1995 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship

The 1995 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the third season of Japan Automobile Federation GT premiere racing, and the second under the promotion of the GT Association (GTA). It was marked as well as the thirteenth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. Once again, the GT1 class champion was the #1 Calsonic Nissan Skyline GT-R driven by Masahiko Kageyama, and the GT2 class champion was the #70 Gaikokuya Nissan Skyline driven by Yoshimi Ishibashi and Kaoru Hoshino.

1995 saw the Toyota Supra win its first race in the GT1 category, at Sendai Hi-Land Raceway. The victory came just a week after Masanori Sekiya, driver of the winning Castrol TOM's Toyota Supra, became the first Japanese driver to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans overall. The series made its first official visit to Suzuka Circuit on April 2, 1995.

Schedule
Round Race Circuit Date
1 Suzuka GT 300 Suzuka Circuit April 2
2 All Japan Fuji GT Race Fuji Speedway May 4
3 HiLand GT&F3 Race Sendai Hi-Land Raceway June 25
4 Japan Special GT-Cup Fuji Speedway August 13
5 SUGO GT Championship Sportsland SUGO September 10
6 Sanyo Shinpan Cup Grand Touring Car Endurance Race Mine Circuit October 1

Teams & Drivers

GT1
Team Make Car No. Drivers Tyre Rounds
Calsonic Hoshino Racing Nissan Nissan Skyline GT-R (BNR32) 1
Nissan Skyline GT-R (BCNR33) 5		 1 Masahiko Kageyama B All
Kazuyoshi Hoshino 3–6
Team Zexel Nissan Nissan Skyline GT-R (BNR32) 2
Nissan Skyline GT-R (BCNR33) 4		 2 Kenji Tohira Y All
Hiroyuki Kawai All
Hasemi Motorsports Nissan Nissan Skyline GT-R (BNR32) 1
Nissan Skyline GT-R (BCNR33) 5		 3 Masahiro Hasemi B All
Racing Team Nakaharu Nissan Nissan Skyline GT-R (BNR32) 4 Hideo Fukuyama B 4–5
Mizunori Fumino 4–5
Rank Up Tomei Sports Porsche Porsche 911 GT2 5 Kouichi Kashiwabara Y 1–5
Yukihiro Hane 1–2
Minoru Tanaka 4–5
FET Racing Team Toyota Toyota Supra 8 Naoki Nagasaka B All
Kiyoshi Misaki 1
NISMO Nissan Nissan Skyline GT-R (BCNR33) 10 Akira Iida B 3–6
Toshio Suzuki 3
55 Toshio Suzuki B 1–2, 4–6
Akira Iida 1–2
Prova Motorsport Porsche Porsche 964 15 Naohiro Furuya B All
Hideyuki Tamamoto 4
Hisashi Wada 5
Scott Maxwell 6
Team JUN Nissan Nissan Skyline GT-R (BNR32) 19 Katsuo Kobayashi Y All
Dandelion Racing Nissan Nissan Skyline GT-R (BNR32) 22 Katsuo Mizunuma Y 5
Mitsuo Akimoto 5
Team LeMans Nissan Nissan 300ZX 25 Masami Kageyama Y 1–2, 4–6
Team Take One Porsche Porsche 911 GT2 30 Eiichi Tajima B All
Yoji Yamada 1–2, 4–6
Team Taisan Porsche Porsche 911 GT2 33 Hideshi Matsuda Y 2–3
Kaoru Iida 2, 4
Keiichi Suzuki 3–4
34 Hideshi Matsuda Y 4–6
Takeshi Tsuchiya 4
Oscar Larrauri 5
Keiichi Suzuki 6
35 Keiichi Suzuki Y 1–2
Hideshi Matsuda 1
Takeshi Tsuchiya 2
Anthony Reid 3–6
Masahiko Kondō 3–6
Ferrari Ferrari F40 34 Anthony Reid Y 1–2
Masahiko Kondō 1
40 Tetsuya Ota Y 1–2, 4, 6
Oscar Larrauri 1, 4, 6
Castrol Toyota Team TOM'S Toyota Toyota Supra 36 Masanori Sekiya B All
Michael Krumm All
Toyota Team Cerumo Toyota Toyota Supra 38 Érik Comas B All
Toyota Team SARD Toyota Toyota Supra 39 Jeff Krosnoff D All
Aiwa Racing Project Nissan Nissan Silvia 41 Kunio Date Y 1–2, 4–6
Akira Ishikawa 1–2, 4–6
Team Razo Nissan Nissan Skyline GT-R (BNR32) 66 Takahiko Hara T 2
Hisashi Wada 1–2, 4–6
Endless Sports Nissan Nissan Skyline GT-R (BCNR33) 81 Mitsuhiro Kinoshita Y 4
Yasushi Kikuchi 4
Team Comtech Racing Club Porsche Porsche 911 GT2 87 Eiji Yamada Y 4
KEN WOLF with Terai Engineering Lamborghini Lamborghini Diablo Jota 88 Takao Wada Y 1, 3–6
Satoshi Ikezawa 1, 3–5
Tatsuhiko Kaneumi 6
Team Kunimitsu Porsche Porsche 964 Carrera RS 99 Ryo Michigami Y 4–6
Porsche 911 GT2 100 Kunimitsu Takahashi Y All
Keiichi Tsuchiya All

Season results
Round Circuit GT1 Winning Team GT2 Winning Team
GT1 Winning Drivers GT2 Winning Drivers
1 Suzuka Circuit #1 Calsonic Hoshino Racing GT-R #70 Team Gaikokuya Nissan Skyline
Masahiko Kageyama Yoshimi Ishibashi
Kaoru Hoshino
2 Mt. Fuji #33 Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT2 #70 Team Gaikokuya Nissan Skyline
Hideshi Matsuda
Kaoru Iida		 Yoshimi Ishibashi
Kaoru Hoshino
3 Sendai #36 Castrol TOM'S Toyota Supra #7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7
Masanori Sekiya
Michael Krumm		 Hironori Takeuchi
Haruhiko Matsumoto
4 Mt. Fuji #3 Hasemi Motorsports GT-R #72 Makiguchi Engineering BMW M3
Masahiro Hasemi Norio Makiguchi
Takayuki Kinoshita
5 Sportsland SUGO #35 Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT2 #31 Cobra Racing Team Porsche 993
Anthony Reid
Masahiko Kondō		 Seiichi Sodeyama
Katsunori Iketani
6 Mine Circuit #34 Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT2 #7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7
Hideshi Matsuda
Keiichi Suzuki		 Hironori Takeuchi
Haruhiko Matsumoto

Point Ranking

Drivers
Rank Drivers Number/Team Points Wins
1 Masahiko Kageyama #1 Calsonic Hoshino Racing Skyline GT-R 67 1
2 Masahiro Hasemi #3 Hasemi Motorsports Skyline GT-R 61 1
3 Toshio Suzuki #55 NISMO Skyline GT-R 58 0
4 Hideshi Matsuda #33 Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT2
#34 Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT2
#35 Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT2		 44 1
5 Michael Krumm #36 Castrol TOM'S Toyota Supra 46 1

Drivers
Rank Drivers Number/Team Points Wins
1 Yoshimi Ishibashi
Kaoru Hoshino		 #70 Team Gaikokuya Nissan Skyline 79 2
2 Hironori Takeuchi
Haruhiko Matsumoto		 #7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7 57 2
3 Tsuyoshi Yamagishi #71 Makiguchi Engineering BMW M3 53 0
4 Norio Makiguchi #72 Makiguchi Engineering BMW M3 50 1
5 Katsunori Iketani #31 Cobra Racing Team Porsche 993 50 1

Notes
1.^ Masahiko Kondō did not met the requirement for minimum distance driven and was ineligible for championship points.
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