2005 Super GT Series

The 2005 Autobacs Super GT Series was the thirteenth season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship including the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era and the first season as the Super GT series. It is also marked as the twenty-third 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 cars divided into 2 classes: GT500 and GT300. The season began on March 27 and ended on November 6, 2005 after 8 races. The drivers' champions were Yuji Tachikawa and Toranosuke Takagi in GT500; and Kota Sasaki and Tetsuya Yamano in GT300.

Drivers and teams[]

GT500[]

Team	Make	Car	No.	Drivers	Tyre	Rounds
Nismo	Nissan	Nissan Fairlady Z	1	Richard Lyons	B	All
				Satoshi Motoyama		All
			22	Michael Krumm		All
				Masataka Yanagida		All
G'Zox Hasemi Motorsport	Nissan	Nissan Fairlady Z	3	Érik Comas	B	All
				Toshihiro Kaneishi		All
Esso Toyota Team LeMans	Toyota	Toyota Supra	6	Akira Iida	B	All
				Juichi Wakisaka		All
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	Honda	Honda NSX	8	Ralph Firman	B	All
				Daisuke Ito		All
Calsonic Team Impul	Nissan	Nissan Fairlady Z	12	Yuji Ide	B	All
				Benoît Tréluyer		All
Dome Racing Team	Honda	Honda NSX	18	Takashi Kogure	B	All
				Ryo Michigami		All
Hitotsuyama Racing	McLaren	McLaren F1 GTR	20	Eiichi Tajima	D	2, 6
						2
						6
	Ferrari	Ferrari 550 Maranello	21	Takuya Kurosawa		All
				Hidetoshi Mitsusada		All
Toyota Team Tsuchiya	Toyota	Toyota Supra	25	Manabu Orido	Y	All
				Dominik Schwager		1–5, 7–8
				Hideki Noda		6
Epson Nakajima Racing	Honda	Honda NSX	32	André Lotterer	D	All
				Tsugio Matsuda		All
Toyota Team Kraft	Toyota	Toyota Supra	34	Seiji Ara	D	All
				Naoki Yokomizo		All
			35	Naoki Hattori		All
				Shigekazu Wakisaka		1–4
				Peter Dumbreck		5–8
Toyota Team TOM'S	Toyota	Toyota Supra	36	James Courtney	B	All
				Takeshi Tsuchiya		All
			37	Tatsuya Kataoka		All
				Sakon Yamamoto		All
ZENT Toyota Team Cerumo	Toyota	Toyota Supra	38	Toranosuke Takagi	B	All
				Yuji Tachikawa		All
Denso Toyota Team SARD	Toyota	Toyota Supra	39	André Couto	B	All
				Ronnie Quintarelli		All
JLOC	Lamborghini	Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT	88	Koji Yamanishi	Y	1–2, 4–6
						1–2
				Marco Apicella		4–5
				Naohiro Furuya		6
Raybrig Team Kunimitsu	Honda	Honda NSX	100		B	All
				Sébastien Philippe		All

GT300[]

Team	Make	Car	No.	Drivers	Tyre	Rounds
M-Tec	Honda	Honda NSX	0		D	All
						All
Verno Tokai Dream28-Honda	Vemac	Vemac RD320R-Honda C32B	2		Y	All
						All
Team Mach	Vemac	Vemac RD320R-Honda C32B	5	Tetsuji Tamanaka	Y	All
						All
RE Amemiya Racing	Mazda	Mazda RX-7	7	Hiroyuki Iiri	Y	All
				Shinichi Yamaji		All
A&S Racing	Mosler	Mosler MT900-Chevrolet	9		Y	All
				Eiji Yamada		1–4, 6–7
						5, 8
	Chevrolet	Chevrolet Corvette C6	913	Hideo Fukuyama		1–6
						1
						2–4, 6
				Eiji Yamada		5
Jim Gainer Racing	Ferrari	Ferrari 360	10	Yasutaka Hinoi	D	All
				Hideshi Matsuda		1–2, 4–5, 7–8
				Taku Bamba		3, 6
			11	Paolo Montin		All
				Tetsuya Tanaka		All
Endless Sports	Nissan	Nissan Fairlady Z	13	Masami Kageyama	Y	All
				Mitsuhiro Kinoshita		All
Amprex Motorsports	Lotus	Lotus Exige 300RR	15	Tengku Djan Ley	Y	4
						4
Racing Project Bandoh	Toyota	Toyota Celica	19		Y	All
				Nobuteru Taniguchi		All
Team Taisan	Porsche	Porsche 996 GT3-R	26		Y	1–3, 8
						1–2
				Takashi Inoue		3
						8
Direxiv Motorsport	Vemac	Vemac RD320R-Honda C32B	27		Y	All
						1–6
				Hiroki Yoshimoto		7–8
Team Reckless	Toyota	Toyota MR-S	30	Kota Sasaki	M	All
				Tetsuya Yamano		All
apr	Toyota	Toyota MR-S	31	Kazuki Nakajima	M	All
				Minoru Tanaka		All
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	ASL	ASL Garaiya	43		M	All
				Shinichi Takagi		All
MOLA	Nissan	Nissan Fairlady Z	46	Takayuki Aoki	Y	All
				Kazuki Hoshino		All
			47			All
				Tomonobu Fujii		All
Toyota Team Cerumo	Toyota	Toyota Celica	52	Katsuyuki Hiranaka	K	All
				Hironori Takeuchi		All
R&D Sport	Vemac	-Zytek ZV348	62		Y	All
				Shinsuke Shibahara		1–6, 8
						7
Team Gaikokuya	Porsche	Porsche 996 GT3-RS	70	Yoshimi Ishibashi	Y	1–6
				Eiichi Tajima		1, 3
						2, 4–5
						6
			170	Yoshimi Ishibashi		8
				Takashi Inoue		8
Teramoto Technical Office	Porsche	Porsche 996 GT3-RSR	72		Y	All
				Takashi Inoue		1, 5
						2–3, 7–8
				Akihiro Asai		4
Cusco Racing	Subaru	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	77		Y	All
				Tatsuya Tanigawa		All
JLOC	Lamborghini	Lamborghini Murcielago RG-1	86	Koji Yamanishi	Y	8
				Naohiro Furuya		8
			87			4–6, 8
				Naohiro Furuya		4–5
				Marco Apicella		6, 8
Arktech Motorsports	Porsche	Porsche 986 Boxster	110		Y	All
						All
		Porsche 996 GT3 Cup	112			1–3, 5–8
				Keita Sawa		1–3
						5–8
Team LeyJun	Porsche	Porsche 968 GT4	111		Y	All
						All
910 Racing	Porsche	Porsche 996 GT3 RS	777		Y	All
				Sunako Jukucho		All

Schedule[]

Round	Race	Circuit	Date
1	Okayama GT 300 km Race	Okayama International Circuit	March 27
2	Fuji GT 500 km Race	Fuji International Speedway	May 4
3	Japan GT Championship Malaysia	Sepang International Circuit	June 26
4	SUGO GT 300 km Race	Sportsland Sugo	July 24
5	Motegi GT 300 km Race	Twin Ring Motegi	September 4
6	Fuji GT 300 km Race	Fuji International Speedway	September 25
7	Super GT in Kyushu GT 300 km	Autopolis International Race Course	October 16
8	Suzuka GT 300 km	Suzuka Circuit	November 6

Season results[]

Overall winner in bold

Round	Circuit	GT500 Winning Team	GT300 Winning Team
		GT500 Winning Drivers	GT300 Winning Drivers
1	Okayama	#25 Eclipse Advan Supra	#13 Endless Advan Z
		Manabu Orido Dominik Schwager	Mitsuhiro Kinoshita Masami Kageyama
2	Mt. Fuji	#38 Zent Cerumo Supra	#0 Ebbro M-TEC NSX
		Yuji Tachikawa Toranosuke Takagi	Haruki Kurosawa Shinya Hosokawa
3	Kuala Lumpur	#1 Xanavi Nismo Z	#43 ARTA Garaiya
		Satoshi Motoyama Richard Lyons	Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi
4	Sportsland SUGO	#37 Dynacity TOM'S Supra	#31 Kicchouhouzan MR-S
		Tatsuya Kataoka Sakon Yamamoto	Minoru Tanaka Kazuki Nakajima
5	Motegi	#100 Raybrig NSX	#46 Dream Cube's Advan Z
		Sebastien Philippe Jeremie Dufour	Kazuki Hoshino Takayuki Aoki
6	Mt. Fuji	#38 Zent Cerumo Supra	#0 Ebbro M-TEC NSX
		Yuji Tachikawa Toranosuke Takagi	Haruki Kurosawa Shinya Hosokawa
7	Autopolis	#8 ARTA NSX	#30 Reckless MR-S
		Daisuke Ito Ralph Firman	Kota Sasaki Tetsuya Yamano
8	Suzuka	#38 Zent Cerumo Supra	#11 Jim Gainer Ferrari Dunlop
		Yuji Tachikawa Toranosuke Takagi	Tetsuya Tanaka Paolo Montin

Standings[]

GT500 class[]

Drivers' standings[]

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 OKA FUJ SEP SUG MOT FUJ AUT SUZ PTS 1 Yuji Tachikawa Toranosuke Takagi 14 1 11 11 12 1 7 1 67 2 Ralph Firman Daisuke Ito 4 12 2 6 16 8 1 12 61 3 Richard Lyons Satoshi Motoyama Ret 4 1 8 6 10 6 2 60 4 James Courtney Takeshi Tsuchiya 2 10 3 3 7 5 8 5 60 5 Michael Krumm Masataka Yanagida 12 2 6 7 4 9 2 8 57 6 Akira Iida Juichi Wakisaka 11 5 4 4 9 3 10 3 51 7 Tatsuya Kataoka Sakon Yamamoto 6 6 13 1 8 7 Ret 7 43 8 Érik Comas Toshihiro Kaneishi 3 9 Ret 15 13 4 3 4 42 9 André Lotterer Tsugio Matsuda 5 8 5 13 10 2 14 10 38 10 Takashi Kogure Ryo Michigami 7 13 7 Ret 2 11 5 6 37 11 Benoît Tréluyer Yuji Ide Ret 15 8 5 3 13 4 9 35 12 Naoki Hattori 9 3 14 10 5 6 9 13 29 13 Manabu Orido 1 14 15 9 15 Ret Ret 14 26 14 Sébastien Philippe 10 11 10 Ret 1 14 Ret Ret 26 15 Dominik Schwager 1 14 15 9 15 Ret 14 25 16 André Couto Ronnie Quintarelli 8 Ret 9 2 14 12 11 11 21 17 Shigekazu Wakisaka 9 3 14 10 16 18 Peter Dumbreck 5 6 9 13 13 19 Seiji Ara Naoki Yokomizo Ret 7 12 14 11 16 12 16 4 20 Hideki Noda Ret 1 Takuya Kurosawa Hidetoshi Mitsusada Ret Ret Ret 12 Ret 15 13 15 0 Koji Yamanishi 13 DNS Ret 17 Ret 0 13 DNS 0 Eiichi Tajima Ret 17 0 Marco Apicella Ret 17 0 17 0 Ret 0 Naohiro Furuya Ret 0 Rank Driver OKA FUJ SEP SUG MOT FUJ AUT SUZ PTS

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd 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' standings[]

For teams that entered multiple cars, only the best result from each round counted towards the teams' championship.^[1]

Rank	Team	No.	OKA	FUJ	SEP	SUG	MOT	FUJ	AUT	SUZ	PTS
1	Nismo	1	15Ret	4	1	8	6	10	6	2	86
		22	12	2	6	7	4	9	2	8
2	Team Honda Racing	8	4	12	2	6	16	8	1	12	82
		18	7	13	7	17Ret	2	11	5	6
3	Toyota Team TOM'S	36	2	10	3	3	7	5	8	5	73
		37	6	6	13	1	8	7	17Ret	7
4	Toyota Team Cerumo	38	14	1	11	11	12	1	7	1	67
5	Esso Toyota Team LeMans	6	11	5	4	4	9	3	10	3	51
6	Hasemi Motorsport	3	3	9	16Ret	15	13	4	3	4	42
7	Nakajima Racing	32	5	8	5	13	10	2	14	10	38
8	Team Impul	12	17Ret	15	8	5	3	13	4	9	35
9	Kraft	34	18Ret	7	12	14	11	16	12	16	29
		35	9	3	14	10	5	6	9	13
10	Team Advan Tsuchiya	25	1	14	15	9	15	18Ret	16Ret	14	26
10	Team Kunimitsu	100	10	11	10	18Ret	1	14	15Ret	17Ret	26
12	Toyota Team SARD	39	8	17Ret	9	2	14	12	11	11	21
-	Hitotsuyama Racing	20		18DNS				17			0
		21	16Ret	16Ret	17Ret	12	18Ret	15	13	15
-	JLOC	88	13	19DNS		16Ret	17	19Ret			0
Rank	Team	No.	OKA	FUJ	SEP	SUG	MOT	FUJ	AUT	SUZ	PTS

GT300 class (Top 3)[]

Drivers[]

Rank	Drivers	Number/Team	Points	Wins
1	Kota Sasaki Tetsuya Yamano	#30 Reckless MR-S	93	1
2	Haruki Kurosawa Shinya Hosokawa	#0 Ebbro M-TEC NSX	81	2
3	Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi	#43 ARTA Garaiya	74	1

Teams[]

Rank	Number/Team	Car	Points
1	#30 Team Reckless	Reckless MR-S	93
2	#0 M-TEC Co.,Ltd.	Ebbro M-TEC NSX	81
3	#43 ARTA	ARTA Garaiya	74

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