Akira Iida & Juichi Wakisaka
GT500 Teams' Champion:
Mugen x Dome Project
GT300 Drivers' Champion:
Morio Nitta & Shinichi Takagi
GT300 Teams' Champion:
Team Taisan ADVAN Previous 2001 Next 2003
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 Mugen x Dome Project with their No. 16 Mugen NSX and No. 18 Takata Dome NSX. The GT300 class drivers' champions were the No. 31 ARTA with A'PEX Toyota MR-S driven by Morio Nitta and Shinichi Takagi.
| External image | |
|---|---|
 The Honda NSX cars of team champions Mugen x Dome Project |
Drivers and teams
GT500
GT300
Schedule
| Round | Race | Circuit | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
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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 |
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 |
| Qualifying | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Fastest Lap | 1 | 1 | 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.
| Rank | Team | No. | TAI
|
FUJ
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SUG
|
SEP
|
FUJ
|
MOT
|
MIN
|
SUZ
|
PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mugen x Dome 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
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SUG
|
SEP
|
FUJ
|
MOT
|
MIN
|
SUZ
|
PTS |
GT300 class (Top 5)
Drivers
| Rank | Drivers | Number/Team | Points | Wins |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
References
- "【JGTC第8戦】トヨタ/ホンダでタイトルを分け合う……最終戦". レスポンス（Response.jp） (in Japanese). Retrieved 2021-10-16.
- "JGTC 2002 Team Ranking". supergt.net. Retrieved 2021-10-16.
External links
- Super GT/JGTC official race archive (in Japanese)
- 2002 season results
| Japanese Sportscar Championship seasons | |
|---|---|
| Includes All-Japan Endurance, Sports Prototype, and Grand Touring and Super GT seasons | |
| Prototype | |
| JGTC | |
| Super GT | |