The 2008 Autobacs Super GT Series was the sixteenth season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship including the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era and the fourth season as the Super GT series. It marked as well as the twenty-sixth 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 race cars divided into two categories: GT500 and GT300. This was the first season for the new R35 GT-R, replacing the Z which had been used for all GT500 Nissan teams from 2004-2007. The season began on March 15 and ended on November 9, 2008 after 9 races.
Drivers and teams
editGT500
editGT300
editSchedule
edit| Round | Race | Circuit | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suzuka Circuit | March 16 | |
| 2 | Okayama International Circuit | April 13 | |
| 3 | Fuji Speedway | May 4 | |
| 4 | Sepang International Circuit | June 22 | |
| 5 | Sportsland SUGO | July 27 | |
| 6 | Suzuka Circuit | August 24 | |
| 7 | Twin Ring Motegi | September 14 | |
| 8 | Autopolis | October 19 | |
| 9 | Fuji Speedway | November 9 |
Season Winners
editStandings
editGT500 Drivers
edit- Scoring system
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 20 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Qualifying | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| Fastest Lap | 1 | 1 | 1 |
- Only the best four 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.
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Teams' standings
edit| Rank[1][2] | Team | No. | SUZ |
OKA |
FUJ |
SEP |
SUG |
SUZ |
MOT |
AUT |
FUJ |
Pts. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Petronas Toyota Team TOM'S | 36 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 94 |
| 2 | ZENT Toyota Team Cerumo | 38 | 4 | 7 | 1 | Ret | 3 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 93 |
| 3 | Nismo | 23 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 13 | 14 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 9 | 86 |
| 4 | Team Impul | 12 | Ret | 2 | 9 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 78 |
| 5 | Dome Racing Team | 18 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 14 | 75 |
| 6 | Nismo | 22 | 2 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 69 |
| 7 | Houzan Toyota Team Kraft | 35 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 15 | 6 | 68 |
| 8 | Eneos Toyota Team LeMans | 6 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 3 | 64 |
| 9 | Team Kunimitsu | 100 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 9 | Ret | 60 |
| 10 | Nakajima Racing | 32 | 10 | 5 | 7 | Ret | Ret | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 60 |
| 11 | Kondo Racing | 24 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 14 | 16 | 15 | 56 |
| 12 | Autobacs Racing Team Aguri | 1 | 14 | 3 | Ret | 11 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 54 |
| 13 | Hasemi Motorsport | 3 | 15 | 10 | 15 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 53 |
| 14 | Toyota Team Tsuchiya | 25 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 44 |
| 15 | Real Racing with LEON | 17 | 8 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 9 | Ret | 15 | 11 | 10 | 30 |
| 16 | Toyota Team SARD | 39 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 6 | 15 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 29 |
| Rank | Team | No. | SUZ |
OKA |
FUJ |
SEP |
SUG |
SUZ |
MOT |
AUT |
FUJ |
Pts. |
GT300 Class (Top 3)
editDrivers
edit| Rank | Drivers | Number/Team | Points | Wins |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #46 MOLA LEOPALACE Z | 78 | 1 | |
| 2 | #43 ARTA Garaiya | 77 | 2 | |
| 3 | #26 Yunker-Power Taisan Porsche | 71 | 1 |
Teams
edit| Rank | Number/Team | Car | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #46 MOLA | MOLA Leopalace Z | 104 |
| 2 | #43 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri | ARTA Garaiya | 89 |
| 3 | #81 Team Daishin | Daishin ADVAN Z | 85 |
Footnotes
edit- ^ "SUPERGT.net | Race Archive". supergt.net. Retrieved 2023-07-13.
- ^ Magazine, Speedsport. "Super GT & All Japan GT: Overview of seasons". www.speedsport-magazine.com. Retrieved 2023-07-13.
External links
edit- Super GT official website (in English)