1985 500km Suzuka

The International Suzuka 500 km, was the opening round of the 1985 All Japan Endurance Championship was held at the Suzuka Circuit, on 7 April, in front of a crowd of approximately 23,000.[1]

Report

Entry

A total of 30 cars were entered for the event, across four classes ranging from Modified Hatchbacks to Group C Prototypes.[2]

Qualifying

The pairing of Kunimitsu Takahashi and Kenji Takahashi took pole position for Advan Sports Nova, in their Porsche 962C ahead of the European partnership of Geoff Lees and Eje Elgh for the Dome Motorsport Team, by just 0.07secs.[3]

Race

The race was held over 85 laps of the Suzuka circuit, a distance of 500 km (actual distance was 502.690 km). Lees and Elgh took the winner spoils for the Dome Motorsport team, in their Dome-Toyota 84C. The pair won in a time of 3hr 35:59.060 mins., averaging a speed of 87.273 mph. Second place went to Kazuyoshi Hoshino and Akira Hagiwara in the Hoshino Racing March-Nissan 83G who were the only other finisher to complete the full race distance. One lap adrift in third was the Porsche of Kunimitsu Takahashi and Kenji Takahashi.[4]

Classification

Class Winners are in Bold text.

Pos.	No.	Class	Driver		Entrant	Car - Engine	Time, Laps	Reason Out
1st	38	D	Geoff Lees	Eje Elgh	Dome Motorsport	Dome-Toyota 84C	3:35:59.060
2nd	28	D	Kazuyoshi Hoshino	Akira Hagiwara	Hoshino Racing	March-Nissan 83G	3:38.10.800
3rd	25	D	Kunimitsu Takahashi	Kenji Takahashi	Advan Sports Nova	Porsche 962C	84
4th	1	D	Vern Schuppan	Keiichi Suzuki	Trust Racing Team	Porsche 956B	83
5th	26	D	Keiji Matsumoto	Osamu Nakako	Panasport Japan	LM-Nissan 04C	82
6th	62	D	Kazuo Mogi	Naoki Nagasaka	Auto Beaurex Motorsport	Lotec-BMW M1C	80
7th	27	D	Jirou Yoneyama	Hideki Okada	From A Racing	Porsche 956	80
8th	86	C	Yoshimi Katayama	Yojiro Terada	Mazdaspeed	Mazda 737C	79
9th	45	B	Makio Nonaka		First Morlding	Collage-Mazda FM45	77
10th	16	B	Ichirou Mizuno	Taidou Hashimoto		Manatee-Mazda Mk.IV	76
11th	67	B	Tsuguo Ooba	Katsuaki Satou	Yamato	Honda Ballade CR-X	73
12th	33	B	Keiichi Mizutani	Hiroyuki Kondou		West-Mazda 83S II	71
13th	31	B	Nobuyoshi Horii	Kenji Abe	Horii Racing	West-Mazda 83S II	71
14th	8	B	Masaharu Kinoshita			West-Mazda 83S	71
15th	6	B	Akihiro Masuda			West-Mazda 83S II	70
16th	15	A	Shigehito Hirabayashi	Hideki Iida	Ogawa	Nissan Sunny	69
17th	9	B	Syuuji Fujii			West-Mazda 83S II	68
18th	18	A	Kiyotaka Nonomura	Mitsuo Yamamoto		Nissan Sunny	67
19th	21	B	Yukinobu Mizutani	Yoshinori Sakurai		Manatee-Mazda Mk.IV	67
20th	88	C	Norismaka Sakamoto	Takayuki Imadu	Top Fuel Racing	Mazda RX-7 845	66
21st	10	B	Nobuyuki Saka	Nobuo Naka	Ishida Racing	West-Mazda 83S II	65
22nd	2	C	Chiyomi Totani	Noritake Takahara	Alpha Cubic Racing Team	Renoma-BMW 84C	57	DNF
DNF	11	D	Masahiro Hasemi	Takao Wada	Hasemi Motorsport	LM-Nissan 04C	51
DNF	5	B	Masami Fujita	Ken Mizokawa	Meiwa	Honda Civic	51
DNF	20	D	Haruhito Yanagida	Aguri Suzuki	Central 20 Racing Team	LM-Nissan 04C	34	fuel
DNF	55	B	Tooru Hirano	Hirofumi Nishi		West-Mazda 83S II	32
DNF	37	B	Tetsuya Kasai	Kouji Satou		Manatee-Mazda Mk.IV	30
DNF	36	D	Satoru Nakajima	Masanori Sekiya	TOM’s	TOM’s-Toyota 85C	23	Engine
DNF	29	B	Norihiro Takeda	Shinji Yamamoto		West-Mazda 83S II	15
DNF	77	A	Yasumi Fukao	Kouichi Nishikawa		Nissan Sunny	1

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References

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[1] ttp://www.racingsportcars.com/results/Suzuka-1985-07-04.html

[2] ttp://www.racingsportcars.com/results/Suzuka-1985-07-04.html

[3] ttp://www.racingsportcars.com/grid/Suzuka-1985-07-04.html

[4] ttp://www.racingsportcars.com/results/Suzuka-1985-07-04.html

[5] ttp://www.racingsportcars.com/results/Suzuka-1985-07-04.html