2007 Super GT Series


The 2007 Autobacs Super GT Series was the fifteenth season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship including the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship era and the third season as the Super GT series. It is also marked as the twenty-fifth 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 final season for the 350Z, as it was announced by Nissan and Nismo near the end of the season that the new R35 GT-R would be replacing it the following season. The season began on March 18 and ended on November 4, 2007 after 9 races.
In the GT500 class, ARTA drivers Ralph Firman and Daisuke Itō won the championship in a dominating fashion, becoming the first GT500 champion to clinch the title before the final race of the season, a feat only matched by the 2012 champions Masataka Yanagida and Ronnie Quintarelli as of the end of the 2018 season. In the GT300 class, Kazuya Oshima and Hiroaki Ishiura in the apr Toyota MR-S won the driver's championship title by winning the tiebreaker against the Shiden of Kazuho Takahashi and Hiroki Katoh - the two teams finished the season with the same number of points, but Oshima and Ishiura had two race wins compared to Takahashi and Katoh's one. Takahashi and Katoh's overall consistency, however, would gave Cars Tokai Dream28 the team's championship title by six points over Oshima and Ishiura.

Drivers and teams

GT500

GT300

Schedule

Season Winners

RdCircuitGT500 Winning TeamGT300 Winning Team
RdCircuitGT500 Winning DriversGT300 Winning Drivers
1Suzuka #38 Zent Cerumo SC430 #13 Endless Advan Senzaikakumei Z
1Suzuka Yuji Tachikawa
Toranosuke Takagi		 Masami Kageyama
Tomonobu Fujii
2Okayama #8 ARTA NSX #101 Toy Story Racing apr MR-S
2Okayama Daisuke Ito
Ralph Firman		 Kazuya Oshima
Hiroaki Ishiura
3Mt. Fuji #23 Xanavi NISMO Z #43 ARTA Garaiya
3Mt. Fuji Satoshi Motoyama
Richard Lyons		 Morio Nitta
Shinichi Takagi
4Kuala Lumpur #24 Woodone Clarion Kondo Z #101 Toy Story Racing apr MR-S
4Kuala Lumpur Seiji Ara
João Paulo de Oliveira		 Kazuya Oshima
Hiroaki Ishiura
5Sportsland SUGO #8 Honda Racing ARTA NSX #19 WedsSport Racing Celica
5Sportsland SUGO Daisuke Ito
Ralph Firman		 Akira Iida
Yuhi Sekiguchi
6Suzuka
Report		 #1 Toyota houzan TOM'S SC430 #2 Privée KENZO Asset Shiden
6Suzuka
Report		 Juichi Wakisaka
André Lotterer
Oliver Jarvis		 Kazuho Takahashi
Hiroki Katoh
Hiroki Yoshimoto
7Motegi #18 Takata Dome NSX #26 Yunker-Power Taisan Porsche 996 GT3
7Motegi Ryo Michigami
Takashi Kogure		 Nobuteru Taniguchi
Dominik Farnbacher
8Autopolis #8 Honda Racing ARTA NSX #62 Willcom Advan Vemac 408R
8Autopolis Daisuke Ito
Ralph Firman		 Shinsuke Shibahara
Haruki Kurosawa
9Mt. Fuji #32 Epson Nakajima Racing NSX #26 Yunker-Power Taisan Porsche 996 GT3
9Mt. Fuji Loïc Duval
Fabio Carbone		 Nobuteru Taniguchi
Dominik Farnbacher

Standings

GT500 Drivers

;Scoring system:
Position1st2nd3rd4th5th6th7th8th9th10th
Points2015118654321
Qualifying321
Fastest Lap111

Teams

RankNumber/TeamCarPoints
1#8 Autobacs Racing Team AguriARTA NSX108
2#22 NismoMotul Autech Z85
3#32 Nakajima RacingEpson NSX81
4#100 Team KunimitsuRaybrig NSX81
5#1 Toyota Team TOM'SHouzan TOM'S SC43078

GT300 Class (Top 3)

Drivers

Teams

RankNumber/TeamCarPoints
1#2 Cars Tokai Dream28Privée KENZO Asset Shiden106
2#101 APRToy Story Racing APR MR-S100
3#62 Willcom R&D SportWillcom Advan Vemac 408R91

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