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 drivers' champions of 2001 were Yuji Tachikawa and Hironori Takeuchi, who had not won a single race during the season driving the No. 38 au Cerumo Toyota Supra, while Nismo won the teams' championship. In the GT300 category, the class champions were the No. 81 Advan Team Daishin Nissan Silvia driven by Takayuki Aoki and Noboyuki Oyagi.
This season marked the final competitive race victory for the McLaren F1 GTR, when Team Take One won the CP Mine GT Race.
2001, japan, grand, touring, championship, gt500, drivers, champion, hironori, takeuchi, yuji, tachikawa, gt500, teams, champion, nismo, gt300, drivers, champion, takayuki, aoki, nobuyuki, oyagi, gt300, teams, champion, team, taisan, advan, previous, 2000, nex. 2001 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship GT500 Drivers Champion Hironori Takeuchi amp Yuji Tachikawa GT500 Teams Champion Nismo GT300 Drivers Champion Takayuki Aoki amp Nobuyuki Oyagi GT300 Teams Champion Team Taisan ADVAN Previous 2000 Next 2002 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 drivers champions of 2001 were Yuji Tachikawa and Hironori Takeuchi who had not won a single race during the season driving the No 38 au Cerumo Toyota Supra while Nismo won the teams championship In the GT300 category the class champions were the No 81 Advan Team Daishin Nissan Silvia driven by Takayuki Aoki and Noboyuki Oyagi This season marked the final competitive race victory for the McLaren F1 GTR when Team Take One won the CP Mine GT Race Contents 1 Drivers and teams 1 1 GT500 1 2 GT300 2 Schedule 3 Season results 4 Standings 4 1 GT500 class 4 1 1 Drivers standings 4 1 2 Teams standings 4 2 GT300 class 4 2 1 Drivers 5 References 6 External linksDrivers and teams editGT500 edit Team Make Car Engine No Drivers Tyre Rounds Mugen x Dome Project Honda Honda NSX Honda C32B 3 5 L V6 1 nbsp Ryo Michigami B All nbsp Hidetoshi Mitsusada All 18 nbsp Sebastien Philippe All nbsp Hiroki Katoh 1 4 NC nbsp Benoit Treluyer 5 7 Esso Toyota Team LeMans Toyota Toyota Supra Toyota 3S GT 2 0 L Turbo I4 6 nbsp Hideki Noda B All nbsp Juichi Wakisaka All Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Honda Honda NSX Honda C32B 3 5 L V6 8 nbsp Katsutomo Kaneishi B All nbsp Keiichi Tsuchiya All Calsonic Team Impul Nissan Nissan Skyline GT R Nissan RB26DETT 2 7 L Twin Turbo I6 12 nbsp Satoshi Motoyama B All nbsp Naoki Hattori 1 3 nbsp Kazuyoshi Hoshino 4 7 NC Hitotsuyama Racing McLaren McLaren F1 GTR BMW S70 2 6 0 L V12 21 nbsp Akihiko Nakaya D 1 3 5 6 nbsp Mitsuhiro Kinoshita 1 nbsp Yasushi Hitotsuyama 2 4 NC nbsp Naoki Hattori 4 7 NC nbsp Mikio Hitotsuyama 7 Nismo Nissan Nissan Skyline GT R Nissan RB26DETT 2 7 L Twin Turbo I6 22 nbsp Michael Krumm B All nbsp Tetsuya Tanaka All 23 nbsp Erik Comas All nbsp Masami Kageyama All Tsuchiya Engineering Toyota Toyota Supra Toyota 3S GT 2 0 L Turbo I4 25 nbsp Manabu Orido Y 1 7 nbsp Seiji Ara 1 7 Team Take One McLaren McLaren F1 GTR BMW S70 2 6 0 L V12 30 nbsp Andre Couto B 1 7 nbsp Hideki Okada 1 7 Toyota Team Cerumo Toyota Toyota Supra Toyota 3S GT 2 0 L Turbo I4 33 nbsp Masahiko Kondo B All nbsp Ukyo Katayama 1 4 6 7 NC nbsp Shigekazu Wakisaka 5 38 nbsp Yuji Tachikawa All nbsp Hironori Takeuchi All Toyota Team TOM S Toyota Toyota Supra Toyota 3S GT 2 0 L Turbo I4 36 nbsp Takeshi Tsuchiya M All nbsp Takuya Kurosawa 1 4 6 7 nbsp Paolo Montin 5 nbsp Wayne Gardner NC 37 nbsp Wayne Gardner 1 7 nbsp Shinichi Yamaji 1 7 Denso Toyota Team SARD Toyota Toyota Supra Toyota 3S GT 2 0 L Turbo I4 39 nbsp Jeremie Dufour Y 1 7 nbsp Masahiko Kageyama 1 2 nbsp Romain Dumas 3 7 Mobil 1 Nakajima Racing Honda Honda NSX Honda C32B 3 5 L V6 64 nbsp Tsugio Matsuda B All nbsp Dominik Schwager All JLOC Lamborghini Lamborghini Diablo GT 1 Lamborghini L532 6 0 L V12 88 nbsp Marco Apicella D All nbsp Naohiro Furuya All Raybrig Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft Honda Honda NSX Honda C32B 3 5 L V6 100 nbsp Akira Iida B All nbsp Daisuke Ito All GT300 edit Team Make Car Engine No Drivers Tyre Rounds TOM S Spirit Toyota Toyota MR S Toyota 3S GTE 2 0 L Turbo I4 0 nbsp Masahiro Matsunaga Y All nbsp Kumi Sato All Dream28 Honda Honda NSX Honda C32B 3 4 L V6 2 nbsp Kazuho Takahashi Y 5 6 nbsp Hiroshi Kimura 5 nbsp Akira Watanabe 6 Hasemi Motorsport Nissan Nissan Silvia S15 Nissan SR20DET 2 0 L Turbo I4 3 nbsp Yuji Ide Y All nbsp Masataka Yanagida All BSA Porsche Team Competizione Porsche Porsche 993 RS Porsche M64 60 3 6 L Turbo F6 5 nbsp Key Soon Yue M NC nbsp Ila Ridak NC 15 nbsp Siu Tit Lung NC nbsp Siu Yuk Lung NC RE Amemiya Racing Mazda Mazda RX 7 Mazda RE20B 2 0 L 3 rotor 7 nbsp Tetsuya Yamano Y All nbsp Haruhiko Matsumoto All Team Daikokuya Porsche Porsche 993 RS Porsche M64 80 3 6 L Turbo F6 9 nbsp Akira Watanabe Y 1 5 nbsp Tsunefumi Hioki 1 4 6 nbsp Yukihiro Hane 2 NC nbsp Yosuke Shimoshima NC 6 Ability Motorsport Porsche Porsche 996 GT3 R Porsche M96 77 3 6 L F6 10 nbsp Yutaka Yamagishi Y 1 2 4 nbsp Takahisa Ohno 1 2 4 Team Gainer Porsche Porsche 996 GT3 R Porsche M96 77 3 6 L F6 11 nbsp Junichi Ikura Y All nbsp Koji Ushikubo 1 7 nbsp Yusei Maki 2 6 Racing Project Bandoh Toyota Toyota MR S Toyota 3S GTE 2 0 L Turbo I4 19 nbsp Satoshi Goto Y All nbsp Minoru Tanaka All Team Taisan Porsche Porsche 911 GT3 R Porsche M96 77 3 6 L F6 24 nbsp Hideshi Matsuda Y All nbsp Kazuyuki Nishizawa All 26 nbsp Atsushi Yogo All nbsp Hideo Fukuyama All Chrysler Chrysler Viper GTS R Chrysler 356 T6 8 0 L V10 55 nbsp Eiji Yamada All nbsp Takayuki Kinoshita All ARTA with A PEX Toyota Toyota MR S Toyota 3S GTE 2 0 L Turbo I4 31 nbsp Morio Nitta Y All nbsp Shinichi Takagi All Auto Staff Racing Nissan Nissan Silvia S15 Nissan SR20DET 2 0 L Turbo I4 51 nbsp Naofumi Omoto Y 2 7 nbsp Yasukichi Yamamoto 2 7 R amp D Sport Porsche Porsche 911 GT3 R Porsche M96 77 3 6 L F6 62 nbsp Shinsuke Shibahara D All nbsp Yasuhisa Fujiwara 1 2 nbsp Shogo Mitsuyama 3 7 63 nbsp OSAMU All nbsp Takamasa Nakagawa All Amprex Motorsports Mazda Mazda RX 7 Mazda RE20B 2 0 L 3 rotor 65 nbsp Genji Hashimoto Y NC nbsp Charles Kwan NC Team Gaikokuya Porsche Porsche 996 GT3 RS Porsche M96 77 3 6 L F6 70 nbsp Yoshimi Ishibashi D All nbsp Hiroaki Suga All SigmaTec Racing Team Toyota Toyota MR S Toyota 3S GTE 2 0 L Turbo I4 71 nbsp Guts Jyonai Y 1 3 7 nbsp Eiichi Tajima 1 3 7 Cusco Racing Subaru Subaru Impreza WRX STI Subaru EJ20 2 0 L Turbo F4 77 nbsp Katsuo Kobayashi Y All nbsp Tatsuya Tanigawa All Team Daishin Nissan Nissan Silvia S15 Nissan SR20DET 2 0 L Turbo I4 81 nbsp Nobuyuki Ohyagi Y All nbsp Takayuki Aoki All KRAFT Toyota Toyota Corolla Sprinter Trueno AE86 Toyota 3S GTE 2 0 L Turbo I4 86 nbsp Masaoki Nagashima Y 1 3 nbsp Koji Matsuda 1 3 Toyota MR S nbsp Masaoki Nagashima 4 7 nbsp Koji Matsuda 4 7 Dentaire ProJet Racing Ferrari Ferrari 360 Ferrari F131B 3 6 L V8 360 nbsp Seigo Nishizawa Y All nbsp Kota Sasaki All Team Sri Lanka Mosler Mosler MT900R Chevrolet LS1 5 7 L V8 900 nbsp Dilantha Malagamuwa Y 1 4 nbsp Takeshi Asami 1 4 nbsp Joao Barbosa NC A amp S Racing Mosler Mosler MT900R Chevrolet LS1 5 7 L V8 901 nbsp Takeshi Asami Y 5 nbsp Yasutaka Hinoi 5 6 nbsp Tetsuji Tamanaka 6 7 nbsp Tetsuya Nakajima 6 7 910 Racing Porsche Porsche 996 GT3 RS Porsche M96 77 3 6 L F6 910 nbsp Jukuchou Sunako Y All nbsp Hisashi Wada All nbsp Adam Wilcox NC 911 nbsp Masamitsu Ishihara 2 4 nbsp Akira Hirakawa 1Schedule editRound Race Circuit Date 1 GT Championship in TI nbsp TI Circuit April 15 2 All Japan Fuji GT Race nbsp Fuji Speedway May 4 3 SUGO GT Championship nbsp Sportsland SUGO May 27 NC Tmtouch Japan GT Championship Malaysia nbsp Sepang Circuit June 24 4 Japan Special GT Cup nbsp Fuji Speedway August 5 5 Motegi GT Championship Race nbsp Twin Ring Motegi September 16 6 Suzuka GT 300 km nbsp Suzuka Circuit October 28 7 CP Mine GT Race nbsp Mine Circuit November 11Season results editRound Circuit GT500 Winning Team GT300 Winning Team GT500 Winning Drivers GT300 Winning Drivers 1 TI Circuit nbsp 1 Loctite Mugen Honda NSX nbsp 31 ARTA A PEX Toyota MR S nbsp Hidetoshi Mitsusada nbsp Ryo Michigami nbsp Morio Nitta nbsp Shinichi Takagi 2 Mt Fuji nbsp 6 ESSO Toyota Supra nbsp 81 Advan Team Daishin Nissan Silvia nbsp Hideki Noda nbsp Juichi Wakisaka nbsp Takayuki Aoki nbsp Noboyuki Oyagi 3 Sportsland SUGO nbsp 37 ZENT TOM S Toyota Supra nbsp 7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX 7 nbsp Shinichi Yamaji nbsp Wayne Gardner nbsp Haruhiko Matsumoto nbsp Tetsuya Yamano NC Sepang Circuit nbsp 6 ESSO Toyota Supra nbsp 3 Hasemi Motorsports Nissan Silvia nbsp Hideki Noda nbsp Juichi Wakisaka nbsp Masataka Yanagida nbsp Yuji Ide 4 Mt Fuji nbsp 22 Xanavi NISMO Nissan Skyline GT R nbsp 81 Advan Team Daishin Nissan Silvia nbsp Tetsuya Tanaka nbsp Michael Krumm nbsp Takayuki Aoki nbsp Noboyuki Oyagi 5 Twin Ring Motegi nbsp 64 Mobil 1 Honda NSX nbsp 19 WedsSport Toyota MR S nbsp Tsugio Matsuda nbsp Dominik Schwager nbsp Minoru Tanaka nbsp Satoshi Goto 6 Suzuka Circuit nbsp 8 ARTA Honda NSX nbsp 86 KRAFT Toyota MR S nbsp Keiichi Tsuchiya nbsp Katsutomo Kaneishi nbsp Koji Matsuda nbsp Masaoki Nagashima 7 Mine Circuit nbsp 30 Team Take One McLaren F1 GTR nbsp 71 Sigma Tech Toyota MR S nbsp Andre Couto nbsp Hideki Okada nbsp Eiichi Tajima nbsp Guts JyonaiStandings editGT500 class edit Drivers standings edit 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 nbsp FUJ nbsp SUG nbsp FUJ nbsp MOT nbsp SUZ nbsp MIN nbsp PTS 1 nbsp Hironori Takeuchi nbsp Yuji Tachikawa Ret 2 3 4 2 6 16 58 2 nbsp Katsutomo Kaneishi nbsp Keiichi Tsuchiya 2 6 2 12 11 1 Ret 56 3 nbsp Ryo Michigami nbsp Hidetoshi Mitsusada 1 8 4 5 12 2 12 56 4 nbsp Erik Comas nbsp Masami Kageyama 13 4 10 2 Ret 3 2 53 5 nbsp Michael Krumm nbsp Tetsuya Tanaka 4 3 Ret 1 10 8 6 52 6 nbsp Shinichi Yamaji nbsp Wayne Gardner 5 9 1 10 8 4 9 46 7 nbsp Hideki Noda nbsp Juichi Wakisaka Ret 1 5 3 13 Ret 14 40 8 nbsp Tsugio Matsuda nbsp Dominik Schwager 3 12 14 6 1 Ret Ret 38 9 nbsp Andre Couto nbsp Hideki Okada 8 Ret 12 16 6 10 1 30 10 nbsp Akira Iida nbsp Daisuke Ito 6 5 Ret 9 4 13 8 29 11 nbsp Satoshi Motoyama 15 Ret 7 7 3 11 5 28 12 nbsp Takeshi Tsuchiya 11 10 8 8 5 5 7 27 13 nbsp Kazuyoshi Hoshino 7 3 11 5 24 14 nbsp Jeremie Dufour 7 7 9 13 Ret 9 4 22 15 nbsp Takuya Kurosawa 11 10 8 8 5 7 19 16 nbsp Sebastien Philippe 14 15 6 15 14 12 3 18 17 nbsp Romain Dumas 9 13 Ret 9 4 14 18 nbsp Benoit Treluyer 14 12 3 12 19 nbsp Manabu Orido nbsp Seiji Ara 9 11 11 DNQ 7 7 10 11 20 nbsp Paolo Montin 5 8 21 nbsp Masahiko Kageyama 7 7 8 22 nbsp Hiroki Katoh 14 15 6 15 6 23 nbsp Naoki Hattori 15 Ret 7 11 Ret Ret 11 4 24 nbsp Masahiko Kondo 12 14 13 14 9 Ret 13 2 nbsp Shigekazu Wakisaka 26 nbsp Akihiko Nakaya 10 13 Ret Ret Ret 1 nbsp Mitsuhiro Kinoshita Rank Driver TAI nbsp FUJ nbsp SUG nbsp FUJ nbsp MOT nbsp SUZ nbsp MIN nbsp PTS Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third 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 practice DNP Did not arrive DNA Excluded EX Teams standings edit For teams that entered multiple cars only the best result from each round counted towards the teams championship 1 Rank Team No TAI nbsp FUJ nbsp SUG nbsp FUJ nbsp MOT nbsp SUZ nbsp MIN nbsp PTS 1 Nismo 22 4 3 16 Ret 1 10 8 6 71 23 13 4 10 2 18 Ret 3 2 2 Mugen x Dome Project 1 1 8 4 5 12 2 12 68 18 14 15 6 15 14 12 3 3 Toyota Team Cerumo 33 12 14 13 14 9 18 Ret 13 58 38 16 Ret 2 3 4 2 6 16 4 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri 8 2 6 2 12 11 1 18 Ret 56 5 Toyota Team TOM S 36 11 10 8 8 5 5 7 55 37 5 9 1 10 8 4 9 6 Esso Toyota Team LeMans 6 17 Ret 1 5 3 13 15 Ret 14 40 7 Mobil 1 Nakajima Racing 64 3 12 14 6 1 17 Ret 17 Ret 38 8 Team Take One 30 8 16 Ret 12 16 6 10 1 30 9 Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft 100 6 5 15 Ret 9 4 13 8 29 10 Team Impul 12 15 17 Ret 7 7 3 11 5 28 11 Toyota Team SARD 39 7 7 9 13 16 Ret 9 4 22 12 Tsuchiya Engineering 25 9 11 11 20 7 7 10 11 13 Hitotsuyama Racing 21 10 13 17 Ret 11 17 Ret 16 Ret 11 1 JLOC 88 18 DNS 18 Ret 17 DNS 17 Ret 15 14 15 0 Rank Team No TAI nbsp FUJ nbsp SUG nbsp FUJ nbsp MOT nbsp SUZ nbsp MIN nbsp PTS GT300 class edit Drivers edit Rank Drivers Number Team Points Wins 1 nbsp Takayuki Aoki nbsp Noboyuki Oyagi 81 Advan Team Daishin Nissan Silvia 66 2 2 nbsp Haruhiko Matsumoto nbsp Tetsuya Yamano 7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX 7 54 1 3 nbsp Hisashi Wada nbsp Jukuchou Sunako 910 Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R 54 0 4 nbsp Masataka Yanagida nbsp Yuji Ide 3 Hasemi Motorsports Nissan Silvia 53 0 5 nbsp Hideshi Matsuda nbsp Kazuyuki Nishizawa 24 Advan Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT3R 49 0 6 nbsp Atsushi Yogo nbsp Hideo Fukuyama 26 Advan Team Taisan Porsche 911 GT3R 44 0 7 nbsp Morio Nitta nbsp Shinichi Takagi 31 ARTA with Apex Toyota MR S 40 1 8 nbsp Katsuo Kobayashi nbsp Tatsuya Tanigawa 77 Cusco Racing Subaru Impreza 34 0 9 nbsp Minoru Tanaka nbsp Satoru Gotou 19 Weds Sports Racing Project Bandoh Toyota MR S 33 1 10 nbsp Shinsuke Shibahara 62 R amp D Sport Porsche 911 GT3R 30 0 11 nbsp Shogo Mitsuyama 62 R amp D Sport Porsche 911 GT3R 23 0 12 nbsp Takamasa Nakagawa nbsp Osamu Nakajima 63 Leyjun R amp D Sport Porsche 911 GT3R 21 0 13 nbsp Masaoki Nagashima nbsp Kouji Matsuda 86 project m Kraft Toyota Trueno Toyota MR S 20 1 14 nbsp Masaki Jyonai nbsp Eiichi Tajima 71 Sigmatech Racing Toyota MR S 20 1 15 nbsp Eiji Yamada nbsp Takayuki Kinoshita 55 Team Taisan Jr Chrysler Viper GTS R 10 0 16 nbsp Naofumi Omoto nbsp Yasukichi Yamamoto 51 Auto Staff Racing Nissan Silvia 8 0 17 nbsp Kumi Sato nbsp Masahiro Matsunaga 0 Tom s Spirit Toyota MR S 5 0 18 nbsp Junichi Ikura nbsp Yuusei Maki 0 Team Gainer Porsche 911 GT3R 5 0 20 nbsp Yasuhisa Fujiwara 62 R amp D Sport Porsche 911 GT3R 4 0References edit JGTC 2001 Ranking supergt net Retrieved 2021 10 16 External links editSuper GT JGTC official race archive in Japanese Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 2001 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship amp oldid 1195659033, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
