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
GT500
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GT300
Schedule
| Round | Race | Circuit | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GT Championship in TI |  TI Circuit |
April 15 |
| 2 | All Japan Fuji GT Race | Fuji Speedway |
May 4 |
| 3 | SUGO GT Championship | Sportsland SUGO |
May 27 |
| NC | Tmtouch Japan GT Championship Malaysia |  Sepang Circuit |
June 24 |
| 4 | Japan Special GT Cup | Fuji Speedway |
August 5 |
| 5 | Motegi GT Championship Race | Twin Ring Motegi |
September 16 |
| 6 | Suzuka GT 300 km | Suzuka Circuit |
October 28 |
| 7 | CP Mine GT Race | Mine Circuit |
November 11 |
Season results
Standings
GT500 class
Drivers' standings
- Scoring system
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 20 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
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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 | Team | No. | TAI |
FUJ |
SUG |
FUJ |
MOT |
SUZ |
MIN |
PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nismo | 22 | 4 | 3 | Ret | 1 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 71 |
| 23 | 13 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 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 | Ret | 13 | 58 |
| 38 | Ret | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 16 | |||
| 4 | Autobacs Racing Team Aguri | 8 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 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 | Ret | 1 | 5 | 3 | 13 | Ret | 14 | 40 |
| 7 | Mobil 1 Nakajima Racing | 64 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 1 | Ret | Ret | 38 |
| 8 | Team Take One | 30 | 8 | Ret | 12 | 16 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 30 |
| 9 | Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft | 100 | 6 | 5 | Ret | 9 | 4 | 13 | 8 | 29 |
| 10 | Team Impul | 12 | 15 | Ret | 7 | 7 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 28 |
| 11 | Toyota Team SARD | 39 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 13 | Ret | 9 | 4 | 22 |
| 12 | Tsuchiya Engineering | 25 | 9 | 11 | 11 | - | 7 | 7 | 10 | 11 |
| 13 | Hitotsuyama Racing | 21 | 10 | 13 | Ret | 11 | Ret | Ret | 11 | 1 |
| - | JLOC | 88 | DNS | Ret | DNS | Ret | 15 | 14 | 15 | 0 |
| Rank | Team | No. | TAI |
FUJ |
SUG |
FUJ |
MOT |
SUZ |
MIN |
PTS |
GT300 class
Drivers
References
- ↑ "JGTC 2001 Ranking". supergt.net. Retrieved 2021-10-16.
External links
- Super GT/JGTC official race archive (in Japanese)