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All Japan Touring Car Championship R7/8 June 7, 1997 Suzuka Circuit East Course (2.24363km) Weather: Sunny R7 R8 1 15Takuya Kurosawa Honda Accord ...
All Japan Touring Car Championship R7/8 June 7, 1997 Suzuka Circuit East Course (2.24363km) Weather: Sunny
R7 R8
1 15Takuya Kurosawa Honda Accord 41L 37'19.168(147.89kmh) 1 23Motoyama 41L 40'14,676(152.96kmh) 2 12Kazuyoshi Hoshino Nissan Primera 41L +7.983 2 15Kurosawa 41L +8.278 3 25Masami Kageyama Toyota Corona EXiV 41L +11.861 3 25Kageyama 41L +26.479 4 16Osamu Nakako Honda Accord 41L +14.318 4 14Michigami 41L +30.137 5 14Ryo Michigami Honda Accord 41L +20.819 5 16Nakako 41L +30.432 6 87Akira Iida Opel Vektra 41L +21.681 6 12Hoshino 41L +31.006 7 38Hironori Takeuchi Toyota Chaser 41L +40.649 7 38Takeuchi 41L +35.913 8 33Hideki Okada Honda Accord 41L +41.618 8 39Silva 41L +36.384 9 11Takahiko Hara Toyota Corona EXiV 41L +42.868 9 36Sekiya 41L +43.519 10 37Michael Krumm(D) Toyota Corona EXiV 41L +43.054 10 19Kaneishi 41L +43.979 11 19Katsutomo Kaneishi Toyota Corona EXiV 41L +43.451 11 68Tanaka 40L -1 lap 12 36Masanori Sekiya Toyota Chaser 41L +49.456 12 72Matsunaga 40L -1 lap 13 39Juan Manuel Silva(RA) Toyota Corona EXiV 41L +57.196 13 21Hitotsuyama 36L -5 laps 14 72Masahiro Matsunaga Toyota Corolla 40L -1 lap 15 21Yasushi Hitotsuyama BMW318i 39L -2 laps -----------------DNF------------------ 16 68Tetsuya Tanaka Toyota Corona EXiV 39L -2 laps 33Okada 1L -40 laps ----------------------------------DNF------------------------------------- 37Krumm 1L -40 laps 87Iida 1L -40 laps 23Satoshi Motoyama Nissan Primera 1L -40 laps 11Hara 0L -41 laps Fastest Lap: Kurosawa 53.733(150.31kmh) on Lap 5 Fastest Lap: Motoyama 53.505(159.95kmh) on Lap 12
Point Standings: Kurosawa 60 Motoyama 52 Hoshino 49 Nakako 43 Kageyama 34 Michigami 31, etc.
Honda's brand new 3X model coincided with the latest JTCC round at their home track in Suzuka.
Kurosawa took the opportunity to snatch a double pole and win in race one.
Motoyama overcame a power steering problem which had befallen the Nissan driver in the first heat and bounced back with a win in race two.
In the point standings Kurosawa, who will carry 50kg of ballast in the next round at Mine in July, takes the lead from Motoyama by eight points.
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