1996 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship

1996 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship
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The 1996 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the third season of the All-Japan Grand Touring Car Championship. The GT500 champion was the #61 Team Lark McLaren F1 GTR driven by David Brabham and John Nielsen and the GT300 class champion was the #26 Team Taisan Jr Porsche 964 driven by Keiichi Suzuki and Morio Nitta. It marks the only season in Super GT where the GT500 class-winning car is not from a Japanese manufacturer.

Schedule

Round Race Circuit Date
1 Suzuka GT 300 Japan Suzuka Circuit March 31
2 All Japan Fuji GT Race Japan Fuji Speedway May 4
3 HiLand GT Championship Japan Sendai Hi-Land Raceway June 30
4 Japan Special GT-Cup Japan Fuji Speedway August 11
5 SUGO GT Championship Japan Sportsland SUGO October 6
6 CP Mine GT Race Japan Mine Circuit October 27
NC Nicos Cup GT Allstar Race Japan Central Circuit November 17

Season results

Round Circuit GT500 Winning Team GT300 Winning Team
GT500 Winning Drivers GT300 Winning Drivers
1 Suzuka Circuit #60 Team Lark McLaren F1 GTR #26 Team Taisan Jr Porsche 964
Japan Naoki Hattori
Germany Ralf Schumacher
Japan Keiichi Suzuki
Japan Morio Nitta
2 Mt. Fuji #61 Team Lark McLaren F1 GTR #910 Racing Porsche 993
Australia David Brabham
Denmark John Nielsen
Japan Seiichi Sodeyama
Japan Naoki Nagasaka
3 Sendai #37 Castrol Cerumo Toyota Supra #72 Makiguchi Engineering BMW M3
Japan Hironori Takeuchi
France Érik Comas
Japan Morio Makiguchi
Japan Takayuki Kinoshita
4 Mt. Fuji #1 Calsonic Hoshino Racing GT-R #910 Racing Porsche 993
Japan Masahiko Kageyama
Japan Kazuyoshi Hoshino
Japan Seiichi Sodeyama
Japan Naoki Nagasaka
5 Sportsland SUGO #60 Team Lark McLaren F1 GTR #26 Team Taisan Jr Porsche 964
Japan Naoki Hattori
Germany Ralf Schumacher
Japan Keiichi Suzuki
Japan Morio Nitta
6 Mine Circuit #60 Team Lark McLaren F1 GTR #26 Team Taisan Jr Porsche 964
Japan Naoki Hattori
Germany Ralf Schumacher
Japan Keiichi Suzuki
Japan Morio Nitta
NC Central Circuit #3 Hasemi Motorsports GT-R #7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7
Japan Masahiro Hasemi
Japan Tetsuya Tanaka
Japan Shinichi Yamaji
Japan Haruhiko Matsumoto

Point Ranking

GT500 Class (Top 5)

Drivers

Rank Drivers Number/Team Points Wins
1 Australia David Brabham
Denmark John Nielsen
#61 Team Lark McLaren F1 GTR 63 1
2 Japan Naoki Hattori
Germany Ralf Schumacher
#60 Team Lark McLaren F1 GTR 60 3
3 France Érik Comas #37 Castrol Cerumo Toyota Supra 55 1
4 Japan Masahiko Kageyama
Japan Kazuyoshi Hoshino
#1 Calsonic Hoshino Racing GT-R 54 1
5 Japan Masahiro Hasemi
Japan Tetsuya Tanaka
#3 Hasemi Motorsports GT-R 47 0

GT300 Class (Top 5)

Drivers

Rank Drivers Number/Team Points Wins
1 Japan Keiichi Suzuki
Japan Morio Nitta
#26 Team Taisan Jr Porsche 964 90 3
2 Japan Seiichi Sodeyama #910 Racing Porsche 993 65 2
3 Japan Morio Makiguchi
Japan Takayuki Kinoshita
#72 Makiguchi Engineering BMW M3 53 1
4 Japan Naoki Nagasaka #910 Racing Porsche 993 50 2
5 Japan Katsunori Iketani
Japan Kazuo Mogi
#31 Cobra Racing Team Porsche 993 46 0

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