| 2006 Super GT Series |
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The 2006 Autobacs Super GT Series was the fourteenth season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship including the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era and the second season as the Super GT series. It is also marked as the twenty-fourth 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 cars divided into 2 classes: GT500 and GT300. It was the first season for Lexus, as Toyota had decided to retire the Supra and elected to use the Lexus SC430 for their GT500 campaign (although SARD and Toyota Team Tsuchiya continued to use the Supra). The season began on March 19 and ended on November 5, 2006 after 9 races.
Drivers and teams
GT500
GT300
| Team | Make | Car | | Drivers | Tyre | Rounds |
| Cars Tokai Dream28-Toyota | Mooncraft | Mooncraft Shiden | 2 |  Kazuho Takahashi | Y | All |
| Hiroki Katoh | All |
| Hiroki Yoshimoto | 6 |
| Team Mach | Vemac | Vemac RD320R-Honda C32B | 5 | Tetsuji Tamanaka | Y | All |
| Katsuhiko Tsutsui | All |
| Akira Watanabe | 6 |
| RE Amemiya Racing | Mazda | Mazda RX-7 | 7 | Hiroyuki Iiri | Y | 1, 3–9 |
| Tetsuya Yamano | 1, 3–9 |
| Shinichi Yamaji | 6 |
| A&S Racing | Mosler | Mosler MT900-Chevrolet | 9 | Osamu Nakajima | Y | 1–3, 5–9 |
| Takaya Tsubobayashi | 1 |
| Masaki Tanaka | 2–3, 5–9 |
| Jim Gainer Racing | Ferrari | Ferrari 360 | 10 | Hiromi Kozono | D | 1–7, 9 |
| Naofumi Omoto | 1–7, 9 |
| Eiji Yamada | 6 |
| 11 | Tetsuya Tanaka | All |
| Takayuki Aoki | All |
| Endless Sports | Nissan | Nissan Fairlady Z | 13 | Tomonobu Fujii | Y | All |
| Masami Kageyama | All |
| Porsche | Porsche 996 GT3-R | 14 | Mitsuhiro Kinoshita | H | All |
| Kyosuke Mineo | All |
| Sunako Jukucho | 6 |
| Racing Project Bandoh | Toyota | Toyota Celica | 19 | Koji Matsuda | Y | All |
| Shigekazu Wakisaka | All |
| Team Taisan with Nishizawa | Porsche | Porsche 996 GT3-RS | 26 | Kazuyuki Nishizawa | Y | 2–3, 9 |
| Shinichi Yamaji | 2–3, 9 |
| Direxiv Motorsport | Vemac | Vemac RD320R-Honda C32B | 27 | Shogo Mitsuyama | Y | 1–6 |
| Nobuteru Taniguchi | 1–6 |
| MOLA | Nissan | Nissan Fairlady Z | 46 | Kota Sasaki | D | All |
| Taku Bamba | All |
| 47 | Hironobu Yasuda | All |
| Masaoki Nagashima | All |
| Toyota Team Cerumo | Toyota | Toyota Celica | 52 | Hironori Takeuchi | K | 1–3, 5–9 |
| Koki Saga | 1–3, 5–9 |
| Keita Sawa | 6 |
| DHG Racing | Ford | Ford GT | 55 | Daisuke Ikeda | Y | All |
| Hidetoshi Mitsusada | All |
| Hiroaki Ishiura | 6 |
| R&D Sport | Vemac | Vemac RD320R-Honda C32B | 61 | Shogo Mitsuyama | Y | 7–9 |
| Nobuteru Taniguchi | 7–9 |
| Vemac RD408R-Honda C32B | 62 | Shinsuke Shibahara | All |
| Hiroyuki Yagi | 1–4 |
| Haruki Kurosawa | 5–9 |
| Team Gaikokuya | Porsche | Porsche 996 GT3-RS | 70 | Yoshimi Ishibashi | Y | 1–4, 6 |
| Akira Hirakawa | 1–4 |
| Yutaka Yamagishi | 6–7 |
| Isao Ihashi | 6 |
| Cusco Racing | Subaru | Subaru Impreza WRX STI | 77 | Katsuo Kobayashi | Y | 5, 7–9 |
| Tatsuya Tanigawa | 5 |
| Yasushi Kikuchi | 7–9 |
| JLOC | Lamborghini | Lamborghini Murcielago RG-1 | 87 | Koji Yamanishi | Y | 1–3, 5–9 |
| Hisashi Wada | 1–3, 5–9 |
| Atsushi Yogo | 6 |
| 88 |  Marco Apicella | 1–3, 5–9 |
| Yasutaka Hinoi | 1–3, 5–9 |
| Naohiro Furuya | 6 |
| Ebbro Team Nova | Vemac | Vemac RD350R-Zytek ZV348 | 96 | Takuya Kurosawa | D | All |
| Tsubasa Kurosawa | All |
| apr | Toyota | Toyota MR2 | 101 | Morio Nitta | M | All |
| Shinichi Takagi | All |
| 777 | Minoru Tanaka | All |
| Kazuya Oshima | All |
| Keiichi Kobayashi | 6 |
| Arktech Motorsports | Porsche | Porsche 986 Boxster | 110 | Hideshi Matsuda | Y | All |
| Ichijo Suga | All |
| Takaya Tsubobayashi | 6 |
| Team LeyJun | Porsche | Porsche 996 GT3 Cup | 111 | Hiroya Iijima | Y | 1, 3, 6–7 |
| Masaki Jyonai | 1, 3, 6–7 |
| Takeshi Namekawa | 6 |
| Team Bomex Dream28 | Honda | Honda NSX | 666 | Shogo Suho | Y | 1–7, 9 |
| Junichiro Yamashita | 1, 3–7, 9 |
| Yasuhiro Takasaki | 2 |
| 910 Racing With Team Ishimatsu | Porsche | Porsche 996 GT3 RSR | 910 | Tadao Uematsu | Y | 1–4, 6–7, 9 |
| Yasushi Kikuchi | 1–4, 6 |
| Ryohei Sakaguchi | 6, 9 |
| Shinichi Yamaji | 7 |
Schedule
Season results
Overall winner in bold
Standings
GT500 Drivers
- Scoring system
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th |
| Points | 20 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | | | | | |
| Suzuka 1000 | 25 | 20 | 16 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Qualifying | 4 | 3 | 2 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Fastest Lap | 3 | 2 | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
- Only the best five 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.
| | | Colour | Result | | Gold | Winner | | Silver | 2nd place | | Bronze | 3rd 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 participate (DNP) | | Did not arrive (DNA) | | Excluded (EX) | |
Teams
| Rank | Number/Team | Car | Points |
| 1 | #36 Toyota Team TOM'S | Open Interface TOM'S SC430 | 75 |
| 2 | #22 Nismo | Motul Autech Z | 70 |
| 3 | #100 Team Kunimitsu | Raybrig NSX | 65 |
| 4 | #23 Nismo | Xanavi Nismo Z | 64 |
| 5 | #35 Toyota Team KRAFT | Bandai Direzza SC430 | 61 |
GT300 Class (Top 3)
Drivers
| Rank | Drivers | Number/Team | Points | Wins |
| 1 | Tetsuya Yamano
Hiroyuki Iiri | #7 Amemiya AsparaDrink RX-7 | 86 | 1 |
| 2 | Kazuho Takahashi
Hiroki Katoh | #2 Privée Zurich APPLE Shiden | 86 | 1 |
| 3 | Shogo Mitsuyama
Nobuteru Taniguchi | #61 enable Advan Vemac 320R | 75 | 0 |
Teams
| Rank | Number/Team | Car | Points |
| 1 | #7 RE Amemiya Racing | Amemiya Asparadrink RX-7 | 78 |
| 2 | #27 Direxiv Motorsport | direxiv Advan 320R | 67 |
| 3 | #2 Verno Tokai Dream 28 | Privée Zurich APPLE Shiden | 63 |
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