Japan Le Mans Challenge

Japan Le Mans Challenge
Vehicle type	Le Mans prototypes & Gran Turimos
Country or region	Japan
Current name	Japan Le Mans Challenge
First season	2006
Last season	2007

Zytek 05S the LMP1 prototype of the 2007 overall winners, Hideki Noda & Shinsuke Yamazaki

Hitotsuyama Racing's Ferrari 550GTS used in the Japan Le Mans Challenge

The Japan Le Mans Challenge (JLMC for short) was a Japanese endurance racing series organized by the Sports Car Endurance Race Operation (SERO) in 2006 and 2007, which was conducted in 2006 and 2007 according to the rules and guidelines of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO ) was carried out.

history

The first season of the Japan Le Mans Challenge included 3 races in Japan, the first two of which were won by Takahiki Shimazawa and Kenji Takeya with different driver colleagues. In the second and last season, 4 races were held, the first three of which were won by Hideki Noda & Shinsuke Yamazaki .

There were 4 racing classes: LMP1, LMP2, GT1 and GT2. Points were awarded to the best drivers and teams in each class. Although the names of the classes were identical, the regulations differed from those of the 24 Hours of Le Mans or the Le Mans Series . Vehicles such as the Dallara GC21 , which was based on the Formula 3 chassis from Dallara, or the Oscar SK93 were included in the prototype classes .

The racing series suffered permanently from a low number of participants, which prompted the SERO to pass the organization on to the ACO after the 2007 season. This decided to end the racing series and announced the Asian Le Mans Series as its successor, which carried out the first round of the season in 2009.

master

year	class	Driver ranking	Team evaluation
2006	LMP1	Takahiko Shimazawa	Jidosha Koubou Myst
	LMP2	Yuya Sakamoto Yoshihisa Namekata Tomonobu Fuji	MYZ
	GT1	Tatsuya Kataoka Naoki Hattori Eiichi Tajima	Hitotsuyama Racing
	GT2	Koji Aoyama Shinichi Takagi Morio Nitta	Team Kawamura
2007	LMP1	Hideki Noda Shinsuke Yamazaki	Hitotsuyama Racing
	LMP2	Masaru Tomizawa Yuuji Asou	AIM Sports
	GT1	Akira Iida Tomonobu Fujii	Hitotsuyama Racing
	GT2	Koji Aoyama Shinichi Takagi Morio Nitta	Team Kawamura

Web links

Commons : Japan Le Mans Challenge  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the racing series ( Memento of August 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Results of the 2006 season. Wsrp.cz, accessed on February 24, 2019 (English). 
2. ↑ Results of the 2007 season. Wsrp.cz, accessed on February 24, 2019 (English). 
3. ↑ Okayama, Day 2, Saturday, Zytek On The Pole. archive.dailysportscar.com, accessed on February 25, 2019 . 
4. ↑ The future of the JLMC on ACO's hands ( Memento from October 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ 2006 driver & team rating ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )