2005 Super GT season

2005 Super GT season
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The 2005 Autobacs Super GT Series was the 12th season of the GT Championship in Japan including the All-Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era, and the 1st season as the Super GT series. It is a series for Grand Touring cars divided into 2 classes: GT500 and GT300. The season began on March 27 and ended on November 6, 2005 after 8 races. The champions were Yuji Tachikawa and Toranosuke Takagi in GT500; & Kota Sasaki and Tetsuya Yamano in GT300.

Contents

Schedule

Round Race Circuit Date
1 Okayama GT 300 km Race Okayama International Circuit March 27
2 Fuji GT 500 km Race Fuji International Speedway May 4
3 Japan GT Championship Malaysia Sepang International Circuit June 26
4 SUGO GT 300 km Race Sportsland Sugo July 24
5 Motegi GT 300 km Race Twin Ring Motegi September 4
6 Fuji GT 300 km Race Fuji International Speedway September 25
7 Super GT in Kyushu GT 300 km Autopolis International Race Course October 16
8 Suzuka GT 300 km Suzuka Circuit November 6

Season results

Overall winner in bold

Round Circuit GT500 Winning Team GT300 Winning Team
GT500 Winning Drivers GT300 Winning Drivers
1 Okayama #25 Eclipse Advan Supra #13 Endless Advan Z
Manabu Orido
Dominik Schwager
Mitsuhiro Kinoshita
Masami Kageyama
2 Mt. Fuji #38 Zent Cerumo Supra #0 Ebbro M-TEC NSX
Yuji Tachikawa
Toranosuke Takagi
Haruki Kurosawa
Shinya Hosokawa
3 Kuala Lumpur #1 Xanavi Nismo Z #43 ARTA Garaiya
Satoshi Motoyama
Richard Lyons
Morio Nitta
Shinichi Takagi
4 Sportsland SUGO #37 Dynacity TOM'S Supra #31 Kicchouhouzan MR-S
Tatsuya Kataoka
Sakon Yamamoto
Minoru Tanaka
Kazuki Nakajima
5 Motegi #100 Raybrig NSX #46 Dream Cube's Advan Z
Sebastien Philippe
Jeremie Dufour
Kazuki Hoshino
Takayuki Aoki
6 Mt. Fuji #38 Zent Cerumo Supra #0 Ebbro M-TEC NSX
Yuji Tachikawa
Toranosuke Takagi
Haruki Kurosawa
Shinya Hosokawa
7 Autopolis #8 ARTA NSX #30 Reckless MR-S
Daisuke Ito
Ralph Firman
Kota Sasaki
Tetsuya Yamano
8 Suzuka #38 Zent Cerumo Supra #11 Jim Gainer Ferrari Dunlop
Yuji Tachikawa
Toranosuke Takagi
Tetsuya Tanaka
Paolo Montin

Point Ranking

GT500 Class (Top 5)

Drivers

Rank Drivers Number/Team Points Wins
1 Yuji Tachikawa
Toranosuke Takagi
#38 Zent Cerumo Supra 67 3
2 Daisuke Ito
Ralph Firman
#8 ARTA NSX 61 1
3 Satoshi Motoyama
Richard Lyons
#1 Xanavi Nismo Z 60 1
4 Takeshi Tsuchiya
James Courtney
#36 Open Interface TOM'S Supra 60 0
5 Michael Krumm
Masataka Yanagida
#22 Motul Pitwork Z 57 0

Teams

Rank Number/Team Car Points
1 #1, #22 Nismo Nissan Fairlady Z 86
2 #8, #18 Team Honda Racing Honda NSX 82
3 #36, #37 Toyota Team TOM'S Open Interface TOM'S Supra 73
4 #38 Toyota Team Cerumo Zent Cerumo Supra 67
5 #6 Esso Toyota Team LeMans Esso Ultraflo Supra 51

GT300 Class (Top 3)

Drivers

Rank Drivers Number/Team Points Wins
1 Kota Sasaki
Tetsuya Yamano
#30 Reckless MR-S 93 1
2 Haruki Kurosawa
Shinya Hosokawa
#0 Ebbro M-TEC NSX 81 2
3 Morio Nitta
Shinichi Takagi
#43 ARTA Garaiya 74 1

Teams

Rank Number/Team Car Points
1 #30 Team Reckless Reckless MR-S 93
2 #0 M-TEC Co.,Ltd. Ebbro M-TEC NSX 81
3 #43 ARTA ARTA Garaiya 74

References