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Originally Posted by bathurst77
Quiz question (also posted in another thread . Sorry; not sorry)
Was P1 Japan 2024 the first time a team had an all Japanese driver line up on track in a WDC/WCC formula 1 session?
Conditions.
not counting preseason or other testing - actual race weekend
single car team excluded - only when a team had 2 or more cars on track.
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Japanese GP 1977
Kajima entered qualified and started two Japanese drivers (Noritake Takahara and Kazuyochi Hoshino). Hoshino qualified 11th and Takahari 19th of 23 starters. (A 3rd Japanese driver, Takahashi, also started 23rd for Tyrrell in a third privately entered Tyrrell. He finished 9th)
The two Kajima drivers had different fortunes....Takahara tangled with Andretti and Binder, out of the race on lap 1 with Hoshino finishing 11th.
They ran as #50 for Takahashi with the two Kojimas Takahara #51 and Hoshino #52.