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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.[ 1] The GT300 class drivers' champions were the No. 31 ARTA with A'PEX Toyota MR-S driven by Morio Nitta and Shinichi Takagi.
Team
Make
Car
Engine
Drivers
Tyre
Rounds
Verno Tokai Dream28
Honda
Honda NSX
Honda C32B 3.4 L V6
2
Kazuho Takahashi
Y
All
Akira Watanabe
All
Hasemi Motorsport
Nissan
Nissan Silvia (S15)
Nissan SR20DET 2.0 L Turbo I4
3
Tetsuya Yamano
Y
All
Masataka Yanagida
All
Zipspeed
Chevrolet
Chevrolet Corvette C4
Chevrolet L98 5.7 L V8
4
Izumi Yoshida
D
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
Y
All
"Gō Mifune"
All
RE Amemiya Racing
Mazda
Mazda RX-7
Mazda RE20B 2.0 L 3-rotor
7
Haruhiko Matsumoto
Y
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
Y
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
BF
All
Charles Kwan
All
TOM'S Spirit
Toyota
Toyota MR-S
Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4
17
Masahiro Matsunaga
Y
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
Y
All
Satoshi Goto
All
Hitotsuyama Racing
BMW
BMW M3 CSL
BMW S50B32 3.2 L I6
21
Yasushi Kikuchi
D
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
Y
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 Viper 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
BF
All
Shinichi Takagi
All
Auto Staff Racing
Nissan
Nissan Silvia (S15)
Nissan SR20DET 2.0 L Turbo I4
51
Naofumi Omoto
Y
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
D
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
Y
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
D
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
D
All
Guts Jyonai
All
Cusco Racing
Subaru
Subaru Impreza WRX STI
Subaru EJ20 2.0 L Turbo F4
77
Katsuo Kobayashi
Y
All
Tatsuya Tanigawa
All
Team Daishin
Nissan
Nissan Silvia (S15)
Nissan SR20DET 2.0 L Turbo I4
81
Nobuyuki Ohyagi
Y
All
Takayuki Aoki
All
KRAFT
Toyota
Toyota MR-S
Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4
86
Masaoki Nagashima
D
All
Koji Matsuda
All
Dentaire ProJet Racing
Ferrari
Ferrari 360
Ferrari F131B 3.6 L V8
360
Seigo Nishizawa
Y
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
Y
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
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
Colour
Result
Gold
Winner
Silver
Second place
Bronze
Third place
Green
Points classification
Blue
Non-points classification
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple
Retired, not classified (Ret)
Red
Did not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black
Disqualified (DSQ)
White
Did not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank
Did not practice (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)
For teams that entered multiple cars, only the best result from each round counted towards the teams' championship.[ 2]
GT300 Drivers' championship[ edit ]
GT300 Teams' standings[ edit ]
For teams that entered multiple cars, only the best result from each round counted towards the teams' championship.
Rank
Team
No.
TAI
FUJ
SUG
SEP
FUJ
MOT
MIN
SUZ
Pts.
1
Team Taisan with Advan
24
2
Ret
16
5
1
7
Ret
2
102
26
5
3
7
10
7
3
3
17
2
R&D Sport
62
Ret
1
15
Ret
13
1
1
7
85
63
17
Ret
3
15
17
13
10
DNS
3
ARTA with A'PEX
31
1
Ret
17
2
4
5
4
4
75
4
Hasemi Motorsport
3
4
Ret
1
3
3
4
Ret
Ret
70
5
910 Racing
910
8
4
Ret
4
6
8
2
5
57
911
15
DSQ
9
14
12
8
10
6
Team Daishin
81
3
Ret
12
7
2
Ret
12
1
56
7
Cusco Racing
77
7
6
2
16
5
2
7
Ret
53
8
RE Amemiya Racing
7
6
12
Ret
1
12
Ret
Ret
3
41
9
Team Taisan Advan jr.
28
11
7
6
11
11
17
Ret
8
33
55
10
16
5
9
8
9
4
21
10
Racing Project Bandoh
19
18
5
Ret
6
22
6
6
12
31
11
Sigma Tech Racing Team
71
14
2
Ret
Ret
10
13
6
24
12
Verno Tokai Dream28
2
9
14
4
8
10
Ret
Ret
9
22
13
Hitotsuyama Racing
21
16
8
8
19
20
14
Ret
Ret
6
14
A&S Racing
5
Ret
9
18
18
24
16
Ret
13
6
15
Team Gaikokuya
70
Ret
15
10
Ret
16
15
9
20
3
16
Amprex Motorsports
15
15
19
Ret
12
9
11
Ret
16
2
17
R&D Sport Ex
61
20
10
DNA
17
21
1
18
KRAFT
86
19
17
11
13
18
Ret
Ret
19
1
-
TOM'S Spirit
17
12
11
14
23
Ret
11
0
-
Auto Staff Racing
51
13
Ret
11
14
0
-
Team Daikokuya
9
DNQ
18
14
15
18
0
-
Dentaire ProJet Racing
360
13
13
DNA
Ret
15
0
-
Team Revolution
66
19
Ret
Ret
0
-
Zipspeed
4
DNQ
DNQ
DNS
DNQ
DNQ
0
Rank
Team
No.
TAI
FUJ
SUG
SEP
FUJ
MOT
MIN
SUZ
Pts.