1985 500km Suzuka

February 2015 The International Suzuka 500 km, was the opening round of the 1985 All Japan Endurance Championship, which was held at the Suzuka Circuit, on 7 April, in front of a crowd of approximately 23,000.http://www.racingsportcars.com/results/Suzuka-1985-07-04.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160304094628/http://www.racingsportcars.com/results/Suzuka-1985-07-04.html usurped 4 March 2016 AUTOANKAUF FOCUS - Seriöser und Schneller Autoankauf Report Entry A total of 30 cars were entered for the event, across four classes ranging from Modified Hatchbacks to Group C Prototypes.http://www.racingsportcars.com/results/Suzuka-1985-07-04.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160304094628/http://www.racingsportcars.com/results/Suzuka-1985-07-04.html usurped 4 March 2016 AUTOANKAUF FOCUS - Seriöser und Schneller Autoankauf Qualifying The pairing of Kunimitsu Takahashi and Kenji Takahashi took pole position for Advan Sports Nova, in their Porsche 962C ahead of the European partnership of Geoff Lees and Eje Elgh for the Dome Motorsport Team, by just 0.07secs.Suzuka 1985-07-04 Racing Sport Cars 4 July 1985 Race The race was held over 85 laps of the Suzuka circuit, a distance of 500 km (actual distance was 502.690 km). Lees and Elgh took the winner spoils for the Dome Motorsport team, in their Dome-Toyota 84C. The pair won in a time of 3hr 35:59.060 mins., averaging a speed of 87.273 mph. Second place went to Kazuyoshi Hoshino and Akira Hagiwara in the Hoshino Racing March-Nissan 83G who were the only other finisher to complete the full race distance. One lap adrift in third was the Porsche of Kunimitsu Takahashi and Kenji Takahashi.http://www.racingsportcars.com/results/Suzuka-1985-07-04.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160304094628/http://www.racingsportcars.com/results/Suzuka-1985-07-04.html usurped 4 March 2016 AUTOANKAUF FOCUS - Seriöser und Schneller Autoankauf Classification Class Winners are in Bold text. Pos. No. Class Driver Entrant Car - Engine Time, Laps Reason Out 1st 38 D England Geoff Lees SWE Eje Elgh Dome Motorsport Dome-Toyota 84C 3:35:59.060 2nd 28 D JPN Kazuyoshi Hoshino JPN Akira Hagiwara Hoshino Racing March-Nissan 83G 3:38.10.800 3rd 25 D JPN Kunimitsu Takahashi JPN Kenji Takahashi Advan Sports Nova Engineering ja ノバ・エンジニアリング Nova Porsche 962C 84 4th 1 D AUS Vern Schuppan JPN Keiichi Suzuki Trust Nova Engineering ja ノバ・エンジニアリング Racing Team Porsche 956B 83 5th 26 D JPN Keiji Matsumoto JPN Osamu Nakako Panasport Japan LM-Nissan 04C 82 6th 62 D JPN Kazuo Mogi JPN Naoki Nagasaka Auto Beaurex Motorsport Lotec-BMW M1C 80 7th 27 D JPN Jirou Yoneyama JPN Hideki Okada From A RacingPorsche 956 80 8th 86 C JPN Yoshimi Katayama JPN Yojiro Terada Mazdaspeed Mazda 737C 79 9th 45 B JPN Makio Nonaka First Morlding Collage-Mazda FM45 77 10th 16 B JPN Ichirou Mizuno JPN Taidou Hashimoto Manatee-Mazda Mk.IV 76 11th 67 B JPN Tsuguo OobaJPN Katsuaki Satou Yamato Honda Ballade CR-X 73 12th 33 B JPN Keiichi Mizutani JPN Hiroyuki Kondou West-Mazda 83S II 71 13th31 B JPN Nobuyoshi Horii JPN Kenji Abe Horii Racing West-Mazda 83S II 71 14th 8 B JPN Masaharu Kinoshita West-Mazda 83S 71 15th 6 B JPN Akihiro Masuda West-Mazda 83S II 70 16th 15 A JPN Shigehito Hirabayashi JPN Hideki Iida Ogawa Nissan Sunny 69 17th 9 B JPN Syuuji Fujii West-Mazda 83S II 68 18th 18 A JPN Kiyotaka Nonomura JPN Mitsuo Yamamoto Nissan Sunny 67 19th 21 B JPN Yukinobu Mizutani JPN Yoshinori Sakurai Manatee-Mazda Mk.IV 67 20th 88 C JPN Norismaka Sakamoto JPN Takayuki Imadu Top Fuel Racing Mazda RX-7 845 66 21st 10 B JPN Nobuyuki Saka JPN Nobuo Naka Ishida Racing West-Mazda 83S II 65 22nd 2 C JPN Chiyomi Totani JPN Noritake Takahara Alpha Cubic Racing Team Renoma-BMW 84C 57 DNF DNF 11 D JPN Masahiro Hasemi JPN Takao Wada Hasemi Motorsport LM-Nissan 04C 51 DNF 5 B JPN Masami Fujita JPN Ken Mizokawa Meiwa Honda Civic 51 DNF 20 D JPN Haruhito Yanagida JPN Aguri Suzuki Central 20 Racing Team LM-Nissan 04C 34 fuel DNF 55 B JPN Tooru Hirano JPN Hirofumi Nishi West-Mazda 83S II 32 DNF 37 B JPN Tetsuya Kasai JPN Kouji Satou Manatee-Mazda Mk.IV 30 DNF 36 D JPN Satoru Nakajima JPN Masanori Sekiya TOM's TOM's-Toyota 85C 23 Engine DNF 29 B JPN Norihiro Takeda JPN Shinji Yamamoto West-Mazda 83S II 15 DNF 77 A JPN Yasumi Fukao JPN Kouichi Nishikawa Nissan Sunny 1 http://www.racingsportcars.com/results/Suzuka-1985-07-04.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160304094628/http://www.racingsportcars.com/results/Suzuka-1985-07-04.html usurped 4 March 2016 AUTOANKAUF FOCUS - Seriöser und Schneller Autoankauf References 30em Category:All Japan Sports Prototype Championship Category:International Suzuka 500km Suzuka