2017 Super GT Series

The 2017 Autobacs Super GT Series was the twenty-fifth season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship including the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era, and the thirteenth season under the name Super GT. It was the thirty-fifth overall season of a national JAF sportscar championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The season began on April 9 and ended on November 12, after 8 races.

2017 Super GT Series
Previous: 2016 Next: 2018
Support series:
F4 Japanese Championship
2017 GT500 champions, #37 Lexus Team KeePer TOM'S Lexus LC 500.
2017 GT300 champions, #4 Goodsmile Hatsune Miku AMG.

In the GT500 class, the #37 Lexus Team KeePer TOM'S duo of Ryō Hirakawa and Nick Cassidy won their first-ever championship, narrowly beating the Nismo duo of Tsugio Matsuda and Ronnie Quintarelli for the championship. It was the first championship title for TOM'S since Juichi Wakisaka and André Lotterer's 2009 title win. In the GT300 class, in Good Smile Company and Hatsune Miku's 10th season of involvement in Super GT, Goodsmile Racing won their third GT300 title in just seven years after a closely fought championship battle between the #4 Hatsune Miku AMG and the #65 LEON CVSTOS AMG of K2 R&D LEON Racing. It was Nobuteru Taniguchi and Tatsuya Kataoka's third title, as well as Mercedes' first championship title in Super GT.

Schedule
Round Race Circuit Date
1 Okayama GT
300 km		 Okayama International Circuit April 9
2 Fuji GT
500 km		 Fuji Speedway May 4
3 Autopolis GT
300 km		 Autopolis May 21
4 Sugo GT
300 km		 Sportsland SUGO July 23
5 Fuji GT
300 km		 Fuji Speedway August 6
6 46th International Suzuka 1000km
1000 km		 Suzuka Circuit August 27
7 Buriram United Super GT Race
300 km		 Chang International Circuit October 8
8 Motegi GT
250 km		 Twin Ring Motegi November 12

Calendar Changes
  • The series returned to Autopolis for the first time since 2015. The race scheduled to be held there in 2016 was cancelled due to damage caused to the circuit and local infrastructure by the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes.
  • This was the last season that the Suzuka 1000km is included as a round of Super GT, as the current 1000 km format would be dropped in favour of a 10-hour timed race for 2018. The new race will be aimed primarily at FIA GT3 and GT300 machinery.[1]
2017 Japanese venues
2017 International venue

Drivers and Teams
The Bentley Continental GT3 (left) and Toyota Mark X MC (right) made their debuts in the GT300 class this season.
The Lexus LC 500 made its debut in the GT500 class this season.

GT500
Team Make Car No. Drivers Tyre Rounds
Lexus Team SARD[2] Lexus Lexus LC 500 1 Kohei Hirate B All
Heikki Kovalainen
Lexus Team LeMans Wako's[2] Lexus Lexus LC 500 6 Andrea Caldarelli B All
Kazuya Oshima
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri[3] Honda Honda NSX-GT 8 Tomoki Nojiri B All
Takashi Kobayashi
Team Impul[4] Nissan Nissan GT-R 12 Hironobu Yasuda B All
Jann Mardenborough
Team Mugen[5] Honda Honda NSX-GT 16 Hideki Mutoh Y All
Daisuke Nakajima
Jenson Button 6
Real Racing[3] Honda Honda NSX-GT 17 Koudai Tsukakoshi B All
Takashi Kogure
Lexus Team WedsSport Bandoh[2] Lexus Lexus LC 500 19 Yuhi Sekiguchi Y All
Yuji Kunimoto 1, 3-8
Kenta Yamashita 2
Kamui Kobayashi 6
NISMO[4] Nissan Nissan GT-R 23 Tsugio Matsuda M All
Ronnie Quintarelli
Kondo Racing[4] Nissan Nissan GT-R 24 Daiki Sasaki Y All
João Paulo de Oliveira
Lexus Team au Tom's[2] Lexus Lexus LC 500 36 James Rossiter B All
Kazuki Nakajima 1, 3-8
Daisuke Ito 2
Lexus Team KeePer Tom's[2] Lexus Lexus LC 500 37 Ryo Hirakawa B All
Nick Cassidy
Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo[2] Lexus Lexus LC 500 38 Hiroaki Ishiura B All
Yuji Tachikawa
MOLA[4] Nissan Nissan GT-R 46 Satoshi Motoyama M All
Katsumasa Chiyo
Nakajima Racing[5] Honda Honda NSX-GT 64 Kosuke Matsuura D All
Bertrand Baguette
Team Kunimitsu[3] Honda Honda NSX-GT 100 Naoki Yamamoto B All
Takuya Izawa

GT300
Team Make Car No. Drivers Tyre Rounds
Cars Tokai Dream28[6] Lotus Lotus Evora MC 2 Kazuho Takahashi Y All
Hiroki Katoh
Hiroshi Hamaguchi 6
NDDP Racing[4] Nissan Nissan GT-R GT3 3 Kazuki Hoshino Y All
Mitsunori Takaboshi
Goodsmile Racing & TeamUKYO[7] Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG GT3 4 Nobuteru Taniguchi Y All
Tatsuya Kataoka
Team Mach[6] Toyota Toyota 86 MC 5 Natsu Sakaguchi Y All
Kiyoto Fujinami
Junichiro Yamashita 2
Tetsuji Tamanaka 6
BMW Team Studie BMW BMW M6 GT3 7 Jörg Müller Y All
Seiji Ara
Augusto Farfus 6
Pacific with Gulf Racing[8] Porsche Porsche 911 GT3-R 9 Jono Lester Y All
Kyosuke Mineo
Gainer[9] Nissan Nissan GT-R GT3 10 Ryuichiro Tomita D All
Hiroki Yoshida
Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG GT3 11 Katsuyuki Hiranaka D All
Björn Wirdheim
Team Upgarage with Bandoh [6] Toyota Toyota 86 MC 18 Yuhki Nakayama Y All
Shintaro Kawabata
Audi Sport Team Hitotsuyama[10] Audi Audi R8 LMS 21 Richard Lyons D All
Masataka Yanagida
R'Qs Motor Sports[6] Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 22 Masaki Jyonai Y 1–3, 5–8
Hisashi Wada 1, 3, 5–8
Hideto Yasuoka 2
VivaC Team Tsuchiya[6] Toyota Toyota 86 MC 25 Takamitsu Matsui Y All
Kenta Yamashita 1, 3–8
Tsubasa Kondo 2, 6
Team Taisan SARD[6] Audi Audi R8 LMS 26 Shinnosuke Yamada Y All
Jake Parsons
Christian Klien 6
apr[2] Toyota Toyota Prius apr GT 30 Hiroaki Nagai Y All
Kota Sasaki
31 Koki Saga B All
Rintaro Kubo
D'Station Racing[11] Porsche Porsche 911 GT3-R 33 Tomonobu Fujii Y All
Sven Müller 1–2, 6–8
André Couto 3
Yuya Motojima 4–5
Panther Team Thailand[6] Toyota Toyota 86 MC 35 Nattavude Charoensukhawatana Y All
Nattapong Horthongkum
Dijon Racing[6] Nissan Nissan GT-R GT3 48 Masaki Tanaka Y All
Hiroshi Takamori 1–4, 6–8
Taiyou Iida 2, 5
Masami Kageyama 6
INGING & Arnage Racing[6] Ferrari Ferrari 488 GT3 50 Akihiro Tsuzuki Y 1, 3–8
Morio Nitta
LM corsa[2] Lexus Lexus RC F GT3 51 Yuichi Nakayama B All
Sho Tsuboi
60 Akira Iida Y All
Hiroki Yoshimoto
Saitama Toyopet Green Brave[12] Toyota Toyota Mark X MC 52 Taku Bamba Y All
Shigekazu Wakisaka
Shogo Mitsuyama 6
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri[6] BMW BMW M6 GT3 55 Shinichi Takagi B All
Sean Walkinshaw
R&D Sport[13] Subaru Subaru BRZ R&D Sport 61 Takuto Iguchi D All
Hideki Yamauchi
K2 R&D LEON Racing[14] Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG GT3 65 Haruki Kurosawa B All
Naoya Gamou
JLOC[6] Lamborghini Lamborghini Huracán GT3 87 Shinya Hosokawa Y All
Kimiya Sato
Yuya Motojima 2, 6
88 Manabu Orido Y All
Kazuki Hiramine
Tsubasa Takahashi 2
Koji Yamanishi 6
Rn-sports[6] Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG GT3 111 Keishi Ishikawa Y All
Ryosei Yamashita
Masayuki Ueda 2, 6
EIcars Bentley TTO[15] Bentley Bentley Continental GT3 117 Yuji Ide Y 1–3, 5–6, 8
Ryohei Sakaguchi
Tomei Sports[6] Nissan Nissan GT-R GT3 360 Yusaku Shibata Y 1–6, 8
Takayuki Aoki 1–2, 4, 6, 8
Atsushi Tanaka 2–3, 5–6

Driver Changes

Team Transfers
  • Lexus: Kazuki Nakajima returns to Super GT for the first time since 2014, with Lexus Team au TOM's. He'll be joined by James Rossiter, who swaps seats at TOM's with Nick Cassidy.
  • Nissan: Jann Mardenborough makes his GT500 debut with Team Impul, replacing João Paulo de Oliveira, who moves to Kondo Racing to replace Masataka Yanagida.
  • Honda: Hideki Mutoh and Daisuke Nakajima will drive for the revived Team Mugen in 2017. Kosuke Matsuura moves to Nakajima Racing from ARTA, who promote Takashi Kobayashi from their GT300 team back to GT500 for the first time since 2012.
  • Masataka Yanagida will move down to GT300 with Audi Team Hitotsuyama, replacing Tomonobu Fujii, who will drive for the newly christened D'Station Racing.
  • Yuichi Nakayama moves from apr Racing to LM Corsa and the new Lexus RC F GT3, and sophomore driver Rintaro Kubo will replace him in the #31 apr Toyota Prius.
  • Hiroki Yoshida replaces former GT300 champion André Couto in the Gainer Nissan GT-R GT3. The latter drove for D'Station Racing as a substitute of Sven Müller during Round 3.
  • Shinnosuke Yamada will join Team Taisan SARD after spending one season at Team Upgarage with Bandoh.
  • Both Akihiro Tsuzuki and three-time GT300 champion Morio Nitta leave LM Corsa to join the newly unified INGING and Arnage Racing team.

Entering Super GT
  • At the Suzuka 1000 km, former Formula 1 driver Kamui Kobayashi will make his Super GT debut in a one-off for Lexus Team WedsSport Bandoh.[16]
  • At the Suzuka 1000 km, 2009 Formula 1 champion Jenson Button will make his Super GT debut in a one-off for Team Mugen.[17]
  • Reigning Porsche Supercup and Porsche Carrera Cup Germany champion Sven Müller joined D'Station Racing as a Porsche factory driver. However, he would not drive between Rounds 3 and 5 due to his involvement in the ADAC GT Masters, during which André Couto and Yuya Motojima would substitute for him.
  • Former FIA F4 Japanese Champion Sho Tsuboi makes his Super GT debut with LM Corsa.[2]
  • Takayuki Hiranuma will make his Super GT debut with Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave. Hiranuma has previously driven in Super Taikyu.[12]
  • Shintaro Kawabata graduates from the FIA F4 Japanese Championship to Super GT with Team Upgarage with Bandoh.
  • Sean Walkinshaw, son of legendary racing driver and team executive Tom Walkinshaw, will make his Super GT debut with Autobacs Racing Team Aguri in their BMW M6 GT3.
  • Former Pro Mazda Championship driver Jake Parsons of Australia joins Team Taisan SARD for his first season in Super GT.
  • Keishi Ishikawa and Ryosei Yamashita will each make their Super GT debuts with Rn-sports. Ishikawa graduates from All-Japan Formula Three, whilst Yamashita steps up from Super Taikyu and the Toyota 86/BRZ Race.
  • Former Honda Formula Dream Project driver Natsu Sakaguchi, and former Nissan Driver Development Programme driver Kiyoto Fujinami will make their Super GT debuts for Team Mach.
  • Nattavude Charoensukhawatana and Nattapong Horthongkum will run their first full seasons in Super GT in 2017 for Panther Team Thailand. Charoensukhawatana has run two races as a local wildcard driver, while Horthongkum is making his series debut.

Returning to Super GT
  • Kazuki Nakajima returns to Super GT for the first time since 2014, driving for Lexus Team au TOM's.[2]
  • Reigning All-Japan Formula Three champion Kenta Yamashita will return to Super GT full-time in 2017, replacing Takeshi Tsuchiya at VivaC Team Tsuchiya.
  • Mitsunori Takaboshi returns to Super GT full-time with NDDP Racing.[4]
  • Yuji Ide returns to Super GT for the first time since 2015 with EIcars Bentley TTO.[15]
  • 2011 GT300 champion Taku Bamba will return to Super GT for the first time since 2012, driving for Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave.[12]

Leaving Super GT
  • Daisuke Ito will not drive full-time in Super GT this season, and will serve as the team director of Lexus Team au TOM's. He would only drive at the second round of the championship at Fuji Speedway, replacing Kazuki Nakajima, who would instead compete in the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps.
  • Tadasuke Makino will move to the FIA European Formula 3 Championship with HitechGP.
  • After winning his first Super GT championship in 2016, Takeshi Tsuchiya retired from full-time driving. He will focus primarily on his role as chief engineer for VivaC Team Tsuchiya.
  • Oliver Turvey left Drago Modulo Honda Racing after five races in 2016, and will not return to Super GT in 2017.

Mid-season changes
  • After André Couto was seriously injured during a round of the China GT Championship held at Zhuhai, D'Station Racing announced Yuya Motojima would replace Couto as substitute driver for Sven Muller, driving in Rounds 4 and 5.[18]

Team Changes

GT500
  • Lexus teams will race the new LC 500 machine, replacing the Lexus RC F which debuted in 2014. Nissan and Honda will continue to run the Nissan GT-R and Honda NSX-GT, modified to updated aerodynamic regulations. The updated NSX-GT will be based upon its newly launched production counterpart.
  • Drago Modulo Honda Racing announced their withdrawal from the series on 8 November 2016, after just two seasons.[19]
  • Intent on continuing to field five teams, Honda announced on 14 November 2016 that Team Mugen would return to the GT500 category for the first time since 2003. The team will run using Yokohama tyres.[5]

GT300
  • Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave announced that they will enter the Super GT Series for the first time in 2017, fielding a brand new Toyota Mark X based on the Mother Chassis platform.[12]
  • LM Corsa will field two 2017 specification Lexus RC F GT3s, replacing both their older model RC F GT3, and their Ferrari 488 GT3, used in 2016.[2]
  • K2 R&D LEON Racing will switch from Yokohama to Bridgestone tyres in 2017.[14]
  • Excellence Porsche Team KTR changed their name to D'Station Racing following a change of ownership and title sponsors. Former baseball pitcher Kazuhiro Sasaki will serve as the team's general representative.[11]
  • Bentley and their Continental GT3 race car will make their Super GT debut with the new EIcars Bentley TTO (Teramoto Technical Office) team.[15]
  • INGING Motorsport and Arnage Racing will enter under a unified banner in 2017, with the ex-LM Corsa Ferrari 488 GT3 used last season.
  • Lamborghini Team Direction have suspended activities in Super GT for the 2017 season, leaving JLOC as the sole representative for Lamborghini in Super GT.

Results
Round Circuit Date Class Pole Position Race Winner
1 Okayama International Circuit
Report		 9 April GT500 No. 8 ARTA NSX No. 37 KeePer TOM'S LC 500
Takashi Kobayashi
Tomoki Nojiri		 Nick Cassidy
Ryo Hirakawa
GT300 No. 65 LEON Racing AMG GT3 No. 4 Goodsmile Racing AMG GT3
Naoya Gamou
Haruki Kurosawa		 Tatsuya Kataoka
Nobuteru Taniguchi
2 Fuji Speedway
Report		 4 May GT500 No. 38 Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo LC 500 No. 38 Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo LC 500
Hiroaki Ishiura
Yuji Tachikawa		 Hiroaki Ishiura
Yuji Tachikawa
GT300 No. 4 Goodsmile Racing AMG GT3 No. 51 LM corsa RC F GT3
Tatsuya Kataoka
Nobuteru Taniguchi		 Yuichi Nakayama
Sho Tsuboi
3 Autopolis
Report		 21 May GT500 No. 100 Team Kunimitsu No. 36 Lexus Team au Tom's
Takuya Izawa
Naoki Yamamoto		 Kazuki Nakajima
James Rossiter
GT300 No. 25 VivaC Team Tsuchiya No. 25 VivaC Team Tsuchiya
Takamitsu Matsui
Kenta Yamashita		 Takamitsu Matsui
Kenta Yamashita
4 Sportsland SUGO
Report		 23 July GT500 No. 8 ARTA NSX No. 1 Lexus Team SARD
Takashi Kobayashi
Tomoki Nojiri		 Kohei Hirate
Heikki Kovalainen
GT300 No. 25 VivaC Team Tsuchiya No. 11 Gainer AMG GT3
Takamitsu Matsui
Kenta Yamashita		 Katsuyuki Hiranaka
Bjorn Wirdheim
5 Fuji Speedway
Report		 6 August GT500 No. 8 ARTA NSX No. 8 ARTA NSX
Takashi Kobayashi
Tomoki Nojiri		 Takashi Kobayashi
Tomoki Nojiri
GT300 No. 55 ARTA BMW M6 GT3 No. 55 ARTA BMW M6 GT3
Shinichi Takagi
Sean Walkinshaw		 Shinichi Takagi
Sean Walkinshaw
6 Suzuka Circuit
Report		 27 August GT500 No. 24 Kondo Racing No. 64 Nakajima Racing
João Paulo de Oliveira
Daiki Sasaki		 Bertrand Baguette
Kosuke Matsuura
GT300 No. 25 VivaC Team Tsuchiya No. 65 LEON Racing AMG GT3
Tsubasa Kondo
Takamitsu Matsui
Kenta Yamashita		 Naoya Gamou
Haruki Kurosawa
7 Chang International Circuit
Report		 8 October GT500 No. 37 KeePer TOM'S LC 500 No. 37 KeePer TOM'S LC 500
Nick Cassidy
Ryo Hirakawa		 Nick Cassidy
Ryo Hirakawa
GT300 No. 21 Audi Team Hitotsuyama No. 51 LM corsa RC F GT3
Richard Lyons
Masataka Yanagida		 Yuichi Nakayama
Sho Tsuboi
8 Twin Ring Motegi
Report		 13 November GT500 No. 23 NISMO No. 23 NISMO
Tsugio Matsuda
Ronnie Quintarelli		 Tsugio Matsuda
Ronnie Quintarelli
GT300 No. 4 Goodsmile Racing AMG GT3 No. 65 LEON Racing AMG GT3
Tatsuya Kataoka
Nobuteru Taniguchi		 Naoya Gamou
Haruki Kurosawa

Championship Standings

Drivers' championships


Scoring system
Position1st2nd3rd4th5th6th7th8th9th10thPole
Points20151186543211
Suzuka251813108654321

GT500
Driver Ranking GT500 2017 Series[20]
Rank Driver OKA
 FUJ
 AUT
 SUG
 FUJ
 SUZ
 CHA
 MOT
 Points
1 Ryo Hirakawa
Nick Cassidy		 1 3 6 10 6 6 1 2 84
2 Tsugio Matsuda
Ronnie Quintarelli		 7 4 5 4 2 2 9 1 82
3 Kazuya Oshima
Andrea Caldarelli		 2 2 13 3 9 7 2 13 63
4 Yuji Tachikawa
Hiroaki Ishiura		 4 1 10 13 3 10 4 3 62
5 James Rossiter 5 5 1 7 4 9 5 14 53
6 Kazuki Nakajima 5 1 7 4 9 5 14 47
7 Naoki Yamamoto
Takuya Izawa		 Ret 6 3 9 8 3 7 5 45
8 Heikki Kovalainen
Kohei Hirate		 3 7 14 1 10 13 6 8 44
9 Tomoki Nojiri
Takashi Kobayashi		 DNS 9 Ret 5 1 8 11 9 37
10 Koudai Tsukakoshi
Takashi Kogure		 11 8 2 Ret Ret 15 3 4 37
11 Bertrand Baguette
Kosuke Matsuura		 12 13 12 8 12 1 8 10 32
12 Satoshi Motoyama
Katsumasa Chiyo		 Ret 11 4 2 11 14 10 6 29
13 Yuhi Sekiguchi 6 10 8 12 7 4 12 15 23
14 Yuji Kunimoto 6 8 12 7 4 12 15 22
15 Hironobu Yasuda
Jann Mardenborough		 8 14 7 11 5 11 14 7 17
16 Daiki Sasaki
Joao Paulo de Oliveira		 10 12 9 Ret 13 5 Ret 12 12
17 Kamui Kobayashi 4 10
18 Hideki Mutoh
Daisuke Nakajima		 9 15 11 6 Ret 12 13 11 7
19 Daisuke Ito 5 6
20 Kenta Yamashita 10 1
Rank Driver OKA
 FUJ
 AUT
 SUG
 FUJ
 SUZ
 CHA
 MOT
 Points
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
Driver Ranking GT300 2017 Series[21]
Rank Driver OKA
 FUJ
 AUT
 SUG
 FUJ
 SUZ
 CHA
 MOT
 Points
1 Nobuteru Taniguchi
Tatsuya Kataoka		 1 11 5 4 2 19 2 3 77
2 Haruki Kurosawa
Naoya Gamou		 2 5 10 7 13 1 13 1 72
3 Yuichi Nakayama
Sho Tsuboi		 8 1 6 13 9 6 1 6 61
4 Shinichi Takagi
Sean Walkinshaw		 5 17 3 Ret 1 Ret 4 2 61
5 Takamitsu Matsui
Kenta Yamashita		 4 15 1 3 29 18 15 5 48
6 Katsuyuki Hiranaka
Bjorn Wirdheim		 18 2 22 1 17 9 8 7 45
7 Tomonobu Fujii 9 3 7 15 8 10 3 9 35
8 Jono Lester
Kyosuke Mineo		 3 10 17 10 5 8 14 4 31
9 Takuto Iguchi
Hideki Yamauchi		 Ret 13 2 9 4 7 Ret Ret 30
10 Manabu Orido
Kazuki Hiramine		 19 25 16 Ret 7 2 5 Ret 28
11 Sven Müller 9 3 10 3 9 28
12 Yuya Motojima 4 15 8 3 24
13 Akira Iida
Hiroki Yoshimoto		 22 8 12 5 27 4 6 18 24
14 Shinya Hosokawa
Kimiya Sato		 11 4 18 19 12 3 12 11 21
15 Jörg Müller
Seiji Ara		 13 7 4 16 6 11 10 13 18
16 Koki Saga
Rintaro Kubo		 10 12 Ret 10 3 Ret 11 12 17
17 Kazuki Hoshino
Mitsunori Takaboshi		 7 6 9 8 Ret 14 9 10 17
18 Akihiro Tsuzuki
Morio Nitta		 Ret 27 2 14 16 17 21 15
19 Ryuichiro Tomita
Hiroki Yoshida		 6 24 15 21 16 5 19 13
20 Yuhki Nakayama
Shintaro Kawabata		 12 9 Ret 17 11 15 7 16 6
21 Richard Lyons
Masataka Yanagida		 14 14 13 20 10 Ret 23 8 5
22 André Couto 7 4
23 Natsu Sakaguchi
Kiyoto Fujinami		 17 19 8 12 28 22 15 3
24 Tsubasa Kondo 18 1
Rank Driver OKA
 FUJ
 AUT
 SUG
 FUJ
 SUZ
 CHA
 MOT
 Points

Teams' championships
Scoring system
Position1st2nd3rd4th5th6th7th8th9th10th
Points2015118654321
Suzuka25181310865432
ClassFinished on lead lap1 lap behind2 or more laps behind
GT500321
GT30031

GT500
Team Ranking GT500 2017 Series[22]
Rank No. Team OKA
 FUJ
 AUT
 SUG
 FUJ
 SUZ
 CHA
 MOT
 Points
1 37 Lexus Team KeePer Tom's 1 3 6 10 6 6 1 2 105
2 23 Nismo 7 4 5 4 2 2 9 1 103
3 6 Lexus Team LeMans Wako's 2 2 13 3 9 7 2 13 82
4 38 Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo 4 1 10 13 3 10 4 3 81
5 36 Lexus Team au Tom's 5 5 1 7 4 9 5 14 73
6 1 Lexus Team SARD 3 7 14 1 10 13 6 8 64
7 100 Team Kunimitsu Ret 6 3 9 8 3 7 5 63
8 17 Real Racing 11 8 2 Ret Ret 15 3 4 51
9 8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri DNS 9 Ret
(Accident)		 5 1 8 11 9 50
10 64 Nakajima Racing 12 13 12 8 12 1 8 10 50
11 46 MOLA Ret 11 4 2 11 14 10 6 46
12 19 Lexus Team WedsSport Bandoh 6 10 8 12 7 4 12 15 41
13 12 Team Impul 8 14 7 11 5 11 14 7 33
14 24 Kondo Racing 10 12 9 Ret
(Accident)		 13 5 Ret 12 24
15 16 Team Mugen 9 15 11 6 Ret 12 13 11 20
Rank No. Team OKA
 FUJ
 AUT
 SUG
 FUJ
 SUZ
 CHA
 MOT
 Points
ColourResult
GoldWinner
Silver2nd place
Bronze3rd place
Green4th to 10th place
BlueFinish below 10th place
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
Team Ranking GT300 2017 Series[23]
Rank No. Team OKA
 FUJ
 AUT
 SUG
 FUJ
 SUZ
 CHA
 MOT
 Points
1 4 Goodsmile Racing & TeamUKYO 1 11 5 4 2 19 2 3 97
2 65 K2 R&D LEON Racing 2 5 10 7 13 1 13 1 95
3 51 LM corsa 8 1 6 13 9 6 1 6 85
4 55 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri 5 17 3 Ret 1 Ret 4 2 76
5 11 Gainer 18 2 22 1 17 9 8 7 65
6 25 VivaC Team Tsuchiya 4 15 1 3 29 18 15 5 65
7 33 D'station Racing 9 3 7 15 8 10 3 9 59
8 9 Pacific with Gulf Racing 3 10 17 10 5 8 14 4 53
9 61 R&D Sport Ret
(Battery)		 13 2 9 4 7 Ret
(Drivetrain)		 Ret
(Engine)		 45
10 88 JLOC 19 25 16 Ret 7 2 5 Ret 44
11 60 LM corsa 22 8 12 5 27 4 6 18 44
12 87 JLOC 11 4 18 19 12 3 12 11 41
13 7 BMW Team Studie 13 7 4 16 6 11 10 13 40
14 3 NDDP Racing 7 6 9 8 Ret 14 9 10 36
15 31 apr 10 12 Ret
(Accident)		 10 3 Ret 12 12 35
16 50 INGING & Arnage Racing Ret 27 2 14 16 17 21 29
17 10 Gainer 6 24 15 21 16 5 18 19 29
18 18 Team Upgarage with Bandoh 12 9 Ret 17 11 15 7 16 23
19 21 Audi Team Hitotsuyama 14 14 13 20 10 Ret 23 8 21
20 5 Team Mach 17 19 8 12 28 22 15 18
21 52 Saitama Toyopet Green Brave Ret 27 20 14 23 12 22 20 13
22 360 Tomei Sports 15 WD 23 11 22 17 17 12
23 111 Rn-sports 16 18 25 Ret 15 13 23 12
24 26 Team Taisan SARD 21 21 14 18 19 Ret 19 14 11
25 30 apr Ret 26 11 23 20 24 16 Ret 10
26 117 EIcars Bentley TTO 20 16 19 18 Ret 22 9
27 22 R'Qs Motor Sports 24 23 26 26 21 25 8
28 35 Panther Team Thailand 23 Ret Ret Ret 25 20 21 24 7
29 48 Dijon Racing 25 20 21 22 21 Ret 26 6
30 2 Cars Tokai Dream28 26 22 24 Ret 24 23 20 Ret 6
Rank No. Team OKA
 FUJ
 AUT
 SUG
 FUJ
 SUZ
 CHA
 MOT
 Points

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