2002 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship

2002 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship

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The 2002 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the tenth season of Japan Automobile Federation GT premiere racing. It was marked as well as the twentieth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The GT500 class champions of 2002 were the #6 ESSO Team LeMans Toyota Supra team driven by Juichi Wakisaka and Akira Iida and the GT300 class champions were the #31 ARTA with A'PEX Toyota MR-S driven by Morio Nitta and Shinichi Takagi.

Drivers and teams

GT500

Team	Make	Car	No.	Drivers	Tyre	Rounds
Toyota Team Cerumo	Toyota	Toyota Supra	1	Yuji Tachikawa	B	All
				Hironori Takeuchi		All
			33	Masahiko Kondo		1, 3–8
				Ukyo Katayama		1, 3
				Hayanari Shimoda		4–8
Esso Toyota Team LeMans	Toyota	Toyota Supra	6	Akira Iida	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	Tetsuya Tanaka	B	All
				Kazuyoshi Hoshino		1–5
				Benoît Tréluyer		6–8
Mugen x Dome Project	Honda	Honda NSX	16	Daisuke Ito	B	All
				Dominik Schwager		1–4
				Ryo Michigami		5–8
			18	Richard Lyons		All
				Sébastien Philippe		All
Nismo	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R	22	Michael Krumm	B	All
				Satoshi Motoyama		All
			23	Érik Comas		All
				Masami Kageyama		All
Tsuchiya Engineering	Toyota	Toyota Supra	25	Shinichi Yamaji	Y	All
				Seiji Ara		1, 3–8
				Geoff Lees		2
Team Take One	McLaren	McLaren F1 GTR	30	Haruki Kurosawa	D	1–3, 5–8
				Hideki Okada		1–3, 5–8
Project Mu Kraft	Toyota	Toyota Supra	35	Masahiko Kageyama	D	All
				Shigekazu Wakisaka		All
Toyota Team TOM'S	Toyota	Toyota Supra	36	Takeshi Tsuchiya	B	All
				Wayne Gardner		All
			37	Takuya Kurosawa		All
				Paolo Montin		1–7
				Hideki Noda		8
Denso Toyota Team SARD	Toyota	Toyota Supra	39	Jérémie Dufour	Y	All
				Manabu Orido		All
Mobil 1 Nakajima Racing	Honda	Honda NSX	64	Tsugio Matsuda	B	All
				Ralph Firman		All
Hitotsuyama Racing	McLaren	McLaren F1 GTR	78	Naoki Hattori	D	All
				Eiichi Tajima		All
HKS	Mercedes-Benz	Mercedes-Benz CLK-Class	87	Yudai Igarashi	M	2–3, 6–8
				Koji Yamanishi		2–3, 6–8
JLOC	Lamborghini	Lamborghini Diablo GT-1	88	Marco Apicella	D	All
				Hisashi Wada		All
Raybrig Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft	Honda	Honda NSX	100	Hidetoshi Mitsusada	B	All
				Hiroki Katoh		1, 3–8
				Toshihiro Kaneishi		2

Schedule

Round	Race	Circuit	Date
1	GT Championship in TI	TI Circuit	April 14
2	All Japan Fuji GT Race	Fuji Speedway	May 4
3	SUGO GT Championship	Sportsland SUGO	May 26
4	Tmtouch Japan GT Championship Malaysia	Sepang Circuit	June 23
5	Japan Special GT Cup	Fuji Speedway	July 28
6	Motegi GT Championship Race	Twin Ring Motegi	September 15
7	CP Mine GT Race	Mine Circuit	October 27
8	Suzuka GT 300 km	Suzuka Circuit	November 17

Season results

Round	Circuit	GT500 Winning Team	GT300 Winning Team
		GT500 Winning Drivers	GT300 Winning Drivers
1	TI Circuit	#64 Mobil 1 Honda NSX	#31 ARTA A'PEX Toyota MR-S
		Tsugio Matsuda Ralph Firman	Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi
2	Mt. Fuji	#1 au Cerumo Toyota Supra	#62 R&D Sport Vemac RD320R
		Yuji Tachikawa Hironori Takeuchi	Shogo Mitsuyama Shinsuke Shibahara
3	Sportsland SUGO	#6 ESSO Team LeMans Toyota Supra	#3 Hasemi Motorsports Nissan Silvia
		Juichi Wakisaka Akira Iida	Masataka Yanagida Tetsuya Yamano
4	Sepang Circuit	#64 Mobil 1 Honda NSX	#7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7
		Tsugio Matsuda Ralph Firman	Haruhiko Matsumoto Nobuteru Taniguchi
5	Mt. Fuji	#1 au Cerumo Toyota Supra	#24 Advan Team Taisan Porsche 996
		Yuji Tachikawa Hironori Takeuchi	Hideo Fukuyama Mitsuhiro Kinoshita
6	Twin Ring Motegi	#18 Takata Dome Honda NSX	#62 R&D Sport Vemac RD320R
		Sebastien Philippe Richard Lyons	Shogo Mitsuyama Shinsuke Shibahara
7	Mine Circuit	#16 Mugen Honda NSX	#62 R&D Sport Vemac RD320R
		Ryo Michigami Daisuke Ito	Shogo Mitsuyama Shinsuke Shibahara
8	Suzuka Circuit	#64 Mobil 1 Honda NSX	#81 Team Daishin Nissan Silvia
		Tsugio Matsuda Ralph Firman	Takayuki Aoki Noboyuki Oyagi

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
Qualifying	1	1	1
Fastest Lap	1	1	1

Rank Driver TAI FUJ SUG SEP FUJ MOT MIN SUZ PTS 1 Akira Iida Juichi Wakisaka 10 2 1 11 7 4 4 3 75 2 Tsugio Matsuda Ralph Firman 1 11 Ret 1 12 14 6 1 74 3 Hironori Takeuchi Yuji Tachikawa 4 1 16 9 1 13 9 6 65 4 Hidetoshi Mitsusada 9 5 2 5 8 2 Ret 4 63 5 Daisuke Ito 5 3 3 10 11 16 1 10 59 6 Hiroki Katoh 9 2 5 8 2 Ret 4 55 7 Takeshi Tsuchiya Wayne Gardner 8 14 10 2 5 6 3 9 52 8 Satoshi Motoyama Michael Krumm 11 7 7 4 2 10 2 Ret 51 9 Richard Lyons Sébastien Philippe 2 15 16 13 6 1 12 14 47 10 Katsutomo Kaneishi Keiichi Tsuchiya 7 4 13 6 9 8 8 2 29 11 Takuya Kurosawa Ret 12 5 3 3 7 Ret 16 38 12 Paolo Montin Ret 12 5 3 3 7 Ret 38 13 Dominik Schwager 5 3 3 10 35 14 Jérémie Dufour Manabu Orido 3 Ret 12 Ret 15 5 7 5 33 15 Shinichi Yamaji 6 13 11 Ret 4 9 5 7 32 16 Seiji Ara 6 11 Ret 4 9 5 7 32 17 Naoki Hattori Eiichi Tajima 13 8 6 8 13 3 Ret Ret 27 18 Ryo Michigami 11 16 1 10 24 19 Érik Comas Masami Kageyama 12 6 4 16 14 17 Ret 8 19 20 Toshihiro Kaneishi 5 8 21 Masahiko Kondo 15 9 7 16 12 11 13 6 22 Hayanari Shimoda 7 16 12 11 13 4 23 Tetsuya Tanaka 14 Ret 8 14 Ret 11 13 17 4 24 Kazuyoshi Hoshino 14 Ret 8 14 Ret 3 25 Masahiko Kageyama Shigekazu Wakisaka 17 10 Ret 12 10 15 10 12 3 26 Haruki Kurosawa Hideki Okada 16 9 14 Ret Ret Ret 11 2 27 Ukyo Katayama 15 9 2 28 Benoît Tréluyer 11 13 17 1 Geoff Lees 13 0 Marco Apicella Hisashi Wada DNQ Ret 15 Ret Ret 18 Ret Ret 0 Hideki Noda 16 0 Yudai Igarashi Koji Yamanishi DNQ DNQ Ret Ret Ret 0 Rank Driver TAI FUJ SUG SEP FUJ MOT MIN SUZ 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)

GT300 Class (Top 5)

Drivers

Rank	Drivers	Number/Team	Points	Wins
1	Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi	#31 ARTA A'PEX Toyota MR-S	75	1
2	Shogo Mitsuyama Shinsuke Shibahara	#62 R&D Sport Vemac RD320R	73	3
3	Masataka Yanagida Tetsuya Yamano	#3 Hasemi Motorsports Nissan Silvia	70	1
4	Hideo Fukuyama Mitsuhiro Kinoshita	#24 Advan Team Taisan Porsche 996	65	1
5	Takayuki Aoki Noboyuki Oyagi	#81 Team Daishin Nissan Silvia	56	1

External links

• Super GT/JGTC official race archive (in Japanese)
• 2002 season results