2014 Super GT Series
The 2014 Autobacs Super GT Series was the twenty-second season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship including the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era, and the tenth season under the name Super GT. It marked the thirty-second season overall of a Japanese professional sportscar championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. It was the first year of new GT500 regulations as the 2014 season saw unified technical regulations with the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters. The season began on April 6 and ended on November 16, after 8 races.
Schedule
[edit]A provisional calendar was released on August 12, 2013.[1]
| Round | Race | Circuit | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Okayama GT 300 km |
 Okayama International Circuit
|
April 6 |
| 2 | Fuji GT 1 500 km |
Fuji Speedway
|
May 4 |
| 3 | Autopolis GT 300 km |
Autopolis
|
June 1 |
| 4 | Sugo GT 300 km |
Sportsland SUGO
|
July 20 |
| 5 | Fuji GT 2 300 km |
Fuji Speedway
|
August 10 |
| 6 | 43rd International Suzuka 1000km 1000 km |
Suzuka Circuit
|
August 31 |
| 7 | Buriram United Super GT Race 300 km |
 Chang International Circuit
|
October 5 |
| 8 | Motegi GT 250 km |
Twin Ring Motegi
|
November 16 |
2014 International venue |
Calendar changes
[edit]- The Autopolis race was moved from its October date to the June date previously held by the Super Formula championship.
- After being on the calendar since 2000, the race at the Sepang International Circuit will not be held in 2014.
- After being on the provisional calendar as a non-championship round for 2013, the championship was scheduled to race in South Korea for the first time, at a yet to be determined venue. However, on December 16, 2013, the race was again cancelled.[2]
- The championship will also host its first race in Thailand, at the newly built Buriram United International Circuit.
- The non-championship races at the JAF Grand Prix, was dropped for the 2014 season, the JAF Grand Prix later becoming the final round of the 2014 Super Formula season instead.[3][4]
Drivers and teams
[edit]GT500
[edit]
GT300
[edit]
Rule changes
[edit]GT500
[edit]
It was announced on October 16, 2012 that the Super GT championship and the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters will unify technical regulations for the 2014 season.[27] The previous GT500 engines of 3.4L V8 in capacity were replaced with 2.0L Turbocharged Inline-four engines.[28] With the new rule changes, all 3 manufacturers ran the 2014 season with new cars, the Honda HSV-010 GT and the Lexus SC430 being replaced by the new mid-engined Honda NSX-GT and the Lexus RC F respectively while Nissan continued to use the GT-R for 2014, but with a new car built for the new regulations. All 3 cars were unveiled at the 2013 42nd International Pokka Sapporo 1000km.[29][30]
Calendar
[edit]Standings
[edit]GT500 Drivers
[edit]- 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 |
|
|
GT300 Drivers
[edit]| Rank | Driver | OKA
|
FUJ
|
AUT
|
SUG
|
FUJ
|
SUZ
|
BUR
|
MOT
|
PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tatsuya Kataoka Nobuteru Taniguchi
|
1 | 1 | 16 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 78 |
| 2 | Katsuyuki Hiranaka Björn Wirdheim
|
3 | 2 | 3 | Ret | 2 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 78 |
| 3 | Seiji Ara Jörg Müller
|
2 | 4 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 62 |
| 4 | Kazuki Hoshino Lucas Ordóñez
|
4 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 19 | 1 | 8 | 48 |
| 5 | Takuto Iguchi Kota Sasaki
|
21 | 12 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 17 | 44 |
| 6 | Hiroki Yoshimoto
|
22 | 21 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 44 |
| 7 | Akira Iida
|
22 | 21 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 44 | |
| 8 | Morio Nitta Koki Saga
|
Ret | 6 | Ret | Ret | 6 | 2 | 17 | 2 | 43 |
| 9 | Haruki Kurosawa
|
5 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 8 | Ret | Ret | 6 | 33 |
| 10 | Yuhki Nakayama Tomoki Nojiri
|
9 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 18 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 26 |
| 11 | Takashi Kobayashi Shinichi Takagi
|
6 | 18 | 1 | 16 | 22 | 16 | 13 | 12 | 25 |
| 12 | Shinya Hosokawa Koji Yamanishi
|
7 | Ret | 6 | 6 | 3 | 17 | Ret | 20 | 25 |
| 13 | Tsubasa Kurosawa
|
8 | 10 | 2 | 8 | Ret | Ret | 22 | ||
| 14 | Tomonobu Fujii
|
8 | 14 | 18 | 3 | 23 | Ret | Ret | 4 | 22 |
| 15 |  Richard Lyons
|
8 | 18 | 3 | 23 | Ret | Ret | 4 | 22 | |
| 16 | Takayuki Aoki Manabu Orido
|
11 | Ret | 11 | 1 | 21 | 13 | 18 | 11 | 20 |
| 17 | Masayuki Ueda Hideki Yamauchi
|
10 | 20 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 4 | 11 | 5 | 18 |
| 18 | Yuichi Nakayama
|
2 | 18 | |||||||
| 19 | Masaki Kano
|
13 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 16 | Ret | 6 | 10 | 17 |
| 20 |  Augusto Farfus
|
3 | 13 | |||||||
| 21 | Hideto Yasuoka
|
13 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 16 | Ret | 10 | 12 | |
| 22 | Shogo Mitsuyama Naoki Yokomizo
|
19 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 17 | Ret | 16 | 10 | |
| 23 | Kyosuke Mineo
|
5 | 8 | 14 | 9 | Ret | 16 | 21 | 8 | |
| 24 | Akihiro Tsuzuki
|
17 | 17 | 14 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 16 | 21 | 8 |
| 25 | Takuya Shirasaka
|
12 | 13 | 19 | 17 | 15 | 7 | 9 | 7 | |
| 26 | Jörg Bergmeister
|
12 | 6 | 6 | ||||||
| 27 | Tim Bergmeister
|
17 | 17 | 6 | 6 | |||||
| 28 | Nanin Indra-Payoong
|
15 | Ret | 6 | 5 | |||||
| 29 | Naoya Gamou
|
6 | 5 | |||||||
| 30 |  André Couto
|
19 | 17 | 15 | 7 | 5 | ||||
| 31 | Taiyo Iida
|
13 | 7 | 5 | ||||||
| 32 | Yuki Iwasaki Masami Kageyama
|
Ret | 10 | 23 | 7 | 13 | 11 | 12 | Ret | 5 |
| 33 | Hiroki Katoh Kazuho Takahashi
|
14 | 7 | 13 | 21 | 12 | 12 | 15 | 19 | 4 |
| 34 | Hisashi Wada
|
20 | 11 | 17 | 20 | 11 | 15 | 10 | 14 | 2 |
| 35 | Masaki Jyonai
|
11 | 15 | 10 | 14 | 2 | ||||
| 36 | Yuya Sakamoto
|
12 | 13 | 9 | 2 | |||||
| Takeshi Tsuchiya
|
20 | 11 | 17 | 14 | 0 | |||||
| Tohjiro Azuma
|
11 | 0 | ||||||||
| Hiroshi Hamaguchi
|
12 | 0 | ||||||||
| Kazuki Hiramine
|
13 | 0 | ||||||||
| Hiroshi Takamori Masaki Tanaka
|
18 | DNS | 22 | 19 | 20 | 14 | Ret | 0 | ||
| Ryuichiro Tomita
|
14 | 19 | 0 | |||||||
 Carlo van Dam
|
14 | 0 | ||||||||
| Tetsuji Tamanaka
|
15 | 19 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 0 | ||||
| Junichiro Yamashita
|
15 | 19 | 19 | 0 | ||||||
| Shinya Sato
|
1 | 15 | 0 | |||||||
| Hiroki Yoshida
|
16 | 16 | 18 | 24 | 20 | 18 | 0 | |||
| Atsushi Tanaka
|
16 | 16 | 21 | 24 | 20 | 18 | 0 | |||
| Ryuju Fujita
|
16 | 21 | 18 | 20 | 0 | |||||
| Kazuya Tsuruta
|
19 | 18 | 0 | |||||||
| Naoya Yamano
|
20 | 18 | 0 | |||||||
 Wolfgang Reip
|
19 | 0 | ||||||||
| Keiichi Inoue
|
DNS | 19 | 0 | |||||||
| Tetsuya Tanaka
|
20 | 0 | ||||||||
Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak Alexandre Imperatori
|
7 | 0 | ||||||||
| Ryo Michigami
|
8 | 0 | ||||||||
| Nattavude Charoensukhawatana
|
14 | 0 | ||||||||
| Christopher Haase
|
Ret | 0 | ||||||||
| Rank | Driver | OKA
|
FUJ
|
AUT
|
SUG
|
FUJ
|
SUZ
|
BUR
|
MOT
|
PTS |
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External links
[edit]- Super GT official website (in English)