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
editGT500
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GT300
editSchedule
edit| Round | Race | Circuit | Date |
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| 1 |  Suzuka GT 300 km
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Suzuka Circuit | March 18 |
| 2 | Okayama GT 300 km
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Okayama International Circuit | April 8 |
| 3 | Fuji GT 500 km
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Fuji Speedway | May 4 |
| 4 |  Super GT International Series Malaysia
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Sepang International Circuit | June 24 |
| 5 | SUGO GT 300 km
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Sportsland SUGO | July 29 |
| 6 | International POKKA 1000km
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Suzuka Circuit | August 19 |
| 7 | Motegi GT 300 km
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Twin Ring Motegi | September 9 |
| 8 | Autopolis GT 300 km
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Autopolis | October 14 |
| 9 | Fuji GT 300 km
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Fuji Speedway | November 4 |
Season Winners
editStandings
editGT500 Drivers
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| 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 |
| Qualifying | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| Fastest Lap | 1 | 1 | 1 |
- 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.
Teams' standingsedit
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GT300 Class (Top 3)
editDrivers
edit| Rank | Drivers | Number/Team | Points | Wins |
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| 1 | Kazuya Oshima Hiroaki Ishiura
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#101 Toy Story Racing APR MR-S | 89 | 2 |
| 2 | Kazuho Takahashi Hiroki Katoh
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#2 Privée KENZO Asset Shiden | 89 | 1 |
| 3 | Shinsuke Shibahara Haruki Kurosawa
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#62 Willcom Advan Vemac 408R | 76 | 1 |
Teams
edit| Rank | Number/Team | Car | Points |
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| 1 | #2 Cars Tokai Dream28 | Privée KENZO Asset Shiden | 106 |
| 2 | #101 APR | Toy Story Racing APR MR-S | 100 |
| 3 | #62 Willcom R&D Sport | Willcom Advan Vemac 408R | 91 |
External links
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- Super GT official race archive (in English)