2006 Super GT Series

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 is also marked as the twenty-fourth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. It is a series for Grand Touring cars divided into 2 classes: GT500 and GT300. The season began on March 19 and ended on November 5, 2006 after 9 races.

2006 Bandai Direzza SC430.
2006 Super GT Series
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Drivers and teams

GT500
Team Make Car No. Drivers Tyre Rounds
ZENT Toyota Team Cerumo Lexus Lexus SC430 1 Toranosuke Takagi B All
Yuji Tachikawa All
Ronnie Quintarelli 6
Yellow Hat Hasemi Motorsport Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z 3 João Paulo de Oliveira B All
Naoki Yokomizo All
Darren Manning 6
Mobil 1 Toyota Team LeMans Lexus Lexus SC430 6 Akira Iida B All
Tatsuya Kataoka All
Björn Wirdheim 6
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Honda Honda NSX 8 Ralph Firman B All
Daisuke Ito All
Toshihiro Kaneishi 6
Calsonic Team Impul Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z 12 Kazuki Hoshino B All
Benoît Tréluyer All
Jérémie Dufour 6
Dome Racing Team Honda Honda NSX 18 Ryo Michigami B All
Takashi Kogure All
Katsutomo Kaneishi 6
Nismo Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z 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
Woodone Kondo Racing Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z 24 Masataka Yanagida Y All
Érik Comas 1–4, 6
Seiji Ara 5–9
Toyota Team Tsuchiya Lexus Lexus SC430 25 Takeshi Tsuchiya Y All
Manabu Orido All
Hideki Noda 6
Epson Nakajima Racing Honda Honda NSX 32 Loïc Duval D All
Hideki Mutoh All
Bandai Toyota Team Kraft Lexus Lexus SC430 35 Naoki Hattori D All
Peter Dumbreck All
Eiichi Tajima 6
Open Interface Toyota Team TOM'S Lexus Lexus SC430 36 Juichi Wakisaka B All
André Lotterer All
Adrian Sutil 6
triple a Toyota Team SARD Toyota Toyota Supra 66 André Couto B All
Katsuyuki Hiranaka All
Soheil Ayari 6
Raybrig Team Kunimitsu Honda Honda NSX 100 Shinya Hosokawa B All
Sébastien Philippe All

GT300
Team Make Car No. Drivers Tyre Rounds
Cars Tokai Dream28-Toyota Mooncraft Mooncraft Shiden 2 Kazuho Takahashi Y All
Hiroki Katoh All
Hiroki Yoshimoto 6
Team Mach Vemac Vemac RD320R-Honda C32B 5 Tetsuji Tamanaka Y All
Katsuhiko Tsutsui All
Akira Watanabe 6
RE Amemiya Racing Mazda Mazda RX-7 7 Hiroyuki Iiri Y 1, 3–9
Tetsuya Yamano 1, 3–9
Shinichi Yamaji 6
A&S Racing Mosler Mosler MT900-Chevrolet 9 Osamu Nakajima Y 1–3, 5–9
Takaya Tsubobayashi 1
Masaki Tanaka 2–3, 5–9
Jim Gainer Racing Ferrari Ferrari 360 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 13 Tomonobu Fujii Y All
Masami Kageyama All
Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-R 14 Mitsuhiro Kinoshita H All
Kyosuke Mineo All
Sunako Jukucho 6
Racing Project Bandoh Toyota Toyota Celica 19 Koji Matsuda Y All
Shigekazu Wakisaka All
Team Taisan with Nishizawa Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-RS 26 Kazuyuki Nishizawa Y 2–3, 9
Shinichi Yamaji 2–3, 9
Direxiv Motorsport Vemac Vemac RD320R-Honda C32B 27 Shogo Mitsuyama Y 1–6
Nobuteru Taniguchi 1–6
MOLA Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z 46 Kota Sasaki D All
Taku Bamba All
47 Hironobu Yasuda All
Masaoki Nagashima All
Toyota Team Cerumo Toyota Toyota Celica 52 Hironori Takeuchi K 1–3, 5–9
Koki Saga 1–3, 5–9
Keita Sawa 6
DHG Racing Ford Ford GT 55 Daisuke Ikeda Y All
Hidetoshi Mitsusada All
Hiroaki Ishiura 6
R&D Sport Vemac Vemac RD320R-Honda C32B 61 Shogo Mitsuyama Y 7–9
Nobuteru Taniguchi 7–9
Vemac RD408R-Honda C32B 62 Shinsuke Shibahara All
Hiroyuki Yagi 1–4
Haruki Kurosawa 5–9
Team Gaikokuya Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-RS 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 77 Katsuo Kobayashi Y 5, 7–9
Tatsuya Tanigawa 5
Yasushi Kikuchi 7–9
JLOC Lamborghini Lamborghini Murcielago RG-1 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 96 Takuya Kurosawa D All
Tsubasa Kurosawa All
apr Toyota Toyota MR2 101 Morio Nitta M All
Shinichi Takagi All
777 Minoru Tanaka All
Kazuya Oshima All
Keiichi Kobayashi 6
Arktech Motorsports Porsche Porsche 986 Boxster 110 Hideshi Matsuda Y All
Ichijo Suga All
Takaya Tsubobayashi 6
Team LeyJun Porsche Porsche 996 GT3 Cup 111 Hiroya Iijima Y 1, 3, 6–7
Masaki Jyonai 1, 3, 6–7
Takeshi Namekawa 6
Team Bomex Dream28 Honda Honda NSX 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 910 Tadao Uematsu Y 1–4, 6–7, 9
Yasushi Kikuchi 1–4, 6
Ryohei Sakaguchi 6, 9
Shinichi Yamaji 7

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

Season results

Overall winner in bold

Round Circuit GT500 Winning Team GT300 Winning Team
GT500 Winning Drivers GT300 Winning Drivers
1 Suzuka #36 Open Interface TOM'S SC430 #88 Aktio Murcie RG-1
André Lotterer
Juichi Wakisaka		 Marco Apicella
Yasutaka Hinoi
2 Okayama #18 Takata Dome NSX #27 direxiv Advan 320R
Ryo Michigami
Takashi Kogure		 Shogo Mitsuyama
Nobuteru Taniguchi
3 Mt. Fuji #35 Bandai Direzza SC430 #62 Willcom Advan Vemac 408R
Naoki Hattori
Peter Dumbreck		 Shinsuke Shibahara
Hiroyuki Yagi
4 Kuala Lumpur #8 Honda Racing ARTA NSX #7 Amemiya AsparaDrink RX-7
Daisuke Ito
Ralph Firman		 Tetsuya Yamano
Hiroyuki Iiri
5 Sportsland SUGO #1 Zent Cerumo SC430 #46 Kiccho Houzan Direzza Z
Yuji Tachikawa
Toranosuke Takagi		 Kota Sasaki
Taku Banba
6 Suzuka
Report		 #12 Calsonic Impul Z #52 Proμ Taiyo Oil Kumho Celica
Benoît Tréluyer
Kazuki Hoshino
Jérémie Dufour		 Hironori Takeuchi
Koki Saga
Keita Sawa
7 Motegi #100 Raybrig NSX #11 Jim Center Ferrari Dunlop (360)
Sébastien Philippe
Shinya Hosokawa		 Tetsuya Tanaka
Takayuki Aoki
8 Autopolis #23 Xanavi NISMO Z #2 Privée KENZO Asset Shiden
Satoshi Motoyama
Tsugio Matsuda		 Kazuho Takahashi
Hiroki Katoh
9 Mt. Fuji #32 Epson Nakajima Racing NSX #101 Toy Story Racing apr MR-S
Loïc Duval
Hideki Mutoh		 Morio Nitta
Shinichi Takagi

Standings

GT500 Drivers
Scoring system
Position1st2nd3rd4th5th6th7th8th9th10th11th12th13th14th15th
Points2015118654321
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Qualifying432
Fastest Lap321
  • 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 SUZ
 OKA
 FUJ
 SEP
 SUG
 SUZ
 MOT
 AUT
 FUJ
 PTS
1 André Lotterer
Juichi Wakisaka		 1 8 3 15 4 10 2 7 4 80
2 Shinya Hosokawa
Sébastien Philippe		 7 2 Ret 4 11 9 1 3 13 79
3 Takashi Kogure
Ryo Michigami		 4 1 Ret 6 Ret Ret 5 2 7 76
4 Michael Krumm 12 3 9 2 3 2 10 6 6 75
5 Yuji Tachikawa
Toranosuke Takagi		 5 5 Ret 12 1 7 3 5 Ret 71
6 Tsugio Matsuda
Satoshi Motoyama		 2 Ret 4 5 2 DSQ 14 1 11 69
7 Ralph Firman
Daisuke Ito		 3 7 8 1 8 6 15 11 14 68
8 Kazuki Hoshino
Benoît Tréluyer		 13 6 5 3 6 1 13 4 12 67
9 Naoki Hattori
Peter Dumbreck		 14 12 1 11 7 3 7 9 2 64
10 Richard Lyons 2 3 2 10 6 6 62
11 Loïc Duval
Hideki Mutoh		 15 Ret 7 9 5 4 8 12 1 51
12 Akira Iida
Tatsuya Kataoka		 6 11 2 14 9 Ret 4 13 5 41
13 Masataka Yanagida 10 10 10 8 10 5 6 14 3 34
14 Jérémie Dufour 1 32
15 João Paulo de Oliveira
Naoki Yokomizo		 9 4 12 7 13 8 11 8 8 32
16 Seiji Ara 10 5 6 14 3 28
17 Fabio Carbone 2 20
18 Érik Comas 10 10 10 8 5 18
19 Manabu Orido
Takeshi Tsuchiya		 8 9 6 10 12 Ret 12 15 9 18
20 Eiichi Tajima 3 16
21 Sakon Yamamoto 12 3 9 15
22 Toshihiro Kaneishi 6 13
23 André Couto
Katsuyuki Hiranaka		 11 13 11 13 Ret 11 9 10 10 13
24 Ronnie Quintarelli 7 9
25 Darren Manning 8 8
26 Adrian Sutil 10 6
27 Soheil Ayari 11 5
28 Hideki Noda Ret 5
Björn Wirdheim Ret 0
Yuji Ide DSQ 0
Rank Driver SUZ
 OKA
 FUJ
 SEP
 SUG
 SUZ
 MOT
 AUT
 FUJ
 PTS
ColourResult
GoldWinner
Silver2nd place
Bronze3rd place
GreenPoints finish
BlueNon-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
PurpleRetired (Ret)
RedDid not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
BlackDisqualified (DSQ)
WhiteDid not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not participate (DNP)
Excluded (EX)

Teams
Rank Number/Team Car Points
1 #36 Toyota Team TOM'S Open Interface TOM'S SC430 75
2 #22 Nismo Motul Autech Z 70
3 #100 Team Kunimitsu Raybrig NSX 65
4 #23 Nismo Xanavi Nismo Z 64
5 #35 Toyota Team KRAFT Bandai Direzza SC430 61

GT300 Class (Top 3)

Drivers
Rank Drivers Number/Team Points Wins
1 Tetsuya Yamano
Hiroyuki Iiri		 #7 Amemiya AsparaDrink RX-7 86 1
2 Kazuho Takahashi
Hiroki Katoh		 #2 Privée Zurich APPLE Shiden 86 1
3 Shogo Mitsuyama
Nobuteru Taniguchi		 #61 enable Advan Vemac 320R 75 0

Teams
Rank Number/Team Car Points
1 #7 RE Amemiya Racing Amemiya Asparadrink RX-7 78
2 #27 Direxiv Motorsport direxiv Advan 320R 67
3 #2 Verno Tokai Dream 28 Privée Zurich APPLE Shiden 63
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