Motoharu Kurosawa

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Motoharu Kurosawa (黒澤元治, Kurosawa Motoharu, born 6 August 1940 in Hitachi, Ibaraki) (nicknamed Gan-san (ガンさん)) is a retired professional Japanese racing driver who was a factory driver for Nissan. After his retirement from racing, he became motor journalist and also worked as an advisor and test driver for various automotive manufacturers and tyre manufacturers. He was one of the regular presenters of the Best Motoring automotive video journal series, as well as being a judge on "Car of the Year Japan". He has three sons: Haruki, Tsubasa and Takuya who are also racing drivers.

Racing record

Japanese Top Formula Championship results

(key)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	DC	Points
1973	Heroes Racing	FUJ 1	SUZ 2	SUZ	SUZ 1					1st	42
1974	?	SUZ 1	SUZ	SUZ	SUZ					3rd	12
1977	Tourney Racing	SUZ 2	SUZ 3	MIN	SUZ 5	FUJ 14	FUJ	SUZ Ret	SUZ	8th	35
1981	?	SUZ	SUZ 6	SUZ 9	SUZ 8	SUZ 5				10th	19
1982	?	SUZ 7	FUJ 3	SUZ 4	SUZ 6	SUZ 17	SUZ			6th	32

References

http://www.bestmotoring.jp/gansan/index.html

Sporting positions
Preceded by None	Japanese Formula 2000 Champion 1973	Succeeded by Noritake Takahara

v t e Best Motoring

Presenters (past and present)	Ara Hattori Iida Ito Katsura Kazama Kinoshita M. Kurosawa T. Kurosawa Michigami Nakaya Obata Orido Shimizu Taniguchi Tanaka Tsuchiya Wakisaka

Others	Kodansha

Persondata
Name	Kurosawa, Motoharu
Alternative names
Short description	Japanese racing driver
Date of birth	1940
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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