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All Japan F2 Championship Race

Nishinihon, 20 Apr 1980

ResultsLapsTime/Speed
1 Masahiro Hasemi (F2) 2-litre March 802 [10] - BMW M12/7
#11 Tomy Racing Team
2 Kazuyoshi Hoshino (F2) 2-litre March 802 - BMW M12/7
#1 Heroes Racing Corporation
3 Keiji Matsumoto (F2) 2-litre March 792 - BMW M12/7
#8 Diatone Racing (Le Mans Company)
4 Naoki Nagasaka (F2) 2-litre March 782 - BMW M12/7
#6 Speed Star Wheel Racing
5 Richard Thomas Geck (F2) 2-litre March 782 [7] - BMW M12/7
#23 Richard Thomas Geck (see note 1)
R Naohiro Fujita (F2) 2-litre March 792 - BMW M12/7
#5 Speed Star Wheel Racing
DNS Kenji Takahashi (F2) 2-litre March 782 - BMW M12/7
#7 Tomei Jidousha (see note 2) 		Did not start

All cars are 2-litre F2 unless noted.

Qualifying
1 Masahiro Hasemi (F2) 2-litre March 802 [10] - BMW M12/7
2 Kazuyoshi Hoshino (F2) 2-litre March 802 - BMW M12/7
3 Naoki Nagasaka (F2) 2-litre March 782 - BMW M12/7
4 Naohiro Fujita (F2) 2-litre March 792 - BMW M12/7
5 Keiji Matsumoto (F2) 2-litre March 792 - BMW M12/7
6 Kenji Takahashi * (F2) 2-litre March 782 - BMW M12/7
7 Richard Thomas Geck (F2) 2-litre March 782 [7] - BMW M12/7
 
* Did not start

Notes on the cars:

  1. March 782 [7] (Richard Thomas Geck): Bruno Giacomelli's works car at Thruxton 27 Mar 1978 and presumably all season. To Japan at the end of the year and used by Giacomelli to win at Suzuka 5 Nov 1978. Then to Diatone Racing (Le Mans Company) for Keiji Matsumoto in 1979. Sold to Richard Thomas Geck (Kaira Garage) later in the year and raced by Geck to the end of 1980.
  2. March 782 (Kenji Takahashi): Kenji Takahashi raced a March 782 in Japanese F2 in 1979 and early 1980. He last drove the car in April 1980, and then appeared in Japanese Formula Pacific in a March 79B, raising suspicions that the 782 could have been converted, but the 79B appears to be the car Takao Wada had previously been racing. Wada moved to a Hayashi 80P. The history of the March 782 after April 1980 is unknown.

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.

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