Masanori Sekiya

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Sekiya drove in single-seaters in his early career, contesting the Japanese Formula 3000 Championship and Formula Nippon from 1987 to 1993, mostly for the Leyton House team. He never achieved any victories, but finished 4th in the standings in 1988 and 1989, scoring three and four podiums, respectively.Template:Fact

A long-time works Toyota driver, Sekiya drove in the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship, All Japan Grand Touring Championship and Japanese Touring Car Championship, a series which he won in 1994, driving a Toyota Chaser for the Tom's team. He was also runner-up the following year.Template:Fact

As Sekiya is rather fond of Le Mans, in 1987, he got married in the town prior to the race. His best result in international sports car racing was winning the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans, at the wheel of a McLaren F1 GTR for Kokusai Kaihatsu Racing. He became the first Japanese-born driver to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He was also fourth in the 1993 edition. He competed in the JGTC until the 2000 season and now works as team manager for the Super GT division of the Toyota Team TOM'S and also runs a racing school at Fuji Speedway. In 1998, Sekiya also appeared in a TV commercial in Japan driving a JZA80 Supra promoting its handling package. Sekiya retired from professional motorsports in October 2000 and is now involved in team management.Template:Fact

Racing Record

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Pos.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Class Pos.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
1985	Template:Flagicon Tom's Team	Template:Flagicon Satoru Nakajima Template:Flagicon Kaoru Hoshino	Tom's 85C-L-Toyota	C1	330	12th	12th
1986	Template:Flagicon Tom's Co. Ltd.	Template:Flagicon Satoru Nakajima Template:Flagicon Geoff Lees	Tom's (Dome) 86C-L-Toyota	C1	105	DNF	DNF
1987	Template:Flagicon Toyota Team Tom's	Template:Flagicon Tiff Needell Template:Flagicon Kaoru Hoshino	Toyota 87C-L	C1	39	DNF	DNF
1988	Template:Flagicon Toyota Team Tom's	Template:Flagicon Geoff Lees Template:Flagicon Kaoru Hoshino	Toyota 88C	C1	351	12th	12th
1989	Template:Flagicon Porsche Kremer Racing	Template:Flagicon Hideki Okada Template:Flagicon George Fouché	Porsche 962CK6	C1	42	DNF	DNF
1990	Template:Flagicon Toyota Team Tom's	Template:Flagicon Geoff Lees Template:Flagicon Hitoshi Ogawa	Toyota 90C-V	C1	347	6th	6th
1992	Template:Flagicon Toyota Team Tom's	Template:Flagicon Pierre-Henri Raphanel Template:Flagicon Kenny Acheson	Toyota TS010	C1	346	2nd	2nd
1993	Template:Flagicon Toyota Team Tom's	Template:Flagicon Eddie Irvine Template:Flagicon Toshio Suzuki	Toyota TS010	C1	364	4th	4th
1995	Template:Flagicon Kokusai Kaihatsu Racing	Template:Flagicon Yannick Dalmas Template:Flagicon JJ Lehto	McLaren F1 GTR	GT1	298	1st	1st
1996	Template:Flagicon Team SARD Toyota	Template:Flagicon Hidetoshi Mitsusada Template:Flagicon Masami Kageyama	Toyota Supra LM	GT1	205	DNF	DNF
1997	Template:Flagicon Gulf Team Davidoff Template:Flagicon GTC Racing	Template:Flagicon Ray Bellm Template:Flagicon Andrew Gilbert-Scott	McLaren F1 GTR	GT1	326	DNF	DNF

Japanese Formula 3000 Championship results

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

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	DC	Pts
1987	Leyton House Racing Team	SUZ RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ 6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	MIN RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUZ	SUZ 5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUG RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUZ 5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUZ 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".			10th	32
1988	Leyton House Racing Team	SUZ RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	MIN 6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUZ 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUG RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUZ 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUZ 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".				4th	18
1989	Leyton House Racing Team	SUZ 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	MIN 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUZ RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUG RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUZ 8Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUZ 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".				5th	21
1990	Leyton House Racing Team	SUZ 9Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	MIN RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUZ RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUG 19Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUZ 14Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUZ RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".		NC	0
1991	Leyton House Racing Team	SUZ 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUT 15Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ 17Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	MIN 10Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUZ RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUG 11Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ 9Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUZ	FUJ			17th	3
1991	Team LeMans										SUZ 9Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	17th	3
1992	Hagiwara Racing	SUZ 18Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ 8Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	MIN 8Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUZ 10Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUT RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUG 11Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ 12Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUZ RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ 13Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	NC	0
1993	TOM'S	SUZ 10Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ 7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	MIN	SUZ RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUT CScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUG 23Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ CScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUZ 18Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ	SUZ RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	16th	3

Complete JTCC results

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

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	DC	Pts
1994	Toyota Team Tom's	Toyota Corona	AUT 1 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	AUT 2 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUG 1 17Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUG 2 RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	TOK 1 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	TOK 2 1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUZ 1 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUZ 2 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	MIN 1 RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	MIN 2 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	TAI 1 RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	TAI 2 5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	TSU 1 1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	TSU 2 1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SEN 1 6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SEN 2 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ 1 6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ 2 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	1st	135
1995	Toyota Team Tom's	Toyota Corona EXiV	FUJ 1 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ 2 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUG 1 1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUG 2 1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	TOK 1 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	TOK 2 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUZ 1 5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUZ 2 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	MIN 1 22Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	MIN 2 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	TAI 1 1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	TAI 2 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SEN 1 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SEN 2 11Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ 1 RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ 2 5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".			2nd	117
1996	Toyota Team Tom's	Toyota Corona EXiV	FUJ 1 5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ 2 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUG 1 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUG 2 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUZ 1 RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUZ 2 15Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	MIN 1 20Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	MIN 2 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SEN 1 7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SEN 2 RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	TOK 1 7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	TOK 2 14Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ 1 NCScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ 2 9Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".					7th	55
1997	Toyota Team Tom's	Toyota Chaser	FUJ 1 CScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ 2 CScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	TAI 1 13Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	TAI 2 7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUG 1 11Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUG 2 RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUZ 1 12Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUZ 2 9Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	MIN 1 RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	MIN 2 DNSScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SEN 1 RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SEN 2 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	TOK 1 9Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	TOK 2 6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ 1 18Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ 2 8Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".			13th	25
1998	Toyota Team Tom's	Toyota Chaser	FUJ 1 8Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ 2 2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	MOT 1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUG 1 1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUG 2 3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUZ 1 4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	SUZ 2 1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	MIN 1 1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	MIN 2 1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	TAI 1Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".	FUJ 7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".								1st	128

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	7	DC	Pts
1995	Toyota Castrol Team Tom's	Toyota Supra	GT1	SUZ 6	FUJ 6	SEN 1	FUJ Ret	SUG 7	MIN 4		6th	42
1996	Toyota Castrol Team	Toyota Supra	GT500	SUZ 5	FUJ 2	SEN 3	MIN Ret	SUG 9	MIN Ret		8th	38
1997	Toyota Castrol Team	Toyota Supra	GT500	SUZ 3	FUJ 6	SEN 3	FUJ 3	MIN 3	SUG 4		3rd	64
1998	Toyota Castrol Team Tom's	Toyota Supra	GT500	SUZ 6	FUJ C	SEN 3	FUJ 8	MOT 3	MIN 16	SUG Ret	7th	33
1999	Toyota Castrol Team Tom's	Toyota Supra	GT500	SUZ 4	FUJ 9	SUG 1	MIN 10	FUJ 4	TAI 4	MOT 1	2nd	73
2000	Toyota Castrol Team Tom's	Toyota Supra	GT500	MOT Ret	FUJ 12	SUG 9	FUJ 5	TAI 14	MIN Ret	SUZ 9	17th	12

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Masanori Sekiya

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