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.
Drivers and teams [ edit ] Team Make Car Engine Drivers Tyre Rounds TOM'S Spirit Toyota Toyota MR-S Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 0 Masahiro Matsunaga Y All Kumi Sato All Dream28 Honda Honda NSX Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 2 Kazuho Takahashi Y 5, 6 Hiroshi Kimura 5 Akira Watanabe 6 Hasemi Motorsport Nissan Nissan Silvia (S15) Nissan SR20DET 2.0 L Turbo I4 3 Yuji Ide Y All Masataka Yanagida All BSA Porsche Team Competizione Porsche Porsche 993 RS Porsche M64/60 3.6 L Turbo F6 5 Key Soon Yue M NC Ila Ridak NC 15 Siu Tit Lung NC Siu Yuk Lung NC RE Amemiya Racing Mazda Mazda RX-7 Mazda RE20B 2.0 L 3-rotor 7 Tetsuya Yamano Y All Haruhiko Matsumoto All Team Daikokuya Porsche Porsche 993 RS Porsche M64/80 3.6 L Turbo F6 9 Akira Watanabe Y 1–5 Tsunefumi Hioki 1, 4–6 Yukihiro Hane 2, NC Yosuke Shimoshima NC, 6 Ability Motorsport Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-R Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 10 Yutaka Yamagishi Y 1–2, 4 Takahisa Ohno 1–2, 4 Team Gainer Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-R Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 11 Junichi Ikura Y All Koji Ushikubo 1, 7 Yusei Maki 2–6 Racing Project Bandoh Toyota Toyota MR-S Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 19 Satoshi Goto Y All Minoru Tanaka All Team Taisan Porsche Porsche 911 GT3-R Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 24 Hideshi Matsuda Y All Kazuyuki Nishizawa All 26 Atsushi Yogo All Hideo Fukuyama All Chrysler Chrysler Viper GTS-R Chrysler 356-T6 8.0 L V10 55 Eiji Yamada All Takayuki Kinoshita All ARTA with A'PEX Toyota Toyota MR-S Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 31 Morio Nitta Y All Shinichi Takagi All Auto Staff Racing Nissan Nissan Silvia (S15) Nissan SR20DET 2.0 L Turbo I4 51 Naofumi Omoto Y 2–7 Yasukichi Yamamoto 2–7 R&D Sport Porsche Porsche 911 GT3-R Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 62 Shinsuke Shibahara D All Yasuhisa Fujiwara 1–2 Shogo Mitsuyama 3–7 63 "OSAMU" All Takamasa Nakagawa All Amprex Motorsports Mazda Mazda RX-7 Mazda RE20B 2.0 L 3-rotor 65 Genji Hashimoto Y NC Charles Kwan NC Team Gaikokuya Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-RS Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 70 Yoshimi Ishibashi D All Hiroaki Suga All SigmaTec Racing Team Toyota Toyota MR-S Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 71 Guts Jyonai Y 1, 3–7 Eiichi Tajima 1, 3–7 Cusco Racing Subaru Subaru Impreza WRX STI Subaru EJ20 2.0 L Turbo F4 77 Katsuo Kobayashi Y All Tatsuya Tanigawa All Team Daishin Nissan Nissan Silvia (S15) Nissan SR20DET 2.0 L Turbo I4 81 Nobuyuki Ohyagi Y All Takayuki Aoki All KRAFT Toyota Toyota Corolla Sprinter Trueno (AE86) Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 86 Masaoki Nagashima Y 1–3 Koji Matsuda 1–3 Toyota MR-S Masaoki Nagashima 4–7 Koji Matsuda 4–7 Dentaire ProJet Racing Ferrari Ferrari 360 Ferrari F131B 3.6 L V8 360 Seigo Nishizawa Y All Kota Sasaki All Team Sri Lanka Mosler Mosler MT900R Chevrolet LS1 5.7 L V8 900 Dilantha Malagamuwa Y 1–4 Takeshi Asami 1–4 João Barbosa NC A&S Racing Mosler Mosler MT900R Chevrolet LS1 5.7 L V8 901 Takeshi Asami Y 5 Yasutaka Hinoi 5–6 Tetsuji Tamanaka 6–7 Tetsuya Nakajima 6–7 910 Racing Porsche Porsche 996 GT3 RS Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 910 Jukuchou Sunako Y All Hisashi Wada All Adam Wilcox NC 911 Masamitsu Ishihara 2, 4 Akira Hirakawa 1
Schedule [ edit ] Season results [ edit ] Standings [ edit ] GT500 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
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 FUJ SUG FUJ MOT SUZ MIN 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 FUJ SUG FUJ MOT SUZ MIN PTS
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