Masami Kageyama

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Masami Kageyama ( Japanese 影 山 正 美 , Kageyama Masami ; born May 2, 1967 in Fujisawa ) is a Japanese racing car driver and the younger brother of Masahiko Kageyama .

Career

Masami Kageyama followed his brother Masahiko four years after his racing debut in motorsport. In 1987 he drove his first monoposto race and in 1990 won the overall ranking of the Japanese Formula Toyota Championship, a racing series that is run according to similar technical regulations as the now discontinued Formula BMW . This was followed by the classic route via the Japanese Formula 3 championship - where he finished second in the championship in 1994 behind the German Michael Krumm - the Japanese Formula 3000 championship in Formula Nippon , which he entered in 1996. Like his brother, Masami Kageyama competed in both touring and sports car races alongside the monopost races from the start .

From the season onwards, the Japanese GT Championship became his main field of activity; in 2012 he was still active in this. In 2000 he finished second overall, in 2003 fifth in the GT500 class, again fifth in 2011, this time in the GT300 class and is currently third overall in this class two races before the end of the season.

Outside of Japan, he only competed in the Le Mans 24-hour race , in 1998 as a Nissan works driver . Best finish at the long distance classic in Western France was the sixth overall 2000 . His successes in sports car racing also included victory in the 1999 Fuji 1000 km race , together with Érik Comas and Satoshi Motoyama in a Nissan R391 .

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
1996 JapanJapan Team SARD Toyota Co. Ltd. Toyota Supra LM JapanJapan Masanori Sekiya JapanJapan Hidetoshi Mitsusada failure accident
1998 JapanJapan Nissan Motorsports Nissan R390 GT1 JapanJapan Takuya Kurosawa JapanJapan Satoshi Motoyama Rank 10
2000 JapanJapan TV Ashai Team Dragon Panoz LMP-1 Roadster S. JapanJapan Masahiko Kageyama JapanJapan Toshio Suzuki Rank 6
2008 JapanJapan Tokai University Courage-Oreca LC70 JapanJapan Haruki Kurosawa JapanJapan Toshio Suzuki failure Gearbox damage

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Successes in monoposto and GT sports
  2. ^ Fuji 1000 km race in 1999
personal data
SURNAME Kageyama, Masami
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 影 山 正 美 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese automobile racer
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Fujisawa