2009 Super GT Series
The 2009 Autobacs Super GT Series was the seventeenth season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship including the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era and the fifth season as the Super GT series.
It marked as well as the twenty-seventh season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the
Car development
GT500 class
Originally the three makers agreed to unify engine specification to 3.4L V8 engines (the same configuration of
Team Nova entered the series with a Le Mans spec Aston Martin DBR9. It was the first Aston Martin car to participate the series history (including JGTC), and also the first European and non-Honda/Nissan/Toyota car in GT500 since the 2006 season (a Maserati MC12 did participate the pre-season test in 2006 season but withdraw from the series later). The DBR9 only ran at the first round at Okayama and the two rounds at Fuji, and as of July 2020 is the last non-Japanese car to compete in GT500.
GT300 class
The apr Racing Team, which had used the
The Cusco, the only team using an AWD car (Subaru Impreza), left the series as they wanted to concentrate on off-road events. However, Subaru cars were not absent from the series as R&D Sport used a Legacy B4 for round 6, 7 and 9.
Thunder Asia Racing, a team from Singapore, entered round 4 at Sepang with a
Weight ballast changes
In order to combat sandbagging, where a team would intentionally perform poorly in order to secure a more favorable weight handicap, the success ballast formula was changed starting from this season: the ballast would be halved in the penultimate race and lifted altogether in final race for teams that participated in every round of the season. Teams missing only one round receive halved-ballast in the final race instead.
Drivers and teams
GT500
GT300
Schedule
| Round | Race | Circuit | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Okayama GT 300 km
|
Okayama International Circuit | March 22 |
| 2 | Suzuka GT 300 km
|
Suzuka Circuit
|
April 19 |
| 3 | Fuji GT 400 km
|
Fuji Speedway | May 4 |
| 4 |  Super GT International Series Malaysia
|
Sepang International Circuit | June 21 |
| 5 | SUGO GT 300 km
|
Sportsland SUGO
|
July 26 |
| 6 | Pokka GT Summer Special
|
Suzuka Circuit
|
August 23 |
| 7 | Fuji GT 300 km
|
Fuji Speedway | September 13 |
| 8 | Autopolis GT 300 km
|
Autopolis | October 18 |
| 9 | Motegi GT 250 km
|
Twin Ring Motegi | November 8 |
As a measure of cost reduction, the two longest race, as well as the final race in the series' distance in the series was shortened in this season. This included the trimming of the traditional
Season Winners
Standings
GT500 Drivers
- Scoring system
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 20 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
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Teams' standings
| Rank[1][2] | Team | No. | OKA
|
SUZ
|
FUJ
|
SEP
|
SUG
|
SUZ
|
FUJ
|
AUT
|
MOT
|
Pts. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S | 36 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 112 |
| 2 | Autobacs Racing Team Aguri | 8 | 3 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 102 |
| 3 | Nismo | 1 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 101 |
| 4 | Team Yoshiki & Dome Project | 18 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 75 |
| 5 | KEIHIN Real Racing | 17 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 4 | Ret | 3 | 72 |
| 6 | Hasemi Motorsport | 3 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 71 |
| 7 | Kondo Racing | 24 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 11 | 13 | 3 | 11 | 69 |
| 8 | Lexus Team Kraft | 35 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 68 |
| 9 | Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo | 38 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 63 |
| 10 | Team Impul
|
12 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 15 | Ret | 7 | 55 |
| 11 | Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS | 6 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 5 | Ret | 5 | 10 | 4 | 54 |
| 12 | Team Kunimitsu | 100 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 52 |
| 13 | Lexus Team SARD | 39 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 48 |
| 14 | Nakajima Racing | 32 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 11 | Ret | 9 | 9 | 6 | 39 |
| 15 | Team Nova | 21 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 3 | ||||||
| Rank | Team | No. | OKA
|
SUZ
|
FUJ
|
SEP
|
SUG
|
SUZ
|
FUJ
|
AUT
|
MOT
|
Pts. |
GT300 Drivers
- Scoring system
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 20 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
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References
- ^ Magazine, Speedsport. "Super GT & All Japan GT: Overview of seasons". www.speedsport-magazine.com. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
- ^ "SUPERGT.net | Race Archive". supergt.net. Retrieved 2023-11-24.
External links
- Super GT official website (in English)