2001 JGTC season

2001 JGTC season
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The 2001 JGTC season was the 8th season of Japan GT premiere racing. The GT500 champions of 2001 were the #38 au Cerumo Toyota Supra team driven by Yuji Tachikawa and Hironori Takeuchi. In GT300 the class champions were the #81 Advan Team Daishin Nissan Silvia driven by Takayuki Aoki and Noboyuki Oyagi.

Drivers and teams

GT500

Team	Make	Car	No.	Drivers	Tyre	Rounds
Mugen x Dome Project	Honda	Honda NSX	1	Ryo Michigami	B	All
				Hidetoshi Mitsusada		All
			18	Sébastien Philippe		All
				Hiroki Katoh		1–4, NC
				Benoît Tréluyer		5–7
Esso Toyota Team LeMans	Toyota	Toyota Supra	6	Hideki Noda	B	All
				Juichi Wakisaka		All
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	Honda	Honda NSX	8	Katsutomo Kaneishi	B	All
				Keiichi Tsuchiya		All
Calsonic Team Impul	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R	12	Satoshi Motoyama	B	All
				Naoki Hattori		1–3
				Kazuyoshi Hoshino		4–7, NC
Hitotsuyama Racing	McLaren	McLaren F1 GTR	21	Akihiko Nakaya	D	1–3, 5–6
				Mitsuhiro Kinoshita		1
				Yasushi Hitotsuyama		2–4, NC
				Naoki Hattori		4–7, NC
				Mikio Hitotsuyama		7
Nismo	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R	22	Michael Krumm	B	All
				Tetsuya Tanaka		All
			23	Érik Comas		All
				Masami Kageyama		All
Tsuchiya Engineering	Toyota	Toyota Supra	25	Manabu Orido	Y	1–7
				Seiji Ara		1–7
Team Take One	McLaren	McLaren F1 GTR	30	André Couto	B	1–7
				Hideki Okada		1–7
Toyota Team Cerumo	Toyota	Toyota Supra	33	Masahiko Kondo	B	All
				Ukyo Katayama		1–4, 6–7, NC
				Shigekazu Wakisaka		5
			38	Yuji Tachikawa		All
				Hironori Takeuchi		All
Toyota Team TOM'S	Toyota	Toyota Supra	36	Takeshi Tsuchiya	M	All
				Takuya Kurosawa		1–4, 6–7
				Paolo Montin		5
				Wayne Gardner		NC
			37	Wayne Gardner		1–7
				Shinichi Yamaji		1–7
Denso Toyota Team SARD	Toyota	Toyota Supra	39	Jérémie Dufour	Y	1–7
				Masahiko Kageyama		1–2
				Romain Dumas		3–7
Mobil 1 Nakajima Racing	Honda	Honda NSX	64	Tsugio Matsuda	B	All
				Dominik Schwager		All
JLOC	Lamborghini	Lamborghini Diablo GT-1	88	Marco Apicella	D	All
				Naohiro Furuya		All
Raybrig Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft	Honda	Honda NSX	100	Akira Iida	B	All
				Daisuke Ito		All

Schedule

Round	Race	Circuit	Date
1	GT Championship in TI	TI Circuit	April 15
2	All Japan Fuji GT Race	Fuji Speedway	May 4
3	SUGO GT Championship	Sportsland SUGO	May 27
NC	Tmtouch Japan GT Championship Malaysia	Sepang Circuit	June 24
4	Japan Special GT Cup	Fuji Speedway	August 5
5	Motegi GT Championship Race	Twin Ring Motegi	September 16
6	Suzuka GT 300 km	Suzuka Circuit	October 28
7	CP Mine GT Race	Mine Circuit	November 11

Season results

Round	Circuit	GT500 Winning Team	GT300 Winning Team
		GT500 Winning Drivers	GT300 Winning Drivers
1	TI Circuit	#1 Loctite Mugen Honda NSX	#31 ARTA A'PEX Toyota MR-S
		Hidetoshi Mitsusada Ryo Michigami	Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi
2	Mt. Fuji	#6 ESSO Toyota Supra	#81 Advan Team Daishin Nissan Silvia
		Hideki Noda Juichi Wakisaka	Takayuki Aoki Noboyuki Oyagi
3	Sportsland SUGO	#37 ZENT TOM'S Toyota Supra	#7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7
		Shinichi Yamaji Wayne Gardner	Haruhiko Matsumoto Tetsuya Yamano
NC	Sepang Circuit	#6 ESSO Toyota Supra	#3 Hasemi Motorsports Nissan Silvia
		Hideki Noda Juichi Wakisaka	Masataka Yanagida Yuji Ide
4	Mt. Fuji	#22 Xanavi NISMO Nissan Skyline GT-R	#81 Advan Team Daishin Nissan Silvia
		Tetsuya Tanaka Michael Krumm	Takayuki Aoki Noboyuki Oyagi
5	Twin Ring Motegi	#64 Mobil 1 Honda NSX	#19 WedsSport Toyota MR-S
		Tsugio Matsuda Dominik Schwager	Minoru Tanaka Satoshi Goto
6	Suzuka Circuit	#8 ARTA Honda NSX	#86 KRAFT Toyota MR-S
		Keiichi Tsuchiya Katsutomo Kaneishi	Koji Matsuda Masaoki Nagashima
7	Mine Circuit	#30 Team Take One McLaren F1 GTR	#71 Sigma Tech Toyota MR-S
		Andre Couto Hideki Okada	Eiichi Tajima 'Guts' Jyonai

Standings

GT500 Drivers

Scoring system

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Points	20	15	12	10	8	6	4	3	2	1

Rank Driver TAI FUJ SUG FUJ MOT SUZ MIN PTS 1 Hironori Takeuchi Yuji Tachikawa Ret 2 3 4 2 6 16 58 2 Katsutomo Kaneishi Keiichi Tsuchiya 2 6 2 12 11 1 Ret 56 3 Ryo Michigami Hidetoshi Mitsusada 1 8 4 5 12 2 12 56 4 Érik Comas Masami Kageyama 13 4 10 2 Ret 3 2 53 5 Michael Krumm Tetsuya Tanaka 4 3 Ret 1 10 8 6 52 6 Shinichi Yamaji Wayne Gardner 5 9 1 10 8 4 9 46 7 Hideki Noda Juichi Wakisaka Ret 1 5 3 13 Ret 14 40 8 Tsugio Matsuda Dominik Schwager 3 12 14 6 1 Ret Ret 38 9 André Couto Hideki Okada 8 Ret 12 16 6 10 1 30 10 Akira Iida Daisuke Ito 6 5 Ret 9 4 13 8 29 11 Satoshi Motoyama 15 Ret 7 7 3 11 5 28 12 Takeshi Tsuchiya 11 10 8 8 5 5 7 27 13 Kazuyoshi Hoshino 7 3 11 5 24 14 Jérémie Dufour 7 7 9 13 Ret 9 4 22 15 Takuya Kurosawa 11 10 8 8 5 7 19 16 Sébastien Philippe 14 15 6 15 14 12 3 18 17 Romain Dumas 9 13 Ret 9 4 14 18 Benoît Tréluyer 14 12 3 12 19 Manabu Orido Seiji Ara 9 11 11 DNQ 7 7 10 11 20 Paolo Montin 5 8 21 Masahiko Kageyama 7 7 8 22 Hiroki Katoh 14 15 6 15 6 23 Naoki Hattori 15 Ret 7 11 Ret Ret 11 4 24 Masahiko Kondo 12 14 13 14 9 Ret 13 2 Shigekazu Wakisaka 26 Akihiko Nakaya 10 13 Ret Ret Ret 1 Mitsuhiro Kinoshita Rank Driver TAI FUJ SUG FUJ MOT SUZ MIN PTS

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Excluded (EX)

GT300 Class (Top 5)

Drivers

Rank	Drivers	Number/Team	Points	Wins
1	Takayuki Aoki Noboyuki Oyagi	#81 Advan Team Daishin Nissan Silvia	66	2
2	Haruhiko Matsumoto Tetsuya Yamano	#7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7	54	1
3	Hisashi Wada Sunako Jukucho	#910 Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R	54	0
4	Masataka Yanagida Yuji Ide	#3 Hasemi Motorsports Nissan Silvia	53	0
5	Hideshi Matsuda Kazuyuki Nishizawa	#24 Advan Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT3R	49	0

External links

• Super GT/JGTC official race archive (Japanese)