JAF Grand Prix

The JAF Grand Prix (JAFグランプリ) is an auto race held in Japan by the Japan Automobile Federation.

History

The original JAF Grand Prix was set up in year 1969 as to promoting Formula Car events in Japan, which was the highest ranked race other than the Japanese Grand Prix. The first race in 1969 was a Formula Libre event and was won by Australian driver Leo Geoghegan driving an ex-Jim Clark Lotus 39-Repco V8. The 1970 race was won by reigning Formula One World Champion Jackie Stewart driving a Brabham-Ford.

Then, after the brief suspension between 1971–1973 due to scandal, it was used as a pointed round in Formula 2000, Formula Two, and Formula Pacific events until 1986. Between year 1988 and 1990, it was named as a round of the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. Since then the JAF Grand Prix was not held for 20 years.

In 2010 year, JAF Grand Prix was revived by JAF, named as 'JAF Grand Prix and Fuji Sprint Cup representing the venue, as a non-title race for the Formula Nippon and Super GT series as a season closer of both. The series is eligible for teams which participated 5 rounds in the respective series. A different rule set is used in JAFGP compared to their regular season.

• The JAF GP consists of six separate races in 2010, and five races in 2011. Which two each for Super GT's GT500 class and GT300 class, and one(two in 2010) in Formula Nippon. The race distance is about 100 km, less than half of the normal race distance in regular season. Mandatory pit stop is not required in any races.
• For Formula Nippon, the qualifying result of second race in 2010 was decided by top speed (measured at the end of straight) rather than lap time. In 2011 race it was changed with score, which determined by the top speed plus the time converted as points.
• For Super GT, each of the two drivers in the team are driving themselves on a separated race.
• Successive ballast, like final round in regular season, is not applied on Super GT participants. In addition, standing start, instead of rolling start is used in JAF GP races.
• Titles are given separately on Formula Nippon, GT500 and GT300 participants, depends from the overall result in respective races.

In 2014 the non-Championship Fuji Sprint Cup was dropped. Instead, JAF Grand Prix is retained and named as a round of Super Formula.

Winners of the JAF Grand Prix

Fuji Sprint Cup (2010–2013)

Year	Category	Driver	Vehicle
2013	Super Formula	Yuji Kunimoto	SF13-Toyota RV8K
	GT500	Toshihiro Kaneishi Koudai Tsukakoshi	Honda HSV-010 GT
	GT300	Katsuyuki Hiranaka Björn Wirdheim	Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3
2012	Formula Nippon	Takuya Izawa	FN09-Honda HR12E
	GT500	Yuji Tachikawa Kohei Hirate	Lexus SC430
	GT300	Masami Kageyama Tomonobu Fujii	Porsche 911 GT3-R
2011	Formula Nippon	João Paulo de Oliveira	FN09-Toyota RV8K
	GT500	Masataka Yanagida Ronnie Quintarelli	Nissan GT-R
	GT300	Nobuteru Taniguchi Taku Bamba	BMW Z4 GT3
2010	Formula Nippon	André Lotterer	FN09-Toyota RV8K
	GT500	Daisuke Ito Björn Wirdheim	Lexus SC430
	GT300	Katsuyuki Hiranaka Tetsuya Tanaka	Ferrari F430 GT2

Group C Events (1988–1990)

Year	Driver	Constructor	Class	Location
1990	Masanori Sekiya Hitoshi Ogawa	Toyota	Group C	Fuji
1989	Vern Schuppan Eje Elgh Keiji Matsumoto	Porsche	Group C	Fuji
1988	Hideki Okada Stanley Dickens	Porsche	Group C	Fuji

Formula Events (1969–1990, 2014)

Year	Driver	Constructor	Class	Location
2014	Kazuki Nakajima	PETRONAS Team TOM'S	Super Formula	Suzuka
1986	Kazuyoshi Hoshino	March-Honda	Formula Two	Suzuka
1985	Satoru Nakajima	March-Honda	Formula Two	Suzuka
1984	Satoru Nakajima	March-Honda	Formula Two	Suzuka
1983	Geoff Lees	March-Honda	Formula Two	Suzuka
1982	Satoru Nakajima	March-Honda	Formula Two	Suzuka
	Kazuyoshi Hoshino	Ralt-Nissan	Formula Pacific
1981	Satoru Nakajima	March-Honda	Formula Two	Suzuka
	Masahiro Hasemi	March-Nissan	Formula Pacific
1980	Kazuyoshi Hoshino	March-BMW	Formula Two	Suzuka
	Masahiro Hasemi	March-Nissan	Formula Pacific
1979	Kazuyoshi Hoshino	March-BMW	Formula Two	Suzuka
	Kenji Takahashi	Nova-Nissan	Formula Pacific
	Keiji Matsumoto	March-BMW	Formula Two	Fuji
	Takao Wada	March-Nissan	Formula Pacific
1978	Kunimitsu Takahashi	Kojima-BMW	Formula Two	Suzuka
	Kenji Takahashi	Nova-BMW	Formula Two	Fuji
1977	Riccardo Patrese	Chevron-BMW	Formula 2000	Suzuka
	Kazuyoshi Hoshino	Nova-BMW	Formula 2000	Fuji
1976	Noritake Takahara	Nova-BMW	Formula 2000	Fuji
1975	Kazuyoshi Hoshino	March-BMW	Formula 2000	Suzuka
1974	Noritake Takahara	March-BMW	Formula 2000	Suzuka
1973 – 1971	Not held
1970	Jackie Stewart	Brabham-Ford	Formula Libre	Fuji
1969	Leo Geoghegan	Lotus-Repco	Formula Libre	Fuji

Notes:

1.^ – The grand prix had been awarded for winners of two classes (Formula Two and Formula Pacific) per event from 1979 to 1982.

2.^ – Two events were held in a year in 1978 and 1979.

External links

• JAF Grand Prix Fuji Sprint Cup official website (Japanese)
• Japan Automobile Federation official website (Japanese) (English)
• former winners (Japanese)