Kazuyoshi Hoshino
Nation: | Japan | ||||||||
Automobile world championship | |||||||||
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First start: | 1976 Japanese Grand Prix | ||||||||
Last start: | 1977 Japanese Grand Prix | ||||||||
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1976 Heroes Racing 1977 Heroes Racing | |||||||||
statistics | |||||||||
World Cup balance: | no World Cup placement | ||||||||
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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.
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. |
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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 |
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Legend | ||
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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 |
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() | Streak results | |
underlined | Leader in the overall standings |
Le Mans results
year | team | vehicle | Teammate | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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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 .
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personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hoshino, Kazuyoshi |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 星野 一 義 (Japanese) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese automobile racer |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1947 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Shizuoka , Japan |