All Japan Road Race Championship
The All Japan Road Race Championship ( . English for Zen Nihon Rodo resu senshuken , jap. 全日本ロードレース選手権) is the national Japanese motorcycle - Road Championship .
It is considered one of the most important national motorcycle championships in the world. This is mainly due to the fact that four of the world's largest motorcycle manufacturers , Honda , Kawasaki , Suzuki and Yamaha , all come from Japan and therefore compete with factory-supported teams whose machines are hardly inferior to those of the motorcycle or superbike world championships .
history
The All Japan Road Race Championship has been held under the umbrella of the Japanese Motorcycle Federation of Japan (MFJ) , which was founded in 1961, since 1967. Practically all internationally successful Japanese motorcycle racers gained their first experience in the championship.
Over the years, the division of the classes into different cubic capacity categories has been changed again and again and adapted to new developments in motorcycle racing. In 1989, Doug Poland , an American , won a title in the All Japan Road Race Championship for the first time.
For a long time, the premier class was the 500 cc category, which was replaced by the superbike class in 1994 . In the 2002 season, purebred MotoGP prototypes often competed in the Superbike class for test purposes . Although they won most of the races, they were not counted for regulatory reasons.
In 2010 the championship consists of seven racing events. The 250 cc category was previously abolished, a new one called J-GP2 was introduced and the 125 cc category was renamed J-GP3.
Winners lists
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
- Moto Racing Japan (English)
- Racepic with links to driver profiles