1997 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship

The 1997 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the fifth season of Japan Automobile Federation GT premiere racing. It was marked as well as the fifteenth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The GT500 class champion was the #36 Castrol TOM'S Toyota Supra driven by Michael Krumm and Pedro de la Rosa and the GT300 class champion was the #19 Bandoh Racing Nissan Silvia driven by Hideo Fukuyama and Manabu Orido.

1997 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship
Previous: 1996 Next: 1998

The GT500 Drivers' Championship was decided on a tiebreaker for the first and, as of the conclusion of the 2019 season, the only time in JGTC/Super GT history. The duo of De la Rosa and Krumm, and Toyota Team SARD driver Masami Kageyama each scored 67 points, with two victories, and one second place finish. But a third-place finish for De la Rosa and Krumm broke the tie, giving them the championship for the Toyota Castrol Team. With this, De la Rosa became the first driver to win both the GT500 Drivers' Championship, and the Japanese Top Formula Championship in Formula Nippon (now Super Formula), in the same calendar year.

Schedule
Round Race Circuit Date
1 Suzuka GT 300 Suzuka Circuit March 30
2 All Japan Fuji GT Race Fuji Speedway May 4
3 HiLand GT Championship Sendai Hi-Land Raceway June 29
4 Japan Special GT-Cup Fuji Speedway August 10
5 CP Mine GT Race Mine Circuit October 5
6 SUGO GT Championship Sportsland SUGO October 26
NC Nicos Cup GT Allstar Race Twin Ring Motegi November 16


Season results
Round Circuit GT500 Winning Team GT300 Winning Team
GT500 Winning Drivers GT300 Winning Drivers
1 Suzuka Circuit #2 Zexel NISMO GT-R #19 Racing Project Bandoh Nissan Silvia
Aguri Suzuki
Érik Comas		 Hideo Fukuyama
Manabu Orido
2 Mt. Fuji #39 Denso Team SARD Toyota Supra #26 Team Taisan Jr Porsche 964
Masami Kageyama
Tatsuya Tanigawa		 Keiichi Suzuki
Morio Nitta
3 Sendai #36 Castrol TOM'S Toyota Supra #25 Tsuchiya Engineering Toyota MR-2
Michael Krumm
Pedro de la Rosa		 Takeshi Tsuchiya
Masaoki Nagashima
4 Mt. Fuji #39 Denso Team SARD Toyota Supra #26 Team Taisan Jr Porsche 964
Masami Kageyama
Tatsuya Tanigawa		 Keiichi Suzuki
Morio Nitta
5 Mine Circuit #36 Castrol TOM'S Toyota Supra #19 Racing Project Bandoh Nissan Silvia
Michael Krumm
Pedro de la Rosa		 Hideo Fukuyama
Manabu Orido
6 Sportsland SUGO #5 Team 5Zigen Toyota Supra #71 Team Sigmatech Porsche 993
Eiichi Tajima
Marc Goossens		 Kaoru Hoshino
Masaki Jyonai
NC Twin Ring Motegi #2 Zexel NISMO GT-R #27 Ferrari Club Japan Ferrari F355
Aguri Suzuki
Érik Comas		 Tetsuya Ota
Anders Olofsson
#2 Zexel NISMO GT-R #27 Ferrari Club Japan Ferrari F355
Aguri Suzuki
Érik Comas		 Tetsuya Ota
Anders Olofsson

Point Ranking

GT500 Class

Drivers
Rank No. Driver SUZ FUJ SEN FUJ MIN SUG MOT MOT Points
1 36 Pedro de la Rosa

Michael Krumm

 13 3 1 2 1 15 67
2 39 Masami Kageyama 2 1 5 1 13 7 Ret 12Ret 67
3 37 Toshio Suzuki 3 6 3 3 3 4 3 2 64
3 37 Masanori Sekiya 3 6 3 3 3 4 64
36 Ret 5
4 2 Aguri Suzuki 1 4 2 10 9 3 1 1 60
5 39 Tatsuya Tanigawa 1 5 1 13 7 Ret 12Ret 52
6 2 Érik Comas 1 2 10 9 3 1 1 50
7 3 Masahiro Hasemi

Tetsuya Tanaka

 4 2 9 6 7 17Ret 4 3 37
8 5 Eiichi Tajima 6 12Ret 6 19Ret 12 1 7 10 32
8 5 Marc Goossens 6 12Ret 6 19Ret 12 1 32
9 100 Kunimitsu Takahashi

Akira Iida

 16Ret 16 11 2 2 10 11 30
10 38 Hironori Takeuchi

Katsutomo Kaneishi

 7 9 4 8 5 10 2 4 28
11 12 Satoshi Motoyama 14Ret 5 15 4 6 14 24
12 8 Naoki Nagasaka 7 4 6 20
13 12 Kazuyoshi Hoshino 14Ret 15 4 6 14 Ret 6 16
14 39 Olivier Grouillard 2 15
15 8 Bertrand Gachot

Paul Belmondo

 10 14Ret 12
510 8 5 11
16 18 Takuya Kurosawa

Katsumi Yamamoto

 17Ret 18Ret 17Ret 8 5 8 9 11
17 2 Marco Apicella 4 10
17 8 Tom Kristensen 15 4 10
19 556 Masahiko Kageyama

Masahiko Kondo

 5 11Ret 14 9 15Ret 16Ret 14Ret 7 10
20 8 Wayne Gardner 7 15 6 10
21 12 Mizuno Fuminori 5 8
22 13 Mitsuhiro Kinoshita 8 13Ret 11 7 10 12 8
23 13 Mitsuo Fujimura 13Ret 11 7 10 12 5
24 10 Satoshi Iida

Ralph Firman

 12 7 13 13 19DNQ 4
25 34 Keiichi Tsuchiya

Hideshi Matsuda

 10 20Ret 14 8 6 12Ret 4
26 30 Yoji Yamada

Kazuo Mogi

 9 10Ret 12 12 11 9 5 8 4
27 4 Kanaumi Tatsuhiko

Takeru Koma

 11 8 19DNQ 16 18DNQ 3
27 13 Satoshi Kikuchi 8 3
28 88 Takao Wada

Hisashi Wada

 15Ret 17Ret 14 17Ret 13 9 13Ret 0
29 47 Yamato Masato

Katsuhiko Yamamoto

 18Ret 0
30 37 Shingo Tachi 3 2 0
31 36 Ukyo Katayama 11Ret 5 0
32 12 Takeshi Tsuchiya 13Ret 6 0
33 5 Hiro Matsushita 7 10 0

GT300 Class (Top 5)

Drivers
Rank Drivers Number/Team Points Wins
1 Hideo Fukuyama
Manabu Orido		 #19 Racing Project Bandoh Nissan Silvia 90 2
2 Keiichi Suzuki
Morio Nitta		 #26 Team Taisan Jr Porsche 964 89 2
3 Masaoki Nagashima #25 Tsuchiya Engineering Toyota MR-2 52 1
4 Takeshi Tsuchiya #25 Tsuchiya Engineering Toyota MR-2 52 1
5 Kaoru Hoshino
Masaki Jyonai		 #71 Team Sigmatech Porsche 993 51 1
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