2009 Super GT Series

17th season of sports car racing series Super GT Series 2009 GT500 Drivers' Champion: Juichi Wakisaka & André Lotterer GT500 Teams' Champion: Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S GT300 Drivers' Champion: Manabu Orido & Tatsuya Kataoka GT300 Teams' Champion: Racing Project Bandoh The 2009 Autobacs Super GT Series was the seventeenth season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship including the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era and the fifth season as the Super GT series. thumb|2009 GT300 champions, #19 Racing Project Bandoh Lexus IS 350 It marked as well as the twenty-seventh season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The season opener on March 22, was moved to Okayama, due to the continued renovation of Suzuka in preparation for the 2009 Japanese Grand Prix. The season finale on November 8 also was moved to Motegi, instead of Fuji. Due to the worldwide economic crisis, race weekends were two days instead of three. André Lotterer and Juichi Wakisaka claimed the GT500 title in the Petronas TOM'S Lexus SC430. The team also won their respective teams title. Manabu Orido and Tatsuya Kataoka won the GT300 title in the Racing Project Bandoh IS350 by three points from Nobuteru Taniguchi and Ryo Orime. Car development GT500 class Originally the three makers agreed to unify engine specification to 3.4L V8 engines (the same configuration of Formula Nippon at the time). However, due to the aforementioned economic crisis, Nissan encountered difficulties to develop a suitable engine for their GT-R, and chose to bear a performance ballast while using the same engine as last year. Honda continued to use their mid-engine NSX with performance ballast as the regulations originally planned to mandate front-engine cars. This was also their last year in Super GT with the original NSX, as they announced they would use a new vehicle (the HSV-010) starting in the 2010 season. Honda returned with the NSX in 2014 following the unveiling of the second-generation concept car in 2014, later revised to be based on the production model in 2017; both of which ran midship engine layout until 2019 season. Team Nova entered the series with a Le Mans spec Aston Martin DBR9. It was the first Aston Martin car to participate the series history (including JGTC), and also the first European and non-Honda/Nissan/Toyota car in GT500 since the 2006 season (a Maserati MC12 did participate the pre-season test in 2006 season but withdraw from the series later). The DBR9 only ran at the first round at Okayama and the two rounds at Fuji, and as of July 2020 is the last non-Japanese car to compete in GT500. GT300 class The apr Racing Team, which had used the Toyota MR-S for a long time decided to discontinue their use of MR-S, and for this season decided to replace it with a mid-engined Toyota Corolla Axio instead. The Cusco, the only team using an AWD car (Subaru Impreza), left the series as they wanted to concentrate on off-road events. However, Subaru cars were not absent from the series as R&D Sport used a Legacy B4 for round 6, 7 and 9. Thunder Asia Racing, a team from Singapore, entered round 4 at Sepang with a Mosler MT900R. Their full participation in 2010 season was confirmed after the 2009 season ended. Weight ballast changes In order to combat sandbagging, where a team would intentionally perform poorly in order to secure a more favorable weight handicap, the success ballast formula was changed starting from this season: the ballast would be halved in the penultimate race and lifted altogether in final race for teams that participated in every round of the season. Teams missing only one round receive halved-ballast in the final race instead. Drivers and teams GT500 Team Make Car Engine No. Car number Drivers Tyre Rounds Nismo Nissan Nissan GT-R GT500 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 1 JPN Satoshi Motoyama Bridgestone All FRA Benoît Tréluyer 1–5, 7–9 GER Michael Krumm 6 Hasemi Motorsport Nissan Nissan GT-R GT500 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 3 ITA Ronnie Quintarelli Michelin All JPN Hironobu Yasuda All Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS Lexus Lexus SC430 GT500 Lexus RV8 kg 3.4 L V8 6 JPN Daisuke Ito Bridgestone All SWE Björn Wirdheim All Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Honda Honda NSX GT500 Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 8 IRL Ralph Firman Bridgestone All JPN Takuya Izawa All Team Impul Nissan Nissan GT-R GT500 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 12 JPN Tsugio Matsuda Bridgestone All FRA Sébastien Philippe All Keihin Real Racing Honda Honda NSX GT500 Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 17 JPN Toshihiro Kaneishi Bridgestone All JPN Koudai Tsukakoshi All JPN Katsutomo Kaneishi 6 Team Yoshiki and Dome Project Honda Honda NSX GT500 Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 18 JPN Ryō Michigami Bridgestone All JPN Takashi Kogure All Team Nova Aston Martin Aston Martin DBR9 Aston Martin AM04 6.0 L V12 21 JPN Akihiro Tsuzuki Yokohama 1, 3, 7 JPN Takeshi Tsuchiya 1, 3, 7 Kondo Racing Nissan Nissan GT-R GT500 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 24 BRA João Paulo de Oliveira Yokohama All JPN Seiji Ara All Nakajima Racing Honda Honda NSX GT500 Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 32 FRA Loïc Duval Dunlop All JPN Yuhki Nakayama All Lexus Team Kraft Lexus Lexus SC430 GT500 Lexus RV8 kg 3.4 L V8 35 JPN Hiroaki Ishiura Bridgestone All JPN Kazuya Oshima All Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S Lexus Lexus SC430 GT500 Lexus RV8 kg 3.4 L V8 36 JPN Juichi Wakisaka Bridgestone All GER André Lotterer All Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo Lexus Lexus SC430 GT500 Lexus RV8 kg 3.4 L V8 38 JPN Yuji Tachikawa Bridgestone All GBR Richard Lyons All Lexus Team SARD Lexus Lexus SC430 GT500 Lexus RV8 kg 3.4 L V8 39 JPN Kohei Hirate Dunlop All POR André Couto All Team Kunimitsu Honda Honda NSX GT500 Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 100 JPN Yuji Ide Bridgestone All JPN Shinya Hosokawa 1–2, 4–7, 9 JPN Kosuke Matsuura 3, 8 GT300 Team Make Car Engine No. Car number Drivers Tyre Rounds Cars Tokai Dream28 Mooncraft Mooncraft Shiden Toyota 1UZ-FE 4.4 L V8 2 JPN Hiroki Katoh Yokohama All JPN Kazuho Takahashi 1 JPN Hiroki Yoshimoto 2–9 Avanzza Rosso Vemac Vemac RD320R Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 4 JPN Yoshihiro Ito Kumho 6 JPN Subaru Yamamoto 6 JPN Michito Uezumi 6 JPN Yoshihiro Ito Yokohama 9 UKR Igor Sushko 9 666 JPN Shogo Suho Yokohama All JPN Junichiro Yamashita All JPN Takashi Miyamoto 3, 6 Team Mach Vemac Vemac RD320R Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 5 JPN Tetsuji Tamanaka Yokohama All JPN Akazame Oyaji All M7 RE Amemiya Racing Mazda Mazda RX-7 Mazda RE20B 2.0 L 3-rotor 7 JPN Nobuteru Taniguchi Yokohama All JPN Ryo Orime All Jim Gainer Racing Ferrari Ferrari 360 Ferrari F131B 3.6 L V8 10 JPN Masayuki Ueda Yokohama All JPN Masataka Kawaguchi All Ferrari F430 Ferrari F136E 4.3 L V8 11 JPN Tetsuya Tanaka All JPN Katsuyuki Hiranaka All Racing Project Bandoh Lexus Lexus IS350 Lexus RV8J 3.4 L V8 19 JPN Tatsuya Kataoka Yokohama All JPN Manabu Orido All Team Taisan Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-RS Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 26 JPN Haruki Kurosawa Yokohama 1–4, 6–7, 9 JPN Tsubasa Abe 1–3, 5–9 JPN Katsuhiko Tsutsui 4, 6, 8 JPN Tsubasa Kurosawa 5 Team Takeuchi with Shift Lexus Lexus IS350 Lexus RV8J 3.4 L V8 30 JPN Kota Sasaki Kumho 1–3 JPN Naoya Yamano 1–3 52 JPN Kota Sasaki 4–9 JPN Naoya Yamano 4–6 JPN Yuhi Sekiguchi 6–9 apr Toyota Toyota Corolla Axio apr GT Toyota 2GR-FSE 3.5 L V6 31 JPN Yuya Sakamoto Yokohama All JPN Hideki Yamauchi 1–4 JPN Kyosuke Mineo 5–9 JPN Takamori.com 6 74 JPN Takuto Iguchi Michelin All JPN Yuji Kunimoto All Hankook KTR Porsche Porsche 997 GT3-RSR Porsche M97/80 3.8 L F6 33 JPN Mitsuhiro Kinoshita Hankook 3, 5, 7 JPN Masami Kageyama 3, 5, 7 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri ASL ASL ARTA Garaiya Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6 43 JPN Morio Nitta Michelin All JPN Shinichi Takagi All MOLA Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6 46 JPN Kazuki Hoshino Yokohama All JPN Masataka Yanagida All Tomei Sports Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-RSR Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 55 JPN Yutaka Yamagishi Yokohama 1–7, 9 JPN Hiroshi Koizumi 1–7, 9 R&D Sport Subaru Subaru Legacy B4 Subaru EJ20 2.0 L Turbo F4 62 JPN Shogo Mitsuyama Yokohama 6–7, 9 JPN Tetsuya Yamano 6–7, 9 JLOC Lamborghini Lamborghini Murcielago RG-1 Lamborghini L535 6.0 L V12 66 JPN Koji Yamanishi Yokohama All JPN Atsushi Yogo All ITA Marco Apicella 3 Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3 Lamborghini 07L1 5.2 L V10 87 JPN Hiroyuki Iiri All JPN Hisashi Wada All 88 JPN Hideshi Matsuda All JPN Yuya Sakamoto All Thunder Asia Racing Mosler Mosler MT900R GM LS7 7.0 L V8 69 SGP Melvin Choo Yokohama 4 GBR Martin Short 4 Team Daishin Ferrari Ferrari F430 Ferrari F136E 4.3 L V8 81 JPN Takayuki Aoki Yokohama All JPN Tomonobu Fujii All JPN Koji Matsuda 6 Arktech Motorsports Porsche Porsche Boxster Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 110 KOR Kim Han Bong Kumho 1–3 JPN Daisuke Ikeda 1, 8 JPN Tatsuya Tanigawa 2–3, 5, 8 JPN Takashi Ohi 5 Porsche 996 GT3-RSR Porsche M96/73 3.6 L F6 111 JPN Takaya Tsubobayashi 1–3 UKR Igor Sushko 1 JPN Daisuke Ikeda 2–4 JPN Tojiro Azuma 4 112 JPN Takashi Ohi 7, 9 JPN Yoshiaki Nakayama 7 JPN Keita Sawa 8–9 AUS Aaron Caratti 8 Studie GLAD Racing BMW BMW Z4M BMW S62B50 4.9 L V8 808 JPN Shozo Tagahara Yokohama 1–3, 5–9 JPN Yasushi Kikuchi 1–3, 5–7 JPN Taku Bamba 6, 8–9 Schedule Round Race Circuit Date 1 Japan Okayama GT 300 km Okayama International Circuit March 22 2 Japan Suzuka GT 300 km Suzuka Circuit April 19 3 Japan Fuji GT 400 km Fuji Speedway May 4 4 Malaysia Super GT International Series Malaysia Sepang International Circuit June 21 5 Japan SUGO GT 300 km Sportsland SUGO July 26 6 Japan Pokka GT Summer Special Suzuka Circuit August 23 7 Japan Fuji GT 300 km Fuji Speedway September 13 8 Japan Autopolis GT 300 km Autopolis October 18 9 Japan Motegi GT 250 km Twin Ring Motegi November 8 As a measure of cost reduction, the two longest race, as well as the final race in the series' distance in the series was shortened in this season. This included the trimming of the traditional 1000km race in Suzuka to 700 km. However, to avoid 1-pit strategy that caused unfairness to some teams, teams were required to pit twice in the Fuji 400 km race. Season Winners Rd Circuit GT500 Winning Team GT300 Winning Team Results GT500 Winning Drivers GT300 Winning Drivers 1 Okayama Japan #24 HIS Kondo Racing GT-R Japan #19 WedsSport IS350 Results Brazil João Paulo de OliveiraJapan Seiji Ara Japan Manabu OridoJapan Tatsuya Kataoka 2 Suzuka Japan #38 ZENT Cerumo SC430 Japan #33 Hankook Porsche Results Japan Yuji TachikawaUnited Kingdom Richard Lyons Japan Mitsuhiro Kinoshita Japan Masami Kageyama 3 Mt. Fuji Japan #1 MOTUL Autech GT-R Japan #43 ARTA Garaiya Results Japan Satoshi Motoyama France Benoît Tréluyer Japan Morio Nitta Japan Shinichi Takagi 4 Kuala Lumpur Japan #3 Hasemi Tomica Ebbro GT-RJapan #2 I.M Jihan Co.Ltd•Apple Shiden Results ITA Ronnie QuintarelliJPN Hironobu Yasuda JPN Hiroki KatohJPN Hiroki Yoshimoto 5 Sportsland SUGO Japan #1 MOTUL Autech GT-R Japan #33 Hankook Porsche Results Japan Satoshi Motoyama France Benoît Tréluyer Japan Mitsuhiro Kinoshita Japan Masami Kageyama 6 Suzuka Japan #35 Kraft SC430 Japan #46 S Road Mola Z Results JPN Hiroaki Ishiura JPN Kazuya Oshima JPN Kazuki HoshinoJPN Masataka Yanagida 7 Mt. Fuji Japan #8 ARTA NSX Japan #81 Daishin Ferrari F430 Results Ireland Ralph Firman Japan Takuya Izawa JPN Takayuki AokiJPN Tomonobu Fujii 8 Autopolis Japan #36 Petronas TOM'S SC430 Japan #11 Jim Gainer Advan F430 Results Japan Juichi Wakisaka Germany André Lotterer Japan Tetsuya Tanaka Japan Katsuyuki Hiranaka 9 MotegiJapan #8 ARTA NSXJapan #81 Daishin Ferrari F430 Results Ireland Ralph Firman Japan Takuya Izawa JPN Takayuki AokiJPN Tomonobu Fujii Standings GT500 Drivers Scoring system Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Points 20 15 11 8 6 5 4 3 2 1 RankDriverNo.OKAJPNSUZJPNFUJJPNSEPMYSSUGJPNSUZJPNFUJJPNAUTJPNMOTJPNPts.1JPN Juichi WakisakaGER André Lotterer361122678312882IRL Ralph FirmanJPN Takuya Izawa8314331412141813JPN Satoshi Motoyama1131118162214784FRA Benoît Tréluyer113111812214735JPN Toshihiro KaneishiJPN Koudai Tsukakoshi17561226104Ret3516JPN Ryō MichigamiJPN Takashi Kogure18251312348510507ITA Ronnie QuintarelliJPN Hironobu Yasuda3121371926812498BRA João Paulo de OliveiraJPN Seiji Ara241845131113311489JPN Hiroaki IshiuraJPN Kazuya Oshima3597591217794410JPN Yuji TachikawaGBR Richard Lyons38619101031011134111JPN Tsugio MatsudaFRA Sébastien Philippe12431578515Ret73612JPN Daisuke ItoSWE Björn Wirdheim61046145Ret51043513JPN Yuji Ide1008121144912682914POR André CoutoJPN Kohei Hirate391510101327111252715JPN Shinya Hosokawa1008124491282416FRA Loïc DuvalJPN Yuhki Nakayama327981111Ret9961817JPN Kosuke Matsuura100 11 6518GER Michael Krumm1 6 519JPN Katsutomo Kaneishi17 10 1-JPN Akihiro TsuzukiJPN Takeshi Tsuchiya2114 14 14 0RankDriverNo.OKAJPNSUZJPNFUJJPNSEPMYSSUGJPNSUZJPNFUJJPNAUTJPNMOTJPNPts. Teams' standings RankMagazine Speedsport Super GT & All Japan GT: Overview of seasons https://www.speedsport-magazine.com/motorsport/grand-touring/super-gt-all-japan-gt.html 2023-11-24 www.speedsport-magazine.com enSUPERGT.net Race Archive https://supergt.net/archive/classic/supergt.net/supergt/history/index.htm 2023-11-24 supergt.netTeamNo.OKAJPNSUZJPNFUJJPNSEPMYSSUGJPNSUZJPNFUJJPNAUTJPNMOTJPNPts. 1 Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S 361122678312 1122 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri 8314331412141 102 3 Nismo 1131118162214 1014 Team Yoshiki & Dome Project 18251312348510 75 5 KEIHIN Real Racing 17561226104Ret3 726 Hasemi Motorsport 3121371926812 71 7 Kondo Racing 241845131113311 69 8 Lexus Team Kraft 359759121779 68 9 Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo 3861910103101113 63 10 Team Impul 12431578515Ret7 55 11 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS 61046145Ret5104 54 12 Team Kunimitsu 100812114491268 5213 Lexus Team SARD 39151010132711125 48 14 Nakajima Racing 327981111Ret996 39 15 Team Nova 21141414 3RankTeamNo.OKAJPNSUZJPNFUJJPNSEPMYSSUGJPNSUZJPNFUJJPNAUTJPNMOTJPNPts. GT300 Drivers Scoring system Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Points 20 15 11 8 6 5 4 3 2 1 RankDriverNo.OKAJPNSUZJPNFUJJPNSEPMYSSUGJPNSUZJPNFUJJPNAUTJPNMOTJPNPts.1JPN Manabu OridoJPN Tatsuya Kataoka19185256433852JPN Nobuteru TaniguchiJPN Ryo Orime73233117DNS22823JPN Tetsuya TanakaJPN Katsuyuki Hiranaka1144Ret835214794JPN Takayuki AokiJPN Tomonobu Fujii811262DNS481181715JPN Morio NittaJPN Shinichi Takagi4325110927414716JPN Hiroki Katoh267912351616637JPN Kazuki HoshinoJPN Masataka Yanagida46736461987628JPN Hiroki Yoshimoto27912351616589JPN Mitsuhiro KinoshitaJPN Masami Kageyama331164510JPN Takuto IguchiJPN Yuji Kunimoto74598168412753211JPN Yuya Sakamoto3191176101815562312JPN Koji YamanishiJPN Atsushi Yogo6618Ret185131731182013JPN Tsubasa Abe261010471614991814JPN Haruki Kurosawa2610104Ret161491215JPN Kyosuke Mineo31101815561216JPN Hideki Yamauchi31911761117JPN Kota Sasaki30/528171171591313101018JPN Tetsuji TamanakaJPN Akazame Oyaji51312101216Ret8615919JPN Naoya Yamano30/52817117159920JPN Kazuho Takahashi26 521JPN Tsubasa Kurosawa26 7422JPN Yuhi Sekiguchi52 9131310323JPN Masayuki UedaJPN Masataka Kawaguchi10DNS161592015171913224JPN Katsuhiko Tsutsui26 Ret169225JPN Hideshi MatsudaJPN Yuya Sakamoto88Ret1319Ret1210101211226JPN Shozo Tagahara80815DNQ1717RetRet10Ret127JPN Taku Bamba808Ret10Ret1-JPN Koji Aoyama8180-JPN Hiroyuki IiriJPN Hisashi Wada8711RetRet15Ret121117Ret0-JPN Daisuke Ikeda110/111Ret1513110-JPN Tojiro Azuma111110-JPN Yutaka YamagishiJPN Hiroshi Koizumi55141412141119Ret0-JPN Keita Sawa11214120-JPN Takashi Ohi110/11218Ret120-JPN Takaya Tsubobayashi1111715130-SIN Melvin ChooGBR Martin Short69130-JPN Shogo SuhoJPN Junichiro Yamashita66616181614Ret131615Ret0-JPN Takashi Miyamoto66616130-JPN Tatsuya Tanigawa110Ret13180-KOR Kim Han Bong110RetRet140-JPN Yoshihiro Ito414Ret0-JPN Michito UezumiJPN Subaru Yamamoto4140-AUS Aaron Caratti112140-JPN Yasushi Kikuchi808151717RetRet0-UKR Igor Sushko111/417Ret0-ITA Marco Apicella66180-JPN Hiroshi Takamori31180-JPN Shogo MitsuyamaJPN Tetsuya Yamano62 WD18Ret0-JPN Yoshiaki Nakayama112Ret0RankDriverNo.OKAJPNSUZJPNFUJJPNSEPMYSSUGJPNSUZJPNFUJJPNAUTJPNMOTJPNPts. GT300 Teams' standings RankTeamNo.OKAJPNSUZJPNFUJJPNSEPMALAYSIASUGJPNSUZJPNFUJJPNAUTJPNMOTJPNPts. 1 Racing Project Bandoh 19185256433 1122M7 RE Amemiya Racing 73233117DNS221063 Jim Gainer 1144Ret8352141034Autobacs Racing Team Aguri 4325110927414965Team Daishin 811262DNS481181916Team Nishizawa MOLA 46736461987897Cars Tokai Dream28 267912351616848 apr 745981684127557 9 Hankook KTR 33116 5410apr 3191176101815564611Team Taisan 2610104Ret71614993812JLOC 6618Ret185131731183613Team Takeuchi with Shift 30/5281711715913131027 14 Team Mach 51312101216Ret8615 23 15 JLOC 88Ret1319Ret1210101211 1916 Jim Gainer 10DNS1615920151719131417JLOC 8711RetRet15Ret121117Ret818Tomei Sports 55141412141119Ret819Avanzza Rosso66616181614Ret131615Ret820Studie GLAD Racing80815DNQ1717RetRet10Ret521Arktech Motorsports112Ret14124 22Arktech Motorsports11117151311 423Arktech Motorsports110RetRet14224Avanzza Rosso414Ret125R&D Sport62 WD18Ret1-Thunder Asia Racing69130RankTeamNo.OKAJPNSUZJPNFUJJPNSEPMALAYSIASUGJPNSUZJPNFUJJPNAUTJPNMOTJPNPts. References External links Super GT official website en 2009 Super GT