2008 Super GT Series


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 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 350Z 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.
GT-R.

Drivers and teams

GT500

GT300

Schedule

Season Winners

RdCircuitGT500 Winning TeamGT300 Winning Team
RdCircuitGT500 Winning DriversGT300 Winning Drivers
1Suzuka #23 Xanavi Nismo GT-R #7 ORC Amemiya SGC-7
1Suzuka Satoshi Motoyama
Benoît Tréluyer
Hiroyuki Iiri
Ryo Orime
2Okayama #23 Xanavi Nismo GT-R #43 ARTA Garaiya
2Okayama Satoshi Motoyama
Benoît Tréluyer
Morio Nitta
Shinichi Takagi
3Mt. Fuji #38 ZENT Cerumo SC430 #95 Lightning McQueen apr MR-S
3Mt. Fuji Yuji Tachikawa
Richard Lyons
Kohei Hirate
Keisuke Kunimoto
4Kuala Lumpur #24 Woodone ADVAN Clarion GT-R #77 Cusco Dunlop Subaru Impreza
4Kuala Lumpur João Paulo de Oliveira
Seiji Ara
Tetsuya Yamano
Kouta Sasaki
5Sportsland SUGO #18 Takata DOME NSX #43 ARTA Garaiya
5Sportsland SUGO Ryo Michigami
Takashi Kogure
Morio Nitta
Shinichi Takagi
6Suzuka
Report
#12 Calsonic IMPUL GT-R #46 MOLA LEOPALACE Z
6Suzuka
Report
Tsugio Matsuda
Sebastien Philippe
Kazuki Hoshino
Hironobu Yasuda
7Motegi #3 Yellow Hat YMS Tomica GT-R #19 WedsSport IS350
7Motegi Ronnie Quintarelli
Naoki Yokomizo
Manabu Orido
Tsubasa Abe
8Autopolis #23 Xanavi Nismo GT-R #81 Daishin Advan Z
8Autopolis Satoshi Motoyama
Benoît Tréluyer
Takayuki Aoki
Tomonobu Fujii
9Mt. Fuji #12 Calsonic IMPUL GT-R #26 Yunker-Power Taisan Porsche 996 GT3
9Mt. Fuji Tsugio Matsuda
Sebastien Philippe
Nobuteru Taniguchi
Dominik Farnbacher

Standings

GT500 Drivers

;Scoring system:
Position1st2nd3rd4th5th6th7th8th9th10th
Points2015118654321
Qualifying321
Fastest Lap111

Teams

RankNumber/TeamCarPoints
1#36 Petronas Toyota Team TOM'sPetronas TOM's SC43094
2#38 ZENT Toyota Team CerumoZENT Cerumo SC43093
3#23 NismoXanavi Nismo GT-R86
4#12 Team ImpulCalsonic Impul GT-R78
5#18 Dome Racing TeamTakata Dome NSX75

GT300 Class (Top 3)

Drivers

Teams

RankNumber/TeamCarPoints
1#46 MOLAMOLA Leopalace Z104
2#43 Autobacs Racing Team AguriARTA Garaiya89
3#81 Team DaishinDaishin ADVAN Z85

Footnotes

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