1995 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship

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 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship
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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

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 #72 Makiguchi Engineering BMW M3
Masahiro Hasemi Morio Makiguchi
Takayuki Kinoshita
5 Sportsland SUGO #35 Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT2 #31 Cobra Racing Team Porsche 993
Anthony Reid
Masahiko Kondo		 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 Class (Top 5)

Drivers
Rank Drivers Number/Team Points Wins
1 Masahiko Kageyama #1 Calsonic Hoshino Racing Skyline GT-R 67 1
2 Masahiro Hasemi #3 Hasemi Motorsports Skyline GT-R 61 1
3 Toshio Suzuki #55 NISMO Skyline GT-R 58 0
4 Hideshi Matsuda #33 Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT2
#34 Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT2		 44 1
5 Michael Krumm #36 Castrol TOM'S Toyota Supra 46 1

GT2 Class (Top 5)

Drivers
Rank Drivers Number/Team Points Wins
1 Yoshimi Ishibashi
Kaoru Hoshino		 #70 Team Gaikokuya Nissan Skyline 79 2
2 Hironori Takeuchi
Haruhiko Matsumoto		 #7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7 57 2
3 Tsuyoshi Yamagishi #71 Makiguchi Engineering BMW M3 53 0
4 Norio Makiguchi #72 Makiguchi Engineering BMW M3 50 1
5 Katsunori Iketani #31 Cobra Racing Team Porsche 993 50 1
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