2007 Super GT Series explained
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
GT300
| Team | Make | Car | Engine | | Drivers | Tyre | Rounds |
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| Honda Cars Tokai Dream28 | Mooncraft | Mooncraft Shiden | Toyota 1UZ-FE 4.4 L V8 | 2 |  Kazuho Takahashi | align=center rowspan=3 | | All |
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| 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 |
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| Shinsuke Yamazaki | 1–4, 6–9 |
| Akira Watanabe | 6 |
| Team Mach | Vemac | Vemac RD320R | Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 | 5 | Tetsuji Tamanaka | | All |
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| Hironori Takeuchi | All |
| Keita Sawa | 6 |
| RE Amemiya Racing | Mazda | Mazda RX-7 | Mazda RE20B 2.0 L 3-rotor | 7 | Hiroyuki Iiri | | All |
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| Ryo Orime | All |
| Naoya Yamano | 6 |
| A&S Racing | Mosler | Mosler MT900R | Chevrolet LS1 6.0 L V8 | 9 | "OSAMU" | | 1–3, 6, 9 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Masami Kageyama | All |
| Racing Project Bandoh | Toyota | Toyota Celica | Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 | 19 | Akira Iida | | All |
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| Yuhi Sekiguchi | All |
| Team Taisan with Nishizawa | Porsche | Porsche 996 GT3-RS | Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 | 26 | Nobuteru Taniguchi | | All |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Yuya Sakamoto | 2–9 |
| Autobacs Racing Team Aguri | ASL | ASL ARTA Garaiya | Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6 | 43 | Morio Nitta | | All |
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| Shinichi Takagi | All |
| MOLA | Nissan | Nissan Fairlady Z | Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6 | 46 | Kota Sasaki | | All |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Haruki Kurosawa | All |
| JLOC | Lamborghini | Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3 | Lamborghini 07L1 5.0 L V10 | 66 | Naohiro Furuya | | All |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Takayuki Aoki | All |
| Yokoyama Racing | Vemac | Vemac RD320R | Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 | 83 | Tadao Uematsu | | 1, 3 |
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| Ryohei Sakaguchi | 1, 3 |
| Arktech Motorsports | Porsche | Porsche 986 Boxster | Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 | 110 | Takuya Kurosawa | | 1–2 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Katsuo Kobayashi | 1–3 |
| Team Uematsu | Vemac | Vemac RD320R | Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 | 333 | Tadao Uematsu | | 4–7, 9 |
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| Takashi Inoue | 4, 6 |
| Ryohei Sakaguchi | 5–6, 9 |
| Avanzza Bomex | Vemac | Vemac RD320R | Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 | 666 | Shogo Suho | | All |
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| Junichiro Yamashita | All |
| Masato Shimoyama | 6 | |
Schedule
Season Winners
Standings
GT500 Drivers
- Scoring system:
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
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| Points | 20 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
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| Qualifying | 3 | 2 | 1 | | | | | | | |
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| Fastest Lap | 1 | 1 | 1 | | | | | | | | |
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- 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.
GT300 Class (Top 3)
Drivers
Teams
| Rank | width=220 | Number/Team | width=160 | Car | Points |
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| 1 | - 2 Cars Tokai Dream28
| Privée KENZO Asset Shiden | 106 |
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| 2 | - 101 APR
| Toy Story Racing APR MR-S | 100 |
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| 3 | - 62 Willcom R&D Sport
| Willcom Advan Vemac 408R | 91 | |
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External links
Super GT International Series Malaysia
