The 2008 Autobacs Super GT Series was the sixteenth season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship including the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era and the fourth season as the Super GT series. It marked as well as the twenty-sixth 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 first season for the new R35 GT-R , replacing the Z which had been used for all GT500 Nissan teams from 2004-2007. The season began on March 15 and ended on November 9, 2008 after 9 races.
2008 Xanavi Nismo GT-R (R35) .
Drivers and teams
GT500
GT300 Team Make Car Engine Drivers Tyre Rounds Cars Tokai Dream28 Mooncraft Mooncraft Shiden Toyota 1UZ-FE 4.4 L V8 2 Kazuho Takahashi Y All Hiroki Katoh All Hiroki Yoshimoto 6 Team Uematsu Nova Vemac Vemac RD320R Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 4 Ryohei Sakaguchi Y All All 6 Vemac RD350R Zytek ZV348 3.9 L V8 16 1, 3, 9 1, 3, 9 Team Mach Vemac Vemac RD320R Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 5 Tetsuji Tamanaka Y All 1–7, 9 6, 8 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 Chevrolet Chevrolet Corvette Chevrolet LS1 6.0 L V8 9 Tatsuya Tanigawa K 3, 6, 8 3, 6, 8 Takayuki Matsumoto 6 Jim Gainer Racing Ferrari Ferrari F430 Ferrari F136E 4.3 L V8 11 Tetsuya Tanaka Y All All Racing Project Bandoh Toyota Toyota Celica Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 19 Manabu Orido Y 1–3 1–3 Lexus Lexus IS350 Lexus RV8J 3.4 L V8 Manabu Orido 4–9 4–9 Yuhi Sekiguchi 6 Team Taisan with Nishizawa Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-RS Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 26 Nobuteru Taniguchi Y All Shinichi Yamaji 1–8 Keita Sawa 6 Dominik Farnbacher 9 Team Shadow Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-RSR Porsche M96/73 3.6 L F6 27 H 1, 3, 6–7, 9 Hwang Jin Woo 1, 3, 6–7 6 Koji Aoyama 9 apr Toyota Toyota MR-S Toyota 2GR-FSE 3.5 L V6 31 M 1–5, 7–9 Yuya Sakamoto 1–5, 7–9 95 Kohei Hirate 1–5, 8–9 Keisuke Kunimoto All Yuya Sakamoto 6 Kazuya Oshima 6 Hideki Yamauchi 7 Hankook KTR Porsche Porsche 997 GT3-RSR Porsche M97/80 3.8 L F6 33 Mitsuhiro Kinoshita H All Masami Kageyama All Autobacs Racing Team Aguri ASL ASL ARTA Garaiya Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6 43 Morio Nitta M All Shinichi Takagi All 6 MOLA Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6 46 Kazuki Hoshino M All Hironobu Yasuda All Team Takeuchi with Shift Lexus Lexus IS350 Lexus RV8J 3.4 L V8 52 Takuya Kurosawa K 3–9 Takuto Iguchi 3–9 Hideki Yamauchi 6 Willcom R&D Sport Vemac Vemac RD408R Mugen MF458S 4.5 L V8 62 Shinsuke Shibahara Y 1, 5–9 Haruki Kurosawa All 2–4, 6 JLOC Lamborghini Lamborghini Murciélago RG-1 Lamborghini L535 6.0 L V12 66 Koji Yamanishi Y All All Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3 Lamborghini 07L1 5.0 L V10 87 Hisashi Wada All All 6 88 Hideshi Matsuda All Naohiro Furuya All Yuya Sakamoto 6 Team Gaikokuya Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-RS Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 70 Y 1 1–7, 9 2–3 Yoshimi Ishibashi 4–7 6, 9 Cusco Racing Subaru Subaru Impreza WRX STI Subaru EJ20 2.0 L Turbo F4 77 Tetsuya Yamano D All Kota Sasaki 1–7 Carlo van Dam 8–9 Team Daishin Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6 81 Takayuki Aoki Y All Tomonobu Fujii All Arktech Motorsports Porsche Porsche 986 Boxster Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 110 Hidetoshi Mitsusada K All All 111 Hiroshi Koizumi 1–6 Guts Jyonai 1 2–6 6 Tomei Sports Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-RS Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 118 Y 1, 3, 6–9 1 3, 6–7 Guts Jyonai 6, 8–9 Avanzza Rosso Vemac Vemac RD320R Honda C32B 3.5 L V6 666 K 1–3, 5–9 1–3, 5–9 6 Studie & Glad with Asada Racing BMW BMW Z4 M Coupe BMW S62B50 4.9 L V8 808 Y 6–7, 9 6–7, 9
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 MOLA 46 Ret 4 2 2 5 1 7 4 6 104 2 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri 43 5 1 7 12 1 Ret 9 2 9 89 3 Team Daishin 81 4 6 5 10 2 6 11 1 7 85 4 Team Taisan with Nishizawa 26 3 2 Ret 15 7 5 4 15 1 83 5 Cars Tokai Dream28 2 2 9 3 5 10 Ret 2 3 11 82 6 Cusco Racing 77 6 3 18 1 14 17 14 6 3 71 7 RE Amemiya Racing 7 1 14 19 3 4 3 13 20 Ret 66 8 apr 95 13 12 1 9 6 2 16 9 Ret 63 9 WILLCOM R&D Sport 62 DNS 5 6 8 11 4 12 14 2 56 10 apr 31 10 11 4 6 3 17 11 4 52 11 Racing Project Bandoh 19 7 Ret 9 Ret 15 19 1 10 5 48 12 Team Uematsu Nova 4 8 13 8 4 8 Ret 15 7 8 43 13 Hankook KTR 33 11 7 17 11 9 Ret 6 5 Ret 33 14 JLOC 66 Ret 8 Ret 7 13 15 3 Ret 19 28 15 Jim Gainer Racing 11 12 20 12 17 12 7 24 8 12 20 16 Arktech Motorsports 110 9 17 11 Ret Ret 5 13 20 18 17 Team Mach 5 14 10 10 14 Ret 10 10 18 10 18 18 Team Takeuchi with Shift 52 DNS Ret 13 17 18 8 12 13 12 19 Arktech Motorsports 111 15 21 14 19 16 8 19 Ret 10 20 Team Shadow 27 18 15 9 18 17 8 21 JLOC 88 DNS 16 16 16 19 12 Ret 19 14 7 22 JLOC 87 DNS 19 Ret 20 18 14 23 21 Ret 6 23 Tomei Sports 118 19 13 16 22 16 15 6 24 Team Gaikokuya 70 20 15 20 18 Ret 21 5 25 Avanzza Rosso 666 17 18 Ret Ret 13 20 17 Ret 5 26 Team Gaikokuya 170 11 16 2 27 Team Uematsu Nova 16 16 Ret Ret 1 28 Studie & Glad with Asada Racing 808 DNP 18 1 29 A&S Racing 9 DNQ DNQ DNQ 0 Rank Team No. SUZ OKA FUJ SEP SUG SUZ MOT AUT FUJ Pts.
External links
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Suzuka GT 300 km 
Super GT International Series Malaysia 
Dominik Farnbacher 
Carlo van Dam 
Hwang Jin Woo 
Paul Ip 