2014 Super GT Series

The 2014 Autobacs Super GT Series was the twenty-second season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship including the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era, and the tenth season under the name Super GT. It marked the thirty-second season overall of a Japanese professional sportscar championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. It was the first year of new GT500 regulations as the 2014 season saw unified technical regulations with the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters. The season began on April 6 and ended on November 16, after 8 races.

2014 Super GT Series
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Schedule

A provisional calendar was released on August 12, 2013.[1]

Round Race Circuit Date
1 Okayama GT
300 km		 Okayama International Circuit April 6
2 Fuji GT 1
500 km		 Fuji Speedway May 4
3 Autopolis GT
300 km		 Autopolis June 1
4 Sugo GT
300 km		 Sportsland SUGO July 20
5 Fuji GT 2
300 km		 Fuji Speedway August 10
6 43rd International Suzuka 1000km
1000 km		 Suzuka Circuit August 31
7 Buriram United Super GT Race
300 km		 Chang International Circuit October 5
8 Motegi GT
250 km		 Twin Ring Motegi November 16
2014 Japanese venues
2014 International venue

Calendar changes
  • The Autopolis race was moved from its October date to the June date previously held by the Super Formula championship.
  • After being on the calendar since 2000, the race at the Sepang International Circuit will not be held in 2014.
  • After being on the provisional calendar as a non-championship round for 2013, the championship was scheduled to race in South Korea for the first time, at a yet to be determined venue. However, on December 16, 2013, the race was again cancelled.[2]
  • The championship will also host its first race in Thailand, at the newly built Buriram United International Circuit.
  • The non-championship races at the JAF Grand Prix, was dropped for the 2014 season, the JAF Grand Prix later becoming the final round of the 2014 Super Formula season instead.[3][4]

Drivers and teams

GT500
Team Make Car No. Drivers Tyre Rounds
Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo[5] Lexus Lexus RC F 1 Kohei Hirate B All
Yuji Tachikawa All
Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS[5] Lexus Lexus RC F 6 Yuji Kunimoto B All
Kazuya Oshima All
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri[6] Honda Honda NSX-GT 8 Vitantonio Liuzzi B All
Kosuke Matsuura All
Team Impul[7] Nissan Nissan GT-R 12 João Paulo de Oliveira B All
Hironobu Yasuda All
Keihin Real Racing[6] Honda Honda NSX-GT 17 Toshihiro Kaneishi B All
Koudai Tsukakoshi All
Weider Modulo Dome Racing[6] Honda Honda NSX-GT 18 Naoki Yamamoto M All
Jean-Karl Vernay 1–3
Frédéric Makowiecki 4–7
Takuya Izawa 8
Lexus Team WedsSport BANDOH[5][8] Lexus Lexus RC F 19 Yuhi Sekiguchi Y All
Juichi Wakisaka All
Nismo[7] Nissan Nissan GT-R 23 Tsugio Matsuda M All
Ronnie Quintarelli All
Kondo Racing[7] Nissan Nissan GT-R 24 Michael Krumm Y All
Daiki Sasaki All
Nakajima Racing[6] Honda Honda NSX-GT 32 Bertrand Baguette D All
Daisuke Nakajima All
Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S[5] Lexus Lexus RC F 36 James Rossiter B All
Kazuki Nakajima[9] 1, 4–8
Ryo Hirakawa[9] 2–3
Lexus Team KeePer TOM'S[5] Lexus Lexus RC F 37 Andrea Caldarelli B All
Daisuke Ito All
Lexus Team SARD[5] Lexus Lexus RC F 39 Hiroaki Ishiura B All
Oliver Jarvis All
MOLA[7] Nissan Nissan GT-R 46 Satoshi Motoyama M All
Masataka Yanagida All
Team Kunimitsu[6] Honda Honda NSX-GT 100 Takashi Kogure B All
Hideki Mutoh All

GT300
Team Make Car No. Drivers Tyre Rounds
Team Mugen[6] Honda Honda CR-Z 0 Yuhki Nakayama B All
Tomoki Nojiri All
Ryo Michigami 6
Cars Tokai Dream28[10] McLaren McLaren MP4-12C GT3 2 Hiroki Katoh Y All
Kazuho Takahashi All
Hiroshi Hamaguchi 6
NDDP Racing[7] Nissan Nissan GT-R GT3 3 Kazuki Hoshino Y All
Lucas Ordóñez All
Wolfgang Reip 6
Goodsmile Racing & Team Ukyo[11] BMW BMW Z4 GT3 4 Tatsuya Kataoka Y All
Nobuteru Taniguchi All
Team Mach[12] Nissan Nissan GT-R GT3 5 Tetsuji Tamanaka Y 1–3, 5–6
Junichiro Yamashita 1–2, 5
Kazuya Tsuruta 2, 6
Naoya Yamano 3, 6
BMW Sports Trophy Team Studie[13] BMW BMW Z4 GT3 7 Jörg Müller Y All
Seiji Ara All
Augusto Farfus 6
Pacific Direction Racing[14][15] Porsche Porsche 911 GT3 9 Takuya Shirasaka Y 1–6, 8
Yuya Sakamoto 1–2, 8
Taiyo Iida 2, 6
André Couto 3–6
Gainer[16] Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 10 Masayuki Ueda D All
Hideki Yamauchi All
11 Katsuyuki Hiranaka All
Björn Wirdheim All
Audi Team Hitotsuyama[17] Audi Audi R8 LMS ultra 21 Tomonobu Fujii Y All
Richard Lyons 1, 3–8
Carlo van Dam 2
Christopher Haase 6
R'Qs Motor Sports[18] Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 22 Hisashi Wada Y All
Takeshi Tsuchiya 1–3
Tetsuya Tanaka 4
Masaki Jyonai 5–8
apr[19][20] Nissan Nissan GT-R GT3 30 Yuki Iwasaki Y All
Masami Kageyama All
Tohjiro Azuma 6
Toyota Toyota Prius 31 Morio Nitta All
Koki Saga All
Yuichi Nakayama 6
Porsche Team KTR[12] Porsche Porsche 911 GT3 33 Akihiro Tsuzuki Y All
Tim Bergmeister 1–2, 6
Kyosuke Mineo 3, 5, 7–8
Jörg Bergmeister 4, 6
Dijon Racing[12] Nissan Nissan GT-R GT3 48 Hiroshi Takamori Y 1–6, 8
Masaki Tanaka 1–6, 8
Keiichi Inoue 2, 7
Ryuichiro Tomita 6, 7
Arnage Racing[21] Aston Martin Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 50 Masaki Kano Y All
Hideto Yasuoka 1–6, 8
Nanin Indra-Payoong 2, 6–7
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri[6] Honda Honda CR-Z 55 Shinichi Takagi B All
Takashi Kobayashi All
LM corsa[12] BMW BMW Z4 GT3 60 Hiroki Yoshimoto Y All
Akira Iida 1–7
Shinya Sato 6, 8
R&D Sport[22] Subaru Subaru BRZ 61 Takuto Iguchi M All
Kota Sasaki All
Leon Racing[23] Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 65 Haruki Kurosawa Y All
Kyosuke Mineo 1–2
Tsubasa Kurosawa 2–7
Naoya Gamou 8
Team Taisan[24] Nissan Nissan GT-R GT3 67 Shogo Mitsuyama Y 1–6, 8
Naoki Yokomizo 1–6, 8
Kyosuke Mineo 6
JLOC[12][25] Lamborghini Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 86 Shinya Hosokawa Y All
Koji Yamanishi All
88 Takayuki Aoki All
Manabu Orido All
Kazuki Hiramine 6
i-mobile-AAS Porsche Porsche 911 GT3 99 Alexandre Imperatori M 7
Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak 7
Toyota Team Thailand Toyota Toyota 86 194 Nattavude Charoensukhawatana Y 7
Takeshi Tsuchiya 7
Tomei Sports[26] Nissan Nissan GT-R GT3 360 Atsushi Tanaka Y 1–3, 5–6, 8
Hiroki Yoshida 1–2, 4–6, 8
Ryuju Fujita 2–4, 6

Rule changes

GT500
The Honda NSX-GT at its first public presentation at the 2013 42nd International Pokka Sapporo 1000km.
The Lexus LF-CC at its first public presentation at the 2013 42nd International Pokka Sapporo 1000km.
The Nissan GT-R at its first public presentation at the 2013 42nd International Pokka Sapporo 1000km.

It was announced on October 16, 2012 that the Super GT championship and the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters will unify technical regulations for the 2014 season.[27] The previous GT500 engines of 3.4L V8 in capacity will be replaced with 2.0L Turbocharged Inline-four engines.[28] With the new rule changes, all 3 manufacturers will run the 2014 season with new cars, the Honda HSV-010 GT and the Lexus SC430 will be replaced with the new mid-engined Honda NSX-GT and the Lexus RC F respectively while Nissan will continue to use the GT-R for 2014, but with a new car built for the new regulations. All 3 cars were unveiled at the 2013 42nd International Pokka Sapporo 1000km.[29][30]

Calendar
Round Circuit Date Pole Position Race Winner
1 Okayama International Circuit
Report		 6 April #6 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS #37 Lexus Team KeePer TOM'S
Yuji Kunimoto
Kazuya Oshima		 Andrea Caldarelli
Daisuke Ito
#31 apr #4 Goodsmile Racing & Team Ukyo
Morio Nitta
Koki Saga		 Tatsuya Kataoka
Nobuteru Taniguchi
2 Fuji Speedway
Report		 4 May #12 Team Impul #12 Team Impul
João Paulo de Oliveira
Hironobu Yasuda		 João Paulo de Oliveira
Hironobu Yasuda
#3 NDDP Racing #4 Goodsmile Racing & Team Ukyo
Kazuki Hoshino
Lucas Ordóñez		 Tatsuya Kataoka
Nobuteru Taniguchi
3 Autopolis
Report		 1 June #23 Nismo #23 Nismo
Tsugio Matsuda
Ronnie Quintarelli		 Tsugio Matsuda
Ronnie Quintarelli
#61 R&D Sport #55 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri
Takuto Iguchi
Kota Sasaki		 Takashi Kobayashi
Shinichi Takagi
4 Sportsland SUGO
Report		 20 July #36 Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S #1 Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo
Kazuki Nakajima
James Rossiter		 Yuji Tachikawa
Kohei Hirate
#10 Gainer #88 JLOC
Masayuki Ueda
Hideki Yamauchi		 Takayuki Aoki
Manabu Orido
5 Fuji Speedway
Report		 10 August #17 Keihin Real Racing #18 Weider Modulo Dome Racing
Toshihiro Kaneishi
Koudai Tsukakoshi		 Frédéric Makowiecki
Naoki Yamamoto
#61 R&D Sport #61 R&D Sport
Takuto Iguchi
Kota Sasaki		 Takuto Iguchi
Kota Sasaki
6 Suzuka Circuit
Report		 31 August #36 Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S #36 Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S
Kazuki Nakajima
James Rossiter		 Kazuki Nakajima
James Rossiter
#55 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri #60 LM corsa
Takashi Kobayashi
Shinichi Takagi		 Akira Iida
Hiroki Yoshimoto
Shinya Sato
7 Chang International Circuit
Report		 5 October #46 MOLA #36 Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S
Satoshi Motoyama
Masataka Yanagida		 Kazuki Nakajima
James Rossiter
#99 i-Mobile-AAS #3 NDDP Racing
Alexandre Imperatori
Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak		 Kazuki Hoshino
Lucas Ordóñez
8 Twin Ring Motegi
Report		 16 November #23 Nismo #23 Nismo
Tsugio Matsuda
Ronnie Quintarelli		 Tsugio Matsuda
Ronnie Quintarelli
#11 Gainer #11 Gainer
Katsuyuki Hiranaka
Björn Wirdheim		 Katsuyuki Hiranaka
Björn Wirdheim

Standings

GT500 Drivers
Scoring system
Position1st2nd3rd4th5th6th7th8th9th10th
Points2015118654321
Suzuka25181310865432
Rank Driver OKA
 FUJ
 AUT
 SUG
 FUJ
 SUZ
 BUR
 MOT
 PTS
1 Tsugio Matsuda
Ronnie Quintarelli		 7 8 1 14 2 2 10 1 81
2 Andrea Caldarelli
Daisuke Ito		 1 5 4 2 9 7 4 2 79
3 James Rossiter 13 9 5 4 5 1 1 10 68
4 Naoki Yamamoto 5 10 7 8 1 3 5 3 64
5 Kazuki Nakajima 13 4 5 1 1 10 60
6 João Paulo de Oliveira
Hironobu Yasuda		 3 1 3 9 8 10 3 13 60
7 Yuji Kunimoto
Kazuya Oshima		 2 3 9 5 13 5 9 11 44
8 Kohei Hirate
Yuji Tachikawa		 14 2 12 1 14 8 11 7 43
9 Frédéric Makowiecki 8 1 3 5 42
10 Michael Krumm
Daiki Sasaki		 12 4 13 10 15 9 2 4 35
11 Satoshi Motoyama
Masataka Yanagida		 10 Ret 2 7 6 Ret 13 5 31
12 Toshihiro Kaneishi
Koudai Tsukakoshi		 6 Ret Ret 3 4 Ret 12 15 24
13 Hiroaki Ishiura
Oliver Jarvis		 4 6 11 6 12 11 7 9 24
14 Takashi Kogure
Hideki Mutoh		 9 Ret 6 11 7 6 8 8 23
15 Yuhi Sekiguchi
Juichi Wakisaka		 11 7 8 12 11 Ret 6 6 17
16 Vitantonio Liuzzi
Kosuke Matsuura		 8 Ret Ret 15 10 4 Ret 12 14
17 Bertrand Baguette
Daisuke Nakajima		 15 Ret 10 13 3 12 Ret 14 12
18 Takuya Izawa 3 11
19 Jean-Karl Vernay 5 10 7 11
20 Ryo Hirakawa 9 5 8
Rank Driver OKA
 FUJ
 AUT
 SUG
 FUJ
 SUZ
 BUR
 MOT
 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)

GT300 Drivers
Rank Driver OKA
 FUJ
 AUT
 SUG
 FUJ
 SUZ
 BUR
 MOT
 PTS
1 Tatsuya Kataoka
Nobuteru Taniguchi		 1 1 16 15 4 5 3 3 78
2 Katsuyuki Hiranaka
Björn Wirdheim		 3 2 3 Ret 2 10 8 1 78
3 Seiji Ara
Jörg Müller		 2 4 15 8 7 3 2 7 62
4 Kazuki Hoshino
Lucas Ordóñez		 4 5 4 9 10 19 1 8 48
5 Takuto Iguchi
Kota Sasaki		 21 12 2 14 1 9 5 17 44
6 Hiroki Yoshimoto 22 21 7 10 5 1 4 15 44
7 Akira Iida 22 21 7 10 5 1 4 44
8 Morio Nitta
Koki Saga		 Ret 6 Ret Ret 6 2 17 2 43
9 Haruki Kurosawa 5 8 10 2 8 Ret Ret 6 33
10 Yuhki Nakayama
Tomoki Nojiri		 9 3 5 11 18 8 9 13 26
11 Takashi Kobayashi
Shinichi Takagi		 6 18 1 16 22 16 13 12 25
12 Shinya Hosokawa
Koji Yamanishi		 7 Ret 6 6 3 17 Ret 20 25
13 Tsubasa Kurosawa 8 10 2 8 Ret Ret 22
14 Tomonobu Fujii 8 14 18 3 23 Ret Ret 4 22
15 Richard Lyons 8 18 3 23 Ret Ret 4 22
16 Takayuki Aoki
Manabu Orido		 11 Ret 11 1 21 13 18 11 20
17 Masayuki Ueda
Hideki Yamauchi		 10 20 12 13 14 4 11 5 18
18 Yuichi Nakayama 2 18
19 Masaki Kano 13 15 8 4 16 Ret 6 10 17
20 Augusto Farfus 3 13
21 Hideto Yasuoka 13 15 8 4 16 Ret 10 12
22 Shogo Mitsuyama
Naoki Yokomizo		 19 9 9 5 17 Ret 16 10
23 Kyosuke Mineo 5 8 14 9 Ret 16 21 8
24 Akihiro Tsuzuki 17 17 14 12 9 6 16 21 8
25 Takuya Shirasaka 12 13 19 17 15 7 9 7
26 Jörg Bergmeister 12 6 6
27 Tim Bergmeister 17 17 6 6
28 Nanin Indra-Payoong 15 Ret 6 5
29 Naoya Gamou 6 5
30 André Couto 19 17 15 7 5
31 Taiyo Iida 13 7 5
32 Yuki Iwasaki
Masami Kageyama		 Ret 10 23 7 13 11 12 Ret 5
33 Hiroki Katoh
Kazuho Takahashi		 14 7 13 21 12 12 15 19 4
34 Hisashi Wada 20 11 17 20 11 15 10 14 2
35 Masaki Jyonai 11 15 10 14 2
36 Yuya Sakamoto 12 13 9 2
Takeshi Tsuchiya 20 11 17 14 0
Tohjiro Azuma 11 0
Hiroshi Hamaguchi 12 0
Kazuki Hiramine 13 0
Hiroshi Takamori
Masaki Tanaka		 18 DNS 22 19 20 14 Ret 0
Ryuichiro Tomita 14 19 0
Carlo van Dam 14 0
Tetsuji Tamanaka 15 19 20 19 18 0
Junichiro Yamashita 15 19 19 0
Shinya Sato 1 15 0
Hiroki Yoshida 16 16 18 24 20 18 0
Atsushi Tanaka 16 16 21 24 20 18 0
Ryuju Fujita 16 21 18 20 0
Kazuya Tsuruta 19 18 0
Naoya Yamano 20 18 0
Wolfgang Reip 19 0
Keiichi Inoue DNS 19 0
Tetsuya Tanaka 20 0
Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak
Alexandre Imperatori		 7 0
Ryo Michigami 8 0
Nattavude Charoensukhawatana 14 0
Christopher Haase Ret 0
Rank Driver OKA
 FUJ
 AUT
 SUG
 FUJ
 SUZ
 BUR
 MOT
 PTS

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