1994 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship

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The 1994 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the first full season of premier class GT racing in Japan to be promoted by the new GT Association (GTA). It was marked as well as the twelfth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship, dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. Recognized as the first season of what is now the Super GT Series, the 1994 season introduced the familiar dual-class structure, and the Success Ballast handicap system that would become staples of the series in the years to come.

The premier class, GT1, featured an eclectic mix of Japanese-built GT cars such as the fleet of factory-operated Nissan Skyline GT-Rs, and later, the Toyota Supra GT from Team SARD - as well as foreign-made GT cars like the Porsche 911 RSR, the Lamborghini Countach, and the Ferrari F40 - mixed in with the Porsche 962C that was a holdover from the previous Group C era, and even a former WRC-spec Lancia 037 that entered as a one-off. The secondary class, GT2, featured privately-built sports cars such as the ones used in the former Japan Super Sport Sedan Championship.

The GT1 class champion was the #1 Calsonic Nissan Skyline GT-R driven by Masahiko Kageyama, and the GT2 class champion was the #29 Korg Kegani Porsche 964 driven by Sakae Obata.

Schedule[]

Round	Race	Circuit	Date
1	All Japan Fuji GT Race	Fuji Speedway	May 1
2	HiLand GT&F3 Race	Sendai Hi-Land Raceway	June 12
3	Japan Special GT-Cup	Fuji Speedway	August 14
4	SUGO GT&F3	Sportsland SUGO	September 11
5	Sanyo Shinpan Cup Grand Touring Car Endurance Race	Mine Circuit	October 1

Teams & Drivers[]

GT1[]

Team	Make	Car	No.	Drivers	Tyre	Rounds
Calsonic Hoshino Racing	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R	1	Masahiko Kageyama	B	All
Team Zexel Johnson NISMO	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R	2	Toshio Suzuki	B	All
			10	Akira Iida	B	All
				Eiji Yamada		1-2
Hasemi Motor Sport	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R	3	Masahiro Hasemi	B	All
[ja]	Toyota	Toyota Supra	5	Hideo Fukuyama	D	1-2
				Tom Kristensen		5
acom  [ja]	Porsche	Porsche 911 RSR	9	Mauro Martini	B	All
Hunter Racing	Porsche	Porsche 911 Turbo	11	Hiroyuki Yoshimoto	B	3-4
				Hiroaki Sano		3-4
Mooncraft	Nissan	Nissan Silvia	14	Naoki Hattori	B	All
				[ja]		1, 4-5
Racing Team Nakaharu	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R	24	Seiichi Sodeyama	B	All
				Shinichi Yamaji		All
Team Le Mans	Nissan	Nissan 300ZX	25	Masami Kageyama	B	1-2, 4-5
				Akira Ishikawa		2-4
				Richard Dean		3
ROSS Competition	Lancia	Lancia 037	27	Naohiro Furuya	G	3
Max Try Racing	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R	32	Shigeru Oyama	Y	3
						3
Team Taisan	Ferrari	Ferrari F40	34	Keiichi Suzuki	Y	5
				Hideshi Matsuda		5
			40	Tetsuya Ota	Y	All
				Keiichi Suzuki		1, 3
				Anthony Reid		2, 4
				Oscar Larrauri		5
	Porsche	Porsche 962C	35	Anthony Reid	Y	3, 5
				Masahiko Kondo		3, 5
			50	Anthony Reid	Y	1
						1
Shift Point	Toyota	Toyota Supra	37		T	1
				Akira Ishikawa		1
Toyota Team SARD	Toyota	Toyota Supra	39	Jeff Krosnoff	M	4-5
Belldeer Cooperation	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R	77	Katsuhiko Okamoto	B	1
						1
	Lamborghini	Lamborghini Countach	88		Y	All
				Takao Wada		All
Team Kunimitsu	Porsche	Porsche 911 RSR Turbo	100	Kunimitsu Takahashi	Y	3-5
				Keiichi Tsuchiya		3-5

Season results[]

Round	Circuit	GT1 Winning Team	GT2 Winning Team
		GT1 Winning Drivers	GT2 Winning Drivers
1	Mt. Fuji	#1 Calsonic Hoshino Racing GT-R	#29 Korg Kegani Porsche 964
		Masahiko Kageyama
2	Sendai	#3 Hasemi Motorsports GT-R	#29 Korg Kegani Porsche 964
		Masahiro Hasemi
3	Mt. Fuji	#35 Team Taisan Porsche 962C	#70 Nissan Skyline
		Anthony Reid Masahiko Kondo	Yoshimi Ishibashi
4	Sportsland SUGO	#100 Team Kunimitsu Porsche 993	#12 KK Scuderia Mazda RX-7
		Keiichi Tsuchiya Kunimitsu Takahashi
5	Mine Circuit	#40 Team Taisan Ferrari F40	#72 Makiguchi Engineering BMW M3
		Tetsuya Ota Oscar Larrauri	Yukio Okamoto

Point Ranking[]

GT1 Class (Top 5)[]

Drivers[]

Rank	Drivers	Number/Team	Points	Wins
1	Masahiko Kageyama	#1 Calsonic Hoshino Racing GT-R	70	1
2	Masahiro Hasemi	#3 Hasemi Motorsports GT-R	56	1
3	Shinichi Yamaji Seiichi Sodeyama	#24 Racing Team Nakaharu GT-R	47	0
4	Anthony Reid	#35 Team Taisan Porsche 962C #40 Team Taisan Ferrari F40	44	1
5	Tetsuya Ota	#40 Team Taisan Ferrari F40	39	1

GT2 Class (Top 5)[]

Drivers[]

Rank	Drivers	Number/Team	Points	Wins
1		#29 Korg Kegani Porsche 964	80	2
2	Yoshimi Ishibashi	#70 Nissan Skyline	69	1
3		#29 Korg Kegani Porsche 964	65	2
4		#70 Nissan Skyline	54	1
5		#12 KK Scuderia Mazda RX-7	35	1

See also[]

• Super GT
• Japanese Touring Car Championship

References[]

• Super GT/JGTC official race archive (in Japanese) (archived from the original)
• 1994 season results