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The 41st International Pokka 1000km was the fifth round of the 2012 Super GT season and the 41st running of the 1000 km Suzuka. It took place on August 19, 2012.
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The 41st International Pokka 1000km was the fifth round of the 2012 Super GT season and the 41st running of the 1000 km Suzuka. It took place on August 19, 2012.
Keiichi Tsuchiya is a Japanese professional race car driver. He is known as the Drift King for his nontraditional use of drifting in non-drifting racing events and his role in popularizing drifting as a motorsport. In professional racing, he is a two-time 24 Hours of Le Mans class winner and the 2001 All Japan GT Championship runner-up. He is also known for touge driving.
The Suzuka International Racing Course, more famously known as the Suzuka Circuit, is a 5.807 km (3.608 mi) long motorsport race track located in Ino, Suzuka City, Mie Prefecture, Japan and operated by Honda Mobilityland, a subsidiary of Honda Motor Co, Ltd. It has a capacity of 155,000.
Henri Jacques William Pescarolo is a former racing driver from France. He competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans a record 33 times, winning on four occasions, and won a number of other major sports car events including the 24 Hours of Daytona. He also participated in 64 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, achieving one podium and 12 championship points. Pescarolo also drove in the Dakar Rally in the 1990s, before retiring from racing at the age of 57. In 2000 he set up his eponymous racing team, Pescarolo Sport, which competed in Le Mans until 2013. He wore a distinctive green helmet, and wears a full-face beard that partially covers burns suffered in a crash.
Okayama International Circuit (岡山国際サーキット), formerly known as TI Circuit Aida (TIサーキット英田) before 2005, is a 3.703 km (2.301 mi) private motorsport race track in Mimasaka, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. TI was the abbreviation of "Tanaka International" after the name of the golf club owner, Hajime Tanaka, though the name of the circuit was officially "TI Circuit Aida".
Stanley Dickens is a Swedish racing driver who won the Le Mans 24 hours in 1989 driving a Sauber C9-Mercedes. He was born in Färila.
Ryuichi Kiyonari (清成龍一) is a professional motorcycle road racer.
The Suzuka Summer Endurance Race is an annual motorsport event for sports cars that has been held at the Suzuka International Racing Course, Mie Prefecture, Japan since 1966, and the oldest automobile endurance race in Japan. From 1966 to 2017, the event was known as the Suzuka 1000km, a 1000 kilometre race held as part of various championships including Super GT, the All-Japan Endurance/Sports Prototype Championship, the FIA GT Championship, the BPR Global GT Series, and the FIA World Sportscar Championship. From 2018 to 2019, it was the Suzuka 10 Hours for the Intercontinental GT Challenge. Since 2020, the race has not been held due to the COVID-19 pandemic, although a Super GT round has been held at Suzuka during the event's traditional summer time slot.
The 1997 Pokka Suzuka 1000km was the seventh race of the 1997 FIA GT Championship season. It was run at the Suzuka Circuit, Japan on August 24, 1997.
The 1998 Suzuka 1000 km was the nineteenth running of the 1000km Suzuka and the sixth round the 1998 FIA GT Championship season. It took place at the Suzuka Circuit, Japan, on August 23, 1998.
Andrew Stroud is a retired champion New Zealand motorcycle racer.
Katsuyuki Nakasuga is a Japanese motorcycle racer. He races a factory Yamaha YZF-R1 in the JSB1000 class of the All Japan Road Race Championship. He has won the Suzuka 8 Hours four times and the JSB1000 championship title ten times.
The 2006 International Pokka 1000 km was the sixth round of the 2006 Super GT season and the 35th running of the 1000 km Suzuka. It took place on August 20, 2006.
The 2010 Pokka GT Summer Special was the sixth round of the 2010 Super GT season and was the 39th running of the 1000 km Suzuka event, although like 2009, the race was only 700km in length. It took place on August 22, 2010.
The 2009 Suzuka Pokka GT Summer Special was the sixth round of the 2009 Super GT season and was the 38th running of the 1000 km Suzuka event, although for the first time since 1969, the race was not 1000 km in length as in a bid to reduce CO2 emissions, the race distance was shortented to 700 km. It took place on August 23, 2009.
The 2007 International Pokka 1000km was the sixth round of the 2007 Super GT season and the 36th running of the 1000 km Suzuka. It took place on August 19, 2007.
The 2008 International Pokka 1000 km was the 6th round of the 2008 Super GT season and the 37th running of the 1000 km Suzuka. It took place on August 24, 2008.
The March 86G was a Group C and IMSA GTP sports racing car built by March Engineering. Built as simply a chassis with no engine, it was branded as one of three cars, the BMW GTP, the Buick Hawk or the Nissan R86V depending on which engine was placed in the chassis and which team was running it. There were a number of subtle bodywork changes to reflect the manufacturer which ran the car.
The 46th International Suzuka 1000 km was endurance event that took place on August 27, 2017 at the Suzuka Circuit in Suzuka City, Japan. It was the 46th edition of the 1000 km Suzuka at Suzuka, and the last as part of the Super GT Series, also being the last running under the 1000-kilometer format. The race was won by the Nakajima Racing team with Bertrand Baguette and Kosuke Matsuura driving.
Tomiko Yoshikawa is a Japanese racing driver who competed in junior open-wheel racing and sports car categories. She entered the 24 Hours of Le Mans four times, the 24 Hours of Daytona once and also raced in her native Japan in such series as the All-Japan Formula Three Championship and the Fuji Grand Champion Series. In 1991 she was part of the first all-female LeMans driving team, driving with Lyn St. James and Desiré Wilson.
Kazuki Hiramine is a Japanese racing driver, currently racing in the Super GT Series as a Nissan factory driver with Team Impul. He won the Super GT GT500 Championship in 2022, alongside co-driver Bertrand Baguette.
