Masahiko Kageyama

Masahiko Kageyama
Nationality	Japanese
Born	(1963-08-08) August 8, 1963 (age 61) Kanagawa Prefecture
Retired	2002
Related to	Masami Kageyama (brother)
Debut season	1993 (JGTC GT1)
Starts	56
Wins	6
Best finish	1st in 1993–1995
Previous series
1990-2001 1990-1996 1987-1989	Formula Nippon Japanese Touring Car Championship All-Japan Formula Three

Masahiko Kageyama (影山 正彦, Kageyama Masahiko, born August 8, 1963 in Kanagawa Prefecture) is a former racing driver from Japan. He participated in the Japanese Grand Touring Car series in the top category between 1993 and 2002.

Kageyama won the inaugural Japanese Grand Touring Car championship, in the Nismo Nissan Skyline GT-R R32, before winning the next two championships.

He also won the All-Japan Formula Three Championship in 1989, and the Japanese Touring Car Championship in 1993.

Along with Nissan Motorsports teammates Aguri Suzuki and Kazuyoshi Hoshino, he drove a Nissan R390 GT1 to a third-place finish at the 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans.^[1]

Kageyama is the CEO of M-Proto Inc., a supplier of brake pads, based in Fujisawa, Kanagawa.^[2] His younger brother is Masami Kageyama, who also competed in JGTC and at Le Mans.

Racing record

Complete Japanese Formula 3000 Championship/Formula Nippon results

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

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	DC	Points
1990	Stellar International	SUZ 15	FUJ DNQ	MIN 6	SUZ Ret	SUG 11	FUJ Ret	FUJ Ret	SUZ Ret	FUJ DNS	SUZ 9		20th	1
1991	Stellar International	SUZ Ret	AUT 17	FUJ 11	MIN Ret	SUZ 13	SUG Ret	FUJ 16	SUZ 13	FUJ C	SUZ Ret	FUJ DNQ	31st	0
1993	Nakajima Racing	SUZ 12	SUZ 8	MIN 6	SUZ Ret	AUT C	SUG 2	FUJ C	FUJ 8	SUZ Ret	FUJ Ret	SUZ 11	10th	7
1994	Nakajima Racing	SUZ 16	FUJ Ret	MIN 11	SUZ Ret	SUG 9	FUJ Ret	SUZ 5	FUJ Ret	FUJ 11	SUZ 8		13th	2
1995	Navi Connection Racing	SUZ 3	FUJ C	MIN 8	SUZ Ret	SUG Ret	FUJ 6	TOK Ret	FUJ Ret	SUZ Ret			12th	5
1996	Navi Connection Racing	SUZ Ret	MIN Ret	FUJ Ret	TOK Ret	SUZ 16	SUG 12	FUJ Ret	MIN 9	SUZ 7	FUJ 3		14th	4
1997	Team Impul	SUZ Ret	MIN Ret	FUJ 5	SUZ 2	SUG 3	FUJ Ret	MIN 15	MOT Ret	FUJ 12	SUZ 3		7th	16
1998	Maziora Team Impul	SUZ 1	MIN Ret	FUJ Ret	MOT 8	SUZ 1	SUG Ret	FUJ C	MIN Ret	FUJ Ret	SUZ 6		4th	21
1999	Speedmaster Mooncraft	SUZ Ret	MOT 12	MIN Ret	FUJ 13	SUZ Ret	SUG 13	FUJ Ret	MIN 6	MOT 12	SUZ 13		18th	1
2001	Takagi B-1 Car Club	SUZ 12	MOT Ret	MIN Ret	FUJ 10	SUZ DNS	SUG 14	FUJ 16	MIN Ret	MOT Ret	SUZ Ret		20th	0

Complete Japanese Touring Car Championship (-1993) results

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	DC	Pts
1990	Object T	Ford Sierra RS500	JTC-1	NIS 4	SUG 3	SUZ 5	TSU Ret						6th	84
		Nissan Skyline GT-R						SEN 3	FUJ Ret
1991	Object T	Nissan Skyline GT-R	JTC-1	SUG Ret	SUZ 3	TSU 4	SEN Ret	AUT 3	FUJ 2				7th	98
1992	Impul	Nissan Skyline GT-R	JTC-1	AID Ret	AUT 3	SUG 1	SUZ Ret	MIN Ret	TSU 1	SEN 1	FUJ 6		7th	78
1993	Impul	Nissan Skyline GT-R	JTC-1	MIN 1	AUT 3	SUG 2	SUZ 3	AID 1	TSU 2	TOK 1	SEN 1	FUJ Ret	1st	134

Complete Japanese Touring Car Championship (1994-) results

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	DC	pts
1994	Nismo	Nissan Sunny	AUT 1	AUT 2	SUG 1	SUG 2	TOK 1	TOK 2	SUZ 1	SUZ 2	MIN 1	MIN 2	AID 1 21	AID 2 10	TSU 1 Ret	TSU 2 3	SEN 1 Ret	SEN 2 DNS	FUJ 1 14	FUJ 2 18	22nd	10
1996	Nismo	Nissan Primera Camino	FUJ 1 7	FUJ 2 Ret	SUG 1 8	SUG 2 9	SUZ 1 4	SUZ 2 6	MIN 1 4	MIN 2 1	SEN 1 7	SEN 2 6	TOK 1 Ret	TOK 2 18	FUJ 1 3	FUJ 2 7					5th	63

Complete JGTC results

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	DC	Pts
1994	Hoshino Racing	Nissan Skyline GT-R	GT1	FUJ 1	SEN 2	FUJ 2	SUG 4	MIN 4				1st	70
1995	Hoshino Racing	Nissan Skyline GT-R	GT1	SUZ 1	FUJ 10	SEN 2	FUJ 7	SUG 2	MIN 3			1st	67
1996	Team Impul	Nissan Skyline GT-R	GT500	SUZ 8	FUJ 5	SEN 5	FUJ 1	SUG 2	MIN Ret			4th	54
1997	Nismo	Nissan Skyline GT-R	GT500	SUZ 5	FUJ Ret	SEN 14	FUJ 9	MIN Ret	SUG Ret			19th	10
1998	Nismo	Nissan Skyline GT-R	GT500	SUZ Ret	FUJ C	SEN 2	FUJ 7	MOT 11	MIN 5	SUG 9		8th	29
1999	Toyota Team Sard	Toyota Supra	GT500	SUZ 16	FUJ 15	SUG Ret	MIN 7	FUJ 10	TAI 13	MOT Ret		22nd	5
2000	Toyota Team Sard	Toyota Supra	GT500	MOT 10	FUJ Ret	SUG 6	FUJ 2	TAI Ret	MIN 8	SUZ 16		12th	25
2001	Toyota Team Sard	Toyota Supra	GT500	TAI 7	FUJ 7	SUG	FUJ	MOT	SUZ	MIN		21st	8
2002	Kraft	Toyota Supra	GT500	TAI 17	FUJ 10	SUG Ret	SEP 12	FUJ 10	MOT 15	MIN 10	SUZ 12	25th	3

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1995	NISMO	Kazuyoshi Hoshino Toshio Suzuki	Nissan Skyline GT-R LM	GT1	157	DNF	DNF
1996	NISMO	Aguri Suzuki Masahiko Kondo	Nissan Skyline GT-R LM	GT1	209	DNF	DNF
1997	Nissan Motorsport TWR	Kazuyoshi Hoshino Érik Comas	Nissan R390 GT1	GT1	294	12th	5th
1998	Nissan Motorsports TWR	Aguri Suzuki Kazuyoshi Hoshino	Nissan R390 GT1	GT1	347	3rd	3rd
2000	TV Asahi Team Dragon	Toshio Suzuki Masami Kageyama	Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S	LMP900	340	6th	6th

References

1. "1998 24 Hours of Le Mans results". experiencelemans.com. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
2. "M-Proto" 会社情報 [Corporate Information]. M-Proto official website (in Japanese). Japan: M-Proto Inc. 2013. Retrieved January 24, 2013.

External links

• Masahiko Kageyama career summary at DriverDB.com
• Nissan driver profile (in Japanese)

Sporting positions
Preceded by none	JGTC (GT1) Champion 1993–1994–1995	Succeeded by David Brabham John Nielsen