Auto Race SG Japan Championship Winner's Cup

This is a trophy from the Japan Championship Auto Race.
The cup has a crack where it attaches to the base, but it is fine for display.
This is a commemorative item from the prime of Shigeru Tanaka's career. How about it, fans?

No one can stop Shigeru's momentum anymore!
The 38th Japan Championship Auto Race was blessed with good weather from the first day to the last.
The talk before the race was, who could stop Shigeru Tanaka's meteoric rise? And the performance of the 26th class, who vowed to report their victory to Kazumi Hashimoto, who passed away unexpectedly last month. Shigeru Tanaka was also one of the 26th class.
In the trial runs by the 8 finalists, Shigeru Tanaka recorded the fastest time of 3.28, followed by Nagai and Hitomi at 3.29, with the other times being very close at 3.30 and 3.31.
The betting on the quinella was concentrated on Tanaka and Nagai, with odds of less than 10 to 1 for the reverse order.
At the crucial start, Hitomi, perhaps due to the pressure of his first appearance in the final, made a costly false start. In the second start, the local Hamamatsu riders Ito from the innermost lane and Kimura from the outermost lane took the lead, with Kimura, Ito, and Hamano rounding the second corner. At this point, Nagai was in fourth place and Tanaka was in fifth, looking to get inside Nagai. In the second lap's home stretch, Tanaka easily overtook Nagai and stayed close behind the leading Hamamatsu duo, observing their battle. In the third lap's third and fourth corners, Ito overtook Kimura from the inside. In the fourth lap's first corner, Kimura, who had slightly strayed from the course, was passed by Ito on the inside. Tanaka then focused on how to overtake Ito ahead. In the fifth lap's first and second corners, he easily passed Ito. Ito desperately tried to catch up, but it was all Tanaka from then on.
Ito finished in second place, and Nagai, who finally overtook Kimura in the last two laps, finished in third.