2004 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship
The 2004 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the twelfth season of Japan Automobile Federation GT premiere racing and the final season under the name All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship as for 2005 the series was renamed to Super GT. It was marked as well as the twenty-second season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The GT500 class champions of 2004 were the #1 Xanavi NISMO Nissan Fairlady Z team driven by Satoshi Motoyama and Richard Lyons and the GT300 class champions were the #16 M-TEC Honda NSX driven by Tetsuya Yamano and Hiroyuki Yagi.
Drivers and teams
GT500
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GT300
Schedule
| Round | Race | Circuit | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GT Championship in TI | Japan TI Circuit | April 4 |
| 2 | SUGO GT Championship | Japan Sportsland SUGO | May 23 |
| 3 | Japan GT Championship Malaysia | Malaysia Sepang Circuit | June 19 |
| 4 | Hokkaido Gran GT Championship | Japan Tokachi International Speedway | July 18 |
| 5 | Motegi GT Championship Race | Japan Twin Ring Motegi | September 5 |
| 6 | Japan GT in Kyushu 300 km | Japan Autopolis | October 31 |
| 7 | Suzuka GT 300 km | Japan Suzuka Circuit | November 21 |
| NC | JGTC All-Star GT Live USA | United States California Speedway | December 18 |
| December 19 |
Season results
Standings
GT500 class
Drivers' standings
- Scoring system
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 20 | 15 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Qualifying | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Fastest Lap | 1 | 1 | 1 |
- There were no points awarded for pole position and fastest lap in the final race.
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Teams' standings
For teams that entered multiple cars, only the best result from each round counted towards the teams' championship.[1]
| Rank | Driver | No. | TAI Japan |
SUG Japan |
SEP Malaysia |
TOK Japan |
MOT Japan |
AUT Japan |
SUZ Japan |
PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nismo | 1 | 1 | DNS | 3 | Ret | 3 | 1 | 7 | 98 |
| 22 | 9 | Ret | 6 | 1 | 8 | 9 | Ret | |||
| 2 | Toyota Team SARD | 39 | 3 | Ret | 1 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 61 |
| 3 | Toyota Team TOM'S | 36 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 60 |
| 37 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 | |||
| 4 | Esso Toyota Team LeMans | 6 | 2 | 11 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 4 | Ret | 57 |
| 5 | Hasemi Motorsport | 3 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 7 | Ret | 3 | 50 |
| 6 | Toyota Team Cerumo | 38 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 14 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 45 |
| 7 | Epson Nakajima Racing | 32 | 10 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 42 |
| 8 | Kraft | 35 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 16 | 37 |
| 9 | Team Impul | 12 | 8 | 10 | Ret | 11 | Ret | 5 | 1 | 35 |
| 10 | Team Advan Tsuchiya | 25 | 14 | 2 | Ret | 13 | 12 | 3 | 10 | 31 |
| 11 | Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft | 100 | Ret | 8 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 |
| 12 | Dome Racing Team | 18 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 15 | 14 | 12 | 6 |
| 13 | Autobacs Racing Team Aguri | 8 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 2 |
| - | Amprex Motorsports | 15 | 12 | 15 | 0 | |||||
| - | Hitotsuyama Racing | 21 | 15 | DNQ | 13 | 16 | 14 | 15 | 14 | 0 |
| - | R&D Sport | 62 | 13 | 0 | ||||||
| - | JLOC | 88 | DNQ | Ret | DNQ | Ret | Ret | 15 | 0 | |
| Rank | Driver | No. | TAI Japan |
SUG Japan |
SEP Malaysia |
TOK Japan |
MOT Japan |
AUT Japan |
SUZ Japan |
PTS |
GT300 class (Top 5)
Drivers
| Rank | Drivers | Number/Team | Points | Wins |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan Tetsuya Yamano Japan Hiroyuki Yagi |
#16 M-TEC Honda NSX | 93 | 1 |
| 2 | Japan Morio Nitta Japan Shinichi Takagi |
#43 ARTA ASL Garaiya | 92 | 2 |
| 3 | Japan Atsushi Yogo Japan Tetsuya Tanaka |
#10 Team Gainer Ferrari F360 | 64 | 1 |
| 4 | Japan Shinichi Yamaji Japan Hiroyuki Iiri |
#7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7 | 55 | 2 |
| 5 | Japan Takayuki Aoki Japan Nobuteru Taniguchi |
#19 WedsSport Toyota Celica | 48 | 1 |
References
- ↑ "JGTC.net | 2004 Series Point Ranking | Team". supergt.net. Retrieved 2021-10-16.
External links
- Super GT/JGTC official race archive (in Japanese)
- 2004 season results