2006 Super GT Series

2006 Super GT Series

GT500 Drivers' Champion:
André Lotterer & Juichi Wakisaka
GT500 Teams' Champion:
Toyota Team Tom's
GT300 Drivers' Champion:
Tetsuya Yamano & Hiroyuki Iiri
GT300 Teams' Champion:
RE Amemiya Racing

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2005

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2007

The 2006 Autobacs Super GT Series was the fourteenth season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship including the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era and the second season as the Super GT series. It was also the twenty-fourth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The season began on March 19 and ended on November 5, 2006, after 9 races.

Juichi Wakisaka, André Lotterer, and Toyota Team TOM'S won the GT500 drivers' and teams' championships, in the debut season for the new Lexus SC430. Tetsuya Yamano, Hiroyuki Iiri, and RE Amemiya Racing won the GT300 drivers' and teams' championships in their Mazda RX-7. The championship battle was decided on the final lap of the season, with Yamano and Iiri winning the drivers' title on a tiebreaker over Kazuho Takahashi and Hiroki Katoh of Cars Tokai Dream28.

2006 Bandai Direzza SC430.

Drivers and teams

GT500

Team	Make	Car	Engine	No.	Drivers	Tyre	Rounds
Toyota Team Cerumo	Lexus	Lexus SC430 GT500	Lexus 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8	1	Toranosuke Takagi	B	All
					Yuji Tachikawa		All
					Ronnie Quintarelli		6
Hasemi Motorsport	Nissan	Nissan Fairlady Z GT500	Nissan VQ30DETT 3.0 L Twin Turbo V6	3	João Paulo de Oliveira	B	All
					Naoki Yokomizo		All
					Darren Manning		6
Mobil 1 Toyota Team LeMans	Lexus	Lexus SC430 GT500	Lexus 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8	6	Akira Iida	B	All
					Tatsuya Kataoka		All
					Björn Wirdheim		6
Team Honda Racing	Honda	Honda NSX GT500	Honda C32B 3.5 L V6	8	Ralph Firman	B	All
					Daisuke Ito		All
					Toshihiro Kaneishi		6
	Honda	Honda NSX GT500	Honda C32B 3.5 L V6	18	Ryō Michigami	B	All
					Takashi Kogure		All
					Katsutomo Kaneishi		6
Team Impul	Nissan	Nissan Fairlady Z GT500	Nissan VQ30DETT 3.0 L Twin Turbo V6	12	Kazuki Hoshino	B	All
					Benoît Tréluyer		All
					Jérémie Dufour		6
Nismo	Nissan	Nissan Fairlady Z GT500	Nissan VQ30DETT 3.0 L Twin Turbo V6	22	Michael Krumm	B	All
					Sakon Yamamoto		1–3
					Richard Lyons		4–9
					Fabio Carbone		6
				23	Tsugio Matsuda		All
					Satoshi Motoyama		All
					Yuji Ide		6
Kondo Racing	Nissan	Nissan Fairlady Z GT500	Nissan VQ30DETT 3.0 L Twin Turbo V6	24	Masataka Yanagida	Y	All
					Érik Comas		1–4, 6
					Seiji Ara		5–9
Toyota Team Tsuchiya	Toyota	Toyota Supra GT500	Toyota 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8	25	Takeshi Tsuchiya	Y	All
					Manabu Orido		All
					Hideki Noda		6
Nakajima Racing	Honda	Honda NSX GT500	Honda C32B 3.5 L V6	32	Loïc Duval	D	All
					Hideki Mutoh		All
Toyota Team Kraft	Lexus	Lexus SC430 GT500	Lexus 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8	35	Naoki Hattori	D	All
					Peter Dumbreck		All
					Eiichi Tajima		6
Toyota Team TOM'S	Lexus	Lexus SC430 GT500	Lexus 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8	36	Juichi Wakisaka	B	All
					André Lotterer		All
					Adrian Sutil		6
Stile Corse	Maserati	Maserati MC12 GT1	Maserati M144B/2 6.0 L V12	51	Jan Magnussen	B	None
					Seiji Ara		None
Toyota Team SARD	Toyota	Toyota Supra GT500	Toyota 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8	66	André Couto	B	All
					Katsuyuki Hiranaka		All
					Soheil Ayari		6
Team Kunimitsu	Honda	Honda NSX GT500	Honda C32B 3.5 L V6	100	Shinya Hosokawa	B	All
					Sébastien Philippe		All

GT300

Team	Make	Car	Engine	No.	Drivers	Tyre	Rounds
Cars Tokai Dream28	Mooncraft	Mooncraft Shiden	Toyota 1UZ-FE 4.2 L V8	2	Kazuho Takahashi	Y	All
					Hiroki Katoh		All
					Hiroki Yoshimoto		6
Team Mach	Vemac	Vemac RD320R	Honda C32B 3.4 L V6	5	Tetsuji Tamanaka	Y	All
					Katsuhiko Tsutsui		All
					Akira Watanabe		6
RE Amemiya Racing	Mazda	Mazda RX-7	Mazda RE20B 2.0 L 3-rotor	7	Hiroyuki Iiri	Y	1, 3–9
					Tetsuya Yamano		1, 3–9
					Shinichi Yamaji		6
A&S Racing	Mosler	Mosler MT900R	Chevrolet LS1 6.0 L V8	9	Osamu Nakajima	Y	1–3, 5–9
					Takaya Tsubobayashi		1
					Masaki Tanaka		2–3, 5–9
JIM Gainer	Ferrari	Ferrari 360	Ferrari F131B 3.6 L V8	10	Hiromi Kozono	D	1–7, 9
					Naofumi Omoto		1–7, 9
					Eiji Yamada		6
				11	Tetsuya Tanaka		All
					Takayuki Aoki		All
Endless Sports	Nissan	Nissan Fairlady Z	Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6	13	Tomonobu Fujii	Y	All
					Masami Kageyama		All
	Porsche	Porsche 996 GT3-R	Porsche M96/73 3.6 L F6	14	Mitsuhiro Kinoshita	H	All
					Kyosuke Mineo		All
					Jukuchou Sunako		6
Racing Project Bandoh	Toyota	Toyota Celica	Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4	19	Koji Matsuda	Y	All
					Shigekazu Wakisaka		All
Team Taisan with Nishizawa	Porsche	Porsche 996 GT3-RS	Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6	26	Kazuyuki Nishizawa	Y	2–3, 9
					Shinichi Yamaji		2–3, 9
Direxiv Motorsport	Vemac	Vemac RD320R	Honda C32B 3.4 L V6	27	Shogo Mitsuyama	Y	1–6
					Nobuteru Taniguchi		1–6
MOLA	Nissan	Nissan Fairlady Z	Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6	46	Kota Sasaki	D	All
					Taku Bamba		All
				47	Hironobu Yasuda		All
					Masaoki Nagashima		All
Toyota Team Cerumo	Toyota	Toyota Celica	Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4	52	Hironori Takeuchi	K	1–3, 5–9
					Koki Saga		1–3, 5–9
					Keita Sawa		6
DHG Racing	Ford	Ford GT	DHG D35806V 3.5 L V8	55	Daisuke Ikeda	Y	All
					Hidetoshi Mitsusada		All
					Hiroaki Ishiura		6
R&D Sport	Vemac	Vemac RD320R	Honda C32B 3.4 L V6	61	Shogo Mitsuyama	Y	7–9
					Nobuteru Taniguchi		7–9
		Vemac RD408R	Mugen MF458S 4.5 L V8	62	Shinsuke Shibahara		All
					Hiroyuki Yagi		1–4
					Haruki Kurosawa		5–9
Team Gaikokuya	Porsche	Porsche 996 GT3-RS	Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6	70	Yoshimi Ishibashi	Y	1–4, 6
					Akira Hirakawa		1–4
					Yutaka Yamagishi		6–7
					Isao Ihashi		6
Cusco Racing	Subaru	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	Subaru EJ20 2.0 L Turbo F4	77	Katsuo Kobayashi	Y	5, 7–9
					Tatsuya Tanigawa		5
					Yasushi Kikuchi		7–9
JLOC	Lamborghini	Lamborghini Murciélago RG-1	Lamborghini L535 6.0 L V12	87	Koji Yamanishi	Y	1–3, 5–9
					Hisashi Wada		1–3, 5–9
					Atsushi Yogo		6
				88	Marco Apicella		1–3, 5–9
					Yasutaka Hinoi		1–3, 5–9
					Naohiro Furuya		6
Ebbro Team Nova	Vemac	Vemac RD350R	Zytek ZV348 4.0 L V8	96	Takuya Kurosawa	D	All
					Tsubasa Kurosawa		All
apr	Toyota	Toyota MR-S	Toyota 2GR-FE 3.5 L V6	101	Morio Nitta	M	All
					Shinichi Takagi		All
				777	Minoru Tanaka		All
					Kazuya Oshima		All
					Keiichi Kobayashi		6
Arktech Motorsports	Porsche	Porsche 986 Boxster	Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6	110	Hideshi Matsuda	Y	All
					Ichijo Suga		All
					Takaya Tsubobayashi		6
Team LeyJun	Porsche	Porsche 996 GT3 Cup	Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6	111	Hiroya Iijima	Y	1, 3, 6–7
					Masaki Jyonai		1, 3, 6–7
					Takeshi Namekawa		6
Team Bomex Dream28	Honda	Honda NSX	Honda C32B 3.4 L V6	666	Shogo Suho	Y	1–7, 9
					Junichiro Yamashita		1, 3–7, 9
					Yasuhiro Takasaki		2
910 Racing With Team Ishimatsu	Porsche	Porsche 996 GT3 RSR	Porsche M96/73 3.6 L F6	910	Tadao Uematsu	Y	1–4, 6–7, 9
					Yasushi Kikuchi		1–4, 6
					Ryohei Sakaguchi		6, 9
					Shinichi Yamaji		7

Vehicle changes

GT500

• Toyota introduced the Lexus SC 430 as their new GT500 vehicle, replacing the fourth-generation Toyota Supra. This coincided with the introduction of the Lexus nameplate for the Japanese market in July 2005. Four teams (TOM'S, Cerumo, LeMans, and Kraft) would run the new SC430, while SARD and Tsuchiya Engineering continued to use the Supra.
• Team Goh planned to enter the series with a Maserati MC12 GT1 driven by Seiji Ara and Jan Magnussen. Competing as Stile Corse, they participated in the pre-season test at Suzuka on 3–4 March, but after lacklustre results, the team scrapped their plans to race in GT500.

GT300

• Mooncraft Engineering and Cars Tokai Dream28 introduced the Shiden MC/RT-16, a prototype racing car based upon the Riley Mk.XI Daytona Prototype powered by a Toyota 1UZ-FE V8 engine.
• DHG Racing debuted in the series with a new racing version of the Ford GT supercar. The car was powered by the 3.5 litre DHG D35806V V8 engine, which was derived from the Mugen MF308 engine previously used in the Formula Nippon championship. ^[1]

Team changes

GT500

• Kondo Racing, owned by Japanese musician and former racing driver Masahiko Kondo, entered Super GT for the first time as a Nissan factory team.
• Toyota teams TOM'S and Kraft scaled back to single-car teams after running two cars each in 2005.
• Hitotsuyama Racing and their privately entered Ferrari 550 GTS and McLaren F1 GTR withdrew from the series.

GT300

• M-TEC (Mugen) closed their GT300 team to focus on their ongoing technical alliance with Team Kunimitsu in GT500.
• Autobacs Racing Team Aguri (ARTA) closed their GT300 team. apr, who operated ARTA's GT300 programme, signed ARTA drivers Morio Nitta and Shinichi Takagi to drive their number 101 Toyota MR-S sponsored by Toy Story Racing (through Run'A Entertainment).

Driver changes

GT500

• Tsugio Matsuda transferred from Honda to Nissan, where he joined two-time GT500 champion Satoshi Motoyama in the number 23 NISMO entry. Likewise, Sakon Yamamoto transferred from Toyota to Nissan to partner another two-time GT500 champion, Michael Krumm, in the NISMO number 22 car.
• Masataka Yanagida and two-time GT500 champion Érik Comas joined the new Kondo Racing team. Yanagida transferred from NISMO, and Comas transferred from Hasemi Motorsport.
• Naoki Yokomizo transferred from Toyota to Nissan and joined Hasemi Motorsport, who also signed reigning All-Japan Formula 3 champion João Paulo de Oliveira for his Super GT series debut.
• Kazuki Hoshino, son of Impul co-founder Kazuyoshi Hoshino, stepped up to GT500 to join Team Impul. Hoshino replaced Yuji Ide, who signed with Super Aguri F1 Team.
• Nakajima Racing and Honda signed two recent Formula 3 graduates to drive for them in 2006: Formula 3 Euroseries graduate Loïc Duval, and All-Japan F3 race winner Hideki Mutoh.
• 2005 GT300 championship runner-up Shinya Hosokawa was promoted to GT500 with Team Kunimitsu, partnering Sébastien Philippe.
• André Lotterer transferred from Honda to Toyota, and joined Toyota Team TOM'S in the number 36 car. His new teammate was 2002 champion Juichi Wakisaka, who transferred from Toyota Team LeMans.
• In exchange for Wakisaka, Tatsuya Kataoka transferred from the defunct number 37 TOM'S team to join Toyota Team LeMans, alongside 2002 co-champion Akira Iida.
• Takeshi Tsuchiya joined his father's team, Toyota Team Tsuchiya, after transferring from TOM'S.
• Katsuyuki Hiranaka was promoted to GT500 with Toyota Team SARD, joining André Couto.

Schedule

Round	Race	Circuit	Date
1	Suzuka GT 300 km	Suzuka Circuit	March 19
2	Okayama GT 300 km Race	Okayama International Circuit	April 9
3	Fuji GT 500 km Race	Fuji International Speedway	May 4
4	Japan GT Championship Malaysia	Sepang International Circuit	June 25
5	SUGO GT 300 km Race	Sportsland Sugo	July 23
6	International POKKA 1000km	Suzuka Circuit	August 20
7	Motegi GT 300 km Race	Twin Ring Motegi	September 10
8	Super GT in Kyushu GT 300 km	Autopolis International Race Course	October 15
9	Fuji GT 300 km Race	Fuji International Speedway	November 5

Results

Round	Circuit	Date	Class	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Race Winner
1	Suzuka Circuit	19 March	GT500	No. 8 Team Honda Racing	No. 12 Team Impul	No. 36 Toyota Team TOM'S
				Daisuke Ito Ralph Firman	Benoît Tréluyer Kazuki Hoshino	Juichi Wakisaka André Lotterer
			GT300	No. 46 MOLA	No. 87 JLOC	No. 88 JLOC
				Kota Sasaki Taku Bamba	Koji Yamanishi Hisashi Wada	Marco Apicella Yasutaka Hinoi
2	Okayama International Circuit	9 April	GT500	No. 18 Team Honda Racing	No. 18 Team Honda Racing	No. 18 Team Honda Racing
				Ryō Michigami Takashi Kogure	Ryō Michigami Takashi Kogure	Ryō Michigami Takashi Kogure
			GT300	No. 46 MOLA	No. 27 direxiv motorsport	No. 27 direxiv motorsport
				Kota Sasaki Taku Bamba	Shogo Mitsuyama Nobuteru Taniguchi	Shogo Mitsuyama Nobuteru Taniguchi
3	Fuji Speedway	4 May	GT500	No. 1 Toyota Team Cerumo	No. 1 Toyota Team Cerumo	No. 35 Toyota Team Kraft
				Yuji Tachikawa Toranosuke Takagi	Yuji Tachikawa Toranosuke Takagi	Naoki Hattori Peter Dumbreck
			GT300	No. 2 Cars Tokai Dream28	No. 13 Endless Sports	No. 62 Willcom R & D Sport
				Kazuho Takahashi Hiroki Katoh	Masami Kageyama Tomonobu Fujii	Shinsuke Shibahara Hiroyuki Yagi
4	Sepang Circuit	25 June	GT500	No. 8 Team Honda Racing	No. 8 Team Honda Racing	No. 8 Team Honda Racing
				Daisuke Ito Ralph Firman	Daisuke Ito Ralph Firman	Daisuke Ito Ralph Firman
			GT300	No. 2 Cars Tokai Dream28	No. 7 RE Amemiya Racing	No. 7 RE Amemiya Racing
				Kazuho Takahashi Hiroki Katoh	Tetsuya Yamano Hiroyuki Iiri	Tetsuya Yamano Hiroyuki Iiri
5	Sportsland SUGO	23 July	GT500	No. 1 Toyota Team Cerumo	No. 18 Team Honda Racing	No. 1 Toyota Team Cerumo
				Yuji Tachikawa Toranosuke Takagi	Ryō Michigami Takashi Kogure	Yuji Tachikawa Toranosuke Takagi
			GT300	No. 88 JLOC	No. 11 JIM GAINER	No. 46 MOLA
				Marco Apicella Yasutaka Hinoi	Tetsuya Tanaka Takayuki Aoki	Kota Sasaki Taku Bamba
6	Suzuka Circuit Report	20 August	GT500	No. 12 Team Impul	No. 12 Team Impul	No. 12 Team Impul
				Benoît Tréluyer Kazuki Hoshino Jérémie Dufour	Benoît Tréluyer Kazuki Hoshino Jérémie Dufour	Benoît Tréluyer Kazuki Hoshino Jérémie Dufour
			GT300	No. 52 Toyota Team Cerumo	No. 19 Racing Project Bandoh	No. 52 Toyota Team Cerumo
				Hironori Takeuchi Koki Saga Keita Sawa	Koji Matsuda Shigekazu Wakisaka	Hironori Takeuchi Koki Saga Keita Sawa
7	Twin Ring Motegi	10 September	GT500	No. 100 Team Kunimitsu	No. 100 Team Kunimitsu	No. 100 Team Kunimitsu
				Sébastien Philippe Shinya Hosokawa	Sébastien Philippe Shinya Hosokawa	Sébastien Philippe Shinya Hosokawa
			GT300	No. 62 Willcom R & D Sport	No. 62 Willcom R & D Sport	No. 11 JIM GAINER
				Shinsuke Shibahara Haruki Kurosawa	Shinsuke Shibahara Haruki Kurosawa	Tetsuya Tanaka Takayuki Aoki
8	Autopolis	15 October	GT500	No. 18 Team Honda Racing	No. 23 NISMO	No. 23 NISMO
				Ryō Michigami Takashi Kogure	Satoshi Motoyama Tsugio Matsuda	Satoshi Motoyama Tsugio Matsuda
			GT300	No. 2 Cars Tokai Dream28	No. 2 Cars Tokai Dream28	No. 2 Cars Tokai Dream28
				Kazuho Takahashi Hiroki Katoh	Kazuho Takahashi Hiroki Katoh	Kazuho Takahashi Hiroki Katoh
9	Fuji Speedway	5 November	GT500	No. 32 Nakajima Racing	No. 32 Nakajima Racing	No. 32 Nakajima Racing
				Loïc Duval Hideki Mutoh	Loïc Duval Hideki Mutoh	Loïc Duval Hideki Mutoh
			GT300	No. 777 Ryozanpaku with apr	No. 777 Ryozanpaku with apr	No. 101 apr
				Minoru Tanaka Kazuya Oshima	Minoru Tanaka Kazuya Oshima	Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi

Standings

GT500 Drivers

Scoring system

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th
Points	20	15	11	8	6	5	4	3	2	1
Suzuka 1000	25	20	16	13	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1
Qualifying	4	3	2
Fastest Lap	3	2	1

• Only the best five 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.

Rank Driver No. SUZ OKA FUJ SEP SUG SUZ MOT AUT FUJ Pts. 1 André Lotterer Juichi Wakisaka 36 1 8 3 15 4 10 2 7 4 80 2 Shinya Hosokawa Sébastien Philippe 100 7 2 Ret 4 11 9 1 3 13 79 3 Takashi Kogure Ryō Michigami 18 4 1 Ret 6 Ret Ret 5 2 7 76 4 Michael Krumm 22 12 3 9 2 3 2 10 6 6 75 5 Yuji Tachikawa Toranosuke Takagi 1 5 5 Ret 12 1 7 3 5 Ret 71 6 Tsugio Matsuda Satoshi Motoyama 23 2 Ret 4 5 2 DSQ 14 1 11 69 7 Ralph Firman Daisuke Ito 8 3 7 8 1 8 6 15 11 14 68 8 Kazuki Hoshino Benoît Tréluyer 12 13 6 5 3 6 1 13 4 12 67 9 Naoki Hattori Peter Dumbreck 35 14 12 1 11 7 3 7 9 2 64 10 Richard Lyons 22 2 3 2 10 6 6 62 11 Loïc Duval Hideki Mutoh 32 15 Ret 7 9 5 4 8 12 1 51 12 Akira Iida Tatsuya Kataoka 6 6 11 2 14 9 Ret 4 13 5 41 13 Masataka Yanagida 24 10 10 10 8 10 5 6 14 3 34 14 Jérémie Dufour 12 1 32 15 João Paulo de Oliveira Naoki Yokomizo 3 9 4 12 7 13 8 11 8 8 32 16 Seiji Ara 24 10 5 6 14 3 28 17 Fabio Carbone 22 2 20 18 Érik Comas 24 10 10 10 8 5 18 19 Manabu Orido Takeshi Tsuchiya 25 8 9 6 10 12 Ret 12 15 9 18 20 Eiichi Tajima 35 3 16 21 Sakon Yamamoto 22 12 3 9 15 22 Toshihiro Kaneishi 8 6 13 23 André Couto Katsuyuki Hiranaka 66 11 13 11 13 Ret 11 9 10 10 13 24 Ronnie Quintarelli 1 7 9 25 Darren Manning 3 8 8 26 Adrian Sutil 36 10 6 27 Soheil Ayari 66 11 5 28 Hideki Noda 25 Ret 5 - Björn Wirdheim 6 Ret 0 - Yuji Ide 23 DSQ 0 Rank Driver No. SUZ OKA FUJ SEP SUG SUZ MOT AUT FUJ Pts.

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)

Teams' standings

Source: ^[2]

Rank	Team	No.	SUZ	OKA	FUJ	SEP	SUG	SUZ	MOT	AUT	FUJ	Pts.
1	Toyota Team TOM'S	36	1	8	3	15	4	10	2	7	4	75
2	Nismo	22	12	3	9	2	3	2	10	6	6	70
3	Team Kunimitsu	100	7	2	Ret	4	11	9	1	3	13	65
4	Nismo	23	2	Ret	4	5	2	DSQ	14	1	11	64
5	Toyota Team Kraft	35	14	12	1	11	7	3	7	9	2	61
6	Team Impul	12	13	6	5	3	6	1	13	4	12	60
7	Toyota Team Cerumo	1	5	5	Ret	12	1	7	3	5	Ret	58
8	Team Honda Racing	18	4	1	Ret	6	Ret	Ret	5	2	7	58
9	Team Honda Racing	8	3	7	8	1	8	6	15	11	14	48
10	Nakajima Racing	32	15	Ret	7	9	5	4	8	12	1	48
11	Mobil 1 Toyota Team LeMans	6	6	11	2	14	9	Ret	4	13	5	36
12	Kondo Racing	24	10	10	10	8	10	5	6	14	3	33
13	Hasemi Motorsport	3	9	4	12	7	13	8	11	8	8	28
14	Toyota Team Tsuchiya	25	8	9	6	10	12	Ret	12	15	9	13
15	Toyota Team SARD	66	11	13	11	13	Ret	11	9	10	10	9
Rank	Team	No.	SUZ	OKA	FUJ	SEP	SUG	SUZ	MOT	AUT	FUJ	Pts.

GT300 Drivers' championship

Rank	Driver	No.	SUZ	OKA	FUJ	SEP	SUG	SUZ	MOT	AUT	FUJ	Pts.
1	Hiroyuki Iiri Tetsuya Yamano	7	2		11	1	9	4	4	2	6	86
2	Kazuho Takahashi Hiroki Katoh	2	6	11	4	4	3	5	21	1	12	86
3	Shogo Mitsuyama Nobuteru Taniguchi	27/61	7	1	18	2	4	2	6	20	13	75
4	Masami Kageyama Tomonobu Fujii	13	16	4	13	18	2	16	2	11	3	62
5	Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi	101	Ret	9	2	Ret	5	3	10	Ret	1	60
6	Shinsuke Shibahara	62	18	7	1	13	Ret	7	3	6	14	57
7	Kota Sasaki Taku Bamba	46	12	5	6	12	1	8	24	16	7	56
8	Takayuki Aoki Tetsuya Tanaka	11	Ret	2	19	17	16	9	1	19	16	51
9	Hideshi Matsuda Ichijo Suga	110	3	3	8	9	6	10	17	4	Ret	49
10	Koji Matsuda Shigekazu Wakisaka	19	4	10	17	3	18	19	16	12	2	44
11	Marco Apicella Yasutaka Hinoi	88	1	6	Ret		15	Ret	Ret	8	5	40
12	Haruki Kurosawa	62					Ret	7	3	6	14	33
13	Koki Saga Hironori Takeuchi	52	11	12	12		11	1	Ret	13	21	31
14	Keita Sawa	52						1				31
15	Minoru Tanaka Kazuya Oshima	777	Ret	15	9	7	7	14	9	5	4	28
16	Daisuke Ikeda Hidetoshi Mitsusada	55		DNQ	10	5	Ret	Ret	5	3	15	25
17	Hiroyuki Yagi	62	18	7	1	13						24
18	Shinichi Yamaji	26/7/910		8	7			4	14		8	23
19	Koji Yamanishi Hisashi Wada	87	5	Ret	5		12	17	13	18	9	20
20	Hironobu Yasuda Masaoki Nagashima	47	10	18	14	10	8	6	8	10	19	20
21	Mitsuhiro Kinoshita Kyosuke Mineo	14	9	22	3	6	Ret	Ret	11	14	20	18
22	Takuya Kurosawa Tsubasa Kurosawa	96	8	21	15	DNS	10	Ret	12	15	10	12
23	Hiroki Yoshimoto	2						5				11
24	Kazuyuki Nishizawa	26		8	7						8	10
25	Yasushi Kikuchi	910/77	15	19	Ret	11		12	7	9	11	10
26	Tetsuji Tamanaka Katsuhiko Tsutsui	5	14	13	Ret	8	17	18	18	7	17	7
27	Katsuo Kobayashi	77					Ret		7	9	11	6
28	Takaya Tsubobayashi	9/110	13					10			Ret	6
29	Yoshimi Ishibashi	70	17	17	20	16		11	20		24	5
30	Yutaka Yamagishi	70						11	20			5
31	Isao Ihashi	70						11				5
32	Tadao Uematsu	910	15	19	Ret	11		12	14		18	4
33	Ryohei Sakaguchi	910						12				4
34	Osamu Nakajima	9	13	20	Ret		13	13	22	17	Ret	3
35	Masaki Tanaka	9		20	Ret		13	13	22	17		3
36	Keiichi Kobayashi	777						14				2
37	Hiroya Iijima Masaki Jyonai	111	Ret		16			15	23		25	1
38	Takeshi Namekawa	111						15				1
-	Shogo Suho	666	Ret	14	21	15	14		15		23	0
-	Junichiro Yamashita	666	Ret		21	15	14		15		23	0
-	Hiromi Kozono Naofumi Omoto	10	19	16	Ret	14	Ret	Ret	19		22	0
-	Yasuhiro Takasaki	666		14								0
-	Akira Hirakawa	70	17	17	20	16						0
-	Atsushi Yogo	87						17				0
-	Akira Watanabe	5						18				0
-	Kazuyoshi Takamizawa	70									24	0
-	Tatsuya Tanigawa	77					Ret					0
-	Jukuchou Sunako	14						Ret				0
-	Naohiro Furuya	88						Ret				0
-	Hiroaki Ishiura	55						Ret				0
-	Eiji Yamada	10						Ret				0
Rank	Driver	No.	SUZ	OKA	FUJ	SEP	SUG	SUZ	MOT	AUT	FUJ	Pts.

GT300 Teams' standings

Rank	Team	No.	SUZ	OKA	FUJ	SEP	SUG	SUZ	MOT	AUT	FUJ	Pts.
1	RE Amemiya Racing	7	2		11	1	9	4	4	2	6	78
2	Direxiv Motorsport	27	7	1	18	2	4	2				67
3	Cars Tokai Dream28	2	6	11	4	4	3	5	21	1	12	63
4	apr	101	Ret	9	2	Ret	5	3	10	Ret	1	60
5	WILLCOM R&D Sport	62	18	7	1	13	Ret	7	3	6	14	49
6	Endless Sports	13	16	4	13	18	2	16	2	11	3	49
7	Arktech Motorsports	110	3	3	8	9	6	10	17	4	Ret	44
8	MOLA	46	12	5	6	12	1	8	24	16	7	43
9	JIM Gainer Racing	11	Ret	2	19	17	16	9	1	19	16	42
10	Racing Project Bandoh	19	4	10	17	3	18	19	16	12	2	35
11	JLOC	88	1	6	Ret		15	Ret	Ret	8	5	34
12	Liangshan Po with apr	777	Ret	15	9	7	7	14	9	5	4	28
13	Toyota Team Cerumo	52	11	12	12		11	1	Ret	13	21	25
14	DHG Racing	55		DNQ	10	5	Ret	Ret	5	3	15	24
15	MOLA	47	10	18	14	10	8	6	8	10	19	19
16	Endless Sports	14	9	22	3	6	Ret	Ret	11	14	20	18
17	JLOC	87	5	Ret	5		12	17	13	18	9	14
18	Team Taisan with Nishizawa	26		8	7						8	10
19	Team Mach	5	14	13	Ret	8	17	18	18	7	17	7
20	Cusco Racing	77					Ret		7	9	11	6
21	Team Gaikokuya	70	17	17	20	16		11	20		24	5
22	R&D Sport	62							6	20	13	5
23	Ebbro Team Nova	96	8	21	15	DNS	10	Ret	12	15	10	5
24	910 Racing	910	15	19	Ret	11		12	14		18	4
25	A&S Racing	9	13	20	Ret		13	13	22	17	Ret	3
26	Team LeyJun	111	Ret		16			15	23		25	1
-	Team Bomex Dream28	666	Ret	14	21	15	14		15		23	0
-	JIM Gainer Racing	10	19	16	Ret	14	Ret	Ret	19		22	0
Rank	Team	No.	SUZ	OKA	FUJ	SEP	SUG	SUZ	MOT	AUT	FUJ	Pts.

References

1. "2006年に初めて訪れたスーパーGTと富士で心奪われたフォードGTと紫電【日本のレース通サム・コリンズの忘れられない1戦】 - 2ページ目 (2ページ中) - autosport web". www.as-web.jp. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
2. "SUPERGT.net | 2006 Point Ranking". supergt.net. Retrieved 2023-07-06.

External links

• Super GT official race archive (in English)