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The 2001 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the ninth season of Japan Automobile Federation GT premiere racing. It was marked as well as the nineteenth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship . The GT500 class drivers' champions of 2001 were Yuji Tachikawa and Hironori Takeuchi , who had not won a single race during the season driving the No. 38 au Cerumo Toyota Supra , while Nismo won the teams' championship. In the GT300 category, the class champions were the No. 81 Advan Team Daishin Nissan Silvia driven by Takayuki Aoki and Noboyuki Oyagi.
This season marked the final competitive race victory for the McLaren F1 GTR , when Team Take One won the CP Mine GT Race.
Team
Make
Car
Engine
Drivers
Tyre
Rounds
TOM'S Spirit
Toyota
Toyota MR-S
Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4
0
Masahiro Matsunaga
Y
All
Kumi Sato
All
Dream28
Honda
Honda NSX
Honda C32B 3.4 L V6
2
Kazuho Takahashi
Y
5, 6
Hiroshi Kimura
5
Akira Watanabe
6
Hasemi Motorsport
Nissan
Nissan Silvia (S15)
Nissan SR20DET 2.0 L Turbo I4
3
Yuji Ide
Y
All
Masataka Yanagida
All
BSA Porsche Team Competizione
Porsche
Porsche 993 RS
Porsche M64/60 3.6 L Turbo F6
5
Key Soon Yue
M
NC
Ila Ridak
NC
15
Siu Tit Lung
NC
Siu Yuk Lung
NC
RE Amemiya Racing
Mazda
Mazda RX-7
Mazda RE20B 2.0 L 3-rotor
7
Tetsuya Yamano
Y
All
Haruhiko Matsumoto
All
Team Daikokuya
Porsche
Porsche 993 RS
Porsche M64/80 3.6 L Turbo F6
9
Akira Watanabe
Y
1–5
Tsunefumi Hioki
1, 4–6
Yukihiro Hane
2, NC
Yosuke Shimoshima
NC, 6
Ability Motorsport
Porsche
Porsche 996 GT3-R
Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6
10
Yutaka Yamagishi
Y
1–2, 4
Takahisa Ohno
1–2, 4
Team Gainer
Porsche
Porsche 996 GT3-R
Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6
11
Junichi Ikura
Y
All
Koji Ushikubo
1, 7
Yusei Maki
2–6
Racing Project Bandoh
Toyota
Toyota MR-S
Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4
19
Satoshi Goto
Y
All
Minoru Tanaka
All
Team Taisan
Porsche
Porsche 911 GT3-R
Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6
24
Hideshi Matsuda
Y
All
Kazuyuki Nishizawa
All
26
Atsushi Yogo
All
Hideo Fukuyama
All
Chrysler
Chrysler Viper GTS-R
Chrysler Viper 8.0 L V10
55
Eiji Yamada
All
Takayuki Kinoshita
All
ARTA with A'PEX
Toyota
Toyota MR-S
Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4
31
Morio Nitta
Y
All
Shinichi Takagi
All
Auto Staff Racing
Nissan
Nissan Silvia (S15)
Nissan SR20DET 2.0 L Turbo I4
51
Naofumi Omoto
Y
2–7
Yasukichi Yamamoto
2–7
R&D Sport
Porsche
Porsche 911 GT3-R
Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6
62
Shinsuke Shibahara
D
All
Yasuhisa Fujiwara
1–2
Shogo Mitsuyama
3–7
63
"OSAMU"
All
Takamasa Nakagawa
All
Amprex Motorsports
Mazda
Mazda RX-7
Mazda RE20B 2.0 L 3-rotor
65
Genji Hashimoto
Y
NC
Charles Kwan
NC
Team Gaikokuya
Porsche
Porsche 996 GT3-RS
Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6
70
Yoshimi Ishibashi
D
All
Hiroaki Suga
All
SigmaTec Racing Team
Toyota
Toyota MR-S
Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4
71
Guts Jyonai
Y
1, 3–7
Eiichi Tajima
1, 3–7
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 Corolla Sprinter Trueno (AE86)
Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4
86
Masaoki Nagashima
Y
1–3
Koji Matsuda
1–3
Toyota MR-S
Masaoki Nagashima
4–7
Koji Matsuda
4–7
Dentaire ProJet Racing
Ferrari
Ferrari 360
Ferrari F131B 3.6 L V8
360
Seigo Nishizawa
Y
All
Kota Sasaki
All
Team Sri Lanka
Mosler
Mosler MT900R
Chevrolet LS1 5.7 L V8
900
Dilantha Malagamuwa
Y
1–4
Takeshi Asami
1–4
João Barbosa
NC
A&S Racing
Mosler
Mosler MT900R
Chevrolet LS1 5.7 L V8
901
Takeshi Asami
Y
5
Yasutaka Hinoi
5–6
Tetsuji Tamanaka
6–7
Tetsuya Nakajima
6–7
910 Racing
Porsche
Porsche 996 GT3 RS
Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6
910
Jukuchou Sunako
Y
All
Hisashi Wada
All
Adam Wilcox
NC
911
Masamitsu Ishihara
2, 4
Akira Hirakawa
1
Scoring system
Position
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
10th
Points
20
15
12
10
8
6
4
3
2
1
Colour
Result
Gold
Winner
Silver
Second place
Bronze
Third 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 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.[ 1]
Rank
Team
No.
TAI
FUJ
SUG
FUJ
MOT
SUZ
MIN
PTS
1
Nismo
22
4
3
16 Ret
1
10
8
6
71
23
13
4
10
2
18 Ret
3
2
2
Mugen x Dome Project
1
1
8
4
5
12
2
12
68
18
14
15
6
15
14
12
3
3
Toyota Team Cerumo
33
12
14
13
14
9
18 Ret
13
58
38
16 Ret
2
3
4
2
6
16
4
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri
8
2
6
2
12
11
1
18 Ret
56
5
Toyota Team TOM'S
36
11
10
8
8
5
5
7
55
37
5
9
1
10
8
4
9
6
Esso Toyota Team LeMans
6
17 Ret
1
5
3
13
15 Ret
14
40
7
Mobil 1 Nakajima Racing
64
3
12
14
6
1
17 Ret
17 Ret
38
8
Team Take One
30
8
16 Ret
12
16
6
10
1
30
9
Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft
100
6
5
15 Ret
9
4
13
8
29
10
Team Impul
12
15
17 Ret
7
7
3
11
5
28
11
Toyota Team SARD
39
7
7
9
13
16 Ret
9
4
22
12
Tsuchiya Engineering
25
9
11
11
20 -
7
7
10
11
13
Hitotsuyama Racing
21
10
13
17 Ret
11
17 Ret
16 Ret
11
1
-
JLOC
88
18 DNS
18 Ret
17 DNS
17 Ret
15
14
15
0
Rank
Team
No.
TAI
FUJ
SUG
FUJ
MOT
SUZ
MIN
PTS