2001 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship

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 champions of 2001 were the #38 au Cerumo Toyota Supra team driven by Yuji Tachikawa and Hironori Takeuchi, who had not won a single race during the season. In the GT300 category, the class champions were the #81 Advan Team Daishin Nissan Silvia driven by Takayuki Aoki and Noboyuki Oyagi.

2001 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship
Previous:	2000	Next:	2002

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	No.	Drivers	Tyre	Rounds
Mugen x Dome Project	Honda	Honda NSX	1	Ryo Michigami	B	All
			1	Hidetoshi Mitsusada		All
			18	Sébastien Philippe		All
				Hiroki Katoh		1–4, NC
				Benoît Tréluyer		5–7
Esso Toyota Team LeMans	Toyota	Toyota Supra	6	Hideki Noda	B	All
Esso Toyota Team LeMans	Toyota	Toyota Supra	6	Juichi Wakisaka	B	All
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	Honda	Honda NSX	8	Katsutomo Kaneishi	B	All
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	Honda	Honda NSX	8	Keiichi Tsuchiya	B	All
Calsonic Team Impul	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R	12	Satoshi Motoyama	B	All
				Naoki Hattori		1–3
				Kazuyoshi Hoshino		4–7, NC
Hitotsuyama Racing	McLaren	McLaren F1 GTR	21	Akihiko Nakaya	D	1–3, 5–6
				Mitsuhiro Kinoshita		1
				Yasushi Hitotsuyama		2–4, NC
				Naoki Hattori		4–7, NC
				Mikio Hitotsuyama		7
Nismo	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R	22	Michael Krumm	B	All
			22	Tetsuya Tanaka		All
			23	Érik Comas		All
			23	Masami Kageyama		All
Tsuchiya Engineering	Toyota	Toyota Supra	25	Manabu Orido	Y	1–7
Tsuchiya Engineering	Toyota	Toyota Supra	25	Seiji Ara	Y	1–7
Team Take One	McLaren	McLaren F1 GTR	30	André Couto	B	1–7
Team Take One	McLaren	McLaren F1 GTR	30	Hideki Okada	B	1–7
Toyota Team Cerumo	Toyota	Toyota Supra	33	Masahiko Kondo	B	All
				Ukyo Katayama		1–4, 6–7, NC
				Shigekazu Wakisaka		5
			38	Yuji Tachikawa		All
			38	Hironori Takeuchi		All
Toyota Team TOM'S	Toyota	Toyota Supra	36	Takeshi Tsuchiya	M	All
				Takuya Kurosawa		1–4, 6–7
				Paolo Montin		5
				Wayne Gardner		NC
			37	Wayne Gardner		1–7
			37	Shinichi Yamaji		1–7
Denso Toyota Team SARD	Toyota	Toyota Supra	39	Jérémie Dufour	Y	1–7
				Masahiko Kageyama		1–2
				Romain Dumas		3–7
Mobil 1 Nakajima Racing	Honda	Honda NSX	64	Tsugio Matsuda	B	All
Mobil 1 Nakajima Racing	Honda	Honda NSX	64	Dominik Schwager	B	All
JLOC	Lamborghini	Lamborghini Diablo GT-1	88	Marco Apicella	D	All
JLOC	Lamborghini	Lamborghini Diablo GT-1	88	Naohiro Furuya	D	All
Raybrig Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft	Honda	Honda NSX	100	Akira Iida	B	All
Raybrig Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft	Honda	Honda NSX	100	Daisuke Ito	B	All

Schedule

Round	Race	Circuit	Date
1	GT Championship in TI	TI Circuit	April 15
2	All Japan Fuji GT Race	Fuji Speedway	May 4
3	SUGO GT Championship	Sportsland SUGO	May 27
NC	Tmtouch Japan GT Championship Malaysia	Sepang Circuit	June 24
4	Japan Special GT Cup	Fuji Speedway	August 5
5	Motegi GT Championship Race	Twin Ring Motegi	September 16
6	Suzuka GT 300 km	Suzuka Circuit	October 28
7	CP Mine GT Race	Mine Circuit	November 11

Season results

Round	Circuit	GT500 Winning Team	GT300 Winning Team
Round	Circuit	GT500 Winning Drivers	GT300 Winning Drivers
1	TI Circuit	#1 Loctite Mugen Honda NSX	#31 ARTA A'PEX Toyota MR-S
1	TI Circuit	Hidetoshi Mitsusada Ryo Michigami	Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi
2	Mt. Fuji	#6 ESSO Toyota Supra	#81 Advan Team Daishin Nissan Silvia
2	Mt. Fuji	Hideki Noda Juichi Wakisaka	Takayuki Aoki Noboyuki Oyagi
3	Sportsland SUGO	#37 ZENT TOM'S Toyota Supra	#7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7
3	Sportsland SUGO	Shinichi Yamaji Wayne Gardner	Haruhiko Matsumoto Tetsuya Yamano
NC	Sepang Circuit	#6 ESSO Toyota Supra	#3 Hasemi Motorsports Nissan Silvia
NC	Sepang Circuit	Hideki Noda Juichi Wakisaka	Masataka Yanagida Yuji Ide
4	Mt. Fuji	#22 Xanavi NISMO Nissan Skyline GT-R	#81 Advan Team Daishin Nissan Silvia
4	Mt. Fuji	Tetsuya Tanaka Michael Krumm	Takayuki Aoki Noboyuki Oyagi
5	Twin Ring Motegi	#64 Mobil 1 Honda NSX	#19 WedsSport Toyota MR-S
5	Twin Ring Motegi	Tsugio Matsuda Dominik Schwager	Minoru Tanaka Satoshi Goto
6	Suzuka Circuit	#8 ARTA Honda NSX	#86 KRAFT Toyota MR-S
6	Suzuka Circuit	Keiichi Tsuchiya Katsutomo Kaneishi	Koji Matsuda Masaoki Nagashima
7	Mine Circuit	#30 Team Take One McLaren F1 GTR	#71 Sigma Tech Toyota MR-S
7	Mine Circuit	Andre Couto Hideki Okada	Eiichi Tajima 'Guts' Jyonai

Standings

GT500 Drivers

Scoring system

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Points	20	15	12	10	8	6	4	3	2	1

Rank	Driver	TAI	FUJ	SUG	FUJ	MOT	SUZ	MIN	PTS
1	Hironori Takeuchi Yuji Tachikawa	Ret	2	3	4	2	6	16	58
2	Katsutomo Kaneishi Keiichi Tsuchiya	2	6	2	12	11	1	Ret	56
3	Ryo Michigami Hidetoshi Mitsusada	1	8	4	5	12	2	12	56
4	Érik Comas Masami Kageyama	13	4	10	2	Ret	3	2	53
5	Michael Krumm Tetsuya Tanaka	4	3	Ret	1	10	8	6	52
6	Shinichi Yamaji Wayne Gardner	5	9	1	10	8	4	9	46
7	Hideki Noda Juichi Wakisaka	Ret	1	5	3	13	Ret	14	40
8	Tsugio Matsuda Dominik Schwager	3	12	14	6	1	Ret	Ret	38
9	André Couto Hideki Okada	8	Ret	12	16	6	10	1	30
10	Akira Iida Daisuke Ito	6	5	Ret	9	4	13	8	29
11	Satoshi Motoyama	15	Ret	7	7	3	11	5	28
12	Takeshi Tsuchiya	11	10	8	8	5	5	7	27
13	Kazuyoshi Hoshino				7	3	11	5	24
14	Jérémie Dufour	7	7	9	13	Ret	9	4	22
15	Takuya Kurosawa	11	10	8	8		5	7	19
16	Sébastien Philippe	14	15	6	15	14	12	3	18
17	Romain Dumas			9	13	Ret	9	4	14
18	Benoît Tréluyer					14	12	3	12
19	Manabu Orido Seiji Ara	9	11	11	DNQ	7	7	10	11
20	Paolo Montin					5			8
21	Masahiko Kageyama	7	7						8
22	Hiroki Katoh	14	15	6	15				6
23	Naoki Hattori	15	Ret	7	11	Ret	Ret	11	4
24	Masahiko Kondo	12	14	13	14	9	Ret	13	2
24	Shigekazu Wakisaka					9			2
26	Akihiko Nakaya	10	13	Ret		Ret	Ret		1
26	Mitsuhiro Kinoshita	10							1
Rank	Driver	TAI	FUJ	SUG	FUJ	MOT	SUZ	MIN	PTS

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd place
Bronze	3rd place
Green	Points finish
Blue	Non-points finish
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Retired (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red	Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
	Withdrew (WD)
	Race cancelled (C)
Blank	Did not participate (DNP)
Blank	Excluded (EX)

GT300 Class (Top 5)

Drivers

Rank	Drivers	Number/Team	Points	Wins
1	Takayuki Aoki Noboyuki Oyagi	#81 Advan Team Daishin Nissan Silvia	66	2
2	Haruhiko Matsumoto Tetsuya Yamano	#7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7	54	1
3	Hisashi Wada Sunako Jukucho	#910 Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R	54	0
4	Masataka Yanagida Yuji Ide	#3 Hasemi Motorsports Nissan Silvia	53	0
5	Hideshi Matsuda Kazuyuki Nishizawa	#24 Advan Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT3R	49	0

External links

Super GT/JGTC official race archive (in Japanese)

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