The 2005 Autobacs Super GT Series was the thirteenth season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship including the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era and the first season as the Super GT series. It is also marked as the twenty-third 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 cars divided into 2 classes: GT500 and GT300. The season began on March 27 and ended on November 6, 2005, after 8 races. The drivers' champions were Yuji Tachikawa and Toranosuke Takagi in GT500; and Kota Sasaki and Tetsuya Yamano in GT300.
Drivers and teams
GT500 Team Make Car Engine Drivers Tyre Rounds Nismo Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z GT500 Nissan VQ30DETT 3.0 L Twin Turbo V6 1 Richard Lyons All Satoshi Motoyama All 22 Michael Krumm All Masataka Yanagida All G'Zox Hasemi Motorsport Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z GT500 Nissan VQ30DETT 3.0 L Twin Turbo V6 3 Érik Comas All Toshihiro Kaneishi All Esso Toyota Team LeMans Toyota Toyota Supra GT500 Toyota 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8 6 Akira Iida All Juichi Wakisaka All Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Honda Honda NSX GT500 Honda C32B 3.5 L V6 8 Ralph Firman All Daisuke Ito All Calsonic Team Impul Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z GT500 Nissan VQ30DETT 3.0 L Twin Turbo V6 12 Yuji Ide All Benoît Tréluyer All Dome Racing Team Honda Honda NSX GT500 Honda C32B 3.5 L V6 18 Takashi Kogure All Ryō Michigami All Hitotsuyama Racing McLaren McLaren F1 GTR BMW S70/2 6.1 L V12 20 Eiichi Tajima 2, 6 Yasushi Hitotsuyama 2 Mikio Hitotsuyama 6 Ferrari Ferrari 550 GTS Ferrari F133 5.9 L V12 21 Takuya Kurosawa All Hidetoshi Mitsusada All Toyota Team Tsuchiya Toyota Toyota Supra GT500 Toyota 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8 25 Manabu Orido All Dominik Schwager 1–5, 7–8 Hideki Noda 6 Epson Nakajima Racing Honda Honda NSX GT500 Honda C32B 3.5 L V6 32 André Lotterer All Tsugio Matsuda All Toyota Team Kraft Toyota Toyota Supra GT500 Toyota 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8 34 Seiji Ara All Naoki Yokomizo All 35 Naoki Hattori All Shigekazu Wakisaka 1–4 Peter Dumbreck 5–8 Toyota Team TOM'S Toyota Toyota Supra GT500 Toyota 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8 36 James Courtney All Takeshi Tsuchiya All 37 Tatsuya Kataoka All Sakon Yamamoto All ZENT Toyota Team Cerumo Toyota Toyota Supra GT500 Toyota 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8 38 Toranosuke Takagi All Yuji Tachikawa All Denso Toyota Team SARD Toyota Toyota Supra GT500 Toyota 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8 39 André Couto All Ronnie Quintarelli All JLOC Lamborghini Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT Lamborghini L535 6.0 L V12 88 Koji Yamanishi 1–2, 4–6 Hisashi Wada 1–2 Marco Apicella 4–5 Naohiro Furuya 6 Raybrig Team Kunimitsu Honda Honda NSX GT500 Honda C32B 3.5 L V6 100 Jérémie Dufour All Sébastien Philippe All
GT300 Team Make Car Engine Drivers Tyre Rounds M-Tec Honda Honda NSX Honda C32B 3.5 L V6 0 Shinya Hosokawa All Haruki Kurosawa All Verno Tokai Dream28 Vemac Vemac RD320R Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 2 Kazuho Takahashi All Akira Watanabe All Team Mach Vemac Vemac RD320R Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 5 Tetsuji Tamanaka All Katsuhiko Tsutsui All RE Amemiya Racing Mazda Mazda RX-7 Mazda RE20B 2.0 L 3-rotor 7 Hiroyuki Iiri All Shinichi Yamaji All A&S Racing Mosler Mosler MT900R Chevrolet LS1 6.0 L V8 9 Junichiro Yamashita All Eiji Yamada 1–4, 6–7 Shogo Suho 5, 8 Chevrolet Chevrolet Corvette Chevrolet LS1 6.0 L V8 913 Hideo Fukuyama 1–6 Haruhiko Matsumoto 1 Shogo Suho 2–4, 6 Eiji Yamada 5 Jim Gainer Racing Ferrari Ferrari 360 Ferrari F131B 3.6 L V8 10 Yasutaka Hinoi All Hideshi Matsuda 1–2, 4–5, 7–8 Taku Bamba 3, 6 11 Paolo Montin All Tetsuya Tanaka All Endless Sports Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6 13 Masami Kageyama All Mitsuhiro Kinoshita All Amprex Motorsports Lotus Lotus Exige 300RR GM Ecotec 3.0 L V6 15 Tengku Djan Ley 3 Norman Simon 3 Racing Project Bandoh Toyota Toyota Celica Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 19 Hiroki Katoh All Nobuteru Taniguchi All Team Taisan Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-R Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 26 Yutaka Yamagishi 1–3, 8 Kaoru Ijiri 1–2 Takashi Inoue 3 Isao Ihashi 8 Direxiv Motorsport Vemac Vemac RD320R Honda C32B 3.2 L V6 27 Shogo Mitsuyama All Yasuo Miyagawa 1–6 Hiroki Yoshimoto 7–8 Team Reckless Toyota Toyota MR-S Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 30 Kota Sasaki All Tetsuya Yamano All apr Toyota Toyota MR-S Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 31 Kazuki Nakajima All Minoru Tanaka All Autobacs Racing Team Aguri ASL ASL ARTA Garaiya Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6 43 Morio Nitta All Shinichi Takagi All MOLA Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6 46 Takayuki Aoki All Kazuki Hoshino All 47 Go Shimizu All Tomonobu Fujii All Toyota Team Cerumo Toyota Toyota Celica Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 52 Katsuyuki Hiranaka All Hironori Takeuchi All R&D Sport Vemac Vemac RD350R Zytek ZV348 3.9 L V8 62 Tadao Uematsu All Shinsuke Shibahara 1–6, 8 Hiroyuki Yagi 7 Team Gaikokuya Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-RS Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 70 Yoshimi Ishibashi 1–6 Eiichi Tajima 1, 3 Hirofumi Takei 2, 4–5 Yutaka Yamagishi 6 170 Yoshimi Ishibashi 8 Takashi Inoue 8 Teramoto Technical Office Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-RSR Porsche M96/73 3.6 L F6 72 Akira Hirakawa All Takashi Inoue 1, 5 Hiroshi Wada 2–3, 7–8 Akihiro Asai 4 Cusco Racing Subaru Subaru Impreza WRX STI Subaru EJ20 2.0 L Turbo F4 77 Katsuo Kobayashi All Tatsuya Tanigawa All JLOC Lamborghini Lamborghini Murciélago RG-1 Lamborghini L535 6.0 L V12 86 Koji Yamanishi 8 Naohiro Furuya 8 87 Hisashi Wada 4–6, 8 Naohiro Furuya 4–5 Marco Apicella 6, 8 Arktech Motorsports Porsche Porsche 986 Boxster Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 110 Takashi Ohi All Ichijo Suga All Porsche 996 GT3 Cup Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 112 Atsushi Yogo 1–3, 5–8 Keita Sawa 1–3 Takaya Tsubobayashi 5–8 Team LeyJun Porsche Porsche 968 GT4 Porsche M44/12 3.0 L Turbo I4 111 Hiroya Iijima All Masaki Jyonai All 910 Racing Porsche Porsche 996 GT3 RS Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 777 Kazuyoshi Takamizawa All Jukuchou Sunako All
Schedule
Round Race Circuit Date 1 Okayama GT 300 km Race Okayama International Circuit March 27 2 Fuji GT 500 km Race Fuji International Speedway May 4 3 Japan GT Championship Malaysia Sepang International Circuit June 26 4 SUGO GT 300 km Race Sportsland Sugo July 24 5 Motegi GT 300 km Race Twin Ring Motegi September 4 6 Fuji GT 300 km Race Fuji International Speedway September 25 7 Super GT in Kyushu GT 300 km Autopolis International Race Course October 16 8 Suzuka GT 300 km Suzuka Circuit November 6
Season results
Overall winner in bold
Round Circuit GT500 Winning Team GT300 Winning Team GT500 Winning Drivers GT300 Winning Drivers 1 Okayama #25 Eclipse Advan Supra #13 Endless Advan Z Manabu Orido Dominik Schwager Mitsuhiro Kinoshita Masami Kageyama 2 Mt. Fuji #38 Zent Cerumo Supra #0 Ebbro M-TEC NSX Yuji Tachikawa Toranosuke Takagi Haruki Kurosawa Shinya Hosokawa 3 Kuala Lumpur #1 Xanavi Nismo Z #43 ARTA Garaiya Satoshi Motoyama Richard Lyons Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi 4 Sportsland SUGO #37 Dynacity TOM'S Supra #31 Kicchouhouzan MR-S Tatsuya Kataoka Sakon Yamamoto Minoru Tanaka Kazuki Nakajima 5 Motegi #100 Raybrig NSX #46 Dream Cube's Advan Z Sebastien Philippe Jérémie Dufour Kazuki Hoshino Takayuki Aoki 6 Mt. Fuji #38 Zent Cerumo Supra #0 Ebbro M-TEC NSX Yuji Tachikawa Toranosuke Takagi Haruki Kurosawa Shinya Hosokawa 7 Autopolis #8 ARTA NSX #30 Reckless MR-S Daisuke Ito Ralph Firman Kota Sasaki Tetsuya Yamano 8 Suzuka #38 Zent Cerumo Supra #11 Jim Gainer Ferrari Dunlop Yuji Tachikawa Toranosuke Takagi Tetsuya Tanaka Paolo Montin
Standings
GT500 class Drivers' standings Scoring system Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Points 20 15 12 8 6 5 4 3 2 1 Qualifying 2 1 1 Fastest lap 1 1 1 There were no points awarded for pole position and fastest lap in the final race.
RankDriverNo.OKAFUJSEPSUGMOTFUJAUTSUZPts.1 Yuji Tachikawa Toranosuke Takagi38141111112171672 Ralph Firman Daisuke Ito841226168112613 Richard Lyons Satoshi Motoyama1Ret41861062604 James Courtney Takeshi Tsuchiya36210337585605 Michael Krumm Masataka Yanagida22122674928576 Akira Iida Juichi Wakisaka61154493103517 Tatsuya Kataoka Sakon Yamamoto376613187Ret7438 Érik Comas Toshihiro Kaneishi339Ret1513434429 André Lotterer Tsugio Matsuda325851310214103810 Takashi Kogure Ryō Michigami187137Ret211563711 Benoît Tréluyer Yuji Ide12Ret1585313493512 Naoki Hattori35931410569132913 Manabu Orido2511415915RetRet142614 Jérémie Dufour Sébastien Philippe100101110Ret114RetRet2615 Dominik Schwager2511415915Ret142516 André Couto Ronnie Quintarelli398Ret92141211112117 Shigekazu Wakisaka359314101618 Peter Dumbreck35569131319 Seiji Ara Naoki Yokomizo34Ret7121411161216420 Hideki Noda25Ret1- Takuya Kurosawa Hidetoshi Mitsusada21RetRetRet12Ret1513150- Koji Yamanishi8813DNSRet17Ret0- Hisashi Wada8813DNS0- Eiichi Tajima20Ret170- Marco Apicella88Ret170- Mikio Hitotsuyama20170- Yasushi Hitotsuyama20Ret0- Naohiro Furuya88Ret0RankDriverOKAFUJSEPSUGMOTFUJAUTSUZPts.
Teams' standings For teams that entered multiple cars, only the best result from each round counted towards the teams' championship. RankTeamNo.OKAFUJSEPSUGMOTFUJAUTSUZPts. 1 Nismo 115Ret 4 1 8 6 10 6 2 86 22 12 2 6 7 4 9 2 8 2 Team Honda Racing 8 4 12 2 6 16 8 1 12 82 18 7 13 717Ret 2 11 5 6 3 Toyota Team TOM'S 36 2 10 3 3 7 5 8 5 73 37 6 6 13 1 8 717Ret 7 4 Toyota Team Cerumo 38 14 1 11 11 12 1 7 1 67 5 Esso Toyota Team LeMans 6 11 5 4 4 9 3 10 3 51 6 Hasemi Motorsport 3 3 916Ret 15 13 4 3 4 42 7 Nakajima Racing 32 5 8 5 13 10 2 14 10 38 8 Team Impul 1217Ret 15 8 5 3 13 4 9 35 9 Kraft 3418Ret 7 12 14 11 16 12 16 29 35 9 3 14 10 5 6 9 13 10 Team Advan Tsuchiya 25 1 14 15 9 1518Ret16Ret 14 26 10 Team Kunimitsu 100 10 11 1018Ret 1 1415Ret17Ret 26 12 Toyota Team SARD 39 817Ret 9 2 14 12 11 11 21- Hitotsuyama Racing 2018DNS 17 0 2116Ret16Ret17Ret 1218Ret 15 13 15- JLOC 88 1319DNS16Ret 1719Ret 0RankTeamNo.OKAFUJSEPSUGMOTFUJAUTSUZPts.
GT300 Drivers' championship