JAF Formula Pacific Series Race
Mine, 15 Mar 1981
| Results | Laps | Time/Speed | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Masahiro Hasemi | March 79B [792?] - Nissan LZ14 #11 Hasemi Motorsports |
40 | 46m 49.3s 145.0 kph |
| 2 | Satoru Nakajima | Chevron B40 [40-77-07] - Toyota 2T-G Tom's #37 I&I Racing Development (see note 1) |
40 | 46m 50.0s |
| 3 | Keiji Matsumoto | March 782/79B - Nissan LZ14 Tomei #8 Tomei Jidousha |
40 | 47m 36.8s |
| 4 | Kenji Takahashi | March 79B - Nissan LZ14 Tomei #24 Tomei Jidousha |
40 | 47m 48.2s |
| 5 | Naohiro Fujita | Ralt RT1 - Toyota 2T-G Tom's #5 Speed Star Wheel Racing Team |
36 | |
| R | Sakae Obata | Ralt RT1 - Ford BDA Hart #2 Suzuki Racing (?) |
3 | |
| R | Kazuyoshi Hoshino | March 79B - Nissan LZ14 #3 Hoshino Racing |
1 | |
All cars are 1.6-litre F/Pac unless noted.
| Qualifying | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kazuyoshi Hoshino | (F/Pac) 1.6-litre March 79B - Nissan LZ14 | 1m 09.4s | ||
| 2 | Masahiro Hasemi | (F/Pac) 1.6-litre March 79B [792?] - Nissan LZ14 | 1m 09.7s | ||
| 3 | Satoru Nakajima | (F/Pac) 1.6-litre Chevron B40 [40-77-07] - Toyota 2T-G Tom's | 1m 09.9s | ||
| 4 | Keiji Matsumoto | (F/Pac) 1.6-litre March 782/79B - Nissan LZ14 Tomei | 1m 10.9s | ||
| 5 | Naohiro Fujita | (F/Pac) 1.6-litre Ralt RT1 - Toyota 2T-G Tom's | 1m 11.3s | ||
| 6 | Kenji Takahashi | (F/Pac) 1.6-litre March 79B - Nissan LZ14 Tomei | 1m 11.6s | ||
| 7 | Sakae Obata | (F/Pac) 1.6-litre Ralt RT1 - Ford BDA Hart | 1m 17.6s | ||
Notes on the cars:
- Chevron B40 [40-77-07] (Satoru Nakajima): Shown in Chevron records as sold to Le Mans Co for Tetsu Ikuzawa. Raced by Ikuzawa in Japanese Formula 2 in 1977, using BMW engines. Used again by Ikuzawa for one race at the beginning of 1978. This is almost certainly the car converted to Formula Pacific specification and raced by Satoru Nakajima in the Japanese Formula Pacific series in 1980 and early 1981 using Toyota engines. Subsequent history unknown, but in 2014 a Chevron B40 was acquired from "a guy who used to work at Kojima" by Warwick Mortimer in New Zealand. This car had the chassis plate "40-77-07" but was said to be "ex-Hasemi" and had been Nissan-powered and then BMW-powered.
Sources
The identification of individual cars in these results is based on the material presented elsewhere in this site and may in some cases contradict the organisers' original results.
Japanese race results have been provided by Michael Ferner. His main sources have been the "Japan Automobile Federation" website (www.jaf.or.jp) and Tooru Kitajima's "Formula Nippon Data Center" (http://isweb34.infoseek.co.jp/motor/fndc/).
All comments, clarifications, corrections and additions are most welcome. Please email Allen (allen@oldracingcars.com) if you can help in any way with our research.