1999 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship
The 1999 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the seventh season of Japan Automobile Federation GT premiere racing. It was marked as well as the seventeenth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The GT500 class champion of that season was the Pennzoil Nismo GT-R driven by Érik Comas and Satoshi Motoyama and the GT300 class champion was the MOMOCORSE A'PEX MR2 driven by Morio Nitta and Shinichi Takagi.
The season was marred by the death of reigning GT300 Champion, Shingo Tachi, in a pre-season testing crash at TI Circuit Aida on March 11, 1999. Tachi was to drive the number 6 Esso Toyota Supra for Toyota Team LeMans. Kunimitsu Takahashi retired from his racing career at the end of the season at aged 59.
Schedule[]
| Round | Race | Circuit | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suzuka GT 300 |  Suzuka Circuit
|
March 21 |
| 2 | All Japan Fuji GT Race | Fuji Speedway
|
May 2 |
| 3 | SUGO GT Championship | Sportsland SUGO
|
May 30 |
| 4 | CP Mine GT Race | Mine Circuit
|
July 11 |
| 5 | JPN Special GT Cup | Fuji Speedway
|
August 8 |
| 6 | GT Championship in TI | TI Circuit
|
September 26 |
| 7 | Motegi GT Championship Race | Twin Ring Motegi
|
October 24 |
| NC | Nicos Cup GT AllStar | Autopolis
|
November 28 |
Season results[]
Point Ranking[]
GT500[]
Drivers[]
| Rank | No. | Driver | SUZ | FUJ | SUG | MIN | FUJ | TAI | MOT | AUT | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Érik Comas | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 77 |
| 2 | 36 | Takuya Kurosawa | 4 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 73 |
| 3 | 1 | Satoshi Motoyama | 2 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 69 | |
| 4 | 18 | Juichi Wakisaka | 1 | Ret | Ret | 11 | 2 | 3 | Ret | Ret | 47 |
| 5 | 64 | Tom Coronel | 11 | 14 | 4 | Ret | 8 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 41 |
| 6 | 2 | Aguri Suzuki | 5 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 40 |
| 6 | 2 | Michael Krumm | 5 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 40 | |
| 8 | 12 | Kazuyoshi Hoshino | 10 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 11 | 40 |
| 9 | 37 | Toshio Suzuki | 3 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 15 | 15 | 10 | Ret | 37 |
| 10 | 16 | Osamu Nakako | 14 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 16 | 4 | 5 | 36 |
| 11 | 100 | Kunimitsu Takahashi | Ret | 1 | 13 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 34 |
| 12 | 6 | Hideki Noda | 8 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 13 | 15 | 33 | |
| 13 | 64 | Hidetoshi Mitsusada | 8 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 31 | ||||
| 14 | 38 | Hironori Takeuchi | 7 | 2 | Ret | 8 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 31 |
| 15 | 37 | Ukyo Katayama | 3 | 11 | 2 | 15 | 15 | 10 | Ret | 28 | |
| 16 | 35 | Pierre-Henri Raphanel | 13 | Ret | 2 | 14 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 27 | |
| 17 | 3 | Masahiro Hasemi | 6 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 27 |
| 18 | 32 | Takayuki Kinoshita | 8 | 6 | 8 | Ret | Ret | 11 | 15 | 8 | 12 |
| 19 | 64 | Koji Yamanishi | 11 | 14 | 4 | Ret | 10 | ||||
| 19 | 1 | Anders Olofsson | 4 | 10 | |||||||
| 21 | 37 | Darren Manning | 5 | 8 | |||||||
| 22 | 39 | Keiichi Tsuchiya | 16 | 15 | Ret | 7 | 10 | 13 | Ret | 13 | 5 |
| 23 | 30 | 17 | Ret | 12 | 9 | 14 | 14 | 11 | 14 | 2 | |
| 23 | 55 | Eiichi Tajima | 9 | 13 | 15 | 13 | 10 | 2 | |||
| 23 | 55 | Hideshi Matsuda | 9 | 13 | 13 | 2 | |||||
| 27 | 11 | Takao Wada | 12 | 10 | 10 | 16 | 2 | ||||
| 2 | Armin Hahne | 11 | 0 | ||||||||
| 88 | 15 | Ret | 14 | Ret | 17 | Ret | 14 | 12 | 0 | ||
| 55 | Dominik Schwager | 15 | 0 | ||||||||
| 55 | 10 | 0 |
GT300 Class (Top 5)[]
Drivers[]
| Rank | Drivers | Number/Team | Points | Wins |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
|
#25 MOMOCORSE A'PEX Toyota MR2 | 73 | 1 |
| 2 | Yuji Ide Takeshi Tsuchiya
|
#15 Xanavi ARTA Nissan Silvia | 72 | 3 |
| 3 | Takahiko Hara Manabu Orido
|
#19 Racing Project Bandoh Toyota Celica | 70 | 1 |
| 4 | Shinichi Takagi
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#25 MOMOCORSE A'PEX Toyota MR2 | 70 | 1 |
| 5 | Tetsuya Yamano
|
#7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7 | 58 | 0 |
External links[]
- Super GT/JGTC official race archive (in Japanese)
- Super GT seasons
- 1999 in Japanese motorsport