1995 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship

The 1995 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the third season of Japan Automobile Federation GT premiere racing, and the second under the promotion of the GT Association (GTA). It was marked as well as the thirteenth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. Once again, the GT1 class champion was the #1 Calsonic Nissan Skyline GT-R driven by Masahiko Kageyama, and the GT2 class champion was the #70 Gaikokuya Nissan Skyline driven by Yoshimi Ishibashi and Kaoru Hoshino.

1995 saw the Toyota Supra win its first race in the GT1 category, at Sendai Hi-Land Raceway. The victory came just a week after Masanori Sekiya, driver of the winning Castrol TOM's Toyota Supra, became the first Japanese driver to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans overall. The series made its first official visit to Suzuka Circuit on April 2, 1995.

Schedule
Round Race Circuit Date
1 Suzuka GT 300 Japan Suzuka Circuit April 2
2 All Japan Fuji GT Race Japan Fuji Speedway May 4
3 HiLand GT&F3 Race Japan Sendai Hi-Land Raceway June 25
4 Japan Special GT-Cup Japan Fuji Speedway August 13
5 SUGO GT Championship Japan Sportsland SUGO September 10
6 Sanyo Shinpan Cup Grand Touring Car Endurance Race Japan Mine Circuit October 1

Teams & Drivers

GT1
Team Make Car No. Drivers Tyre Rounds
Calsonic Hoshino Racing Nissan Nissan Skyline GT-R (BNR32) 1
Nissan Skyline GT-R (BCNR33) 5		 1 Japan Masahiko Kageyama B All
Japan Kazuyoshi Hoshino 3–6
Team Zexel Nissan Nissan Skyline GT-R (BNR32) 2
Nissan Skyline GT-R (BCNR33) 4		 2 Japan Kenji Tohira Y All
Japan Hiroyuki Kawai All
Hasemi Motorsports Nissan Nissan Skyline GT-R (BNR32) 1
Nissan Skyline GT-R (BCNR33) 5		 3 Japan Masahiro Hasemi B All
Racing Team Nakaharu Nissan Nissan Skyline GT-R (BNR32) 4 Japan Hideo Fukuyama B 4–5
Japan Mizunori Fumino 4–5
Rank Up Tomei Sports Porsche Porsche 911 GT2 5 Japan Kouichi Kashiwabara Y 1–5
Japan Yukihiro Hane 1–2
Japan Minoru Tanaka 4–5
FET Racing Team Toyota Toyota Supra 8 Japan Naoki Nagasaka B All
Japan Kiyoshi Misaki 1
NISMO Nissan Nissan Skyline GT-R (BCNR33) 10 Japan Akira Iida B 3–6
Japan Toshio Suzuki 3
55 Japan Toshio Suzuki B 1–2, 4–6
Japan Akira Iida 1–2
Prova Motorsport Porsche Porsche 964 15 Japan Naohiro Furuya B All
Japan Hideyuki Tamamoto 4
Japan Hisashi Wada 5
Canada Scott Maxwell 6
Team JUN Nissan Nissan Skyline GT-R (BNR32) 19 Japan Katsuo Kobayashi Y All
Dandelion Racing Nissan Nissan Skyline GT-R (BNR32) 22 Japan Katsuo Mizunuma Y 5
Japan Mitsuo Akimoto 5
Team LeMans Nissan Nissan 300ZX 25 Japan Masami Kageyama Y 1–2, 4–6
Team Take One Porsche Porsche 911 GT2 30 Japan Eiichi Tajima B All
Japan Yoji Yamada 1–2, 4–6
Team Taisan Porsche Porsche 911 GT2 33 Japan Hideshi Matsuda Y 2–3
Japan Kaoru Iida 2, 4
Japan Keiichi Suzuki 3–4
34 Japan Hideshi Matsuda Y 4–6
Japan Takeshi Tsuchiya 4
Argentina Oscar Larrauri 5
Japan Keiichi Suzuki 6
35 Japan Keiichi Suzuki Y 1–2
Japan Hideshi Matsuda 1
Japan Takeshi Tsuchiya 2
United Kingdom Anthony Reid 3–6
Japan Masahiko Kondō 3–6
Ferrari Ferrari F40 34 United Kingdom Anthony Reid Y 1–2
Japan Masahiko Kondō 1
40 Japan Tetsuya Ota Y 1–2, 4, 6
Argentina Oscar Larrauri 1, 4, 6
Castrol Toyota Team TOM'S Toyota Toyota Supra 36 Japan Masanori Sekiya B All
Germany Michael Krumm All
Toyota Team Cerumo Toyota Toyota Supra 38 France Érik Comas B All
Toyota Team SARD Toyota Toyota Supra 39 United States Jeff Krosnoff D All
Aiwa Racing Project Nissan Nissan Silvia 41 Japan Kunio Date Y 1–2, 4–6
Japan Akira Ishikawa 1–2, 4–6
Team Razo Nissan Nissan Skyline GT-R (BNR32) 66 Japan Takahiko Hara T 2
Japan Hisashi Wada 1–2, 4–6
Endless Sports Nissan Nissan Skyline GT-R (BCNR33) 81 Japan Mitsuhiro Kinoshita Y 4
Japan Yasushi Kikuchi 4
Team Comtech Racing Club Porsche Porsche 911 GT2 87 Japan Eiji Yamada Y 4
KEN WOLF with Terai Engineering Lamborghini Lamborghini Diablo Jota 88 Japan Takao Wada Y 1, 3–6
Japan Satoshi Ikezawa 1, 3–5
Japan Tatsuhiko Kaneumi 6
Team Kunimitsu Porsche Porsche 964 Carrera RS 99 Japan Ryo Michigami Y 4–6
Porsche 911 GT2 100 Japan Kunimitsu Takahashi Y All
Japan Keiichi Tsuchiya All

Season results
Round Circuit GT1 Winning Team GT2 Winning Team
GT1 Winning Drivers GT2 Winning Drivers
1 Suzuka Circuit #1 Calsonic Hoshino Racing GT-R #70 Team Gaikokuya Nissan Skyline
Japan Masahiko Kageyama Japan Yoshimi Ishibashi
Japan Kaoru Hoshino
2 Mt. Fuji #33 Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT2 #70 Team Gaikokuya Nissan Skyline
Japan Hideshi Matsuda
Japan Kaoru Iida		 Japan Yoshimi Ishibashi
Japan Kaoru Hoshino
3 Sendai #36 Castrol TOM'S Toyota Supra #7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7
Japan Masanori Sekiya
Germany Michael Krumm		 Japan Hironori Takeuchi
Japan Haruhiko Matsumoto
4 Mt. Fuji #3 Hasemi Motorsports GT-R #72 Makiguchi Engineering BMW M3
Japan Masahiro Hasemi Japan Norio Makiguchi
Japan Takayuki Kinoshita
5 Sportsland SUGO #35 Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT2 #31 Cobra Racing Team Porsche 993
United Kingdom Anthony Reid
Japan Masahiko Kondō		 Japan Seiichi Sodeyama
Japan Katsunori Iketani
6 Mine Circuit #34 Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT2 #7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7
Japan Hideshi Matsuda
Japan Keiichi Suzuki		 Japan Hironori Takeuchi
Japan Haruhiko Matsumoto

Point Ranking

Drivers
Rank Drivers Number/Team Points Wins
1 Japan Masahiko Kageyama #1 Calsonic Hoshino Racing Skyline GT-R 67 1
2 Japan Masahiro Hasemi #3 Hasemi Motorsports Skyline GT-R 61 1
3 Japan Toshio Suzuki #55 NISMO Skyline GT-R 58 0
4 Japan Hideshi Matsuda #33 Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT2
#34 Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT2
#35 Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT2		 44 1
5 Germany Michael Krumm #36 Castrol TOM'S Toyota Supra 46 1

Drivers
Rank Drivers Number/Team Points Wins
1 Japan Yoshimi Ishibashi
Japan Kaoru Hoshino		 #70 Team Gaikokuya Nissan Skyline 79 2
2 Japan Hironori Takeuchi
Japan Haruhiko Matsumoto		 #7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7 57 2
3 Japan Tsuyoshi Yamagishi #71 Makiguchi Engineering BMW M3 53 0
4 Japan Norio Makiguchi #72 Makiguchi Engineering BMW M3 50 1
5 Japan Katsunori Iketani #31 Cobra Racing Team Porsche 993 50 1

Notes
1.^ Masahiko Kondō did not met the requirement for minimum distance driven and was ineligible for championship points.
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