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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 350Z 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
GT300
Team
Make
Car
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
Season Winners
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.
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
GT300 Class (Top 3)
Drivers
Teams
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