Introduction of Drivers until 2000
We introduce drivers who drive RS★R race cars.
| Manabu Orido | ||
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 BIRTH:1969/12/3 BLOOD:A WEB:www.orido.jp |
1991 | Entered Fuji Freshman race NA-1600 class |
| 1992 | Entered Fuji Freshman race NA-1600 class and series champion. | |
| 1993 | Entered Suzuka Freshman race N2-1600 class from Round 3 and series 3rd place including 3 times champion. | |
| 1994 | Entered Super Silvia Cup Race and series 2nd place. | |
| 1995 | Entered Super Silvia Cup Race and pole to finish at all round, series champion. | |
| Entered Mirage International Cup Race. | ||
| Entered Fuji 6H-Taikyu and 3rd place. | ||
| 1996 | Entered Super Silvia Cup Race and all round winner, series champion. | |
| Entered Group N class 2 and champion of TI and Fuji. 4th place at series./td> | ||
| Champion of 24H Taikyuu race N1 class in Tokachi. | ||
| Entered Japan GT Championship series Round4 GT500. | ||
| Entered Japan GT Championship series Round5 GT300. 2nd in qualifying and 4th in Finals. | ||
| 1997 | Champion of Japan GT Championship series GT300. | |
| Entered Mirage International Rally Art Cup series and 2nd place. | ||
| Entered N1 Taikyuu series (Tokachi, Suzuka and Fuji) | ||
| Entered FIA. GT championship and Suzuka 1,000km GT2 class | ||
| Experienced NASCAR latemodel district championship in USA. | ||
| 1998 | Entered Japan GT Championship series GT300 from Round4 and series 2nd place. | |
| Series champion of Mirage International Rally Art Cup series. | ||
| 1999 | Entered Japan GT Championship series GT300 class with Toyota Celica. | |
| Entered N1 Taikyuu N class with Altezza and 2nd place. | ||
| NASCAR Coca-Cola500 5th place in qualifying and retired finals. | ||
| Finished the course of Fuji Le Mans Porche. | ||
| 2000 | Entered GT Championship GT500 class with Supra. | |
| Entered Super Taikyuu series with Altezza. | ||
| Akira Iida | ||
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 BIRTH:1969/12/18 BLOOD:A WEB:www.akira.jp |
1989 | Fuji freshman race debut with 3rd place. |
| 1991 | Entered N1 Taykyuu championship | |
| 1992 | Entered N1 Taykyuu championship,3rd place in series | |
| 1993 | Japan touring car championship(Gr.A), 4th place in series class. | |
| N1 Taykyuu championship,3rd place in series. | ||
| 1994 | Entered Japan GT championship. | |
| Entered Japan touring car championship(JTCC) | ||
| Entered 24 Hours of Le・Mans | ||
| 1995 | Japan touring car championship(JTCC), 6th place in | |
| Japan GT Championship,9th place in series. | ||
| 24 Hours of Le・Mans, class champion. | ||
| 24 Taikyuu in Tokachi, class champion. | ||
| 1000km Taikyuu in Suzuka, class champion. | ||
| 1996 | Entered Inter F3000 Championship. | |
| 24 Hours of Le・Mans, 3rd place in the class. | ||
| 1997 | Formula Japan, 3rd place in Round 2 and 10th place in series. | |
| Japan GT Championship, 2nd place in Round 5 and 6th place in series. | ||
| Japan touring car Championship (JTCC), champion in Round 12 and 8th place in series. | ||
| 1998 | Entered Formula Japan. | |
| Japan GT Championship, champion in Round 6 and 10th place at ranking. | ||
| 1999 | Entered Formula Japan. | |
| Japan GT Championship, champion in Round 2 at Fuji and 11th at ranking. | ||
| Japan GT all star, 2nd place. | ||
| 2000 | Entered Japan GT Championship. | |
| Entered Super Taikyuu series. | ||
| Keiichi Tsuchiya | ||
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 BIRTH:1956/1/30 BLOOD:B WEB: www.k1planning.com |
1977 | Debuted at Fuji Freshman race. |
| 1985 | Inter TEC, class champion and 6th place at ranking. | |
| 1989 | Entered Group Aand F3 | |
| 1990 | Entered Group A, F3 and Formula Mirage, got win of all the race and first champion. | |
| 1991 | Entered Group A changing the Ford Sierra to Skyline GTR, 5th at ranking. | |
| 1992 | Entered Group A with driver Takahashi using Skyline GTR. | |
| 1993 | Got the pole positionat Group A Round1 and Entered Ni Taikyuu round series with driver Iida, 3rd place at ranking. | |
| 1994 | Entered Japan touring car championship with HONDA Civicand debuted in Round 3 and got 4th place in Round 4. | |
| Entered Japan GT Championship with Porche turbo, champion in Round4. | ||
| Entered 24 Hours of Le・Mans with HONDA NSX and run whole the race first time placing 18th. | ||
| 1995 | Champion of 24 Hours of Le・Mans GT-2 with HONDA NSX,champion of 24 in Tokachi and Suzuka GT class. | |
| Entered Japan GT Championship with Porche, 3rd place at Round 2. | ||
| Entered Japan touring car Championship with HONDA Civic. | ||
| 1996 | Ran whole the race for three years at 24 Hours of Le・Mans GT-2 class,3rd place. | |
| Entered Japan GT Championship with HONDA NSX. | ||
| Challenged the first time of NASCAR in Suzuka. | ||
| 1997 | Entered 24 Hours of Le・Mans from team LARK MACLAREN and 1000km in Suzuka. 10th place in Qualifying of Le・Mans. | |
| Entered Japan GT Championship Round 3 from team Taisan. | ||
| Entered Formula Japan. | ||
| Entered Japan touring car Championship of last round with intertec. | ||
| Entered the second time of NASCAR in Suzuka. | ||
| 1998 | Entered 24 Hours of Le・Mans from Toyota works and got 9th place. | |
| Entered Japan GT Championship from Toyota team third and got 3rd place in Round 1. | ||
| Entered Japan touring car Championship from Tsuchiya engineering and got 3rd place in Round1. | ||
| Entered NASCAR WINSTON WEST Round 9 and got 24th place. | ||
| Entered NASCAR THUNDER SPECIAL Round 3. | ||
| 1999 | Entered 24 Hours of Le・Mans from Toyota works and got 2nd place.。 | |
| Entered Japan GT Championship from Toyota team third. | ||
| Entered NASCAR WINSTON CUP and got 24th place. | ||
| 2000 | Entered Japan GT Championship with ARTA/HONDA NSX, champion in Round4. | |
| Entered Super Taikyuu sereis from Team DD with Toyota ALTEZZA, champion in Round1 and Round7. Got 3rd place at 24 Hours in Tokachi. | ||
| Entered 24 Hours of Le・Mans from Team Ryu (Panoz/Ford) of TV Asahi and got 8th place. | ||
| Motonobu Takehira | ||
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 BIRTH:1947/8/19 BLOOD:O |
He was born in 1947 in Aichi prefecture. He got interested in cars when he was a student and worked for Toyota. He was engaged in developed racing car and rally car at Motor sports department. He started his own business when he was 31 and now he is running Motor sport shop Takes ltd. His motor sport career began when he was 22, experiencing a lot of raves such as gymkhana, dirt trial and rally. He is now popular for Japan dirt trail driver. He also experienced rally in overseas like RAC rally, Monte Carlo rally, San Remo rally and Hong kong-Beijing rally. He is a automobile critic and write for auto magazine “Best Car”. His own writings are “Only my technique for rally”, “A lot of mistakes of 4WD technique” and “Technique for 4WD ”. He is also a member of committee for “Japan Car Of The Year". |
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| Monte Carlo rally 3rd place in class. | ||
| San Remo rally 1st place in class. | ||
| Hong kong-Beijing rally 1st place in private and class, 5th place in overall. | ||
| Entered Jpan dirt trial Championship A4 class in 2000. | ||
| Shinichi Okazaki | ||
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 BIRTH:1969/5 |
1988 | He got sports license for Suzuka circuit. |
| 1990 | Entered Suzuka freshman trophy race NS-class. | |
| 1991 | Advanced FJ-1600. | |
| 1993 | Entered FJ and Civic race. | |
| 1994 | Entered F4 and Civic race. | |
| 1995 | Partly entered Civic race. | |
| 1997 | 2nd place at ranking of Suzuka clubman race Civic class. | |
| 1998 | 2nd place at ranking of Suzuka clubman race Civic class. | |
| 7th place at series ranking of Civic Intercup race. | ||
| 1999 | 5th place at series ranking of Japan Civic Intercup race. | |
| 2000 | Entered Japan Civic Intercup race. | |