The JAF Grand Prix All Japan Fuji 1000 km, was the second round of both the 1989 All Japan Sports Prototype Championship and the 1989 Fuji Long Distance Series was held at the

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, on the 30 April, in front of a crowd of approximately 58,000.

Report

Entry

A total of 17 cars were entered for the event, in two classes, one for cars running to Group C1 specification and the other to

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regulations.

Qualifying

The Nissan Motorsport car of

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and Masahiro Hasemi took

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, in their Nissan R88C ahead of team mates Kazuyoshi Hoshino and Toshio Suzuki, by only 0.269secs.

Race

The race was held over 224 laps of the Fuji circuit, a distance of 1000 km (actual distance was 1001.28 km). Vern Schuppan,

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and Keiji Matsumoto took the winner spoils for the Omron Racing Team, driving their

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C. The trio won in a time of 5hr 30:36.816mins., averaging a speed of 133.571 mph. Second place went to

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and

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in the Trust Racing Team’s

GTi who finished about 15 seconds adrift. Coming in third was the pole winning Nissan of Olofsson and Hasemi. They finished 1 lap behind the winners.

Classification

Result

''Class Winners are in Bold text.'' * Fastest lap: Geoff Lees/ Hitoshi Ogawa, 1:21:418secs. (112.98 mph)

References

{{6 Hours of Fuji All Japan Sports Prototype Championship Fuji Long Distance Series All Japan Fuji 1000km 6 Hours of Fuji Fuji