2006 International Pokka 1000km explained

The 2006 International Pokka 1000 km was the sixth round of the 2006 Super GT season and the 35th running of the 1000 km Suzuka. It took place on August 20, 2006.

Race results

Results are as follows:^[1]

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Chassis	Tyre	Laps
1	GT500	12	Calsonic Team Impul	Kazuki Hoshino Benoît Tréluyer Jeremie Dufour	Nissan Z		173
2	GT500	22	Motul NISMO	Michael Krumm Richard Lyons Fabio Carbone	Nissan Z		173
3	GT500	35	Bandai Team Kraft	Naoki Hattori Peter Dumbreck Eiichi Tajima	Lexus SC430		172
4	GT500	32	EPSON Nakajima Racing	Hideki Mutoh Loïc Duval	Honda NSX		172
5	GT500	24	Woodone Kondo Racing	Masataka Yanagida Érik Comas Seiji Ara	Nissan Z		172
6	GT500	8	Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	Daisuke Ito Ralph Firman Toshihiro Kaneishi	Honda NSX		172
7	GT500	1	ZENT Team Cerumo	Yuji Tachikawa Toranosuke Takagi Ronnie Quintarelli	Lexus SC430		171
8	GT500	3	Yellowhat Hasemi Motorsport	Naoki Yokomizo João Paulo de Oliveira Darren Manning	Nissan Z		171
9	GT500	100	Raybrig Team Kunimitsu	Shinya Hosokawa Sebastien Philippe	Honda NSX		168
10	GT500	36	OpenInterface TOM'S	Juichi Wakisaka André Lotterer Adrian Sutil	Lexus SC430		166
11	GT300	52	Toyota Team Cerumo	Hironori Takeuchi Koki Saga Keita Sawa	Toyota Celica		160
12	GT300	27	Direxiv Motorsport	Nobuteru Taniguchi Shogo Mitsuyama	Vemac RD320R		159
13	GT300	101	Toy Story apr	Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi	Toyota MR-S		159
14	GT300	7	Asparadrink RE Amemiya	Tetsuya Yamano Hiroyuki Iiri Shinichi Yamaji	Mazda RX-7		158
15	GT300	2	Cars Tokai Dream28	Kazuho Takahashi Hiroki Kato Hiroki Yoshimoto	Mooncraft Shiden		158
16	GT300	47	MOLA	Hironobu Yasuda Masaoki Nagashima	Nissan Z		158
17	GT300	62	Willcom R&D Sport	Shinsuke Shibahara Haruki Kurosawa	Vemac RD408R		158
18	GT300	46	MOLA	Kota Sasaki Taku Bamba	Nissan Z		157
19	GT300	11	JIM Gainer Racing	Takayuki Aoki Tetsuya Tanaka	Ferrari 360		157
20	GT300	110	Arktech Motorsports	Hideshi Matsuda Ichijo Suga Takaya Tsubobayashi	Porsche Boxster		156
21	GT300	70	Team Gaikokuya	Yoshimi Ishibashi Yutaka Yamagishi Isao Ihashi	Porsche 911 GT3 RS		154
22	GT300	910	910 Racing with Team Ishimatsu	Tadao Uematsu Yasushi Kikuchi Ryohei Sakaguchi	Porsche 911 GT3 RSR		153
23	GT300	9	LeyJun A&S Racing	OSAMU Masaki Tanaka	Mosler MT900R		153
24	GT300	777	Ryozanpaku apr	Minoru Tanaka Kazuya Oshima Keiichi Kobayashi	Toyota MR-S		152
25	GT500	66	triple a Team SARD	André Couto Katsuyuki Hiranaka Soheil Ayari	Toyota Supra		143
26	GT300	111	RodeoDrive Team LeyJun	'Guts' Jyonai Hiroya Iijima Takeshi Namekawa	Porsche 911 GT3		142
27	GT300	13	ENDLESS Sports	Masami Kageyama Tomonobu Fujii	Nissan Z		133
28	GT300	87	JLOC	Koji Yamanishi Atsushi Yogo Hisashi Wada	Lamborghini Murcielago		120
29	GT300	5	Team Mach	Tetsuji Tamanaka Katsuhiko Tsutsui Akira Watanabe	Vemac RD320R		118
30	GT300	19	WedsSport Racing Project Bandoh	Koji Matsuda Shigekazu Wakisaka	Toyota Celica		115
DNF	GT300	14	ENDLESS Sports	Mitsuhiro Kinoshita Kyosuke Mineo Sunako Jukucho	Porsche 911 GT3R		106
DNF	GT500	25	Eclipse Team Tsuchiya	Manabu Orido Takeshi Tsuchiya Hideki Noda	Toyota Supra		90
DNF	GT300	88	AKTIO JLOC	Marco Apicella Yasutaka Hinoi Naohiro Furuya	Lamborghini Murcielago		76
DNF	GT300	55	DHG Racing	Hidetoshi Mitsusada Daisuke Ikeda Hiroaki Ishiura	Ford GT		30
DNF	GT500	6	Mobil 1 Team LeMans	Akira Iida Tatsuya Kataoka Björn Wirdheim	Lexus SC430		24
DNF	GT500	18	Takata Dome	Takashi Kogure Ryo Michigami Katsutomo Kaneishi	Honda NSX		21
DNF	GT300	10	JIM Gainer Racing	Hiromi Kozono Naofumi Omoto Eiji Yamada	Ferrari 360		7
DNF	GT300	96	EBBRO Team NOVA	Takuya Kurosawa Tsubasa Kurosawa	Vemac RD320R		2
DSQ	GT500	23	Xanavi NISMO	Satoshi Motoyama Tsugio Matsuda Yuji Ide	Nissan Z

• – The #23 Nissan Z was disqualified after driver Yuji Ide failed to serve a drive-through penalty after a collision with the #55 Ford GT.^[2]

Statistics

• GT500 Pole Position – #12 Impul Z – 1:56.426
• GT300 Pole Position – #52 Cerumo Celica – 2:07.126
• GT500 Fastest Lap – #12 Impul Z – 1:58.829
• GT300 Fastest Lap – #19 WedsSport Celica – 2:08.824
• Winner's Race Time – 5:57:45.468

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2006 Round6 Race Result. supergt.net. 20 August 2006 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20121031141857/http://supergt.net:8080/ftp/classic/supergt.net/supergt/2006/06r06/0606resu.shtm . 2012-10-31.
2. Web site: The perfect win. supergt.net. 20 August 2006 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20121001002125/http://supergt.net:8080/ftp/classic/supergt.net/supergt/2006/06r06/0606race.shtm . 2012-10-01.