Kazuyoshi Hoshino

Kazuyoshi Hoshino

Nation:	Japan
Automobile world championship
First start:	1976 Japanese Grand Prix
Last start:	1977 Japanese Grand Prix
Constructors
1976  Heroes Racing 1977 Heroes Racing
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 2 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Kazuyoshi Hoshino ( Japanese 星野 一 義 , Hoshino Kazuyoshi ; born July 1, 1947 in Shizuoka ) is a former Japanese motorcycle and automobile racer .

Career

Hoshino's exceptional driving performance on a Bridgestone- tire private Tyrrell 007 at the 1976 Japanese Grand Prix made him the top Japanese driver of the 1970s and 1980s. Many Japanese trade journalists believe that he was the best Japanese driver ever to date. The only reason he had to give up the race early was because he ran out of wet tires to change.

In 1968 he won the Japanese Motocross Championship for Kawasaki in the 90 and 125 cc classes.

Nissan R390 GT1, Hoshino's car in Le Mans 1998

Hoshinos was a works driver at Datsun from 1969 and later at Nissan and remained that way until the end of his career. He won the overall ranking of the Japanese Formula 2 four times . or Formula 3000 championship . In 1983 he also drove for James Grisham Racing a race in the Formula 2 European Championship ; here he achieved three championship points with fourth place at the Donington 50,000 . In 1993, at the age of 46, he secured the Formula 3000 championship for the third time on a Lola . He drove his last monoposto season in 1996 in Formula Nippon, which he finished third in the overall standings.

As a Nissan works driver, he celebrated an abundance of victories and titles in Japan and was also successful in the major endurance races. In 1992 he won the Daytona 24 Hours together with Masahiro Hasemi and Toshio Suzuki . In 1998 he finished third in the Le Mans 24-hour race with Aguri Suzuki and Masahiko Kageyama in a Nissan R390 GT1 .

In 1994 he became champion in the Japanese GT Championship , his second title after 1990, and competed in races in this series until the early 2000s before he founded his own Formula Nippon team.

His oldest son is the racing driver Kazuki Hoshino .

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Round	Points	WM-Pos.
1976	Heros Racing	Tyrrell 007	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1977	Heros Racing	Kojima KE007	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th
1976
																DNF
1977
																	11

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1986	Nissan Motorsport	Nissan R86V	Keiji Matsumoto	Aguri Suzuki	failure	Gearbox damage
1987	Nissan Motorsport	Nissan R87E	Keiji Matsumoto	Kenji Takahashi	failure	Engine failure
1988	Nissan Motorsport	Nissan R88C	Takao Wada	Aguri Suzuki	failure	Engine failure
1989	Nissan Motorsport	Nissan R89C	Masahiro Hasemi	Toshio Suzuki	failure	Engine failure
1990	Nissan Motorsport International	Nissan R90CP	Masahiro Hasemi	Toshio Suzuki	Rank 5
1995	NISMO	Nissan Skyline GT-R LM	Masahiko Kageyama	Toshio Suzuki	failure	Gearbox damage
1996	NISMO	Nissan Skyline GT-R LM	Masahiro Hasemi	Toshio Suzuki	Rank 15
1997	Nissan Motorsport	Nissan R390 GT1	Masahiko Kageyama	Érik Comas	Rank 12
1998	Nissan Motorsport	Nissan R390 GT1	Masahiko Kageyama	Aguri Suzuki	Rank 3

literature

• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who. 3rd edition. Travel Publishing, Reading 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .

Web links

Commons : Kazuyoshi Hoshino  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kazuyoshi Hoshino at Racing Sports Cars