Kazuo Mogi (茂木 和男, Mogi Kazuo, born 2 February 1953) is a retired Japanese racing driver.

Racing career

Mogi first began professional competition in 1975, driving a Nissan Sunny. He competed in the FJ1600 Championship, joining midway through 1980, driving a West 80J;^[1] he would later participate in the Japanese Formula 3000 Championship and the All Japan Endurance Championship, but it was the Japanese Touring Car Championship where he is most well known.

Mogi is a three-time Japanese Touring Car champion, winning the title in 1985, 1989 and 1992; he is the only driver to have won championships in all three classes in the series. Mogi also won the 1987 All Japan Sports Prototype Car Endurance Championship with Kunimitsu Takahashi in a Porsche 962C. In 1992, Mogi tested the HKS 300E V12 engine intended for use in Formula One in a stretched Lola T91/50 chassis.^[2]

Mogi then competed in the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship from 1994 before retiring from racing in 1997.

Racing record

Complete JSPC results

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

Year	Team	Co-driver(s)	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	DC	Points
1983	MO Racing	Hiroyuki Ono	Mazda RX-7	B	SUZ Ret	SUZ	FUJ				NC	0
1985	Auto Beaurex Motorsport	Toshio Motohashi	Lotec M1C	C1	SUZ 6	FUJ Ret	FUJ 9	SUZ 9	FUJ 14	FUJ Ret	27th	8
1986		Toshio Motohashi Hideshi Matsuda Naoki Nagasaka Will Hoy	TOM'S 85C	C1	SUZ 7	FUJ DNS	FUJ Ret	SUZ Ret	FUJ 14	FUJ Ret	39th	4
1987	ADVAN Alpha Nova	Kunimitsu Takahashi Kenny Acheson	Porsche 962C	C1	SUZ 2	FUJ 3	FUJ 1	SUZ 3	FUJ 11	FUJ 1	1st	59
1988		Kunimitsu Takahashi		C1	FUJ 3	SUZ Ret	FUJ 2	FUJ Ret	SUZ 2	FUJ 6	4th	48
1989	Ba-Tsu ADVAN Alpha Tomei	Kenji Takahashi Giovanni Lavaggi		C1	FUJ 9	FUJ 10	FUJ Ret	SUZ Ret	FUJ 10		?	?
1990	ADVAN Alpha Nova	Kunimitsu Takahashi		C1	FUJ 8	FUJ C	FUJ 5	SUZ Ret	SUG 6	FUJ Ret	22nd	9

References

External links

• Kazuo Mogi career summary at DriverDB.com