JLOC

Team JLOC

Founded	1994
Base	Ichinomiya, Aichi Prefecture
Team principal(s)	Isao Noritake
Current series	Super GT
Former series	Asian Le Mans Series
Current drivers	Car #87: Kosuke Matsuura Natsu Sakaguchi Car #88: Takashi Kogure Yuya Motojima
Noted drivers	Takao Wada Satoshi Ikezawa Hisashi Wada Naohiro Furuya Marco Apicella Koji Yamanishi Yasutaka Hinoi Atsushi Yogo Hiroyuki Iiri Yuhi Sekiguchi Manabu Orido Takayuki Aoki Kazuki Hiramine Marco Mapelli André Couto Kiyoto Fujinami
Teams' Championships	Asian Le Mans Series : 1 (2009)
Drivers' Championships	Asian Le Mans Series : 2009: Atsushi Yogo, Hiroyuki Iiri
Website	www.jloc-net.com www.team-jloc.com

Japan Lamborghini Owners Club (JLOC) is an organization of Lamborghini car owners in Japan that was formed in 1980 to help information exchange between Lamborghini owners in Japan.

Members of JLOC would later form Team JLOC, a Japanese auto racing team that currently competes in the GT300 class of Super GT. Team JLOC first entered Super GT in 1994 and has been active in the series ever since, initially fielding cars in the GT500 class before switching to GT300 in 2006 due to the uncompetitiveness of its cars against factory-backed entries in GT500. Cars run by Team JLOC had also previously competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Asian Le Mans Series.

History

JLOC was first founded in 1980 by a group of Lamborghini Miura owners due to difficulties with getting spare parts and maintenance of their cars. The original JLOC operated in the Kansai region and was dissolved a few years later, but it was reformed in 1987 following Lamborghini's request. Isao Noritake, who had already become a member of the original JLOC, was elected as the chairman of the group upon its reformation. Seventeen members became part of the organization when JLOC held their first meeting in Sanza Villa, Lake Hamana in 1988 and by 2000, more than 100 members had joined the organization. The first meeting in 1988 served as the inspiration for Team JLOC's usage of #88 as their primary number in racing competition. ^{[1] [2]}

JGTC / Super GT

In the early 1990s, JLOC member Teruaki Terai wanted to take part in motorsport despite lacking a race car or a sponsor. In 1993, Terai managed to acquire a fire-damaged Lamborghini Countach 25th Anniversary that he planned to convert into a race car for the recently established All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship. Terai and Masahiko Mearashi, a former car magazine editor and a JLOC member, planned to reinforce the burnt chassis with a mono-plastic body with plans to enter the 1994 JGTC season, but by the spring of 1994 the project was still unfinished. ^{[3] [4]}

JLOC, competing under the KEN WOLF with Terai Engineering name in 1994, was initially unable to enter the season opening race at Fuji Speedway but they were requested to enter the race by the organizers after they heard the news of JLOC’s planned participation. Circuit no Ōkami’s mangaka Satoshi Ikezawa was invited by Mearashi to negotiate a deal with exotic car dealership Art Sports to supply a road-going Countach for JLOC. Due to the limited amount of time, the Countach was kept mostly stock but it received modifications to its bodywork, suspension, and engine. ^{[3] [5] [4]} Noritake, who had flown to Italy to inform Lamborghini about the project, became Team JLOC’s team manager. F3000 driver Takao Wada and Ikezawa were signed to be their drivers, while the team also secured sponsorship from Rain-X. The car was mostly unsuccessful, having only finished two of the five races it competed in but it managed to score points with an eight place finish in the second round at Sendai. ^{[5] [6]}

For 1995, JLOC requested Lamborghini to develop a Diablo homologation special for JGTC competition. Three Diablo Jota’s were developed, two for competition purposes and one for road homologation; all three models still exist in Japan. ^[7] The Diablo Jota would compete in all but one round of the 1995 season, scoring no championship points and a best finish of 13th at Sendai and Fuji respectively. Wada and Ikezawa were retained as the team’s drivers, although Ikezawa was replaced by Tatsuhiko Kanoumi for the final round at Mine. Tragedy struck the team that year, however, as Terai died from cancer in August. JLOC continued to campaign the Diablo Jota’s for the 1996 season, once again scoring no championship points at the end of the season. ^[4]

In between the 1996 and 1997 seasons, Lamborghini contracted Signes Advanced Technologies (SAT) to develop the Lamborghini Diablo GT-1 Stradale, a racing version of the Diablo that was planned to be raced in the GT1 class at Le Mans. Financial difficulties would force the company to not go further with the project, but two cars had been built before the project was closed. One of the models, the racing version of the Diablo GT-1 Stradale, was bought by JLOC for the 1997 JGTC season. Hisashi Wada was also signed by the team to replace Ikezawa. ^{[8] [9] [4]}

JLOC raced the Diablo GT-1 for the next four seasons. JLOC scored two points finishes with the Diablo GT-1 in 1998, but they failed to score a championship point in the 1997, 1999, and 2000 seasons. The 2000 version of JLOC’s Diablo GT-1 famously became the first Lamborghini car to be featured in Gran Turismo due to a licensing quirk. Sony Computer Entertainment, who at that time did not have the official Lamborghini licensing, paid JLOC to license their Diablo GT-1 for Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec . ^{[10] [11]} The licensing controversy meant that the JLOC Diablo only appeared in the NTSC-J version of Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec at Lamborghini’s request and only made its return in Gran Turismo 5 , a year after Lamborghini’s introduction as a fully licensed manufacturer in 2009’s Gran Turismo for the PlayStation Portable. ^[12]

JLOC's Lamborghini Murciélago RG-1 at Suzuka in 2005, the team's final year of competition in GT500.

JLOC redeveloped the Diablo GT-1 into the Diablo JGT-1 for the 2001 season, which featured a reworked chassis and suspension along with other parts specially built for JGTC. The Diablo JGT-1 was raced for three seasons but despite this, the car continued to score little success as it struggled to compete with the factory-backed entries in GT500. ^[13] JLOC then switched to a brand new Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT for the 2004 season, labeled as the RG-1 by the team, but a lack of spare parts forced the team to race the Diablo JGT-1 for the fourth round at Tokachi. JLOC continued to be uncompetitive with the Murciélago R-GT in GT500 and when JGTC was rebranded into Super GT in the 2005 season, JLOC began to compete in the GT300 class after they homologated the R-GT for GT300 regulations. ^[4]

JLOC made the full switch to GT300 class in the 2006 season and expanded to a two-car team with the addition of the #87 Murciélago RG-1, driven by Koji Yamanishi and Hisashi Wada. The team scored immediate success as the team’s #88 Murciélago RG-1, driven by long-time JLOC driver Marco Apicella and new signing Yasutaka Hinoi, won the season opening race at Suzuka to give Murciélago its first win in international competition. ^{[4] [14] [15]} The #88 team would also score one pole position at Sportsland Sugo and finished 11th in the GT300 standings that year while the #87 team would finish 19th, having scored 3 points finishes and one fastest lap in Suzuka.

The Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3 (pictured in 2011) was developed to replace the aging Murciélago RG-1.

JLOC expanded further into a four-car team in 2007, entering two self-developed Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3s alongside the two Murciélago RG-1 entries. The team downscaled into a three-car team in the following season as the team phased out one of the Murciélago entries before the Murciélago RG-1 was placed into retirement at the end of the 2009 season. The team competed with three Gallardo RG-3s for the 2010 season and scored their best championship finish at the time with Yamanishi and future series champion Yuhi Sekiguchi in the #86 team, who finished 9th in the GT300 standings after scoring one podium, one pole position and five points finishes.

JLOC's #86 Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 in 2014.

JLOC continued to enter three RG-3s in 2011 before expanding to a four-car team once more in 2012 after the team acquired two FIA-GT3 specification Gallardos. Manabu Orido and Atsushi Yogo, racing the GT3-specification Gallardo, recorded the team’s new best place finish in the standings as the duo finished 8th as the highest finishing team to not score a race win that year. By 2013, the team had fully phased out the RG-3s and returned into a three-car team, all of them fielding GT3-specification Lamborghini Gallardos. JLOC downscaled further into a two-car team in 2014 and scored one win at Sugo, courtesy of Orido and Takayuki Aoki in the #88 Gallardo GT3. JLOC continued to field the Gallardo GT3’s for another season before they switched to the Lamborghini Huracán GT3 in the 2016 season.

The flagship number 88 JLOC car was a consistent points scorer on the team’s first season with the Huracán GT3, finishing 11th in the championship with the driver pairing of Orido and Kazuki Hiramine after scoring 6 top-10 finishes. JLOC’s performance was inconsistent in the following year, but Orido and Hiramine finished 10th in the standings and both JLOC cars finished on the podium at the Suzuka 1000km race. Orido left the team at the end of the 2017 season and was replaced by Lamborghini factory driver Marco Mapelli in the 2018 season. JLOC scored two pole positions that year with the #88 Huracán GT3, but was unable to score a victory as the Team JLOC cars finished 10th and 11th at the end of the season.

Mapelli returned to Europe in the following year and was replaced by Takashi Kogure, who had been released from his Honda GT500 factory seat. Since Hiramine was signed by Kondo Racing in the off-season, Yuya Motojima was transferred from the #87 team to join Kogure in the #88 car. ^[16] Kogure and Motojima would bring JLOC their best-ever championship finish to date as they finished the year in 7th with 36.5 points and 2 podium finishes. The #87 car, primarily driven by Tsubasa Takahashi and former GT300 champion André Couto with Kiyoto Fujinami entered on the endurance races, finished 8th after winning the Fuji GT 500 Mile Race.

Couto and Lamborghini factory driver Dennis Lind were due to compete with the team in 2020, but the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic meant that they were unable to foresee their deal with JLOC that year. ^[17] JLOC would eventually retain Kogure, Motojima and Takahashi for 2020 as Shinnosuke Yamada, who raced with Team UpGarage as their endurance race driver last year, was signed by JLOC to partner Takahashi in the #87 car for the full season. The team struggled in 2020 as they only scored a total of three points finishes with Kogure and Motojima ending up as the best finishing JLOC car in 13th place on the standings.

Kogure and Motojima continued to race the #88 JLOC car in 2021 as former IndyCar driver Kosuke Matsuura and Natsu Sakaguchi was signed to create an all-new driver line-up in the #87 car. ^[18] Kogure and Motojima enjoyed a better season that year as they were consistently finishing in the points, eventually finishing that year in 8th place with 1 podium finish and five points finishes. Matsuura and Sakaguchi, on the other hand, continued to struggled as they only recorded one points finish at Sugo, eventually finishing 20th in the driver standings. Despite this, all four drivers would be retained by the team for the 2022 season. ^[19] The pairing of Kogure and Motojima went on to finish 13th in the drivers standings, having finished in the top-10 positions five times. Matsuura and Sakaguchi enjoyed a better season as they scored JLOC's lone podium finish of the year in the final round at Motegi and finished 15th in the driver standings. The team also played a crucial role in the championship as two late overtakes from both JLOC cars at Motegi, including a last-lap overtake on GAINER's Ryuichiro Tomita by Kogure, allowed Kondo Racing to clinch the GT300 title after the right front wheel of Kondo's Nissan GT-R GT3 came off the car midway through the race. ^[20]

24 Hours of Le Mans

JLOC's Lamborghini Murciélago RG-1LM in 2007.

JLOC first attempted to enter the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2005, but they failed to secure an entry. They entered the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the first time in 2006 with a Lamborghini Murciélago RG-1LM, a Murciélago R-GT that was modified by JLOC for endurance racing. JLOC’s Super GT drivers Marco Apicella, Yasutaka Hinoi, and Koji Yamanishi would share the driving duties for the team’s debut at Le Mans. The team completed 283 laps but stopped with three hours left in the race and did not complete the final lap, leaving them non-classified in the final results. ^[14]

The team returned to Le Mans the next year with a driver line-up of Apicella, Yamanishi and Atsushi Yogo. JLOC received logistical support from DAMS for their participation in the 2007 race. ^[21] Apicella suffered a major crash at the first Mulsanne chicane in the Wednesday first qualifying session, which damaged the RG-1LM beyond repair. JLOC successfully earned a dispensation by the ACO to replace their damaged RG-1LM with a standard R-GT for the race itself. In addition, Apicella was declared unfit after the crash, leaving Yamanishi and Yogo to compete as a duo. ^[22] The team only completed one lap before it was forced to retire due to a broken driveshaft. ^[14]

JLOC didn’t enter the 2008 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and only returned for the 2009 edition with Apicella, Yogo, and Yutaka Yamagishi as the team’s drivers. JLOC suffered numerous mechanical issues throughout practice and qualifying that left them unable to qualify for the race. ACO, however, allowed the team to start the race. As Apicella and a number of mechanics had flown back home after the team’s initial failure to qualify, JLOC elected to start and park the car after completing just one lap. ^[14]

For the 2010 race, JLOC was given an entry after the team won the Okayama 1000km race of 2009 that made up the sole Asian Le Mans Series round of that year. Yogo, Yamanishi, and Hiroyuki Iiri are elected to drive JLOC’s newly-prepared Murciélago LP670 R-SV for the race. The team retired at the 18th hour mark after only completing 138 laps due to suffering from numerous puncture and transmission problems. ^{[14] [21]}

JLOC never received manufacturer support and struggled to be competitive during their four Le Mans attempts. In an interview with Motorsport.com in 2022, JLOC’s team principal Isao Noritake believes that the project struggled to be competitive because Audi lost interest in the Murciélago R-GT project, forcing JLOC to compete independently despite being the sole representative for Lamborghini at Le Mans. ^[14]

No.88 Weibo Primez Lamborghini GT3 at 2022 Takanoko no Hotel Suzuka GT 300km

Complete JGTC Results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year [23] [24]	Car	Tyres	Class	No.	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Pos	Pts
1994	Lamborghini Countach	Y	GT1	88	Takao Wada Satoshi Ikezawa	FUJ NC	SEN 8	FUJ Ret	SUG 11	MIN Ret				12th	3
1995	Lamborghini Diablo Jota	Y	GT1	88	Takao Wada Satoshi Ikezawa Tatsuhiko Kaneumi	SUZ 15	FUJ	SEN 13	FUJ 13	SUG Ret	MIN Ret			NC	0
1996	Lamborghini Diablo Jota	Y	GT500	88	Takao Wada Satoshi Ikezawa Tatsuhiko Kaneumi	SUZ Ret	FUJ Ret	SEN	FUJ 11	SUG Ret	MIN 13			NC	0
1997	Lamborghini Diablo GTR	Y	GT500	88	Takao Wada Hisashi Wada	SUZ	FUJ Ret	SEN Ret	FUJ 14	MIN Ret	SUG 13			NC	0
1998	Lamborghini Diablo GT-1	D	GT500	88	Hisashi Wada Naohiro Furuya	SUZ Ret	FUJ C	SEN 9	FUJ 18	MOT 10	MIN 13	SUG 11		16th	3
	Lamborghini Diablo Jota			777	Takao Wada Masami Sugiyama	SUZ 15	FUJ C	SEN	FUJ 17	MOT Ret	MIN DNA	SUG Ret
1999	Lamborghini Diablo GT-1	T	GT500	88	Hisashi Wada Naohiro Furuya	SUZ 15	FUJ Ret	SUG 14	MIN Ret	FUJ 17	OKA Ret	MOT 14		NC	0
2000	Lamborghini Diablo GT-1	D	GT500	88	Naohiro Furuya Tsuyoshi Takahashi	MOT 15	FUJ 13	SUG 17	FUJ 16	OKA 18	MIN 12	SUZ 14		NC	0
2001	Lamborghini Diablo JGT-1	D	GT500	88	Naohiro Furuya Marco Apicella	OKA DNS	FUJ Ret	SUG DNS	FUJ Ret	MOT 15	SUZ 14	MIN 15		NC	0
2002	Lamborghini Diablo JGT-1	D	GT500	88	Hisashi Wada Marco Apicella	OKA DNQ	FUJ Ret	SUG 15	SEP Ret	FUJ Ret	MOT 18	MIN Ret	SUZ Ret	NC	0
2003	Lamborghini Diablo JGT-1	D	GT500	88	Hisashi Wada Naohiro Furuya Koji Yamanishi	OKA 15	FUJ Ret	SUG Ret	FUJ 16	FUJ 15	MOT 15	AUT Ret	SUZ Ret	NC	0
2004	Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT	D	GT500	88	Hisashi Wada Koji Yamanishi	OKA	SUG DNQ	SEP Ret		MOT Ret	AUT Ret	SUZ 18		NC	0
	Lamborghini Diablo JGT-1								TOK DNQ

Complete Super GT Results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year [24] [25]	Car	Tyres	Class	No.	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Pos	Points
2005	Lamborghini Murciélago RG-1	Y	GT300	86	Koji Yamanishi Naohiro Furuya	OKA	FUJ	SEP	SUG	MOT	FUJ	AUT	SUZ 11		NC	0
				87	Hisashi Wada Naohiro Furuya Marco Apicella	OKA	FUJ	SEP	SUG Ret	MOT 11	FUJ 8	AUT	SUZ Ret		14th	3
	Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT	Y	GT500	88	Koji Yamanishi Hisashi Wada Marco Apicella Naohiro Furuya	OKA 13	FUJ DNS	SEP	SUG Ret	MOT 17	FUJ Ret	AUT	SUZ		NC	0
2006	Lamborghini Murciélago RG-1	Y	GT300	87	Koji Yamanishi Hisashi Wada Atsushi Yogo	SUZ 5	OKA Ret	FUJ 5	SEP	SUG 12	SUZ 17	MOT 13	AUT 18	FUJ 9	17th	14
				88	Marco Apicella Yasutaka Hinoi Naohiro Furuya	SUZ 1	OKA 6	FUJ Ret	SEP	SUG 15	SUZ Ret	MOT Ret	AUT 8	FUJ 5	11th	34
2007	Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3	Y	GT300	66	Naohiro Furuya Muneyuki Kurihara Atsushi Yogo	SUZ DNP	OKA 21	FUJ Ret	SEP DNQ	SUG DNP	SUZ DNP	MOT 22	AUT Ret	FUJ Ret	29th	2
				67	Tsubasa Kurosawa Hisashi Wada Yasutaka Hinoi	SUZ DNP	OKA DNQ	FUJ DNQ	SEP DNS	SUG DNQ	SUZ 17	MOT 19	AUT Ret	FUJ 25	26th	3
	Lamborghini Murciélago RG-1	Y	GT300	87	Yasutaka Hinoi Atsushi Yogo Yoshihisa Namekata	SUZ 12	OKA 4	FUJ 9	SEP 7	SUG DNS	SUZ	MOT	AUT	FUJ 15	17th	25
				88	Koji Yamanishi Marco Apicella Hideshi Matsuda	SUZ 4	OKA Ret	FUJ 2	SEP 12	SUG 9	SUZ	MOT	AUT	FUJ Ret	12th	36
2008	Lamborghini Murciélago RG-1	Y	GT300	66	Koji Yamanishi Atsushi Yogo	SUZ Ret	OKA 8	FUJ Ret	SEP 7	SUG 13	SUZ 15	MOT 3	AUT Ret	FUJ 19	14th	28
	Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3			87	Hisashi Wada Muneyuki Kurihara Yoshihisa Namekata	SUZ DNQ	OKA 19	FUJ Ret	SEP 20	SUG 18	SUZ 14	MOT 23	AUT 21	FUJ Ret	22nd	6
				88	Hideshi Matsuda Naohiro Furuya Yuya Sakamoto	SUZ DNQ	OKA 16	FUJ 16	SEP 16	SUG 19	SUZ 12	MOT Ret	AUT 19	FUJ 14	21st	7
2009	Lamborghini Murciélago RG-1	Y	GT300	66	Koji Yamanishi Atsushi Yogo Marco Apicella	OKA 18	SUZ Ret	FUJ 18	SEP 5	SUG 13	SUZ 17	FUJ 3	AUT 11	MOT 8	12th	36
	Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3			87	Hiroyuki Iiri Hisashi Wada	OKA 11	SUZ Ret	FUJ Ret	SEP 15	SUG Ret	SUZ 12	FUJ 11	AUT 17	MOT Ret	17th	8
				88	Hideshi Matsuda Yuya Sakamoto	OKA Ret	SUZ 13	FUJ 19	SEP Ret	SUG 12	SUZ 10	FUJ 10	AUT 12	MOT 11	15th	19
2010	Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3	Y	GT300	86	Yuhi Sekiguchi Koji Yamanishi	SUZ 7	OKA 4	FUJ 16	SEP 15	SUG 10	SUZ 5	FUJ C	MOT 3		9th	47
				87	Hiroyuki Iiri Yuya Sakamoto Naohiro Furuya	SUZ 10	OKA 17	FUJ 15	SEP 11	SUG 17	SUZ 12	FUJ C	MOT 20		18th	14
				88	Shinya Hosokawa Atsushi Yogo Tsubasa Kurosawa	SUZ DNP	OKA 16	FUJ 17	SEP 7	SUG 14	SUZ 15	FUJ C	MOT Ret		19th	13
2011	Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3	Y	GT300	86	Takayuki Aoki Yuya Sakamoto	OKA Ret	FUJ 10	SEP 14	SUG 15	SUZ 10	FUJ 8	AUT 6	MOT 12		15th	27
				87	Manabu Orido Atsushi Yogo	OKA 14	FUJ 3	SEP 7	SUG 16	SUZ 3	FUJ 19	AUT 16	MOT 16		12th	42
				88	Hiroyuki Iiri Yuhi Sekiguchi	OKA 8	FUJ Ret	SEP 4	SUG 10	SUZ 15	FUJ 4	AUT 12	MOT 5		11th	45
2012	Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3	Y	GT300	85	Yuya Sakamoto Masaki Kano Ryohei Sakaguchi Hideshi Matsuda	OKA 14	FUJ Ret	SEP	SUG	SUZ 10	FUJ 18	AUT 15	MOT		21st	6
				86	Hideshi Matsuda Junichiro Yamashita	OKA Ret	FUJ 14	SEP DNS	SUG 15	SUZ Ret	FUJ Ret	AUT	MOT		27th	2
	Lamborghini Gallardo GT3			87	Koji Yamanishi Hideki Yamauchi	OKA 21	FUJ 7	SEP 16	SUG 19	SUZ Ret	FUJ Ret	AUT Ret	MOT 2		13th	28
				88	Manabu Orido Takayuki Aoki Keita Sawa	OKA 17	FUJ Ret	SEP Ret	SUG 3	SUZ 3	FUJ Ret	AUT 7	MOT 3		7th	52
2013	Lamborghini Gallardo GT3	Y	GT300	86	Koji Yamanishi Shinya Hosokawa Yuya Sakamoto	OKA 11	FUJ 3	SEP 9	SUG 12	SUZ Ret	FUJ 3	FUJ	AUT 13	MOT 13	10th	39
				87	Hideki Yamauchi Hiroki Yoshimoto	OKA 3	FUJ 7	SEP Ret	SUG 5	SUZ Ret	FUJ 20	FUJ	AUT 10	MOT 8	11th	39
				88	Manabu Orido Takayuki Aoki Hideki Yamauchi Hiroki Yoshimoto	OKA Ret	FUJ 12	SEP 5	SUG 18	SUZ 4	FUJ Ret	FUJ	AUT 12	MOT 5	12th	34
2014	Lamborghini Gallardo GT3	Y	GT300	86	Shinya Hosokawa Koji Yamanishi	OKA 7	FUJ Ret	AUT 6	SUG 6	FUJ 3	SUZ 17	BUR Ret	MOT 20		11th	37
				88	Takayuki Aoki Manabu Orido Kazuki Hiramine	OKA 11	FUJ Ret	AUT 11	SUG 1	FUJ 21	SUZ 13	BUR 18	MOT 11		12th	35
2015	Lamborghini Gallardo GT3	Y	GT300	87	Takayuki Aoki Koji Yamanishi Yoshitaka Kuroda Kimiya Sato	OKA 20	FUJ Ret	CHA Ret	FUJ 11	SUZ 24	SUG 18	AUT 11	MOT 16		20th	10
				88	Manabu Orido Kazuki Hiramine Kimiya Sato	OKA Ret	FUJ Ret	CHA 17	FUJ 7	SUZ 4	SUG 4	AUT Ret	MOT 7		12th	39
2016	Lamborghini Huracán GT3	Y	GT300	87	Shinya Hosokawa Kimiya Sato Taiyo Iida	OKA 13	FUJ 8	SUG 22	FUJ 19	SUZ 17	CHA 21	MOT 8	MOT 11		17th	22
				88	Kazuki Hiramine Manabu Orido	OKA 9	FUJ 25	SUG 6	FUJ 4	SUZ 9	CHA 10	MOT 3	MOT Ret		11th	47
2017	Lamborghini Huracán GT3	Y	GT300	87	Shinya Hosokawa Kimiya Sato Yuya Motojima	OKA 11	FUJ 4	AUT 18	SUG 19	FUJ 12	SUZ 3	CHA 12	MOT 11		12th	41
				88	Manabu Orido Kazuki Hiramine Tsubasa Takahashi Koji Yamanishi	OKA 19	FUJ 25	AUT 16	SUG Ret	FUJ 7	SUZ 2	CHA 5	MOT Ret		10th	44
2018	Lamborghini Huracán GT3	Y	GT300	87	Yuya Motojima Kimiya Sato	OKA 12	FUJ 16	SUZ 12	CHA 5	FUJ Ret	SUG 13	AUT 2	MOT 4		10th	50
				88	Kazuki Hiramine Marco Mapelli Andrea Caldarelli	OKA 7	FUJ 9	SUZ 4	CHA 6	FUJ 6	SUG 5	AUT 13	MOT 27		9th	51
2019	Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo	Y	GT300	87	Tsubasa Takahashi André Couto Kiyoto Fujinami	OKA 16	FUJ 11	SUZ 17	BUR 7	FUJ 1	AUT Ret	SUG 26	MOT 23		8th	48
				88	Takashi Kogure Yuya Motojima	OKA 10	FUJ 3	SUZ 19	BUR 5	FUJ 5	AUT 3	SUG 20	MOT 11		7th	58.5
2020	Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo	Y	GT300	87	Tsubasa Takahashi Shinnosuke Yamada	FUJ 26	FUJ 25	SUZ 16	MOT Ret	FUJ 17	SUZ 6	MOT 26	FUJ Ret		13th	34
				88	Takashi Kogure Yuya Motojima	FUJ 25	FUJ 15	SUZ 27	MOT 2	FUJ 6	SUZ 13	MOT Ret	FUJ Ret		27th	18
2021	Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo	Y	GT300	87	Kosuke Matsuura Natsu Sakaguchi	OKA 21	FUJ 15	MOT Ret	SUZ 16	SUG 4	AUT 25	MOT Ret	FUJ 15		20th	25
				88	Takashi Kogure Yuya Motojima	OKA 9	FUJ 6	MOT 24	SUZ 2	SUG 7	AUT 12	MOT 4	FUJ 23		9th	54
2022	Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo	Y	GT300	87	Kosuke Matsuura Natsu Sakaguchi	OKA 8	FUJ 12	SUZ 16	FUJ 8	SUZ 9	SUG 19	AUT 11	MOT 2		11th	43.5
				88	Takashi Kogure Yuya Motojima	OKA 17	FUJ 5	SUZ 5	FUJ 9	SUZ 17	SUG 13	AUT 4	MOT 5		9th	45.5
2023	Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo2	Y	GT300	87	Kosuke Matsuura Natsu Sakaguchi	OKA 7	FUJ Ret	SUZ 23	FUJ 16	SUZ 2	SUG 19	AUT 19	MOT 21		14th	35
				88	Takashi Kogure Yuya Motojima	OKA 24	FUJ 6	SUZ 21	FUJ 8	SUZ 4	SUG 14	AUT 7	MOT 1		5th	61

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Entrant	No.	Tyres	Car	Drivers	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2006	JLOC Isao Noritake	53	P	Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT	Marco Apicella Koji Yamanishi Yasutaka Hinoi	GT1	283	27th	8th
2007	JLOC Isao Noritake	53	Y	Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT	Marco Apicella Koji Yamanishi Atsushi Yogo	GT1	1	DNF	DNF
2009	JLOC	68	Y	Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT	Marco Apicella Yutaka Yamagishi Atsushi Yogo	GT1	1	DNF	DNF
2010	JLOC	69	Y	Lamborghini Murcielago LP670 R-SV	Atsushi Yogo Koji Yamanishi Hiroyuki Iiri	GT1	138	DNF	DNF

Footnotes

1. "Club Progress". Japan Lamborghini Owners Club. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
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