2008 Super GT Series

2008 Super GT Series

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The 2008 Autobacs Super GT Series was the sixteenth season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship including the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era and the fourth season as the Super GT series. It marked as well as the twenty-sixth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. It is a series for Grand Touring race cars divided into two categories: GT500 and GT300. This was the first season for the new R35 GT-R, replacing the Z which had been used for all GT500 Nissan teams from 2004-2007. The season began on March 15 and ended on November 9, 2008 after 9 races.

2008 Xanavi Nismo GT-R (R35).

Drivers and teams

GT500

Team	Make	Car	No.	Drivers	Tyre	Rounds
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	Honda	Honda NSX	1	Ralph Firman	B	All
				Takuya Izawa		All
Hasemi Motorsport	Nissan	Nissan GT-R	3	Ronnie Quintarelli	B	All
				Naoki Yokomizo		All
ENEOS Toyota Team LeMans	Lexus	Lexus SC430	6	Daisuke Ito	B	1–4, 9
				Björn Wirdheim		All
				Akira Iida		5–8
				Roberto Streit		6
Team Impul	Nissan	Nissan GT-R	12	Tsugio Matsuda	B	1–4, 6–9
				Sébastien Philippe		All
				Dominik Schwager		5
Real Racing with Leon	Honda	Honda NSX	17	Katsutomo Kaneishi	B	All
				Toshihiro Kaneishi		All
				Koudai Tsukakoshi		6
Dome Racing Team	Honda	Honda NSX	18	Ryo Michigami	B	All
				Takashi Kogure		All
Nismo	Nissan	Nissan GT-R	22	Michael Krumm	B	All
				Masataka Yanagida		All
				Dominik Schwager		6
			23	Satoshi Motoyama		All
				Benoît Tréluyer		All
				Fabio Carbone		6
Kondo Racing	Nissan	Nissan GT-R	24	João Paulo de Oliveira	Y	All
				Seiji Ara		All
Toyota Team Tsuchiya	Lexus	Lexus SC430	25	Takeshi Tsuchiya	Y	All
				Hiroaki Ishiura		All
Nakajima Racing	Honda	Honda NSX	32	Loïc Duval	D	All
				Katsuyuki Hiranaka		All
Houzan Toyota Team Kraft	Lexus	Lexus SC430	35	Peter Dumbreck	B	All
				Tatsuya Kataoka		All
				Shigekazu Wakisaka		6
Petronas Toyota Team TOM'S	Lexus	Lexus SC430	36	Juichi Wakisaka	B	All
				André Lotterer		All
				Carlo van Dam		6
ZENT Toyota Team Cerumo	Lexus	Lexus SC430	38	Yuji Tachikawa	B	All
				Richard Lyons		All
Toyota Team SARD	Lexus	Lexus SC430	39	Toranosuke Takagi	D	All
				André Couto		All
				Koki Saga		6
Team Kunimitsu	Honda	Honda NSX	100	Yuji Ide	B	All
				Shinya Hosokawa		All
				Kosuke Matsuura		6

GT300

Team	Make	Car	No.	Drivers	Tyre	Rounds
Cars Tokai Dream28	Mooncraft	Mooncraft Shiden-Toyota	2	Kazuho Takahashi	Y	All
				Hiroki Katoh		All
				Hiroki Yoshimoto		6
Team Uematsu Nova	Vemac	Vemac RD320R-Zytek ZV348	4	Ryohei Sakaguchi	Y	All
				Masaki Matsushita		All
				Tadao Uematsu		6
		Vemac RD350R-Zytek ZV348	16	Tadao Uematsu		1, 3, 9
				Katsuhiko Tsutsui		1, 3, 9
Team Mach	Vemac	Vemac RD320R-HPD C32B	5	Tetsuji Tamanaka	Y	All
				Naoya Yamano		1–7, 9
				Katsuhiko Tsutsui		6, 8
RE Amemiya Racing	Mazda	Mazda RX-7	7	Hiroyuki Iiri	Y	All
				Ryo Orime		All
				Hiroyuki Matsumura		6
A&S Racing	Chevrolet	Chevrolet Corvette C6	9	Tatsuya Tanigawa	K	3, 6, 8
				Hirofumi Takei		3, 6, 8
				Takayuki Matsumoto		6
Jim Gainer Racing	Ferrari	Ferrari F430	11	Tetsuya Tanaka	Y	All
				Masayuki Ueda		All
Racing Project Bandoh	Toyota	Toyota Celica	19	Manabu Orido	Y	1–3
				Tsubasa Abe		1–3
	Lexus	Lexus IS350		Manabu Orido		4–9
				Tsubasa Abe		4–9
				Yuhi Sekiguchi		6
Team Taisan with Nishizawa	Porsche	Porsche 996 GT3-RS	26	Nobuteru Taniguchi	Y	All
				Shinichi Yamaji		1–8
				Keita Sawa		6
				Dominik Farnbacher		9
Team Shadow	Porsche	Porsche 996 GT3-RSR	27	Takashi Inoue	H	1, 3, 6–7, 9
				Hwang Jin Woo		1, 3, 6–7
				Yasuhiro Takasaki		6
				Koji Aoyama		9
apr	Toyota	Toyota MR-S	31	Kyosuke Mineo	M	1–5, 7–9
				Yuya Sakamoto		1–5, 7–9
			95	Kohei Hirate		1–5, 8–9
				Keisuke Kunimoto		All
				Yuya Sakamoto		6
				Kazuya Oshima		6
				Hideki Yamauchi		7
Hankook KTR	Porsche	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	33	Mitsuhiro Kinoshita	H	All
				Masami Kageyama		All
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	ASL	ASL Garaiya	43	Morio Nitta	M	All
				Shinichi Takagi		All
				Kyosuke Mineo		6
MOLA	Nissan	Nissan Fairlady Z	46	Kazuki Hoshino	M	All
				Hironobu Yasuda		All
Team Takeuchi with Shift	Lexus	Lexus IS350	52	Takuya Kurosawa	K	3–9
				Takuto Iguchi		3–9
				Hideki Yamauchi		6
Willcom R&D Sport	Vemac	Vemac RD408R-HPD C32B	62	Shinsuke Shibahara	Y	1, 5–9
				Haruki Kurosawa		All
				Shogo Mitsuyama		2–4, 6
JLOC	Lamborghini	Lamborghini Murcielago RG-1	66	Koji Yamanishi	Y	All
				Atsushi Yogo		All
		Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3	87	Hisashi Wada		All
				Muneyuki Kurihara		All
				Yoshihisa Namekata		6
			88	Hideshi Matsuda		All
				Naohiro Furuya		All
				Yuya Sakamoto		6
Team Gaikokuya	Porsche	Porsche 996 GT3-RS	70	Takehide Maeda	Y	1
				Yutaka Yamagishi		1–7, 9
				Akazame Oyaji		2–3
				Yoshimi Ishibashi		4–7
				Kazuyoshi Takamizawa		6, 9
Cusco Racing	Subaru	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	77	Tetsuya Yamano	D	All
				Kota Sasaki		1–7
				Carlo van Dam		8–9
Team Daishin	Nissan	Nissan Fairlady Z	81	Takayuki Aoki	Y	All
				Tomonobu Fujii		All
Arktech Motorsports	Porsche	Porsche 986 Boxster	110	Hidetoshi Mitsusada	K	All
				Daisuke Ikeda		All
			111	Hiroshi Koizumi		1–6
				Guts Jyonai		1
				Tsubasa Kurosawa		2–6
				Paul Ip		6
Tomei Sports	Porsche	Porsche 996 GT3-RS	118	Takashi Miyamoto	Y	1, 3, 6–9
				Takashi Ohi		1
				Masayuki Kurihara		3, 6–7
				Guts Jyonai		6, 8–9
Avanzza Rosso	Vemac	Vemac RD320R-HPD C32B	666	Shogo Suho	K	1–3, 5–9
				Junichiro Yamashita		1–3, 5–9
				Takamori.com		6
Studie & Glad with Asada Racing	BMW	BMW Z4 M Coupe	808	Yasushi Kikuchi	Y	6–7, 9
				Shozo Tagahara		6–7, 9

Schedule

Round	Race	Circuit	Date
1	Suzuka GT 300 km	Suzuka Circuit	March 16
2	Okayama GT 300 km	Okayama International Circuit	April 13
3	Fuji GT 500 km	Fuji Speedway	May 4
4	Super GT International Series Malaysia	Sepang International Circuit	June 22
5	SUGO GT 300 km	Sportsland SUGO	July 27
6	International POKKA 1000km	Suzuka Circuit	August 24
7	Motegi GT 300 km	Twin Ring Motegi	September 14
8	Autopolis GT 300 km	Autopolis	October 19
9	Fuji GT 300 km	Fuji Speedway	November 9

Season Winners

Rd	Circuit	GT500 Winning Team	GT300 Winning Team
		GT500 Winning Drivers	GT300 Winning Drivers
1	Suzuka	#23 Xanavi Nismo GT-R	#7 ORC Amemiya SGC-7
		Satoshi Motoyama Benoît Tréluyer	Hiroyuki Iiri Ryo Orime
2	Okayama	#23 Xanavi Nismo GT-R	#43 ARTA Garaiya
		Satoshi Motoyama Benoît Tréluyer	Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi
3	Mt. Fuji	#38 ZENT Cerumo SC430	#95 Lightning McQueen apr MR-S
		Yuji Tachikawa Richard Lyons	Kohei Hirate Keisuke Kunimoto
4	Kuala Lumpur	#24 Woodone ADVAN Clarion GT-R	#77 Cusco Dunlop Subaru Impreza
		João Paulo de Oliveira Seiji Ara	Tetsuya Yamano Kouta Sasaki
5	Sportsland SUGO	#18 Takata DOME NSX	#43 ARTA Garaiya
		Ryo Michigami Takashi Kogure	Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi
6	Suzuka Report	#12 Calsonic IMPUL GT-R	#46 MOLA LEOPALACE Z
		Tsugio Matsuda Sebastien Philippe	Kazuki Hoshino Hironobu Yasuda
7	Motegi	#3 Yellow Hat YMS Tomica GT-R	#19 WedsSport IS350
		Ronnie Quintarelli Naoki Yokomizo	Manabu Orido Tsubasa Abe
8	Autopolis	#23 Xanavi Nismo GT-R	#81 Daishin Advan Z
		Satoshi Motoyama Benoît Tréluyer	Takayuki Aoki Tomonobu Fujii
9	Mt. Fuji	#12 Calsonic IMPUL GT-R	#26 Yunker-Power Taisan Porsche 996 GT3
		Tsugio Matsuda Sebastien Philippe	Nobuteru Taniguchi Dominik Farnbacher

Standings

GT500 Drivers

Scoring system

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Points	20	15	11	8	6	5	4	3	2	1
Qualifying	3	2	1
Fastest Lap	1	1	1

• Only the best four 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 SUZ OKA FUJ SEP SUG SUZ MOT AUT FUJ PTS 1 (#23 Xanavi Nismo GT-R) Satoshi Motoyama Benoît Tréluyer 1 1 14 13 14 8 12 1 9 76 2 (#38 ZENT Toyota Team Cerumo SC430) Yuji Tachikawa Richard Lyons 4 7 1 Ret 3 9 9 4 2 72 3 (#36 Petronas Toyota Team TOM'S SC430) Juichi Wakisaka André Lotterer 3 4 2 7 10 3 3 8 7 63 4 (#12 Calsonic Team Impul Nismo GT-R) Sébastien Philippe Ret 2 9 14 12 1 11 10 1 61 5 (#12 Calsonic Team Impul Nismo GT-R) Tsugio Matsuda (Only attempte round 1–4, 6–9) Ret 2 9 14 1 11 10 1 61 6 (#12 Takata Dome Honda NSX) Ryo Michigami Takashi Kogure 7 12 3 3 1 12 8 7 14 60 7 (#22 Motul Nismo GT-R) Michael Krumm Masataka Yanagida 2 15 15 2 13 4 7 5 11 57 8 (#1 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Honda NSX) Ralph Firman Takuya Izawa 14 3 Ret 11 15 13 2 3 12 49 9 (#35 Houzan Toyota Team Kraft Lexus SC430) Peter Dumbreck Tatsuya Kataoka 6 6 5 10 2 10 6 15 6 45 10 (#32 Nakajima Racing Epson Honda NSX) Loïc Duval Katsuyuki Hiranaka 10 5 7 Ret Ret 11 5 2 4 43 11 (#100 Team Kunimitsu Raybrig Honda NSX) Yuji Ide Shinya Hosokawa 13 9 4 5 5 2 16 9 Ret 41 12 (#3 Hasemi Motorsport Yellow Hat YMS Tomica Nismo GT-R) Ronnie Quintarelli Naoki Yokomizo 15 10 15 9 11 5 1 6 13 39 13 (#6 ENEOS Toyota Team LeMans Lexus SC430) Björn Wirdheim 9 13 6 8 7 6 4 14 3 39 14 (#24 Kondo Racing Clarion Nismo GT-R) João Paulo de Oliveira Seiji Ara 5 8 11 1 8 7 14 16 15 34 15 (#25 Toyota Team Tsuchiya Lexus SC430) Takeshi Tsuchiya Hiroaki Ishiura 11 11 8 4 4 14 10 12 8 23 16 (#6 ENEOS Toyota Team LeMans Lexus SC430) Daisuke Ito (Only attempted round 1–4, 9) 9 13 6 8 3 21 17 (#6 ENEOS Toyota Team LeMans Lexus SC430) Akira Iida (only attwmpted round 5–8) 7 6 4 14 20 18 (#100 Team Kunimitsu Raybrig Honda NSX) Kosuke Matsuura (only attwmpted round 6) 2 19 19 (#17 Real Racing with Leon Honda NSX) Katsutomo Kaneishi Toshihiro Kaneishi 8 16 10 6 9 Ret 15 11 Ret 16 20 (#36 Petronas Toyota Team TOM'S SC430) Carlo van Dam (only attempt round 6) 3 11 21 (#39 Toyota Team SARD Lexus SC430) Toranosuke Takagi André Couto 12 14 13 12 6 15 13 13 5 11 22 (#12 Calsonic Team Impul Nismo GT-R) Dominik Schwager (only attempt round 5) 12 4 10 23 (#6 ENEOS Toyota Team LeMans Lexus SC430) Roberto Streit (only attempt round 6) 6 5 24 (#23 Xanavi Nismo GT-R) Fabio Carbone (only attempt round 6) 8 3 25 (#23 Real Racing with Leon Honda NSX) Koudai Tsukakoshi (only attempt round 6) Ret 1 Rank Driver SUZ OKA FUJ SEP SUG SUZ MOT AUT FUJ PTS

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third 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 practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX)

Teams

Rank	Number/Team	Car	Points
1	#36 Petronas Toyota Team TOM's	Petronas TOM's SC430	94
2	#38 ZENT Toyota Team Cerumo	ZENT Cerumo SC430	93
3	#23 Nismo	Xanavi Nismo GT-R	86
4	#12 Team Impul	Calsonic Impul GT-R	78
5	#18 Dome Racing Team	Takata Dome NSX	75

GT300 Class (Top 3)

Drivers

Rank	Drivers	Number/Team	Points	Wins
1	Kazuki Hoshino Hironobu Yasuda	#46 MOLA LEOPALACE Z	78	1
2	Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi	#43 ARTA Garaiya	77	2
3	Nobuteru Taniguchi	#26 Yunker-Power Taisan Porsche	71	1

Teams

Rank	Number/Team	Car	Points
1	#46 MOLA	MOLA Leopalace Z	104
2	#43 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	ARTA Garaiya	89
3	#81 Team Daishin	Daishin ADVAN Z	85

External links

• Super GT official website (in English)