1992 All Japan Sports Prototype Car Endurance Championship

The 1992 All Japan Sports Prototype Car Endurance Championship was the tenth and final season of the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship, which would be replaced by the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship, as sportscar racing in the early 1990s changed drastically with the decline of prototypes. The C1 class champion was the #1 Nissan Motorsports Nissan R92CP driven by Kazuyoshi Hoshino and the C class champion was the #7 and #36 TOM'S Toyota TS010 driven by Geoff Lees.

Schedule edit

All races were held in Japan.

Round	Race	Circuit	Date
1	International Suzuka 500 km	Suzuka Circuit	19 April
2	Fuji 1000 km	Fuji Speedway	4 May
3	Fuji 500 Miles	Fuji Speedway	26 July
4	SUGO International 500 km	Sportsland SUGO	13 September
5	Fuji 1000 km	Fuji Speedway	4 October
6	Inter-Challenge Cup Mine 500 km	Mine Circuit	1 November

Entry list edit

Team	Make	Car	Engine	No.	Drivers	Tyre	Rounds
C1/LD2¹
Nissan Motorsports	Nissan	Nissan R92CP	Nissan VRH35Z 3.5 L Twin Turbo V8	1	Kazuyoshi Hoshino	B	All
					Toshio Suzuki		1–5
					Takao Wada		6
				24	Masahiro Hasemi		All
					Masahiko Kageyama		All
					Jeff Krosnoff		1–3
Mazdaspeed	Mazda	Mazda MXR-01	Mazda MV10 3.5 L V10	5	Yojiro Terada	D	1
Mazdaspeed	Mazda	Mazda MXR-01	Mazda MV10 3.5 L V10	5	Takashi Yorino	D	1
TOM'S	Toyota	Toyota 92C-V	Toyota R36V 3.6 L Turbo V8	8	Masanori Sekiya	B	6
				8	Pierre-Henri Raphanel		6
				36	Masanori Sekiya		1–2, 4–5
				36	Pierre-Henri Raphanel		1–2, 4–5
				99	Steven Andskär		All
					George Fouché		1–5
					Maurizio Sandro Sala		6
From A Racing	Nissan	Nissan R91CK	Nissan VRH35Z 3.5 L Twin Turbo V8	27	Mauro Martini	B	All
					Volker Weidler		1–3
					Katsutomo Kaneishi		1–5
					Heinz-Harald Frentzen		5–6
Kitz Racing Team with SARD	Toyota	Toyota 92C-V	Toyota R36V 3.6 L Turbo V8	39	Roland Ratzenberger	B	All
					Eje Elgh		All
					Eddie Irvine		2–3, 5–6
Team Take One	Nissan	Nissan R91CP	Nissan VRH35Z 3.5 L Twin Turbo V8	61	Hideki Okada	D	All
Team Take One	Nissan	Nissan R91CP	Nissan VRH35Z 3.5 L Twin Turbo V8	61	Thomas Danielsson	D	All
Pleasure Racing	Mazda	Mazda 767B	Mazda RE13J 2.6 L 4-rotor	230	Tetsuji Shiratori	D	1–5
					Masatomo Shimizu		1–5
					Seisaku Suzuki		2–3, 5
C/LD1¹
Navi Connection Racing	Alexel	Alexel Autorama C91	Ford DFR 3.5 L V8	3	Kaoru Iida	D	2
Navi Connection Racing	Alexel	Alexel Autorama C91	Ford DFR 3.5 L V8	3	Yoshiyasu Tachi	D	2
Mazdaspeed	Mazda	Mazda MXR-01	Mazda MV10 3.5 L V10	5	Yojiro Terada	D	2–6
					Takashi Yorino		2–6
					Maurizio Sandro Sala		2–3
Toyota Team TOM'S	Toyota	Toyota TS010	Toyota RV10 3.5 L V10	7	Geoff Lees	G	5
					Jan Lammers		5
					Eddie Irvine		6
					Jacques Villeneuve		6
					Tom Kristensen		6
				36	Geoff Lees		6
				36	Jan Lammers		6
Nissan Motorsports	Nissan	Nissan NP35	Nissan VRT35 3.5 L V12	23	Toshio Suzuki	G	6
Nissan Motorsports	Nissan	Nissan NP35	Nissan VRT35 3.5 L V12	23	Jeff Krosnoff	G	6

^1 – At Round 5 at Fuji Speedway, the C1 and C classes were renamed LD2 and LD1 respectively as the race was part of the Fuji Long Distance Series.

Season results edit

Overall winner in bold. Season results as follows:^[1]

Round	Circuit	C1 Winning Team	C Winning Team
Round	Circuit	C1 Winning Drivers	C Winning Drivers
1	Suzuka Circuit	#24 Nissan Motorsports Nissan R92CP	Did Not Participate
1	Suzuka Circuit	Masahiro Hasemi Jeff Krosnoff Masahiko Kageyama	Did Not Participate
2	Mt. Fuji	#1 Nissan Motorsports Nissan R92CP	None
2	Mt. Fuji	Kazuyoshi Hoshino Toshio Suzuki	None
3	Mt. Fuji	#1 Nissan Motorsports Nissan R92CP	#5 Mazdaspeed Mazda MXR-01
3	Mt. Fuji	Kazuyoshi Hoshino Toshio Suzuki	Yojiro Terada Maurizio Sandro Sala
4	Sportsland SUGO	#1 Nissan Motorsports Nissan R92CP	None
4	Sportsland SUGO	Kazuyoshi Hoshino Toshio Suzuki	None
5	Mt. Fuji Report	#1 Nissan Motorsports Nissan R92CP	#7 TOM'S Toyota TS010
5	Mt. Fuji Report	Kazuyoshi Hoshino Toshio Suzuki	Geoff Lees Jan Lammers
6	Mine Circuit	#1 Nissan Motorsports Nissan R92CP	#36 TOM'S Toyota TS010
6	Mine Circuit	Kazuyoshi Hoshino Takao Wada	Geoff Lees Jan Lammers

Point Ranking edit

C1 Class (Top 5) edit

Drivers edit

Rank	Drivers	Number/Team	Points	Wins	Distance
1	Kazuyoshi Hoshino	#1 Nissan Motorsports Nissan R92CP	103	5	2640.506 km
2	Toshio Suzuki	#1 Nissan Motorsports Nissan R92CP	83	4	1696.02 km
3	Pierre-Henri Raphanel	#8 TOM'S Toyota 92C-V #36 TOM'S Toyota 92C-V	73	0	2159.371 km
4	Masanori Sekiya	#8 TOM'S Toyota 92C-V #36 TOM'S Toyota 92C-V	73	0	2033.509 km
5	Masahiro Hasemi	#24 Nissan Motorsports Nissan R92CP	68	1	2054.971 km

C Class (Top 5) edit

Drivers edit

Rank	Drivers	Number/Team	Points	Wins	Distance
1	Geoff Lees	#7 TOM'S Toyota TS010 #36 TOM'S Toyota TS010	40	2	879.409 km
2	Jan Lammers	#7 TOM'S Toyota TS010 #36 TOM'S Toyota TS010	40	2	623.913 km
3	Takashi Yorino	#5 Mazdaspeed Mazda MXR-01	27	0	826.324 km
4	Yojiro Terada	#5 Mazdaspeed Mazda MXR-01	27	1	613.288 km
5	Eddie Irvine	#7 TOM'S Toyota TS010	15	0	291.508 km

References edit

^ "JSPC 1992". Archived from the original on 15 November 2009.

External links edit

1992-C 全日本スポーツプロトタイプカー耐久選手権 (in Japanese)

[1] "JSPC 1992". Archived from the original on 15 November 2009.

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