1989 Fuji 1000km

The JAF Grand Prix All Japan Fuji 1000 km, was the second round of both the 1989 All Japan Sports Prototype Championship and the 1989 Fuji Long Distance Series was held at the Fuji International Speedway, on the 30 April, in front of a crowd of approximately 58,000.

Layout of the Fuji Speedway (1987–2003)

Report

Entry

A total of 17 cars were entered for the event, in two classes, one for cars running to Group C1 specification and the other to IMSA GTP regulations.

Qualifying

The Nissan Motorsport car of Anders Olofsson and Masahiro Hasemi took pole position, in their Nissan R88C ahead of team mates Kazuyoshi Hoshino and Toshio Suzuki, by only 0.269secs.

Race

The race was held over 224 laps of the Fuji circuit, a distance of 1000 km (actual distance was 1001.28 km). Vern Schuppan, Eje Elgh and Keiji Matsumoto took the winner spoils for the Omron Racing Team, driving their Porsche 962C. The trio won in a time of 5hr 30:36.816mins., averaging a speed of 133.571 mph. Second place went to George Fouché and Steven Andskär in the Trust Racing Team’s Porsche 962GTi who finished about 15 seconds adrift. Coming in third was the pole winning Nissan of Olofsson and Hasemi. They finished 1 lap behind the winners.

Classification

Result

Class Winners are in Bold text.

Pos.	No.	Class	Drivers			Entrant	Car - Engine	Time, Laps	Reason Out
1st	55	C1	Vern Schuppan	Eje Elgh	Keiji Matsumoto	Omron RacingTeam	Porsche 962C	5:30:36.816
2nd	100	C1	George Fouché	Steven Andskär		Trust Racing Team	Porsche 962GTi	5:30:51.215
3rd	24	C1	Anders Olofsson	Masahiro Hasemi		Nissan Motorsport	Nissan R88C	223
4th	25	C1	Kunimitsu Takahashi	Stanley Dickens		Advan Alpha Nova	Porsche 962C	223
5th	16	C1	Masanori Sekiya	Hideki Okada		Leyton House Racing Team	Porsche 962CK6	220
6th	23	C1	Kazuyoshi Hoshino	Toshio Suzuki		Nissan Motorsport	Nissan R88C	214
7th	85	C1	Takao Wada	Akio Morimoto		Cabin Racing Team with Team Le Mans	March-Nissan 88	212
8th	36	C1	Geoff Lees	Hitoshi Ogawa		Toyota team TOM’S	Toyota 89C-V	211
9th	202	GTP	Yoshimi Katayama	Yojiro Terada	Takashi Yorino	Mazdaspeed	Mazda 767B	205
10th	50	C1	Roland Ratzenberger	Keiichi Suzuki	Kouji Satou	Tenoras Toyota SARD Racing Team	Toyota 89C-V	205
11th	240	GTP	Toshihiko Nogami	Syuuji Kasuya	Yoshiyuki Ogura	Katayama Racing	Mazda 757	197
12th	230	GTP	Tetsuji Shiratori	Syuuji Fujii	Seisaku Suzuki	Shizumats Racing	Mazda 757	195
13th	26	C1	Kazuo Mogi	Kenji Takahashi		Advan Alpha Tomei	Porsche 962C	190
DNF	7	C1	Oscar Larruari	Maurizio Sandro Sala		The Alpha Racing with Brun	Porsche 962C	76	Turbocharger
DNF	27	C1	Akihiko Nakaya	Harald Grohs		From A Racing	Porsche 962C	31	Engine
DNF	22	C1	Naoki Nagasaka	Chiyomi Totani		Alpha Cubic Racing Team	Porsche 962CK6	27	Differential
DNF	88	C1	Kiyoshi Misaki	Jirou Yoneyama	Hideo Fukuyama	British Barn Racing Team	BB-Ford 89R	12	Engine

• Fastest lap: Geoff Lees/Hitoshi Ogawa, 1:21:418secs. (112.98 mph)