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. [1] The GT300 class drivers' champions were the No. 31 ARTA with A'PEX Toyota MR-S driven by Morio Nitta and Shinichi Takagi.
| 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Ret | 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 | Ret | 12 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 7 | Ret | 16 | |||
| 6 | Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft | 100 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 2 | Ret | 4 | 63 |
| 7 | Nismo | 22 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 2 | Ret | 62 |
| 23 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 17 | Ret | 8 | |||
| 8 | Autobacs Racing Team Aguri | 8 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 46 |
| 9 | Toyota Team SARD | 39 | 3 | Ret | 12 | DSQ | 15 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 33 |
| 10 | Tsuchiya Engineering | 25 | 6 | 13 | 11 | Ret | 4 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 32 |
| 11 | Hitotsuyama Racing | 76 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 3 | Ret | Ret | 27 |
| 12 | Team Impul | 12 | 14 | Ret | 8 | 14 | Ret | 11 | 13 | 17 | 4 |
| 13 | Kraft | 35 | 17 | 10 | Ret | 12 | 10 | 15 | 10 | 12 | 3 |
| 14 | Team Take One | 30 | 16 | 9 | 14 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 11 | 2 | |
| - | JLOC | 88 | DNQ | Ret | 15 | Ret | Ret | 18 | Ret | Ret | 0 |
| - | HKS | 87 | DNQ | DNQ | Ret | Ret | 15 | 0 | |||
| Rank | Team | No. | TAI | FUJ | SUG | SEP | FUJ | MOT | MIN | SUZ | PTS |
| 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 |
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