The 1995 Japanese Touring Car Championship season was the 11th edition of the series. It began at Fuji Speedway on 12 March and finished after eight events, also at Fuji Speedway on 5 November. The championship was won by Steve Soper , driving for BMW Team Schnitzer . It was his only touring car title[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] and it would be the only time a non-Japanese driver won the series.
Team
Car
No.
Drivers
Rounds
Toyota Team TOM's
Toyota Corona EXiV
1
Masanori Sekiya
All
Hasemi Motorsport
Nissan Primera GTe
3
Masahiro Hasemi
All
Trans Global
BMW 318i
5
Mutsuaki Sanada
1-6
Akira Watanabe
7
Richard Dean
8
Castrol Racing
Mazda Lantis
6
Yojiro Terada
1-2, 4-8
FET Racing
Toyota Corolla AE101
8
Kiyoshi Misaki
1-5
Toyota Corolla AE110
6-8
Mazdaspeed
Mazda Familia
9
Andrew Gilbert-Scott
6-8
BMW Team Schnitzer
BMW 318i
10
Steve Soper
All
Object T
Honda Civic Ferio
11
Takahiko Hara
1
Toyota Corona T190
33
Satoshi Motoyama
1
Toyota Corona EXiV
51
2-8
Team Impul
Nissan Primera GTe
12
Kazuyoshi Hoshino
All
WedsSport
BMW 318i
13
Takeo Asano
All
Mooncraft
Honda Civic Ferio
14
Naoki Hattori
All
Nakajima Planning
Honda Civic Ferio
15
Tetsuya Tanaka
1-3
Takuya Kurosawa
4-8
Castrol Mugen Honda
Honda Civic Ferio
16
Osamu Nakako
All
Misuzu Racing
Opel Vectra GT
17
Tatsuhiko Kaneumi
2-4, 6-8
Club Endless
BMW 318i
18
Mitsuhiro Kinoshita
All
Racing Project Bandoh
Toyota Sprinter Marino
19
Katsutomo Kaneishi
1
Toyota Corona EXiV
2-8
Hitotsuyama Racing
BMW 318i
20
Mikio Hitotsuyama
8
21
3, 5-7
Yasushi Hitotsuyama
1-2, 4, 8
Team Advan Yamaichi
BMW 318i
22
Kazuo Mogi
All
Team Advan
Toyota Corolla Ceres
25
Masami Kageyama
1, 3
Toyota Corona EXiV
2, 4-8
Nismo
Nissan Sunny
31
Akira Iida
2-8
32
Toshio Suzuki
2-8
AS Auto Tech
BMW 318i
35
Akihiko Nakaya
All
Toyota Team TOM's
Toyota Corona T190
37
Michael Krumm
1
Toyota Corona EXiV
2-8
Toyota Team Cerumo
Toyota Corona T190
38
Hidetoshi Mitsusada
1
Toyota Corona EXiV
2-8
39
Tom Kristensen
All
Mazdaspeed
Mazda Lantis
47
Shogo Kobayashi
1-2, 4-8
5Zigen Racing
Honda Civic Ferio
50
Hideki Okada
2-8
Unicorse
Alfa Romeo 155 TS
55
Yasutaka Hinoi
4
Giambattista Busi
6
Giorgio Francia
8
Team Dome-Kosei
Ford Mondeo
65
Hisashi Wada
7-8
Dandelion Racing
Toyota Corolla AE101
68
Hideo Fukuyama
1-2, 4
Masayuki Yamamoto
3, 5-8
BMW Team Schnitzer
BMW 318i
73
Joachim Winkelhock
1, 5-8
Leopold Prinz von Bayern
2-4
74
Peter Kox
8
Concept L Racing
Honda Civic Ferio
77
Kazuo Shimizu
All
HKS Opel Team Japan
Opel Vectra GT
86
Justin Bell
All
87
Anthony Reid
1-7
Philipp Peter
8
Team Kunimitsu
Honda Civic Ferio
100
Keiichi Tsuchiya
2-8
Championship standings
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Points system
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
10th
15
12
9
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
no bonus points for pole positions or fastest laps. 11 results on 16 are valid for the championship.
Drivers' Championship
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Colour
Result
Gold
Winner
Silver
Second place
Bronze
Third place
Green
Points finish
Blue
Non-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple
Retired (Ret)
Red
Did not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black
Disqualified (DSQ)
White
Did not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank
Did not practice (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)
Bold - Pole
Italics - Fastest lap