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2006 Super GT Series

Sports car racing season in Japan

André Lotterer & Juichi Wakisaka GT500 Teams' Champion: Toyota Team Tom's GT300 Drivers' Champion: Tetsuya Yamano & Hiroyuki Iiri GT300 Teams' Champion: RE Amemiya Racing The 2006 Autobacs Super GT Series was the fourteenth season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship including the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era and the second season as the Super GT series. It was also the twenty-fourth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The season began on March 19 and ended on November 5, 2006, after 9 races.

Juichi Wakisaka, André Lotterer, and Toyota Team TOM'S won the GT500 drivers' and teams' championships, in the debut season for the new Lexus SC430. Tetsuya Yamano, Hiroyuki Iiri, and RE Amemiya Racing won the GT300 drivers' and teams' championships in their Mazda RX-7. The championship battle was decided on the final lap of the season, with Yamano and Iiri winning the drivers' title on a tiebreaker over Kazuho Takahashi and Hiroki Katoh of Cars Tokai Dream28.

Drivers and teams

GT500

Team	Make	Car	Engine	No.	Drivers	Tyre
Toyota Team Cerumo	Lexus SC430 GT500	Lexus 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8	1	JPN Toranosuke Takagi		All
JPN Yuji Tachikawa	All
ITA Ronnie Quintarelli	6
Hasemi Motorsport	Nissan Fairlady Z GT500	Nissan VQ30DETT 3.0 L Twin Turbo V6	3	BRA João Paulo de Oliveira		All
JPN Naoki Yokomizo	All
GBR Darren Manning	6
Mobil 1 Toyota Team LeMans	Lexus SC430 GT500	Lexus 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8	6	JPN Akira Iida		All
JPN Tatsuya Kataoka	All
SWE Björn Wirdheim	6
Team Honda Racing	Honda NSX GT500	Honda C32B 3.5 L V6	8	IRL Ralph Firman		All
JPN Daisuke Ito	All
JPN Toshihiro Kaneishi	6
Honda NSX GT500	Honda C32B 3.5 L V6	18	JPN Ryō Michigami		All
JPN Takashi Kogure	All
JPN Katsutomo Kaneishi	6
Team Impul	Nissan Fairlady Z GT500	Nissan VQ30DETT 3.0 L Twin Turbo V6	12	JPN Kazuki Hoshino		All
FRA Benoît Tréluyer	All
FRA Jérémie Dufour	6
Nismo	Nissan Fairlady Z GT500	Nissan VQ30DETT 3.0 L Twin Turbo V6	22	GER Michael Krumm		All
JPN Sakon Yamamoto	1–3
GBR Richard Lyons	4–9
BRA Fabio Carbone	6
23	JPN Tsugio Matsuda	All
JPN Satoshi Motoyama	All
JPN Yuji Ide	6
Kondo Racing	Nissan Fairlady Z GT500	Nissan VQ30DETT 3.0 L Twin Turbo V6	24	JPN Masataka Yanagida		All
FRA Érik Comas	1–4, 6
JPN Seiji Ara	5–9
Toyota Team Tsuchiya	Toyota Supra GT500	Toyota 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8	25	JPN Takeshi Tsuchiya		All
JPN Manabu Orido	All
JPN Hideki Noda	6
Nakajima Racing	Honda NSX GT500	Honda C32B 3.5 L V6	32	FRA Loïc Duval		All
JPN Hideki Mutoh	All
Toyota Team Kraft	Lexus SC430 GT500	Lexus 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8	35	JPN Naoki Hattori		All
GBR Peter Dumbreck	All
JPN Eiichi Tajima	6
Toyota Team TOM'S	Lexus SC430 GT500	Lexus 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8	36	JPN Juichi Wakisaka		All
GER André Lotterer	All
GER Adrian Sutil	6
Stile Corse	Maserati MC12 GT1	Maserati M144B/2 6.0 L V12	51	DEN Jan Magnussen		None
JPN Seiji Ara	None
Toyota Team SARD	Toyota Supra GT500	Toyota 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8	66	POR André Couto		All
JPN Katsuyuki Hiranaka	All
FRA Soheil Ayari	6
Team Kunimitsu	Honda NSX GT500	Honda C32B 3.5 L V6	100	JPN Shinya Hosokawa		All
FRA Sébastien Philippe	All

GT300

Team	Make	Car	Engine	No.	Drivers	Tyre
Cars Tokai Dream28	Mooncraft Shiden	Toyota 1UZ-FE 4.2 L V8	2	JPN Kazuho Takahashi		All
JPN Hiroki Katoh	All
JPN Hiroki Yoshimoto	6
Team Mach	Vemac RD320R	Honda C32B 3.4 L V6	5	JPN Tetsuji Tamanaka		All
JPN Katsuhiko Tsutsui	All
JPN Akira Watanabe	6
RE Amemiya Racing	Mazda RX-7	Mazda RE20B 2.0 L 3-rotor	7	JPN Hiroyuki Iiri		1, 3–9
JPN Tetsuya Yamano	1, 3–9
JPN Shinichi Yamaji	6
A&S Racing	Mosler MT900R	Chevrolet LS1 6.0 L V8	9	JPN Osamu Nakajima		1–3, 5–9
JPN Takaya Tsubobayashi	1
JPN Masaki Tanaka	2–3, 5–9
JIM Gainer	Ferrari 360	Ferrari F131B 3.6 L V8	10	JPN Hiromi Kozono		1–7, 9
JPN Naofumi Omoto	1–7, 9
JPN Eiji Yamada	6
11	JPN Tetsuya Tanaka	All
JPN Takayuki Aoki	All
Endless Sports	Nissan Fairlady Z	Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6	13	JPN Tomonobu Fujii		All
JPN Masami Kageyama	All
Porsche 996 GT3-R	Porsche M96/73 3.6 L F6	14	JPN Mitsuhiro Kinoshita		All
JPN Kyosuke Mineo	All
JPN Jukuchou Sunako	6
Racing Project Bandoh	Toyota Celica	Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4	19	JPN Koji Matsuda		All
JPN Shigekazu Wakisaka	All
Team Taisan with Nishizawa	Porsche 996 GT3-RS	Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6	26	JPN Kazuyuki Nishizawa		2–3, 9
JPN Shinichi Yamaji	2–3, 9
Direxiv Motorsport	Vemac RD320R	Honda C32B 3.4 L V6	27	JPN Shogo Mitsuyama		1–6
JPN Nobuteru Taniguchi	1–6
MOLA	Nissan Fairlady Z	Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6	46	JPN Kota Sasaki		All
JPN Taku Bamba	All
47	JPN Hironobu Yasuda	All
JPN Masaoki Nagashima	All
Toyota Team Cerumo	Toyota Celica	Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4	52	JPN Hironori Takeuchi		1–3, 5–9
JPN Koki Saga	1–3, 5–9
JPN Keita Sawa	6
DHG Racing	Ford GT	DHG D35806V 3.5 L V8	55	JPN Daisuke Ikeda		All
JPN Hidetoshi Mitsusada	All
JPN Hiroaki Ishiura	6
R&D Sport	Vemac RD320R	Honda C32B 3.4 L V6	61	JPN Shogo Mitsuyama		7–9
JPN Nobuteru Taniguchi	7–9
Vemac RD408R	Mugen MF458S 4.5 L V8	62	JPN Shinsuke Shibahara	All
JPN Hiroyuki Yagi	1–4
JPN Haruki Kurosawa	5–9
Team Gaikokuya	Porsche 996 GT3-RS	Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6	70	JPN Yoshimi Ishibashi		1–4, 6
JPN Akira Hirakawa	1–4
JPN Yutaka Yamagishi	6–7
JPN Isao Ihashi	6
Cusco Racing	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Subaru EJ20 2.0 L Turbo F4	77	JPN Katsuo Kobayashi		5, 7–9
JPN Tatsuya Tanigawa	5
JPN Yasushi Kikuchi	7–9
JLOC	Lamborghini Murciélago RG-1	Lamborghini L535 6.0 L V12	87	JPN Koji Yamanishi		1–3, 5–9
JPN Hisashi Wada	1–3, 5–9
JPN Atsushi Yogo	6
88	ITA Marco Apicella	1–3, 5–9
JPN Yasutaka Hinoi	1–3, 5–9
JPN Naohiro Furuya	6
Ebbro Team Nova	Vemac RD350R	Zytek ZV348 4.0 L V8	96	JPN Takuya Kurosawa		All
JPN Tsubasa Kurosawa	All
apr	Toyota MR-S	Toyota 2GR-FE 3.5 L V6	101	JPN Morio Nitta		All
JPN Shinichi Takagi	All
777	JPN Minoru Tanaka	All
JPN Kazuya Oshima	All
JPN Keiichi Kobayashi	6
Arktech Motorsports	Porsche 986 Boxster	Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6	110	JPN Hideshi Matsuda		All
JPN Ichijo Suga	All
JPN Takaya Tsubobayashi	6
Team LeyJun	Porsche 996 GT3 Cup	Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6	111	JPN Hiroya Iijima		1, 3, 6–7
JPN Masaki Jyonai	1, 3, 6–7
JPN Takeshi Namekawa	6
Team Bomex Dream28	Honda NSX	Honda C32B 3.4 L V6	666	JPN Shogo Suho		1–7, 9
JPN Junichiro Yamashita	1, 3–7, 9
JPN Yasuhiro Takasaki	2
910 Racing With Team Ishimatsu	Porsche 996 GT3 RSR	Porsche M96/73 3.6 L F6	910	JPN Tadao Uematsu		1–4, 6–7, 9
JPN Yasushi Kikuchi	1–4, 6
JPN Ryohei Sakaguchi	6, 9
JPN Shinichi Yamaji	7

Vehicle changes

GT500

Toyota introduced the Lexus SC 430 as their new GT500 vehicle, replacing the fourth-generation Toyota Supra. This coincided with the introduction of the Lexus nameplate for the Japanese market in July 2005. Four teams (TOM'S, Cerumo, LeMans, and Kraft) would run the new SC430, while SARD and Tsuchiya Engineering continued to use the Supra.
Team Goh planned to enter the series with a Maserati MC12 GT1 driven by Seiji Ara and Jan Magnussen. Competing as Stile Corse, they participated in the pre-season test at Suzuka on 3–4 March, but after lacklustre results, the team scrapped their plans to race in GT500.

GT300

Mooncraft Engineering and Cars Tokai Dream28 introduced the Shiden MC/RT-16, a prototype racing car based upon the Riley Mk.XI Daytona Prototype powered by a Toyota 1UZ-FE V8 engine.
DHG Racing debuted in the series with a new racing version of the Ford GT supercar. The car was powered by the 3.5 litre DHG D35806V V8 engine, which was derived from the Mugen MF308 engine previously used in the Formula Nippon championship.

Team changes

GT500

Kondo Racing, owned by Japanese musician and former racing driver Masahiko Kondo, entered Super GT for the first time as a Nissan factory team.
Toyota teams TOM'S and Kraft scaled back to single-car teams after running two cars each in 2005.
Hitotsuyama Racing and their privately entered Ferrari 550 GTS and McLaren F1 GTR withdrew from the series.

GT300

M-TEC (Mugen) closed their GT300 team to focus on their ongoing technical alliance with Team Kunimitsu in GT500.
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri (ARTA) closed their GT300 team. apr, who operated ARTA's GT300 programme, signed ARTA drivers Morio Nitta and Shinichi Takagi to drive their number 101 Toyota MR-S sponsored by Toy Story Racing (through Run'A Entertainment).

Driver changes

GT500

Tsugio Matsuda transferred from Honda to Nissan, where he joined two-time GT500 champion Satoshi Motoyama in the number 23 NISMO entry. Likewise, Sakon Yamamoto transferred from Toyota to Nissan to partner another two-time GT500 champion, Michael Krumm, in the NISMO number 22 car.
Masataka Yanagida and two-time GT500 champion Érik Comas joined the new Kondo Racing team. Yanagida transferred from NISMO, and Comas transferred from Hasemi Motorsport.
Naoki Yokomizo transferred from Toyota to Nissan and joined Hasemi Motorsport, who also signed reigning All-Japan Formula 3 champion João Paulo de Oliveira for his Super GT series debut.
Kazuki Hoshino, son of Impul co-founder Kazuyoshi Hoshino, stepped up to GT500 to join Team Impul. Hoshino replaced Yuji Ide, who signed with Super Aguri F1 Team.
Nakajima Racing and Honda signed two recent Formula 3 graduates to drive for them in 2006: Formula 3 Euroseries graduate Loïc Duval, and All-Japan F3 race winner Hideki Mutoh.
2005 GT300 championship runner-up Shinya Hosokawa was promoted to GT500 with Team Kunimitsu, partnering Sébastien Philippe.
André Lotterer transferred from Honda to Toyota, and joined Toyota Team TOM'S in the number 36 car. His new teammate was 2002 champion Juichi Wakisaka, who transferred from Toyota Team LeMans.
In exchange for Wakisaka, Tatsuya Kataoka transferred from the defunct number 37 TOM'S team to join Toyota Team LeMans, alongside 2002 co-champion Akira Iida.
Takeshi Tsuchiya joined his father's team, Toyota Team Tsuchiya, after transferring from TOM'S.
Katsuyuki Hiranaka was promoted to GT500 with Toyota Team SARD, joining André Couto.

Schedule

Round	Race	Circuit	Date
1	Japan Suzuka GT 300 km	Suzuka Circuit	March 19
2	Japan Okayama GT 300 km Race	Okayama International Circuit	April 9
3	Japan Fuji GT 500 km Race	Fuji International Speedway	May 4
4	Malaysia Japan GT Championship Malaysia	Sepang International Circuit	June 25
5	Japan SUGO GT 300 km Race	Sportsland Sugo	July 23
6	Japan International POKKA 1000km	Suzuka Circuit	August 20
7	Japan Motegi GT 300 km Race	Twin Ring Motegi	September 10
8	Japan Super GT in Kyushu GT 300 km	Autopolis International Race Course	October 15
9	Japan Fuji GT 300 km Race	Fuji International Speedway	November 5

Results

Round	Circuit	Date	Class	Pole position	Fastest lap	Race winner
1	Suzuka Circuit	19 March	GT500	No. 8 Team Honda Racing	No. 12 Team Impul	No. 36 Toyota Team TOM'S
Japan Daisuke Ito
IRL Ralph Firman	FRA Benoît Tréluyer
Japan Kazuki Hoshino	Japan Juichi Wakisaka
GER André Lotterer
GT300	No. 46 MOLA	No. 87 JLOC	No. 88 JLOC
Japan Kota Sasaki
Japan Taku Bamba	JPN Koji Yamanishi
Japan Hisashi Wada	Italy Marco Apicella
Japan Yasutaka Hinoi
2	Okayama International Circuit	9 April	GT500	No. 18 Team Honda Racing	No. 18 Team Honda Racing	No. 18 Team Honda Racing
Japan Ryō Michigami
Japan Takashi Kogure	Japan Ryō Michigami
Japan Takashi Kogure	Japan Ryō Michigami
Japan Takashi Kogure
GT300	No. 46 MOLA	No. 27 direxiv motorsport	No. 27 direxiv motorsport
Japan Kota Sasaki
Japan Taku Bamba	Japan Shogo Mitsuyama
Japan Nobuteru Taniguchi	Japan Shogo Mitsuyama
Japan Nobuteru Taniguchi
3	Fuji Speedway	4 May	GT500	No. 1 Toyota Team Cerumo	No. 1 Toyota Team Cerumo	No. 35 Toyota Team Kraft
Japan Yuji Tachikawa
JPN Toranosuke Takagi	Japan Yuji Tachikawa
JPN Toranosuke Takagi	Japan Naoki Hattori
United Kingdom Peter Dumbreck
GT300	No. 2 Cars Tokai Dream28	No. 13 Endless Sports	No. 62 Willcom R & D Sport
Japan Kazuho Takahashi
Japan Hiroki Katoh	Japan Masami Kageyama
JPN Tomonobu Fujii	Japan Shinsuke Shibahara
Japan Hiroyuki Yagi
4	Sepang Circuit	25 June	GT500	No. 8 Team Honda Racing	No. 8 Team Honda Racing	No. 8 Team Honda Racing
Japan Daisuke Ito
Ireland Ralph Firman	Japan Daisuke Ito
Ireland Ralph Firman	Japan Daisuke Ito
Ireland Ralph Firman
GT300	No. 2 Cars Tokai Dream28	No. 7 RE Amemiya Racing	No. 7 RE Amemiya Racing
Japan Kazuho Takahashi
Japan Hiroki Katoh	Japan Tetsuya Yamano
Japan Hiroyuki Iiri	Japan Tetsuya Yamano
Japan Hiroyuki Iiri
5	Sportsland SUGO	23 July	GT500	No. 1 Toyota Team Cerumo	No. 18 Team Honda Racing	No. 1 Toyota Team Cerumo
Japan Yuji Tachikawa
JPN Toranosuke Takagi	Japan Ryō Michigami
Japan Takashi Kogure	Japan Yuji Tachikawa
JPN Toranosuke Takagi
GT300	No. 88 JLOC	No. 11 JIM GAINER	No. 46 MOLA
Italy Marco Apicella
Japan Yasutaka Hinoi	Japan Tetsuya Tanaka
Japan Takayuki Aoki	Japan Kota Sasaki
Japan Taku Bamba
6	Suzuka Circuit
*[Report](2006-international-pokka-1000km)*	20 August	GT500	No. 12 Team Impul	No. 12 Team Impul	No. 12 Team Impul
France Benoît Tréluyer
Japan Kazuki Hoshino
France Jérémie Dufour	France Benoît Tréluyer
Japan Kazuki Hoshino
France Jérémie Dufour	France Benoît Tréluyer
Japan Kazuki Hoshino
France Jérémie Dufour
GT300	No. 52 Toyota Team Cerumo	No. 19 Racing Project Bandoh	No. 52 Toyota Team Cerumo
Japan Hironori Takeuchi
Japan Koki Saga
Japan Keita Sawa	Japan Koji Matsuda
Japan Shigekazu Wakisaka	Japan Hironori Takeuchi
Japan Koki Saga
Japan Keita Sawa
7	Twin Ring Motegi	10 September	GT500	No. 100 Team Kunimitsu	No. 100 Team Kunimitsu	No. 100 Team Kunimitsu
France Sébastien Philippe
Japan Shinya Hosokawa	France Sébastien Philippe
Japan Shinya Hosokawa	France Sébastien Philippe
Japan Shinya Hosokawa
GT300	No. 62 Willcom R & D Sport	No. 62 Willcom R & D Sport	No. 11 JIM GAINER
Japan Shinsuke Shibahara
Japan Haruki Kurosawa	Japan Shinsuke Shibahara
Japan Haruki Kurosawa	Japan Tetsuya Tanaka
Japan Takayuki Aoki
8	Autopolis	15 October	GT500	No. 18 Team Honda Racing	No. 23 NISMO	No. 23 NISMO
Japan Ryō Michigami
Japan Takashi Kogure	Japan Satoshi Motoyama
Japan Tsugio Matsuda	Japan Satoshi Motoyama
Japan Tsugio Matsuda
GT300	No. 2 Cars Tokai Dream28	No. 2 Cars Tokai Dream28	No. 2 Cars Tokai Dream28
Japan Kazuho Takahashi
Japan Hiroki Katoh	Japan Kazuho Takahashi
Japan Hiroki Katoh	Japan Kazuho Takahashi
Japan Hiroki Katoh
9	Fuji Speedway	5 November	GT500	No. 32 Nakajima Racing	No. 32 Nakajima Racing	No. 32 Nakajima Racing
France Loïc Duval
Japan Hideki Mutoh	France Loïc Duval
Japan Hideki Mutoh	France Loïc Duval
Japan Hideki Mutoh
GT300	No. 777 Ryozanpaku with apr	No. 777 Ryozanpaku with apr	No. 101 apr
Japan Minoru Tanaka
Japan Kazuya Oshima	Japan Minoru Tanaka
Japan Kazuya Oshima	Japan Morio Nitta
Japan Shinichi Takagi

Standings

GT500 Drivers

;Scoring system:

Position		1st		2nd		3rd		4th		5th		6th		7th		8th		9th		10th		11th		12th		13th		14th		15th	Points		20		15		11		8		6		5		4		3		2		1											Suzuka 1000		25		20		16		13		11		10		9		8		7		6		5		4		3		2		1	Qualifying		4		3		2																									Fastest lap		3		2		1

Only the best five results in the first six races would be counted for the championship.
There were no points awarded for pole position and fastest lap in the final race.

Rank	Driver	No.	SUZ
JPN	OKA
JPN	FUJ
JPN	SEP
MYS	SUG
JPN	SUZ
JPN	MOT
JPN	AUT
JPN	FUJ
JPN	Pts.	1	80	2	79	3	76	4	75	5	71	6	69	7	68	8	67	9	64	10	62	11	51	12	41	13	34	14	32	15	32	16	28	17	20	18	18	19	18	20	16	21	15	22	13	23	13	24	9	25	8	26	6	27	5	28	5	-	0	-	0	Rank	Driver	No.	SUZ
JPN	OKA
JPN	FUJ
JPN	SEP
MYS	SUG
JPN	SUZ
JPN	MOT
JPN	AUT
JPN	FUJ
JPN	Pts.
GER André Lotterer
JPN Juichi Wakisaka	36	1	8	3	15	4	10	2	7	4
JPN Shinya Hosokawa
FRA Sébastien Philippe	100	7	2	Ret	4	11	9	*1*	3	13
JPN Takashi Kogure
JPN Ryō Michigami	18	4	*1*	Ret	6	Ret	Ret	5	2	7
GER Michael Krumm	22	12	3	9	2	3	2	10	6	6
JPN Yuji Tachikawa
JPN Toranosuke Takagi	1	5	5	*Ret*	12	1	7	3	5	Ret
JPN Tsugio Matsuda
JPN Satoshi Motoyama	23	2	Ret	4	5	2	DSQ	14	1	11
IRL Ralph Firman
JPN Daisuke Ito	8	3	7	8	*1*	8	6	15	11	14
JPN Kazuki Hoshino
FRA Benoît Tréluyer	12	13	6	5	3	6	*1*	13	4	12
JPN Naoki Hattori
GBR Peter Dumbreck	35	14	12	1	11	7	3	7	9	2
GBR Richard Lyons	22				2	3	2	10	6	6
FRA Loïc Duval
JPN Hideki Mutoh	32	15	Ret	7	9	5	4	8	12	1
JPN Akira Iida
JPN Tatsuya Kataoka	6	6	11	2	14	9	Ret	4	13	5
JPN Masataka Yanagida	24	10	10	10	8	10	5	6	14	3
FRA Jérémie Dufour	12						*1*
BRA João Paulo de Oliveira
JPN Naoki Yokomizo	3	9	4	12	7	13	8	11	8	8
JPN Seiji Ara	24					10	5	6	14	3
BRA Fabio Carbone	22						2
FRA Érik Comas	24	10	10	10	8		5
JPN Manabu Orido
JPN Takeshi Tsuchiya	25	8	9	6	10	12	Ret	12	15	9
JPN Eiichi Tajima	35						3
JPN Sakon Yamamoto	22	12	3	9
JPN Toshihiro Kaneishi	8						6
POR André Couto
JPN Katsuyuki Hiranaka	66	11	13	11	13	Ret	11	9	10	10
ITA Ronnie Quintarelli	1						7
GBR Darren Manning	3						8
GER Adrian Sutil	36						10
FRA Soheil Ayari	66						11
JPN Hideki Noda	25						Ret
SWE Björn Wirdheim	6						Ret
JPN Yuji Ide	23						DSQ

Teams' standings

Source:

Rank	Team	No.	SUZ
JPN	OKA
JPN	FUJ
JPN	SEP
MYS	SUG
JPN	SUZ
JPN	MOT
JPN	AUT
JPN	FUJ
JPN	Pts.	1	75	2	70	3	65	4	64	5	61	6	60	7	58	8	58	9	48	10	48	11	36	12	33	13	28	14	13	15	9	Rank	Team	No.	SUZ
JPN	OKA
JPN	FUJ
JPN	SEP
MYS	SUG
JPN	SUZ
JPN	MOT
JPN	AUT
JPN	FUJ
JPN	Pts.
Toyota Team TOM'S	36	1	8	3	15	4	10	2	7	4
Nismo	22	12	3	9	2	3	2	10	6	6
Team Kunimitsu	100	7	2	Ret	4	11	9	*1*	3	13
Nismo	23	2	Ret	4	5	2	DSQ	14	1	11
Toyota Team Kraft	35	14	12	1	11	7	3	7	9	2
Team Impul	12	13	6	5	3	6	*1*	13	4	12
Toyota Team Cerumo	1	5	5	*Ret*	12	1	7	3	5	Ret
Team Honda Racing	18	4	*1*	Ret	6	Ret	Ret	5	2	7
Team Honda Racing	8	3	7	8	*1*	8	6	15	11	14
Nakajima Racing	32	15	Ret	7	9	5	4	8	12	1
Mobil 1 Toyota Team LeMans	6	6	11	2	14	9	Ret	4	13	5
Kondo Racing	24	10	10	10	8	10	5	6	14	3
Hasemi Motorsport	3	9	4	12	7	13	8	11	8	8
Toyota Team Tsuchiya	25	8	9	6	10	12	Ret	12	15	9
Toyota Team SARD	66	11	13	11	13	Ret	11	9	10	10

GT300 Drivers' championship

Rank	Driver	No.	SUZ
JPN	OKA
JPN	FUJ
JPN	SEP
MALAYSIA	SUG
JPN	SUZ
JPN	MOT
JPN	AUT
JPN	FUJ
JPN	Pts.	1	86	2	86	3	75	4	62	5	60	6	57	7	56	8	51	9	49	10	44	11	40	12	33	13	31	14	31	15	28	16	25	17	24	18	23	19	20	20	20	21	18	22	12	23	11	24	10	25	10	26	7	27	6	28	6	29	5	30	5	31	5	32	4	33	4	34	3	35	3	36	2	37	1	38	1	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	-	0	Rank	Driver	No.	SUZ
JPN	OKA
JPN	FUJ
JPN	SEP
MALAYSIA	SUG
JPN	SUZ
JPN	MOT
JPN	AUT
JPN	FUJ
JPN	Pts.
JPN Hiroyuki Iiri
JPN Tetsuya Yamano	7	2		11	1	9	4	4	2	6
JPN Kazuho Takahashi
JPN Hiroki Katoh	2	6	11	4	4	3	5	21	*1*	12
JPN Shogo Mitsuyama
JPN Nobuteru Taniguchi	27/61	7	1	18	2	4	2	6	20	13
JPN Masami Kageyama
JPN Tomonobu Fujii	13	16	4	13	18	2	16	2	11	3
JPN Morio Nitta
JPN Shinichi Takagi	101	Ret	9	2	Ret	5	3	10	Ret	1
JPN Shinsuke Shibahara	62	18	7	1	13	Ret	7	*3*	6	14
JPN Kota Sasaki
JPN Taku Bamba	46	12	*5*	6	12	1	8	24	16	7
JPN Takayuki Aoki
JPN Tetsuya Tanaka	11	Ret	2	19	17	16	9	1	19	16
JPN Hideshi Matsuda
JPN Ichijo Suga	110	3	3	8	9	6	10	17	4	Ret
JPN Koji Matsuda
JPN Shigekazu Wakisaka	19	4	10	17	3	18	19	16	12	2
ITA Marco Apicella
JPN Yasutaka Hinoi	88	1	6	Ret		15	Ret	Ret	8	5
JPN Haruki Kurosawa	62					Ret	7	*3*	6	14
JPN Koki Saga
JPN Hironori Takeuchi	52	11	12	12		11	1	Ret	13	21
JPN Keita Sawa	52						1
JPN Minoru Tanaka
JPN Kazuya Oshima	777	Ret	15	9	7	7	14	9	5	*4*
JPN Daisuke Ikeda
JPN Hidetoshi Mitsusada	55		DNQ	10	5	Ret	Ret	5	3	15
JPN Hiroyuki Yagi	62	18	7	1	13
JPN Shinichi Yamaji	26/7/910		8	7			4	14		8
JPN Koji Yamanishi
JPN Hisashi Wada	87	5	Ret	5		12	17	13	18	9
JPN Hironobu Yasuda
JPN Masaoki Nagashima	47	10	18	14	10	8	6	8	10	19
JPN Mitsuhiro Kinoshita
JPN Kyosuke Mineo	14	9	22	3	6	Ret	Ret	11	14	20
JPN Takuya Kurosawa
JPN Tsubasa Kurosawa	96	8	21	15	DNS	10	Ret	12	15	10
JPN Hiroki Yoshimoto	2						5
JPN Kazuyuki Nishizawa	26		8	7						8
JPN Yasushi Kikuchi	910/77	15	19	Ret	11		12	7	9	11
JPN Tetsuji Tamanaka
JPN Katsuhiko Tsutsui	5	14	13	Ret	8	17	18	18	7	17
JPN Katsuo Kobayashi	77					Ret		7	9	11
JPN Takaya Tsubobayashi	9/110	13					10			Ret
JPN Yoshimi Ishibashi	70	17	17	20	16		11	20		24
JPN Yutaka Yamagishi	70						11	20
JPN Isao Ihashi	70						11
JPN Tadao Uematsu	910	15	19	Ret	11		12	14		18
JPN Ryohei Sakaguchi	910						12
JPN Osamu Nakajima	9	13	20	Ret		13	13	22	17	Ret
JPN Masaki Tanaka	9		20	Ret		13	13	22	17
JPN Keiichi Kobayashi	777						14
JPN Hiroya Iijima
JPN Masaki Jyonai	111	Ret		16			15	23		25
JPN Takeshi Namekawa	111						15
JPN Shogo Suho	666	Ret	14	21	15	14		15		23
JPN Junichiro Yamashita	666	Ret		21	15	14		15		23
JPN Hiromi Kozono
JPN Naofumi Omoto	10	19	16	Ret	14	Ret	Ret	19		22
JPN Yasuhiro Takasaki	666		14
JPN Akira Hirakawa	70	17	17	20	16
JPN Atsushi Yogo	87						17
JPN Akira Watanabe	5						18
JPN Kazuyoshi Takamizawa	70									24
JPN Tatsuya Tanigawa	77					Ret
JPN Jukuchou Sunako	14						Ret
JPN Naohiro Furuya	88						Ret
JPN Hiroaki Ishiura	55						Ret
JPN Eiji Yamada	10						Ret

GT300 Teams' standings

Rank	Team	No.	SUZ
JPN	OKA
JPN	FUJ
JPN	SEP
MALAYSIA	SUG
JPN	SUZ
JPN	MOT
JPN	AUT
JPN	FUJ
JPN	Pts.	1	78	2	67	3	63	4	60	5	49	6	49	7	44	8	43	9	42	10	35	11	34	12	28	13	25	14	24	15	19	16	18	17	14	18	10	19	7	20	6	21	5	22	5	23	5	24	4	25	3	26	1	-	0	-	0	Rank	Team	No.	SUZ
JPN	OKA
JPN	FUJ
JPN	SEP
MALAYSIA	SUG
JPN	SUZ
JPN	MOT
JPN	AUT
JPN	FUJ
JPN	Pts.
RE Amemiya Racing	7	2		11	1	9	4	4	2	6
Direxiv Motorsport	27	7	1	18	2	4	2
Cars Tokai Dream28	2	6	11	4	4	3	5	21	*1*	12
apr	101	Ret	9	2	Ret	5	3	10	Ret	1
WILLCOM R&D Sport	62	18	7	1	13	Ret	7	*3*	6	14
Endless Sports	13	16	4	13	18	2	16	2	11	3
Arktech Motorsports	110	3	3	8	9	6	10	17	4	Ret
MOLA	46	12	*5*	6	12	1	8	24	16	7
JIM Gainer Racing	11	Ret	2	19	17	16	9	1	19	16
Racing Project Bandoh	19	4	10	17	3	18	19	16	12	2
JLOC	88	1	6	Ret		15	Ret	Ret	8	5
Liangshan Po with apr	777	Ret	15	9	7	7	14	9	5	*4*
Toyota Team Cerumo	52	11	12	12		11	1	Ret	13	21
DHG Racing	55		DNQ	10	5	Ret	Ret	5	3	15
MOLA	47	10	18	14	10	8	6	8	10	19
Endless Sports	14	9	22	3	6	Ret	Ret	11	14	20
JLOC	87	5	Ret	5		12	17	13	18	9
Team Taisan with Nishizawa	26		8	7						8
Team Mach	5	14	13	Ret	8	17	18	18	7	17
Cusco Racing	77					Ret		7	9	11
Team Gaikokuya	70	17	17	20	16		11	20		24
R&D Sport	62							6	20	13
Ebbro Team Nova	96	8	21	15	DNS	10	Ret	12	15	10
910 Racing	910	15	19	Ret	11		12	14		18
A&S Racing	9	13	20	Ret		13	13	22	17	Ret
Team LeyJun	111	Ret		16			15	23		25
Team Bomex Dream28	666	Ret	14	21	15	14		15		23
JIM Gainer Racing	10	19	16	Ret	14	Ret	Ret	19		22

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