1989 All Japan Sports Prototype Car Endurance Championship

The 1989 All Japan Sports Prototype Car Endurance Championship was the seventh season of the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The 1989 champion was the #25 Advan Alpha Nova Porsche 962C driven by Kunimitsu Takahashi.

1989 All Japan Sports Prototype Car Endurance Championship
Previous: 1988 Next: 1990

Schedule

All races were held in Japan.

Round Race Circuit Date
1 All Japan Fuji 500 km Fuji Speedway 12 March
2 JAF Grand Prix All Japan Fuji 1000 km Fuji Speedway 30 April
3 All Japan Fuji 500 Miles Fuji Speedway 23 July
41 International Suzuka 1000 km Suzuka Circuit 3 December
5 Interchallenge Fuji 1000 km Fuji Speedway 8 October
  • ^1 – Round 4 at the Suzuka Circuit was originally scheduled for 27 August; however, due to a typhoon the race was rescheduled for 3 December.

Entry list
Team Car No Drivers Tyre Rounds
Alpha Nova Racing Porsche 962C 6 Jesús Pareja Y 5
Walter Brun 5
Costas Los 5
7 Oscar Larrauri All
Maurizio Sandro Sala All
Walter Brun 1
25 Kunimitsu Takahashi All
Stanley Dickens All
26 Kenji Takahashi All
Kazuo Mogi All
22 Naoki Nagasaka B All
Chiyomi Totani All
Giovanni Lavaggi 4–5
Joest Racing Porsche 962C 8 Henri Pescarolo G 5
Jean-Louis Ricci 5
9 Bob Wollek 5
Frank Jelinski 5
Leyton House Racing Porsche 962C 16 Masanori Sekiya B All
Hideki Okada All
Team Davey Porsche 962C 19 Tim Lee-Davey D 5
Desire Wilson 5
Nissan Motorsports Nissan R88C
Nissan R89C		 23 Kazuyoshi Hoshino D
B		 All
Toshio Suzuki All
24 Masahiro Hasemi All
Anders Olofsson All
From A Racing Porsche 962C 27 Akihiko Nakaya D
B		 All
Harald Grohs All
Takefuji Racing Team Porsche 962C 33 Johnny Herbert D 5
Martin Donnelly 5
Toyota Team TOM'S Toyota 89C-V 36 Geoff Lees B All
Hitoshi Ogawa 1–2, 4
Ross Cheever 3–5
38 Paolo Barilla 3–5
Hitoshi Ogawa 3, 5
Johnny Dumfries 4
Toyota Team SARD Toyota 89C-V
Toyota 90C-V		 50 Roland Ratzenberger D All
Keiichi Suzuki All
David Sears 1
Koji Sato 2
Jean-Pierre Jabouille 5
Omron Racing Porsche 962C 55 Eje Elgh D All
Vern Schuppan All
Keiji Matsumoto 1–4
Team LeMans March 88G-Nissan 85 Osamu Nakako Y All
Akio Morimoto All
Koji Sato 3
British Barn Racing TOM'S 86C-Ford 88 Jiro Yoneyama D All
Kiyoshi Misaki 1–2, 4–5
Hideo Fukuyama 2–5
Trust Racing Porsche 962C 100 George Fouche D All
Steven Andskar All
Mazdaspeed Mazda 767
Mazda 767B		 201 Takashi Yorino D 1
Tetsuya Ota 1
Yojiro Terada 5
Pierre Dieudonné 5
Yoshimi Katayama 5
202 Yoshimi Katayama 1–4
Yojiro Terada 1–4
Takashi Yorino 2–5
David Kennedy 5
Shizumatsu Racing Mazda 757 230 Tetsuji Shiratori D All
Shuji Fujii All
Seisaku Suzuki All
Katayama Racing Mazda 757 240 Kazuhiko Oda D 1, 5
Toshihiko Nogami 1–2
Shunji Kasuya 2
Yoshiyuki Ogura 2
Keiichi Mizutani 5
Tomiko Yoshikawa 5

Season results

Season results as follows:[1]

Round Circuit Winning Team
Winning Drivers
1 Mt. Fuji #27 From A Racing Porsche 962C
Harald Grohs
Akihiko Nakaya
2 Mt. Fuji
Report		 #55 Omron Racing Porsche 962C
Vern Schuppan
Eje Elgh
Keiji Matsumoto
3 Mt. Fuji #16 Leyton House Racing Porsche 962C
Hideki Okada
Masanori Sekiya
4 Suzuka Circuit
Report		 #25 Alpha Nova Porsche 962C
Kunimitsu Takahashi
Stanley Dickens
5 Mt. Fuji
 #38 Toyota Team TOM'S Toyota 89C-V
Hitoshi Ogawa
Paolo Barilla

Point Ranking

Drivers
Rank Drivers Number/Team Points Wins Distance
1 Kunimitsu Takahashi #25 Alpha Nova Porsche 962C 56 1 2077.617 km
2 Stanley Dickens 56 1 1794.012 km
3 Geoff Lees #23 Toyota Team TOM'S Toyota 89C-V 55 0 1945.209 km
4 Steven Andskar #100 Trust Racing Porsche 962C 55 0 1379.514 km
5 Eje Elgh #55 Omron Racing Porsche 962C 47 1 1215.84 km
6 Vern Schuppan 47 1 701.79 km

Makes
Rank Make Points Wins
1 Porsche 95 4
2 Toyota 43 1
3 Nissan 24 0
4 March-Nissan 18 0
5 Mazda 18 0
6 TOM'S-British Barn-Ford 3 0

References
  1. "JSPC 1989". Archived from the original on 15 November 2009.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.