1989 All Japan Sports Prototype Car Endurance Championship

1989 All Japan Sports Prototype Car Endurance Championship season
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The 1989 All Japan Sports Prototype Car Endurance Championship was the seventh season of the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The 1989 champion was the #25 Advan Alpha Nova Porsche 962C driven by Kunimitsu Takahashi.

Schedule

All races were held in Japan.

Round	Race	Circuit	Date
1	All Japan Fuji 500 km	Fuji Speedway	12 March
2	JAF Grand Prix All Japan Fuji 1000 km	Fuji Speedway	30 April
3	All Japan Fuji 500 Miles	Fuji Speedway	23 July
4	International Suzuka 1000 km	Suzuka Circuit	3 December
5	Interchallenge Fuji 1000 km	Fuji Speedway	8 October

• ^1 – Round 4 at the Suzuka Circuit was originally scheduled for 27 August, however due to a typhoon the race was rescheduled for 3 December.

Entry list

Team	Car	No	Drivers	Tyre	Rounds
Alpha Nova Racing	Porsche 962C	6	Jesús Pareja	Y	5
			Walter Brun		5
			Costas Los		5
		7	Oscar Larrauri		All
			Maurizio Sandro Sala		All
			Walter Brun		1
		25	Kunimitsu Takahashi		All
			Stanley Dickens		All
		26	Kenji Takahashi		All
			Kazuo Mogi		All
		22	Naoki Nagasaka	B	All
			Chiyomi Totani		All
			Giovanni Lavaggi		4–5
Joest Racing	Porsche 962C	8	Henri Pescarolo	G	5
			Jean-Louis Ricci		5
		9	Bob Wollek		5
			Frank Jelinski		5
Leyton House Racing	Porsche 962C	16	Masanori Sekiya	B	All
			Hideki Okada		All
Team Davey	Porsche 962C	19	Tim Lee-Davey	D	5
			Desire Wilson		5
Nissan Motorsports	Nissan R88C Nissan R89C	23	Kazuyoshi Hoshino	D B	All
			Toshio Suzuki		All
		24	Masahiro Hasemi		All
			Anders Olofsson		All
From A Racing	Porsche 962C	27	Akihiko Nakaya	D B	All
			Harald Grohs		All
Takefuji Racing Team	Porsche 962C	33	Johnny Herbert	D	5
			Martin Donnelly		5
Toyota Team TOM'S	Toyota 89C-V	36	Geoff Lees	B	All
			Hitoshi Ogawa		1–2, 4
			Ross Cheever		3–5
		38	Paolo Barilla		3–5
			Hitoshi Ogawa		3, 5
			Johnny Dumfries		4
Toyota Team SARD	Toyota 89C-V Toyota 90C-V	50	Roland Ratzenberger	D	All
			Keiichi Suzuki		All
			David Sears		1
			Koji Sato		2
			Jean-Pierre Jabouille		5
Omron Racing	Porsche 962C	55	Eje Elgh	D	All
			Vern Schuppan		All
			Keiji Matsumoto		1–4
Team LeMans	March 88G-Nissan	85	Osamu Nakako	Y	All
			Akio Morimoto		All
			Koji Sato		3
British Barn Racing	TOM'S 86C-Ford	88	Jiro Yoneyama	D	All
			Kiyoshi Misaki		1–2, 4–5
			Hideo Fukuyama		2–5
Trust Racing	Porsche 962C	100	George Fouche	D	All
			Steven Andskar		All
Mazdaspeed	Mazda 767 Mazda 767B	201	Takashi Yorino	D	1
			Tetsuya Ota		1
			Yojiro Terada		5
			Pierre Dieudonné		5
			Yoshimi Katayama		5
		202	Yoshimi Katayama		1–4
			Yojiro Terada		1–4
			Takashi Yorino		2–5
			David Kennedy		5
Shizumatsu Racing	Mazda 757	230	Tetsuji Shiratori	D	All
			Shuji Fujii		All
			Seisaku Suzuki		All
Katayama Racing	Mazda 757	240	Kazuhiko Oda	D	1, 5
			Toshihiko Nogami		1–2
			Shunji Kasuya		2
			Yoshiyuki Ogura		2
			Keiichi Mizutani		5
			Tomiko Yoshikawa		5

Season results

Season results as follows:

Round	Circuit	Winning Team
		Winning Drivers
1	Mt. Fuji	#27 From A Racing Porsche 962C
		Harald Grohs Akihiko Nakaya
2	Mt. Fuji Report	#55 Omron Racing Porsche 962C
		Vern Schuppan Eje Elgh Keiji Matsumoto
3	Mt. Fuji	#16 Leyton House Racing Porsche 962C
		Hideki Okada Masanori Sekiya
4	Suzuka Circuit Report	#25 Alpha Nova Porsche 962C
		Kunimitsu Takahashi Stanley Dickens
5	Mt. Fuji	#38 Toyota Team TOM'S Toyota 89C-V
		Hitoshi Ogawa Paolo Barilla

Point Ranking

Drivers

Rank	Drivers	Number/Team	Points	Wins	Distance
1	Kunimitsu Takahashi	#25 Alpha Nova Porsche 962C	56	1	2077.617 km
2	Stanley Dickens		56	1	1794.012 km
3	Geoff Lees	#23 Toyota Team TOM'S Toyota 89C-V	55	0	1945.209 km
4	Steven Andskar	#100 Trust Racing Porsche 962C	55	0	1379.514 km
5	Eje Elgh	#55 Omron Racing Porsche 962C	47	1	1215.84 km
6	Vern Schuppan		47	1	701.79 km

Makes

Rank	Make	Points	Wins
1	Porsche	95	4
2	Toyota	43	1
3	Nissan	24	0
4	March-Nissan	18	0
5	Mazda	18	0
6	TOM'S-British Barn-Ford	3	0

External links

• 1989 全日本スポーツプロトタイプカー耐久選手権 (Japanese)