			10
15	Amuze Racing	13		10		Ret			1
-	Elite Racing Corporation	18		Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret		0
Rank	Team	No.	SUZ	FUJ	SEN	FUJ	SUG	MIN	PTS

Notes

1.Masahiko Kondō did not met the requirement for minimum distance driven and was ineligible for championship points.

External links

• Super GT/JGTC official race archive
• 1995 season results

Notes and References

1. Web site: JGTC.net | 1995 SERIES RANKING.
2. Web site: World Sports Racing Prototypes - JGTC 1995.