1000 km Suzuka

The 1000 km Suzuka is an annual 1000-kilometer (620 mi) endurance race for sports cars held at the Suzuka Circuit (172 laps). It is a round of the Japanese Super GT championship.

The race was previously part of the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship and later of the World Sportscar Championship before these series were cancelled. After that the race has become part of many different series including the Super Taikyu endurance series. In 2006, the race was integrated for the first time in the Super GT calendar. Previously, the race was open to JGTC/Super GT cars, but with only a handful of competitors from the Super GT entering.

Within years, some race length change occurs; the 2009 Super GT race was shortened to 700 km as a countermeasure of increasing cost and CO₂ emission, partly due to the economic crisis, for example. It is still unknown whether the race will be trimmed to 700 km in the following seasons, although in 2010 the race was again run in 700 km length.

Only one driver holds the record of four event wins: Kunimitsu Takahashi (1973, 1984, 1985, 1989).

List of winners

Year	Drivers	Car	Series	Length
1966	Sachio Fukuzawa Tomohiko Tsutsumi	Toyota 2000GT	Non-championship	500 km
1967	Shintaro Taki Kenjiro Tanaka	Porsche 906	Non-championship	12 hours
1968	Sachio Fukuzawa Hiroshi Fushida	Toyota 7	Non-championship	1000 km
1969	Tomohiko Tsutsumi Jiro Yoneyama	Porsche 906	Non-championship	12 hours
1970	Kawakami Nishino Koji Fujita	Nissan Fairlady Z432	Non-championship	1000 km
1971	Yoshimasa Kawaguchi Hiroshi Fushida	Porsche 910	Non-championship	1000 km
1972	Harukuni Takahashi Kenichi Takeshita	Toyota Celica 1600GT-R	Non-championship	1000 km
1973	Kunimitsu Takahashi Kenji Tohira	Nissan Fairlady Z432R	Non-championship	1000 km
1980	Hironobu Tatsumi Naoki Nagasaka	March 75S-Mazda	Non-championship	1000 km
1981	Bob Wollek Henri Pescarolo	Porsche 935 K3	Non-championship	1000 km
1982	Naohiro Fujita Naoki Nagasaka	BMW M1	Non-championship	1000 km
1983	Naohiro Fujita Vern Schuppan	Porsche 956	JSPC	1000 km
1984	Kunimitsu Takahashi Kenji Takahashi Geoff Lees	Porsche 956	JSPC	1000 km
1985	Kunimitsu Takahashi Kenji Takahashi	Porsche 962C	JSPC	1000 km
1986	Jiro Yoneyama Hideki Okada Tsunehisa Asai	Porsche 956	JSPC	1000 km
1987	Geoff Lees Masanori Sekiya Hitoshi Ogawa	Toyota 87C	JSPC	1000 km
1988	Hideki Okada Stanley Dickens	Porsche 962C	JSPC	1000 km
1989	Kunimitsu Takahashi Stanley Dickens	Porsche 962C	JSPC	1000 km
1990	Kazuyoshi Hoshino Toshio Suzuki	Nissan R90CP	JSPC	1000 km
1991	Roland Ratzenberger Pierre-Henri Raphanel Naoki Nagasaka	Toyota 91C-V	JSPC	1000 km
1992	Derek Warwick Yannick Dalmas	Peugeot 905 Evo 1B	WSC	1000 km
1993	Takao Wada Toshio Suzuki	Nissan R92CP	JGTC	1000 km
1994	Jean-Pierre Jarier Bob Wollek Jesus Pareja	Porsche 911 Turbo S LM-GT	BPR GT	1000 km
1995	Ray Bellm Maurizio Sandro Sala Masanori Sekiya	McLaren F1 GTR	BPR GT	1000 km
1996	Ray Bellm James Weaver JJ Lehto	McLaren F1 GTR	BPR GT	1000 km
1997	Alessandro Nannini Marcel Tiemann	Mercedes-Benz CLK-GTR	FIA GT	1000 km
1998	Bernd Schneider Mark Webber	Mercedes-Benz CLK LM	FIA GT	1000 km
1999	Osamu Nakako Ryo Michigami Katsutomo Kaneishi	Honda NSX GT500	Non-championship	1000 km
2000	Juichi Wakisaka Katsutomo Kaneishi Daisuke Itoh	Honda NSX GT500	Non-championship	1000 km
2001	Hironori Takeuchi Yuji Tachikawa Shigekazu Wakisaka	Toyota Supra GT500	Non-championship	1000 km
2002	Juichi Wakisaka Akira Iida Shigekazu Wakisaka	Toyota Supra GT500	Non-championship	1000 km
2003	Ryo Michigami Sébastien Philippe	Honda NSX GT500	Non-championship	1000 km
2004	Ryo Michigami Sébastien Philippe Daisuke Itoh	Honda NSX GT500	Non-championship	1000 km
2005	André Couto Ronnie Quintarelli Hayanari Shimoda	Toyota Supra GT500	Non-championship	1000 km
2006	Benoît Tréluyer Kazuki Hoshino Jérémie Dufour	Nissan Fairlady Z GT500	Super GT	1000 km
2007	Andre Lotterer Juichi Wakisaka Oliver Jarvis	Lexus SC430 GT500	Super GT	1000 km
2008	Tsugio Matsuda Sébastien Philippe	Nissan GT-R GT500	Super GT	1000 km
2009	Hiroaki Ishiura Kazuya Oshima	Lexus SC430 GT500	Super GT	700 km
2010	Ralph Firman Yuji Ide Takashi Kobayashi	Honda HSV-010 GT GT500	Super GT	700 km