Kaoru Hoshino

Kaoru Hoshino (born 21 September 1947) is a Japanese former racing driver.[1] He has been active in the Toyota works team Toms since its inception, driving the Toyota Corolla and Toyota Starlet. He was mainly active in touring car racing, and also competed in the All Japan Touring Car Championship with the Toyota Supra and Toyota Corolla Levin. He continued to compete in the Super Taikyus and the All Japan GT Championship, and in 1995, in the GT2 class of the All Japan GT Championship, he teamed up with Yoshizo Ishibashi to win the series championship with a Nissan Skyline.[2]

Kaoru is best known for being involved in Tetsuya Ota's accident when he was rear-ended by Tomohiko Sunako's Porsche, his tire came off and he was stuck in the pit lane when Ota hit Sunako Kaoru had just touched the wall a little bit. The tire came off and also damaged his car's rear end due to the touch with Sunako.

Race Results

All Japan GT Championship

Year	Team Team ! Vehicle used Class ! Class ! Class ! 1 Class ! 2 !	Three!	Four!	Five! 5 ! Six. Six! ! 7 !	Rank.	Points
1995	Yoshizo Ishibashi	Nissan Skyline	GT2	SUZ 1!	FSW 1!	SEN 2	FSW 3	SUG 3	MIN Ret	bgcolor="#FFFFBF	1st place'	'79'
1996	Yoshizo Ishibashi	Porsche 911RS	GT300	SUZ 5!	FSW 5!	SEN 5	FSW 5	SUG Ret	MIN	!	8th place	32nd
1997	Sigma Tech Racing Team	Porsche 911 GT2	GT300	SUZ	FSW 6	SEN 7	FSW 6	MIN 2	SUG 1	SUG 1</small	5th place	51st !
1998	Sigma Tech Racing Team	GT300	SUZ Ret	FSW C!	SEN 9	FSW 4	TRM	MIN	SUG 16 <bgcolor="#CFCFFF	21st place	12
1999	TEAM GAIKOKUYA	GT300	SUZ	FSW 6!	SUG	MIN	FSW	TAI 10.	TRM	22nd place	7

All Japan Touring Car Championship

Year	Team	Vehicle used Class ! Class ! Class ! 1 Class ! 2 !	Three!	Four!	Five! 5 ! Six. Six! ! 7 !	Eight.	! 9 !	Rank.	Points
1985	object T	Toyota Corolla Levin	DIV.1	SUG 1	TSU	NIS 1.	SUZ 2	FSW 2	bgcolor="#DFDFDF	bgcolor="#DFDFDF	bgcolor="#FFFFBF	1st place'
1986	object T	Toyota Corolla Levin	DlV.1	NIS 4</small	SUG 1	TSU 6	SEN 4	FSW Ret	SUZ 4	img	bgcolor="#DFFFDF	!			!	1987		Toyota Corolla FX	DIV.1	NIS 2!	SEN Ret	TSU 9	[[Tsukuba Circuit\|TSU	bgcolor="#DFFFDF	bgcolor="#DFFFDF	TSU 9 \| \|	bgcolor="#DFFFDF	!			!		Toyota Supra DIV.3
!	!	SUG Ret	FSW 4	SUZ 3	bgcolor="#FFDF9F	bgcolor="#FFDF9F	!			!	1988		Toyota Corolla FX	JTC-3	SUZ Ret	1987	NIS 3	bgcolor="#FFDF9F	bgcolor="#FFDF9F	bgcolor="#FFDF9F	bgcolor="#FFDF9F	bgcolor="#FFDF9F	\| \|	!	!	!	!		Toyota Corolla Levin JTC-3
!	SEN Ret	TSU 9	SUG Ret	FSW 3	bgcolor="#FFDF9F	bgcolor="#FFDF9F					1988														!	!

1989	Team Toms JTC-3	NIS 2!	SEN 7	TSU 3	SUG 4	SUZ 5	FSW Ret	bgcolor="#EFCFFF	!			!	1990	JTC-3	NIS Ret	SUG 6	SUZ 3	TSU Ret	SEN Ret	FSW Ret	bgcolor="#EFCFFF	bgcolor="#EFCFFF	!			!	1991	JTC-3		TIA Ret	AUT 5	SUG 2	SUZ 6	MIN 1	TSU 8	SEN 5	FSW Ret	5位
1993年		JTC-3	MIN 4	AUT Ret	SUG 11	SUZ DSQ	TIA 7	TSU Ret	TOK Ret	SEN Ret	FSW 3 18th place	26th

24 Hours of Le Mans

Year	Team	Co-driver Team ! Vehicle used ! Class ! Class ! class ! Lap times !	Overall ranking Class ! Class rank
1985	Toms	Masanori Sekiya Satoru Nakajima	JPN}} Satoru Nakajima	C1	330	12th place	12th place
1987	Toyota Team Toms	Masanori Sekiya Tiff Needell	Toyota 87C-L	C1	39	DNF	DNF	C1	1988	Geoff Lees Masanori Sekiya	Toyota, 88C	C1	351	12th place	12th place
1989		Didier Alzette Keiichi Suzuki	C1	C1	DNF	DNF

References

"Profile". driverdb.com. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
"Driver Database". www.driverdb.com. Retrieved 11 November 2019.

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[sref-1] "Profile". driverdb.com. Retrieved 8 July 2012.

[2] "Driver Database". www.driverdb.com. Retrieved 11 November 2019.