Shunji Kasuya

Shuji Kasuya, Paul Gentilozzi and Eric van de Poele's Nissan 300ZX at the 1994 Le Mans 24-hour race

Shunji Kasuya ( Japanese 粕 谷 俊 治 , Kasuya Shunji ; born January 24, 1962 in Tokyo Prefecture ), also Syunji Kasuya , is a former Japanese car racing driver .

Career in motorsport

Shunji Kasuya was an active driver in motorsport for almost 20 years. Its first races were contested in the late 1980s in the Japanese touring and sports car championship . For a few years he competed in monopostor races parallel to the sports car races , in which he had little success. His first race in Europe was the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1989 . Kasuya drove a Cougar C20B of Courage Compétition to the 14th position of the overall standings. Partners were the two Frenchmen Jean-Claude Andruet and Philippe Farjon . Kasuya mainly drove his races in Japan. Exceptions were reports at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the 1990s.

After the end of his racing career, he opened an Alfa Romeo branch in his hometown of Tokyo.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1989	Courage Compétition	Cougar C20B	Philippe Farjon	Jean-Claude Andruet	14th place and class win
1990	Trust Racing Team	Porsche 962C	George Fouché	Steven Andskar	Rank 13
1992	Euro Racing	Lola T92 / 10	Heinz-Harald Frentzen	Charles Zwolsman senior	Rank 13
1994	Clayton Cunningham Racing	Nissan 300ZX	Paul Gentilozzi	Eric van de Poele	failure	Ignition damage
1995	Nismo	Nissan Skyline GT-R LM	Hideo Fukuyama	Masahiko Kondo	Rank 10

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .

Web links

Commons : Shunji Kasuya  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kasuya at the Driver Database
• Kasuya at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information on the Alfa Romeo branch of Kasuya ( Memento from October 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )