2004 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship

2004 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship
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The 2004 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the 11th season of Japan GT premiere racing and the final season under the name All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship as for 2005 the series was renamed to Super GT. The GT500 champions of 2004 were the #1 Xanavi NISMO Nissan Fairlady Z team driven by Satoshi Motoyama and Richard Lyons and the GT300 class champions were the #16 M-TEC Honda NSX driven by Tetsuya Yamano and Hiroyuki Yagi.

Drivers and teams

GT500

Team	Make	Car	No.	Drivers	Tyre	Rounds
Nismo	Nissan	Nissan Fairlady Z	1	Richard Lyons	B	All
			1	Satoshi Motoyama		All
			22	Masami Kageyama		All
			22	Michael Krumm		All
G'Zox Hasemi Motorsport	Nissan	Nissan Fairlady Z	3	Érik Comas	B	All
G'Zox Hasemi Motorsport	Nissan	Nissan Fairlady Z	3	Toshihiro Kaneishi	B	All
Esso Toyota Team LeMans	Toyota	Toyota Supra	6	Akira Iida	B	1–7
Esso Toyota Team LeMans	Toyota	Toyota Supra	6	Juichi Wakisaka	B	1–7
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	Honda	Honda NSX	8	Katsutomo Kaneishi	B	All
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	Honda	Honda NSX	8	Daisuke Ito	B	All
Calsonic Team Impul	Nissan	Nissan Fairlady Z	12	Yuji Ide	B	All
Calsonic Team Impul	Nissan	Nissan Fairlady Z	12	Benoît Tréluyer	B	All
Amprex Motorsports	Lamborghini	Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT	15	Genji Hashimoto	M	3–4
Amprex Motorsports	Lamborghini	Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT	15	Norman Simon	M	3–4
Takata Dome Racing Team	Honda	Honda NSX	18	Ryo Michigami	B	All
Takata Dome Racing Team	Honda	Honda NSX	18	Sébastien Philippe	B	All
Hitotsuyama Racing	Ferrari	Ferrari 550 Maranello	21	Hidetoshi Mitsusada	D	1–7
Hitotsuyama Racing	Ferrari	Ferrari 550 Maranello	21	Tadao Uematsu	D	1–7
Team Advan Tsuchiya	Toyota	Toyota Supra	25	Manabu Orido	Y	1–7
Team Advan Tsuchiya	Toyota	Toyota Supra	25	Dominik Schwager	Y	1–7
Epson Nakajima Racing	Honda	Honda NSX	32	André Lotterer	D	All
Epson Nakajima Racing	Honda	Honda NSX	32	Tsugio Matsuda	D	All
Yellow Hat Kraft	Toyota	Toyota Supra	35	Naoki Hattori	D	All
Yellow Hat Kraft	Toyota	Toyota Supra	35	Shigekazu Wakisaka	D	All
Toyota Team TOM'S	Toyota	Toyota Supra	36	Marco Apicella	B	1–7
			36	Takeshi Tsuchiya		1–7
			37	James Courtney		All
			37	Tatsuya Kataoka		All
au Toyota Team Cerumo	Toyota	Toyota Supra	38	Seiji Ara	B	1–7
au Toyota Team Cerumo	Toyota	Toyota Supra	38	Yuji Tachikawa	B	1–7
Denso Toyota Team SARD	Toyota	Toyota Supra	39	André Couto	B	1–7
Denso Toyota Team SARD	Toyota	Toyota Supra	39	Jérémie Dufour	B	1–7
R&D Sport	Vemac	Vemac RD408R	62	Shogo Mitsuyama	D	7
R&D Sport	Vemac	Vemac RD408R	62	Shinsuke Shibahara	D	7
JLOC	Lamborghini	Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT	88	Hisashi Wada	Y	2–3, 5–7
		Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT		Koji Yamanishi		2–3, 5–7
		Lamborghini Diablo		Hisashi Wada		4
		Lamborghini Diablo		Koji Yamanishi		4
Raybrig Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft	Honda	Honda NSX	100	Hiroki Katoh	B	All
				Shinji Nakano		All
				Bruce Jouanny		NC

Schedule

Round	Race	Circuit	Date
1	GT Championship in TI	TI Circuit	April 4
2	SUGO GT Championship	Sportsland SUGO	May 23
3	Japan GT Championship Malaysia	Sepang Circuit	June 19
4	Hokkaido Gran GT Championship	Tokachi International Speedway	July 18
5	Motegi GT Championship Race	Twin Ring Motegi	September 5
6	Japan GT in Kyushu 300 km	Autopolis	October 31
7	Suzuka GT 300 km	Suzuka Circuit	November 21
NC	JGTC All-Star GT Live USA	California Speedway	December 18
NC	JGTC All-Star GT Live USA	California Speedway	December 19

Season results

Round	Circuit	GT500 Winning Team	GT300 Winning Team
Round	Circuit	GT500 Winning Drivers	GT300 Winning Drivers
1	TI Circuit	#1 Xanavi NISMO Nissan Z	#10 Team Gainer Ferrari F360
1	TI Circuit	Satoshi Motoyama Richard Lyons	Atsushi Yogo Tetsuya Tanaka
2	Sportsland SUGO	#38 au Cerumo Toyota Supra	#19 WedsSport Toyota Celica
2	Sportsland SUGO	Yuji Tachikawa Seiji Ara	Takayuki Aoki Nobuteru Taniguchi
3	Sepang Circuit	#39 Denso Team SARD Toyota Supra	#7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7
3	Sepang Circuit	Andre Couto Jeremie Dufour	Shinichi Yamaji Hiroyuki Iiri
4	Tokachi	#22 Motul NISMO Nissan Z	#43 ARTA ASL Garaiya
4	Tokachi	Michael Krumm Masami Kageyama	Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi
5	Twin Ring Motegi	#32 PIAA Honda NSX	#43 ARTA ASL Garaiya
5	Twin Ring Motegi	Tsugio Matsuda André Lotterer	Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi
6	Autopolis	#1 Xanavi NISMO Nissan Z	#7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7
6	Autopolis	Satoshi Motoyama Richard Lyons	Shinichi Yamaji Hiroyuki Iiri
7	Suzuka Circuit	#12 Calsonic Impul Nissan Z	#16 M-TEC Honda NSX
7	Suzuka Circuit	Yuji Ide Benoît Tréluyer	Tetsuya Yamano Hiroyuki Yagi
NC	California Speedway	#3 G-ZOX Hasemi Motorsports Nissan Z	#16 M-TEC Honda NSX
		Toshihiro Kaneishi Érik Comas	Tetsuya Yamano Hiroyuki Yagi Haruki Kurosawa
		#32 PIAA Honda NSX	#43 ARTA ASL Garaiya
		Tsugio Matsuda André Lotterer	Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi

Standings

GT500 Drivers

Scoring system

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

There were no points awarded for pole position and fastest lap in the final race.

Rank	Driver	TAI	SUG	SEP	TOK	MOT	AUT	SUZ	PTS
1	Satoshi Motoyama Richard Lyons	1	Ret	3	Ret	3	1	7	73
2	André Couto Jérémie Dufour	3	Ret	1	7	6	2	8	61
3	Akira Iida Juichi Wakisaka	2	11	14	2	2	4	Ret	57
4	Érik Comas Toshihiro Kaneishi	6	6	4	3	7	Ret	3	50
5	Seiji Ara Yuji Tachikawa	5	1	7	14	10	11	4	45
6	James Courtney Tatsuya Kataoka	11	3	5	5	4	6	6	44
7	Marco Apicella Takeshi Tsuchiya	7	7	10	4	5	7	2	43
8	André Lotterer Tsugio Matsuda	10	4	9	6	1	12	5	42
9	Masami Kageyama Michael Krumm	9	Ret	6	1	8	9	Ret	39
10	Naoki Hattori Shigekazu Wakisaka	4	5	2	9	13	8	16	37
11	Benoît Tréluyer Yuji Ide	8	10	Ret	11	Ret	5	1	35
12	Manabu Orido Dominik Schwager	14	2	Ret	13	12	3	10	31
13	Hiroki Katoh Shinji Nakano	Ret	8	15	10	9	10	9	9
14	Ryo Michigami Sébastien Philippe	12	12	8	8	15	14	12	6
15	Katsutomo Kaneishi Daisuke Ito	13	9	11	12	11	13	11	2
	Genji Hashimoto Norman Simon			12	15				0
	Hidetoshi Mitsusada Tadao Uematsu	15	DNQ	13	16	14	15	14	0
	Shogo Mitsuyama Shinsuke Shibahara							13	0
	Hisashi Wada Koji Yamanishi		DNQ	Ret	DNQ	Ret	Ret	15	0
Rank	Driver	TAI	SUG	SEP	TOK	MOT	AUT	SUZ	PTS

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

GT300 Class (Top 5)

Drivers

Rank	Drivers	Number/Team	Points	Wins
1	Tetsuya Yamano Hiroyuki Yagi	#16 M-TEC Honda NSX	93	1
2	Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi	#43 ARTA ASL Garaiya	92	2
3	Atsushi Yogo Tetsuya Tanaka	#10 Team Gainer Ferrari F360	64	1
4	Shinichi Yamaji Hiroyuki Iiri	#7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7	55	2
5	Takayuki Aoki Nobuteru Taniguchi	#19 WedsSport Toyota Celica	48	1

External links

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