# 2006 International Pokka 1000km

The 2006 International Pokka 1000 km was the sixth round of the 2006 Super GT season and the 35th running of the 1000 km Suzuka. It took place on August 20, 2006.

## Race results

Results are as follows:
| Pos | Class | No | Team | Drivers | Chassis | Tyre | Laps |
| 1 | GT500 | 12 | Calsonic Team Impul | Kazuki Hoshino Benoît Tréluyer Jeremie Dufour | Nissan Z | B | 173 |
| 2 | GT500 | 22 | Motul NISMO | Michael Krumm Richard Lyons Fabio Carbone | Nissan Z | B | 173 |
| 3 | GT500 | 35 | Bandai Team Kraft | Naoki Hattori Peter Dumbreck Eiichi Tajima | Lexus SC430 | D | 172 |
| 4 | GT500 | 32 | EPSON Nakajima Racing | Hideki Mutoh Loïc Duval | Honda NSX | D | 172 |
| 5 | GT500 | 24 | Woodone Kondo Racing | Masataka Yanagida Érik Comas Seiji Ara | Nissan Z | Y | 172 |
| 6 | GT500 | 8 | Autobacs Racing Team Aguri | Daisuke Ito Ralph Firman Toshihiro Kaneishi | Honda NSX | B | 172 |
| 7 | GT500 | 1 | ZENT Team Cerumo | Yuji Tachikawa Toranosuke Takagi Ronnie Quintarelli | Lexus SC430 | B | 171 |
| 8 | GT500 | 3 | Yellowhat Hasemi Motorsport | Naoki Yokomizo João Paulo de Oliveira Darren Manning | Nissan Z | B | 171 |
| 9 | GT500 | 100 | Raybrig Team Kunimitsu | Shinya Hosokawa Sebastien Philippe | Honda NSX | B | 168 |
| 10 | GT500 | 36 | OpenInterface TOM'S | Juichi Wakisaka André Lotterer Adrian Sutil | Lexus SC430 | B | 166 |
| 11 | GT300 | 52 | Toyota Team Cerumo | Hironori Takeuchi Koki Saga Keita Sawa | Toyota Celica | K | 160 |
| 12 | GT300 | 27 | Direxiv Motorsport | Nobuteru Taniguchi Shogo Mitsuyama | Vemac RD320R | Y | 159 |
| 13 | GT300 | 101 | Toy Story apr | Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi | Toyota MR-S | M | 159 |
| 14 | GT300 | 7 | Asparadrink RE Amemiya | Tetsuya Yamano Hiroyuki Iiri Shinichi Yamaji | Mazda RX-7 | Y | 158 |
| 15 | GT300 | 2 | Cars Tokai Dream28 | Kazuho Takahashi Hiroki Kato Hiroki Yoshimoto | Mooncraft Shiden | Y | 158 |
| 16 | GT300 | 47 | MOLA | Hironobu Yasuda Masaoki Nagashima | Nissan Z | D | 158 |
| 17 | GT300 | 62 | Willcom R&D Sport | Shinsuke Shibahara Haruki Kurosawa | Vemac RD408R | Y | 158 |
| 18 | GT300 | 46 | MOLA | Kota Sasaki Taku Bamba | Nissan Z | D | 157 |
| 19 | GT300 | 11 | JIM Gainer Racing | Takayuki Aoki Tetsuya Tanaka | Ferrari 360 | D | 157 |
| 20 | GT300 | 110 | Arktech Motorsports | Hideshi Matsuda Ichijo Suga Takaya Tsubobayashi | Porsche Boxster | Y | 156 |
| 21 | GT300 | 70 | Team Gaikokuya | Yoshimi Ishibashi Yutaka Yamagishi Isao Ihashi | Porsche 911 GT3 RS | Y | 154 |
| 22 | GT300 | 910 | 910 Racing with Team Ishimatsu | Tadao Uematsu Yasushi Kikuchi Ryohei Sakaguchi | Porsche 911 GT3 RSR | Y | 153 |
| 23 | GT300 | 9 | LeyJun A&S Racing | OSAMU Masaki Tanaka | Mosler MT900R | Y | 153 |
| 24 | GT300 | 777 | Ryozanpaku apr | Minoru Tanaka Kazuya Oshima Keiichi Kobayashi | Toyota MR-S | M | 152 |
| 25 | GT500 | 66 | triple a Team SARD | André Couto Katsuyuki Hiranaka Soheil Ayari | Toyota Supra | B | 143 |
| 26 | GT300 | 111 | RodeoDrive Team LeyJun | 'Guts' Jyonai Hiroya Iijima Takeshi Namekawa | Porsche 911 GT3 | Y | 142 |
| 27 | GT300 | 13 | ENDLESS Sports | Masami Kageyama Tomonobu Fujii | Nissan Z | Y | 133 |
| 28 | GT300 | 87 | JLOC | Koji Yamanishi Atsushi Yogo Hisashi Wada | Lamborghini Murcielago | Y | 120 |
| 29 | GT300 | 5 | Team Mach | Tetsuji Tamanaka Katsuhiko Tsutsui Akira Watanabe | Vemac RD320R | Y | 118 |
| 30 | GT300 | 19 | WedsSport Racing Project Bandoh | Koji Matsuda Shigekazu Wakisaka | Toyota Celica | Y | 115 |
| DNF | GT300 | 14 | ENDLESS Sports | Mitsuhiro Kinoshita Kyosuke Mineo Sunako Jukucho | Porsche 911 GT3R | H | 106 |
| DNF | GT500 | 25 | Eclipse Team Tsuchiya | Manabu Orido Takeshi Tsuchiya Hideki Noda | Toyota Supra | Y | 90 |
| DNF | GT300 | 88 | AKTIO JLOC | Marco Apicella Yasutaka Hinoi Naohiro Furuya | Lamborghini Murcielago | Y | 76 |
| DNF | GT300 | 55 | DHG Racing | Hidetoshi Mitsusada Daisuke Ikeda Hiroaki Ishiura | Ford GT | Y | 30 |
| DNF | GT500 | 6 | Mobil 1 Team LeMans | Akira Iida Tatsuya Kataoka Björn Wirdheim | Lexus SC430 | B | 24 |
| DNF | GT500 | 18 | Takata Dome | Takashi Kogure Ryo Michigami Katsutomo Kaneishi | Honda NSX | B | 21 |
| DNF | GT300 | 10 | JIM Gainer Racing | Hiromi Kozono Naofumi Omoto Eiji Yamada | Ferrari 360 | D | 7 |
| DNF | GT300 | 96 | EBBRO Team NOVA | Takuya Kurosawa Tsubasa Kurosawa | Vemac RD320R | D | 2 |
| DSQ | GT500 | 23 | Xanavi NISMO | Satoshi Motoyama Tsugio Matsuda Yuji Ide | Nissan Z | B | |
* ^1 – The #23 Nissan Z was disqualified after driver Yuji Ide failed to serve a drive-through penalty after a collision with the #55 Ford GT.

## Statistics

* GT500 Pole Position – #12 Impul Z – 1:56.426
* GT300 Pole Position – #52 Cerumo Celica – 2:07.126
* GT500 Fastest Lap – #12 Impul Z – 1:58.829
* GT300 Fastest Lap – #19 WedsSport Celica – 2:08.824
* Winner's Race Time – 5:57:45.468