Fuji Intl. Speedway -RIJ- German Michael Krumm set the fastest time for
Sunday's All Japan GT Championship Round-2, All Japan Fuji GT Race, by
1 minute 28.812 second. Krumm will start from Pole Position with 1995
All Japan F3 Champion Spanish Pedro de la Rosa who won the first round
of Formula Nippon last Sunday.
Second fastest time was marked by Masami Kageyama's 1'29.213.
His regular team mate Olivier Groullard from France is absent for Le
Mans 24 Hours Race's Pre Qualifying Days and Tatsuya Tanigawa replaced
Groullard for this race.
Third fastest drivers were 1995 Le Mans winner Masanori Sekiya who
will drive McLaren F1-GTR again at Le Mans this year, and 1992 Daytona
24 Hours winner Toshio Suzuki, followed by Eiichi Tajima and Belgian
Marc Goossens.
Fifth grid was set by Hironori Takeuchi and Katsutomo Kaneishi who
will drive one of McLaren F1 GTR with Keiichi Tsuchiya and Akihiko
Nakaya at Le Mans 24 Hours Race.
Top five grids were dominated by Toyota Supra GT cars. Brand new
Honda NSX, made by Dome, set sixth fastest time by veteran Kunimitsu
Takahashi and Akira Iida, followed by Masahiro Hasemi and Tetsuya
Tanaka's Nissan Skyline GT-R.
Kazuyoshi Hoshino and some drivers chose to go to Pre-Qualifyin
Sessions for Le Mans 24 Hours Race in this weekend.
RIJ-Mitsuru Sugaya/Tokyo,
Starting Grids for All Japan Fuji GT Race:
May 3, 1997
Weather: Rain, Course: Wet (Wet on 30 minutes after 1st qualifying session
started.)
Pos No CLASS Driver Driver CAR TIME LAP
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1 36 5 Michael Krumm(D)/Pedro De La Rosa(E) TOYOTA SUPRA R1'28.812 22
(181.192km/h)
2 39 5 Masami Kageyama/Tatsuya Tanigawa TOYOTA SUPRA R1'29.213 16
3 37 5 Masanori Sekiya/Toshio Suzuki TOYOTA SUPRA R1'29.335 25
4 5 5 Eiichi Tajima/Mark Gousen(B) TOYOTA SUPRA 1'29.536 11
5 38 5 Hironori Takeuchi/Katsutomo Kaneishi TOYOTA SUPRA 1'29.617 24
6 100 5 Kunimitsu Takahashi/Akira Iida HONDA NSX 1'29.728 14
7 3 5 Masahiro Hasemi/Tetsuya Tanaka NISSAN SKYLINE 1'30.055 27
8 556 5 Masahiko Kageyama/Masahiko Kondo NISSAN SKYLINE 1'30.193 26
9 8 5 Bertrand Gachot(F)/Paul Belmond(F) TOYOTA SUPRA 1'30.229 23
10 18 5 Takuya Kurosawa/Katsumi Yamamoto HONDA NSX 1'30.273 28
11 12 5 Satoshi Motoyama/Fuminori Mizuno NISSAN SKYLINE 1'30.309 36
12 2 5 Aguri Suzuki/Marco Apicella(I) NISSAN SKYLINE 1'30.322 22
13 75 5 Yuji Tachikawa/Tsuyoshi Takahashi NISSAN 300ZX 1'30.781 11
14 13 5 Mitsuhiro Kinoshita/Yasushi Kikuchi NISSAN SKYLINE 1'31.049 23
15 10 5 Kaoru Iida/Ralf Firman Jr.(GB) PORSCHE 911 GT2 1'31.453 28
16 30 5 Yoji Yamada/Kazuo Motegi PORSCHE 911 GT2 1'31.566 20
17 4 5 Tatsuhiko Kaneumi/Mitsutake Koma PORSCHE 911 GT2 1'33.660 18
18 88 5 Takao Wada/Hisashi Wada DIABLO GTR3 1'34.517 10
19 19 3 Manabu Orito/Hideo Fukuyama NISSAN SILVIA 1'36.285 20
20 25 3 Takeshi Tsuchiya/Masaoki Nagashima TOYOTA MR2 1'36.928 26
21 51 3 Masamitsu Ishihara/Katsunori Iketani PORSCHE 993 RSR 1'36.973 16
22 6 3 Hironori Kato/Takahiro Fujita TOYOTA MR2 1'38.142 9
23 21 3 Yasushi Hitotsuyama/Kenji Yamamoto BMW E36 1'38.164 17
24 7 3 Shinichi Yamaji/Haruhiko Matsumoto MAZDA RX7 1'38.181 13
25 72 3 Norio Makiguchi/Takeshi Asami BMW E36 1'39.103 23
26 910 3 Seiichi Sodeyama/Tomohiko Sunako PORSCHE 993 RSR 1'39.371 20
27 26 3 Keiichi Suzuki/Morio Nitta PORSCHE 964 RSR 1'40.309 12
28 71 3 Kaoru Hoshino/Masaki Kiuchi PORSCHE 911 GT2 1'40.473 14
29 27 3 Tetsuya Ota/Anders Olofsson(S) FERRARI F355 1'41.039 21
30 70 3 Yoshizo Ishibashi/Nobuo Komiya PORSCHE 993 RSR 1'43.436 11
31 17 3 Toshihiko Nogami/Tomoyuki Hosono MAZDA RX7 1'43.512 8
32 91 3 Masahiro Matsunaga/Junko Mihara TOYOTA MR2 1'39.457 21
33 20 3 Kenji Takahashi/Hiroaki Suga PORSCHE 993 RSR 1'40.185 23
34 55 3 Toshihiro Fukasawa/Masaaki Nagashima MAZDA RX7 1'40.884 4
35 16 3 Motoji Sekine/Hiroyuki Iiri BMW E36 1'43.127 16
36 81 3 Nobuyuki Oyagi/Takayuki Kinoshita NISSAN SILVIA 1'43.731 15
37 79 3 Masanori Sugiyama/Hiroyasu Aoyagi NISSAN SILVIA 1'44.520 22
38 11 3 Hiromoto Isimori/Kinji Suzuki NISSAN SKYLINE 1'45.747 22
39 28 3 Masahiro Yamazaki/Masami Sugiyama FERRARI 355 1'46.346 9
40 45 3 Tsuyoshi Yuasa/Toshiaki Hanai NISSAN SILVIA 1'55.922 20
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57 3 Hideyuki Tamamoto/Michiko Okuyama
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Qualification Time (130%): 1'55.856
R=New CCourse Record (Old record: 1'29.528)
Course length: 4.470km
Class: 5 = GT500, 3 = GT300
32nd - 40th grids: All drivers could not qualify the 130% time, but
allowed to start.
RIJ-Mitsuru Sugaya/Tokyo,