The 2007 Autobacs Super GT Series was the fifteenth season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship including the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era and the third season as the Super GT series. It is also marked as the twenty-fifth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. It is a series for Grand Touring race cars divided into two categories: GT500 and GT300. This was the final season for the 350Z, as it was announced by Nissan and Nismo near the end of the season that the new R35 GT-R would be replacing it the following season. The season began on March 18 and ended on November 4, 2007, after 9 races.
In the GT500 class, ARTA drivers Ralph Firman and Daisuke Itō won the championship in a dominating fashion, becoming the first GT500 champion to clinch the title before the final race of the season, a feat only matched by the 2012 champions Masataka Yanagida and Ronnie Quintarelli as of the end of the 2018 season. In the GT300 class, Kazuya Oshima and Hiroaki Ishiura in the apr Toyota MR-S won the driver's championship title by winning the tiebreaker against the Shiden of Kazuho Takahashi and Hiroki Katoh - the two teams finished the season with the same number of points, but Oshima and Ishiura had two race wins compared to Takahashi and Katoh's one. Takahashi and Katoh's overall consistency, however, would gave Cars Tokai Dream28 the team's championship title by six points over Oshima and Ishiura.
Drivers and teams
GT500 Team Make Car Engine Drivers Tyre Rounds Houzan Toyota Team TOM'S Lexus Lexus SC430 GT500 Lexus 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8 1 Juichi Wakisaka All André Lotterer All Oliver Jarvis 6 Hasemi Motorsport Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z GT500 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 3 Sébastien Philippe All Masataka Yanagida All Forum Engineering Toyota Team LeMans Lexus Lexus SC430 GT500 Lexus 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8 6 Tatsuya Kataoka All Björn Wirdheim All Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Honda Honda NSX GT500 Honda C32B 3.5 L V6 8 Ralph Firman All Daisuke Itō All Yuji Ide 6 Team Impul Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z GT500 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 12 Kazuki Hoshino All Benoît Tréluyer 1–4, 6–9 Jérémie Dufour 5–6 Rolling Stone Real Racing Honda Honda NSX GT500 Honda C32B 3.5 L V6 17 Katsutomo Kaneishi All Toshihiro Kaneishi All Takuya Izawa 6 Dome Racing Team Honda Honda NSX GT500 Honda C32B 3.5 L V6 18 Ryō Michigami All Takashi Kogure All Nismo Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z GT500 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 22 Michael Krumm All Tsugio Matsuda All 23 Satoshi Motoyama All Richard Lyons All Hironobu Yasuda 6 Kondo Racing Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z GT500 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 24 João Paulo de Oliveira All Seiji Ara All Toyota Team Tsuchiya Lexus Lexus SC430 GT500 Lexus 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8 25 Takeshi Tsuchiya All Manabu Orido All Epson Nakajima Racing Honda Honda NSX GT500 Honda C32B 3.5 L V6 32 Loïc Duval All Fabio Carbone All Bandai Toyota Team Kraft Lexus Lexus SC430 GT500 Lexus 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8 35 Naoki Hattori All Peter Dumbreck 1–3, 6–9 Ronnie Quintarelli 4–6 ZENT Toyota Team Cerumo Lexus Lexus SC430 GT500 Lexus 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8 38 Toranosuke Takagi All Yuji Tachikawa All Denso Toyota Team SARD Lexus Lexus SC430 GT500 Lexus 3UZ-FE 4.5 L V8 39 André Couto All Katsuyuki Hiranaka All Raybrig Team Kunimitsu Honda Honda NSX GT500 Honda C32B 3.5 L V6 100 Dominik Schwager All Shinya Hosokawa All
GT300 Team Make Car Engine Drivers Tyre Rounds Honda Cars Tokai Dream28 Mooncraft Mooncraft Shiden Toyota 1UZ-FE 4.4 L V8 2 Kazuho Takahashi All Hiroki Katoh All Hiroki Yoshimoto 6 Ebbro Team Nova Vemac Vemac RD350R Zytek ZV348 3.9 L V8 4 Tetsuya Tanaka 1–4, 6–9 Shinsuke Yamazaki 1–4, 6–9 Akira Watanabe 6 Team Mach Vemac Vemac RD320R Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 5 Tetsuji Tamanaka All Hironori Takeuchi All Keita Sawa 6 RE Amemiya Racing Mazda Mazda RX-7 Mazda RE20B 2.0 L 3-rotor 7 Hiroyuki Iiri All Ryo Orime All Naoya Yamano 6 A&S Racing Mosler Mosler MT900R Chevrolet LS1 6.0 L V8 9 "OSAMU" 1–3, 6, 9 Guts Jyonai 1–3 Masaki Tanaka 5–8 Katsuhiko Tsutsui 5–9 Jim Gainer Racing Ferrari Ferrari 360 Ferrari F131B 3.6 L V8 11 Masayuki Ueda All Hideshi Matsuda 1–3, 6 Ichijo Suga 4–9 Endless Sports Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6 13 Tomonobu Fujii All Masami Kageyama All Racing Project Bandoh Toyota Toyota Celica Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 19 Akira Iida All Yuhi Sekiguchi All Team Taisan with Nishizawa Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-RS Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 26 Nobuteru Taniguchi All Shinichi Yamaji 1–3 Kazuyuki Nishizawa 4, 6 Dominik Farnbacher 5–9 apr Toyota Toyota MR-S Toyota 2GR-FSE 3.5 L V6 31 Kyosuke Mineo All Yuya Sakamoto All 101 Hiroaki Ishiura All Kazuya Oshima All Hankook KTR Porsche Porsche 997 GT3-RSR Porsche M97/80 3.8 L F6 33 Mitsuhiro Kinoshita 2–9 Yuya Sakamoto 2–9 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri ASL ASL ARTA Garaiya Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6 43 Morio Nitta All Shinichi Takagi All MOLA Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6 46 Kota Sasaki All Naoki Yokomizo All 47 Shogo Mitsuyama All Shigekazu Wakisaka All DHG Racing Ford Ford GT DHG D35806V 3.5 L V8 55 Daisuke Ikeda 1–3, 5–9 Taku Bamba 1–3, 5–9 Hideo Fukuyama 6 Willcom R&D Sport Vemac Vemac RD408R Mugen MF458S 4.5 L V8 62 Shinsuke Shibahara All Haruki Kurosawa All JLOC Lamborghini Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3Lamborghini 07L1 5.0 L V10 66 Naohiro Furuya All Muneyuki Kurihara All Atsushi Yogo 6 67 Tsubasa Kurosawa All Hisashi Wada All Yasutaka Hinoi 6 Lamborghini Murciélago RG-1 Lamborghini L535 6.0 L V12 87 Yasutaka Hinoi 1–5, 9 Atsushi Yogo 1–5, 9 Yoshihisa Namekata 6 88 Koji Yamanishi 1–5, 9 Marco Apicella 1–3, 9 Hideshi Matsuda 4–5 Team Gaikokuya Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-RS Porsche M96/97 3.6 L F6 70 Hiroshi Koizumi 1–3, 5–6 Kazuyoshi Takamizawa 1 Yoshimi Ishibashi 2–3, 5–6, 9 Akazame Oyaji 6, 9 71 Yoshimi Ishibashi 7–8 Hirofumi Takei 7 Yutaka Yamagishi 8 Cusco Racing Subaru Subaru Impreza WRX STI Subaru EJ20 2.0 L Turbo F4 77 Tetsuya Yamano All Takayuki Aoki All Yokoyama Racing Vemac Vemac RD320R Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 83 Tadao Uematsu 1, 3 Ryohei Sakaguchi 1, 3Arktech MotorsportsPorschePorsche 986 BoxsterPorsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 110 Takuya Kurosawa 1–2 Hidetoshi Mitsusada 1–2 Takuya Kurosawa 3–9 Hidetoshi Mitsusada 3–9 111 Yasushi Kikuchi 3, 5–6 Takaya Tsubobayashi 3–6 Guts Jyonai 5–6 112 Hiroshi Koizumi 7–9 Yasushi Kikuchi 7 Guts Jyonai 8–9 Tomei Sports Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-RS Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 118 Takashi Miyamoto 1, 3, 8–9 Shozo Tagahara 1, 3 Takashi Ohi 8–9 Mario Racing Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-RSR Porsche M96/73 3.6 L F6 333 Takashi Inoue 1–3 Katsuo Kobayashi 1–3 Team Uematsu Vemac Vemac RD320R Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 333 Tadao Uematsu 4–7, 9 Takashi Inoue 4, 6 Ryohei Sakaguchi 5–6, 9 Avanzza Bomex Vemac Vemac RD320R Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 666 Shogo Suho All Junichiro Yamashita All Masato Shimoyama 6
Schedule Round Race Circuit Date 1 Suzuka GT 300 km Suzuka Circuit March 18 2 Okayama GT 300 km Okayama International Circuit April 8 3 Fuji GT 500 km Fuji Speedway May 4 4 Super GT International Series Malaysia Sepang International Circuit June 24 5 SUGO GT 300 km Sportsland SUGO July 29 6 International POKKA 1000km Suzuka Circuit August 19 7 Motegi GT 300 km Twin Ring Motegi September 9 8 Autopolis GT 300 km Autopolis October 14 9 Fuji GT 300 km Fuji Speedway November 4
Season Winners
Rd Circuit GT500 Winning Team GT300 Winning Team GT500 Winning Drivers GT300 Winning Drivers 1 Suzuka #38 Zent Cerumo SC430 #13 Endless Advan Senzaikakumei Z Yuji Tachikawa Toranosuke Takagi Masami Kageyama Tomonobu Fujii 2 Okayama #8 ARTA NSX #101 Toy Story Racing apr MR-S Daisuke Itō Ralph Firman Kazuya Oshima Hiroaki Ishiura 3 Mt. Fuji #23 Xanavi NISMO Z #43 ARTA Garaiya Satoshi Motoyama Richard Lyons Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi 4 Kuala Lumpur #24 Woodone Clarion Kondo Z #101 Toy Story Racing apr MR-S Seiji Ara João Paulo de Oliveira Kazuya Oshima Hiroaki Ishiura 5 Sportsland SUGO #8 Honda Racing ARTA NSX #19 WedsSport Racing Celica Daisuke Itō Ralph Firman Akira Iida Yuhi Sekiguchi 6 SuzukaReport #1 Toyota houzan TOM'S SC430 #2 Privée KENZO Asset Shiden Juichi Wakisaka André Lotterer Oliver Jarvis Kazuho Takahashi Hiroki Katoh Hiroki Yoshimoto 7 Motegi #18 Takata Dome NSX #26 Yunker-Power Taisan Porsche 996 GT3 Ryō Michigami Takashi Kogure Nobuteru Taniguchi Dominik Farnbacher 8 Autopolis #8 Honda Racing ARTA NSX #62 Willcom Advan Vemac 408R Daisuke Itō Ralph Firman Shinsuke Shibahara Haruki Kurosawa 9 Mt. Fuji #32 Epson Nakajima Racing NSX #26 Yunker-Power Taisan Porsche 996 GT3 Loïc Duval Fabio Carbone Nobuteru Taniguchi Dominik Farnbacher
Standings
GT500 Drivers Scoring system Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Points 20 15 11 8 6 5 4 3 2 1 Qualifying 3 2 1 Fastest lap 1 1 1 Only the best four results in the first six races would be counted for the championship. There were no points awarded for pole position and fastest lap in the final race. RankDriverNo.SUZOKAFUJSEPSUGSUZMOTAUTFUJPts.1 Ralph Firman Daisuke Itō812199121218942 Fabio Carbone Loïc Duval3234Ret15313491693 Shinya Hosokawa Dominik Schwager100Ret252124Ret24644 Takashi Kogure Ryō Michigami1813711Ret2121510635 Michael Krumm Tsugio Matsuda2253210Ret6249636 André Lotterer Juichi Wakisaka175DNS851666547 Yuji Tachikawa Toranosuke Takagi381116411714Ret4538 Satoshi Motoyama Richard Lyons232Ret114Ret3131214489 Tatsuya Kataoka Björn Wirdheim641439DNS938163810 João Paulo de Oliveira Seiji Ara24Ret15Ret 110105Ret53411 Kazuki Hoshino121181037RetRetRet23412 Sébastien Philippe Masataka Yanagida310134748117153013 Benoît Tréluyer12118103RetRetRet23014 Katsutomo Kaneishi Toshihiro Kaneishi17610Ret12Ret 57Ret32915 André Couto Katsuyuki Hiranaka39Ret12813611103132116 Oliver Jarvis112017 Manabu Orido Takeshi Tsuchiya2596Ret 58Ret810 12 2018 Yuji Ide821519 Naoki Hattori35897119 Ret911 1114 20 Hironobu Yasuda2331221 Peter Dumbreck35897Ret911 1112 22 Takuya Izawa175623 Jérémie Dufour127Ret424 Ronnie Quintarelli35119Ret2RankDriverNo.SUZOKAFUJSEPSUGSUZMOTAUTFUJPts.
Teams' standings RankTeamNo.SUZOKAFUJSEPSUGSUZMOTAUTFUJPts. 1 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri 812196121218 1082 Nismo 2253210Ret6249 85 3 Nakajima Racing 3234Ret15313491 814 Team Kunimitsu 100Ret252124Ret27 81 5 Toyota Team TOM'S 175Ret851666 786 Dome Racing Team 1813711Ret2121510 63 7 Toyota Team Cerumo 381116411714Ret4 61 8 Nismo 232Ret114Ret3131214 60 9 Forum Eng. Toyota Team LeMans 641439Ret93816 56 10 Team Impul 121181037RetRetRet2 49 11 Hasemi Motorsport 31013474811715 48 12 Kondo Racing 24Ret15Ret110105Ret5 4713 Rolling Stone Real Racing 17610Ret12Ret57Ret3 41 14 Toyota Team Tsuchiya 2596Ret58Ret81012 38 15 Toyota Team SARD 39Ret1281361110313 3716 Toyota Team Kraft35897119Ret91111 32RankTeamNo.SUZOKAFUJSEPSUGSUZMOTAUTFUJPts.
GT300 Drivers' championship