2014 Super GT Series

The 2014 Autobacs Super GT Series was the twenty-second season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship including the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era, and the tenth season under the name Super GT. It marked the thirty-second season overall of a Japanese professional sportscar championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. It was the first year of new GT500 regulations as the 2014 season saw unified technical regulations with the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters. The season began on April 6 and ended on November 16, after 8 races.

2014 Super GT Series
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Schedule

A provisional calendar was released on August 12, 2013.[1]

Round	Race	Circuit	Date
1	Okayama GT 300 km	Okayama International Circuit	April 6
2	Fuji GT 1 500 km	Fuji Speedway	May 4
3	Autopolis GT 300 km	Autopolis	June 1
4	Sugo GT 300 km	Sportsland SUGO	July 20
5	Fuji GT 2 300 km	Fuji Speedway	August 10
6	43rd International Suzuka 1000km 1000 km	Suzuka Circuit	August 31
7	Buriram United Super GT Race 300 km	Chang International Circuit	October 5
8	Motegi GT 250 km	Twin Ring Motegi	November 16

Suzuka Motegi Autopolis Fuji SUGO Okayama 2014 Japanese venues

Chang 2014 International venue

Calendar changes

• The Autopolis race was moved from its October date to the June date previously held by the Super Formula championship.
• After being on the calendar since 2000, the race at the Sepang International Circuit will not be held in 2014.
• After being on the provisional calendar as a non-championship round for 2013, the championship was scheduled to race in South Korea for the first time, at a yet to be determined venue. However, on December 16, 2013, the race was again cancelled.[2]
• The championship will also host its first race in Thailand, at the newly built Buriram United International Circuit.
• The non-championship races at the JAF Grand Prix, was dropped for the 2014 season, the JAF Grand Prix later becoming the final round of the 2014 Super Formula season instead.[3][4]

Drivers and teams

GT500

Team	Make	Car	No.	Drivers	Tyre	Rounds
Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo[5]	Lexus	Lexus RC F	1	Kohei Hirate	B	All
				Yuji Tachikawa		All
Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS[5]	Lexus	Lexus RC F	6	Yuji Kunimoto	B	All
				Kazuya Oshima		All
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri[6]	Honda	Honda NSX-GT	8	Vitantonio Liuzzi	B	All
				Kosuke Matsuura		All
Team Impul[7]	Nissan	Nissan GT-R	12	João Paulo de Oliveira	B	All
				Hironobu Yasuda		All
Keihin Real Racing[6]	Honda	Honda NSX-GT	17	Toshihiro Kaneishi	B	All
				Koudai Tsukakoshi		All
Weider Modulo Dome Racing[6]	Honda	Honda NSX-GT	18	Naoki Yamamoto	M	All
				Jean-Karl Vernay		1–3
				Frédéric Makowiecki		4–7
				Takuya Izawa		8
Lexus Team WedsSport BANDOH[5][8]	Lexus	Lexus RC F	19	Yuhi Sekiguchi	Y	All
				Juichi Wakisaka		All
Nismo[7]	Nissan	Nissan GT-R	23	Tsugio Matsuda	M	All
				Ronnie Quintarelli		All
Kondo Racing[7]	Nissan	Nissan GT-R	24	Michael Krumm	Y	All
				Daiki Sasaki		All
Nakajima Racing[6]	Honda	Honda NSX-GT	32	Bertrand Baguette	D	All
				Daisuke Nakajima		All
Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S[5]	Lexus	Lexus RC F	36	James Rossiter	B	All
				Kazuki Nakajima[9]		1, 4–8
				Ryo Hirakawa[9]		2–3
Lexus Team KeePer TOM'S[5]	Lexus	Lexus RC F	37	Andrea Caldarelli	B	All
				Daisuke Ito		All
Lexus Team SARD[5]	Lexus	Lexus RC F	39	Hiroaki Ishiura	B	All
				Oliver Jarvis		All
MOLA[7]	Nissan	Nissan GT-R	46	Satoshi Motoyama	M	All
				Masataka Yanagida		All
Team Kunimitsu[6]	Honda	Honda NSX-GT	100	Takashi Kogure	B	All
				Hideki Mutoh		All

GT300

Team	Make	Car	No.	Drivers	Tyre	Rounds
Team Mugen[6]	Honda	Honda CR-Z	0	Yuhki Nakayama	B	All
				Tomoki Nojiri		All
				Ryo Michigami		6
Cars Tokai Dream28[10]	McLaren	McLaren MP4-12C GT3	2	Hiroki Katoh	Y	All
				Kazuho Takahashi		All
				Hiroshi Hamaguchi		6
NDDP Racing[7]	Nissan	Nissan GT-R GT3	3	Kazuki Hoshino	Y	All
				Lucas Ordóñez		All
				Wolfgang Reip		6
Goodsmile Racing & Team Ukyo[11]	BMW	BMW Z4 GT3	4	Tatsuya Kataoka	Y	All
				Nobuteru Taniguchi		All
Team Mach[12]	Nissan	Nissan GT-R GT3	5	Tetsuji Tamanaka	Y	1–3, 5–6
				Junichiro Yamashita		1–2, 5
				Kazuya Tsuruta		2, 6
				Naoya Yamano		3, 6
BMW Sports Trophy Team Studie[13]	BMW	BMW Z4 GT3	7	Jörg Müller	Y	All
				Seiji Ara		All
				Augusto Farfus		6
Pacific Direction Racing[14][15]	Porsche	Porsche 911 GT3	9	Takuya Shirasaka	Y	1–6, 8
				Yuya Sakamoto		1–2, 8
				Taiyo Iida		2, 6
				André Couto		3–6
Gainer[16]	Mercedes-Benz	Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3	10	Masayuki Ueda	D	All
				Hideki Yamauchi		All
			11	Katsuyuki Hiranaka		All
				Björn Wirdheim		All
Audi Team Hitotsuyama[17]	Audi	Audi R8 LMS ultra	21	Tomonobu Fujii	Y	All
				Richard Lyons		1, 3–8
				Carlo van Dam		2
				Christopher Haase		6
R'Qs Motor Sports[18]	Mercedes-Benz	Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3	22	Hisashi Wada	Y	All
				Takeshi Tsuchiya		1–3
				Tetsuya Tanaka		4
				Masaki Jyonai		5–8
apr[19][20]	Nissan	Nissan GT-R GT3	30	Yuki Iwasaki	Y	All
				Masami Kageyama		All
				Tohjiro Azuma		6
	Toyota	Toyota Prius	31	Morio Nitta		All
				Koki Saga		All
				Yuichi Nakayama		6
Porsche Team KTR[12]	Porsche	Porsche 911 GT3	33	Akihiro Tsuzuki	Y	All
				Tim Bergmeister		1–2, 6
				Kyosuke Mineo		3, 5, 7–8
				Jörg Bergmeister		4, 6
Dijon Racing[12]	Nissan	Nissan GT-R GT3	48	Hiroshi Takamori	Y	1–6, 8
				Masaki Tanaka		1–6, 8
				Keiichi Inoue		2, 7
				Ryuichiro Tomita		6, 7
Arnage Racing[21]	Aston Martin	Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3	50	Masaki Kano	Y	All
				Hideto Yasuoka		1–6, 8
				Nanin Indra-Payoong		2, 6–7
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri[6]	Honda	Honda CR-Z	55	Shinichi Takagi	B	All
				Takashi Kobayashi		All
LM corsa[12]	BMW	BMW Z4 GT3	60	Hiroki Yoshimoto	Y	All
				Akira Iida		1–7
				Shinya Sato		6, 8
R&D Sport[22]	Subaru	Subaru BRZ	61	Takuto Iguchi	M	All
				Kota Sasaki		All
Leon Racing[23]	Mercedes-Benz	Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3	65	Haruki Kurosawa	Y	All
				Kyosuke Mineo		1–2
				Tsubasa Kurosawa		2–7
				Naoya Gamou		8
Team Taisan[24]	Nissan	Nissan GT-R GT3	67	Shogo Mitsuyama	Y	1–6, 8
				Naoki Yokomizo		1–6, 8
				Kyosuke Mineo		6
JLOC[12][25]	Lamborghini	Lamborghini Gallardo GT3	86	Shinya Hosokawa	Y	All
				Koji Yamanishi		All
			88	Takayuki Aoki		All
				Manabu Orido		All
				Kazuki Hiramine		6
i-mobile-AAS	Porsche	Porsche 911 GT3	99	Alexandre Imperatori	M	7
				Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak		7
Toyota Team Thailand	Toyota	Toyota 86	194	Nattavude Charoensukhawatana	Y	7
				Takeshi Tsuchiya		7
Tomei Sports[26]	Nissan	Nissan GT-R GT3	360	Atsushi Tanaka	Y	1–3, 5–6, 8
				Hiroki Yoshida		1–2, 4–6, 8
				Ryuju Fujita		2–4, 6

Rule changes

GT500

The Honda NSX-GT at its first public presentation at the 2013 42nd International Pokka Sapporo 1000km.

The Lexus LF-CC at its first public presentation at the 2013 42nd International Pokka Sapporo 1000km.

The Nissan GT-R at its first public presentation at the 2013 42nd International Pokka Sapporo 1000km.

It was announced on October 16, 2012 that the Super GT championship and the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters will unify technical regulations for the 2014 season.[27] The previous GT500 engines of 3.4L V8 in capacity were replaced with 2.0L Turbocharged Inline-four engines.[28] With the new rule changes, all 3 manufacturers ran the 2014 season with new cars, the Honda HSV-010 GT and the Lexus SC430 being replaced by the new mid-engined Honda NSX-GT and the Lexus RC F respectively while Nissan continued to use the GT-R for 2014, but with a new car built for the new regulations. All 3 cars were unveiled at the 2013 42nd International Pokka Sapporo 1000km.[29][30]

Calendar

Round	Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Race Winner
1	Okayama International Circuit Report	6 April	#6 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS	#37 Lexus Team KeePer TOM'S
			Yuji Kunimoto Kazuya Oshima	Andrea Caldarelli Daisuke Ito
			#31 apr	#4 Goodsmile Racing & Team Ukyo
			Morio Nitta Koki Saga	Tatsuya Kataoka Nobuteru Taniguchi
2	Fuji Speedway Report	4 May	#12 Team Impul	#12 Team Impul
			João Paulo de Oliveira Hironobu Yasuda	João Paulo de Oliveira Hironobu Yasuda
			#3 NDDP Racing	#4 Goodsmile Racing & Team Ukyo
			Kazuki Hoshino Lucas Ordóñez	Tatsuya Kataoka Nobuteru Taniguchi
3	Autopolis Report	1 June	#23 Nismo	#23 Nismo
			Tsugio Matsuda Ronnie Quintarelli	Tsugio Matsuda Ronnie Quintarelli
			#61 R&D Sport	#55 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri
			Takuto Iguchi Kota Sasaki	Takashi Kobayashi Shinichi Takagi
4	Sportsland SUGO Report	20 July	#36 Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S	#1 Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo
			Kazuki Nakajima James Rossiter	Yuji Tachikawa Kohei Hirate
			#10 Gainer	#88 JLOC
			Masayuki Ueda Hideki Yamauchi	Takayuki Aoki Manabu Orido
5	Fuji Speedway Report	10 August	#17 Keihin Real Racing	#18 Weider Modulo Dome Racing
			Toshihiro Kaneishi Koudai Tsukakoshi	Frédéric Makowiecki Naoki Yamamoto
			#61 R&D Sport	#61 R&D Sport
			Takuto Iguchi Kota Sasaki	Takuto Iguchi Kota Sasaki
6	Suzuka Circuit Report	31 August	#36 Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S	#36 Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S
			Kazuki Nakajima James Rossiter	Kazuki Nakajima James Rossiter
			#55 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	#60 LM corsa
			Takashi Kobayashi Shinichi Takagi	Akira Iida Hiroki Yoshimoto Shinya Sato
7	Chang International Circuit Report	5 October	#46 MOLA	#36 Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S
			Satoshi Motoyama Masataka Yanagida	Kazuki Nakajima James Rossiter
			#99 i-Mobile-AAS	#3 NDDP Racing
			Alexandre Imperatori Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak	Kazuki Hoshino Lucas Ordóñez
8	Twin Ring Motegi Report	16 November	#23 Nismo	#23 Nismo
			Tsugio Matsuda Ronnie Quintarelli	Tsugio Matsuda Ronnie Quintarelli
			#11 Gainer	#11 Gainer
			Katsuyuki Hiranaka Björn Wirdheim	Katsuyuki Hiranaka Björn Wirdheim

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
Suzuka	25	18	13	10	8	6	5	4	3	2

Rank Driver OKA FUJ AUT SUG FUJ SUZ BUR MOT PTS 1 Tsugio Matsuda Ronnie Quintarelli 7 8 1 14 2 2 10 1 81 2 Andrea Caldarelli Daisuke Ito 1 5 4 2 9 7 4 2 79 3 James Rossiter 13 9 5 4 5 1 1 10 68 4 Naoki Yamamoto 5 10 7 8 1 3 5 3 64 5 Kazuki Nakajima 13 4 5 1 1 10 60 6 João Paulo de Oliveira Hironobu Yasuda 3 1 3 9 8 10 3 13 60 7 Yuji Kunimoto Kazuya Oshima 2 3 9 5 13 5 9 11 44 8 Kohei Hirate Yuji Tachikawa 14 2 12 1 14 8 11 7 43 9 Frédéric Makowiecki 8 1 3 5 42 10 Michael Krumm Daiki Sasaki 12 4 13 10 15 9 2 4 35 11 Satoshi Motoyama Masataka Yanagida 10 Ret 2 7 6 Ret 13 5 31 12 Toshihiro Kaneishi Koudai Tsukakoshi 6 Ret Ret 3 4 Ret 12 15 24 13 Hiroaki Ishiura Oliver Jarvis 4 6 11 6 12 11 7 9 24 14 Takashi Kogure Hideki Mutoh 9 Ret 6 11 7 6 8 8 23 15 Yuhi Sekiguchi Juichi Wakisaka 11 7 8 12 11 Ret 6 6 17 16 Vitantonio Liuzzi Kosuke Matsuura 8 Ret Ret 15 10 4 Ret 12 14 17 Bertrand Baguette Daisuke Nakajima 15 Ret 10 13 3 12 Ret 14 12 18 Takuya Izawa 3 11 19 Jean-Karl Vernay 5 10 7 11 20 Ryo Hirakawa 9 5 8 Rank Driver OKA FUJ AUT SUG FUJ SUZ BUR MOT PTS

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

GT300 Drivers

Rank	Driver	OKA	FUJ	AUT	SUG	FUJ	SUZ	BUR	MOT	PTS
1	Tatsuya Kataoka Nobuteru Taniguchi	1	1	16	15	4	5	3	3	78
2	Katsuyuki Hiranaka Björn Wirdheim	3	2	3	Ret	2	10	8	1	78
3	Seiji Ara Jörg Müller	2	4	15	8	7	3	2	7	62
4	Kazuki Hoshino Lucas Ordóñez	4	5	4	9	10	19	1	8	48
5	Takuto Iguchi Kota Sasaki	21	12	2	14	1	9	5	17	44
6	Hiroki Yoshimoto	22	21	7	10	5	1	4	15	44
7	Akira Iida	22	21	7	10	5	1	4		44
8	Morio Nitta Koki Saga	Ret	6	Ret	Ret	6	2	17	2	43
9	Haruki Kurosawa	5	8	10	2	8	Ret	Ret	6	33
10	Yuhki Nakayama Tomoki Nojiri	9	3	5	11	18	8	9	13	26
11	Takashi Kobayashi Shinichi Takagi	6	18	1	16	22	16	13	12	25
12	Shinya Hosokawa Koji Yamanishi	7	Ret	6	6	3	17	Ret	20	25
13	Tsubasa Kurosawa		8	10	2	8	Ret	Ret		22
14	Tomonobu Fujii	8	14	18	3	23	Ret	Ret	4	22
15	Richard Lyons	8		18	3	23	Ret	Ret	4	22
16	Takayuki Aoki Manabu Orido	11	Ret	11	1	21	13	18	11	20
17	Masayuki Ueda Hideki Yamauchi	10	20	12	13	14	4	11	5	18
18	Yuichi Nakayama						2			18
19	Masaki Kano	13	15	8	4	16	Ret	6	10	17
20	Augusto Farfus						3			13
21	Hideto Yasuoka	13	15	8	4	16	Ret		10	12
22	Shogo Mitsuyama Naoki Yokomizo	19	9	9	5	17	Ret		16	10
23	Kyosuke Mineo	5	8	14		9	Ret	16	21	8
24	Akihiro Tsuzuki	17	17	14	12	9	6	16	21	8
25	Takuya Shirasaka	12	13	19	17	15	7		9	7
26	Jörg Bergmeister				12		6			6
27	Tim Bergmeister	17	17				6			6
28	Nanin Indra-Payoong		15				Ret	6		5
29	Naoya Gamou								6	5
30	André Couto			19	17	15	7			5
31	Taiyo Iida		13				7			5
32	Yuki Iwasaki Masami Kageyama	Ret	10	23	7	13	11	12	Ret	5
33	Hiroki Katoh Kazuho Takahashi	14	7	13	21	12	12	15	19	4
34	Hisashi Wada	20	11	17	20	11	15	10	14	2
35	Masaki Jyonai					11	15	10	14	2
36	Yuya Sakamoto	12	13						9	2
	Takeshi Tsuchiya	20	11	17				14		0
	Tohjiro Azuma						11			0
	Hiroshi Hamaguchi						12			0
	Kazuki Hiramine						13			0
	Hiroshi Takamori Masaki Tanaka	18	DNS	22	19	20	14		Ret	0
	Ryuichiro Tomita						14	19		0
	Carlo van Dam		14							0
	Tetsuji Tamanaka	15	19	20		19	18			0
	Junichiro Yamashita	15	19			19				0
	Shinya Sato						1		15	0
	Hiroki Yoshida	16	16		18	24	20		18	0
	Atsushi Tanaka	16	16	21		24	20		18	0
	Ryuju Fujita		16	21	18		20			0
	Kazuya Tsuruta		19				18			0
	Naoya Yamano			20			18			0
	Wolfgang Reip						19			0
	Keiichi Inoue		DNS					19		0
	Tetsuya Tanaka				20					0
	Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak Alexandre Imperatori							7		0
	Ryo Michigami						8			0
	Nattavude Charoensukhawatana							14		0
	Christopher Haase						Ret			0
Rank	Driver	OKA	FUJ	AUT	SUG	FUJ	SUZ	BUR	MOT	PTS

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External links

• Super GT official website (in English)