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.
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 teammates 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 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 MansMarch-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 31Engine 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)
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