2007 GT500 champions, #8 ARTA Honda NSX . 2007 RE Amemiya RX-7 (FD) . The 2007 Autobacs Super GT Series was the fifteenth season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship including the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era and the third season as the Super GT series. It is also marked as the twenty-fifth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship . It is a series for Grand Touring race cars divided into two categories: GT500 and GT300. This was the final season for the 350Z , as it was announced by Nissan and Nismo near the end of the season that the new R35 GT-R would be replacing it the following season. The season began on March 18 and ended on November 4, 2007, after 9 races.
In the GT500 class, ARTA drivers Ralph Firman and Daisuke Itō won the championship in a dominating fashion, becoming the first GT500 champion to clinch the title before the final race of the season, a feat only matched by the 2012 champions Masataka Yanagida and Ronnie Quintarelli as of the end of the 2018 season. In the GT300 class, Kazuya Oshima and Hiroaki Ishiura in the apr Toyota MR-S won the driver's championship title by winning the tiebreaker against the Shiden of Kazuho Takahashi and Hiroki Katoh - the two teams finished the season with the same number of points, but Oshima and Ishiura had two race wins compared to Takahashi and Katoh's one. Takahashi and Katoh's overall consistency, however, would gave Cars Tokai Dream28 the team's championship title by six points over Oshima and Ishiura.
Drivers and teams
GT500
GT300 Team Make Car Engine Drivers Tyre Rounds Honda Cars Tokai Dream28 Mooncraft Mooncraft Shiden Toyota 1UZ-FE 4.4 L V8 2 Kazuho Takahashi Y All Hiroki Katoh All Hiroki Yoshimoto 6 Ebbro Team Nova Vemac Vemac RD350R Zytek ZV348 3.9 L V8 4 Tetsuya Tanaka Y 1–4, 6–9 1–4, 6–9 Akira Watanabe 6 Team Mach Vemac Vemac RD320R Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 5 Tetsuji Tamanaka K All Hironori Takeuchi All Keita Sawa 6 RE Amemiya Racing Mazda Mazda RX-7 Mazda RE20B 2.0 L 3-rotor 7 Hiroyuki Iiri Y All Ryo Orime All 6 A&S Racing Mosler Mosler MT900R Chevrolet LS1 6.0 L V8 9 "OSAMU" D 1–3, 6, 9 Guts Jyonai 1–3 5–8 5–9 Jim Gainer Racing Ferrari Ferrari 360 Ferrari F131B 3.6 L V8 11 Y All Hideshi Matsuda 1–3, 6 4–9 Endless Sports Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6 13 Tomonobu Fujii Y All Masami Kageyama All Racing Project Bandoh Toyota Toyota Celica Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 19 Akira Iida Y All Yuhi Sekiguchi All Team Taisan with Nishizawa Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-RS Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 26 Nobuteru Taniguchi Y All Shinichi Yamaji 1–3 Kazuyuki Nishizawa 4, 6 Dominik Farnbacher 5–9 apr Toyota Toyota MR-S Toyota 2GR-FSE 3.5 L V6 31 M All Yuya Sakamoto All 101 Hiroaki Ishiura All Kazuya Oshima All Hankook KTR Porsche Porsche 997 GT3-RSR Porsche M97/80 3.8 L F6 33 Mitsuhiro Kinoshita H 2–9 Yuya Sakamoto 2–9 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri ASL ASL ARTA Garaiya Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6 43 Morio Nitta M All Shinichi Takagi All MOLA Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6 46 Kota Sasaki D All Naoki Yokomizo All 47 All Shigekazu Wakisaka All DHG Racing Ford Ford GT DHG D35806V 3.5 L V8 55 Daisuke Ikeda Y 1–3, 5–9 Taku Bamba 1–3, 5–9 Hideo Fukuyama 6 Willcom R&D Sport Vemac Vemac RD408R Mugen MF458S 4.5 L V8 62 Shinsuke Shibahara Y All Haruki Kurosawa All JLOC Lamborghini Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3 Lamborghini 07L1 5.0 L V10 66 Naohiro Furuya Y All All 6 67 All Hisashi Wada All Yasutaka Hinoi 6 Lamborghini Murciélago RG-1 Lamborghini L535 6.0 L V12 87 Yasutaka Hinoi 1–5, 9 1–5, 9 6 88 Koji Yamanishi 1–5, 9 Marco Apicella 1–3, 9 Hideshi Matsuda 4–5 Team Gaikokuya Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-RS Porsche M96/97 3.6 L F6 70 Hiroshi Koizumi Y 1–3, 5–6 1 Yoshimi Ishibashi 2–3, 5–6, 9 6, 9 71 Yoshimi Ishibashi 7–8 7 8 Cusco Racing Subaru Subaru Impreza WRX STI Subaru EJ20 2.0 L Turbo F4 77 Tetsuya Yamano D All Takayuki Aoki All Yokoyama Racing Vemac Vemac RD320R Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 83 Y 1, 3 Ryohei Sakaguchi 1, 3 Arktech Motorsports Porsche Porsche 986 Boxster Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 110 Takuya Kurosawa Y 1–2 Hidetoshi Mitsusada 1–2 Takuya Kurosawa K 3–9 Hidetoshi Mitsusada 3–9 111 3, 5–6 3–6 Guts Jyonai 5–6 112 Hiroshi Koizumi 7–9 7 Guts Jyonai 8–9 Tomei Sports Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-RS Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 118 Y 1, 3, 8–9 1, 3 8–9 Mario Racing Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-RSR Porsche M96/73 3.6 L F6 333 Y 1–3 1–3 Team Uematsu Vemac Vemac RD320R Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 333 Y 4–7, 9 4, 6 Ryohei Sakaguchi 5–6, 9 Avanzza Bomex Vemac Vemac RD320R Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 666 K All All 6
Schedule
Season Winners
Standings
GT500 Drivers Scoring system Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Points 20 15 11 8 6 5 4 3 2 1 Qualifying 3 2 1 Fastest Lap 1 1 1
Only the best four results in the first six races would be counted for the championship. There were no points awarded for pole position and fastest lap in the final race.
Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points classification Blue Non-points classification Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired, not classified (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)
Rank Team No. SUZ OKA FUJ SEP SUG SUZ MOT AUT FUJ Pts. 1 Cars Tokai Dream28 2 2 2 5 11 4 1 6 10 3 106 2 apr 101 3 1 3 1 15 14 21 9 2 100 3 WILLCOM R&D Sport 62 5 8 Ret 14 5 3 2 1 4 91 4 Endless Sports 13 1 7 4 6 12 5 23 3 5 81 5 Team Taisan with Nishizawa 26 11 3 19 13 Ret Ret 1 8 1 72 6 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri 43 18 17 1 Ret Ret 2 3 5 7 72 7 MOLA 46 13 6 18 3 6 4 24 2 18 64 8 MOLA 47 17 14 11 4 2 8 7 4 14 53 9 Racing Project Bandoh 19 14 19 Ret 4 1 12 18 4 16 46 10 Ebbro Team Nova 4 10 22 10 2 6 10 Ret 8 41 11 Arktech Motorsports 110 6 5 Ret Ret 13 Ret 5 7 10 37 12 JLOC 88 4 Ret 2 12 9 Ret 36 13 apr 31 8 9 6 15 7 7 9 Ret Ret 35 14 RE Amemiya Racing 7 9 12 8 8 8 11 8 Ret 12 32 15 Team Mach 5 7 11 12 19 14 Ret 4 18 6 32 16 Hankook KTR 33 10 20 10 3 16 17 11 9 31 17 JLOC 87 12 4 9 7 DNS 15 25 18 Cusco Racing 77 21 13 Ret 5 Ret Ret 11 14 11 17 19 Mario Racing/Team Uematsu 333 19 18 17 16 16 10 12 13 11 20 Jim Gainer Racing 11 22 16 15 18 10 DSQ 13 12 9 21 DHG Racing 55 Ret 15 13 11 9 14 Ret 17 9 22 Yokoyama Racing 83 15 7 8 23 Avanzza Bomex 666 16 Ret 14 17 18 13 16 Ret 20 8 24 A&S Racing 9 Ret 23 Ret Ret 18 15 13 23 5 25 Team Gaikokuya 70 20 20 Ret DNQ 15 22 4 26 JLOC 67 DNP DNQ DNQ DNS DNQ 17 19 Ret 25 3 27 Arktech Motorsports 112 Ret 17 19 3 28 Arktech Motorsports 111 16 17 Ret 2 29 JLOC 66 DNP 21 Ret DNQ DNP DNP 22 Ret Ret 2 30 Team Gaikokuya 71 20 16 2 31 Tomei Sports 118 Ret Ret 15 24 2 32 Jim Gainer Racing 10 21 1 Rank Team No. SUZ OKA FUJ SEP SUG SUZ MOT AUT FUJ Pts.
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