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
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
Juichi Wakisaka All
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Honda Honda NSX 8 Katsutomo Kaneishi B All
Keiichi Tsuchiya 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
Tetsuya Tanaka All
23 Érik Comas All
Masami Kageyama All
Tsuchiya Engineering Toyota Toyota Supra 25 Manabu Orido Y 1–7
Seiji Ara 1–7
Team Take One McLaren McLaren F1 GTR 30 André Couto B 1–7
Hideki Okada 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
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
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
Dominik Schwager All
JLOC Lamborghini Lamborghini Diablo GT-1 88 Marco Apicella D All
Naohiro Furuya All
Raybrig Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft Honda Honda NSX 100 Akira Iida B All
Daisuke Ito 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
GT500 Winning Drivers GT300 Winning Drivers
1 TI Circuit #1 Loctite Mugen Honda NSX #31 ARTA A'PEX Toyota MR-S
Hidetoshi Mitsusada
Ryo Michigami
Morio Nitta
Shinichi Takagi
2 Mt. Fuji #6 ESSO Toyota Supra #81 Advan Team Daishin Nissan Silvia
Hideki Noda
Juichi Wakisaka
Takayuki Aoki
Noboyuki Oyagi
3 Sportsland SUGO #37 ZENT TOM'S Toyota Supra #7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7
Shinichi Yamaji
Wayne Gardner
Haruhiko Matsumoto
Tetsuya Yamano
NC Sepang Circuit #6 ESSO Toyota Supra #3 Hasemi Motorsports Nissan Silvia
Hideki Noda
Juichi Wakisaka
Masataka Yanagida
Yuji Ide
4 Mt. Fuji #22 Xanavi NISMO Nissan Skyline GT-R #81 Advan Team Daishin Nissan Silvia
Tetsuya Tanaka
Michael Krumm
Takayuki Aoki
Noboyuki Oyagi
5 Twin Ring Motegi #64 Mobil 1 Honda NSX #19 WedsSport Toyota MR-S
Tsugio Matsuda
Dominik Schwager
Minoru Tanaka
Satoshi Goto
6 Suzuka Circuit #8 ARTA Honda NSX #86 KRAFT Toyota MR-S
Keiichi Tsuchiya
Katsutomo Kaneishi
Koji Matsuda
Masaoki Nagashima
7 Mine Circuit #30 Team Take One McLaren F1 GTR #71 Sigma Tech Toyota MR-S
Andre Couto
Hideki Okada
Eiichi Tajima
'Guts' Jyonai

Standings

GT500 Drivers

Scoring system
Position1st2nd3rd4th5th6th7th8th9th10th
Points20151210864321
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
Shigekazu Wakisaka
26 Akihiko Nakaya 10 13 Ret Ret Ret 1
Mitsuhiro Kinoshita
Rank Driver TAI
FUJ
SUG
FUJ
MOT
SUZ
MIN
PTS
ColourResult
GoldWinner
Silver2nd place
Bronze3rd place
GreenPoints finish
BlueNon-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
PurpleRetired (Ret)
RedDid not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
BlackDisqualified (DSQ)
WhiteDid not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not participate (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)

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
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