Kazuo Mogi

Kazuo Mogi
Nationality	Japanese
Born	(1953-02-02) 2 February 1953 (age 72) Itako, Ibaraki, Japan
Previous series
1983–1990 1985–1996 1988, 1990 1994–1997	All Japan Endurance Championship Japanese Touring Car Championship Japanese Formula 3000 Championship All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship
Championship titles
1985, 1989, 1992 1987	Japanese Touring Car Championship All Japan Endurance Championship

Kazuo Mogi (茂木 和男, Mogi Kazuo; born 2 February 1953) is a retired Japanese racing driver.

Racing career

Mogi first began professional competition in 1975, driving a Nissan Sunny. He competed in the FJ1600 Championship, joining midway through 1980, driving a West 80J; ^[1] he would later participate in the Japanese Formula 3000 Championship and the All Japan Endurance Championship, but it was the Japanese Touring Car Championship where he is most well known.^{[ citation needed ]}

Mogi is a three-time Japanese Touring Car champion, winning the title in 1985, 1989 and 1992. Mogi also won the 1987 All Japan Sports Prototype Car Endurance Championship with Kunimitsu Takahashi in a Porsche 962C. In 1992, Mogi tested the HKS 300E V12 engine intended for use in Formula One in a stretched Lola T91/50 chassis. ^[2]

Mogi then competed in the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship from 1994 before retiring from racing in 1997.^{[ citation needed ]}

Racing record

Complete Japanese Formula 3000 results

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

Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	DC	Points
1988	SICS Racing Team	March 88B Lola T88/50	Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	SUZ Ret	FUJ 10	MIN Ret	SUZ 11	SUG Ret	FUJ Ret	SUZ 15	SUZ 11			NC	0
1990	Zoom Racing	Lola T89/50 Lola T90/50		SUZ	FUJ Ret	MIN	SUZ 10	SUG 23	FUJ 15	FUJ 8	SUZ DNQ	FUJ DNQ	SUZ DNQ	NC	0

Complete JSPC results

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

Year	Team	Co-driver(s)	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	DC	Points
1983	MO Racing	Hiroyuki Ono	Mazda RX-7	B	SUZ Ret	SUZ	FUJ				NC	0
1985	Auto Beaurex Motorsport	Toshio Motohashi	Lotec M1C	C1	SUZ 6	FUJ Ret	FUJ 9	SUZ 9	FUJ 14	FUJ Ret	27th	8
1986		Toshio Motohashi Hideshi Matsuda Naoki Nagasaka Will Hoy	TOM'S 85C	C1	SUZ 7	FUJ DNS	FUJ Ret	SUZ Ret	FUJ 14	FUJ Ret	39th	4
1987	ADVAN Alpha Nova	Kunimitsu Takahashi Kenny Acheson	Porsche 962C	C1	SUZ 2	FUJ 3	FUJ 1	SUZ 3	FUJ 11	FUJ 1	1st	59
1988		Kunimitsu Takahashi		C1	FUJ 3	SUZ Ret	FUJ 2	FUJ Ret	SUZ 2	FUJ 6	4th	48
1989	Ba-Tsu ADVAN Alpha Tomei	Kenji Takahashi Giovanni Lavaggi		C1	FUJ 9	FUJ 10	FUJ Ret	SUZ Ret	FUJ 10		?	?
1990	ADVAN Alpha Nova	Kunimitsu Takahashi		C1	FUJ 8	FUJ C	FUJ 5	SUZ Ret	SUG 6	FUJ Ret	22nd	9

Complete Japanese Touring Car Championship Results

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

Year	Team	Class	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	DC	Points
1985	Auto Beaurex Motorsport	BMW 635CSi	DIV.3	SUG Ret	TSU 1	MIN 1	SUZ 4	FUJ 3														1st	97
1986			DIV.3	MIN 2	SUG 11	TSU Ret	SEN 14	FUJ 8	SUZ 3													?	?
1987	Tsuchiya Engineering	Toyota Corolla FX	DIV.1	MIN 13	SEN 2	TSU 4	SUG 2	FUJ Ret	SUZ 4													?	?
1988	TOM'S Minolta		JTC-3	SUZ 6	MIN	SEN	TSU	SUG	FUJ													?	?
	Tsuchiya Engineering		JTC-3	SUZ	MIN 9	SEN	TSU	SUG	FUJ
		Toyota Corolla Levin	JTC-3	SUZ	MIN	SEN 2	TSU 8	SUG 4	FUJ Ret
1989	Team ADVAN		JTC-3	NIS 6	SEN 1	TSU 7	SUG 2	SUZ 3	FUJ 1													1st	?
1990	FET Racing	Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth	JTC-1	MIN 6	SUG 4	SUZ 3	TSU 14	SEN 7	FUJ 21													16th	72
1991	B‐ing Kegani Racing	BMW M3 (E30)	JTC-2	SUG 1	SUZ Ret	TSU 4	SEN 3	AUT 2	FUJ 8													4th	73
1992			JTC-2	TAI Ret	AUT 1	SUG 2	SUZ	MIN 1	TSU 3	SEN 2	FUJ 6											1st	92
1993	Team Taisan		JTC-2	MIN 5	AUT 4	SUG 5	SUZ 3	TIA	TSU Ret	TOK	SEN 4	FUJ 1										7th	68
1994		BMW 318i	JTCC	AUT1 12	AUT2 18	SUG1 Ret	SUG2 DNS	TOK1 DNS	TOK2 Ret	SUZ1 14	SUZ2 12	MIN1 15	MIN2 Ret	TIA1 11	TIA2 Ret	TSU1 11	TSU2 8	SEN1 Ret	SEN2 DNS	FUJ1 DNS	FUJ1 NC	28th	3
1995	Team ADVAN Yamaichi		JTCC	FUJ1 15	FUJ2 18	SUG1 20	SUG2 DNS	TOK1 14	TOK2 19	SUZ1 11	SUZ2 Ret	MIN1 Ret	MIN2 Ret	TIA1 22	TIA2 Ret	SEN1 17	SEN2 19	FUJ1 Ret	FUJ2 24			30th	0
1996	Team ADVAN with MOGG		JTCC	FUJ1 DNS	FUJ2 DNS	SUG1	SUG2	SUZ1	SUZ2	MIN1	MIN2	SEN1	SEN2	TOK1	TOK2	FUJ1	FUJ2					NC	0

Complete JGTC results

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

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	DC	Points
1994	Team Taisan	Porsche 962C	GT1	FUJ Ret	SEN	FUJ	SUG	MIN		NC	0
1996	Cobra Racing Team	Porsche 911 RSR	GT300	SUZ 2	FUJ 7	SEN Ret	FUJ Ret	SUG 3	MIN 2	5th	46
1997	Team Take One		GT500	SUZ 9	FUJ Ret	SEN 12	FUJ 12	MIN 11	SUG 9	26th	4

References

1. "west-racing". FJ Association (in Japanese). Retrieved 29 June 2023.
2. "HKSが"究極"を追い求めて開発したF1エンジン。漆黒のテスト車両と共に東京オートサロンに展示された". jp.motorsport.com (in Japanese). 16 January 2023. Retrieved 29 June 2023.

External links

• Kazuo Mogi career summary at DriverDB.com