Hiroshi Fushida

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Hiroshi Fushida ( Japanese 鮒 子 田 寛 , Fushida Hiroshi ; born March 10, 1946 in Kyōto , Kyōto Prefecture ) is a former Japanese racing car driver .

Career

Hiroshi Fushida began his racing career in Japan in the mid-1960s. By the end of the decade, he had become one of the most successful sports car drivers in his country. He won the Japanese endurance races , the Suzuka 1000 km race and the Fuji 1000 km race , which later became part of the sports car world championship , several times. In 1971 he secured overall victory in Suzuka together with Yoshimasa Kawaguchi in a Porsche 910 . In his home country he was one of the top drivers in the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship until the end of his career .

He came to Europe in 1975 as a works driver for Maki Engineering to drive their F101 in the Formula 1 World Championship . He was not able to qualify the vehicle for the race at either the Dutch Grand Prix or the Great Britain Grand Prix . On both occasions he was a long way behind the respective pole position time . At Zandvoort he could have taken part in the race despite the big deficit, but an engine failure prevented a start. After the race in Great Britain he was replaced by Tony Trimmer .

He was also at the start three times at the 24 Hours of Le Mans , but was unable to finish any of the races due to technical defects.

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
1973 JapanJapan Sigma Automotive Sigma MC73 JapanJapan Tetsu Ikuzawa FranceFrance Patrick Dal Bo failure Clutch damage
1975 JapanJapan Sigma Automotive Co. Ltd. Sigma MC75 JapanJapan Harukuni Takahashi failure Oil pump
1981 JapanJapan Mazdaspeed Mazda RX-7 JapanJapan Yōjirō Terada United KingdomUnited Kingdom Win Percy failure drive shaft

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Fushida, Hiroshi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 鮒 子 田 寛 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese racing car driver
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Kyoto , Kyoto Prefecture