1997 All Japan Superbike Riders Championship Points Standings

1997 All Japan Superbike Championship

Points system

Riders Championship: 1st: 20; 2nd: 17; 3rd: 15; 4th: 13; 5th: 11; 6th: 10; 7th: 9; 8th: 8; 9th: 7; 10th: 6; 11th: 5; 12th: 4; 13th: 3; 14th: 2; 15th: 1.

At the MFJ Grand Prix, an additional 3 points are awarded for each position.

The number of points-paying positions is dependent on the number of riders who participate in official qualifying. If there are 25 or more participants, points will be awarded to the top 15 finishers; the number of finishers awarded points decreases as follows with the number of participants: 24-22 riders: top 12 finishers, 21-20: top 10, 19-18: top 9, 17-16: top 8, 15-14: top 7, 13-12: top 6, 11-10: top 5, 9-8: top 4, 7-6: top 3, 5: top 2, 4 or fewer: no points awarded.

RIDERS

Riders Championship

P.	Rider	Total	Gap	SUZ	SUG	TSU	SUZ	FUJ	SUG	MIN	SUZ	SUZ	TSU	AID	SUG
1	Noriyuki HAGA	202	0	20	17	20	20	17	20	11	20	20	20	17
2	Katsuaki FUJIWARA	167	-35	10	11	15	15	15	9	6	9	17	17	20	23
3	Yuichi TAKEDA	149	-53	17	20	17	17	20	17	1		9	9	9	13
4	Wataru YOSHIKAWA	140	-62		15	9	11	10	13	9	15	15	10	15	18
5	Shin'ichi ITO	134	-68	11		8	13	13	11	20	17		13	8	20
6	Akira RYO	125	-77	15	13	13	8	8		15	13	11		13	16
7	Shin'ya TAKEISHI	85	-117	3			6	11	15	10	11		15		14
8	Tamaki SERIZAWA	79	-123	8	10	10	5	9	10	13	6		8
9	Keiichi KITAGAWA	64	-138	13							10	10	11	11	9
10	Kousuke AKIYOSHI	57	-145		8	7	7	7	8	7		13
11	Takahiro SOHWA	56	-146					6		17	4	6	6	7	10
12	Hitoyasu IZUTSU	51	-151	9		11		5			8			6	12
13	Manabu KAMADA	51	-151	6	7	5	3	4	7	5	5		5	4
14	Shin'ya NAKATANI	47	-155	4	6	6		3	5	4		2	4	5	8
15	Shoichi TSUKAMOTO	36	-166								7	8		10	11
16	Katsunori HASEGAWA	35	-167		9	4	2	1	6		1	5	7
17	Yuji HARAGUCHI	27	-175	1	4				3	3	2	4	2	2	6
18	Akira YANAGAWA	10	-192				10
19	Osamu NISHIJIMA	10	-192								3	7
20	Norihiko FUJIWARA	9	-193				9
21	Tomohiko KANEYASU	9	-193		5				4
22	Katsushi FUJIBAYASHI	9	-193						2				3		4
23	Toshiki KUNIMATSU	8	-194							8
24	Yukihiro AOYANAGI	8	-194		3										5
25	Kei NASHIMOTO	7	-195	7
26	Ryuji TSURUTA	7	-195												7
27	Shuya ARAI	6	-196	5								1
28	Masayuki YAMANAKA	3	-199			3
29	Isami HIGASHIMURA	3	-199									3
30	Takuma YAMAMOTO	3	-199											3
31	Toshiya KOBAYASHI	2	-200	2
32	Takahiro FUKAMI	2	-200		2
33	Tohru OHYA	2	-200			2
34	Hideo SENMYO	2	-200					2
35	Tamotsu MIZUSAWA	2	-200							2
36	Yasuhiro ONODERA	2	-200		1				1
37	Ken'ichiro NAKAMURA	1	-201			1
38	Yoshiteru KONISHI	1	-201				1
39	Ken'ichi YANAGI	1	-201										1
40	Kazuki SHIMIZU	1	-201											1