The 2002 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the tenth season of Japan Automobile Federation GT premiere racing. It was marked as well as the twentieth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The GT500 class drivers' champions of 2002 were Juichi Wakisaka and Akira Iida driving the No. 6 Esso Team LeMans Toyota Supra, and the teams' champion was Honda team MugenxDome Project with their No. 16 Mugen NSX and No. 18 Takata Dome NSX.[1] The GT300 class drivers' champions were the No. 31 ARTA with A'PEX Toyota MR-S driven by Morio Nitta and Shinichi Takagi.
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The Honda NSX cars of team champions Mugen x Dome Project |
Round | Race | Circuit | Date |
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1 | GT Championship in TI | TI Circuit | April 14 |
2 | All Japan Fuji GT Race | Fuji Speedway | May 4 |
3 | SUGO GT Championship | Sportsland SUGO | May 26 |
4 | Tmtouch Japan GT Championship Malaysia | Sepang Circuit | June 23 |
5 | Japan Special GT Cup | Fuji Speedway | July 28 |
6 | Motegi GT Championship Race | Twin Ring Motegi | September 15 |
7 | CP Mine GT Race | Mine Circuit | October 27 |
8 | Suzuka GT 300 km | Suzuka Circuit | November 17 |
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
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Points | 20 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Qualifying | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
Fastest Lap | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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For teams that entered multiple cars, only the best result from each round counted towards the teams' championship.[2]
Rank | Team | No. | TAI |
FUJ |
SUG |
SEP |
FUJ |
MOT |
MIN |
SUZ |
PTS |
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1 | MugenxDome Project | 16 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 16 | 1 | 10 | 96 |
18 | 2 | 15 | 16 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 12 | 14 | |||
2 | Esso Toyota Team LeMans | 6 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 75 |
3 | Mobil 1 Nakajima Racing | 64 | 1 | 11 | 19Ret | 1 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 74 |
4 | Toyota Team Cerumo | 33 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 16 | 12 | 11 | 13 | 69 | |
1 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 6 | |||
5 | Toyota Team TOM'S | 36 | 8 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 65 |
37 | 18Ret | 12 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 18Ret | 16 | |||
6 | Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft | 100 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 14Ret | 4 | 63 |
7 | Nismo | 22 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 18Ret | 62 |
23 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 17 | 17Ret | 8 | |||
8 | Autobacs Racing Team Aguri | 8 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 46 |
9 | Toyota Team SARD | 39 | 3 | 17Ret | 12 | 18DSQ | 15 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 33 |
10 | Tsuchiya Engineering | 25 | 6 | 13 | 11 | 16Ret | 4 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 32 |
11 | Hitotsuyama Racing | 76 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 3 | 15Ret | 19Ret | 27 |
12 | Team Impul | 12 | 14 | 18Ret | 8 | 14 | 19Ret | 11 | 13 | 17 | 4 |
13 | Kraft | 35 | 17 | 10 | 18Ret | 12 | 10 | 15 | 10 | 12 | 3 |
14 | Team Take One | 30 | 16 | 9 | 14 | 17Ret | 19Ret | 20Ret | 11 | 2 | |
- | JLOC | 88 | 19DNQ | 16Ret | 15 | 17Ret | 18Ret | 18 | 19Ret | 20Ret | 0 |
- | HKS | 87 | 19DNQ | 20DNQ | 20Ret | 16Ret | 15 | 0 | |||
Rank | Team | No. | TAI |
FUJ |
SUG |
SEP |
FUJ |
MOT |
MIN |
SUZ |
PTS |
Rank | Drivers | Number/Team | Points | Wins |
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1 | Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi |
#31 ARTA A'PEX Toyota MR-S | 75 | 1 |
2 | Shogo Mitsuyama Shinsuke Shibahara |
#62 R&D Sport Vemac RD320R | 73 | 3 |
3 | Masataka Yanagida Tetsuya Yamano |
#3 Hasemi Motorsports Nissan Silvia | 70 | 1 |
4 | Hideo Fukuyama Mitsuhiro Kinoshita |
#24 Advan Team Taisan Porsche 996 | 65 | 1 |
5 | Takayuki Aoki Noboyuki Oyagi |
#81 Team Daishin Nissan Silvia | 56 | 1 |
Japanese Sportscar Championship seasons
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