1997 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship
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The 1997 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the fifth season of Japan Automobile Federation GT premiere racing. It was marked as well as the fifteenth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The GT500 class champion was the #36 Castrol TOM'S Toyota Supra driven by Michael Krumm and Pedro de la Rosa and the GT300 class champion was the #19 Bandoh Racing Nissan Silvia driven by Hideo Fukuyama and Manabu Orido.
The GT500 Drivers' Championship was decided on a tiebreaker for the first and, as of the conclusion of the 2019 season, the only time in JGTC/Super GT history. The duo of De la Rosa and Krumm, and Toyota Team SARD driver Masami Kageyama each scored 67 points, with two victories, and one second place finish. But a third-place finish for De la Rosa and Krumm broke the tie, giving them the championship for the Toyota Castrol Team. With this, De la Rosa became the first driver to win both the GT500 Drivers' Championship, and the Japanese Top Formula Championship in Formula Nippon (now Super Formula), in the same calendar year.
Schedule[]
Round | Race | Circuit | Date |
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1 | Suzuka GT 300 | ![]() |
March 30 |
2 | All Japan Fuji GT Race | ![]() |
May 4 |
3 | HiLand GT Championship | ![]() |
June 29 |
4 | Japan Special GT-Cup | ![]() |
August 10 |
5 | CP Mine GT Race | ![]() |
October 5 |
6 | SUGO GT Championship | ![]() |
October 26 |
NC | Nicos Cup GT Allstar Race | ![]() |
November 16 |
Season results[]
Point Ranking[]
GT500 Class[]
Drivers[]
Rank | No. | Driver | SUZ | FUJ | SEN | FUJ | MIN | SUG | MOT | MOT | Points |
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1 | 36 | Pedro de la Rosa | 13 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 67 | ||
2 | 39 | Masami Kageyama | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 7 | Ret | Ret | 67 |
3 | 37 | Toshio Suzuki | 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 64 |
3 | 37 | Masanori Sekiya | 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 64 | ||
36 | Ret | 5 | |||||||||
4 | 2 | Aguri Suzuki | 1 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 60 |
5 | 39 | Tatsuya Tanigawa | 1 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 7 | Ret | Ret | 52 | |
6 | 2 | Érik Comas | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 50 | |
7 | 3 | Masahiro Hasemi | 4 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 7 | Ret | 4 | 3 | 37 |
8 | 5 | Eiichi Tajima | 6 | Ret | 6 | Ret | 12 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 32 |
8 | 5 | Marc Goossens | 6 | Ret | 6 | Ret | 12 | 1 | 32 | ||
9 | 100 | Kunimitsu Takahashi | Ret | 16 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 30 | |
10 | 38 | Hironori Takeuchi | 7 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 28 |
11 | 12 | Satoshi Motoyama | Ret | 5 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 24 | ||
12 | 8 | Naoki Nagasaka | 7 | 4 | 6 | 20 | |||||
13 | 12 | Kazuyoshi Hoshino | Ret | 15 | 4 | 6 | 14 | Ret | 6 | 16 | |
14 | 39 | Olivier Grouillard | 2 | 15 | |||||||
15 | 8 | Bertrand Gachot | 10 | Ret | 12 | ||||||
510 | 8 | 5 | 11 | ||||||||
16 | 18 | Takuya Kurosawa | Ret | Ret | Ret | 8 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 11 | |
17 | 2 | Marco Apicella | 4 | 10 | |||||||
17 | 8 | Tom Kristensen | 15 | 4 | 10 | ||||||
19 | 556 | Masahiko Kageyama | 5 | Ret | 14 | 9 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 7 | 10 |
20 | 8 | Wayne Gardner | 7 | 15 | 6 | 10 | |||||
21 | 12 | 5 | 8 | ||||||||
22 | 13 | Mitsuhiro Kinoshita | 8 | Ret | 11 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 8 | ||
23 | 13 | Ret | 11 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 5 | ||||
24 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 13 | 13 | DNQ | 4 | ||||
25 | 34 | Keiichi Tsuchiya | 10 | Ret | 14 | 8 | 6 | Ret | 4 | ||
26 | 30 |
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9 | Ret | 12 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 4 |
27 | 4 |
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11 | 8 | DNQ | 16 | DNQ | 3 | |||
27 | 13 | 8 | 3 | ||||||||
88 | Takao Wada
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Ret | Ret | 14 | Ret | 13 | 9 | Ret | 0 | ||
47 |
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Ret | 0 | ||||||||
37 | Shingo Tachi | 3 | 2 | 0 | |||||||
36 | Ukyo Katayama | Ret | 5 | 0 | |||||||
12 | Takeshi Tsuchiya | Ret | 6 | 0 | |||||||
5 | Hiro Matsushita | 7 | 10 | 0 |
GT300 Class (Top 5)[]
Drivers[]
Rank | Drivers | Number/Team | Points | Wins |
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1 | ![]() ![]() |
#19 Racing Project Bandoh Nissan Silvia | 90 | 2 |
2 | ![]() ![]() |
#26 Team Taisan Jr Porsche 964 | 89 | 2 |
3 | ![]() |
#25 Tsuchiya Engineering Toyota MR-2 | 52 | 1 |
4 | ![]() |
#25 Tsuchiya Engineering Toyota MR-2 | 52 | 1 |
5 | ![]() ![]() |
#71 Team Sigmatech Porsche 993 | 51 | 1 |
External links[]
- Super GT/JGTC official race archive (in Japanese)
- 1997 season results
- Super GT seasons
- 1997 in Japanese motorsport