1988 Fuji 1000km race

The Jaguar XJR-9 with starting number 2; Jan Lammers and Johnny Dumfries retired with this car after 212 laps due to an accident

The 1988 Fuji 1000 km race , also WEC in Japan, 1988 World Sport Prototypes Championship Fuji 1000km, Fuji Speedway , took place on October 9th at Fuji Speedway and was the tenth round of the sports car world championship of that year. In addition, the race was part of the Japanese sports car series for the Fuji Long Distance series.

The race

The race at Fuji Speedway was the tenth round of the sports car world championship. The world championship had already been decided ahead of time. With second place overall in the previous race, the 1000 km race in Spa-Francorchamps , the Jaguar works team, led by Tom Walkinshaw , secured the overall ranking of the manufacturers' world championship and Martin Brundle the title of world driver sports car champion.

Although this important decision had already been made, 40 vehicles were registered, 35 of which took part in the race. The fastest training time was surprisingly achieved by the Japanese Hideki Okada , who shared a Porsche 962C with the Swede Stanley Dickens . The fastest C2 car in training was the Spice SE88C from Gordon Spice and Ray Bellm , who was six seconds short of the fastest C1 cars. The IMSA-GTP prototype class was dominated by Mazda works cars .

The race ended with another Jaguar overall victory. Martin Brundle and Eddie Cheever won on an XJR-9 with a lead of one lap on the works Porsche 962C owned by Price Cobb and Klaus Ludwig , who also set the fastest lap time in the race. Third place went to Frank Jelinski and Louis Krages in another Porsche 962C; this car was reported by Joest Racing . In the C2 class, victory went to the former Chilean Formula 1 driver Eliseo Salazar , who shared a spice with the Dane Thorkild Thyrring . The class win in the IMSA GTP series went to Yōjirō Terada and Dave Kennedy in a Mazda 767 .

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	chassis	Round
1	C1	1	Silk Cut Jaguar	Martin Brundle Eddie Cheever	Jaguar XJR-9	224
2	C1	17th	Omron Porsche AG	Price Cobb Klaus Ludwig	Porsche 962C	223
3	C1	8th	Joest Racing	Frank Jelinski Louis Krages	Porsche 962C	221
4th	C1	27	From A Racing	Hideki Okada Stanley Dickens	Porsche 962C	221
5	C1	61	Team Sauber Mercedes	Jochen Mass Kenny Acheson Jean-Louis Schlesser	Clean C9	220
6th	C1	25th	Advan Alpha Nova	Kunimitsu Takahashi Kazuo Mogi	Porsche 962C	217
7th	C1	99	Rothmans Porsche Team Schuppan	Eje Elgh Maurizio Sandro Sala	Porsche 962C	214
8th	C1	28	Leyton House Racing Team	Naoki Nagasaka Kaoru Hoshino Masahiko Kageyama	Porsche 962C	214
9	C1	23	Nissan Motorsports	Kazuyoshi Hoshino Kenji Takahashi Allen Grice	Nissan R88C	214
10	C1	100	Trust Racing Team	George Fouché Vern Schuppan Sarel van der Merwe	Porsche 962C	214
11	C2	103	BP Spice Engineering	Eliseo Salazar Thorkild Thyrring	Spice SE88C	212
12	C1	32	Nissan Motorsports	Masahiro Hasemi Aguri Suzuki	Nissan R88C	210
13	C2	121	Cosmik GPM	Costa's Los Tom Hessert	Spice SE87C	209
14th	GTP	202	Mazdaspeed	Yōjirō Terada Dave Kennedy	Mazda 767	209
15th	C2	106	Kelmar	Ranieri Randaccio Vito Veninata	Tiga GC88	207
16	C1	11	Leyton House with Porsche Kremer	Oscar Larrauri Bruno Giacomelli	Porsche 962CK6	206
17th	C1	33	Takefuji Racing Team	Derek Bell Brian Redman	Porsche 962C	192
18th	C2	171	British Barn Racing Team	Hideo Fukuyama Jirou Yoneyama Kiyoshi Misaki	JTK 63C	189
19th	C2	127	Chamberlain Engineering	Arthur Abrahams Dan Murphy Ian Khan	Spice SE86C	187
20th	GTP	230	Shizumatsu Racing	Tetsuji Shiratori Syuuji Fujii Terumitsu Fujieda	Mazda 757	181
21st	C1	37	Toyota Team Tom's	Stefan Johansson Paolo Barilla Hitoshi Ogawa	Toyota 88C-V	161
22nd	C1	36	Toyota Team Tom's	Geoff Lee's Masanori Sekiya Keiichi Suzuki	Toyota 88C-V	159
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23	C2	107	Chamberlain Engineering	Jean-Louis Ricci Claude Ballot-Léna Ian Khan	Spice SE88C	197
24	C1	7th	Joest Racing	Bob Wollek Harald Grohs	Porsche 962C	191
25th	C1	62	Team Sauber Mercedes	Mauro Baldi Philippe Streiff	Clean C9	175
26th	C2	111	BP Spice Engineering	Gordon Spice Ray Bellm	Spice SE88C	175
27	C1	10	Porsche Kremer Racing	Volker Weidler Manuel Reuter	Porsche 962CK6	171
28	C1	20th	Team Davey	Tim Lee-Davey Tom Dodd-Noble Katsunori Iketani	Porsche 962C	112
29	C1	50	SARD	Martin Donnelly Jochen Duration Syuuroku Sasaki	SARD MC88C	109
30th	GTP	201	Mazdaspeed	Takashi Yorino Yoshimi Katayama Pierre Dieudonné	Mazda 767	96
31	C1	2	Silk Cut Jaguar	Jan Lammers Johnny Dumfries	Jaguar XJR-9	35
32	C1	86	Italya Racing Team	Takao Wada Anders Olofsson	March 88S	25th
33	C1	77	Memorex Telex Racing Team	Tiff Needell Giampiero Moretti Harald Huysman	Porsche 962C	14th
34	C1	85	Person's Racing Team	Toshio Suzuki Akio Morimoto	March 88S	11
35	C1	45	Auto Beaureux Motorsport	Andrew Gilbert-Scott Steven Andskär	Toyota 87C-L	6th
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37	C1	36T	Toyota Team Tom's	Geoff Lee's Masanori Sekiya Keiichi Suzuki	Toyota 88C-V	1
38	C1	100T	Trust Racing Team	George Fouché Vern Schuppan Sarel van der Merwe	Porsche 962C	2

¹ training trolley ² training trolleys

Only in the entry list

Here you will find teams, drivers and vehicles that were originally registered for the race but did not take part for a variety of reasons.

Item	class	No.	team	driver	chassis
39	C1	14th	Richard Lloyd Racing	James Weaver Martin Donnelly	Porsche 962C GTi
40	C1	24	Dollop Racing	Jean-Jacques Frey	Lancia LC2 / 88
41	C2	181	Luigi Taverna Techno Racing	Luigi Taverna Fabio Magnani	Alba AR3
42	C2	198	Roy Baker Racing	David Andrews Max Cohen-Olivar	Tiga GC288

Class winner

class	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
C1	Martin Brundle	Eddie Cheever	Jaguar XJR-9	Overall victory
C2	Eliseo Salazar	Thorkild Thyrring	Spice SE88C	Rank 11
GTP	Yōjirō Terada	Dave Kennedy	Mazda 767	Rank 14

Racing data

• Registered: 40
• Starter: 35
• Valued: 22
• Race classes: 3
• Spectators: 81,500
• Weather on race day: cloudy but dry
• Route length: 4,470 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 5: 28: 05.941 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 224
• Total distance of the winning team: 1001.280 km
• Winner's average: 183.106 km / h
• Pole position: Hideki Okada - Porsche 962C (# 27) - 1.21.795 - 196.736 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Klaus Ludwig - Porsche 962C (# 17) - 1.16.180 - 193.941 km / h
• Racing series: 10th round of the Sports Car World Championship in 1988

Web links

• Results at Racing Sports Cars

Previous race 1000 km at Spa-Francorchamps in 1988

Sports car world championship

Succession race 360-km race at Sandown Park 1988