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1998 Japanese Touring Car Championship

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The 1998 Japanese Touring Car Championship was the 14th and final edition of the series. It began at Fuji Speedway on 5 April and finished after seven events, also at Fuji Speedway on 8 November. Masanori Sekiya won the championship for the second time, driving for Toyota Team TOM's.[1][2][3]

Masanori Sekiya won the championship driving a Toyota Chaser.

Teams & Drivers edit

Team Car No. Drivers Rounds
Object T Toyota Corona EXiV 11   Tatsuya Tanigawa 1
  Akihiko Nakaya 3-7
Racing Project Bandoh Toyota Corona EXiV 19   Katsutomo Kaneishi All
Tsuchiya Engineering Toyota Corona EXiV 24   Takeshi Tsuchiya All
Toyota Chaser 25   Keiichi Tsuchiya All
Toyota Team TOM's Toyota Chaser 36   Kelvin Burt All
37   Masanori Sekiya All
Toyota Team Cerumo Toyota Chaser 38   Yuji Tachikawa All
39   Hironori Takeuchi All
SYMS Racing Subaru Impreza Sport Wagon 66   Hideshi Matsuda 1
  Sebastián Martino 2-3
Dandelion Racing Toyota Corona EXiV 68   Rubén Derfler All

Calendar edit

Round Circuit Date Pole Position Fastest Lap Winning driver Winning team Ref
1 R1   Fuji Speedway, Shizuoka 5 April   Katsutomo Kaneishi   Masanori Sekiya   Hironori Takeuchi Toyota Team Cerumo [4]
R2   Katsutomo Kaneishi   Katsutomo Kaneishi Racing Project Bandoh [5]
2 R3   Twin Ring Motegi, Tochigi 10 May   Masanori Sekiya   Hironori Takeuchi   Masanori Sekiya Toyota Team TOM's [6]
3 R4   Sportsland SUGO, Miyagi 24 May   Masanori Sekiya   Masanori Sekiya   Masanori Sekiya Toyota Team TOM's [7]
R5   Kelvin Burt   Kelvin Burt Toyota Team TOM's [8]
4 R6   Suzuka Circuit, Mie 21 June   Hironori Takeuchi   Masanori Sekiya   Katsutomo Kaneishi Racing Project Bandoh [9]
R7   Kelvin Burt   Masanori Sekiya Toyota Team TOM's [10]
5 R8   Mine Central Circuit, Yamaguchi 26 July   Masanori Sekiya   Masanori Sekiya   Masanori Sekiya Toyota Team TOM's [11]
R9   Yuji Tachikawa   Masanori Sekiya Toyota Team TOM's [12]
6 R10   TI Circuit Aida, Okayama 16 August   Masanori Sekiya   Katsutomo Kaneishi   Masanori Sekiya Toyota Team TOM's [13]
7 R11   Fuji Speedway, Shizuoka 8 November   Katsutomo Kaneishi   Katsutomo Kaneishi   Katsutomo Kaneishi Racing Project Bandoh [14]

Championship Standings edit

Pos Driver FUJ MOT SUG SUZ MIN AID FUJ Pts
1   Masanori Sekiya 8 2 1 1 3 4 1 1 1 1 7 128
2   Katsutomo Kaneishi Ret 1 6 3 Ret 1 2 3 2 Ret 1 108
3   Hironori Takeuchi 1 6 4 2 2 3 3 2 Ret 7 5 100
4   Yuji Tachikawa 7 3 2 6 4 2 Ret 5 3 3 4 100
5   Kelvin Burt 6 4 5 4 1 Ret Ret 9 4 2 Ret 86
6   Takeshi Tsuchiya 2 5 3 Ret 7 5 5 4 Ret 5 Ret 78
7   Keiichi Tsuchiya 3 8 7 5 6 Ret 4 8 5 4 3 63
8   Rubén Derfler 4 Ret 8 Ret 5 6 Ret 6 6 5 2 62
9   Akihiko Nakaya Ret Ret Ret 6 7 Ret 8 6 32
10   Tatsuya Tanigawa 5 7 14
11   Hideshi Matsuda 9 9 5
12   Sebastián Martino 9 DNS DNS 4
Pos Driver FUJ MOT SUG SUZ MIN AID FUJ Pts
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver Second place
Bronze Third place
Green Points finish
Blue Non-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Retired (Ret)
Red Did not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black Disqualified (DSQ)
White Did not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not practice (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)

Bold - Pole
Italics - Fastest lap

References edit

  1. ^ "Google Translate".
  2. ^ "Google Translate".
  3. ^ "Japanese Touring Car Championship 1998 standings | Driver Database".
  4. ^ "富士スーパーツーリングカーレース JTCC第1戦 リザルト". モータースポーツトップ (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-12-26.
  5. ^ "富士スーパーツーリングカーレース JTCC第2戦 リザルト". モータースポーツトップ (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-12-26.
  6. ^ "もてぎスーパーツーリングカーレース JTCC第3戦 リザルト". モータースポーツトップ (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-12-26.
  7. ^ "SUGOスーパーツーリングカー選手権レース スーパーツーリングカー第4戦 リザルト". モータースポーツトップ (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-12-26.
  8. ^ "SUGOスーパーツーリングカー選手権レース スーパーツーリングカー第5戦 リザルト". モータースポーツトップ (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-12-26.
  9. ^ "JTCC SUZUKA SUPER TOURING JTCC第6戦 リザルト". モータースポーツトップ (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-12-26.
  10. ^ "JTCC SUZUKA SUPER TOURING JTCC第7戦 リザルト". モータースポーツトップ (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-12-26.
  11. ^ "CP MINE スーパーツーリングカーレース JTCC第8戦 リザルト". モータースポーツトップ (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-12-26.
  12. ^ "CP MINE スーパーツーリングカーレース JTCC第9戦 リザルト". モータースポーツトップ (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-12-26.
  13. ^ "TIスーパーツーリングカー&F3レース JTCC第10戦 リザルト". モータースポーツトップ (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-12-26.
  14. ^ "第14回インターTEC JTCC第11戦 リザルト". モータースポーツトップ (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-12-26.
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