The 2007 Japan Le Mans Challenge season was the second for the Japan Le Mans Challenge

Japan Le Mans Challenge

The Japan Le Mans Challenge was an endurance sportscar series based in Japan built around the 24 Hours of Le Mans that began in 2006. It was run by the Sports Car Endurance Race Operation sanctioning body and ran under the rules laid out by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest...

, a series created by the SERO and sanctioned by the ACO

Automobile Club de l'Ouest

The Automobile Club de l'Ouest , sometimes abbreviated to ACO, is the largest automotive group in France. It was founded in 1906 by car building and racing enthusiasts, and is most famous for being the organising entity behind the annual Le Mans 24 Hours race...

. It began on May 13, 2007 and ended on October 27, 2007 after 4 races.

Schedule

On October 29, 2006, during the Okayama 1000 km, SERO announced their schedule for the 2007 season, adding a fourth race at Fuji.

Rnd	Race	Circuit	Date
1	Sportsland Sugo 1000 km	Sportsland SUGO Sportsland SUGO is a motorsports facility located in the town of Murata, Shibata District, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. It opened in 1975 and is one of the largest motorsports facilities in Japan, with a total area of 2.1 million m²...	May 13
2	Fuji 1000 km	Fuji Speedway Fuji Speedway is a race track standing in the foothills of Mount Fuji, in Oyama, Suntō District, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It was built in the early 1960s and hosted the first Formula One race in Japan in 1976. In the 1980s, Fuji Speedway was used for the FIA World Sportscar Championship and national racing...	June 3
3	Motegi 1000 km	Twin Ring Motegi Twin Ring Motegi is an automobile racing track located at Motegi, Japan. Its name comes from the facility having two race tracks: a oval and a road course. It was built in 1997 by Honda, as part of Honda's effort to bring the IndyCar Series to Japan, helping to increase their knowledge of American open-wheel...	July 22
4	Okayama 1000 km	Okayama International Circuit TI Circuit The Okayama International Circuit is a private motorsport race track in Mimasaka, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. TI is abbreviation of "Tanaka International" after the name of the holding company, though the name of the circuit was officially "TI Circuit Aida".The course was built in 1992 as a...	October 27

Season results

Overall winner in bold.

Rnd	Circuit	LMP1 Winning Team	LMP2 Winning Team	GT1 Winning Team	GT2 Winning Team
		LMP1 Winning Drivers	LMP2 Winning Drivers	GT1 Winning Drivers	GT2 Winning Drivers
1	Sugo Sportsland SUGO is a motorsports facility located in the town of Murata, Shibata District, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. It opened in 1975 and is one of the largest motorsports facilities in Japan, with a total area of 2.1 million m²...	#22 Hitotsuyama Racing	#18 AIM Sports	#21 Hitotsuyama Racing	#27 Team Kawamura
		Hideki Noda Hideki Noda is a racing driver from Japan. He participated in 3 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting in the 1994 European Grand Prix, but did not score any championship points. He replaced Yannick Dalmas in the Larrousse car for the last 3 Grands Prix of the season, but failed to finish in any of the three races....   Shinsuke Yamazaki	Yuji Aso   Masayuki Yamashita   Masaru Tomizawa	Akira Iida Akira Iida is a Japanese racing driver in the Super GT series, since 2002 affiliated with Toyota and Lexus. First driving in the series since 1994, Iida has won five races altogether and took one driver's title in 2002....   Tomonobu Fujii	Koji Aoyama   Sinichi Takagi   Morio Nitta
2	Fuji Fuji Speedway is a race track standing in the foothills of Mount Fuji, in Oyama, Suntō District, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It was built in the early 1960s and hosted the first Formula One race in Japan in 1976. In the 1980s, Fuji Speedway was used for the FIA World Sportscar Championship and national racing...	#22 Hitotsuyama Racing	#18 AIM Sports	#21 Hitotsuyama Racing	#27 Team Kawamura
		Hideki Noda Hideki Noda is a racing driver from Japan. He participated in 3 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting in the 1994 European Grand Prix, but did not score any championship points. He replaced Yannick Dalmas in the Larrousse car for the last 3 Grands Prix of the season, but failed to finish in any of the three races....   Shinsuke Yamazaki	Yuji Aso   Masaru Tomizawa   Yoshitaka Kuroda	Akira Iida Akira Iida is a Japanese racing driver in the Super GT series, since 2002 affiliated with Toyota and Lexus. First driving in the series since 1994, Iida has won five races altogether and took one driver's title in 2002....   Tomonobu Fujii	Koji Aoyama   Sinichi Takagi   Morio Nitta
3	Motegi Twin Ring Motegi is an automobile racing track located at Motegi, Japan. Its name comes from the facility having two race tracks: a oval and a road course. It was built in 1997 by Honda, as part of Honda's effort to bring the IndyCar Series to Japan, helping to increase their knowledge of American open-wheel...	#22 Hitotsuyama Racing	#15 Max Racing	#21 Hitotsuyama Racing	#27 Team Kawamura
		Hideki Noda Hideki Noda is a racing driver from Japan. He participated in 3 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting in the 1994 European Grand Prix, but did not score any championship points. He replaced Yannick Dalmas in the Larrousse car for the last 3 Grands Prix of the season, but failed to finish in any of the three races....   Shinsuke Yamazaki	Toshiya Itou   Masayuki Ueda   Kazuyoshi Takamizawa	Akira Iida Akira Iida is a Japanese racing driver in the Super GT series, since 2002 affiliated with Toyota and Lexus. First driving in the series since 1994, Iida has won five races altogether and took one driver's title in 2002....   Tomonobu Fujii	Koji Aoyama   Sinichi Takagi   Morio Nitta
4	Okayama TI Circuit The Okayama International Circuit is a private motorsport race track in Mimasaka, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. TI is abbreviation of "Tanaka International" after the name of the holding company, though the name of the circuit was officially "TI Circuit Aida".The course was built in 1992 as a...	#16 Team Mugen Mugen Motorsports Mugen Motorsports is a Japanese company formed in 1973 by Hirotoshi Honda, the son of Honda Motor Company founder Soichiro Honda, and Masao Kimura. Mugen, meaning "Without Limit", or "Unlimited", is an engine tuner and parts manufacturer closely associated with the Honda Motor Company...	#18 AIM Sports	#21 Hitotsuyama Racing	#20 Hitotsuyama Racing
		Haruki Kurosawa   Shinji Nakano Shinji Nakano Shinji Nakano is a racing driver from Japan.His father, Tsuneharu was also a racing driver who competed in the All-Japan Formula Three Championship etc.-Pre Formula One Career:-Formula One Career:...	Masaru Tomizawa   Yuuji Asou   Tsubasa Kurosawa	Akira Iida Akira Iida is a Japanese racing driver in the Super GT series, since 2002 affiliated with Toyota and Lexus. First driving in the series since 1994, Iida has won five races altogether and took one driver's title in 2002....   Tomonobu Fujii   Mikio Hitotsuyama	Hideo Fukuyama Hideo Fukuyama , is a former NASCAR driver. He raced on road courses in his native Japan before driving a NASCAR exhibition race at Suzuka in 1997 for Travis Carter Motorsports. In 2002, Fukuyama made his Winston Cup debut for TCM at Dover International Speedway, finishing 39th due to transmission failure...   Yukinori Taniguchi Yukinori Taniguchi is a Japanese businessperson and auto racing driver. He founded Yuke's, a video game developer company, in Sakai, Osaka in 1993.-Early career:Taniguchi enthused about the game production at high school days and contracted with game company in Hiroshima thus he began professional career...   Yukihiro Hane

External links

• JLMC Official Website (English)
• World Sports Racing Prototypes - Results