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Mitsuru Sugaya and Auto Racing

Mitsuru Sugaya received the Tokyo Motor Show 2003 Motorsports Grand Prize Award!

Mitsuru Sugaya had been writing/drawing many auto racing comics forJapanese kids magazines in '70s, then he was involved in Auto Racing Worldin 1983 as team manager of an auto racing team with a racing driver who isold friend since high-school age.

They competed at Fuji Grand Champion Series in 1983-1987 with March 812-Mazda 13B and MoonCraft's MC5 FRP body. Their driver and racing car followed Satoru Nakajima, Aguri Suzuki and Kazuyoshi Hoshino at FujiSpeedway. The team competed in Mitsubishi Mirage International Cup series and Tsukuba 9 Hours Endurance Race, too.

Mitsuru Sugaya started tele-computing in 1985 to get quick informationof auto racing, especially Formula One Championship. He was invited to CompuServe Motor Sports Forum by SysOp Michael F. Hollander and has beena Japanese correspondent of the Forum since 1985. When NIFTY-Serve (currently @nifty, written in Japanese), Japanese sister network of CompuServe, startedin 1987, he opened Auto Racing Forum as SysOp.

In long racing career, he worked as auto racing writer/reporter, too. He wrote reports/articles/columns/essays on magazines such as Japanese AUTOSPORT, Racing'On, F1-Sokuho and AutoHebdo which is French weekly autoracing magazines, etc..

Mitsuru Sugaya worked as a commentator for CART IndyCar TV program of ESPN Japan in late 1990's. Then he has been a commentator for Indy 500 live TV program since 2000.

Mitsuru Sugaya Racing Books

Fiction:

IndyCar racing novel, "Shakunetsu no Soro -- The White Hot Circuit" (1995)

Formula One racing novel, "Ryu no Densetsu -- The Legend of Dragon" (1995-1998)

Pre WW-II Grand Prix novel, "Kyokujitsu no GP -- The GP of Rising Sun" (2003)

Non-fiction:

The Secret Guide of IndyCar, published from Datahouse in 1993. First Japanese IndyCar guide book for Japanese auto racing fans.

Formula One Super Information Guide, published from Datahouse in 1991. Guide book of Formula One and other auto racing information sources in telecomputing, magazines, newspapers, videos and broadcasts.

Mitsuru Sugaya wrote some racing novels, too.