Japan Le Mans Challenge 2006

The Japan Le Mans Challenge 2006 was the first season of this championship. It started on May 14th and ended on October 22nd.

championship

The championship started with Sugo's 1000-kilometer race, which suffered from a low number of participants, with just 12 vehicles registered. The last race of the championship was the most attended race of the season with 20 vehicles registered. There were three races, each with a distance of 1000 kilometers. In the LMP1 class Takahiko Shimazawa secured the championship, in the smaller prototype class Yuya Sakamoto , Yoshihisa Namekata & Tomonobu Fuji won . In the Gran Turismo classes Tatsuya Kataoka , Naoki Hattori & Eiichi Tajima won in the GT1 class and Koji Aoyama , Shinichi Takagi & Morio Nitta in the GT2 class.

Racing calendar

No.	date	Race name / place	Winner LMP1	Winner LMP2	Winner GT1	Winner GT2
1	May 14th	1000 km race by Sugo ( Sportsland SUGO )	Jidosha Koubou Myst	AIM Sports	Hitotsuyama Racing	Team Kawamura
			Takahiko Shimazawa Masaya Kouno Kenji Takeya	Shinsuke Yamazaki Yuuji Asou Masaru Tomizawa	Tatsuya Kataoka Naoki Hattori Eiichi Tajima	Kouji Aoyama Shin'ichi Takagi Morio Nitta
2	2nd July	Motegi 1000km race ( Twin Ring Motegi )	Jidosha Koubou Myst	MYZ	Hitotsuyama Racing	Team Kawamura
			Takahiko Shimazawa Hiroshi Ohta Kenji Takeya	Yuya Sakamoto Yoshihisa Namekata Tomonobu Fujii	Tatsuya Kataoka Naoki Hattori Eiichi Tajima	Kouji Aoyama Shin'ichi Takagi Morio Nitta
3	October 22nd	Okayama 1000K Race ( Okayama International Circuit )	Team Mugen	MYZ	JLOC	Sunburst rush
			Seiji Ara Haruki Kurosawa	Yuya Sakamoto Yoshihisa Namekata Tomonobu Fujii	Kōji Yamanishi Yasatuka Hinoi Hisashi Wada	Yutaka Matsushima Takeru Inui Masashi Kakuichi

Drivers championship

In the drivers championship the best 5 drivers of each class were awarded the points in the order 5-4-3-2.5-2.

LMP1

position	driver	team	vehicle	Points
1	Takahiko Shimazawa	Jidosha Koubou Myst	Oscar SK93	12.5
2	Kenji Takeya	Jidosha Koubou Myst	Oscar SK93	10
3	Hiroshi Ohta	Jidosha Koubou Myst	Oscar SK93	7.5
4 =	Seiji Ara	Team Mugen	Courage LC70	5
4 =	Haruki Kurosawa	Team Mugen	Courage LC70	5
4 =	Masaya Kouno	Jidosha Koubou Myst	Oscar SK93	5
6 =	Hideki Noda	Hitotsuyama Racing	Zytek 04S	4th
6 =	Hiroki Kato	Hitotsuyama Racing	Zytek 04S	4th
7 =	Yasumasa Wakahara	Jidosha Koubou Myst	Oscar SK93	3
7 =	Kouta Sasaki	Jidosha Koubou Myst	Oscar SK93	3
7 =	Tatsuya Hashimoto	Jidosha Koubou Myst	Oscar SK93	3
8th	Kazuya Murase	Jidosha Koubou Myst	Oscar SK93	2.5
9 =	Toshiya Itou	Jidosha Koubou Myst	Oscar SK5.2	2
9 =	Tomoyuki Kawasaki	Jidosha Koubou Myst	Oscar SK5.2	2
9 =	Tatsuya Mizutani	Jidosha Koubou Myst	Oscar SK5.2	2

LMP2

position	driver	team	vehicle	Points
1 =	Yuuya Sakamoto	MYZ	Dallara GC21	15th
1 =	Yoshihisa Namekata	MYZ	Dallara GC21	15th
1 =	Tomonobu Fujii	MYZ	Dallara GC21	15th
2 =	Tomokuni Waki	Jidosha Koubou Myst	Oscar SK5.2	8th
2 =	Masayoshi Furuya	Jidosha Koubou Myst	Oscar SK5.2	8th
2 =	Hisashi Tsukahara	Jidosha Koubou Myst	Oscar SK5.2	8th
3 =	Shinsuke Yamazaki	AIM Sports	Dallara GC21	5
3 =	Yuuji Aso	AIM Sports	Dallara GC21	5
3 =	Masaru Tomizawa	AIM Sports	Dallara GC21	5
4 =	Masayuki Yamamoto	MYZ	Dallara GC21	4th
4 =	Syougo Suhou	MYZ	Dallara GC21	4th
4 =	Jun'ichirou Yamashita	MYZ	Dallara GC21	4th
4 =	Ryouhei Sakaguchi	Jidosha Koubou Myst	Oscar SK5.2	4th
4 =	Masayuki Ueda	Jidosha Koubou Myst	Oscar SK5.2	4th

GT1

position	driver	team	vehicle	Points
1 =	Tatsuya Kataoka	Hitotsuyama Racing	Ferrari 550 Maranello	13
1 =	Naoki Hattori	Hitotsuyama Racing	Ferrari 550 Maranello	13
1 =	Eiichi Tajima	Hitotsuyama Racing	Ferrari 550 Maranello	13
2 =	Masaki Tanaka	Team Leyjun	Mosler MT900 R	12
2 =	Osamu Nakajima	Team Leyjun	Mosler MT900 R	12
2 =	Hiroya Iijima	Team Leyjun	Mosler MT900 R	12
3 =	Kōji Yamanishi	JLOC	Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT	5
3 =	Yasutaka Hinoi	JLOC	Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT	5
3 =	Hisashi Wada	JLOC	Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT	5

GT2

position	driver	team	vehicle	Points
1 =	Koji Aoyama	Team Kawamura	Porsche 996 GT3-RSR	18th
1 =	Shinichi Takagi	Team Kawamura	Porsche 996 GT3-RSR	18th
1 =	Morio Nitta	Team Kawamura	Porsche 996 GT3-RSR	18th
2 =	Yutaka Matsushima	Sunburst rush	Porsche 964	10
2 =	Masashi Kakiuchi	Sunburst rush	Porsche 964	10
3 =	Kazuyoshi Takamizawa	Team Takamizawa	Porsche 996 GT3-RS	8th
3 =	Sunako Jukucho	Team Takamizawa	Porsche 996 GT3-RS	8th
3 =	Akihiko Tsutsumi	Team Takamizawa	Porsche 996 GT3-RS	8th
4 =	Dragon Kumita	Proto Works	Porsche 996 GT3-RS	6th
4 =	Motoyoshi Yoshida	Proto Works	Porsche 996 GT3-RS	6th
4 =	Yoshiaki Nakayama	Proto Works	Porsche 996 GT3-RS	6th
4 =	Naoko Hagiwara	Proto Works	Mazda RX-7	6th
5 =	Atsuko Oomura	Proto Works	Mazda RX-7	3
5 =	Yuuki Kawai	Proto Works	Mazda RX-7	3

Team championship

The allocation of points varied depending on the number of participants in the classes in the races. For classes up to 5 participants, the best 5 teams were awarded the points in the order 5-4-3-2.5-2. In classes with more than 5 participants, the best 8 teams were awarded the points in the order 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1.

LMP1

position	team	Points
1	Jidosha Koubou Myst	13
2	Team Mugen	5
3	Hitotsuyama Racing	4th

LMP2

position	team	Points
1	MYZ	15th
2	Jidosha Koubou Myst	12
3	AIM Sports	5

GT1

position	team	Points
1	Hitotsuyama Racing	13
2	Team Leyjun	12
3	JLOC	5

GT2

position	team	Points
1	Team Kawamura	18th
2	Proto Works	12
3	Sunburst rush	10
4th	Team Takamizawa	8th

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Results of the 2006 season. Wsrp.cz, accessed on February 24, 2019 (English). 
2. ↑ ^{a b} regulations of the Japan Le Mans Challenge ( Memento from August 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ 2006 driver & team rating ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )