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Suzuka Great 20 Drivers Race

Suzuka, 28 Sep 1980

ResultsLapsTime/Speed
1 Keiji Matsumoto (F2) 2-litre March 802 [3] - BMW M12/7
#8 Diatone Racing (Le Mans Company)

2 Kazuyoshi Hoshino (F2) 2-litre March 802 - BMW M12/7
#1 Heroes Racing Corporation

3 Naohiro Fujita (F2) 2-litre March 802 [9] - BMW M12/7
#5 Speed Star Wheel Racing

4 Naoki Nagasaka (F2) 2-litre March 802 [1] - BMW M12/7
#6 Speed Star Wheel Racing

5 Masahiro Hasemi (F2) 2-litre March 802 [10] - BMW M12/7
#11 Tomy Racing Team

6 Satoru Nakajima (F2) 2-litre March 792 - BMW M12/7
#37 I & I Racing Developmwents

7 Patrick Gaillard (F2) 2-litre March 802 [5] - BMW M12/7
#3 Walter Wolf Racing Japan

8 Tiff Needell (F2) 2-litre March 782 - BMW M12/7
#7 Diatone Racing (Le Mans Company)

9 Toshio Motohashi (F2) 2-litre March 792 [782?] - BMW M12/7
#80 Tombow Racing Team

10 Kenji Takahashi (F2) 2-litre March 802 [23] - BMW M12/7
#24 Tomei Jidousha

R Toshio Suzuki (F2) 2-litre March 792 - BMW M12/7
#2 Heroes Racing Corporation

R Richard Thomas Geck (F2) 2-litre March 782 [7] - BMW M12/7
#23 Richard Thomas Geck (see note 1)

R Kengo Nakamoto (F2) 2-litre March 792 - BMW M12/7
#27 Nakamoto Kengo

All cars are 2-litre F2 unless noted.

Qualifying
1 Satoru Nakajima (F2) 2-litre March 792 - BMW M12/7
2 Masahiro Hasemi (F2) 2-litre March 802 [10] - BMW M12/7
3 Keiji Matsumoto (F2) 2-litre March 802 [3] - BMW M12/7
4 Kazuyoshi Hoshino (F2) 2-litre March 802 - BMW M12/7
5 Naoki Nagasaka (F2) 2-litre March 802 [1] - BMW M12/7
6 Toshio Suzuki (F2) 2-litre March 792 - BMW M12/7
7 Kenji Takahashi (F2) 2-litre March 802 [23] - BMW M12/7
8 Naohiro Fujita (F2) 2-litre March 802 [9] - BMW M12/7
9 Patrick Gaillard (F2) 2-litre March 802 [5] - BMW M12/7
10 Richard Thomas Geck (F2) 2-litre March 782 [7] - BMW M12/7
11 Tiff Needell (F2) 2-litre March 782 - BMW M12/7
12 Kengo Nakamoto (F2) 2-litre March 792 - BMW M12/7
13 Toshio Motohashi (F2) 2-litre March 792 [782?] - BMW M12/7

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.

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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