1999 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship

The 1999 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the seventh season of Japan Automobile Federation GT premiere racing. It was marked as well as the seventeenth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The GT500 class champion of that season was the Pennzoil Nismo GT-R driven by Érik Comas and Satoshi Motoyama and the GT300 class champion was the MOMOCORSE A'PEX MR2 driven by Morio Nitta and Shinichi Takagi.

1999 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship
Previous:	1998	Next:	2000

The season was marred by the death of reigning GT300 Champion, Shingo Tachi, in a pre-season testing crash at TI Circuit Aida on March 11, 1999. Tachi was to drive the number 6 Esso Toyota Supra for Toyota Team LeMans. Kunimitsu Takahashi retired from his racing career at the end of the season at aged 59.

Schedule

Round	Race	Circuit	Date
1	Suzuka GT 300	Suzuka Circuit	March 21
2	All Japan Fuji GT Race	Fuji Speedway	May 2
3	SUGO GT Championship	Sportsland SUGO	May 30
4	CP Mine GT Race	Mine Circuit	July 11
5	JPN Special GT Cup	Fuji Speedway	August 8
6	GT Championship in TI	TI Circuit	September 26
7	Motegi GT Championship Race	Twin Ring Motegi	October 24
NC	Nicos Cup GT AllStar	Autopolis	November 28

Season results

Round	Circuit	GT500 Winning Team	GT300 Winning Team
Round	Circuit	GT500 Winning Drivers	GT300 Winning Drivers
1	Suzuka	#18 Takata Honda NSX	#19 Racing Project Bandoh Toyota Celica
1	Suzuka	Juichi Wakisaka Katsutomo Kaneishi	Takahiko Hara Manabu Orido
2	Mt. Fuji	#100 Raybrig Honda NSX	#25 MOMOCORSE A'PEX Toyota MR2
2	Mt. Fuji	Kunimitsu Takahashi Akira Iida	Shinichi Takagi Morio Nitta
3	Sportsland SUGO	#36 Castrol TOM'S Toyota Supra	#15 Xanavi ARTA Nissan Silvia
3	Sportsland SUGO	Takuya Kurosawa Masanori Sekiya	Yuji Ide Takeshi Tsuchiya
4	Mine Circuit	#1 Pennzoil Nissan Skyline GT-R	#15 Xanavi ARTA Nissan Silvia
4	Mine Circuit	Satoshi Motoyama Érik Comas	Yuji Ide Takeshi Tsuchiya
5	Mt. Fuji	#6 ESSO TOM'S Toyota Supra	#26 STP Advan Taisan Porsche 911 GT3 R
5	Mt. Fuji	Hideki Noda Wayne Gardner	Hideshi Matsuda Dominik Schwager
6	TI Circuit	#64 Mobil 1 Honda NSX	#15 Xanavi ARTA Nissan Silvia
6	TI Circuit	Hidetoshi Mitsusada Tom Coronel	Yuji Ide Takeshi Tsuchiya
7	Twin Ring Motegi	#36 Castrol TOM'S Toyota Supra	#26 STP Advan Taisan Porsche 911 GT3 R
7	Twin Ring Motegi	Takuya Kurosawa Masanori Sekiya	Hideshi Matsuda Dominik Schwager
NC	Autopolis	#64 Mobil 1 Honda NSX	#77 Cusco Subaru Impreza
NC	Autopolis	Hidetoshi Mitsusada Tom Coronel	Tatsuya Tanigawa Katsuo Kobayashi

Point Ranking

GT500

Drivers

Rank	No.	Driver	SUZ	FUJ	SUG	MIN	FUJ	TAI	MOT	AUT	Points
1	1	Érik Comas	2	4	6	1	3	7	3	4	77
2	36	Takuya Kurosawa Masanori Sekiya	4	9	1	10	4	4	1	6	73
3	1	Satoshi Motoyama	2		6	1	3	7	3	4	69
4	18	Juichi Wakisaka Katsutomo Kaneishi	1	19Ret	18Ret	11	2	3	16Ret	Ret	47
5	64	Tom Coronel	11	14	4	16Ret	8	1	5	1	41
6	2	Aguri Suzuki	5	11	9	12	12	2	2	3	40
6	2	Michael Krumm	5		9	12	12	2	2	3	40
8	12	Kazuyoshi Hoshino Masami Kageyama	10	3	5	6	5	10	7	11	40
9	37	Toshio Suzuki	3	5	11	2	15	15	10	Ret	37
10	16	Osamu Nakako Ryo Michigami	14	12	3	3	9	16	4	5	36
11	100	Kunimitsu Takahashi Akira Iida	18Ret	1	13	15	7	5	9	2	34
12	6	Hideki Noda Wayne Gardner		8	16	5	1	9	13	15	33
13	64	Hidetoshi Mitsusada					8	1	5	1	31
14	38	Hironori Takeuchi Yuji Tachikawa	7	2	17Ret	8	6	8	12	7	31
15	37	Ukyo Katayama	3		11	2	15	15	10	Ret	28
16	35	Pierre-Henri Raphanel Shinichi Yamaji	13	16Ret	2	14	13	6	6		27
17	3	Masahiro Hasemi Tetsuya Tanaka	6	7	7	4	11	12	8	9	27
18	32	Takayuki Kinoshita Masahiko Kondo	8	6	8	17Ret	18Ret	11	15	8	12
19	64	Koji Yamanishi	11	14	4	16Ret					10
19	1	Anders Olofsson		4							10
21	37	Darren Manning		5							8
22	39	Satoshi Tsuchiya Masahiko Kageyama	16	15	19Ret	7	10	13	17Ret	13	5
23	30	Yoji Yamada Okada Hideki	17	18Ret	12	9	14	14	11	14	2
23	55	Eiichi Tajima	9	13	15	13				10	2
23	55	Hideshi Matsuda	9	13		13					2
27	11	Takao Wada Mitsuhiro Kinoshita	12	10	10		16				2
28	2	Armin Hahne		11							0
29	88	Hisashi Wada Naohiro Furuya	15	17Ret	14	18Ret	17	17Ret	14	12	0
30	55	Dominik Schwager			15						0
31	55	Motoyuki Yasuyuki								10	0

GT300 Class (Top 5)

Drivers

Rank	Drivers	Number/Team	Points	Wins
1	Morio Nitta	#25 MOMOCORSE A'PEX Toyota MR2	73	1
2	Yuji Ide Takeshi Tsuchiya	#15 Xanavi ARTA Nissan Silvia	72	3
3	Takahiko Hara Manabu Orido	#19 Racing Project Bandoh Toyota Celica	70	1
4	Shinichi Takagi	#25 MOMOCORSE A'PEX Toyota MR2	70	1
5	Tetsuya Yamano Haruhiko Matsumoto	#7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7	58	0

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External links

Super GT/JGTC official race archive (in Japanese)

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