Suzuka 1000 km race in 2002

Toyota Supra JZA80 , winning car from Juichi Wakisaka , Akira Iida and Shigekazu Wakisaka

The Suzuka 1000 km race in 2002 , also called The 31st International Pokka 1000 Kms, Suzuka Circuit , took place on August 25 of this year on the Suzuka International Racing Course . The race was not part of any racing series.

The race

The 1000 km race of Suzuka , which was held for the first time in 1966, was one of different racing series in its history and had no championship status for many years. In 1992 the race was part of the last sports car world championship and between 2006 and 2017 it was part of the Super GT racing calendar .

In 2002 the race was without status and was advertised for GT cars. The exception was the Audi R8 of Hiroki Katō and Seiji Ara , which started in the special class, but did not finish after an engine failure. The race win went to Juichi Wakisaka , Akira Iida and Shigekazu Wakisaka in the Toyota Supra JZA80 .

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	GT500	6th	Esso Toyota Team Le Mans	Juichi Wakisaka Akira Iida Shigekazu Wakisaka	Toyota Supra JZA80	172
2	GT500	16	Dome Mugen Project	Ryō Michigami Daisuke Itō Hidetoshi Mitsusada	Honda NSX GH-NA2	171
3	GT500	39	Toyota Team SARD	Jérémie Dufour Manabu Orido Nobuteru Taniguchi	Toyota Supra JZA80	171
4th	GT300	62	R&D sport	Shinsuke Shibahara Shogo Mitsuyama	Vemac RD320R	160
5	GT300	71	Sigmatech Racing Team	Masaki Jounai Keita Sawa Eiichi Tajima	Toyota MR-S GH-ZZW30	159
6th	GT300	2	Verno Tokai Dream 28	Kazuho Takahashi Akira Watanabe Ichijo Suga	Honda NSX GH-NA2	157
7th	GT300	15th	Amprex Motorsport	Genji Hashimoto Charles Kwan	BMW M3 GTR E46	156
8th	GT300	911	910 Racing	Akira Hirakawa Masaya Koyama Adam Wilcox	Porsche 996 GT3-RS	156
9	OPEN	55	Kimoto Racing Team	Masahiro Kimoto Romain Dumas Xavier Pompidou	Porsche 996 GT3-RS	153
10	RS	22nd	Nagai Iin Motor Sport Club	Masaki Yamamoto Katsunori Yamamoto Naoto Chikada	Oscar SK5.2	153
11	GT300	70	Team Gaikokuya	Yoshimi Ishibashi Patrick van Schoote Robert Orcutt	Porsche 996 GT3-RS	150
12	SE	20th	RS Ogawa	Nobuo Komiya Katsuo Kobayashi Katsuichi Itou	Mitsubishi Lancer CT9A	145
13	OPEN	912	910 Racing	Shigemitsu Haga Hiroya Iijima Hiroshi Wada	Porsche GT3 Cup	144
14th	OPEN	36		Kazuyuki Tanaka Seiichi Sodeyama Keiko Inoue	Porsche 911 RSR	144
15th	SE	11	Shinryou Racing Team	Tomohiro Tomimasu Yutaka Seki Eiji Kouketsu	Mitsubishi Lancer CT9A	141
16	SE	45	Asano Racing Service	Takeo Asano Tomoyuki Kasahara	Honda Integra Type R DC5	141
17th	OPEN	930	M's Machine Works	Tarzan Yamada Yasuo Miyagawa Toshiyuki Ochiai	Porsche 930	137
18th	SE	602	Team Jikanwari	Michimasa Okada Tatsufumi Iwatsuki Yoshihiko Torii	Mitsubishi Lancer CT9A	134
Not classified
19th	RS	3	Max Racing	Ryouhei Sakaguchi Naoki Furuya Hidenori Kouuchi	Oscar SK5.2	117
20th	RS	8th	Repri Sport	Yoshimi Kaku Kazumi Mikami Izumi Toujou	Oscar SK5.2	106
Not classified
21st	GT300	9	Team Daikokuya	Masanobu Takenaka Akihiko Tsutsumi Tsunefumi Hioki	Porsche 996 GT3-R	128
22nd	GT500	18th	Dome Mugen Project	Sébastien Philippe Richard Lyons Katsutomo Kaneishi	Honda NSX GH-NA2	128
23	GT500	23	NISMO	Masami Kageyama Michael Krumm Tetsuya Tanaka	Nissan Skyline GT-R BNR34	110
24	OPEN	280	GT-ROM Net Nsx Owners Club	Hajime Ooshiro Keiichi Murakami Mitsuaki Sakai	Honda NSX	108
25th	SE	19th	JMC Racing Division	Toshiaki Koshimizu Masayuki Ueda Takayuki Aoki	Nissan Skyline GT-R BNR34	91
26th	RS	52	Nishimura Hidetoshi	Hidetoshi Nishimura Yoshinari Tomimoto Masayoshi Furuya	Oscar SK5.2	63
27	INT	61	Audi Sport Japan Team Goh	Hiroki Katō Seiji Ara	Audi R8	58
28	RS	14th	Team Jikanwari	Eiji Sato Souichirou Tanaka Toshikazu Kanamori	West 936S	56
29	OPEN	7th	Wing car	Kenjirou Katagiri Hiroshi Hashizawa Takahiko Hara	Lotus Elise	51
30th	GT300	5	A&S Racing	Tetsuji Tamanaka Yasutaka Hinoi	Mosler MT900R	44
31	GT500	88	JLOC	Hisashi Wada Marco Apicella	Lamborghini Diablo DE21	39
32	SE	73	Team A-One	Masaki Takara Manabu Yamazaki Subaru Yamamoto	Honda Integra Type R DC5	38
33	SE	33	I-dea Project	Masami Miyoshi Yasuo Muramatsu Motoji Sekine	Mazda RX-7 FD3S	11
34	SE	34	Susuki Racing Machanics	Tomohiko Sunako Takaya Tsubobayashi Kei Itaka	Nissan Skyline GT-R BNR34	10
35	SE	1	Oreka Technic Ideal	Shunji Kasuya Katsunori Iketani Tomiko Yoshikawa	Nissan Skyline GT-R	7th

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
36	INT		Car Graphic Racing Team	Hisashi Tsukahara Shin'ichi Katsura Tetsuya Katō	BMW V12 LM

Class winner

class	driver	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
INT	no participant in the finish
GT500	Juichi Wakisaka	Akira Iida	Shigekazu Wakisaka	Toyota Supra JZA80	Overall victory
GT300	Shinsuke Shibahara	Syougo Mitsuyama		Vemac RD320R	Rank 4
OPEN	Masahiro Kimoto	Romain Dumas	Xavier Pompidou	Porsche 996 GT3-RS	Rank 9
RS	Masaki Yamamoto	Katsunori Yamamoto	Naoto Chikada	Oscar SK5.2	Rank 10
SE	Nobuo Komiya	Katsuo Kobayashi	Katsuichi Itou	Mitsubishi Lancer CT9A	Rank 12

Racing data

• Registered: 36
• Started: 35
• Valued: 18
• Race classes: 6
• Spectators: 34,000
• Race day weather: cloudy and dry
• Route length: 5.821 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 6:10: 44.008 hours
• Overall laps of the winning team: 172
• Total distance of the winning team: 1001.212 km
• Winner's average: 162.037 km / h
• Pole position: Hiroki Katō - Audi R8 (# 61) - 1: 52.856
• Fastest race lap: Seiji Ara - Audi R8 (# 61) - 1: 54.168 = 183.551 km / h
• Racing series: did not belong to any racing series

Web links

• Race results