2004 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship

The 2004 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the twelfth season of Japan Automobile Federation GT premiere racing and the final season under the name All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship as for 2005 the series was renamed to Super GT. It was marked as well as the twenty-second season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The GT500 class champions of 2004 were the #1 Xanavi NISMO Nissan Fairlady Z team driven by Satoshi Motoyama and Richard Lyons and the GT300 class champions were the #16 M-TEC Honda NSX driven by Tetsuya Yamano and Hiroyuki Yagi.

2004 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship
Previous: 2003 Next: 2005

Drivers and teams

GT500

Team Make Car No. Drivers Tyre Rounds
Nismo Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z 1 Richard Lyons B All
Satoshi Motoyama All
22 Masami Kageyama All
Michael Krumm All
G'Zox Hasemi Motorsport Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z 3 Érik Comas B All
Toshihiro Kaneishi All
Esso Toyota Team LeMans Toyota Toyota Supra 6 Akira Iida B 1–7
Juichi Wakisaka 1–7
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Honda Honda NSX 8 Katsutomo Kaneishi B All
Daisuke Ito All
Calsonic Team Impul Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z 12 Yuji Ide B All
Benoît Tréluyer All
Amprex Motorsports Lamborghini Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT 15 Genji Hashimoto M 3–4
Norman Simon 3–4
Takata Dome Racing Team Honda Honda NSX 18 Ryo Michigami B All
Sébastien Philippe All
Hitotsuyama Racing Ferrari Ferrari 550 Maranello 21 Hidetoshi Mitsusada D 1–7
Tadao Uematsu 1–7
Team Advan Tsuchiya Toyota Toyota Supra 25 Manabu Orido Y 1–7
Dominik Schwager 1–7
Epson Nakajima Racing Honda Honda NSX 32 André Lotterer D All
Tsugio Matsuda All
Yellow Hat Kraft Toyota Toyota Supra 35 Naoki Hattori D All
Shigekazu Wakisaka All
Toyota Team TOM'S Toyota Toyota Supra 36 Marco Apicella B 1–7
Takeshi Tsuchiya 1–7
37 James Courtney All
Tatsuya Kataoka All
au Toyota Team Cerumo Toyota Toyota Supra 38 Seiji Ara B 1–7
Yuji Tachikawa 1–7
Denso Toyota Team SARD Toyota Toyota Supra 39 André Couto B 1–7
Jérémie Dufour 1–7
R&D Sport Vemac Vemac RD408R 62 Shogo Mitsuyama D 7
Shinsuke Shibahara 7
JLOC Lamborghini Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT 88 Hisashi Wada Y 2–3, 5–7
Koji Yamanishi 2–3, 5–7
Lamborghini Diablo Hisashi Wada 4
Koji Yamanishi 4
Raybrig Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft Honda Honda NSX 100 Hiroki Katoh B All
Shinji Nakano All
Bruce Jouanny NC

Schedule

Round Race Circuit Date
1 GT Championship in TI TI Circuit April 4
2 SUGO GT Championship Sportsland SUGO May 23
3 Japan GT Championship Malaysia Sepang Circuit June 19
4 Hokkaido Gran GT Championship Tokachi International Speedway July 18
5 Motegi GT Championship Race Twin Ring Motegi September 5
6 Japan GT in Kyushu 300 km Autopolis October 31
7 Suzuka GT 300 km Suzuka Circuit November 21
NC JGTC All-Star GT Live USA California Speedway December 18
December 19

Season results

Round Circuit GT500 Winning Team GT300 Winning Team
GT500 Winning Drivers GT300 Winning Drivers
1 TI Circuit #1 Xanavi NISMO Nissan Z #10 Team Gainer Ferrari F360
Satoshi Motoyama
Richard Lyons
Atsushi Yogo
Tetsuya Tanaka
2 Sportsland SUGO #38 au Cerumo Toyota Supra #19 WedsSport Toyota Celica
Yuji Tachikawa
Seiji Ara
Takayuki Aoki
Nobuteru Taniguchi
3 Sepang Circuit #39 Denso Team SARD Toyota Supra #7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7
Andre Couto
Jeremie Dufour
Shinichi Yamaji
Hiroyuki Iiri
4 Tokachi #22 Motul NISMO Nissan Z #43 ARTA ASL Garaiya
Michael Krumm
Masami Kageyama
Morio Nitta
Shinichi Takagi
5 Twin Ring Motegi #32 PIAA Honda NSX #43 ARTA ASL Garaiya
Tsugio Matsuda
André Lotterer
Morio Nitta
Shinichi Takagi
6 Autopolis #1 Xanavi NISMO Nissan Z #7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7
Satoshi Motoyama
Richard Lyons
Shinichi Yamaji
Hiroyuki Iiri
7 Suzuka Circuit #12 Calsonic Impul Nissan Z #16 M-TEC Honda NSX
Yuji Ide
Benoît Tréluyer
Tetsuya Yamano
Hiroyuki Yagi
NC California Speedway #3 G-ZOX Hasemi Motorsports Nissan Z #16 M-TEC Honda NSX
Toshihiro Kaneishi
Érik Comas
Tetsuya Yamano
Hiroyuki Yagi
Haruki Kurosawa
#32 PIAA Honda NSX #43 ARTA ASL Garaiya
Tsugio Matsuda
André Lotterer
Morio Nitta
Shinichi Takagi

Standings

GT500 Drivers

Scoring system
Position1st2nd3rd4th5th6th7th8th9th10th
Points2015128654321
Qualifying211
Fastest Lap111
  • There were no points awarded for pole position and fastest lap in the final race.
Rank Driver TAI
SUG
SEP
TOK
MOT
AUT
SUZ
PTS
1 Satoshi Motoyama
Richard Lyons
1 Ret 3 Ret 3 1 7 73
2 André Couto
Jérémie Dufour
3 Ret 1 7 6 2 8 61
3 Akira Iida
Juichi Wakisaka
2 11 14 2 2 4 Ret 57
4 Érik Comas
Toshihiro Kaneishi
6 6 4 3 7 Ret 3 50
5 Seiji Ara
Yuji Tachikawa
5 1 7 14 10 11 4 45
6 James Courtney
Tatsuya Kataoka
11 3 5 5 4 6 6 44
7 Marco Apicella
Takeshi Tsuchiya
7 7 10 4 5 7 2 43
8 André Lotterer
Tsugio Matsuda
10 4 9 6 1 12 5 42
9 Masami Kageyama
Michael Krumm
9 Ret 6 1 8 9 Ret 39
10 Naoki Hattori
Shigekazu Wakisaka
4 5 2 9 13 8 16 37
11 Benoît Tréluyer
Yuji Ide
8 10 Ret 11 Ret 5 1 35
12 Manabu Orido
Dominik Schwager
14 2 Ret 13 12 3 10 31
13 Hiroki Katoh
Shinji Nakano
Ret 8 15 10 9 10 9 9
14 Ryo Michigami
Sébastien Philippe
12 12 8 8 15 14 12 6
15 Katsutomo Kaneishi
Daisuke Ito
13 9 11 12 11 13 11 2
Genji Hashimoto
Norman Simon
12 15 0
Hidetoshi Mitsusada
Tadao Uematsu
15 DNQ 13 16 14 15 14 0
Shogo Mitsuyama
Shinsuke Shibahara
13 0
Hisashi Wada
Koji Yamanishi
DNQ Ret DNQ Ret Ret 15 0
Rank Driver TAI
SUG
SEP
TOK
MOT
AUT
SUZ
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)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)

Drivers

Rank Drivers Number/Team Points Wins
1 Tetsuya Yamano
Hiroyuki Yagi
#16 M-TEC Honda NSX 93 1
2 Morio Nitta
Shinichi Takagi
#43 ARTA ASL Garaiya 92 2
3 Atsushi Yogo
Tetsuya Tanaka
#10 Team Gainer Ferrari F360 64 1
4 Shinichi Yamaji
Hiroyuki Iiri
#7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7 55 2
5 Takayuki Aoki
Nobuteru Taniguchi
#19 WedsSport Toyota Celica 48 1
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