Team LeMans

Their participation in the All Japan F2000 Championship started with Keiji Matsumoto in 1976. In 1979 he won the championship title. In 1988-89 Geoff Lees and Emanuele Pirro raced for the team, both winning one race.

In 1996, the team had its most successful year in Japan's top level open wheel series, when Ralf Schumacher and Naoki Hattori took the first two spots in the drivers' championship, also winning the first team title. The team repeated wins in the drivers and team championship with Satoshi Motoyama in 1998.

The team achieved titles in The Fuji Grand Champion Series (Fuji GC) with in Keiji Matsumoto in 1983 and Geoff Lees in 1988 and 1989.

Team LeMans first entered the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1987 under the name Italya Sports. They competed in the race through 1990 without a single finish.

ESSO Ultraflo Supra (2002)

Team LeMans first entered the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship on its inaugural season in 1994, fielding a production based Nissan 300ZX-LM in the GT1 class with FedEx as their primary sponsor. The team took three top-10 finishes with Masami Kageyama and finished 17th in the drivers standings. Kageyama and the 300ZX returned to compete in the following year, but the team failed to score any points and was not classified in the standings.[2]

For the 1996 season, Team LeMans bought an ex-IMSA Nissan 300ZX-GTS to compete in the rebranded GT500 class. Kageyama and series debutant Yuji Tachikawa took one top-10 finish in the final round of the championship at Mine Circuit and finished 25th in the drivers standings. Tachikawa stayed with the team for the 1997 season and was partnered by Tsuyoshi Takahashi, who replaced Kageyama after he was signed by SARD. The team took a 10th place finish in the season opening round at Suzuka, but a practice crash in the next round at Fuji totaled their 300ZX-GTS and the team was forced to withdraw their entry for the rest of the season.[2]

Team LeMans didn't take part in the 1998 season, but they returned in 1999 after they took over the entry of the #6 Esso Tiger Toyota Supra from Inging Motorsport. LeMans signed former Formula One driver Hideki Noda and reigning GT300 champion Shingo Tachi to compete with the team, but Tachi was killed in a pre-season testing accident at TI Aida with less than two weeks before the start of the 1999 season. Former MotoGP champion Wayne Gardner was then signed by the team to replace Tachi. The team took a pole position in the third round at Sportsland Sugo and a victory in the fifth round at Fuji Speedway on their first season with Toyota, finishing 12th in the drivers standings.[3]

In 2002, the team won drivers' championship in the GT500 class of the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship with Akira Iida and Juichi Wakisaka, who competed in a Toyota Supra race car.[4] Wakisaka, as team principal, would later led Team LeMans to a second GT500 class title in 2019 with the driving pairing of Kazuya Oshima and Kenta Yamashita, but the team left the series at the conclusion of the season.[5][6]

Team LeMans provided support to Hitotsuyama Racing in 2020 before they reentered the series in 2021 under a collaboration with Motoyama Racing. LeMans entered the #6 Audi R8 LMS Evo for ex-GT500 champion Satoshi Motoyama and Yoshiaki Katayama, son of the team's owner Yoshinori Katayama, in the GT300 class.[7] The team finished all races that year, but was not classified as they failed to score a points finish. Motoyama and Katayama returned the following year with an Evo II model of the Audi R8 LMS, but Motoyama was released after one round. Financial issues on Motoyama's sponsors was reported to be the primary reason of Motoyama's dismissal. Roberto Merhi was then signed by the team to replace Motoyama for the rest of the season.[8][9][10]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Car	Tyres	Class	No.	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Pos	Pts
1993	Nissan R92CP	B	C1	25	Takao Wada Toshio Suzuki	FUJ	FUJ	SUZ 1	FUJ					N/A	N/A
1994	Nissan Fairlady Z	B	GT1	25	Masami Kageyama Akira Ishikawa Richard Dean	FUJ Ret	SEN 9	FUJ 11	SUG 7	MIN 7				10th	10
1995	Nissan Fairlady Z	Y	GT1	25	Masami Kageyama	SUZ 12	FUJ DNS	SEN	FUJ Ret	SUG Ret	MIN Ret			NC	0
1996	Nissan Fairlady Z	Y	GT500	25	Masami Kageyama Yuji Tachikawa	SUZ	FUJ Ret	SEN Ret	FUJ	SUG Ret	MIN 9			13th	2
1997	Nissan Fairlady Z	Y	GT500	75	Yuji Tachikawa Tsuyoshi Takahashi	SUZ 10	FUJ DNS	SEN	FUJ	MIN	SUG			NC	1
1999	Toyota Supra	B	GT500	6	Wayne Gardner Hideki Noda	SUZ DNA	FUJ 8	SUG 16	MIN 5	FUJ 1	OKA 9	MOT 13		7th	33
2000	Toyota Supra	B	GT500	6	Wayne Gardner Hideki Noda	MOT 8	FUJ 4	SUG 7	FUJ 15	OKA 7	MIN 5	SUZ 6		6th	35
2001	Toyota Supra	B	GT500	6	Hideki Noda Juichi Wakisaka	OKA Ret	FUJ 1	SUG 5	FUJ 3	MOT 13	SUZ Ret	MIN 14		6th	40
2002	Toyota Supra	B	GT500	6	Akira Iida Juichi Wakisaka	OKA 10	FUJ 2	SUG 1	SEP 11	FUJ 7	MOT 4	MIN 4	SUZ 3	2nd	75
2003	Toyota Supra	B	GT500	1	Akira Iida Juichi Wakisaka	OKA 1	FUJ 12	SUG 1	FUJ 6	FUJ 4	MOT 4	AUT 4	SUZ 7	2nd	83
2004	Toyota Supra	B	GT500	6	Akira Iida Juichi Wakisaka	OKA 2	SUG 11	SEP 14	TOK 2	MOT 2	AUT 4	SUZ Ret		4th	57

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Car	Tyres	Class	No.	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Pos	Points
2005	Toyota Supra	B	GT500	6	Akira Iida Juichi Wakisaka	OKA 11	FUJ 5	SEP 4	SUG 4	MOT 9	FUJ 3	AUT 10	SUZ 3		5th	51
2006	Lexus SC430	B	GT500	6	Akira Iida Tatsuya Kataoka Björn Wirdheim	SUZ 6	OKA 11	FUJ 2	SEP 14	SUG 9	SUZ Ret	MOT 4	AUT 13	FUJ 5	11th	36
2007	Lexus SC430	B	GT500	6	Tatsuya Kataoka Björn Wirdheim	SUZ 4	OKA 14	FUJ 3	SEP 9	SUG DNS	SUZ 9	MOT 3	AUT 8	FUJ 16	9th	56
2008	Lexus SC430	B	GT500	6	Daisuke Ito Björn Wirdheim Akira Iida Roberto Streit	SUZ 9	OKA 13	FUJ 6	SEP 8	SUG 7	SUZ 6	MOT 4	AUT 14	FUJ 3	8th	64
2009	Lexus SC430	B	GT500	6	Daisuke Ito Björn Wirdheim	OKA 10	SUZ 4	FUJ 6	SEP 14	SUG 5	SUZ Ret	FUJ 4	AUT 10	MOT 4	11th	54
2010	Lexus SC430	B	GT500	6	Daisuke Ito Björn Wirdheim	SUZ 2	OKA 5	FUJ 3	SEP 4	SUG 3	SUZ 11	FUJ C	MOT 12		4th	70
2011	Lexus SC430	B	GT500	6	Daisuke Ito Kazuya Oshima	OKA 12	FUJ 2	SEP 8	SUG 5	SUZ 8	FUJ 10	AUT 13	MOT 15		10th	50
2012	Lexus SC430	B	GT500	6	Daisuke Ito Kazuya Oshima	OKA 13	FUJ 10	SEP 3	SUG 1	SUZ Ret	FUJ 10	AUT 12	MOT 12		10th	50
2013	Lexus SC430	B	GT500	6	Kazuya Oshima Yuji Kunimoto	OKA 7	FUJ 3	SEP 7	SUG 6	SUZ Ret	FUJ 4	AUT 11	MOT 1		5th	72
2014	Lexus RC F	B	GT500	6	Kazuya Oshima Yuji Kunimoto	OKA 2	FUJ 3	AUT 9	SUG 5	FUJ 13	SUZ 5	BUR 9	MOT 11		6th	62
2015	Lexus RC F	B	GT500	6	Kazuya Oshima Yuji Kunimoto	OKA 9	FUJ 9	CHA 2	FUJ 13	SUZ Ret	SUG 4	AUT 8	MOT 9		9th	49
2016	Lexus RC F	B	GT500	6	Andrea Caldarelli Kazuya Oshima	OKA 4	FUJ 5	SUG 4	FUJ 9	SUZ 4	CHA 3	MOT 4	MOT 2		2nd	92
2017	Lexus LC500 GT500	B	GT500	6	Andrea Caldarelli Kazuya Oshima	OKA 2	FUJ 2	AUT 13	SUG 3	FUJ 9	SUZ 7	CHA 2	MOT 13		3rd	82
2018	Lexus LC500 GT500	B	GT500	6	Kazuya Oshima Felix Rosenqvist James Rossiter	OKA 4	FUJ 5	SUZ 12	CHA 2	FUJ 7	SUG 11	AUT 9	MOT 6		7th	65
2019	Lexus LC500 GT500	B	GT500	6	Kazuya Oshima Kenta Yamashita	OKA 13	FUJ 8	SUZ 3	BUR 1	FUJ 1	AUT 6	SUG 6	MOT 2		2nd	106
2021	Audi R8 LMS Evo	Y	GT300	6	Yoshiaki Katayama Satoshi Motoyama	OKA 22	FUJ 23	MOT 19	SUZ 12	SUG 18	AUT 24	MOT 20	FUJ 18		22nd	21
2022	Audi R8 LMS Evo II	Y	GT300	6	Yoshiaki Katayama Satoshi Motoyama Roberto Merhi Shintaro Kawabata	OKA 5	FUJ 14	SUZ 18	FUJ 16	SUZ 5	SUG 16	AUT 20	MOT 13		16th	31.5
2023	Audi R8 LMS Evo II	Y	GT300	6	Yoshiaki Katayama Roberto Merhi Seiya Jin	OKA 21	FUJ 7	SUZ 15	FUJ 3	SUZ Ret	SUG 3	AUT 15	MOT 3		10th	55

^‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed. * Season still in progress.