The 2002 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the tenth season of Japan Automobile Federation GT premiere racing. It was marked as well as the twentieth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship . The GT500 class drivers' champions of 2002 were Juichi Wakisaka and Akira Iida driving the No. 6 Esso Team LeMans Toyota Supra , and the teams' champion was Honda team Mugen x Dome Project with their No. 16 Mugen NSX and No. 18 Takata Dome NSX.[ 1] ARTA with A'PEX Toyota MR-S driven by Morio Nitta and Shinichi Takagi.
Team Make Car Engine Drivers Tyre Rounds Verno Tokai Dream28 Honda Honda NSX Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 2 Kazuho Takahashi Y All Akira Watanabe All Hasemi Motorsport Nissan Nissan Silvia (S15) Nissan SR20DET 2.0 L Turbo I4 3 Tetsuya Yamano Y All Masataka Yanagida All Zipspeed Chevrolet Chevrolet Corvette C4 Chevrolet L98 5.7 L V8 4 Izumi Yoshida D All Toshiyuki Yamamoto 2 Naohiro Furuya 2–3, 5–6, 8 A&S Racing Mosler Mosler MT900R Chevrolet LS1 5.7 L V8 5 Tetsuji Tamanaka Y All "Gō Mifune" All RE Amemiya Racing Mazda Mazda RX-7 Mazda RE20B 2.0 L 3-rotor 7 Haruhiko Matsumoto Y All Nobuteru Taniguchi 1–7 Takayuki Kinoshita 8 Team Daikokuya Porsche Porsche 911 GT3-R Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 9 Yosuke Shimoshima Y 1–4, 8 Tsunefumi Hiki 1 Masanobu Takenaka 2–5, 8 Akihiko Tsutsumi 5 Amprex Motorsports BMW BMW M3 (E46) BMW M52 3.2 L I6 15 Genji Hashimoto BF All Charles Kwan All TOM'S Spirit Toyota Toyota MR-S Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 17 Masahiro Matsunaga Y 1–3, 5–8 Ken Namekawa 1–3, 5–8 Racing Project Bandoh Toyota Toyota MR-S Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 19 Minoru Tanaka Y All Satoshi Goto All Hitotsuyama Racing BMW BMW M3 CSL BMW S50B32 3.2 L I6 21 Yasushi Kikuchi D All Mikio Hitotsuyama 1, 7 Yasushi Hitotsuyama 2–6, 8 Team Taisan Porsche Porsche 911 GT3-R Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 24 Hideo Fukuyama Y All Mitsuhiro Kinoshita All 26 Atsushi Yogo All Kazuyushi Nishizawa All 28 Yutaka Yamagishi All Yukihiro Hane 1, 3–8 Jukuchou Sunako 2 Chrysler Chrysler Viper GTS-R Chrysler Viper 8.0 L V10 55 Eiji Yamada All Takashi Shimizu 1–2, 5–8 Takayuki Kinoshita 3–4 ARTA with A'PEX Toyota Toyota MR-S Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 31 Morio Nitta BF All Shinichi Takagi All Auto Staff Racing Nissan Nissan Silvia (S15) Nissan SR20DET 2.0 L Turbo I4 51 Naofumi Omoto Y 3–5, 7–8 Masanobu Kato 3–5, 7 Akira Ishikawa 8 R&D Sport Porsche Porsche 911 GT3-R Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 61 Yasuo Miyagawa D 1–5 Hiroaki Suga 1, 3 Tsubasa Kurosawa 2 Atsushi Katsumasa 4–5 62 Shinsuke Shibahara 1 Shogo Mitsuyama 1 Vemac Vemac RD320R Honda C32B 3.4 L V6 Shinsuke Shibahara 2–8 Shogo Mitsuyama 2–8 Porsche Porsche 911 GT3-R Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 63 "OSAMU" All Takamasa Nakagawa All Team Revolution Mazda Mazda RX-7 Mazda RE20B 2.0 L 3-rotor 66 Tetsuya Shimizu Y 5, 6, 8 Shinji Abe 5 Mutsumi Shiono 6, 8 Team Gaikokuya Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-RS Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 70 Yoshimi Ishibashi D All Patrick van Schoote 1–5 Seiichi Sodeyama 6 Nobuo Komiya 7–8 SigmaTec Racing Team Toyota Toyota MR-S Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 71 Keita Sawa D All Guts Jyonai All Cusco Racing Subaru Subaru Impreza WRX STI Subaru EJ20 2.0 L Turbo F4 77 Katsuo Kobayashi Y All Tatsuya Tanigawa All Team Daishin Nissan Nissan Silvia (S15) Nissan SR20DET 2.0 L Turbo I4 81 Nobuyuki Ohyagi Y All Takayuki Aoki All KRAFT Toyota Toyota MR-S Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I4 86 Masaoki Nagashima D All Koji Matsuda All Dentaire ProJet Racing Ferrari Ferrari 360 Ferrari F131B 3.6 L V8 360 Seigo Nishizawa Y 1–3, 5, 7–8 Kota Sasaki 1–3, 5, 7–8 910 Racing Porsche Porsche 996 GT3 RS Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 910 Hideshi Matsuda Y All Yasuo Miyagawa 1 Adam Wilcox 2–8 911 Akira Hirakawa All Toshihide Hashimura 1 Shigemitsu Haga 2–3, 6, 8 Jukuchou Sunako 5, 7
Scoring system Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Points 20 15 12 10 8 6 4 3 2 1 Qualifying 1 1 1 Fastest Lap 1 1 1
Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX)
For teams that entered multiple cars, only the best result from each round counted towards the teams' championship.[ 2]
Rank Team No. TAI FUJ SUG SEP FUJ MOT MIN SUZ PTS 1 Mugen x Dome Project 16 5 3 3 10 11 16 1 10 96 18 2 15 16 13 6 1 12 14 2 Esso Toyota Team LeMans 6 10 2 1 11 7 4 4 3 75 3 Mobil 1 Nakajima Racing 64 1 11 19 Ret 1 12 14 6 1 74 4 Toyota Team Cerumo 33 15 9 7 16 12 11 13 69 1 4 1 17 9 1 13 9 6 5 Toyota Team TOM'S 36 8 14 10 2 5 6 3 9 65 37 18 Ret 12 5 3 3 7 18 Ret 16 6 Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft 100 9 5 2 5 8 2 14 Ret 4 63 7 Nismo 22 11 7 7 4 2 10 2 18 Ret 62 23 12 6 4 15 14 17 17 Ret 8 8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri 8 7 4 13 6 9 8 8 2 46 9 Toyota Team SARD 39 3 17 Ret 12 18 DSQ 15 5 7 5 33 10 Tsuchiya Engineering 25 6 13 11 16 Ret 4 9 5 7 32 11 Hitotsuyama Racing 76 13 8 6 8 13 3 15 Ret 19 Ret 27 12 Team Impul 12 14 18 Ret 8 14 19 Ret 11 13 17 4 13 Kraft 35 17 10 18 Ret 12 10 15 10 12 3 14 Team Take One 30 16 9 14 17 Ret 19 Ret 20 Ret 11 2 - JLOC 88 19 DNQ 16 Ret 15 17 Ret 18 Ret 18 19 Ret 20 Ret 0 - HKS 87 19 DNQ 20 DNQ 20 Ret 16 Ret 15 0 Rank Team No. TAI FUJ SUG SEP FUJ MOT MIN SUZ PTS
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The Honda NSX cars of team champions Mugen x Dome Project
TI Circuit 
Sepang Circuit