Kojima engineering
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| Surname | Kojima engineering |
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| Companies | KK Kojima Engineering |
| Company headquarters | |
| Team boss |
 Matsuhisa Kojima
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| statistics | |
| First Grand Prix | Japan 1976 |
| Last Grand Prix | Japan 1977 |
| Race driven | 2 |
| Constructors' championship | 0 |
| Drivers World Championship | 0 |
| Race wins | 0 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 1 |
| Points | 0 |
Kojima was a racing team active in Formula 1 in 1976 and 1977 . In both years the team started exclusively at the Japanese Grand Prix in Fuji .
In 1976 the team started with just one driver. At the last race of the season in Fuji, Japan, the Japanese Masahiro Hasemi started from position 10 in the Ford-Cosworth DFV-driven Kojima KE007 and finished eleventh in the chaos of rain. The sometimes readable view that Hasemi drove the fastest race lap in this race is based on a measurement error.
The following year, Kojima used Noritake Takahara . Also with the V8 engine from Ford-Cosworth in the rear, the Japanese started in a Kojima KE009 and was unable to finish the race from 19th place due to an accident. The customer team Heros Racing Corporation also used an identical vehicle in the same race. Kazuyoshi Hoshino finished the race from eleventh place in eleventh place. After the end of the season, a transfer of the car to the German team Kauhsen was considered; But Willi Kauhsen ultimately decided to develop his own vehicle.
After 1977 the team no longer appeared in Formula 1, but continued to compete in Japanese Formula 2 until the 1980s . From 1978 onwards, the main focus was on powerboat races.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.research-racing.de. Retrieved March 19, 2019 .
- ↑ 小島 松 久 プ ロ フ ィ ー ル . KE Racing, accessed August 6, 2012 (Japanese).