Katsunori Iketani

Katsunori Iketani ( Japanese 池 谷 勝 則 , Iketani Katsunori ; born April 15, 1953 in Yokohama ) is a former Japanese car racing driver .

Racing career

Katsunori Iketani began his career in the Japanese Formula 3 championship , where he was registered in a race in 1987 . In 1988 he switched to the Japanese Formula 3000 Championship , where he did not achieve any notable success in the following years.

Iketani competed in sports car races at the same time as the monoposto races . He drove in the Japanese sports car championship, in the sports car world championship and from 1995 in the Super GT . His best place in the final classification was 10th place in the GT300 class in 1997. He started four times in the 24-hour race of Le Mans . In 1989 he and Tim Lee-Davey and Tom Dodd-Noble in a Porsche 962C reached 15th place in the overall ranking. In 1990 he and his partners Pierre de Thoisy and Patrick Trucco - again in a Porsche 962C - came 26th in the final ranking. In the two following missions he could not place himself.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1989	Team Davey	Porsche 962C	Tim Lee-Davey	Tom Dodd-Noble	Rank 15
1990	Team Davy	Porsche 962C	Pierre de Thoisy	Patrick Trucco	Rank 26
1999	Freising Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT2	Ray Lintott	Manfred Jurasz	failure	accident
2000	Freising Motorsport	Porsche 993 GT2	Wolfgang Kaufmann	Yukihiro Hane	failure	suspension

Web links

• Katsunori Iketani at the Driver Database
• Katsunori Iketani at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Japanese Formula 3 Championship 1987
2. ↑ Super GT GT300 class 1997