JCTC: Mine results

All Japan GT Championship Rd.5 Oct.26-27, 1996 Mine Circuit (3.23898km) Weather Conditions: Sunny, Cool

Pos # Class Drivers Car Laps Time/Delay Q 1 60 GT500 Naoki Hattori Ralf Schumacher Lark McLaren F1 GTR 78 1:56'26.063(130.18km/h) 1 2 37 GT500 Eric Comas Hironori Takeuchi Castrol Cerumo Supra 78 -12.153 3 3 2 GT500 Aguri Suzuki Hideo Fukuyama ZEXEL Skyline 78 -1'01.857 8 4 61 GT500 David Brabham John Nielsen Lark McLaren F1 GTR 78 -1'21.274 2 5 3 GT500 Masahiro Hasemi Tetsuya Tanaka UJ Skyline 78 -1'26.585 10 6 34 GT500 Hideshi Matsuda Osamu Nakako STP Taisan PorscheGT2 77 -1 lap 11 7 8 GT500 Tom Kristensen Bertran Gachot FET SPORTS SUPRA 77 -1 lap 5 8 39 GT500 Wayne Gardner Gianpiero Simoni Sard Supra GT 77 -1 lap 7 9 25 GT500 Masami Kageyama Yuji Tachikawa FedEx 300ZX-GTS 77 -1 lap 12 10 556 GT500 Toshio Suzuki Masahiko Kondo KURE R33 77 -1 lap 9 11 100 GT500 Kunimitsu Takahashi Keiichi Tsuchiya ADVAN BP NSX 76 -2 laps 14 12 5 GT500 Kaoru Iida Tetsuya Ota Chatrese Porsche GT2 75 -3 laps 17 13 26 GT300 Keiichi Suzuki Morio Nitta Taisan StarCard RSR 73 -5 laps 23 14 88 GT500 Takao Wada Satoshi Ikezawa Tamura Diablo Iota 72 -6 laps 18 15 31 GT300 Katsunori Iketani Kazuo Mogi Caltex Porsche 72 -6 laps 26 16 21 GT300 Yasushi Hitotsuyama Kenji Yamamoto BP Dunlop BMW 72 -6 laps 24 17 72 GT300 Takayuki Kinoshita Norio Makiguchi WAKO'S BMW M3 72 -6 laps 28 18 6 GT300 Tetsuya Kawasaki Nendai Fukushima imuraya BP MR-2 72 -6 laps 20 19 7 GT300 Shinichi Yamaji Haruhiko Matsumoto RE Amemiya SuperG RX7 71 -7 laps 29 20 12 GT300 Satoshi Motoyama Fuminori Mizuno Person's Sylvia 70 -8 laps 21 21 38 GT300 Adrian Fu Masaoki Nagashima Taisan Fuspeed Porsche 69 -9 laps 30 22 20 GT300 Kenji Takahashi Hiroaki Suga Ai Auto GAB Porsche 67 -11 laps 32 23 95 GT300 Nobuyuki Oyagi Tsuneaki Mankumo Daishin Sylvia 66 -12 laps 31 24 19 GT500 Katsuo Kobayashi Manabu Orito Jun Trust Skyline 63 -15 laps 19 25 91 GT300 Masahiro Matsunaga Ryuji Kawai Buddy Club MR2 61 -17 laps 25 DNF 35 GT500 Oscar Larrauri Anthony Reid Taisan Sanyo Shinpan F40 37 -41 laps 15 1 GT500 Kazuyoshi Hoshino Masahiko Kageyama Calsonic Skyline 27 -51 laps 13 36 GT500 Masanori Sekiya Pedro de la Rosa Castrol Tom's Supra 23 -55 laps 4 43 GT500 Yukio Okamoto Yasutaka Hinoi BMB Mini Juke Porsche 20 -58 laps 16 910 GT300 Seiichi Sodeyama Hideyuki Tamamoto Nine Ten Porsche 19 -59 laps 27 16 GT500 Tetsuhumi Toda Eiji Yamada Prova 993GT2 38 13 -65 laps 22 30 GT500 Yoji Yamada Eiichi Tajima Sogo Keibi Porsche 13 -65 laps 6

Fastest Lap 60 Schumacher 1'26.040 (135.525km/h) on Lap 2 Attendance: 40,400

Final Rankings: GT500 Brabham/Nielsen 63, Hattori/Schumacher 60, Comas 55, Hoshino/Kageyama 54, Hasemi/Tanaka 47, A.Suzuki/Fukuyama 46, Takeuchi 45, Sekiya/de la Rosa 38, etc.

GT300 Suzuki/Nitta 90, Sodeyama 65, Kinoshita/Makiguchi 52, Nagasaka 50, Kawasaki 47, etc.

The McLaren combo of Schumacher/Hattori never missed a beat from flag to flag in their quest for the third win while the fourth placed sister car driven by Brabham/Nielsen are champions.