1994 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship

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.

1994 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship
Previous: 1993 Next: 1995

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
BLITZ Racing Team Toyota Toyota Supra 5 Hideo Fukuyama D 1-2
Tom Kristensen 5
acom Racing Team NOVA 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
Takashi Oi 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
Nobuyuki Maehara 3
Team Taisan Ferrari

Porsche

 Ferrari F40

Porsche 962C

 34 Keiichi Suzuki Y 5
Hideshi Matsuda 5
35 Anthony Reid Y 1, 3, 5
Kazuo Mogi 1
Masahiko Kondo 3, 5
40 Tetsuya Ota Y All
Keiichi Suzuki 1, 3
Anthony Reid 2, 4
Oscar Larrauri 5
Shift Point Toyota Toyota Supra 37 Hidehiro Mochizuki 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
Shinjiro Fukami 1
KEN WOLF with Terai Engineering Lamborghini Lamborghini Countach 88 Satoshi Izekawa 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 Sakae Obata
Hideo Uehara
2 Sendai #3 Hasemi Motorsports GT-R #29 Korg Kegani Porsche 964
Masahiro Hasemi Sakae Obata
Hideo Uehara
3 Mt. Fuji #35 Team Taisan Porsche 962C #70 Nissan Skyline
Anthony Reid
Masahiko Kondo		 Yoshimi Ishibashi
Fumimori Mizuno
4 Sportsland SUGO #100 Team Kunimitsu Porsche 993 #12 KK Scuderia Mazda RX-7
Keiichi Tsuchiya
Kunimitsu Takahashi		 Toshihiro Fukushima
Tetsuya Kawasaki
5 Mine Circuit #40 Team Taisan Ferrari F40 #72 Makiguchi Engineering BMW M3
Tetsuya Ota
Oscar Larrauri		 Morio Makiguchi
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 Sakae Obata #29 Korg Kegani Porsche 964 80 2
2 Yoshimi Ishibashi #70 Nissan Skyline 69 1
3 Hideo Uehara #29 Korg Kegani Porsche 964 65 2
4 Fuminori Mizuno #70 Nissan Skyline 54 1
5 Tetsuya Kawasaki #12 KK Scuderia Mazda RX-7 35 1

See also

References
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