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[Elford68]

Hello! I am Antonio Correia, a motorsport archivist from Portugal. I have made some collaborations with Darren Galpin in order to update his database. The main objective of this posts is to complete the info about the career of a racer (F1 or not) and, later, to create a little article about the rider:


Hasemi, Masahiro (Jpn)
b 13/11/1945 (Tokyo)

1976 - 11th Japanese GP (Kojima). Fastest Lap....
1980 - Japanese F2 Champion
1989 - Japanese Touring Car Champion with A.Olofsson
1990 - Japanese Sportscar Champion with A.Olofsson
1991 - Japanese Touring Car Champion with A.Olofsson
1992 - Japanese Touring Car Champion with H.Fukuyama. Won Daytona 24 Hrs (Nissan R91CP) with K.Hoshino & T.Suzuki
1995 - Japanese GTs (Nissan): 4th Suzuka
1996 - 15th Le Mans (Nissan GTR LM) with K.Hoshino & T.Suzuki

[fines]

Year, date, championship, round, track, result

1973	6/17	FJ1300	2	Fuji	1

1973	9/9	FJ1300	4	Suzuka	2

1973	9/16	FJ1300	5	Tsukuba	 Ret

1973	11/11	FJ1300	6	Suzuka	9

1974	5/19	FJ1300	1	Suzuka	2

1974	8/4	FJ1300	3	Suzuka	4

1974	9/8	F2000	2	Suzuka	1

1974	9/8	FJ1300	4	Suzuka	1

1974	9/29	F2000	3	Suzuka	3

1974	9/29	FJ1300	5	Suzuka	1

1974	11/3	F2000	4	Suzuka	 Ret

1974	11/3	FJ1300	6	Suzuka	1

1975	1/12	FJ1300	1	Suzuka	1

1975	3/9	FJ1300	2	Suzuka	1

1975	4/6	FJ1300	3	Suzuka	1

1975	5/4	F2000	1	Fuji	1

1975	5/4	FJ1300	4	Fuji	1

1975	5/25	F2000	2	Suzuka	1

1975	9/25	F2000	4	Suzuka	 Ret

1975	11/2	F2000	5	Suzuka	5

1975	11/2	FJ1300	7	Suzuka	1

1976	3/7	FJ1300	1	Suzuka	2

1976	5/3	F2000	1	Fuji	5

1976	5/3	FJ1300	2	Fuji	5

1976	8/8	F2000	3	Fuji	2

1976	9/26	F2000	4	Suzuka	2

1976	9/26	FJ1300	4	Suzuka	1

1976	11/7	F2000	5	Suzuka	4

1976	11/7	FJ1300	5	Suzuka	2

1977	3/6	F2000	1	Suzuka	X

1977	4/3	F2000	2	Suzuka	X

1977	5/22	F2000	4	Suzuka	1

1977	6/5	F2000	5	Fuji	3

1977	8/7	F2000	6	Fuji	9

1977	9/25	F2000	7	Suzuka	4

1977	11/6	F2000	8	Suzuka	9

1978	3/4	F2	1	Suzuka	2

1978	4/23	FPac	2	Tsukuba	1

1978	5/3	F2	2	Fuji	3

1978	5/3	FPac	3	Fuji	1

1978	5/21	F2	3	Suzuka	4

1978	7/2	F2	4	Suzuka	 Ret

1978	8/27	FPac	4	Tsukuba	 Ret

1978	9/24	F2	5	Suzuka	3

1978	10/1	FPac	5	Tsukuba	1

1978	10/22	F2	6	Mine	1

1978	11/5	F2	7	Suzuka	4

1978	11/5	FPac	6	Suzuka	1

1979	3/11	F2	1	Suzuka	3

1979	4/1	FPac	1	Tsukuba	1

1979	4/8	F2	2	Mine	4

1979	4/22	FPac	2	Tsukuba	1

1979	5/20	F2	3	Suzuka	7

1979	6/3	F2	4	Fuji	6

1979	6/3	FPac	3	Fuji	 Ret

1979	7/1	F2	5	Suzuka	1

1979	8/26	FPac	4	Tsukuba	2

1979	9/23	F2	6	Suzuka	9

1979	10/14	FPac	5	Tsukuba	6

1979	11/3	FPac	7	Suzuka	NS

1979	11/4	F2	7	Suzuka	 Ret

1979	12/2	F2	-	Tsukuba	2

1980	1/13	FPac	1	Suzuka	1

1980	3/2	FPac	2	Tsukuba	1

1980	3/9	F2	1	Suzuka	2

1980	3/9	F2	1	Suzuka	NS

1980	4/13	FPac	3	Fuji	2

1980	4/20	F2	2	Mine	1

1980	4/27	FPac	4	Tsukuba	1

1980	5/25	F2	3	Suzuka	2

1980	6/8	FPac	5	Tsukuba	1

1980	7/6	F2	4	Suzuka	1

1980	8/31	FPac	6	Tsukuba	2

1980	9/14	FPac	7	Sugo	1

1980	9/28	F2	5	Suzuka	5

1980	11/3	F2	6	Suzuka	3

1980	11/3	FPac	8	Suzuka	1

1981	3/1	FPac	1	Tsukuba	 Ret

1981	3/8	F2	1	Suzuka	7

1981	3/15	FPac	2	Mine	1

1981	4/12	FPac	3	Fuji	2

1981	5/10	FPac	5	Tsukuba	3

1981	5/31	F2	2	Suzuka	 Ret

1981	6/21	FPac	6	Tsukuba	4

1981	7/5	F2	3	Suzuka	7

1981	8/30	FPac	7	Suzuka	NS

1981	9/20	FPac	8	Sugo	3

1981	9/27	F2	4	Suzuka	4

1981	10/31	FPac	9	Suzuka	1

1981	11/1	F2	5	Suzuka	7

1982	3/7	FPac	1	Tsukuba	4

1982	3/21	FPac	2	Mine	4

1982	4/25	FPac	3	Sugo	2

1982	5/9	FPac	4	Tsukuba	 Ret

1982	6/13	FPac	5	Tsukuba	 Ret

1982	8/8	FPac	7	Fuji	 Ret

1982	8/29	FPac	8	Suzuka	4

1982	9/19	FPac	9	Sugo	2

1982	9/25	FPac	6	Tsukuba	2

1982	10/17	FPac	10	Mine	2

1984	3/11	F2	1	Suzuka	12

1984	4/15	F2	2	Fuji	5

1984	5/14	F2	3	Mine	5

1984	5/27	F2	4	Suzuka	15

1984	7/8	F2	5	Suzuka	3

1984	8/12	F2	6	Fuji	12

1984	9/23	F2	7	Suzuka	5

1984	11/3	F2	8	Suzuka	8

1985	3/10	F2	1	Suzuka	8

1985	4/21	F2	2	Fuji	 Ret

1985	5/12	F2	3	Mine	4

1985	5/26	F2	4	Suzuka	2

1985	7/6	F2	5	Suzuka	7

1985	8/11	F2	6	Fuji	8

1985	9/29	F2	7	Suzuka	11

1985	11/3	F2	8	Suzuka	9

1986	3/9	F2	1	Suzuka	7

1986	4/20	F2	2	Fuji	7

1986	5/11	F2	3	Mine	5

1986	5/25	F2	4	Suzuka	11

1986	7/6	F2	5	Suzuka	7

1986	8/10	F2	6	Fuji	7

1986	9/28	F2	7	Suzuka	7

1986	11/2	F2	8	Suzuka	9

1987	3/8	F3000	1	Suzuka	 Ret

1987	4/19	F3000	2	Fuji	4

1987	5/10	F3000	3	Mine	6

1987	5/24	F3000	4	Suzuka	12

1987	7/5	F3000	5	Suzuka	12

1987	7/26	F3000	6	Sugo	4

1987	8/9	F3000	7	Fuji	3

1987	9/13	F3000	8	Suzuka	 Ret

1987	12/6	F3000	9	Suzuka	 Ret

1988	3/13	F3000	1	Suzuka	 Ret

1988	4/17	F3000	2	Fuji	 Ret

1988	5/14	F3000	3	Mine	8

1988	5/29	F3000	4	Suzuka	13

1988	7/31	F3000	5	Sugo	8

1988	8/14	F3000	6	Fuji	7

1988	9/25	F3000	7	Suzuka	 Ret

1988	11/27	F3000	8	Suzuka	3

1989	3/5	F3000	1	Suzuka	6

1989	4/16	F3000	2	Fuji	4

1989	5/14	F3000	3	Mine	5

1989	5/28	F3000	4	Suzuka	3

1989	7/29	F3000	5	Sugo	 Ret

1989	8/13	F3000	6	Fuji	8

1989	9/24	F3000	7	Suzuka	5

1989	11/5	F3000	8	Suzuka	1

1990	3/4	F3000	1	Suzuka	4

1990	4/15	F3000	2	Fuji	6

1990	5/13	F3000	3	Mine	 Ret

1990	5/27	F3000	4	Suzuka	6

1990	7/29	F3000	5	Sugo	13

1990	8/12	F3000	6	Fuji	8

1990	9/2	F3000	7	Fuji	 Ret

1990	9/23	F3000	8	Suzuka	11

1990	10/28	F3000	9	Fuji	12

1990	11/18	F3000	10	Suzuka	8

1991	3/3	F3000	1	Suzuka	9

1991	3/24	F3000	2	Autopolis	NQ

1991	4/14	F3000	3	Fuji	14

1991	5/12	F3000	4	Mine	NQ

1991	5/26	F3000	5	Suzuka	 Ret

1991	7/28	F3000	6	Sugo	 Ret

1991	8/11	F3000	7	Fuji	19

1991	9/8	F3000	8	Fuji	0

1991	9/29	F3000	9	Suzuka	15

1991	10/27	F3000	10	Fuji	0

1991	11/17	F3000	11	Suzuka	14

1991	11/30	F3000	8	Fuji	5

[fines]

Originally posted by Elford68
1976 - 11th Japanese GP (Kojima). Fastest Lap...

You can delete that fastest lap, by the way, it was a timing mistake - or, rather, a mistake in processing the info from timing and scoring.

And it wasn't the Japanese Grand Prix, either...

[fines]

Oh, and the car info:

FJ1300

March/Nissan 733 (1973 to 1975-5/4), Kojima Engineering
March/Nissan 753, Kojima Engineering

F2000

Surtees/Ford TS15 (1974-9), Kojima Engineering
March/BMW 742 (1974-11/3 to 1976), Kojima Engineering (1975-11/2: Renault engine)
March/BMW 772 (1977-3/6), Hasemi Motorsports, dna
Kojima/BMW KE008 (1977-4/3 to 6/5), Kojima Engineering
Chevron/Nissan B40, Hasemi Motorsports

F2

Chevron/BMW B42 (1978 to 1979-6/3), Nova Engineering
March/BMW 792 (1979-7/1 to 1980-3/9 dns), Nova Engineering
March/BMW 802 (1980 to 1981), Hasemi Motorsports)
March/BMW 842 (1984), Hasemi Motorsports
March/BMW 85J (1985), Hasemi Motorsports, 1986-3/9: Yamaha engine
March/Yamaha 86B, Hasemi Motorsports

FPac

Chevron/Nissan B40 (1978 to 1980-1/13, 1980-4/13), Hasemi Motorsports
March/Nissan 79B (1980-3/2 to 1981-3/15), Hasemi Motorsports (possibly 792 or 802 chassis)
March/Nissan 81A (1981-4/12 to 1982-5/9), Hasemi Motorsports
Ralt/Nissan RT4, Hasemi Motorsports

F3000

Lola/Cosworth T87-50 (1987, 1988-8/14), Hasemi Motorsports
Lola/Mugen T88-50 (1988 to 1989-3/5), Hasemi Motorsports
Lola/Mugen T89-50 (1989), Hasemi Motorsports
Lola/Mugen T90-50 (1990 to 1991-5/26), Hasemi Motorsports
Lola/Mugen T91-50, Hasemi Motorsports

Sorry, no chassis nos.

[fines]

The above lists only open wheel events; if you want info on all his races in Japan, follow this link:

http://www.jaf.or.jp...?c_famous_no=32

Shows his last race to have been 2000-10-22 at Suzuka, in a (Nissan?) Skyline BNR34, finishing 8th (with Tetsuya Tanaka). If you always follow the last link on each page, it will bring you to his earliest races, beginning with 1966-09-25 at Funabashi, finishing 17th in a (Nissan?) Bluebird SSS - humble beginnings, indeed!

[Pedro 917]

Hasemi drove the Kojima at the Festival Of Speed 2004 :












Copyright Luc Ghys

[Gert]

Originally posted by fines
F3000

... Hasemi Motorsports

So this means "SpeedStar (Wheel) Racing" was (again) just a sponsor for Hasemi's team?

Hasemi had car #5 and sometimes there was a SpeedStar Racing #6 car too.
Do you know if this was also a Hasemi Motorsport entry? (Yoshi Tachi, later Jeff Krosnoff)

Or what about Krosnoff in the #5 Speedstar Racing car after Hasemi retired from driving F3000 cars?

[ohazamiizugahara]

Hasemi started his racing carrier with motorcycle race when he was fifteen years.
He joined Nissan Ohmori in 1964.
Nissan Ohmori was a second Nissan works team.
He moved to Taki racing team in 1968.
He returned Nissan works team in 1970.

[Bruno]

best lap in race
Lafitte / Ligier - 1'19"97
Hasemi / Kojima - 1'18"230

lequel des deux. personne ne sait trop bien. depuis pas mal se temps.
une traduction svp, merci

[stevewf1]

Originally posted by fines
You can delete that fastest lap, by the way, it was a timing mistake - or, rather, a mistake in processing the info from timing and scoring.

A lot of history books to re-write... Seems like I read somewhere once that he did that time on qualifying tires or maybe full wets (can't remember the conditions for the whole race) - just to try for the fastest lap.

[f1steveuk]

I must admit that's how I was always told about that fastest lap. "Not going to win, stick some qauli's on it, and get something", I think I might be dissapointed if that didn't turn about to be what happened! (at least it wasn't someone waving a clip board in front of the timing beam). The Kojima is actually a very nice looking car, maybe it's the black finish!

[ohazamiizugahara]

As far as I now

Officially Hasemi got a fastest lap but it might be mistake.
His Kojima F1 had a serious crash during qualify.
Mr. Kojima and his friends made another chassis.
But machine condition was terrible.
Hasemi could not run so fast during the race.

[fines]

Originally posted by Gert

So this means "SpeedStar (Wheel) Racing" was (again) just a sponsor for Hasemi's team?

Hasemi had car #5 and sometimes there was a SpeedStar Racing #6 car too.
Do you know if this was also a Hasemi Motorsport entry? (Yoshi Tachi, later Jeff Krosnoff)

Or what about Krosnoff in the #5 Speedstar Racing car after Hasemi retired from driving F3000 cars?

Unfortunately, I can't really say! Japanese teams are somewhat mysterious, and it's very difficult to follow them from race results alone. And I don't have much of anything else to go by! :

Actually, I should have put a question mark behind each entry in the car section!

[fines]

Originally posted by Bruno
best lap in race
Lafitte / Ligier - 1'19"97
Hasemi / Kojima - 1'18"230

lequel des deux. personne ne sait trop bien. depuis pas mal se temps.
une traduction svp, merci

My French is not fully up to Bruno's posting, could someone please follow his plea and translate, s.v.p.?

EDIT: I think I get the gist: no one knows for sure, because of changes in weather?

Anyway, here's my stand on things: according to official figures, Hasemi's fastest lap was recorded very early, when conditions were still VERY bad, so the time in itself doesn't quite compute. Furthermore, the lap chart showed Hasemi to lose two positions on the VERY lap that was supposed to be the fastest - now you don't need to be Einstein to figure something's fishy here!;)

[Elford68]

Thanks for all contributions till now. I am a portuguese archivist so I haven't much things to share. But I will try to participate more in the discussions. I have the portuguese magazine of the Japan GP nad Hasemi finished really back. I also have BBC Race Video.

[stevewf1]

I'm sure it's not the first (or only) time an "error" has been written down in the record books...

[Hieronymus]

Beautiful photos! I like the sticker on the car, "Professional Racing Driver M. Hasemi".

[GeoffR]

He also competed in Australia, 1982 James Hardie 1000 at Bathurst. Finished 8th o/r and 1st under 3 litre in a Bluebird Turbo, completing 153 laps out of 163.

[markpde]

Does anyone remember Hasemi from the 1973 BSCC?

http://homepage.mac....0Ingliston.html

I was an eye witness to the above - 19 years old, standing at the fence up at South Stand, which leads on to the straight before the Hairpin, but it's only tonight, after reading the above link, that I've found out what actually happened - previously I've always just assumed that the big Chevy simply swatted the tiny Datsun against the barrier - inadvertently, of course...

That wouldn't have been Frank Gardner's style anyway, and I probably did learn the true story all those years ago (the Datsun broke a steering arm on the kerb) - funny how time distorts your memory. It's still frustrating, though, even after so long - Hasemi was everybody's hero that day - it was one of those races where you could hear the crowd above the engines - and I suspect even big Frank felt sorry for him.

Alright, so it was only a round of the BSCC, and not the Japanese Grand Prix, but it was still a race, and I was there!

Excellent photos by 'Pedro 917', btw. Never knew what Hasemi looked like, and the Kojima was an elegant device.

I'll just away and edit the post on the thread about Ingliston now...

[Elford68]

Are there any link with results of Japanese F3000 Races?

[Frank Verplanken]

Originally posted by Elford68
Are there any link with results of Japanese F3000 Races?

try here
You can also find Hasemi's sportscars record here.

[Elford68]

thanks

[Mig007]

I put this info on Hasemi, based on Darren Galpin's and F2Register.


* Hasemi, Masahiro (J):
b. 13/11/1945 (Tokyo)

1960-1963 – Motocross in Japan;
1964 –
1965 –
1966 –
1967 –
1968 –
1969 –
1970 –
1971 –
1972 –
1973 –
1974 – Japanese F2000 (March 742-BMW), 2nd, 20 pts;
1975 – Japanese F2000 (Kojima Engineering March 742-BMW), 3rd, 45 pts, 2 wins;
1976 – Japanese F2 (Kojima Engineering March 742-BMW), 2nd, 52 pts;
F1 (Works Kojima KE007-Cosworth):
Japan 10th 11th
1977 – Japanese F2 (Works Kojima KE008-BMW/Kojima Engineering Chevron B40-Nissan), 4th, 46 pts, 1 win;
1978 – Japanese F2 (Tomy Racing Chevron B40/B42-BMW), 2nd, 72 pts, 1 win;
1979 – Japanese F2 (Tomy Racing Team Chevron B42-BMW/March 792-BMW), 5th, 55 pts;
1980 – Japanese F2 (Tomy Racing Team March 802-BMW), Champion, 71 pts, 2 wins;
1981 – Japanese F2 (Tomy Racing Team March 802-BMW), 9th, 22 pts;
1982 –
1983 –
1984 – Japanese F2 (Speed Star Wheel Racing Team March 842-BMW), 6th, 39 pts;
1985 –
1986 –
1987 –
1988 –
1989 – JTCC (Hasemi Sports Nissan HR31 Skyline GTS-R), Champion;
1990 – Macau Guia Race, 1st;
1991 – JTCC (Hasemi Sports Nissan BNR32 Skyline GTS-R), Champion;
1992 – JTCC (Hasemi Sports Nissan BNR32 Skyline GTS-R), Champion;
1993 –
1994 –
1995 –
1996 –
1997 –
1998 –
1999 –
2000 –
2001 –

[D-Type]

Did anybody ever bottom out the question of his fastest lap in the 1976 Japanese GP? Did Lafitte actually do a faster lap?

[Mig007]

I believe it was a mistake, the Hasemi's fast lap. But it also said that he had advantage in the rain due to his Bridgestone tires, so I don't know in which of the many theories I'll believe.

[Hank the Deuce]

He also competed in Australia, 1982 James Hardie 1000 at Bathurst. Finished 8th o/r and 1st under 3 litre in a Bluebird Turbo, completing 153 laps out of 163.

He was there in 1981 as well... it was said that Hasemi went with a mile or so of putting the Bluebird on pole in 1982, with a turbo letting him down on the run down the Hill.

[HistoryFan]

from grandprix.com:

 

"In 1980 he achieved a grand slam in Japan by winning the four major national championships; the All Japan Formula 2, Suzuka Formula 1, the Grand Championship sports car and All Japan Formula Pacific series."

 

=> Never heard of Suzuka Formula 1. What was that?

[GMiranda]

Hasemi, Hoshino and Takahashi were perhaps the best of the lot that entered F1 in the pre-Nakajima years

[HistoryFan]

I really wonder why Hoshino especially never drove a whole F1 season...

[GMiranda]

I think the Japanese were quite isolated till the 80's. Even Nakajima arrived on Europe too late, because he had more value than it seemed.

I'd like to know more why these isollation, because they had pretty good drivers on sportscar and single seaters, and they had also great marques.

[ghinzani]

As I recall there was talk of him running a third Williams at Suzuka in 1987. Then again so was Geoff Lees rumoured for that one. 

[HistoryFan]

He also had a test with Williams.