1998 Japanese Touring Car Championship season

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

Contents

Teams & Drivers

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
Sebastian Martino 2-3
Dandelion Racing Toyota Corona EXiV 68 Ruben Derfler All

Calendar

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

Championship Standings

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 Ruben 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 Sebastian Martino 9 DNS DNS 4
Pos Driver FUJ
 MOT
 SUG
 SUZ
 MIN
 AID
 FUJ
 Pts
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver 2nd place
Bronze 3rd place
Green Finished, in points
Blue Finished, no points
Not classified (NC)
Purple Did not finish (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 participate
Excluded (EX)

Bold - Pole
Italics - Fastest lap

References

  1. ^ http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fms.bridgestone.co.jp%2Fdatabase%2Frace_list_category04%3Fcid%3D20&sl=ja&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8
  2. ^ http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jaf.or.jp%2FCGI%2Fmsports%2Fresults%2Frace%2Flist.cgi%3Ftype%3DTC&sl=ja&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8
  3. ^ http://www.driverdb.com/standings/474-1998/
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