The 2015 Autobacs Super GT Series was the twenty-third season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship including the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era, and the eleventh season under the name Super GT. It marked the thirty-third season overall of a Japanese professional sportscar championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The season began on April 5 and ended on November 15, after 8 races.
A provisional calendar was released on August 8, 2014.[1] [2] An updated calendar was released on January 19, 2015, which saw the Autopolis race move from May to November, the Chang race move from October to June and SUGO from July to September.[3]
Round | Race | Circuit | Date | |
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1 | Okayama GT 300 km | Okayama International Circuit | April 5 | |
2 | Fuji GT 500 km | Fuji Speedway | May 3 | |
3 | Buriram United Super GT Race 300 km | Chang International Circuit | June 21 | |
4 | Fuji GT 300 km | Fuji Speedway | August 9 | |
5 | 44th International Suzuka 1000km 1000 km | Suzuka Circuit | August 30 | |
6 | Sugo GT 300 km | Sportsland SUGO | September 20 | |
7 | Autopolis GT 300 km | Autopolis | November 1 | |
8 | Motegi GT 250 km | Twin Ring Motegi | November 15 |
Team | Make | Car | Engine | Drivers | Tyre | Rounds | ||
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Goodsmile Racing & Team Ukyo[9] | Mercedes-Benz | Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 | Mercedes-Benz M159 6.2 L V8 | 0 | Tatsuya Kataoka | align=center rowspan=2 | All | |
Nobuteru Taniguchi | All | |||||||
Cars Tokai Dream28[10] | Lotus | Lotus Evora MC GT300 | GTA V8 4.5 L V8 | 2 | Hiroki Katoh | align=center rowspan=3 | All | |
Kazuho Takahashi | All | |||||||
Hiroshi Hamaguchi | 5 | |||||||
NDDP Racing | Nissan | Nissan GT-R GT3 | Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 L Twin Turbo V6 | 3 | Kazuki Hoshino | align=center rowspan=3 | All | |
Mitsunori Takaboshi | All | |||||||
Wolfgang Reip | 5 | |||||||
Team Mach[11] | Toyota | Toyota 86 MC GT300 | GTA V8 4.5 L V8 | 5 | Shogo Mitsuyama | align=center rowspan=3 | 1–2, 4–8 | |
Tetsuji Tamanaka | 1–2, 4–8 | |||||||
Junichiro Yamashita | 2 | |||||||
BMW Sports Trophy Team Studie[12] | BMW | BMW Z4 GT3 | BMW P65B44 4.4 L V8 | 7 | Seiji Ara | align=center rowspan=2 | All | |
Jörg Müller | All | |||||||
Pacific Racing Team[13] | McLaren | McLaren MP4-12C GT3 | McLaren M838T 3.8 L Twin Turbo V8 | 9 | Takuya Shirasaka | align=center rowspan=4 | 1–2, 4–8 | |
Tohjiro Azuma | 1–2 | |||||||
Daisuke Yamawaki | 2, 5 | |||||||
Ryohei Sakaguchi | 4–8 | |||||||
GAINER[14] [15] | Nissan | Nissan GT-R GT3 | Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 L Twin Turbo V6 | 10 | André Couto | align=center rowspan=5 | All | |
Katsumasa Chiyo | 1–2, 4–5, 7–8 | |||||||
Ryuichiro Tomita | 2–3, 5–6 | |||||||
Mercedes-Benz | Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 | Mercedes-Benz M159 6.2 L V8 | 11 | Katsuyuki Hiranaka | All | |||
Björn Wirdheim | All | |||||||
Team Up Garage with Bandoh[16] [17] | Toyota | Toyota 86 MC GT300 | GTA V8 4.5 L V8 | 18 20 | Yuhki Nakayama | align=center rowspan=5 | All | |
Yuji Ide | 1–4, 7–8 | |||||||
Marko Asmer | 2, 5 | |||||||
Nick Cassidy | 5 | |||||||
Kota Sasaki | 6 | |||||||
Audi Team Hitotsuyama[18] [19] | Audi | Audi R8 LMS ultra | Audi CJJ 5.2 L V10 | 21 | Tomonobu Fujii | align=center rowspan=3 | All | |
Richard Lyons | All | |||||||
Stéphane Ortelli | 2 | |||||||
R'Qs Motor Sports | Mercedes-Benz | Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 | Mercedes-Benz M159 6.2 L V8 | 22 | Masaki Jyonai | align=center rowspan=2 | 1, 3–8 | |
Hisashi Wada | 1, 3–8 | |||||||
VivaC team Tsuchiya[20] | Toyota | Toyota 86 MC GT300 | GTA V8 4.5 L V8 | 25 | Takeshi Tsuchiya | align=center rowspan=3 | All | |
Takamitsu Matsui | 1–6 | |||||||
Tatsuya Tanigawa | 5, 7–8 | |||||||
Reiter Vattana Motorsport | Lamborghini | Lamborghini Gallardo R-EX | Lamborghini CEH 5.2 L V10 | 28 | Chonsawat Asavahame | align=center rowspan=2 | 3 | |
Tomáš Enge | 3 | |||||||
apr[21] | Nissan | Nissan GT-R GT3 | Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 L Twin Turbo V6 | 30 | Yuki Iwasaki | align=center rowspan=3 | All | |
Hiroshi Koizumi | All | |||||||
Masami Kageyama | 2 | |||||||
Toyota | Toyota Prius apr GT | Toyota RV8KLM 3.4 L Hybrid V8 | 31 | Yuichi Nakayama | align=center rowspan=3 | All | ||
Koki Saga | All | |||||||
Kota Sasaki | 2, 5 | |||||||
Porsche Team KTR[22] | Porsche | Porsche 911 GT3 | Porsche M97/80 4.0 L F6 | 33 | Kenta Yamashita | align=center rowspan=3 | All | |
Alexandre Imperatori | 1–4 | |||||||
Yuya Sakamoto | 5–8 | |||||||
Dijon Racing | Nissan | Nissan GT-R GT3 | Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 L Twin Turbo V6 | 47 | Yusaku Shibata | align=center rowspan=5 | 4, 8 | |
Shohei Yuzawa | 4, 8 | |||||||
48 | Hiroshi Takamori | 1–2, 4–8 | ||||||
Masaki Tanaka | 1–2, 4–8 | |||||||
Yusaku Shibata | 2, 5 | |||||||
Arnage Racing | Mercedes-Benz | Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 | Mercedes-Benz M159 6.2 L V8 | 50 | Masaki Kano | align=center rowspan=3 | All | |
Hideto Yasuoka | 1–2, 5–7 | |||||||
Nanin Indra-Payoong | 2–5, 8 | |||||||
LM corsa[23] | BMW | BMW Z4 GT3 | BMW P65B44 4.4 L V8 | 51 | Morio Nitta | align=center rowspan=5 | 1–2, 4–8 | |
Shigekazu Wakisaka | 1–2, 4–8 | |||||||
Lexus | Lexus RC F GT3 | Lexus 2UR-GSE 5.3 L V8 | 60 | Akira Iida | All | |||
Hiroki Yoshimoto | All | |||||||
Dominik Farnbacher | 5 | |||||||
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri | Honda | Honda CR-Z GT | Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Twin Turbo Hybrid V6 | 55 | Takashi Kobayashi | align=center rowspan=3 | All | |
Shinichi Takagi | All | |||||||
Nirei Fukuzumi | 5 | |||||||
R&D Sport[24] | Subaru | Subaru BRZ GT300 | Subaru EJ20 2.0 L Turbo F4 | 61 | Takuto Iguchi | align=center rowspan=2 | All | |
Hideki Yamauchi | All | |||||||
LEON Racing[25] | Mercedes-Benz | Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 | Mercedes-Benz M159 6.2 L V8 | 65 | Naoya Gamou | align=center rowspan=2 | All | |
Haruki Kurosawa | All | |||||||
Direction Racing[26] | Ferrari | Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 | Ferrari F136F 4.5 L V8 | 77 | Kyosuke Mineo | align=center rowspan=3 | All | |
Naoki Yokomizo | 1–3, 5–8 | |||||||
Taiyo Iida | 2, 4–5 | |||||||
Audi Team Racing Tech | Audi | Audi R8 LMS ultra | Audi CJJ 5.2 L V10 | 86 | Shinya Hosokawa | align=center rowspan=4 | 1–5 | |
Christian Mamerow | 1–2, 4–5 | |||||||
Yoshitaka Kuroda | 2 | |||||||
Masanobu Kato | 3, 5 | |||||||
JLOC[27] | Lamborghini | Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 | Lamborghini CEH 5.2 L V10 | 87 | Takayuki Aoki | align=center rowspan=7 | All | |
Koji Yamanishi | 1–5, 7 | |||||||
Yoshitaka Kuroda | 5 | |||||||
Kimiya Sato | 6, 8 | |||||||
88 | Manabu Orido | All | ||||||
Kazuki Hiramine | 1–2, 5–8 | |||||||
Kimiya Sato | 2–5 | |||||||
Rn-sports[28] [29] | Mercedes-Benz | Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 | Mercedes-Benz M159 6.2 L V8 | 111 | Kazuya Tsuruta | align=center rowspan=3 | 1–2, 4–8 | |
Masayuki Ueda | 1–2, 4–8 | |||||||
Shin Ikegami | 2, 5 | |||||||
Tomei Sports[30] | Nissan | Nissan GT-R GT3 | Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 L Twin Turbo V6 | 360 | Hiroki Yoshida | align=center rowspan=3 | 1–2, 4–8 | |
Atsushi Tanaka | 1–2, 4–5, 7–8 | |||||||
Masato Narisawa | 2, 5–6 |
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
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Points | 20 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Suzuka | 25 | 18 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
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Rank | Driver | OKA | FUJ | CHA | FUJ | SUZ | SUG | AUT | MOT | Points | |
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1 | André Couto | 7 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 94 | |
2 | Katsumasa Chiyo | 7 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 74 | |||
3 | Yuichi Nakayama Koki Saga | 1 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 13 | 1 | 69 | |
4 | Kazuki Hoshino Mitsunori Takaboshi | 8 | 2 | 1 | Ret | 14 | 8 | 1 | Ret | 61 | |
5 | Katsuyuki Hiranaka Björn Wirdheim | 12 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 3 | Ret | 3 | 52 | |
6 | Takashi Kobayashi Shinichi Takagi | 2 | 17 | 10 | 1 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 49 | |
7 | Seiji Ara Jörg Müller | Ret | 6 | 3 | Ret | 2 | 19 | 3 | 9 | 47 | |
8 | Ryuichiro Tomita | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 45 | |||||
9 | Naoya Gamou Haruki Kurosawa | 22 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 41 | |
10 | Takeshi Tsuchiya | 6 | Ret | 7 | 5 | 23 | 1 | Ret | 12 | 35 | |
Takamitsu Matsui | 6 | Ret | 7 | 5 | 23 | 1 | 35 | ||||
11 | Tatsuya Kataoka Nobuteru Taniguchi | 5 | 5 | 13 | 18 | 8 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 35 | |
12 | Takuto Iguchi Hideki Yamauchi | 17 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 5 | Ret | 11 | 30 | |
13 | Tomonobu Fujii Richard Lyons | 3 | Ret | 19 | 20 | 5 | 13 | 5 | 8 | 28 | |
14 | Manabu Orido | Ret | Ret | 17 | 7 | 4 | 4 | Ret | 7 | 26 | |
15 | Kazuki Hiramine | Ret | Ret | 4 | 4 | Ret | 7 | 22 | |||
16 | Morio Nitta Shigekazu Wakisaka | 9 | 9 | 4 | Ret | 9 | 17 | 15 | 14 | ||
17 | Kyosuke Mineo | 11 | 13 | 18 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 10 | 12 | |
Naoki Yokomizo | 11 | 13 | 18 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 10 | 12 | |||
18 | Kota Sasaki | 4 | 10 | 15 | 10 | ||||||
19 | Shinya Hosokawa | 4 | 10 | 16 | Ret | 17 | 9 | ||||
Christian Mamerow | 4 | 10 | Ret | 17 | 9 | ||||||
20 | Kenta Yamashita | 14 | 12 | 8 | Ret | 18 | 17 | 8 | 14 | 6 | |
21 | Hiroki Katoh Kazuho Takahashi | 16 | Ret | 11 | 22 | 7 | Ret | 21 | 13 | 5 | |
Hiroshi Hamaguchi | 7 | 5 | |||||||||
22 | Kimiya Sato | Ret | 17 | 7 | 4 | 18 | 16 | 4 | |||
23 | Alexandre Imperatori | 14 | 12 | 8 | Ret | 3 | |||||
Yuya Sakamoto | 18 | 17 | 8 | 14 | 3 | ||||||
24 | Taiyo Iida | 13 | 12 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
25 | Yuhki Nakayama | 19 | Ret | Ret | Ret | 21 | 15 | 9 | Ret | 2 | |
Yuji Ide | 19 | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 9 | Ret | 2 | |||
26 | Masaki Jyonai Hisashi Wada | DNS | 15 | 10 | 16 | 10 | 22 | 24 | 2 | ||
27 | Akira Iida Hiroki Yoshimoto | 10 | Ret | Ret | 15 | 19 | 22 | 10 | 17 | 2 | |
Takayuki Aoki | 20 | DNS | Ret | 11 | 24 | 18 | 11 | 16 | 0 | ||
Koji Yamanishi | 20 | DNS | Ret | 11 | 24 | 11 | 0 | ||||
Masaki Kano | 18 | 11 | 14 | Ret | Ret | 20 | 16 | 22 | 0 | ||
Nanin-Indra Payoong | 11 | 14 | Ret | Ret | 22 | 0 | |||||
Hideto Yasuoka | 18 | 11 | Ret | 20 | 16 | 0 | |||||
Chonsawat Asavahame Tomáš Enge | 12 | 0 | |||||||||
Yuki Iwasaki Hiroshi Koizumi | 13 | 16 | Ret | 17 | 13 | 24 | 18 | 18 | 0 | ||
Kazuya Tsuruta Masayuki Ueda | 21 | 14 | 13 | 20 | 14 | 19 | 19 | 0 | |||
Hiroshi Takamori Masaki Tanaka | 15 | 18 | 14 | 15 | 21 | 15 | 25 | 0 | |||
Hiroki Yoshida | 24 | 15 | 21 | Ret | Ret | 14 | 23 | 0 | |||
Atsushi Tanaka | 24 | 15 | 21 | Ret | 14 | 23 | 0 | ||||
Shin Ikegami | 14 | 20 | 0 | ||||||||
Wolfgang Reip | 14 | 0 | |||||||||
Yusaku Shibata | 18 | 19 | 15 | 20 | 0 | ||||||
Masato Narisawa | 15 | Ret | Ret | 0 | |||||||
Masanobu Kato | 16 | 17 | 0 | ||||||||
Takuya Shirasaka | 23 | Ret | 16 | 22 | 23 | 20 | Ret | 0 | |||
Ryohei Sakaguchi | 16 | 22 | 23 | 20 | Ret | 0 | |||||
Masami Kageyama | 16 | 0 | |||||||||
Shohei Yuzawa | 19 | 0 | |||||||||
Dominik Farnbacher | 19 | 0 | |||||||||
Marko Asmer | Ret | 21 | 0 | ||||||||
Nick Cassidy | 21 | 0 | |||||||||
Daisuke Yamawaki | Ret | 22 | 0 | ||||||||
Tohjiro Azuma | 23 | Ret | 0 | ||||||||
Tatsuya Tanigawa | 23 | Ret | 12 | 0 | |||||||
Shogo Mitsuyama Tetsuji Tamanaka | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | Ret | 21 | 0 | ||||
Drivers ineligible for championship points | |||||||||||
Yoshitaka Kuroda | 10 | 24 | 0 | ||||||||
Nirei Fukuzumi | 12 | 0 | |||||||||
Stéphane Ortelli | Ret | 0 | |||||||||
Junichiro Yamashita | Ret | 0 | |||||||||
Rank | Driver | OKA | FUJ | CHA | FUJ | SUZ | SUG | AUT | MOT | Points |