The team was initially formed through and their efforts in the
All Japan Endurance Championship and
Fuji Long Distance Series. Taisan operated one of the teams'
Porsche 962C with drivers
Kunimitsu Takahashi and
Kenji Takahashi. Kunimitsu went on to win the Endurance Championship three times from 1985 to 1987, while Nova Engineering won the team championships in the Fuji Long Distance Series those same years. Taisan expanded their program to include the
Japanese Touring Car Championship in 1989 with
BMW M3s, adding Briton
Will Hoy to the team in 1990. A
Group A category
Nissan Skyline GT-R was added to the team in
1991 for Kenji Takahashi and
Keiichi Tsuchiya while their BMWs continued in the lower JTC-2 category. Kunimitsu replaced Kenji in the Skyline for
1992 and
1993 before Kunimitsu and Tsuchiya left to form their own racing team and the JTCC eliminated the Group A cars from the series, leaving the team with a single
Super Touring BMW for
Kazuo Mogi in
1994. Taisan returned to sports car racing in
1994 in the new All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship, the team participating with one of their former 962Cs and teamed alongside a
Ferrari F40.
Masahiko Kondo and
Anthony Reid won one race for the Porsche while
Tetsuya Ota and
Oscar Larrauri earned one victory in the Ferrari. A switch to a pair of
Porsche 911 GT2s earned three GT1 victories in
1995 and the teams championship for the GT1 category, while the team also added a GT2 class campaign under the Team Taisan Jr. moniker for a
Porsche 964. Taisan Jr. became a dominant team in the rechristened GT300 class, winning the drivers and teams championships in
1996, followed by second place in
1997 and another championship in
1998 while campaigning a new
Toyota MR2 in cooperation with
Tsuchiya Engineering. returning in 2016 with an
Audi R8 LMS in cooperation with
SARD.
Taisan Electric Team Taisan also began to embrace
electric motorsport by participating in the All Japan EV-GP Series in 2011 with
Tesla Roadsters as well as a modified
Porsche 914, winning the 2011 championship. The team also began developing electric
karts. In 2018 Chiba announced an auction of many former Taisan racing cars dating back to the early 1990s, including several JGTC and Super GT machines. File:TaisanGT-R.jpg|1991 Nissan Skyline GT-R Group A File:No.35 TAISAN STARCARD 962C at 1994 Japan GT Championship.jpg|1994 Porsche 962C File:Ferrari F40 TAISAN STARCARD No40 01.jpg|1994 Ferrari F40 File:Endless Taisan 911 2012 Super GT Sugo free practice.jpg|2012 Porsche 911 GT3 R File:Naoki Yokomizo 2014 Super GT Suzuka Q1.jpg|2014 Nissan GT-R GT3 File:No.26 TAISAN SARD R8 FUKUSHIMA at SUZUKA 1000km THE FINAL (13).jpg|2017 Audi R8 LMS == Complete race results ==