The 2002 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the tenth season of Japan Automobile Federation GT premiere racing. It was marked as well as the twentieth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The GT500 class drivers' champions of 2002 were Juichi Wakisaka and Akira Iida driving the No. 6 Esso Team LeMans Toyota Supra, and the teams' champion was Honda team Mugen x Dome Project with their No. 16 Mugen NSX and No. 18 Takata Dome NSX. The GT300 class drivers' champions were the No. 31 ARTA with A'PEX Toyota MR-S driven by Morio Nitta and Shinichi Takagi.
Drivers and teams
GT500 Team Make Car Engine Drivers Tyre Rounds Toyota Team Cerumo Toyota Toyota Supra Toyota 3S-GT 2.0 L Turbo I4 1 Yuji Tachikawa All Hironori Takeuchi All 33 Masahiko Kondo 1, 3–8 Ukyo Katayama 1, 3 Hayanari Shimoda 4–8 Esso Toyota Team LeMans Toyota Toyota Supra Toyota 3S-GT 2.0 L Turbo I4 6 Akira Iida All Juichi Wakisaka All Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Honda Honda NSX Honda C32B 3.5 L V6 8 Katsutomo Kaneishi All Keiichi Tsuchiya All Calsonic Team Impul Nissan Nissan Skyline GT-R Nissan RB26DETT 2.8 L Twin Turbo I6 12 Tetsuya Tanaka All Kazuyoshi Hoshino 1–5 Benoît Tréluyer 6–8 Mugen x Dome Project Honda Honda NSX Honda C32B 3.2 L V6 16 Daisuke Ito All Dominik Schwager 1–4 Ryō Michigami 5–8 18 Richard Lyons All Sébastien Philippe All Nismo Nissan Nissan Skyline GT-R Nissan RB26DETT 2.8 L Twin Turbo I6 / Nissan VQ30DETT 3.0 L Twin Turbo V6 22 Michael Krumm All Satoshi Motoyama All 23 Érik Comas All Masami Kageyama All Tsuchiya Engineering Toyota Toyota Supra Toyota 3S-GT 2.0 L Turbo I4 25 Shinichi Yamaji All Seiji Ara 1, 3–8 Geoff Lees 2 Team Take One McLaren McLaren F1 GTR BMW S70/2 6.0 L V12 30 Haruki Kurosawa 1–3, 5–8 Hideki Okada 1–3, 5–8 Project Mu Kraft Toyota Toyota Supra Toyota 3S-GT 2.0 L Turbo I4 35 Masahiko Kageyama All Shigekazu Wakisaka All Toyota Team TOM'S Toyota Toyota Supra Toyota 3S-GT 2.0 L Turbo I4 36 Takeshi Tsuchiya All Wayne Gardner All 37 Takuya Kurosawa All Paolo Montin 1–7 Hideki Noda 8 Denso Toyota Team SARD Toyota Toyota Supra Toyota 3S-GT 2.0 L Turbo I4 39 Jérémie Dufour All Manabu Orido All Mobil 1 Nakajima Racing Honda Honda NSX Honda C32B 3.5 L V6 64 Tsugio Matsuda All Ralph Firman All Hitotsuyama Racing McLaren McLaren F1 GTR BMW S70/2 6.0 L V12 76 Naoki Hattori All Eiichi Tajima All HKS Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz CLK Mercedes-Benz M119 6.0 L V8 87 Yudai Igarashi 2–3, 6–8 Koji Yamanishi 2–3, 6–8 JLOC Lamborghini Lamborghini Diablo JGT-1 Lamborghini L532 6.0 L V12 88 Marco Apicella All Hisashi Wada All Raybrig Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft Honda Honda NSX Honda C32B 3.5 L V6 100 Hidetoshi Mitsusada All Hiroki Katoh 1, 3–8 Toshihiro Kaneishi 2
GT300 Team Make Car Engine Drivers Tyre Rounds Verno Tokai Dream28 Honda Honda NSX Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 2 Kazuho Takahashi All Akira Watanabe All Hasemi Motorsport Nissan Nissan Silvia (S15) Nissan SR20DET 2.0 L Turbo I4 3 Tetsuya Yamano All Masataka Yanagida All Zipspeed Chevrolet Chevrolet Corvette C4 Chevrolet L98 5.7 L V8 4 Izumi Yoshida All Toshiyuki Yamamoto 2 Naohiro Furuya 2–3, 5–6, 8 A&S Racing Mosler Mosler MT900R Chevrolet LS1 5.7 L V8 5 Tetsuji Tamanaka All "Gō Mifune" All RE Amemiya Racing Mazda Mazda RX-7 Mazda RE20B 2.0 L 3-rotor 7 Haruhiko Matsumoto All Nobuteru Taniguchi 1–7 Takayuki Kinoshita 8 Team Daikokuya Porsche Porsche 911 GT3-R Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 9 Yosuke Shimoshima 1–4, 8 Tsunefumi Hiki 1 Masanobu Takenaka 2–5, 8 Akihiko Tsutsumi 5 Amprex Motorsports BMW BMW M3 (E46) BMW M52 3.2 L I6 15 Genji Hashimoto All Charles Kwan All TOM'S Spirit Toyota Toyota MR-S Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 17 Masahiro Matsunaga 1–3, 5–8 Ken Namekawa 1–3, 5–8 Racing Project Bandoh Toyota Toyota MR-S Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 19 Minoru Tanaka All Satoshi Goto All Hitotsuyama Racing BMW BMW M3 CSL BMW S50B32 3.2 L I6 21 Yasushi Kikuchi All Mikio Hitotsuyama 1, 7 Yasushi Hitotsuyama 2–6, 8 Team Taisan Porsche Porsche 911 GT3-R Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 24 Hideo Fukuyama All Mitsuhiro Kinoshita All 26 Atsushi Yogo All Kazuyushi Nishizawa All 28 Yutaka Yamagishi All Yukihiro Hane 1, 3–8 Jukuchou Sunako 2 Chrysler Chrysler Viper GTS-R Chrysler EWB 8.0 L V10 55 Eiji Yamada All Takashi Shimizu 1–2, 5–8 Takayuki Kinoshita 3–4 ARTA with A'PEX Toyota Toyota MR-S Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 31 Morio Nitta All Shinichi Takagi All Auto Staff Racing Nissan Nissan Silvia (S15) Nissan SR20DET 2.0 L Turbo I4 51 Naofumi Omoto 3–5, 7–8 Masanobu Kato 3–5, 7 Akira Ishikawa 8 R&D Sport Porsche Porsche 911 GT3-R Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 61 Yasuo Miyagawa 1–5 Hiroaki Suga 1, 3 Tsubasa Kurosawa 2 Atsushi Katsumasa 4–5 62 Shinsuke Shibahara 1 Shogo Mitsuyama 1 Vemac Vemac RD320R Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 Shinsuke Shibahara 2–8 Shogo Mitsuyama 2–8 Porsche Porsche 911 GT3-R Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 63 "OSAMU" All Takamasa Nakagawa All Team Revolution Mazda Mazda RX-7 Mazda RE20B 2.0 L 3-rotor 66 Tetsuya Shimizu 5, 6, 8 Shinji Abe 5 Mutsumi Shiono 6, 8 Team Gaikokuya Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-RS Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 70 Yoshimi Ishibashi All Patrick van Schoote 1–5 Seiichi Sodeyama 6 Nobuo Komiya 7–8 SigmaTec Racing Team Toyota Toyota MR-S Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 71 Keita Sawa All Guts Jyonai All Cusco Racing Subaru Subaru Impreza WRX STI Subaru EJ20 2.0 L Turbo F4 77 Katsuo Kobayashi All Tatsuya Tanigawa All Team Daishin Nissan Nissan Silvia (S15) Nissan SR20DET 2.0 L Turbo I4 81 Nobuyuki Ohyagi All Takayuki Aoki All KRAFT Toyota Toyota MR-S Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 86 Masaoki Nagashima All Koji Matsuda All Dentaire ProJet Racing Ferrari Ferrari 360 Ferrari F131B 3.6 L V8 360 Seigo Nishizawa 1–3, 5, 7–8 Kota Sasaki 1–3, 5, 7–8 910 Racing Porsche Porsche 996 GT3 RS Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 910 Hideshi Matsuda All Yasuo Miyagawa 1 Adam Wilcox 2–8 911 Akira Hirakawa All Toshihide Hashimura 1 Shigemitsu Haga 2–3, 6, 8 Jukuchou Sunako 5, 7
Schedule Round Race Circuit Date 1 GT Championship in TI TI Circuit April 14 2 All Japan Fuji GT Race Fuji Speedway May 4 3 SUGO GT Championship Sportsland SUGO May 26 4 Tmtouch Japan GT Championship Malaysia Sepang Circuit June 23 5 Japan Special GT Cup Fuji Speedway July 28 6 Motegi GT Championship Race Twin Ring Motegi September 15 7 CP Mine GT Race Mine Circuit October 27 8 Suzuka GT 300 km Suzuka Circuit November 17
Season results
Round Circuit GT500 Winning Team GT300 Winning Team GT500 Winning Drivers GT300 Winning Drivers 1 TI Circuit #64 Mobil 1 Honda NSX #31 ARTA A'PEX Toyota MR-S Tsugio Matsuda Ralph Firman Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi 2 Mt. Fuji #1 au Cerumo Toyota Supra #62 R&D Sport Vemac RD320R Yuji Tachikawa Hironori Takeuchi Shogo Mitsuyama Shinsuke Shibahara 3 Sportsland SUGO #6 ESSO Team LeMans Toyota Supra #3 Hasemi Motorsports Nissan Silvia Juichi Wakisaka Akira Iida Masataka Yanagida Tetsuya Yamano 4 Sepang Circuit #64 Mobil 1 Honda NSX #7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7 Tsugio Matsuda Ralph Firman Haruhiko Matsumoto Nobuteru Taniguchi 5 Mt. Fuji #1 au Cerumo Toyota Supra #24 Advan Team Taisan Porsche 996 Yuji Tachikawa Hironori Takeuchi Hideo Fukuyama Mitsuhiro Kinoshita 6 Twin Ring Motegi #18 Takata Dome Honda NSX #62 R&D Sport Vemac RD320R Sebastien Philippe Richard Lyons Shogo Mitsuyama Shinsuke Shibahara 7 Mine Circuit #16 Mugen Honda NSX #62 R&D Sport Vemac RD320R Ryō Michigami Daisuke Ito Shogo Mitsuyama Shinsuke Shibahara 8 Suzuka Circuit #64 Mobil 1 Honda NSX #81 Team Daishin Nissan Silvia Tsugio Matsuda Ralph Firman Takayuki Aoki Noboyuki Oyagi
Standings
GT500 class Drivers' standings Scoring system Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Points 20 15 12 10 8 6 4 3 2 1 Qualifying 1 1 1 Fastest lap 1 1 1
RankNo.DriverTAIFUJSUGSEPFUJMOTMINSUZPts.16 Akira Iida Juichi Wakisaka102111744375264 Tsugio Matsuda Ralph Firman111Ret11214617431 Hironori Takeuchi Yuji Tachikawa4116911396654100 Hidetoshi Mitsusada952582Ret463516 Daisuke Ito533101116110596100 Hiroki Katoh92582Ret455736 Takeshi Tsuchiya Wayne Gardner814102563952822 Satoshi Motoyama Michael Krumm117742102Ret51918 Richard Lyons Sébastien Philippe215161361121447108 Katsutomo Kaneishi Keiichi Tsuchiya741369882291137 Takuya KurosawaRet125337Ret16381237 Paolo MontinRet125337Ret381316 Dominik Schwager53310351439 Jérémie Dufour Manabu Orido3Ret12DSQ15575331525 Shinichi Yamaji61311Ret4957321625 Seiji Ara611Ret4957321776 Naoki Hattori Eiichi Tajima13868133RetRet271816 Ryō Michigami1116110241923 Érik Comas Masami Kageyama1264161417Ret81920100 Toshihiro Kaneishi582133 Masahiko Kondo15971612111362233 Hayanari Shimoda71612111342312 Tetsuya Tanaka14Ret814Ret11131742412 Kazuyoshi Hoshino14Ret814Ret32535 Masahiko Kageyama Shigekazu Wakisaka1710Ret121015101232630 Haruki Kurosawa Hideki Okada16914RetRetRet1122733 Ukyo Katayama15922812 Benoît Tréluyer1113171-25 Geoff Lees130-88 Marco Apicella Hisashi WadaDNQRet15RetRet18RetRet0-37 Hideki Noda160-87 Yudai Igarashi Koji YamanishiDNQDNQRetRetRet0RankDriverTAIFUJSUGSEPFUJMOTMINSUZPts.
Teams' standings For teams that entered multiple cars, only the best result from each round counted towards the teams' championship. RankTeamNo.TAIFUJSUGSEPFUJMOTMINSUZPts. 1 Mugen x Dome Project 16 5 3 3 10 11 16 1 10 96 18 2 15 16 13 6 1 12 14 2 Esso Toyota Team LeMans 6 10 2 1 11 7 4 4 3 75 3 Mobil 1 Nakajima Racing 64 1 1119Ret 1 12 14 6 1 74 4 Toyota Team Cerumo 33 15 9 7 16 12 11 13 69 1 4 1 17 9 1 13 9 6 5 Toyota Team TOM'S 36 8 14 10 2 5 6 3 9 65 3718Ret 12 5 3 3 718Ret 16 6 Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft 100 9 5 2 5 8 214Ret 4 63 7 Nismo 22 11 7 7 4 2 10 218Ret 62 23 12 6 4 15 14 1717Ret 8 8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri 8 7 4 13 6 9 8 8 2 46 9 Toyota Team SARD 39 317Ret 1218DSQ 15 5 7 5 33 10 Tsuchiya Engineering 25 6 13 1116Ret 4 9 5 7 32 11 Hitotsuyama Racing 76 13 8 6 8 13 315Ret19Ret 27 12 Team Impul 12 1418Ret 8 1419Ret 11 13 17 4 13 Kraft 35 17 1018Ret 12 10 15 10 12 3 14 Team Take One 30 16 9 1417Ret19Ret20Ret 11 2- JLOC 8819DNQ16Ret 1517Ret18Ret 1819Ret20Ret 0- HKS 8719DNQ20DNQ20Ret16Ret 15 0RankTeamNo.TAIFUJSUGSEPFUJMOTMINSUZPts.
GT300 Drivers' championship