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 [ ]
GT300 [ ]
Team
Make
Car
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 [ ]
Season results [ ]
Overall winner in bold
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.
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
15 Ret
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
17 Ret
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
17 Ret
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
16 Ret
15
13
4
3
4
42
7
Nakajima Racing
32
5
8
5
13
10
2
14
10
38
8
Team Impul
12
17 Ret
15
8
5
3
13
4
9
35
9
Kraft
34
18 Ret
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
18 Ret
16 Ret
14
26
10
Team Kunimitsu
100
10
11
10
18 Ret
1
14
15 Ret
17 Ret
26
12
Toyota Team SARD
39
8
17 Ret
9
2
14
12
11
11
21
-
Hitotsuyama Racing
20
18 DNS
17
0
21
16 Ret
16 Ret
17 Ret
12
18 Ret
15
13
15
-
JLOC
88
13
19 DNS
16 Ret
17
19 Ret
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
References [ ]
External links [ ]
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