1986 All Japan Touring Car Championship
Okay then, here’s my (and your?) attempt to make sense of the 1986 Japanese Group A scene.
The races:
Round 1: 1986-03-23, Nishi Nippon (60 laps of 2.816 km = 168.960 km)*
Round 2: 1986-07-27, Sugo (114 laps of 2.655 km = 302.670 km)
Round 3: 1986-08-31, Tsukuba (133 laps of 2.045 km = 271.985 km) 2h30m race?
Round 4: 1986-09-21, Nishi Sendai (80 laps of 3.771 km = 301.680 km)
Round 5: 1986-11-09, Fuji (176 laps of 4.441 km = 781.616 km) 5 hour duration?
Round 6: 1986-11-30, Suzuka (51 laps of 5.914 km = 301.614 km)
*Likely to have been shortened – due to rain? It is described as a mixed weather event starting in fine condition turning into rain. Only half points were awarded and some co-drivers didn’t receive points at all, eventually deciding the championship in favour of Nissan driver Aguri Suzuki. His co-driver for the season, Takao Wada, was among those no-scores at Nishi Nippon.
Round 3 had a run time of 2 hours 30 minutes which is the reason for my ?.
Here’s a few links to races:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_tIj...eature=related
Seems to be a pre-Fuji Intertec highlights of both the European scene – featuring some hot Brno footage – and the previous four rounds of the Japanese series.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FIb...eature=related
The Fuji Intertec. As an afterthought this is about as hot a 1986 Group A would be, perhaps loosing out to Spa and Bathurst in absolute judgement, as Fuji is relatively flat but with that spectacular front straight and back ground.
The classes and point distribution was unchanged from 1985:
Division 1: 1001-1600 cc
Division 2: 1601-2500 cc
Division 3: over 2500 cc
From PZR we know that these were also the classes of the Japanese Touring Car Championship, but unlike 1985 when five different classes were contested.
The points:
The points:
Pos – cl. – o/a
P1 – 20 – 9
P2 – 15 – 6
P3 – 12 – 4
P4 – 10 – 3
P5 – 8 – 2
P6 – 6 – 1
P7 – 4
P8 – 3
P9 – 2
P10 – 1
I guess that the JTCC championship was decided without overall points, but missing a confirmation on that.
The standings – four rounds from six counting:
Pos. driver, car (points) total
1. Aguri Suzuki, Nissan Skyline RS Turbo (14.5 / 26 / 21 / 16 / 13 / 29) 119.5/92 points
2. Takao Wada, Nissan Skyline RS Turbo (NC / 26 / 21 / 16 / 13 / 29) 92 points
3 . Kunimitsu Takahashi, Mitsubishi Starion Turbo (6 / 19 / 29 / NC / NC / 21) 75 points
4. Akihiko Nakaya, Mitsubishi Starion Turbo (6 / 19 / 29 / NC / NC / 21) 75 points
5. Kaoru Ito, Honda Civic (0 / 17 / 18 / 19 / 12 / 0) 66 points
6. Tomohiko Tsutsumi, Honda Civic (0 / 17 / 18 / 19 / 12 / 0 ) 66 points
7. Toshio Suzuki, Toyota Corolla (8 / 0 / 24 / 29 / 0 / 0) 61 points
8. Masanori Sekiya, Toyota Corolla (8 / 0 / 24 / 29 / 0 / 0) 61 points
9. Masahiro Hasemi, Nissan Skyline RS Turbo (7.5 / 1 / 10 / 26 / 16 / 0) 60.5/59.5 points
10. Keiichi Suzuki, Toyota Corolla (6 / 8 / 0 / 8 / 20 / 23) 65/59 points
I case of a tie completed kilometers over the season decided the verdict – as in 1985.
An overview of teams will follow and each entry will be detailed further after that. Translations as previous from
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http://dk.babelfish.yahoo.com/
..in that order.
Jesper