The 2004 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the twelfth season of Japan Automobile Federation GT premiere racing and the final season under the name All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship as for 2005 the series was renamed to Super GT. It was marked as well as the twenty-second season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The GT500 class champions of 2004 were the #1 Xanavi NISMO Nissan Fairlady Z team driven by Satoshi Motoyama and Richard Lyons and the GT300 class champions were the #16 M-TEC Honda NSX driven by Tetsuya Yamano and Hiroyuki Yagi.
Drivers and teams
GT500 Team Make Car Engine Drivers Tyre Rounds Nismo Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z Nissan VQ30DETT 3.0 L Twin Turbo V6 1 Richard Lyons All Satoshi Motoyama All 22 Masami Kageyama All Michael Krumm All G'Zox Hasemi Motorsport Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z Nissan VQ30DETT 3.0 L Twin Turbo V6 3 Érik Comas All Toshihiro Kaneishi All Esso Toyota Team LeMans Toyota Toyota Supra Toyota 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8 6 Akira Iida 1–7 Juichi Wakisaka 1–7 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Honda Honda NSX Honda C30A 3.0 L Twin Turbo V6 8 Katsutomo Kaneishi All Daisuke Ito All Calsonic Team Impul Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z Nissan VQ30DETT 3.0 L Twin Turbo V6 12 Yuji Ide All Benoît Tréluyer All Amprex Motorsports Lamborghini Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT Lamborghini L535 6.0 L V12 15 Genji Hashimoto 3–4 Norman Simon 3–4 Takata Dome Racing Team Honda Honda NSX Honda C30A 3.0 L Twin Turbo V6 18 Ryō Michigami All Sébastien Philippe All Hitotsuyama Racing Ferrari Ferrari 550 GTS Ferrari F133 5.9 L V12 21 Hidetoshi Mitsusada 1–7 Tadao Uematsu 1–7 Team Advan Tsuchiya Toyota Toyota Supra Toyota 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8 25 Manabu Orido 1–7 Dominik Schwager 1–7 Epson Nakajima Racing Honda Honda NSX Honda C30A 3.0 L Twin Turbo V6 32 André Lotterer All Tsugio Matsuda All Yellow Hat Kraft Toyota Toyota Supra Toyota 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8 35 Naoki Hattori All Shigekazu Wakisaka All Toyota Team TOM'S Toyota Toyota Supra Toyota 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8 36 Marco Apicella 1–7 Takeshi Tsuchiya 1–7 37 James Courtney All Tatsuya Kataoka All au Toyota Team Cerumo Toyota Toyota Supra Toyota 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8 38 Seiji Ara 1–7 Yuji Tachikawa 1–7 Denso Toyota Team SARD Toyota Toyota Supra Toyota 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8 39 André Couto 1–7 Jérémie Dufour 1–7 R&D Sport Vemac Vemac RD408R Mugen MF408S 4.0 L V8 62 Shogo Mitsuyama 7 Shinsuke Shibahara 7 JLOC Lamborghini Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT Lamborghini L535 6.0 L V12 88 Hisashi Wada 2–3, 5–7 Koji Yamanishi 2–3, 5–7 Lamborghini Diablo JGT-1 Lamborghini L532 6.0 L V12 Hisashi Wada 4 Koji Yamanishi 4 Raybrig Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft Honda Honda NSX Honda C30A 3.0 L Twin Turbo V6 100 Hiroki Katoh All Shinji Nakano All Bruce Jouanny NC
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 Hiroki Yoshimoto NC Team Mach Vemac Vemac RD320R Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 5 Tetsuji Tamanaka All "Gō Mifune" 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 6.2 L V8 9 Go Shimizu All Shinya Hosokawa All Jim Gainer Racing Ferrari Ferrari 360 Ferrari F131B 3.6 L V8 10 Tetsuya Tanaka All Atsushi Yogo All 11 Hideshi Matsuda All Ichijo Suga All M-TEC Honda Honda NSX Honda C32B 3.5 L V6 16 Tetsuya Yamano All Hiroyuki Yagi All Haruki Kurosawa NC Spirit Motorsport Toyota Toyota Celica Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 17 Masaoki Nagashima All Matsunaga Matsuhiro All Racing Project Bandoh Toyota Toyota Celica Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 19 Takayuki Aoki All Nobuteru Taniguchi All Manabu Orido NC Hitotsuyama Racing Porsche Porsche 996 GT3 RSR Porsche M96/73 3.6 L F6 20 Takashi Inoue All Yasuo Miyagawa 1–4 Hiroshi Wada 5–7 Team Taisan Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-R Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 26 Yutaka Yamagishi All Kaoru Ijiri All Chrysler Chrysler Viper GTS-R Chrysler EWB 8.0 L V10 Eiji Yamada NC Patrick van Schoote NC Team Reckless Toyota Toyota MR-S Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 30 Kota Sasaki All Satoshi Goto All A'PEX with apr Toyota Toyota MR-S Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 31 Minoru Tanaka All Koji Matsuda All Autobacs Racing Team Aguri ASL ASL ARTA Garaiya Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6 43 Morio Nitta All Shinichi Takagi All Auto Staff Racing Nissan Nissan Silvia (S15) Nissan SR20DET 2.0 L Turbo I4 51 Masamasa Kato All Katsuhiko Tsutsui All Toyota Team Cerumo Toyota Toyota Celica Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 52 Hironori Takeuchi All Seigo Nishizawa All Team LeyJun Vemac Vemac RD320R Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 63 "OSAMU" All Hiroki Yoshimoto 1–5 Takaya Tsubobayashi 6–7 Team Gaikokuya Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-RS Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 70 Yoshimi Ishibashi All Hiromi 1–3, 5–7 Isao Ihashi 4 72 Akira Hirakawa All Guts Jyonai 1–2 Hideo Fukuyama 3–7 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 Fairlady Z Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6 80 Mitsuhiro Kinoshita All Kazuki Hoshino All 81 Masataka Yanagida All Naofumi Omoto All Arktech Motorsports Porsche Porsche 986 Boxster Porsche M44/12 3.0 L I4 110 Hiroya Iijima 1–5, 7 Takashi Ohi 1–5, 7 Porsche 996 GT3 Cup Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 112 Akihiko Tsutsumi 2, 4 Keita Sawa 2, 5, 7 Guts Jyonai 4, 5, 7 910 Racing Porsche Porsche 996 GT3 RS Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 910 Kazuyoshi Takamizawa All Jukuchou Sunako All
Schedule Round Race Circuit Date 1 GT Championship in TI TI Circuit April 4 2 SUGO GT Championship Sportsland SUGO May 23 3 Japan GT Championship Malaysia Sepang Circuit June 19 4 Hokkaido Gran GT Championship Tokachi International Speedway July 18 5 Motegi GT Championship Race Twin Ring Motegi September 5 6 Japan GT in Kyushu 300 km Autopolis October 31 7 Suzuka GT 300 km Suzuka Circuit November 21 NC JGTC All-Star GT Live USA California Speedway December 18 December 19
Season results Round Circuit GT500 Winning Team GT300 Winning Team GT500 Winning Drivers GT300 Winning Drivers 1 TI Circuit #1 Xanavi NISMO Nissan Z #10 Team Gainer Ferrari F360 Satoshi Motoyama Richard Lyons Atsushi Yogo Tetsuya Tanaka 2 Sportsland SUGO #38 au Cerumo Toyota Supra #19 WedsSport Toyota Celica Yuji Tachikawa Seiji Ara Takayuki Aoki Nobuteru Taniguchi 3 Sepang Circuit #39 Denso Team SARD Toyota Supra #7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7 Andre Couto Jeremie Dufour Shinichi Yamaji Hiroyuki Iiri 4 Tokachi #22 Motul NISMO Nissan Z #43 ARTA ASL Garaiya Michael Krumm Masami Kageyama Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi 5 Twin Ring Motegi #32 PIAA Honda NSX #43 ARTA ASL Garaiya Tsugio Matsuda André Lotterer Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi 6 Autopolis #1 Xanavi NISMO Nissan Z #7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7 Satoshi Motoyama Richard Lyons Shinichi Yamaji Hiroyuki Iiri 7 Suzuka Circuit #12 Calsonic Impul Nissan Z #16 M-TEC Honda NSX Yuji Ide Benoît Tréluyer Tetsuya Yamano Hiroyuki Yagi NC California Speedway #3 G-ZOX Hasemi Motorsports Nissan Z #16 M-TEC Honda NSX Toshihiro Kaneishi Érik Comas Tetsuya Yamano Hiroyuki Yagi Haruki Kurosawa #32 PIAA Honda NSX #43 ARTA ASL Garaiya Tsugio Matsuda André Lotterer Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi
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.TAISUGSEPTOKMOTAUTSUZFONFONPts.1 Satoshi Motoyama Richard Lyons11DNS3Ret317RetDNS732 André Couto Jérémie Dufour393Ret17628613 Akira Iida Juichi Wakisaka621114224Ret574 Érik Comas Toshihiro Kaneishi366437Ret315505 Seiji Ara Yuji Tachikawa385171410114456 James Courtney Tatsuya Kataoka371135546652447 Marco Apicella Takeshi Tsuchiya3677104572438 André Lotterer Tsugio Matsuda3210496112521429 Masami Kageyama Michael Krumm229Ret6189RetRetDNS3910 Naoki Hattori Shigekazu Wakisaka354529138163Ret3711 Benoît Tréluyer Yuji Ide12810Ret11Ret514DNS3512 Manabu Orido Dominik Schwager25142Ret13123103113 Hiroki Katoh Shinji Nakano100Ret81510910964914 Ryō Michigami Sébastien Philippe18121288151412Ret3615 Katsutomo Kaneishi Daisuke Ito81391112111311RetWD2- Genji Hashimoto Norman Simon1512150- Hidetoshi Mitsusada Tadao Uematsu2115DNQ13161415140- Shogo Mitsuyama Shinsuke Shibahara62130- Hisashi Wada Koji Yamanishi88DNQRetDNQRetRet150- Bruce Jouanny100640RankDriverNo.TAISUGSEPTOKMOTAUTSUZFONFONPts.
Teams' standings For teams that entered multiple cars, only the best result from each round counted towards the teams' championship. RankDriverNo.TAISUGSEPTOKMOTAUTSUZFONFONPts. 1 Nismo 1 115DNS 317Ret 3 1 7RetDNS 98 22 914Ret 6 1 8 918RetRetDNS 2 Toyota Team SARD 39 313Ret 1 7 6 2 8 61 3 Toyota Team TOM'S 36 7 7 10 4 5 7 2 60 37 11 3 5 5 4 6 6 5 2 4 Esso Toyota Team LeMans 6 2 11 14 2 2 417Ret 57 5 Hasemi Motorsport 3 6 6 4 3 717Ret 3 1 5 50 6 Toyota Team Cerumo 38 5 1 7 14 10 11 4 45 7 Epson Nakajima Racing 32 10 4 9 6 1 12 5 2 1 42 8 Kraft 35 4 5 2 9 13 8 16 3Ret 37 9 Team Impul 12 8 1017Ret 1116Ret 5 1 4DNS 35 10 Team Advan Tsuchiya 25 14 216Ret 13 12 3 10 31 11 Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft 10016Ret 8 15 10 9 10 9 6 4 9 12 Dome Racing Team 18 12 12 8 8 15 14 12 Ret 3 6 13 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri 8 13 9 11 12 11 13 11 RetWD 2- Amprex Motorsports 15 12 15 0- Hitotsuyama Racing 21 1516DNQ 13 16 14 15 14 0- R&D Sport 62 13 0- JLOC 8817DNQ18Ret18DNQ17Ret16Ret 15 0RankDriverNo.TAISUGSEPTOKMOTAUTSUZFONFONPts.
GT300 Drivers' championship Rank DriverNo. TAI SUG SEPTOK MOT AUT SUZ FONFON Pts. 1 Tetsuya Yamano Hiroyuki Yagi16 3 7 2 2 2 6 1 1 2 93 2 Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi43 2 5 21 1 1 2 2 Ret 1 92 3 Tetsuya Tanaka Atsushi Yogo10 1 8 5 4 3 8 3 644 Hiroyuki Iiri Shinichi Yamaji7 11 4 1 10 Ret 1 18 Ret WD555 Takayuki Aoki Nobuteru Taniguchi19 4 1 NC 7 13 5 5 5 548 6 Masataka Yanagida Naofumi Omoto81 19 14 6 3 4 19 7 2 4 337 Takayuki Kinoshita Kazuki Hoshino80 8 11 7 9 17 4 6 7 3 298 Hideshi Matsuda Ichigo Suga11 10 3 8 8 20 7 14 268 Kota Sasaki Satoshi Goto30 9 13 4 15 6 9 4 26 10 Tetsuji Tamanaka "Gō Mifune"5 5 16 3 18 5 12 12 Ret DNS 24 11 Katsuo Kobayashi Tatsuya Tanigawa77 14 12 18 6 11 3 11 3 Ret 1712 "OSAMU"63 6 6 14 22 19 17 16 4 816 13 Hiroki Yoshimoto63 6 6 14 22 19 16 14 Masahiro Matsunaga Masaoki Nagashima17 Ret 2 12 12 16 11 15 15 15 Minoru Tanaka Koji Matsuda31 7 10 22 5 Ret 10 10 14 16 Seigo Nishizawa Hironori Takeuchi52 17 20 9 23 8 18 9 917 Yutaka Yamagishi26 9 10 11 Ret 13 8 618 Kaoru Ijiri26 9 11 Ret 13 8519 Go Shimizu Shinya Hosokawa9 12 18 11 14 7 16 Ret 420 Guts Jyonai72/112 13 21 20 9 17 2 20 Keita Sawa112 15 9 17 2 22 Akihiro Asai26 10 123 Masamasa Kato Katsuhiko Tsutsui51 DNQ 19 16 16 10 14 13 1- Kazuyoshi Takamizawa Jukuchou Sunako910 16 24 15 19 12 22 20 0- Akira Hirakawa72 13 21 Ret 13 Ret 15 21 0- Takashi Inoue20 17 13 Ret 15 21 19 0 - Yasuo Miyagawa20 15 17 13 Ret 0- Hideo Fukuyama72 Ret 13 Ret 15 210- Kazuho Takahashi Akira Watanabe2 18 Ret 17 17 14 20 22 8 70 - Hiroshi Wada20 15 15 21 190 - Akihiko Tsutsumi112 15 200- Takaya Tsubobayashi63 17 16 4 80 - Yoshimi Ishibashi70 Ret 23 20 Ret 18 23 24 0 - Hiromi Kozono70 Ret 23 20 18 23 24 0- Hiroya Iijima Takashi Ohi111 DNQ 22 19 21 Ret 230- Isao Ihashi70 Ret0- Haruki Kurosawa16 1 20- Manabu Orido19 5 50- Eiji Yamada Patrick van Schoote26 9 60- Geoff Escalette Blake Rosser6 60- Daiki Yoshimoto2 8 70- Steven Bernheim Dwain Derment00 DNS0- Mark Anderson118 DNQ 0- G. Segal D. Puddster421 DNQ0RankDriverNo.TAISUGSEPTOKMOTAUTSUZFONFONPts.
GT300 Teams' standings For teams that entered multiple cars, only the best result from each round counted towards the teams' championship.