is a Japanese racing driver from Kanagawa Prefecture.Masami Kageyama biography, Speedsport Magazine, Retrieved 2014-09-18 His older brother is Masahiko Kageyama who was also a successful racing driver in similar categories.

Racing career

Early career - Japanese formula and touring cars Kageyama began his career by winning the inaugural 1990 Formula Toyota championship. In 1991 he moved up to the All-Japan Formula Three Championship and finished fourth with one win. He embarked on a full-fledged touring car racing campaign in 1992, competing in the All Japan Touring Car Championship Class 3 in a Honda Civic, finishing ninth. He also continued in Japanese F3 but failed to finish in the points.

Kageyama continued in the same series and teams in 1993, finishing 11th in JTCC-C3 and 15th in F3 Japan. 1994 was his breakout year in Japanese F3 where he drove for the famous Tom's team and finished second in points with two poles, one win and six podium finishes. He also drove in the All Japan GT Championship (JGTC) and made two starts in Japanese Formula 3000 in 1994.

Formula Nippon and International GT cars In 1995, Kageyama raced full-time in both Japanese F3000, where he finished 13th in points with the Advan Sport Pal team, and in the Japanese Touring Car Championship where he finished 10th in points driving a Toyota. In 1996, Kageyama only raced in JGTC in a Nissan 300ZX and in JTCC in a Toyota Corona EXiV, however he also made his 24 Hours of Le Mans debut in a Toyota Supra.

However, the team failed to finish. In 1997, Kageyama finished second in JGTC-GT500 in a Supra fielded by Toyota Team SARD. He also returned to Formula Nippon (formerly Japanese F3000) and finished fifth in the 1997 championship.

1998 was a tremendously successful year for Kageyama, as he finished second in Formula Nippon, finished tenth in the 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans in a factory-backed Nissan R390 GT1 and was the JGTC-GT500 champion in a factory Nissan Skyline GT-R. In 1999, his fortunes turned as he only managed ninth in points in his JGTC-GT500 Skyline and only competed in one Formula Nippon race.

2000s In the 2000 24 Hours of Le Mans, Kageyama's Team Dragon squad finished sixth overall in their Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S. Kageyama also rebounded in JGTC and finished second in points in his Skyline GT-R. In 2001 Kageyama fell to seventh in JGTC and returned to Formula Nippon, finishing ninth in points. 2002 was a very disappointing JGTC season with Kageyama only finishing 28th in points. In 2003 however, he rebounded to fifth in points in his NISMO Skyline GT-R. In 2004 he stayed with the NISMO team as they switched cars to the new Nissan Fairlady Z. Kageyama finished ninth in points. In 2005, he dropped down to the GT300 class still driving a Fairlady Z, but switched teams to Endless Sports. He finished sixth in GT300. He improved to fourth in 2006 in the same car, team, and class. The same combination finished fifth in points in 2007.

Kageyama returned to Le Mans for the 2008 race but the Tōkai University Courage-Oreca LC70 he drove failed to finish. He switched teams in JGTC-GT300 to a Hankook-fielded Porsche 911 GT3 RSR and fell to 21st in points. The team improved to ninth in points in 2009 and also made two starts in the Asian Le Mans Series. The team and Kageyama fell back to 17th place in JGTC-GT300 in 2010, however they rebounded to finish third in 2011 and second in 2012. However, they fell back to 19th in 2013 and Kageyama left the team in 2014 for an APR Nissan GT-R GT3.

Racing record

Complete Japanese Formula 3 results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Team Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 DC Pts 1990 Tomei Sport Nissan SUZ FUJ SUZ TSU SEN SUG TSU SUZ MIN TSU NC 0 1991 Tomei Sport Mugen SUZ FUJ FUJ SUZ TSU SEN MIN TSU SUG SUZSUZ 4th 18 1992 Tomei Sport MugenSUZTSUFUJSUZSENAIDMINSUGSUZSUZ NC 0 1993 Tomei Sport MugenSUZTSUFUJSUZ SENTAI MINSUGSUZSUZ 15th 1 1994 TOM'S ToyotaSUZFUJTSUSUZSENTOKMINTAISUGSUZ 2nd 41

Complete Japanese Touring Car Championship (1994-) results Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 DC Pts 1994 Toyota Team Tom's Toyota Corona AUT1 AUT2 SUG1 SUG2 TOK1 TOK2 SUZ1 SUZ2 MIN1 MIN2 AID1 AID2 TSU1 TSU2 SEN1 SEN2 FUJ1 FUJ2 21st 12 1995 Tsuchiya Engineering Toyota Corolla Ceres FUJ1 FUJ2 TOK1 TOK2 10th 34 Toyota Corona EXiV SUG1 SUG2 SUZ1 SUZ2 MIN1 MIN2 AID1 AID2 SEN1 SEN2 FUJ1 FUJ2 1996 Tsuchiya Engineering Toyota Corona EXiV FUJ1 FUJ2 SUG1 SUG2 SUZ1 SUZ2 MIN1 MIN2 SEN1 SEN2 TOK1 TOK2 FUJ1 FUJ2 11th 39 1997 Tsuchiya Engineering Toyota Corona EXiV FUJ1 FUJ2 AID1 AID2 SUG1 SUG2 SUZ1 SUZ2 MIN1 MIN2 SEN1 SEN2 TOK1 TOK2 FUJ1 FUJ2 6th 61

Japanese Top Formula Championship results Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 DC Points 1994 Team Le Mans SUZ FUJ MIN SUZ SUG FUJ SUZ14 FUJ FUJ SUZ11 NC 0 1995 Advan Sport Pal SUZ12 FUJC MINRet SUZRet SUGRet FUJRet TOK3 FUJ14 SUZRet 13th 4 1996 Advan Pal Checkers SUZ10 MIN5 FUJRet TOK2 SUZ17 SUG15 FUJ9 MIN11 SUZRet FUJRet 11th 8 1997 Navi Connection Racing Team SUZ11 MIN9 FUJ11 SUZ5 SUG6 FUJ4 MIN7 MOT2 FUJ3SUZ4 5th 19 1998 Shionogi Team Nova SUZ2 MIN10 FUJRet MOT3 SUZ3 SUG1 FUJC MIN6 FUJ4 SUZ12nd38 1999 Be Brides Impul SUZRet MOTRet MIN6 FUJ12 SUZ1 SUGRet FUJRet MINRet MOT4 SUZ46th17 2001 Cosmo Oil Racing Team Cerumo SUZ4 MOT5 MIN6 FUJ5 SUZRet SUG11 FUJ6 MIN4 MOT8 SUZ79th12 2002 Team LeMans SUZ14 FUJRet MIN SUZ MOT SUG FUJ MIN MOT SUZNC0 2004 Cosmo Oil Racing Team Cerumo SUZ SUG MOT SUZ SUG MINRet SEP11 MOTRet SUZ15NC0

Complete JGTC/Super GT Results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Team Car Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 DC Pts 1997Toyota Team SardToyota SupraGT500SUZFUJSENFUJMINSUG2nd67 1998NismoNissan Skyline GT-RGT500SUZFUJSENFUJMOTMINSUG1st67 1999ImpulNissan Skyline GT-RGT500SUZFUJSUGMINFUJTAIMOT7th40 2000NismoNissan Skyline GT-RGT500MOTFUJSUGFUJTAIMINSUZ2nd68 2001NismoNissan Skyline GT-RGT500TAIFUJSUGFUJMOTSUZMIN4th53 2002NismoNissan Skyline GT-RGT500TAIFUJSUGSEPFUJMOTMINSUZ19th19 2003NismoNissan Skyline GT-RGT500TAIFUJSUGFUJFUJMOTAUTSUZ3rd65 2004NismoNissan Fairlady ZGT500TAISUGSEPTOKMOTAUTSUZ9th39 2005Endless SportsNissan Fairlady ZGT300TAIFUJSEPSUGMOTFUJAUTSUZ6th58 2006Endless SportsNissan Fairlady ZGT300SUZTAIFUJSEPSUGSUZMOTAUTFUJ4th62 2007Endless SportsNissan Fairlady ZGT300SUZTAIFUJSEPSUGSUZMOTAUTFUJ5th59 2008Hankook KtrPorsche 996 GT3-RSGT300SUZTAIFUJSEPSUGSUZMOTAUTFUJ21st18 2009Hankook KtrPorsche 996 GT3-RSGT300TAISUZFUJSEPSUGSUZFUJAUTMOT9th45 2010Hankook KtrPorsche 996 GT3-RSGT300SUZTAIFUJSEPSUGSUZFUJMOT17th8 2011Hankook KtrPorsche 996 GT3-RSGT300TAIFUJSEPSUGSUZFUJAUTMOT3rd58 2012Hankook KtrPorsche 911 GT3-RGT300TAIFUJSEPSUGSUZFUJAUTMOT2nd75 2013Hankook KtrPorsche 911 GT3-RGT300TAIFUJSEPSUGSUZFUJFUJAUTMOT19th11 2014AprNissan GT-R NISMO GT3GT300TAIFUJAUTSUGFUJSUZCHAMOT32nd5 2015AprNissan GT-R NISMO GT3GT300TAIFUJCHAFUJSUZSUGAUTMOTNC0 2016Team MachToyota 86 MCGT300TAIFUJSUGFUJSUZCHAMOTMOTNC0 2017Dijon RacingNissan GT-R NISMO GT3GT300TAIFUJAUTSUGFUJSUZCHAMOTNC0

24 Hours of Le Mans results Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps 1996 Team SARD Toyota Co. Ltd. Masanori Sekiya Hidetoshi Mitsusada Toyota Supra LM GT1 205 DNF DNF 1998 Nissan Motorsports TWR Satoshi Motoyama Takuya Kurosawa Nissan R390 GT1 GT1 319 10th 9th 2000 TV Asahi Team Dragon Toshio Suzuki Masahiko Kageyama Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S-Élan LMP900 340 6th 6th 2008 Tōkai University YGK Power Toshio Suzuki Haruki Kurosawa Courage-Oreca LC70-YGK LMP1 185 DNF DNF

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