2002 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship

The 2002 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the tenth season of Japan Automobile Federation GT premiere racing. It was marked as well as the twentieth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The GT500 class champions of 2002 were the #6 ESSO Team LeMans Toyota Supra team driven by Juichi Wakisaka and Akira Iida and the GT300 class champions were the #31 ARTA with A'PEX Toyota MR-S driven by Morio Nitta and Shinichi Takagi.

2002 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship
Previous: 2001 Next: 2003

Drivers and teams

GT500

Team Make Car No. Drivers Tyre Rounds
Toyota Team Cerumo Toyota Toyota Supra 1 Yuji Tachikawa B All
Hironori Takeuchi All
33 Masahiko Kondo 1, 3–8
Ukyo Katayama 1, 3
Hayanari Shimoda 4–8
Esso Toyota Team LeMans Toyota Toyota Supra 6 Akira Iida 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 Tetsuya Tanaka B All
Kazuyoshi Hoshino 1–5
Benoît Tréluyer 6–8
Mugen x Dome Project Honda Honda NSX 16 Daisuke Ito B All
Dominik Schwager 1–4
Ryo Michigami 5–8
18 Richard Lyons All
Sébastien Philippe All
Nismo Nissan Nissan Skyline GT-R 22 Michael Krumm B All
Satoshi Motoyama All
23 Érik Comas All
Masami Kageyama All
Tsuchiya Engineering Toyota Toyota Supra 25 Shinichi Yamaji Y All
Seiji Ara 1, 3–8
Geoff Lees 2
Team Take One McLaren McLaren F1 GTR 30 Haruki Kurosawa D 1–3, 5–8
Hideki Okada 1–3, 5–8
Project Mu Kraft Toyota Toyota Supra 35 Masahiko Kageyama D All
Shigekazu Wakisaka All
Toyota Team TOM'S Toyota Toyota Supra 36 Takeshi Tsuchiya B All
Wayne Gardner All
37 Takuya Kurosawa All
Paolo Montin 1–7
Hideki Noda 8
Denso Toyota Team SARD Toyota Toyota Supra 39 Jérémie Dufour Y All
Manabu Orido All
Mobil 1 Nakajima Racing Honda Honda NSX 64 Tsugio Matsuda B All
Ralph Firman All
Hitotsuyama Racing McLaren McLaren F1 GTR 78 Naoki Hattori D All
Eiichi Tajima All
HKS Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz CLK-Class 87 Yudai Igarashi M 2–3, 6–8
Koji Yamanishi 2–3, 6–8
JLOC Lamborghini Lamborghini Diablo GT-1 88 Marco Apicella D All
Hisashi Wada All
Raybrig Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft Honda Honda NSX 100 Hidetoshi Mitsusada B All
Hiroki Katoh 1, 3–8
Toshihiro Kaneishi 2

Schedule

Round Race Circuit Date
1 GT Championship in TI TI Circuit April 14
2 All Japan Fuji GT Race Fuji Speedway May 4
3 SUGO GT Championship Sportsland SUGO May 26
4 Tmtouch Japan GT Championship Malaysia Sepang Circuit June 23
5 Japan Special GT Cup Fuji Speedway July 28
6 Motegi GT Championship Race Twin Ring Motegi September 15
7 CP Mine GT Race Mine Circuit October 27
8 Suzuka GT 300 km Suzuka Circuit November 17

Season results

Round Circuit GT500 Winning Team GT300 Winning Team
GT500 Winning Drivers GT300 Winning Drivers
1 TI Circuit #64 Mobil 1 Honda NSX #31 ARTA A'PEX Toyota MR-S
Tsugio Matsuda
Ralph Firman
Morio Nitta
Shinichi Takagi
2 Mt. Fuji #1 au Cerumo Toyota Supra #62 R&D Sport Vemac RD320R
Yuji Tachikawa
Hironori Takeuchi
Shogo Mitsuyama
Shinsuke Shibahara
3 Sportsland SUGO #6 ESSO Team LeMans Toyota Supra #3 Hasemi Motorsports Nissan Silvia
Juichi Wakisaka
Akira Iida
Masataka Yanagida
Tetsuya Yamano
4 Sepang Circuit #64 Mobil 1 Honda NSX #7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7
Tsugio Matsuda
Ralph Firman
Haruhiko Matsumoto
Nobuteru Taniguchi
5 Mt. Fuji #1 au Cerumo Toyota Supra #24 Advan Team Taisan Porsche 996
Yuji Tachikawa
Hironori Takeuchi
Hideo Fukuyama
Mitsuhiro Kinoshita
6 Twin Ring Motegi #18 Takata Dome Honda NSX #62 R&D Sport Vemac RD320R
Sebastien Philippe
Richard Lyons
Shogo Mitsuyama
Shinsuke Shibahara
7 Mine Circuit #16 Mugen Honda NSX #62 R&D Sport Vemac RD320R
Ryo Michigami
Daisuke Ito
Shogo Mitsuyama
Shinsuke Shibahara
8 Suzuka Circuit #64 Mobil 1 Honda NSX #81 Team Daishin Nissan Silvia
Tsugio Matsuda
Ralph Firman
Takayuki Aoki
Noboyuki Oyagi

Standings

GT500 Drivers

Scoring system
Position1st2nd3rd4th5th6th7th8th9th10th
Points20151210864321
Qualifying111
Fastest Lap111
Rank Driver TAI
FUJ
SUG
SEP
FUJ
MOT
MIN
SUZ
PTS
1 Akira Iida
Juichi Wakisaka
10 2 1 11 7 4 4 3 75
2 Tsugio Matsuda
Ralph Firman
1 11 Ret 1 12 14 6 1 74
3 Hironori Takeuchi
Yuji Tachikawa
4 1 16 9 1 13 9 6 65
4 Hidetoshi Mitsusada 9 5 2 5 8 2 Ret 4 63
5 Daisuke Ito 5 3 3 10 11 16 1 10 59
6 Hiroki Katoh 9 2 5 8 2 Ret 4 55
7 Takeshi Tsuchiya
Wayne Gardner
8 14 10 2 5 6 3 9 52
8 Satoshi Motoyama
Michael Krumm
11 7 7 4 2 10 2 Ret 51
9 Richard Lyons
Sébastien Philippe
2 15 16 13 6 1 12 14 47
10 Katsutomo Kaneishi
Keiichi Tsuchiya
7 4 13 6 9 8 8 2 29
11 Takuya Kurosawa Ret 12 5 3 3 7 Ret 16 38
12 Paolo Montin Ret 12 5 3 3 7 Ret 38
13 Dominik Schwager 5 3 3 10 35
14 Jérémie Dufour
Manabu Orido
3 Ret 12 Ret 15 5 7 5 33
15 Shinichi Yamaji 6 13 11 Ret 4 9 5 7 32
16 Seiji Ara 6 11 Ret 4 9 5 7 32
17 Naoki Hattori
Eiichi Tajima
13 8 6 8 13 3 Ret Ret 27
18 Ryo Michigami 11 16 1 10 24
19 Érik Comas
Masami Kageyama
12 6 4 16 14 17 Ret 8 19
20 Toshihiro Kaneishi 5 8
21 Masahiko Kondo 15 9 7 16 12 11 13 6
22 Hayanari Shimoda 7 16 12 11 13 4
23 Tetsuya Tanaka 14 Ret 8 14 Ret 11 13 17 4
24 Kazuyoshi Hoshino 14 Ret 8 14 Ret 3
25 Masahiko Kageyama
Shigekazu Wakisaka
17 10 Ret 12 10 15 10 12 3
26 Haruki Kurosawa
Hideki Okada
16 9 14 Ret Ret Ret 11 2
27 Ukyo Katayama 15 9 2
28 Benoît Tréluyer 11 13 17 1
Geoff Lees 13 0
Marco Apicella
Hisashi Wada
DNQ Ret 15 Ret Ret 18 Ret Ret 0
Hideki Noda 16 0
Yudai Igarashi
Koji Yamanishi
DNQ DNQ Ret Ret Ret 0
Rank Driver TAI
FUJ
SUG
SEP
FUJ
MOT
MIN
SUZ
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 Morio Nitta
Shinichi Takagi
#31 ARTA A'PEX Toyota MR-S 75 1
2 Shogo Mitsuyama
Shinsuke Shibahara
#62 R&D Sport Vemac RD320R 73 3
3 Masataka Yanagida
Tetsuya Yamano
#3 Hasemi Motorsports Nissan Silvia 70 1
4 Hideo Fukuyama
Mitsuhiro Kinoshita
#24 Advan Team Taisan Porsche 996 65 1
5 Takayuki Aoki
Noboyuki Oyagi
#81 Team Daishin Nissan Silvia 56 1
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