The 1996 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the fourth season of Japan Automobile Federation GT premiere racing. It was marked as well as the fourteenth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The GT500 class champion was the #61 Team LarkMcLaren F1 GTR driven by David Brabham and John Nielsen, and the GT300 class champion was the #26 Team Taisan JrPorsche 964 driven by Keiichi Suzuki and Morio Nitta.
For the 1996 season, the names of the two classes of the JGTC were changed to GT500 and GT300, replacing the previous GT1 and GT2 names from the 1994 and 1995 season. This season also mandated two-driver teams for all races. On November 17, the series held its first non-championship "All-Star Race" at Central Circuit.
The arrival of the McLaren F1 GTRs, prepared by Team Goh, was the biggest story of the 1996 season. The number 60 McLaren of Naoki Hattori and Ralf Schumacher led a 1-2 finish at the season opening round at Suzuka. However, despite winning three races, Hattori and Schumacher also suffered three retirements, and were beaten to the title by their senior teammates, Brabham and Nielsen. Despite massive performance handicaps instituted by the GTA, the two McLaren F1 GTRs combined to win four of the six championship races, and won pole position and set fastest lap in all six. At odds with the GTA over further performance handicaps that were to be proposed, Team Goh withdrew from the series after the championship finale at Miné Circuit, and after an aborted attempt to return in 2006, they would not return to the series until 2019.
The season also featured the debut of the Honda NSX in the series, although direct factory support would not appear until the following season; as such, the car entered by Team Kunimitsu was mostly mechanically identical to the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans GT2 class winner.
1996, japan, grand, touring, championship, gt500, drivers, champion, john, nielsen, david, brabham, gt500, teams, champion, team, lark, mclaren, gt300, drivers, champion, keiichi, suzuki, morio, nitta, gt300, teams, champion, team, taisan, previous, 1995, next. 1996 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship GT500 Drivers Champion John Nielsen amp David Brabham GT500 Teams Champion Team Lark McLaren GTR GT300 Drivers Champion Keiichi Suzuki amp Morio Nitta GT300 Teams Champion Team Taisan Jr Previous 1995 Next 1997 The 1996 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the fourth season of Japan Automobile Federation GT premiere racing It was marked as well as the fourteenth season of a JAF sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship The GT500 class champion was the 61 Team Lark McLaren F1 GTR driven by David Brabham and John Nielsen and the GT300 class champion was the 26 Team Taisan Jr Porsche 964 driven by Keiichi Suzuki and Morio Nitta For the 1996 season the names of the two classes of the JGTC were changed to GT500 and GT300 replacing the previous GT1 and GT2 names from the 1994 and 1995 season This season also mandated two driver teams for all races On November 17 the series held its first non championship All Star Race at Central Circuit The arrival of the McLaren F1 GTRs prepared by Team Goh was the biggest story of the 1996 season The number 60 McLaren of Naoki Hattori and Ralf Schumacher led a 1 2 finish at the season opening round at Suzuka However despite winning three races Hattori and Schumacher also suffered three retirements and were beaten to the title by their senior teammates Brabham and Nielsen Despite massive performance handicaps instituted by the GTA the two McLaren F1 GTRs combined to win four of the six championship races and won pole position and set fastest lap in all six At odds with the GTA over further performance handicaps that were to be proposed Team Goh withdrew from the series after the championship finale at Mine Circuit and after an aborted attempt to return in 2006 they would not return to the series until 2019 The season also featured the debut of the Honda NSX in the series although direct factory support would not appear until the following season as such the car entered by Team Kunimitsu was mostly mechanically identical to the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans GT2 class winner Contents 1 Drivers and teams 1 1 GT500 1 2 GT300 2 Schedule 3 Season results 4 Point Ranking 4 1 GT500 Class 4 1 1 Drivers 4 2 GT300 Class Top 5 4 2 1 Drivers 5 Notes 6 External linksDrivers and teams editGT500 edit Team Make Car Engine No Drivers Tyre RoundsCalsonic Team Impul Nissan Nissan Skyline GT R Nissan RB26DETT 2 6 L Twin Turbo I6 1 nbsp Kazuyoshi Hoshino B All nbsp Masahiko Kageyama AllTeam Zexel Nissan Nissan Skyline GT R Nissan RB26DETT 2 6 L Twin Turbo I6 2 nbsp Aguri Suzuki B All nbsp Hideo Fukuyama AllHasemi Motorsport Nissan Nissan Skyline GT R Nissan RB26DETT 2 6 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B All nbsp Tsuneaki Mankumo All910 Racing Porsche Porsche 993 RSR Porsche M64 80 3 8 L F6 910 nbsp Seiichi Sodeyama D 2 6 NC nbsp Naoki Nagasaka 2 4 nbsp Hideyuki Tamamoto 5 6 NCSchedule editRound Race Circuit Date1 Suzuka GT 300 nbsp Suzuka Circuit March 312 All Japan Fuji GT Race nbsp Fuji Speedway May 43 HiLand GT Championship nbsp Sendai Hi Land Raceway June 304 Japan Special GT Cup nbsp Fuji Speedway August 115 SUGO GT Championship nbsp Sportsland SUGO October 66 CP Mine GT Race nbsp Mine Circuit October 27NC Nicos Cup GT Allstar Race nbsp Central Circuit November 17Season results editRound Circuit GT500 Winning Team GT300 Winning TeamGT500 Winning Drivers GT300 Winning Drivers1 Suzuka Circuit 60 Team Lark McLaren F1 GTR 26 Team Taisan Jr Porsche 964 nbsp Naoki Hattori nbsp Ralf Schumacher nbsp Keiichi Suzuki nbsp Morio Nitta2 Mt Fuji 61 Team Lark McLaren F1 GTR 910 910 Racing Porsche 993 nbsp David Brabham nbsp John Nielsen nbsp Seiichi Sodeyama nbsp Naoki Nagasaka3 Sendai 37 Castrol Cerumo Toyota Supra 72 Makiguchi Engineering BMW M3 nbsp Hironori Takeuchi nbsp Erik Comas nbsp Morio Makiguchi nbsp Takayuki Kinoshita4 Mt Fuji 1 Calsonic Hoshino Racing GT R 910 910 Racing Porsche 993 nbsp Masahiko Kageyama nbsp Kazuyoshi Hoshino nbsp Seiichi Sodeyama nbsp Naoki Nagasaka5 Sportsland SUGO 60 Team Lark McLaren F1 GTR 26 Team Taisan Jr Porsche 964 nbsp Naoki Hattori nbsp Ralf Schumacher nbsp Keiichi Suzuki nbsp Morio Nitta6 Mine Circuit 60 Team Lark McLaren F1 GTR 26 Team Taisan Jr Porsche 964 nbsp Naoki Hattori nbsp Ralf Schumacher nbsp Keiichi Suzuki nbsp Morio NittaNC Central Circuit 3 Hasemi Motorsports GT R 7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX 7 nbsp Masahiro Hasemi nbsp Tetsuya Tanaka nbsp Shinichi Yamaji nbsp Haruhiko MatsumotoPoint Ranking editGT500 Class edit Drivers edit Rank No Driver SUZ FUJ SEN FUJ SUG MIN CEN Points1 61 John NielsenDavid Brabham 2 1 8 2 20 Ret 4 632 60 Naoki Hattori Ralf Schumacher 1 22 Ret 15 19 Ret 1 1 603 37 Erik Comas 16 4 1 16 Ret 4 2 2 554 1 Masahiko Kageyama Kazuyoshi Hoshino 8 5 5 1 2 16 Ret 5 545 3 Masahiro Hasemi Tetsuya Tanaka 3 6 2 14 6 5 1 476 2 Aguri Suzuki Hideo Fukuyama 4 19 Ret 7 3 5 3 3 467 37 Hironori Takeuchi 1 16 Ret 4 2 2 458 36 Masanori Sekiya 5 2 3 20 Ret 8 17 Ret 4 388 36 Pedro de la Rosa 5 2 3 20 Ret 8 17 Ret 389 39 Alain Ferte 17 3 4 9 7 2810 39 Wayne Gardner 17 3 4 9 8 2711 556 Toshio Suzuki Masahiko Kondo 6 18 Ret 17 5 3 10 10 2712 8 Tom Kristensen 10 13 6 4 14 7 2113 8 Bertrand Gachot 4 14 7 1414 37 Hidetoshi Mitsusada 16 4 1015 34 Hideshi Matsuda Osamu Nakako 9 9 18 Ret 12 12 6 8 1016 55 Kenji Tohira Hiroyuki Kawai 11 10 11 6 9 917 100 Kunimitsu Takahashi Keiichi Tsuchiya 18 Ret 8 12 7 10 11 6 818 8 Tatsuya Tanigawa 10 13 6 719 30 Yoji Yamada 7 11 9 18 Ret 21 Ret 20 Ret 9 619 30 Eiichi Tajima 7 11 9 18 Ret 21 Ret 20 Ret 620 35 Oscar Larrauri 7 20 Ret 15 15 Ret 420 35 Takeshi Tsuchiya 12 7 20 Ret 420 39 Naoki Nagasaka 7 423 43 Yasutaka Hinoi Yukio Yamamoto 20 Ret 12 13 8 13 18 Ret 323 39 Giampiero Simoni 8 325 17 Masami Kageyama Yuji Tachikawa 20 Ret 19 Ret 22 Ret 9 226 5 Kaoru Iida 13 14 10 17 Ret 19 Ret 12 126 5 Tetsuya Ota 13 14 10 19 Ret 12 126 16 Tetsushi Toda 10 11 126 15 Mitsuno Taro 16 016 10 127 88 Takao Wada 19 Ret 21 Ret 11 17 Ret 13 028 88 Satoshi Ikezawa 21 Ret 11 17 Ret 13 029 16 Tarzan Yamada 11 030 35 Anthony Reid 12 15 031 19 Katsuo Kobayashi 21 Ret 17 16 13 18 Ret 14 032 19 Manabu Orido 13 033 69 Kenji Kawagoe Shunji Kasuya 14 15 14 034 19 Takeru Koma 18 Ret 14 035 15 Sekine Motoshi 15 16 19 Ret 15 16 Ret 036 15 Takahiro Ito 19 Ret 15 16 Ret 037 15 Scott Maxwell 15 038 19 Naohiro Furuya 21 Ret 17 16 039 35 Mitsuhiro Kinoshita 15 Ret 040 5 Michael Krumm 17 Ret 041 16 Osamu Nakajima Ijima Ichiro 19 Ret 042 88 Kanaumi Tatsuhiko 19 Ret 043 36 Ukyo Katayama 4 044 39 Olivier GrouillardDavid Dussau 7 045 30 Kazuo Mogi 9 0GT300 Class Top 5 edit Drivers edit Rank Drivers Number Team Points Wins1 nbsp Keiichi Suzuki nbsp Morio Nitta 26 Team Taisan Jr Porsche 964 90 32 nbsp Seiichi Sodeyama 910 910 Racing Porsche 993 65 23 nbsp Morio Makiguchi nbsp Takayuki Kinoshita 72 Makiguchi Engineering BMW M3 53 14 nbsp Naoki Nagasaka 910 910 Racing Porsche 993 50 25 nbsp Katsunori Iketani nbsp Kazuo Mogi 31 Cobra Racing Team Porsche 993 46 0Notes edit Nationality unknownExternal links editSuper GT JGTC official race archive in Japanese 1996 season results Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1996 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship amp oldid 1184651601, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
