2001 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship

Motor racing season All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship 2001 GT500 Drivers' Champion: Hironori Takeuchi & Yuji Tachikawa GT500 Teams' Champion: Nismo GT300 Drivers' Champion: Takayuki Aoki & Nobuyuki Oyagi GT300 Teams' Champion: Team Taisan ADVAN The 2001 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the ninth season of Japan Automobile Federation GT premiere racing. It was marked as well as the nineteenth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The GT500 class drivers' champions of 2001 were Yuji Tachikawa and Hironori Takeuchi, who had not won a single race during the season driving the No. 38 au Cerumo Toyota Supra, while Nismo won the teams' championship. In the GT300 category, the class champions were the No. 81 Advan Team Daishin Nissan Silvia driven by Takayuki Aoki and Noboyuki Oyagi. This season marked the final competitive race victory for the McLaren F1 GTR, when Team Take One won the CP Mine GT Race. Drivers and teams GT500 Team Make Car Engine No. Car number Drivers Tyre Rounds Mugen x Dome Project Honda Honda NSX Honda C32B 3.5 L V6 1 JPN Ryō Michigami Bridgestone All JPN Hidetoshi Mitsusada All 18 FRA Sébastien Philippe All JPN Hiroki Katoh 1–4, NC FRA Benoît Tréluyer 5–7 Esso Toyota Team LeMans Toyota Toyota Supra Toyota 3S-GT 2.0 L Turbo I4 6 JPN Hideki Noda Bridgestone All JPN Juichi Wakisaka All Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Honda Honda NSX Honda C32B 3.5 L V6 8 JPN Katsutomo Kaneishi Bridgestone All JPN Keiichi Tsuchiya All Calsonic Team Impul Nissan Nissan Skyline GT-R Nissan RB26DETT 2.7 L Twin Turbo I6 12 JPN Satoshi Motoyama Bridgestone All JPN Naoki Hattori 1–3 JPN Kazuyoshi Hoshino 4–7, NC Hitotsuyama Racing McLaren McLaren F1 GTR BMW S70/2 6.0 L V12 21 JPN Akihiko Nakaya Dunlop 1–3, 5–6 JPN Mitsuhiro Kinoshita 1 JPN Yasushi Hitotsuyama 2–4, NC JPN Naoki Hattori 4–7, NC JPN Mikio Hitotsuyama 7 Nismo Nissan Nissan Skyline GT-R Nissan RB26DETT 2.7 L Twin Turbo I6 22 GER Michael Krumm Bridgestone All JPN Tetsuya Tanaka All 23 FRA Érik Comas All JPN Masami Kageyama All Tsuchiya Engineering Toyota Toyota Supra Toyota 3S-GT 2.0 L Turbo I4 25 JPN Manabu Orido Yokohama 1–7 JPN Seiji Ara 1–7 Team Take One McLaren McLaren F1 GTR BMW S70/2 6.0 L V12 30 POR André Couto Bridgestone 1–7 JPN Hideki Okada 1–7 Toyota Team Cerumo Toyota Toyota Supra Toyota 3S-GT 2.0 L Turbo I4 33 JPN Masahiko Kondo Bridgestone All JPN Ukyo Katayama 1–4, 6–7, NC JPN Shigekazu Wakisaka 5 38 JPN Yuji Tachikawa All JPN Hironori Takeuchi All Toyota Team TOM'S Toyota Toyota Supra Toyota 3S-GT 2.0 L Turbo I4 36 JPN Takeshi Tsuchiya Michelin All JPN Takuya Kurosawa 1–4, 6–7 ITA Paolo Montin 5 AUS Wayne Gardner NC 37 AUS Wayne Gardner 1–7 JPN Shinichi Yamaji 1–7 Denso Toyota Team SARD Toyota Toyota Supra Toyota 3S-GT 2.0 L Turbo I4 39 FRA Jérémie Dufour Yokohama 1–7 JPN Masahiko Kageyama 1–2 FRA Romain Dumas 3–7 Mobil 1 Nakajima Racing Honda Honda NSX Honda C32B 3.5 L V6 64 JPN Tsugio Matsuda Bridgestone All GER Dominik Schwager All JLOC Lamborghini Lamborghini Diablo JGT-1 Lamborghini L532 6.0 L V12 88 ITA Marco Apicella Dunlop All JPN Naohiro Furuya All Raybrig Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft Honda Honda NSX Honda C32B 3.5 L V6 100 JPN Akira Iida Bridgestone All JPN Daisuke Ito All GT300 Team Make Car Engine No. Car number Drivers Tyre Rounds TOM'S Spirit Toyota Toyota MR-S Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 0 JPN Masahiro Matsunaga Yokohama All JPN Kumi Sato All Dream28 Honda Honda NSX Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 2 JPN Kazuho Takahashi Yokohama 5, 6JPN Hiroshi Kimura 5JPN Akira Watanabe 6 Hasemi Motorsport Nissan Nissan Silvia (S15) Nissan SR20DET 2.0 L Turbo I4 3 JPN Yuji Ide Yokohama AllJPN Masataka Yanagida All BSA Porsche Team Competizione Porsche Porsche 993 RS Porsche M64/60 3.6 L Turbo F6 5 MYS Key Soon Yue Michelin NCMYS Ila Ridak NC 15 HKG Siu Tit Lung NCHKG Siu Yuk Lung NC RE Amemiya Racing Mazda Mazda RX-7 Mazda RE20B 2.0 L 3-rotor 7 JPN Tetsuya Yamano Yokohama AllJPN Haruhiko Matsumoto All Team Daikokuya Porsche Porsche 993 RS Porsche M64/80 3.6 L Turbo F6 9 JPN Akira Watanabe Yokohama 1–5JPN Tsunefumi Hioki 1, 4–6JPN Yukihiro Hane 2, NCJPN Yosuke Shimoshima NC, 6 Ability Motorsport Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-R Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 10 JPN Yutaka Yamagishi Yokohama 1–2, 4JPN Takahisa Ohno 1–2, 4 Team Gainer Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-R Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 11JPN Junichi Ikura Yokohama AllJPN Koji Ushikubo 1, 7JPN Yusei Maki 2–6 Racing Project Bandoh Toyota Toyota MR-S Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 19 JPN Satoshi Goto Yokohama All JPN Minoru Tanaka All Team Taisan Porsche Porsche 911 GT3-R Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 24 JPN Hideshi Matsuda Yokohama AllJPN Kazuyuki Nishizawa All 26 JPN Atsushi Yogo AllJPN Hideo Fukuyama All Chrysler Chrysler Viper GTS-R Chrysler EWB 8.0 L V10 55 JPN Eiji Yamada AllJPN Takayuki Kinoshita All ARTA with A'PEX Toyota Toyota MR-S Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 31 JPN Morio Nitta Yokohama AllJPN Shinichi Takagi All Auto Staff Racing Nissan Nissan Silvia (S15) Nissan SR20DET 2.0 L Turbo I4 51 JPN Naofumi Omoto Yokohama 2–7JPN Yasukichi Yamamoto 2–7 R&D Sport Porsche Porsche 911 GT3-R Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 62 JPN Shinsuke Shibahara Dunlop AllJPN Yasuhisa Fujiwara 1–2JPN Shogo Mitsuyama 3–7 63 JPN "OSAMU" AllJPN Takamasa Nakagawa All Amprex Motorsports Mazda Mazda RX-7 Mazda RE20B 2.0 L 3-rotor 65 JPN Genji Hashimoto Yokohama NCHKG Charles Kwan NC Team Gaikokuya Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-RS Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 70 JPN Yoshimi Ishibashi Dunlop AllJPN Hiroaki Suga All SigmaTec Racing Team Toyota Toyota MR-S Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 71 JPN Guts Jyonai Yokohama 1, 3–7 JPN Eiichi Tajima 1, 3–7 Cusco Racing Subaru Subaru Impreza WRX STI Subaru EJ20 2.0 L Turbo F4 77 JPN Katsuo Kobayashi Yokohama AllJPN Tatsuya Tanigawa All Team Daishin Nissan Nissan Silvia (S15) Nissan SR20DET 2.0 L Turbo I4 81 JPN Nobuyuki Ohyagi Yokohama AllJPN Takayuki Aoki All KRAFT Toyota Toyota Corolla Sprinter Trueno (AE86) Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 86 JPN Masaoki Nagashima Yokohama 1–3 JPN Koji Matsuda 1–3 Toyota MR-S JPN Masaoki Nagashima 4–7 JPN Koji Matsuda 4–7 Dentaire ProJet Racing Ferrari Ferrari 360 Ferrari F131B 3.6 L V8 360 JPN Seigo Nishizawa Yokohama All JPN Kota Sasaki All Team Sri Lanka Mosler Mosler MT900R Chevrolet LS1 5.7 L V8 900LKA Dilantha Malagamuwa Yokohama 1–4 JPN Takeshi Asami 1–4 POR João Barbosa NC A&S Racing Mosler Mosler MT900R Chevrolet LS1 5.7 L V8 901JPN Takeshi Asami Yokohama 5 JPN Yasutaka Hinoi 5–6 JPN Tetsuji Tamanaka 6–7 JPN Tetsuya Nakajima 6–7 910 Racing Porsche Porsche 996 GT3 RS Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 910 JPN Jukuchou Sunako Yokohama AllJPN Hisashi Wada AllGBR Adam Wilcox NC 911 JPN Masamitsu Ishihara 2, 4JPN Akira Hirakawa 1 Schedule Round Race Circuit Date 1 GT Championship in TI JPN TI Circuit April 15 2 All Japan Fuji GT Race JPN Fuji Speedway May 4 3 SUGO GT Championship JPN Sportsland SUGO May 27 NC Tmtouch Japan GT Championship Malaysia MYS Sepang Circuit June 24 4 Japan Special GT Cup JPN Fuji Speedway August 5 5 Motegi GT Championship Race JPN Twin Ring Motegi September 16 6 Suzuka GT 300 km JPN Suzuka Circuit October 28 7 CP Mine GT Race JPN Mine Circuit November 11 Season results Round Circuit GT500 Winning Team GT300 Winning Team GT500 Winning Drivers GT300 Winning Drivers 1 TI Circuit JPN #1 Loctite Mugen Honda NSX JPN #31 ARTA A'PEX Toyota MR-S JPN Hidetoshi MitsusadaJPN Ryō Michigami JPN Morio NittaJPN Shinichi Takagi 2 Mt. Fuji JPN #6 ESSO Toyota Supra JPN #81 Advan Team Daishin Nissan Silvia JPN Hideki NodaJPN Juichi Wakisaka JPN Takayuki AokiJPN Noboyuki Oyagi 3 Sportsland SUGO JPN #37 ZENT TOM'S Toyota Supra JPN #7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7 JPN Shinichi YamajiAUS Wayne Gardner JPN Haruhiko MatsumotoJPN Tetsuya Yamano NC Sepang Circuit JPN #6 ESSO Toyota Supra JPN #3 Hasemi Motorsports Nissan Silvia JPN Hideki NodaJPN Juichi Wakisaka JPN Masataka YanagidaJPN Yuji Ide 4 Mt. Fuji JPN #22 Xanavi NISMO Nissan Skyline GT-R JPN #81 Advan Team Daishin Nissan Silvia JPN Tetsuya TanakaDEU Michael Krumm JPN Takayuki AokiJPN Noboyuki Oyagi 5 Twin Ring Motegi JPN #64 Mobil 1 Honda NSX JPN #19 WedsSport Toyota MR-S JPN Tsugio MatsudaDEU Dominik Schwager JPN Minoru TanakaJPN Satoshi Goto 6 Suzuka Circuit JPN #8 ARTA Honda NSX JPN #86 KRAFT Toyota MR-S JPN Keiichi TsuchiyaJPN Katsutomo Kaneishi JPN Koji MatsudaJPN Masaoki Nagashima 7 Mine Circuit JPN #30 Team Take One McLaren F1 GTR JPN #71 Sigma Tech Toyota MR-S POR Andre CoutoJPN Hideki Okada JPN Eiichi TajimaJPN Guts Jyonai Standings GT500 class Drivers' standings Scoring system Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Points 20 15 12 10 8 6 4 3 2 1 RankNo.DriverTAIJPNFUJJPNSUGJPNSEPMALAYSIAFUJJPNMOTJPNSUZJPNMINJPNPTS138JPN Hironori TakeuchiJPN Yuji TachikawaRet2312426165828JPN Katsutomo KaneishiJPN Keiichi Tsuchiya262912111Ret5631JPN Ryō MichigamiJPN Hidetoshi Mitsusada184551221256423FRA Érik ComasJPN Masami Kageyama1341042Ret3253522GER Michael KrummJPN Tetsuya Tanaka43Ret31108652637/36AUS Wayne Gardner591Ret108494637JPN Shinichi Yamaji76JPN Hideki NodaJPN Juichi WakisakaRet151313Ret1440864JPN Tsugio MatsudaGER Dominik Schwager31214861RetRet38930POR André CoutoJPN Hideki Okada8Ret121661013010100JPN Akira IidaJPN Daisuke Ito65Ret694138291112JPN Satoshi Motoyama15Ret7773115281236JPN Takeshi Tsuchiya11108Ret8557271312JPN Kazuyoshi Hoshino773115241439FRA Jérémie Dufour77913Ret94221536JPN Takuya Kurosawa11108857191618FRA Sébastien Philippe1415621514123181739FRA Romain Dumas913Ret94141818FRA Benoît Tréluyer14123121925JPN Manabu OridoJPN Seiji Ara91111DNQ7710112036ITA Paolo Montin582139JPN Masahiko Kageyama7782218JPN Hiroki Katoh1415621562312/21JPN Naoki Hattori15Ret71011RetRet1142433JPN Masahiko Kondo12141311149Ret13233JPN Shigekazu Wakisaka2621JPN Akihiko Nakaya1013RetRetRet121JPN Mitsuhiro Kinoshita-21JPN Yasushi Hitotsuyama13Ret10110-21JPN Mikio Hitotsuyama110-33JPN Ukyo Katayama1212131114Ret130-88ITA Marco ApicellaJPN Naohiro FuruyaDNSRetDNSRetRet1514150RankDriverTAIJPNFUJJPNSUGJPNSEPMALAYSIAFUJJPNMOTJPNSUZJPNMINJPNPTS GT500 Teams' standings For teams that entered multiple cars, only the best result from each round counted towards the teams' championship.JGTC 2001 Ranking http://supergt.net/archive/classic/supergt.net/jgtc/race/2001e/01ranking2.htm 2021-10-16 supergt.net RankTeamNo.TAIJPNFUJJPNSUGJPNSEPMALAYSIAFUJJPNMOTJPNSUZJPNMINJPNPTS 1 Nismo 22 4 316Ret3 1 10 8 6 71 23 13 4 104 218Ret 3 2 2 Mugen x Dome Project 1 1 8 45 5 12 2 12 68 18 14 15 62 15 14 12 3 3 Toyota Team Cerumo 33 12 14 1311 14 918Ret 13 58 3816Ret 2 312 4 2 6 16 4 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri 8 2 6 29 12 11 118Ret 56 5 Toyota Team TOM'S 36 11 10 8Ret 8 5 5 7 55 37 5 9 1 10 8 4 9 6 Esso Toyota Team LeMans 617Ret 1 5 1 3 1315Ret 14 40 7 Mobil 1 Nakajima Racing 64 3 12 14 8 6 117Ret17Ret 38 8 Team Take One 30 816Ret 12 16 6 10 1 30 9 Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft 100 6 515Ret 6 9 4 13 8 29 10 Team Impul 12 1517Ret 7 7 7 3 11 5 28 11 Toyota Team SARD 39 7 7 9 1316Ret 9 4 22 12 Tsuchiya Engineering 25 9 11 1120- 7 7 10 11 13 Hitotsuyama Racing 21 10 1317Ret 10 1117Ret16Ret 11 1- JLOC 8818DNS18Ret17DNSRet17Ret 15 14 15 0RankTeamNo.TAIJPNFUJJPNSUGJPNSEPMALAYSIAFUJJPNMOTJPNSUZJPNMINJPNPTS GT300 Drivers' championship Rank No. Driver TAIJPN FUJJPN SUGJPNSEPMALAYSIA FUJJPN MOTJPN SUZJPN MINJPN Pts. 1 81JPN Nobuyuki OhyagiJPN Takayuki Aoki 12 1 4 1 4 Ret 6 66 2 7JPN Tetsuya YamanoJPN Haruhiko Matsumoto351471511 54 3 910JPN Hisashi Wada 5 6 2 7 6 10 4 5 54JPN Jukuchou Sunako43JPN Yuji IdeJPN Masataka Yanagida 6 2 12 1 2 9 2 1253 5 24JPN Hideshi MatsudaJPN Kazuyuki Nishizawa 11 4 5 6 7 3 16 2 49626JPN Atsushi YogoJPN Hideo Fukuyama 4 17 7 4 13 2 3 8 44731JPN Morio NittaJPN Shinichi Takagi 1 3 Ret 3 5 Ret Ret 17 40877JPN Katsuo KobayashiJPN Tatsuya Tanigawa 2 Ret 3 2 10 6 Ret Ret 34 9 19JPN Satoshi GotoJPN Minoru TanakaDNA 16 10 3 1 17 13 33 10 62JPN Shinsuke Shibahara 7 Ret 9 10 11 5 6 4 301162JPN Shogo Mitsuyama 9 10 11 5 6 426 12 63JPN "OSAMU"JPN Takamasa Nakagawa 9 8 6 17 17 5 7 23 13 86JPN Masaoki NagashimaJPN Koji Matsuda Ret 18 Ret DNA 18 1 10 21 14 71JPN Guts JyonaiJPN Eiichi Tajima Ret DNA Ret Ret Ret 11 1 20 15 55JPN Eiji YamadaJPN Takayuki Kinoshita 8 9DNA 8 9 14DNA 3 191651JPN Naofumi OmotoJPN Yasukichi Yamamoto 14 13 8 8 14 9 8170JPN Masahiro MatsunagaJPN Kumi Sato 10 11 Ret Ret 11 7 Ret51811JPN Junichi Ikura 14 13 8 14 15 9DNA 51811JPN Yusei Maki 13 8 14 15 9 5 20 62JPN Yasuhisa Fujiwara 7 Ret 4 20 9/2JPN Akira Watanabe Ret 7 Ret 16 13 420 9JPN Yukihiro Hane 7 11 423 360JPN Seigo NishizawaJPN Kota Sasaki 16 Ret Ret 12 Ret 12 8 16 324 900SRI Dilantha Malagamuwa 13 10 14 5 15 1 24 900/901JPN Takeshi Asami 13 10 14 Ret 1 24 70JPN Yoshimi IshibashiJPN Hiroaki Suga 15 12 11 9 12 19 10 14 1NC9JPN Tsunefumi Hioki Ret Ret 16 120NC9JPN Yosuke Shimoshima 11 120 NC 2JPN Kazuho Takahashi 13 130 NC 2JPN Hiroshi Kimura 13 0NC11JPN Koji Ushikubo 14DNA0 NC 911JPN Masamitsu IshiharaJPN Akira Hirakawa 15 16 0 NC 900/901JPN Tetsuya Nakajima 15 15 0NC901JPN Tetsuji Tamanaka Ret 150NC10JPN Yutaka YamagishiJPN Takahisa Ohno Ret 180NC901JPN Yasutaka Hinoi Ret Ret0NC900POR João Barbosa 50NC910GBR Adam Wilcox 7 0NC65JPN Genji HashimotoHKG Charles Kwan Ret 0NC5MALAYSIA Key Soon YueMALAYSIA Ila RidakDSQ 0NC15HKG Siu Tit LungHKG Siu Yuk Lung DNR0RankNo.DriverTAIJPNFUJJPNSUGJPNSEPMALAYSIAFUJJPNMOTJPNSUZJPNMINJPNPts. GT300 Teams' standings For teams that entered multiple cars, only the best result from each round counted towards the teams' championship. RankTeamNo.TAIJPNFUJJPNSUGJPNSEPMALAYSIAFUJJPNMOTJPNSUZJPNMINJPNPTS 1 Team Taisan with Advan 241145673162 74 2641774132382 Team Daishin 81121414Ret6663RE Amemiya Racing 735147151154 4 910 Racing 910562761045 54 91115165 Hasemi Motorsport 36212129212536 ARTA with A'PEX 3113Ret35RetRet1740 7 R&D Sport 627Ret91011564 39 639861717578Cusco Racing 772Ret32106RetRet349Racing Project Bandoh 19DNA161031171333 10 KRAFT 86Ret18RetDNA18110 21 11 SigmaTec Racing Team 71RetDNARetRetRet111 20 12 Team Taisan Advan jr. 5589DNA8914DNA3 1913 Auto Staff Racing 51141388149814 TOM'S Spirit 01011RetRet117Ret 5 15 Team Gainer 111413814159DNA 516Team Daikokuya9Ret711Ret1612417Dentaire ProJet Racing36014RetRet12Ret12816318 Team Sri Lanka9001310145151 18Team Gaikokuya70151211912191014 1NCDream28213130NCA&S Racing901RetRet150NCAbility Motorsport10Ret180NCAmprex Motorsports65Ret0NCBSA Porsche Team Competizione5DSQ015DNR0RankTeamNo.TAIJPNFUJJPNSUGJPNSEPMALAYSIAFUJJPNMOTJPNSUZJPNMINJPNPTS References External links Super GT/JGTC official race archive ja Category:Super GT seasons JGTC