The 1995 Japanese Touring Car Championship season was the 11th edition of the series. It began at Fuji Speedway on 12 March and finished after eight events, also at Fuji Speedway on 5 November. The championship was won by Steve Soper , driving for BMW Team Schnitzer . It was his only touring car title[1] [2] [3] and it would be the only time a non-Japanese driver won the series.
Teams & Drivers [ edit ] Team Car No. Drivers Rounds Toyota Team TOM's Toyota Corona EXiV 1 Masanori Sekiya All Hasemi Motorsport Nissan Primera GTe 3 Masahiro Hasemi All Trans Global BMW 318i 5 Mutsuaki Sanada 1-6 Akira Watanabe 7 Richard Dean 8 Castrol Racing Mazda Lantis 6 Yojiro Terada 1-2, 4-8 FET Racing Toyota Corolla AE101 8 Kiyoshi Misaki 1-5 Toyota Corolla AE110 6-8 Mazdaspeed Mazda Familia 9 Andrew Gilbert-Scott 6-8 BMW Team Schnitzer BMW 318i 10 Steve Soper All Object T Honda Civic Ferio 11 Takahiko Hara 1 Toyota Corona T190 33 Satoshi Motoyama 1 Toyota Corona EXiV 51 2-8 Team Impul Nissan Primera GTe 12 Kazuyoshi Hoshino All WedsSport BMW 318i 13 Takeo Asano All Mooncraft Honda Civic Ferio 14 Naoki Hattori All Nakajima Planning Honda Civic Ferio 15 Tetsuya Tanaka 1-3 Takuya Kurosawa 4-8 Castrol Mugen Honda Honda Civic Ferio 16 Osamu Nakako All Misuzu Racing Opel Vectra GT 17 Tatsuhiko Kaneumi 2-4, 6-8 Club Endless BMW 318i 18 Mitsuhiro Kinoshita All Racing Project Bandoh Toyota Sprinter Marino 19 Katsutomo Kaneishi 1 Toyota Corona EXiV 2-8 Hitotsuyama Racing BMW 318i 20 Mikio Hitotsuyama 8 21 3, 5-7 Yasushi Hitotsuyama 1-2, 4, 8 Team Advan Yamaichi BMW 318i 22 Kazuo Mogi All Team Advan Toyota Corolla Ceres 25 Masami Kageyama 1, 3 Toyota Corona EXiV 2, 4-8 Nismo Nissan Sunny 31 Akira Iida 2-8 32 Toshio Suzuki 2-8 AS Auto Tech BMW 318i 35 Akihiko Nakaya All Toyota Team TOM's Toyota Corona T190 37 Michael Krumm 1 Toyota Corona EXiV 2-8 Toyota Team Cerumo Toyota Corona T190 38 Hidetoshi Mitsusada 1 Toyota Corona EXiV 2-8 39 Tom Kristensen All Mazdaspeed Mazda Lantis 47 Shogo Kobayashi 1-2, 4-8 5Zigen Racing Honda Civic Ferio 50 Hideki Okada 2-8 Unicorse Alfa Romeo 155 TS 55 Yasutaka Hinoi 4 Giambattista Busi 6 Giorgio Francia 8 Team Dome-Kosei Ford Mondeo 65 Hisashi Wada 7-8 Dandelion Racing Toyota Corolla AE101 68 Hideo Fukuyama 1-2, 4 Masayuki Yamamoto 3, 5-8 BMW Team Schnitzer BMW 318i 73 Joachim Winkelhock 1, 5-8 Leopold Prinz von Bayern 2-4 74 Peter Kox 8 Concept L Racing Honda Civic Ferio 77 Kazuo Shimizu All HKS Opel Team Japan Opel Vectra GT 86 Justin Bell All 87 Anthony Reid 1-7 Philipp Peter 8 Team Kunimitsu Honda Civic Ferio 100 Keiichi Tsuchiya 2-8
Calendar [ edit ] Championship standings [ edit ] Points system 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 15 12 9 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
no bonus points for pole positions or fastest laps. 11 results on 16 are valid for the championship. Drivers' Championship [ edit ] Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX)
Bold - Pole Italics - Fastest lap
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