2003 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship

The 2003 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the eleventh season of Japan Automobile Federation GT premiere racing. It was marked as well as the twenty-first season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The GT500 class champions of 2003 were the #23 Xanavi NISMO Nissan Skyline GT-R team driven by Satoshi Motoyama and Michael Krumm and the GT300 class champions were the #3 Hasemi Motorsports Nissan Fairlady Z driven by Masataka Yanagida and Mitsuhiro Kinoshita, neither of which had won a single race during the course of the season.

2003 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship
Previous:	2002	Next:	2004

Drivers and teams

GT500

Team	Make	Car	No.	Drivers	Tyre	Rounds
Esso Toyota Team LeMans	Toyota	Toyota Supra	1	Akira Iida	B	All
Esso Toyota Team LeMans	Toyota	Toyota Supra	1	Juichi Wakisaka	B	All
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	Honda	Honda NSX	8	Keiichi Tsuchiya	B	All
				Toshihiro Kaneishi		1–3, 5–8
				Katsutomo Kaneishi		4
Calsonic Team Impul	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R	12	Yuji Ide	B	All
Calsonic Team Impul	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R	12	Benoît Tréluyer	B	All
G'Zox Mugen G'Zox Dome Racing Team	Honda	Honda NSX	16	Tom Coronel	B	All
G'Zox Mugen G'Zox Dome Racing Team	Honda	Honda NSX	16	Daisuke Ito	B	All
Takata Dome Racing Team	Honda	Honda NSX	18	Ryo Michigami	B	All
				Sébastien Philippe		1–6, 8
				Paolo Montin		7
Nismo	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R	22	Masami Kageyama	B	All
			22	Richard Lyons		All
			23	Michael Krumm		All
			23	Satoshi Motoyama		All
Team Advan Tsuchiya	Toyota	Toyota Supra	25	Jérémie Dufour	Y	All
				Seiji Ara		1, 3–8
				Hideki Noda		2
Project Mu Kraft	Toyota	Toyota Supra	35	Naoki Hattori	D	All
Project Mu Kraft	Toyota	Toyota Supra	35	Shigekazu Wakisaka	D	All
Toyota Team TOM'S	Toyota	Toyota Supra	36	Érik Comas	B	All
			36	Takeshi Tsuchiya		All
			37	Marco Apicella		All
			37	Takuya Kurosawa		All
au Toyota Team Cerumo	Toyota	Toyota Supra	38	Yuji Tachikawa	B	All
au Toyota Team Cerumo	Toyota	Toyota Supra	38	Hironori Takeuchi	B	All
Denso Toyota Team SARD	Toyota	Toyota Supra	39	Manabu Orido	B	All
Denso Toyota Team SARD	Toyota	Toyota Supra	39	Dominik Schwager	B	All
R&D Sport	Vemac	Vemac RD350R	62	Shogo Mitsuyama	D	2–6, 8
R&D Sport	Vemac	Vemac RD350R	62	Shinsuke Shibahara	D	2–6, 8
Mobil 1 Nakajima Racing	Honda	Honda NSX	64	Tsugio Matsuda	B	All
				Takashi Kogure		1–3
				André Lotterer		4–8
Hitotsuyama Racing	McLaren	McLaren F1 GTR	76	Eiichi Tajima	D	All
				Yudai Igarashi		1–3
				Haruki Kurosawa		4–5
				Go Shimizu		6–8
JLOC	Lamborghini	Lamborghini Diablo	88	Hisashi Wada	Y	All
				Naohiro Furuya		1–3
				Koji Yamanishi		4–8
Raybrig Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft	Honda	Honda NSX	100	Hiroki Katoh	B	All
Raybrig Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft	Honda	Honda NSX	100	Hidetoshi Mitsusada	B	All

Schedule

Round	Race	Circuit	Date
1	GT Championship in TI	TI Circuit	March 30
2	All Japan GT Fuji 500	Fuji Speedway	May 4
3	SUGO GT Championship	Sportsland SUGO	May 25
4	Malaysian JGTC in Fuji Speedway	Fuji Speedway	July 13
5	Japan Special GT Cup	Fuji Speedway	August 3
6	Motegi GT Championship Race	Twin Ring Motegi	September 14
7	Japan GT in Kyushu 300 km	Autopolis	October 26
8	Suzuka GT 300 km	Suzuka Circuit	November 16

Due to the SARS outbreak, round 4 of the championship, which was planned to be held at the Sepang Circuit on June 20 and 21, was cancelled and later replaced by a round at Fuji Speedway.[1]

Season results

Round	Circuit	GT500 Winning Team	GT300 Winning Team
Round	Circuit	GT500 Winning Drivers	GT300 Winning Drivers
1	TI Circuit	#1 ESSO Team LeMans Toyota Supra	#24 Advan Team Taisan Porsche 996
1	TI Circuit	Juichi Wakisaka Akira Iida	Atsushi Yogo Akihiro Asai
2	Mt. Fuji	#22 Motul NISMO Nissan Skyline GT-R	#26 Advan Team Taisan Porsche 996
2	Mt. Fuji	Richard Lyons Masami Kageyama	Shinichi Yamaji Kazuyuki Nishizawa
3	Sportsland SUGO	#1 ESSO Team LeMans Toyota Supra	#31 Team Reckless Toyota MR-S
3	Sportsland SUGO	Juichi Wakisaka Akira Iida	Kota Sasaki Satoshi Goto
4	Mt. Fuji	#12 Calsonic Impul Nissan Skyline GT-R	#3 Hasemi Motorsports Nissan Fairlady Z
		Yuji Ide	Masataka Yanagida
		#12 Calsonic Impul Nissan Skyline GT-R	#11 Team Gainer Ferrari F360
		Benoît Tréluyer	Tetsuya Tanaka
5	Mt. Fuji	#18 Takata Dome Honda NSX	#19 WedsSport Toyota Celica
5	Mt. Fuji	Ryo Michigami Sebastien Philippe	Takayuki Aoki Minoru Tanaka
6	Twin Ring Motegi	#16 G-ZOX Dome Honda NSX	#71 Sigmatech Toyota Celica
6	Twin Ring Motegi	Tom Coronel Daisuke Ito	Tatsuya Kataoka Keita Sawa
7	Autopolis	#39 Denso Team SARD Toyota Supra	#71 Sigmatech Toyota Celica
7	Autopolis	Manabu Orido Dominik Schwager	Tatsuya Kataoka Keita Sawa
8	Suzuka Circuit	#12 Calsonic Impul Nissan Skyline GT-R	#19 WedsSport Toyota Celica
8	Suzuka Circuit	Yuji Ide Benoît Tréluyer	Takayuki Aoki Minoru Tanaka

Standings

GT500 Drivers

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

Rank	Driver	TAI	FUJ	SUG	FUJ	FUJ	MOT	AUT	SUZ	PTS
1	Satoshi Motoyama Michael Krumm	2	4	3	5	2	11	5	3	86
2	Akira Iida Juichi Wakisaka	1	12	1	6	4	4	4	7	83
3	Masami Kageyama Richard Lyons	8	1	5	2	11	13	6	4	65
4	Benoît Tréluyer Yuji Ide	12	2	Ret	1	16	6	11	1	64
5	Érik Comas Takeshi Tsuchiya	6	10	2	7	5	2	8	8	61
6	Manabu Orido Dominik Schwager	14	3	14	3	7	7	1	9	57
7	Ryo Michigami	3	Ret	7	8	1	14	Ret	2	55
7	Sébastien Philippe	3	Ret	7	8	1	14		2	55
9	Hironori Takeuchi Yuji Tachikawa	Ret	DSQ	10	4	3	9	3	13	46
10	Tom Coronel Daisuke Ito	4	Ret	9	12	8	1	10	11	38
11	Tsugio Matsuda	5	6	8	13	9	Ret	2	12	36
12	Hiroki Katoh Hidetoshi Mitsusada	7	7	16	17	13	5	9	5	27
13	Jérémie Dufour	10	Ret	4	14	17	3	12	Ret	35
13	Seiji Ara	10		4	14	17	3	12	Ret	35
15	Naoki Hattori Shigekazu Wakisaka	9	5	6	10	10	12	7	10	24
16	André Lotterer				13	9	Ret	2	12	19
17	Takashi Kogure	5	6	8						17
18	Marco Apicella Takuya Kurosawa	Ret	8	13	15	6	10	13	14	15
19	Keiichi Tsuchiya	11	Ret	11	11	12	8	Ret	6	9
19	Toshihiro Kaneishi	11	Ret	11		12	8	Ret	6	9
20	Eiichi Tajima	13	9	12	18	14	Ret	DNP	15	2
20	Yudai Igarashi	13	9	12						2
20	Shogo Mitsuyama Shinsuke Shibahara		11	15	9	Ret	Ret		16	2
	Katsutomo Kaneishi				11					0
	Haruki Kurosawa				18	14				0
	Hisashi Wada	15	Ret	Ret	16	15	15	Ret	Ret	0
	Koji Yamanishi				16	15	15	Ret	Ret	0
	Naohiro Furuya	15	Ret	Ret						0
	Go Shimizu						Ret	DNP	15	0
	Hideki Noda		Ret							0
	Paolo Montin							Ret		0
Rank	Driver	TAI	FUJ	SUG	FUJ	FUJ	MOT	AUT	SUZ	PTS

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd place
Bronze	3rd place
Green	Points finish
Blue	Non-points finish
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Retired (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red	Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
	Withdrew (WD)
	Race cancelled (C)
Blank	Did not participate (DNP)
Blank	Excluded (EX)

GT300 Class (Top 5)

Drivers

Rank	Drivers	Number/Team	Points	Wins
1	Masataka Yanagida Mitsuhiro Kinoshita	#3 Hasemi Motorsports Nissan Fairlady Z	77	0
2	Keita Sawa	#71 Sigmatech Toyota Celica	72	2
3	Shinichi Yamaji Kazuyuki Nishizawa	#26 Advan Team Taisan Porsche 996	72	1
4	Takayuki Aoki Minoru Tanaka	#19 WedsSport Toyota Celica	63	2
5	Kota Sasaki Satoshi Goto	#31 Team Reckless Toyota MR-S	61	1

References

"2003 AUTOBACS JGTC Round 4 cancelled". Archived from the original on 10 February 2004.

External links

Super GT/JGTC official race archive (in Japanese)
2003 season results

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[1] "2003 AUTOBACS JGTC Round 4 cancelled". Archived from the original on 10 February 2004.

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