| Dome Co. Ltd | |
|---|---|
| Type | |
| Founded | 1975 |
| Founder | Minoru Hayashi |
| Headquarters |  Takaragaike, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan |
| Industry | Motorsport |
| Website | www.dome.co.jp |
Dome Co. Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. An entrepreneur is a person who has possession over a company enterprise, or Venture, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome (IPA /kʲoːto / is a city in the central part of the island of Honshū, Japan. WikipediaWikiProject Japanese prefectures for guidelines --> is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kinki region of the island of Honshū For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Ltd (株式会社童夢 Kabushiki Kaisha Dōmu?), literally "child's dream", is a Japanese-based racing car constructor, involved mainly in open wheel and sports car racing. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Open-wheel car (Often single-seater car, in UK English describes cars with the wheels outside the car's main body and in most cases one seat Sports car racing is a form of circuit Auto racing with Automobiles that have two seats and enclosed wheels
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Background
In 1965 Minoru Hayashi built his first racing car, a rebodied Honda S600 coupe. The Honda S600 is an Automobile manufactured by Honda. It was launched in March 1964 Belonging to Tojiro Ukiya, it was called the "Karasu" (crow in Japanese), due to its shape. Built on a small budget and in a short time, the Karasau emphasized weight reduction and aerodynamics using FRP materials. A fibre-reinforced plastic ( FRP) (also fibre-reinforced polymer) is a Composite material comprising a Polymer matrix reinforced with fibres The car went on to win its debut race at the Suzuka Clubman Race, despite Hayashi having no experience in racecar construction. In 1966 he went on to build the Macransa, a more extensivey modified Honda S800 to compete at the Japanese Grand Prix, this was followed by the "Kusabi" three years later, which was a Formula Junior racing car, and the "Panic" in 1971. The S800 was a Sports car from Honda. Introduced at the 1965 Tokyo Motor Show, the S800 would replace the successful Honda S600 as the company's The Japanese Grand Prix is a race in the calendar of the FIA Formula One World Championship. Formula Junior is a Formula racing class first adopted in October 1958 by the CSI ( International Sporting Commission, the part of the FIA
In 1975 at Takaragaike, Kyoto, Hayashi formed Dome with an intention to manufacture cars with small production runs, using racing machines to develop the technology. (IPA /kʲoːto / is a city in the central part of the island of Honshū, Japan. Three years after the company's formation in 1978, the company produced its first concept car designed for road use called the Dome Zero (童夢-零) powered by a Nissan L28 engine and made its public debut at the Geneva Motor Show of the same year. The Dome Zero (Japanese name 童夢-零 dohmu zero upon translation was a prototype sportscar from DOME Co The Nissan L series of Automobile engines ranged from 13 L to 2 The International Geneva Motor Show (Salon International de l'Auto is an annual Auto show held in March in the Swiss city of Geneva. For the following year, Dome produced the production version of the Zero called the Dome P2, which was exhibited at Chicago Auto Show and Los Angeles Auto Expo. The Chicago Auto Show is held annually in February at Chicago 's McCormick Place convention complex The Los Angeles Auto Show is an annual Auto show that takes place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California. However, the car was refused type approval by the Japanese Government and was unable to go into production.
Dome continued as a sportscar constructor building cars for Toyota's motorsport department Tom's to compete in the All Japan Super Silhouette Championship, then later using Group C cars at the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship which was also used to compete in the World Sportscar Championship until the end of the decade when Dome switched to Honda. (pronounced) is a Multinational corporation headquartered in Japan, and is currently the world's largest Automaker. is a factory supported racing team and tuner of Toyota and Lexus vehicles Group C was a category of Auto racing, introduced into Sports car racing by the FIA in 1982 along with Group A for touring cars The, abbreviated as JSPC formed by the Japanese Automobile Federation, was a domestic championship which took place in Japan for Group C and IMSA GTP World Endurance Championship redirects here For the motorcycle endurance
Minoru Hayashi would also assist his cousin Masakazu Hayashi establish his own formula car manufacturing concern (Masakazu of the self-named Hayashi aluminum wheel company). After producing cars for Japan's Formula Junior 1600 category for 10 years, the first F3 car was the Hayashi 803 Formula 3 car, designed by the two Hayashi cousins. Formula Three, also called Formula 3 or F3, is a class of open-wheel formula racing. That was followed by the Hayashi 320 in 1981 designed by Masao Ono, who had also designed the 1976 Kojima F1 car. In a Hayashi 320 Osamu Nakano won the All-Japan Formula Three title. also known as Japanese Formula Three, is a national motor racing championship that takes place in Japan. A 320 was also modified for the Formula Atlantic category and won the Macau Grand Prix driven by American Bob Earl. The Cooper Tires presents the Atlantic Championship Powered by Mazda is a Formula racing series with races throughout North America The Macau Grand Prix is a motor-racing event held annually in November in the streets of Macau. A further development, the 321, saw action briefly in Japan and England. Ono then switched to Dome to work on the sportscar designs and Hayashi Racing switched to Ralt chassis to win the Japanese F3 title with Kengo Nakamoto. RALT was a manufacturer of single-seater Racing cars founded by ex- Jack Brabham associate Ron Tauranac after he sold out his interest in Brabham
In 1984, the followup Hayashi 322 was a success and helped Shuji Hyodo to win the Japanese F3 championship. In 1985 the Hayashi 330 won a single Japanese F3 race but finishes were good enough to place driver Syuuji Hyoudou third in season-end standing. A development of the 322, the 331, appeared in a handful of Japanese F3 races in 1986 without success and disappeared quietly. A downturn in the aluminum wheel business is credited in causing Hayashi to abandon racing.
In 1988, Dome would return to production car design establishing a design studio called Jiotto Design to design cars with its own quarter scale windtunnel to build the Jiotto Caspita supercar, which never went into production due to the recession. The Jiotto Caspita is a prototype Midship Sports car designed and manufactured by Dome for a company named Jiotto in 1988. Supercar is a term generally used for a high-end Sports car, whose performance is highly superior to that of its contemporaries
Dome continued to compete with Lammers, Keiji Matsumoto, Ross Cheever and Thomas Danielsson, driving until 1992, when Marco Apicella was signed to drive the new Dome-Mugen F103, taking the title in 1994. Ross Cheever (born April 12, 1964 in Rome, Italy) is an American race car driver and is the younger brother of former Formula Marco Apicella (born October 7, 1965 near Bologna) is an Italian racing driver Mugen_Decaljpg|Mugen Power|thumb|right]] Mugen Motorsports ( M-TEC Co The Formula 3000 program continued until 1998 with Shinji Nakano, Katsumi Yamamoto and Juichi Wakisaki but without much success. Not to be confused with Japanese Moto GP rider Shinya Nakano.
Formula One
Late in 1995, Tadashi Sasaki, joined Dome and that autumn the company announced its plan to enter F1 with a car designed by Akiyoshi Uko called the Dome F105 using a Minardi transmission and its hydraulic system. Minardi was an Automobile racing team and constructor founded in 1979 by Giancarlo Minardi. Apicella was installed as test driver 1996 and the test driving duties was later taken over by Nakano and Naoki Hattori. is a motoring journalist and Racing driver from Japan. After being Japanese Formula 3 champion in 1990 he failed to pre-qualify for two Formula One grands The meant that the planned 1997 World Championship effort came to nothing and the follow-up car, the Dome F106 never materialised due to lack of sponsorship and Mugen's refusal to supply engines. The Concorde Agreement also delayed the start for the team. The Concorde Agreement is a contract between the FIA, the Formula One teams and Formula One Administration which dictates the terms by which By 1999, all develepment work would fold after Honda's involvement with British American Racing. British American Racing was a Formula One constructor that competed in the sport from 1999 to 2005
Current projects
In 1999 Dome established Dome Cars Ltd in the United Kingdom and the Dome Tunnel in Maihara, Shiga Prefecture, which was originally intended for F1 construction and also focused its effort in the Japanese GT Championship, which they had been since 1996 and also competing as a team as well as building the Honda NSX for other factory supported teams. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located was a town located in Sakata District, Shiga, Japan. On February 14, 2005, it merged with the towns of Santo and The Super GT series formerly known as the All-Japan Grand Touring Car Championship or JGTC (全日本GT選手権 Zen Nihon GT Sensyuken) is a grand Development In 1984 Honda commissioned Pininfarina to design the HP-X ( H onda P ininfarina X perimental which had a mid-mounted 2 They also worked on the aerodynamics on the JTCC Honda Accord. JTCC redirects here JTCC can also refer to John Tyler Community College. The Honda Accord is series of midrange Automobile manufactured by Honda since 1976 and sold in most automotive markets throughout the world In 2001, DOME Carbon Magic was formed in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture, specifically for carbon composite development and manufacture. WikipediaWikiProject Japanese prefectures for guidelines--> is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on Honshū Island They continue to build and race the NSX in the recently renamed Super GT series.
Dome also upgraded their S101 Le Mans prototype chassis to meet new regulations for 2007. A Le Mans Prototype (commonly abbreviated as LMP) is a type of custom-built Race car intended for Sports car racing and Endurance racing, most The new car has been dubbed the S101. 5. The S101s were supplied to Racing for Holland etc. Racing for Holland is a Dutch Motor racing team started by Jan Lammers in 1999. In 2008, Dome introduced a closed-cockpit prototype called the S102 for the Le Mans Prototype 1 (LMP1) class and entered in the 2008 24 Hours of Le Mans as an entrant after an interval of 22 years from 1986. The 2008 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 76th Grand Prix of Endurance taking place on 14 &ndash 15 June 2008 at the Circuit de la Sarthe, Le The 1986 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 54th Grand Prix of Endurance as well as the third round of the 1986 World Sports-Prototype Championship.
References
External links
- Dome official website (Japanese)
- English part of official site (English)
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