1998 JGTC season

1998 JGTC season
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The 1998 JGTC season was the fifth season of the All-Japan Grand Touring Car Championship. The GT500 champion was the #23 Pennzoil NISMO Nissan Skyline GT-R driven by Erik Comas and Masami Kageyama and the GT300 class champion was the #25 Team Taisan Jr with Tsuchiya MR-2 driven by Keiichi Suzuki and Shingo Tachi.

Schedule

Round Race Circuit Date
1 Suzuka GT 300 Japan Suzuka Circuit March 22
2 All Japan Fuji GT Race Japan Fuji Speedway May 3
3 HiLand GT Championship Japan Sendai Hi-Land Raceway June 28
4 Japan Special GT-Cup Japan Fuji Speedway August 9
5 Motegi GT Championship Race Japan Twin Ring Motegi September 13
6 CP Mine GT Race Japan Mine Circuit October 11
7 SUGO GT Championship Japan Sportsland SUGO October 25
NC Nicos Cup GT Allstar Race Japan TI Circuit November 15

Season results

Round Circuit GT500 Winning Team GT300 Winning Team
GT500 Winning Drivers GT300 Winning Drivers
1 Suzuka Circuit #23 Pennzoil NISMO GT-R #25 Team Taisan Jr with Tsuchiya MR-2
Japan Masami Kageyama
France Erik Comas
Japan Keiichi Suzuki
Japan Shingo Tachi
2 Mt. Fuji Cancelled[1]
3 Sendai #23 Pennzoil NISMO GT-R #25 Team Taisan Jr with Tsuchiya MR-2
Japan Masami Kageyama
France Erik Comas
Japan Keiichi Suzuki
Japan Shingo Tachi
4 Mt. Fuji #64 Mobil 1 Nakajima Racing Honda NSX #25 Team Taisan Jr with Tsuchiya MR-2
Netherlands Tom Coronel
Japan Koji Yamanishi
Japan Keiichi Suzuki
Japan Shingo Tachi
5 Twin Ring Motegi #16 Castrol Mugen Honda NSX #77 Cusco Subaru Impreza
Japan Ryo Michigami
Japan Osamu Nakako
Japan Katsuo Kobayashi
Japan Hideyuki Tamamoto
6 Mine Circuit #100 Team Kunimitsu Honda NSX #25 Team Taisan Jr with Tsuchiya MR-2
Japan Kunimitsu Takahashi
Japan Akira Iida
Japan Keiichi Suzuki
Japan Shingo Tachi
7 Sportsland SUGO #16 Castrol Mugen Honda NSX #25 Team Taisan Jr with Tsuchiya MR-2
Japan Ryo Michigami
Japan Osamu Nakako
Japan Keiichi Suzuki
Japan Shingo Tachi
NC TI Circuit #64 Mobil 1 Nakajima Racing Honda NSX #25 Team Taisan Jr with Tsuchiya MR-2
Netherlands Tom Coronel
Japan Koji Yamanishi
Japan Keiichi Suzuki
Japan Shingo Tachi

Point Ranking

GT500 Class (Top 5)

Drivers

Rank Drivers Number/Team Points Wins
1 France Erik Comas
Japan Masami Kageyama
#23 Pennzoil NISMO GT-R 67 2
2 Netherlands Tom Coronel
Japan Koji Yamanishi
#64 Mobil 1 Nakajima Racing Honda NSX 50 1
3 Japan Takuya Kurosawa
Japan Kazuyoshi Hoshino
#12 Calsonic Impul GT-R 49 0
4 Japan Ryo Michigami
Japan Osamu Nakako
#16 Castrol Mugen Honda NSX 48 2
5 Japan Masahiro Hasemi
Japan Tetsuya Tanaka
#3 Hasemi Motorsports GT-R 37 0

GT300 Class (Top 5)

Drivers

Rank Drivers Number/Team Points Wins
1 Japan Keiichi Suzuki
Japan Shingo Tachi
#25 Team Taisan Jr with Tsuchiya MR-2 106 5
2 Japan Manabu Orido #19 Bandoh Racing Toyota Celica 46 0
3 Japan Morio Nitta #44 MOMOCORSE A'PEX MR-2 45 0
4 Japan Hiroki Kato #21 Hitotsuyama Racing BMW M3 44 0
5 Japan Akihiko Nakaya
Japan Takahiko Hara
#61 Team Taeivon Ralliart Mitsubishi FTO 37 0

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