Team LeMans
| Inc. | |
| Founded | 1967 |
| Headquarters | Shibuya, Tokyo |
| Website | http://www.lemans.co.jp/ |
| Founded | 1969 |
|---|---|
| Base | Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture |
| Team principal(s) | Donuma Hiroyoshi |
| Current series |
Super Formula Super GT |
| Former series |
All-Japan Formula Three Championship All-Japan Sports Prototype Championship Fuji Grand Champion Series |
| Current drivers |
 Narain Karthikeyan Kamui Kobayashi |
| Teams' Championships |
Super Formula: 1996, 1999 Super GT: 2002 |
| Drivers' Championships |
Super Formula: 1979: Keiji Matsumoto 1996: Ralf Schumacher 1998: Satoshi Motoyama All-Japan Formula Three Championship: 1986: Akio Morimoto Fuji Grand Champion Series: 1983: Keiji Matsumoto 1988-89: Geoff Lees Super GT: 2002: Juichi Wakisaka, Akira Iida |
| Website | team Le Mans |
Le Mans Ltd., headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo is an automobile parts manufacturer founded in 1967. The original company name is Le Mans Chamber of Commerce. Mainly engaged in the development and sales and of tuning parts for the race, the import and sale of overseas racing car. Also They have been also racing car constructor business as a 'garage Le Mans' .
It is also has racing division called Team Le Mans (2000 to the subsidiary the race department as a Corporation team Le Mans). Origin of the team name from 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Team Le Mans
In 1969 established as a race department of Le Mans Chamber of Commerce. It has been active in a variety of categories since the 1970s as one of the top teams of Japan.
In single-seaters they competed since 1976, when they entered the All-Japan F2000 Championship. They have served as the gross domestic distributor of Reynard till 2002. In 1991, Michael Schumacher before his Formula One debut raced with the team in the Sugo round of the Japanese Formula 3000 Championship, while in 1996 his brother Ralf became the champion with the same team.
They also developed its own machine, that complies Group C regulations.
In 2012 in collaboration with Hideki Noda they founded "NODA racing Academy Senior High School", several people of engineers such as Donuma Hiroyoshi team principal have served as the lecturers of the school.[1]
History
All-Japan F2000/F2/F3000 Championship
Their participation than in the All Japan F2000 Championship started with Keiji Matsumoto in 1976. In 1979 he won the championship title. In 1988-89 Geoff Lees and Emanuele Pirro raced for the team, both winning one race.
Formula Nippon
In 1996, the team had its more successful year in the top single-seaters Japanese category, when Ralf Schumacher and Naoki Hattori occupied first two spots in the drivers' championship, winning also the first teams' title. The team repeated wins in the drivers' and teams' championships' with Satoshi Motoyama in 1998.
Fuji GC
The team had achieved titles in Fuji Grand Champion Series (Fuji GC) with in Keiji Matsumoto in 1983 and Geoff Lees in 1988 and 1989 .
All-Japan GT Championship/Super GT
In 2002, the team won drivers' championship in the GT500 Class of the All-Japan GT Championship with Akira Iida and Juichi Wakisaka, who competed in Toyota Supra car.[2]
Footnotes
- ↑ NODA racing Academy Senior High School
- ↑ "All-Japan GT Championship — Class GT500 2002 standings". driverdb.com. Driver Database. Retrieved 19 October 2016.