2012 Super GT Series

2012 Super GT Series season
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The 2012 Autobacs Super GT Series was the 19th season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship including the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era and the 8th season as the Super GT series. It was a series for Grand Touring cars divided into 2 classes: GT500 and GT300. The season began on April 1 and ended on November 18, 2012 after 8 regular races and a final special race.

Schedule

Suzuka

Motegi

Autopolis

Fuji

SUGO

Okayama

2012 venues

Round	Race	Circuit	Date
1	Okayama GT 300 km	Okayama International Circuit	April 1
2	Fuji GT 1 500 km	Fuji Speedway	May 4
3	Super GT International Series Malaysia 300 km	Sepang International Circuit	June 10
4	Sugo GT 300 km	Sportsland SUGO	July 29
5	41st International Pokka 1000km 1000 km	Suzuka Circuit	August 19
6	Fuji GT 2 300 km	Fuji Speedway	September 9
7	Autopolis GT 300 km	Autopolis	September 30
8	Motegi GT 250 km	Twin Ring Motegi	October 28
NC	Fuji Sprint Cup	Fuji Speedway	November 17
			November 18

Drivers and teams

GT500

Team	Make	Car	No.	Drivers	Tyre	Round
MOLA	Nissan	Nissan GT-R	1	Masataka Yanagida	M	All
				Ronnie Quintarelli		All
Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS	Lexus	Lexus SC430	6	Daisuke Itō	B	All
				Kazuya Oshima		All
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	Honda	Honda HSV-010 GT	8	Ralph Firman	B	All
				Takashi Kobayashi		All
Team Impul	Nissan	Nissan GT-R	12	Tsugio Matsuda	B	All
				João Paulo de Oliveira		All
Keihin Real Racing	Honda	Honda HSV-010 GT	17	Toshihiro Kaneishi	B	All
				Koudai Tsukakoshi		All
Weider Honda Racing	Honda	Honda HSV-010 GT	18	Takashi Kogure	B	All
				Carlo van Dam		All
Lexus Team WedsSport BANDOH	Lexus	Lexus SC430	19	Seiji Ara	Y	All
				André Couto		1–8
				Marino Franchitti		NC
Nismo	Nissan	Nissan GT-R	23	Satoshi Motoyama	B	All
				Michael Krumm		All
Kondo Racing	Nissan	Nissan GT-R	24	Hironobu Yasuda	Y	All
				Björn Wirdheim		All
Epson Nakajima Racing	Honda	Honda HSV-010 GT	32	Ryo Michigami	D	All
				Yuhki Nakayama		All
Lexus Team KeePer Kraft	Lexus	Lexus SC430	35	Yuji Kunimoto	B	All
				Andrea Caldarelli		All
Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S	Lexus	Lexus SC430	36	Kazuki Nakajima	B	All
				Loïc Duval		1, 3–8, NC
				Richard Lyons		2
Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo	Lexus	Lexus SC430	38	Yuji Tachikawa	B	All
				Kohei Hirate		All
Lexus Team SARD	Lexus	Lexus SC430	39	Juichi Wakisaka	M	All
				Hiroaki Ishiura		All
Team Kunimitsu	Honda	Honda HSV-010 GT	100	Takuya Izawa	B	All
				Naoki Yamamoto		All

GT300

Team	Make	Car	No.	Drivers	Tyre	Round
GSR & Studie with Team Ukyo	BMW	BMW Z4 GT3	0	Nobuteru Taniguchi	Y	All
				Tatsuya Kataoka		All
			4	Taku Bamba		All
				Masahiro Sasaki		All
Cars Tokai Dream28	Mooncraft	Mooncraft Shiden	2	Kazuho Takahashi	Y	All
				Hiroki Katoh		All
				Hiroshi Hamaguchi		5
NDDP Racing	Nissan	Nissan GT-R GT3	3	Yuhi Sekiguchi	Y	1–5, 7–8, NC
				Katsumasa Chiyo		All
				Daiki Sasaki		5–6
Team Mach	Ferrari	Ferrari 458 Italia GT3	5	Tetsuji Tamanaka	Y	1–2, 4–8, NC
				Masayuki Ueda		1–2, 4–8, NC
				Masataka Kawaguchi		2
Gainer	Audi	Audi R8 LMS ultra	11	Tetsuya Tanaka	D	All
				Katsuyuki Hiranaka		All
				Atsushi Yogo		5
Team SGC	Lexus	Lexus IS350	14	Ryo Orime	Y	4–8, NC
				Alexandre Imperatori		4–6
				Naoya Yamano		7–8, NC
Team Art Taste	Porsche	Porsche 911 GT3-R	15	Tim Bergmeister	Y	1–2
				Takeshi Tsuchiya		1–2
				Jörg Bergmeister		2
Team Mugen	Honda	Honda CR-Z	16	Hideki Mutoh	B	4–8, NC
				Daisuke Nakajima		4–8, NC
Hitotsuyama Racing	Audi	Audi R8 LMS	20	Hideki Noda	Y	1–2
				Michael Kim		1
				Kenji Kobayashi		2
				Frank Yu		2
			21	Akihiro Tsuzuki		All
				Cyndie Allemann		1–5
				Richard Lyons		5–8, NC
				Yukinori Taniguchi		2
			77	Igor Sushko		8, NC
				Kenji Kobayashi		8, NC
			99	Frank Yu		3, 7
				Hideto Yasuoka		3–5, 7
				Michael Kim		4–5
				Yoshio Tsuzuki		5
R'Qs Motorsports	Vemac	Vemac 350R	22	Hisashi Wada	Y	All
				Masaki Jyonai		All
LMP Motorsport	Ferrari	Ferrari F430 GTC	27	Yutaka Yamagishi	Y	1–8
				Takuto Iguchi		1–8
apr	Audi	Audi R8 LMS ultra	30	Yuki Iwasaki	Y	All
				Yuya Sakamoto		All
				Kenji Kobayashi		5
	Toyota	Toyota Prius	31	Morio Nitta		All
				Koki Saga		All
				Yuichi Nakayama		5
Hankook KTR	Porsche	Porsche 911 GT3-R	33	Masami Kageyama	H	All
				Tomonobu Fujii		All
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	ASL	ASL Garaiya	43	Shinichi Takagi	B	All
				Kosuke Matsuura		All
Dijon Racing	Callaway	Callaway Corvette Z06.R GT3	48	Hiroshi Takamori	Y	1–2, 4–6, 8, NC
				Shogo Mitsuyama		1–2, 4–6, 8, NC
				Keiichi Inoue		2, 5
Green Tec & Leon with Shift	Mercedes-Benz	Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3	52	Hironori Takeuchi	Y	All
				Haruki Kurosawa		1–5, 7–8, NC
				Akihiko Nakaya		5
				Takeshi Tsuchiya		6
R&D Sport	Subaru	Subaru BRZ	61	Tetsuya Yamano	Y	All
				Kota Sasaki		All
A speed	Aston Martin	Aston Martin Vantage GT2	66	Hiroki Yoshimoto	Y	1
				Kazuki Hoshino		1
		Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3		Hiroki Yoshimoto		2–8, NC
				Kazuki Hoshino		2–8, NC
				Hiroki Yoshida		5
ThunderAsia Racing	Mosler	Mosler MT900M	69	Fairuz Fauzy	Y	3
				Hiroki Yoshida		3
JLOC	Lamborghini	Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3	85	Yuya Sakamoto	Y	1–2, 5–7
				Masaki Kano		1–2, 6
				Ryohei Sakaguchi		2, 5
				Hideshi Matsuda		7
			86	Hideshi Matsuda		1–5, NC
				Junichiro Yamashita		1–5, NC
		Lamborghini Gallardo GT3	87	Koji Yamanishi		All
				Hideki Yamauchi		1–8
				Yuya Sakamoto		NC
			88	Manabu Orido		All
				Takayuki Aoki		All
				Keita Sawa		5
Tomei Sports	Callaway	Callaway Corvette Z06.R GT3	360	Atsushi Tanaka	Y	1–4, 6–8, NC
				Yasushi Kikuchi		1
				Takuya Shirasaka		2–4, 6–8, NC
Team Taisan ENDLESS	Porsche	Porsche 911 GT3-R	911	Kyosuke Mineo	Y	All
				Naoki Yokomizo		All

Calendar

Round	Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Race Winner
1	Okayama International Circuit Report	1 April	#38 Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo	#38 Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo
			Yuji Tachikawa Kohei Hirate	Yuji Tachikawa Kohei Hirate
			#911 Team Taisan ENDLESS	#11 Gainer
			Kyosuke Mineo Naoki Yokomizo	Tetsuya Tanaka Katsuyuki Hiranaka
2	Fuji Speedway Report	4 May	#32 Nakajima Racing	#39 Lexus Team SARD
			Ryo Michigami Yuhki Nakayama	Hiroaki Ishiura Juichi Wakisaka
			#11 Gainer	#0 GSR & Studie with Team UKYO
			Tetsuya Tanaka Katsuyuki Hiranaka	Nobuteru Taniguchi Tatsuya Kataoka
3	Sepang International Circuit Report	10 June	#18 Weider Honda Racing	#18 Weider Honda Racing
			Takashi Kogure Carlo van Dam	Takashi Kogure Carlo van Dam
			#33 Hankook KTR	#33 Hankook KTR
			Tomonobu Fujii Masami Kageyama	Tomonobu Fujii Masami Kageyama
4	Sportsland SUGO Report	29 July	#6 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS	#6 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS
			Daisuke Ito Kazuya Oshima	Daisuke Ito Kazuya Oshima
			#33 Hankook KTR	#3 NDDP Racing
			Tomonobu Fujii Masami Kageyama	Yuhi Sekiguchi Katsumasa Chiyo
5	Suzuka Circuit Report	19 August	#1 MOLA	#1 MOLA
			Masataka Yanagida Ronnie Quintarelli	Masataka Yanagida Ronnie Quintarelli
			#16 Team Mugen	#66 A speed
			Hideki Mutoh Daisuke Nakajima	Hiroki Yoshimoto Kazuki Hoshino Hiroki Yoshida
6	Fuji Speedway Report	9 September	#12 Team Impul	#12 Team Impul
			Tsugio Matsuda João Paulo de Oliveira	Tsugio Matsuda João Paulo de Oliveira
			#31 apr	#33 Hankook KTR
			Morio Nitta Koki Saga	Tomonobu Fujii Masami Kageyama
7	Autopolis Report	30 September	#19 Lexus Team WedsSport BANDOH	#1 MOLA
			Seiji Ara André Couto	Masataka Yanagida Ronnie Quintarelli
			#3 NDDP Racing	#66 A speed
			Yuhi Sekiguchi Katsumasa Chiyo	Hiroki Yoshimoto Kazuki Hoshino
8	Twin Ring Motegi Report	28 October	#38 Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo	#38 Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo
			Yuji Tachikawa Kohei Hirate	Yuji Tachikawa Kohei Hirate
			#33 Hankook KTR	#911 Team Taisan ENDLESS
			Tomonobu Fujii Masami Kageyama	Kyosuke Mineo Naoki Yokomizo
NC	Fuji Speedway Report	17 November	#6 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS	#1 MOLA
			Kazuya Oshima	Ronnie Quintarelli
			#33 Hankook KTR	#33 Hankook KTR
			Tomonobu Fujii	Tomonobu Fujii
		18 November	#36 Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S	#38 Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo
			Kazuki Nakajima	Yuji Tachikawa
			#33 Hankook KTR	#66 A speed
			Masami Kageyama	Hiroki Yoshimoto

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
Suzuka	25	18	13	10	8	6	5	4	3	2

Rank Driver OKA FUJ SEP SUG SUZ FUJ AUT MOT PTS 1 Masataka Yanagida Ronnie Quintarelli 7 8 14 3 1 2 1 2 93 2 Yuji Tachikawa Kohei Hirate 1 8 2 5 9 8 7 1 74 3 Juichi Wakisaka Hiroaki Ishiura 9 1 4 4 Ret 6 5 5 57 4 Tsugio Matsuda João Paulo de Oliveira 10 5 5 Ret 4 1 10 10 45 5 Takuya Izawa Naoki Yamamoto 2 2 6 8 11 12 8 9 43 6 Takashi Kogure Carlo van Dam 7 9 1 7 8 Ret 9 7 40 7 Kazuki Nakajima 5 4 13 2 Ret 4 15 8 40 8 Satoshi Motoyama Michael Krumm 4 3 8 Ret 5 11 6 6 40 9 Seiji Ara André Couto 12 13 9 12 6 3 3 5 36 10 Daisuke Ito Kazuya Oshima 13 10 3 1 Ret 10 12 12 33 11 Loïc Duval 5 13 2 Ret 4 15 8 32 12 Toshihiro Kaneishi Koudai Tsukakoshi 3 6 7 9 10 5 14 Ret 30 13 Yuji Kunimoto Andrea Caldarelli Ret 12 10 6 2 7 13 Ret 28 14 Ryo Michigami Yuhki Nakayama Ret 11 11 11 Ret 14 2 3 26 15 Hironobu Yasuda Björn Wirdheim 11 14 Ret 10 3 13 4 11 22 16 Ralph Firman Takashi Kobayashi 6 Ret 12 Ret 7 9 11 13 12 17 Richard Lyons 4 8 Rank Driver OKA FUJ SEP SUG SUZ FUJ AUT MOT PTS

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (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 participate (DNP) Excluded (EX)

GT300 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
Suzuka	25	18	13	10	8	6	5	4	3	2

Rank Driver OKA FUJ SEP SUG SUZ FUJ AUT MOT PTS 1 Kyosuke Mineo Naoki Yokomizo 2 8 2 5 Ret 4 2 1 82 2 Hiroki Yoshimoto Kazuki Hoshino 11 3 3 Ret 1 Ret 1 5 73 3 Masami Kageyama Tomonobu Fujii 5 Ret 1 4 6 1 3 7 75 4 Katsumasa Chiyo 19 18 4 1 2 9 19 6 53 5 Nobuteru Taniguchi Tatsuya Kataoka 3 1 12 7 Ret 8 5 4 52 6 Yuhi Sekiguchi 19 18 4 1 2 19 6 51 7 Tetsuya Tanaka Katsuyuki Hiranaka 1 5 7 6 5 7 16 13 47 8 Manabu Orido Takayuki Aoki 17 Ret Ret 3 3 Ret 7 3 39 9 Shinichi Takagi Kosuke Matsuura 6 4 9 9 4 5 17 21 33 10 Morio Nitta Koki Saga Ret 6 Ret 8 Ret 2 8 Ret 26 11 Kazuho Takahashi Hiroki Katoh 7 2 5 Ret 15 13 DNQ 16 25 12 Hironori Takeuchi 12 10 6 2 Ret DNS Ret 8 24 Haruki Kurosawa 13 Hideki Yamauchi Koji Yamanishi 21 7 16 19 Ret Ret Ret 2 19 14 Tetsuya Yamano Kota Sasaki Ret 9 8 10 Ret 6 4 15 19 15 Hideki Mutoh Daisuke Nakajima 16 11 3 10 11 12 16 Akihiro Tsuzuki 9 15 14 Ret 14 Ret 6 9 9 17 Takeshi Tsuchiya 4 Ret DNS 8 18 Tim Bergmeister 4 Ret 8 19 Yuki Iwasaki Yuya Sakamoto 8 13 11 14 9 10 14 10 8 20 Richard Lyons 14 Ret 6 9 7 21 Yutaka Yamagishi Takuto Iguchi 10 17 13 18 8 14 9 14 7 22 Taku Bamba Masahiro Sasaki 15 11 10 11 7 11 12 17 6 23 Cyndie Allemann 9 15 14 Ret 14 2 24 Daiki Sasaki 3 9 2 25 Yuya Sakamoto 14 Ret 10 18 15 2 26 Ryohei Sakaguchi Ret 10 2 Rank Driver OKA FUJ SEP SUG SUZ FUJ AUT MOT PTS

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (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 participate (DNP) Excluded (EX)

JAF Grand Prix

GT500 Drivers

Rank	No.	Team	Race 1 Driver	Race 2 Driver	Race 1	Race 2	PTS
1	38	Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo	Kohei Hirate	Yuji Tachikawa	12	1	20
2	36	Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S	Loïc Duval	Kazuki Nakajima	15	2	15
3	100	Raybrig Team Kunimitsu	Naoki Yamamoto	Takuya Izawa	5	3	14
4	23	Motul Autech NISMO	Michael Krumm	Satoshi Motoyama	4	4	12
5	6	Lexus Team ENEOS LeMans	Kazuya Oshima	Daisuke Ito	3	6	10.5
6	1	S-Road REITO MOLA	Ronnie Quintarelli	Masataka Yanagida	1	14	10
7	17	Keihin Real Racing	Koudai Tsukakoshi	Toshihiro Kaneishi	2	15	7.5
8	24	D'Station ADVAN Kondo Racing	Hironobu Yasuda	Björn Wirdheim	9	5	7
9	18	Weider Honda Racing	Carlo van Dam	Takashi Kogure	7	7	6
10	8	Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	Takashi Kobayashi	Ralph Firman	8	9	3.5
11	39	Lexus Team DENSO SARD	Hiroaki Ishiura	Juichi Wakisaka	11	8	3
12	12	Calsonic Team Impul	João Paulo de Oliveira	Tsugio Matsuda	6	11	2.5
13	35	Lexus Team KeePer Kraft	Yuji Kunimoto	Andrea Caldarelli	12	10	1
14	32	EPSON Nakajima Racing	Yuhki Nakayama	Ryo Michigami	10	12	0.5
15	19	Lexus Team WedsSport Bandoh	Seiji Ara	Marino Franchitti	14	13	0
Rank	No.	Team	Race 1 Driver	Race 2 Driver	Race 1	Race 2	PTS

GT300 Drivers

Rank	No.	Team	Race 1 Driver	Race 2 Driver	Race 1	Race 2	PTS
1	33	Hankook KTR	Tomonobu Fujii	Masami Kageyama	1	14	20
2	66	A speed	Kazuki Hoshino	Hiroki Yoshimoto	14	1	20
3	16	Team Mugen	Daisuke Nakajima	Hideki Mutoh	2	7	19
4	2	Evangelion-01 Cars Tokai Dream28	Kazuho Takahashi	Hiroki Kato	18	2	15
5	43	Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	Kosuke Matsuura	Shinichi Takagi	3	9	13
6	52	Green Tec & Leon with Shift	Haruki Kurosawa	Hironori Takeuchi	6	4	13
7	88	MonePa JLOC	Takayuki Aoki	Manabu Orido	12	3	11
8	11	Gainer	Katsuyuki Hiranaka	Tetsuya Tanaka	7	6	9
9	3	S-Road NDDP	Katsumasa Chiyo	Yuhi Sekiguchi	4	19	8
10	0	GSR Hatsune Miku	Tatsuya Kataoka	Nobuteru Taniguchi	5	20	6
11	31	Hasepro apr	Koki Saga	Morio Nitta	11	5	6
12	911	Team Taisan ENDLESS	Kyosuke Mineo	Naoki Yokomizo	8	18	3
13	87	JLOC	Koji Yamanishi	Yuya Sakamoto	15	8	3
14	77	investors Hitotsuyama Racing	Igor Sushko	Kenji Kobayashi	9	Ret	2
15	360	RunUp Tomei Sports	Takuya Shirasaka	Atsushi Tanaka	10	Ret	1
16	30	Iwasaki Moda apr	Yuya Sakamoto	Yuki Iwasaki	23	10	1
17	4	GSR Project Mirai	Masahiro Sasaki	Taku Bamba	17	12	0
18	5	Team Mach	Masayuki Ueda	Tetsuji Tamanaka	21	Ret	0
19	14	Team SGC	Ryo Orime	Naoya Yamano	13	Ret	0
20	21	ZENT Hitotsuyama Racing	Richard Lyons	Akihiro Tsuzuki	DNS	11	0
21	22	R'Qs Motorsports	Masaki Jyonai	Hisashi Wada	22	13	0
22	48	NEON Dijon Racing	Shogo Mitsuyama	Hiroshi Takamori	20	15	0
23	61	R&D Sport	Kota Sasaki	Tetsuya Yamano	19	16	0
24	86	Verity BOMEX JLOC	Junichiro Yamashita	Hideshi Matsuda	16	17	0
Rank	No.	Team	Race 1 Driver	Race 2 Driver	Race 1	Race 2	PTS

External links

• Super GT official website (English)