2019 Super GT Series

The 2019 Super GT Series was a motor racing championship based in Japan for grand touring cars. The series is sanctioned by the Japan Automobile Federation (JAF) and run by the GT Association (GTA). It was the twenty-seventh season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship which includes the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era and the fifteenth season the series has competed under the Super GT name. It was the thirty-seventh overall season of a national JAF sportscar championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The season began on April 14 and ended on November 24, after 8 championship races & 2 non-championship races.

2019 Super GT Series
Previous:	2018	Next:	2020
Sister series: Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters

Jenson Button (pictured in 2012) entered the season as defending champions alongside Naoki Yamamoto.

The 2019 championship saw the series form a partnership with the German-based Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, allowing entries to compete in both championships.[1]

Calendar

Round	Race	Circuit	Date
1	Okayama GT 300 km	Okayama International Circuit	April 13–14
2	Fuji GT 500 km	Fuji Speedway	May 3–4
3	Suzuka GT 300 km	Suzuka Circuit	May 25–26
4	Chang Super GT Race 300 km	Chang International Circuit	June 29–30
5	Fuji GT 500 miles (804 km)	Fuji Speedway	August 3–4
6	Autopolis GT 300 km	Autopolis	September 7–8
7	Sugo GT 300 km	Sportsland SUGO	September 21–22
8	Motegi GT 250 km	Twin Ring Motegi	November 2–3
NC	Super GT × DTM Dream Race	Fuji Speedway	November 23–24
NC	auto sport Web Sprint Cup

Calendar changes

• In light of the series' partnership with the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, two races will be made featuring both cars, the first will be the DTM season finale at Hockenheimring, where some Super GT cars were invited to race[2], the second will be the Super GT x DTM Dream Race, a non-championship joint race featuring Super GT's GT500 cars and the DTM's competitors, will be held at Fuji after the end of the season. A balance of performance formula will be applied to ensure parity between DTM cars and Super GT as Super GT will not adopt Class One regulations until 2020.[3][4]
• The auto sport Web Sprint Cup, a non-championship race for GT300 competitors, will also be held at Fuji as a supporting event of the Super GT x DTM Dream Race.
• The Autopolis GT 300km Race moved forward in the calendar to September 8, and will be the sixth round of the season. The Sugo round now becomes the penultimate round of the season.
• The final round at Motegi has been moved forward a week to avoid a clash with the FIA World Endurance Championship and Super Taikyu Series.[5]

Teams and drivers

GT500

Team	Make	Car	No.	Drivers	Tyre	Rounds
BMW Team RBM[6]	BMW	BMW M4 Turbo DTM	00	Kamui Kobayashi[7]	H	NC
			4	Alex Zanardi[8]	H	NC
			11	Marco Wittmann[9]	H	NC
Team Kunimitsu[10]	Honda	Honda NSX-GT GT500	1	Jenson Button[10][11]	B	All
				Naoki Yamamoto[10]		All, NC
NDDP Racing with B-Max[12]	Nissan	Nissan GT-R Nismo GT500	3	Frederic Makowiecki[12]	M	All, NC
				Kohei Hirate[12]
Lexus Team LeMans Wako's[13]	Lexus	Lexus LC 500 GT500	6	Kazuya Oshima[13]	B	All, NC
				Kenta Yamashita[13]
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri[10]	Honda	Honda NSX-GT GT500	8	Tomoki Nojiri[10]	B	All, NC
				Takuya Izawa[10]
Team Impul[12]	Nissan	Nissan GT-R Nismo GT500	12	Daiki Sasaki[12]	B	All, NC
				James Rossiter[12]		1-5, 7-8, NC
				Katsumasa Chiyo[14]		6
Team Mugen[10]	Honda	Honda NSX-GT GT500	16	Hideki Mutoh[10]	Y	All, NC
				Daisuke Nakajima[10]
Keihin Real Racing[10]	Honda	Honda NSX-GT GT500	17	Koudai Tsukakoshi[10]	B	All, NC
				Bertrand Baguette[10]		All
Lexus Team WedsSport Bandoh[13]	Lexus	Lexus LC 500 GT500	19	Yuji Kunimoto[13]	Y	All, NC
				Sho Tsuboi[13]
Audi Sport Team WRT Hitotsuyama[15]	Audi	Audi RS5 Turbo DTM	21	Benoît Tréluyer[15]	H	NC
NISMO[12]	Nissan	Nissan GT-R Nismo GT500	23	Tsugio Matsuda[12]	M	All, NC
				Ronnie Quintarelli[12]
Kondo Racing[12]	Nissan	Nissan GT-R Nismo GT500	24	Jann Mardenborough[12]	Y	All, NC
				Mitsunori Takaboshi[12]
Audi Sport Team Phoenix[15]	Audi	Audi RS5 Turbo DTM	28	Loïc Duval[15]	H	NC
Audi Sport Team Rosberg[15]	Audi	Audi RS5 Turbo DTM	33	René Rast[15]	H	NC
Lexus Team au Tom's[13]	Lexus	Lexus LC 500 GT500	36	Yuhi Sekiguchi[13]	B	All, NC
				Kazuki Nakajima[13]		1, 3-8, NC
				Ritomo Miyata		2
Lexus Team KeePer Tom's[13]	Lexus	Lexus LC 500 GT500	37	Ryō Hirakawa[13]	B	All, NC
				Nick Cassidy[13]
Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo[13]	Lexus	Lexus LC 500 GT500	38	Hiroaki Ishiura[13]	B	All, NC
				Yuji Tachikawa[13]
Lexus Team SARD[13]	Lexus	Lexus LC 500 GT500	39	Heikki Kovalainen[13]	B	All, NC
				Yuichi Nakayama[13]
Modulo Nakajima Racing[10]	Honda	Honda NSX-GT GT500	64	Narain Karthikeyan[10]	D	All, NC
				Tadasuke Makino[10]
Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline[15]	Audi	Audi RS5 Turbo DTM	99	Mike Rockenfeller[15]	H	NC

GT300

Team	Make	Car	No.	Drivers	Tyre	Rounds
Cars Tokai Dream28[16]	Lotus	Lotus Evora MC	2	Kazuho Takahashi[16]	Y	All
				Hiroki Katoh[16]
				Hiroshi Hamaguchi		5
Goodsmile Racing with Team UKYO[17][18]	Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG GT3	4	Nobuteru Taniguchi[17][18]	Y	All
				Tatsuya Kataoka[17][18]
Team Mach	Toyota	Toyota 86 MC	5	Natsu Sakaguchi	Y	1-3, 5-8
				Yuya Hiraki
				Tetsuji Tamanaka		2
				Ryohei Sakaguchi		5
D'station Racing AMR[19]	Aston Martin	Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3	7	Tomonobu Fujii[19]	Y	All
				João Paulo de Oliveira[19]
				Darren Turner[19]		5
MP Racing[20]	Nissan	Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 (2017)	9	Keiichi Inoue[20]	Y	NC
				Joe Shindo[20]
Pacific Racing with Good Speed[21][22]	Porsche	Porsche 911 GT3 R	9	Naoki Yokomizo[23]	Y	All
				Kyosuke Mineo[23]
				Akihiro Tsuzuki		5
GAINER[24][12]	Nissan	Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 (2018)	10	Kazuki Hoshino[25][12]	Y	All
				Keishi Ishikawa[25][12]
			11	Katsuyuki Hiranaka[24][12]	D	All
				Hironobu Yasuda[25][12]
Hanashima Racing[20]	McLaren	McLaren 720S GT3	11	Kazuto Kotaka[20]	Y	NC
				Katsuaki Kubota[20]
Team UpGarage[10]	Honda	Honda NSX GT3 Evo	18	Takashi Kobayashi[10]	Y	All
				Kosuke Matsuura[10]
				Shinnosuke Yamada		2, 5
Audi Team Hitotsuyama	Audi	Audi R8 LMS Evo	21	Richard Lyons	Y	All
				Ryuichiro Tomita
				Alessio Picariello		2, 5
R'Qs Motor Sports	Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG GT3	22	Masaki Jyonai	Y	1-3, 5-6, 8
				Hisashi Wada
				Björn Wirdheim		5
Tsuchiya Engineering[20]	Toyota	Toyota 86 MC	25	Takamitsu Matsui[20]	Y	All, NC
				Kimiya Sato[20]
				Takeshi Tsuchiya		2, 5
apr[13][26][20]	Toyota	Toyota Prius PHV GR Sport GT300	30	Hiroaki Nagai[13][26][20]	Y	All, NC
				Manabu Orido[13][26][20]
				Kazuto Kotaka		2, 5
			31	Koki Saga[13][26][20]	B	All, NC
				Yuhki Nakayama[13][26][20]
X Works[12][27][23]	Nissan	Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 (2018)	33	Marchy Lee[12]	Y	1-5
				Shaun Thong[12]		All
				Shinya Michimi		2, 5-8
Modulo Drago Corse[10]	Honda	Honda NSX GT3 Evo	34	Ryo Michigami[10]	Y	All
				Hiroki Otsu[10]
Panther arto Team Thailand[13]	Lexus	Lexus RC F GT3	35	Nattapong Horthongkum[13]	Y	All
				Sean Walkinshaw[13]
				Nattavude Charoensukhawatana[13]		2
BH Auction Bingo Racing[20]	Callaway	Corvette C7 GT3-R	37	Ukyo Sasahara[20]	Y	NC
				Shinji Takei[20]
NILZZ Racing[12][20]	Nissan	Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 (2017)	48	Masaki Tanaka[12][20]	Y	1-3, 5-8, NC
				Taiyou Iida[12][20]
				Teruhiko Hamano		2, 5
Arnage Racing	Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG GT3	50	Masaki Kano	Y	All
				Ryosei Yamashita
				Yuya Tezuka		2, 5
Saitama Toyopet Green Brave[23][20]	Toyota	Toyota Mark X MC	52	Hiroki Yoshida[23][20]	B	All, NC
				Shigekazu Wakisaka[20]
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri[10]	Honda	Honda NSX GT3 Evo	55	Shinichi Takagi[10]	B	All
				Nirei Fukuzumi[10]
Kondo Racing[28]	Nissan	Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 (2018)	56	Kazuki Hiramine[25]	Y	All
				Sacha Fenestraz[25]
LM Corsa[13][20][N 1] K-Tunes Racing[13][29][N 1]	Lexus	Lexus RC F GT3	60	Hiroki Yoshimoto[13]	D	All, NC
				Ritomo Miyata[13]		1, 3-8, NC
				Dominik Farnbacher		2
	Ferrari	Ferrari 488 GT3	70	Shunsuke Kohno[20]	Y	NC
				Togo Suganami[20]
	Lexus	Lexus RC F GT3	96	Sena Sakaguchi[13]	B	All
				Morio Nitta[13][29]
R&D Sport[30]	Subaru	Subaru BRZ R&D Sport	61	Takuto Iguchi[30]	D	All
				Hideki Yamauchi[30]
K2 R&D LEON Racing[31]	Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG GT3	65	Haruki Kurosawa[31]	B	1-5
				Naoya Gamou[31]		All
				Togo Suganami[31]		6-8
JLOC	Lamborghini	Lamborghini Huracán GT3 1–5 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 6–8	87	Tsubasa Takahashi	Y	All
				André Couto
				Kiyoto Fujinami		2, 5
			88	Takashi Kogure	Y	All
				Yuya Motojima
MAX Racing[20]	Lexus	Lexus RC F GT3	244	Go Max (Go Hayato)[20]	Y	NC
				Takeshi Tsuchiya[20]
Tomei Sports[12][20]	Nissan	Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 (2018)	360	Atsushi Tanaka[12][20]	Y	1-2, 5-6, NC
				Takayuki Aoki[23][20]		1-3, 5-8, NC
				Yusaku Shibata		2, 3, 5, 7-8
McLaren Customer Racing Japan[32][33][34]	McLaren	McLaren 720S GT3	720	Seiji Ara[32]	Y	1-3, 5-8
				Álex Palou[32]

Notes

1. Car No. 60 and 70 entered as LM Corsa and car No. 96 entered as K-Tunes Racing.

Driver Changes

Entering Super GT

• Blancpain GT Series Asia Silver Cup champion Marchy Lee, Shaun Thong, and Shinya Michimi will make their Super GT debut with X Works. Thong will contest the full season, while Lee will participate in the first five races. Michimi takes over for the remaining rounds of the season, and also is entered as a third driver at both of the Fuji races.[27]
• FIA Formula 3 European Championship driver Álex Palou will make his Super GT debut for McLaren Customer Racing Japan.[32]
• Narain Karthikeyan will make his Super GT debut for Nakajima Racing. Karthikeyan previously drove for Nakajima's Super Formula team in 2018.[10]
• Nirei Fukuzumi will make his Super GT debut for ARTA's GT300 team, replacing Sean Walkinshaw.[10]
• Former Renault Sport Academy prospect Sacha Fenestraz will make his Super GT debut with Kondo Racing in the GT300 category.

Returning to Super GT

• Seiji Ara will return to the series after a one-year absence from the series following Studie's withdrawal in 2018. He is expected to drive full-time for McLaren Customer Racing Japan.[32]
• Tadasuke Makino will return to the series after a two-year absence from the series. Makino will enter his first full-season campaign with Nakajima Racing after having previously competed with Drago Corse in the last three races of the 2016 season.[10]
• Manabu Orido, who returned mid-season in 2018 to replace Kota Sasaki in apr's #30 team, will return to full-time driving duties with apr in the #30 Prius.[26]
• 2015 GT300 Champion André Couto returns to the series after a two-year absence, driving the number 87 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 for Team JLOC.

Team Transfers

• Hiroki Yoshida moves from Gainer to Saitama Toyopet Green Brave.[24][23]
• Both Bertrand Baguette and Kosuke Matsuura left Nakajima Racing to join Real Racing and Team UpGarage, respectively.[10]
• Series veteran João Paulo de Oliveira left Kondo Racing, ending his thirteen-year association with Nissan.[35] He moves to D'Station Racing for the 2019 season.[19]
• 2010 GT500 Champion Takashi Kogure moved to the GT300 class to drive for Team JLOC, months after it was confirmed he would not race for Honda after fifteen years as a factory Honda driver.
• Kohei Hirate returns to the GT500 class, moving from apr to NDDP by B-Max Racing.[36] In doing so, Hirate defects to Nissan after a seventeen-year association with Toyota.
• James Rossiter returns as a full-time driver in the GT500 class, now racing for Impul after running as a reserve driver in the 2018 season for Lexus when Kazuki Nakajima and Felix Rosenqvist were unable to race due to scheduling conflicts.[36]
• With Team UpGarage switching from Toyota MC to Honda GT3 machinery, Yuhki Nakayama will move from Team UpGarage to apr, replacing Kohei Hirate.[26]

Leaving Super GT

• In February, three-time GT500 Champion Satoshi Motoyama announced his retirement from top-class racing, after twenty-three seasons driving for Nissan - twenty-two of them spent in the GT500 class.
• Felix Rosenqvist left Super GT after joining the NTT IndyCar Series with Chip Ganassi Racing.
• Kamui Kobayashi will leave Super GT in order to focus on competing in the WEC.[37]
• Katsumasa Chiyo left Super GT to drive for Nissan and KCMG in the SRO Intercontinental GT Challenge. Chiyo would return in a one-off appearance for Team Impul, replacing James Rossiter, who was declared unfit to race on the morning of the Autopolis round.

Team Changes

GT500

• Modulo returns to the GT500 class after they signed a deal with Nakajima Racing to become their new primary sponsor, replacing long-time sponsor Epson.[10]

GT300

• Kondo Racing will expand their operations by fielding a Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 in the GT300 class.[28]
• X Works, a Hong Kong-based racing team, make their Super GT debut using a 2018 Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 and fielding a full Hong Kong driver line-up for their debut season, running as Neon Genesis Evangelion Unit-01. [27][23]
• Team Taisan, EIcars Bentley, and CarGuy Racing all withdrew from Super GT at the end of the 2018 season. Team Taisan will instead focus on EV racing, while CarGuy Racing will concentrate on the 24 Hours of Le Mans and Asian Le Mans Series.[38][39][40][41]
• On December 21, it was officially announced that virtual YouTuber Mirai Akari will become the new primary sponsor for Pacific Racing, replacing Gulf Oil, which had sponsored Pacific since 2016.[21][22]
• Team Goh, competing as McLaren Customer Racing Japan, returns to Super GT after a 23-year absence, fielding a McLaren 720S GT3. They had previously competed in Super GT in the JGTC era as Team Lark, winning the GT500 title in 1996 with the McLaren F1 GTR, the only time in the series history where a non-Japanese manufacturer won the GT500 class.[32]
• Both Team UpGarage and ARTA's GT300 team will make a switch from the Dome-built Toyota 86 MC and BMW M6 GT3 respectively to the Honda NSX GT3.[10]
• apr Racing will enter an all-new, front-engined Toyota Prius, after their old mid-engined Prius was rendered obsolete by regulations requiring GT300 cars' engines to be located in the same position as in their production counterparts.[26]

Results

Round	Circuit	Date	Class	Pole Position	Race Winner
1	Okayama International Circuit Report	14 April	GT500	No. 23 NISMO	No. 8 ARTA
				Tsugio Matsuda Ronnie Quintarelli	Tomoki Nojiri Takuya Izawa
			GT300	No. 55 ARTA	No. 96 K-Tunes LM Corsa
				Shinichi Takagi Nirei Fukuzumi	Morio Nitta Sena Sakaguchi
2	Fuji Speedway Report	4 May	GT500	No. 23 NISMO	No. 38 Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo
				Tsugio Matsuda Ronnie Quintarelli	Yuji Tachikawa Hiroaki Ishiura
			GT300	No. 56 Kondo Racing	No. 11 GAINER
				Kazuki Hiramine Sacha Fenestraz	Katsuyuki Hiranaka Hironobu Yasuda
3	Suzuka Circuit Report	26 May	GT500	No. 36 Lexus Team au Tom's	No. 36 Lexus Team au Tom's
				Kazuki Nakajima Yuhi Sekiguchi	Kazuki Nakajima Yuhi Sekiguchi
			GT300	No. 25 Tsuchiya Engineering	No. 96 K-Tunes LM Corsa
				Takamitsu Matsui Kimiya Sato	Morio Nitta Sena Sakaguchi
4	Chang International Circuit Report	30 June	GT500	No. 6 Lexus Team LeMans Wako's	No. 6 Lexus Team LeMans Wako's
				Kazuya Oshima Kenta Yamashita	Kazuya Oshima Kenta Yamashita
			GT300	No. 25 Tsuchiya Engineering	No. 10 GAINER
				Takamitsu Matsui Kimiya Sato	Kazuki Hoshino Keishi Ishikawa
5	Fuji Speedway Report	4 August	GT500	No. 23 NISMO	No. 6 Lexus Team LeMans Wako's
				Tsugio Matsuda Ronnie Quintarelli	Kazuya Oshima Kenta Yamashita
			GT300	No. 52 Saitama Toyopet Green Brave	No. 87 JLOC
				Hiroki Yoshida Shigekazu Wakisaka	Tsubasa Takahashi André Couto Kiyoto Fujinami
6	Autopolis Report	8 September	GT500	No. 17 Keihin Real Racing	No. 39 Lexus Team SARD
				Koudai Tsukakoshi Bertrand Baguette	Heikki Kovalainen Yuichi Nakayama
			GT300	No. 25 Tsuchiya Engineering	No. 60 LM Corsa
				Takamitsu Matsui Kimiya Sato	Hiroki Yoshimoto Ritomo Miyata
7	Sportsland SUGO Report	22 September	GT500	No. 17 Keihin Real Racing	No. 3 NDDP Racing with B-Max
				Koudai Tsukakoshi Bertrand Baguette	Frédéric Makowiecki Kohei Hirate
			GT300	No. 61 R&D Sport	No. 55 ARTA
				Takuto Iguchi Hideki Yamauchi	Shinichi Takagi Nirei Fukuzumi
8	Twin Ring Motegi Report	3 November	GT500	No. 36 Lexus Team au Tom's	No. 37 Lexus Team KeePer Tom's
				Kazuki Nakajima Yuhi Sekiguchi	Ryo Hirakawa Nick Cassidy
			GT300	No. 720 McLaren Customer Racing Japan	No. 11 GAINER
				Seiji Ara Álex Palou	Katsuyuki Hiranaka Hironobu Yasuda
NC	Fuji Speedway (Super GT × DTM Dream Race) Report	23–24 November	Race 1	No. 37 Lexus Team KeePer Tom's	No. 37 Lexus Team KeePer Tom's
				Nick Cassidy	Nick Cassidy
			Race 2	No. 28 Audi Sport Team Phoenix[N 1]	No. 64 Modulo Nakajima Racing
				Loïc Duval[N 1]	Narain Karthikeyan
NC	Fuji Speedway (auto sport Web Sprint Cup) Report		Race 1	No. 60 LM Corsa	No. 60 LM Corsa
				Ritomo Miyata Hiroki Yoshimoto	Ritomo Miyata Hiroki Yoshimoto
			Race 2	No. 37 BH Auction Bingo Racing	No. 60 LM Corsa
				Ukyo Sasahara Shinji Takei	Ritomo Miyata Hiroki Yoshimoto

Championship Standings

Drivers' championships

Scoring system

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	Pole
Points	20	15	11	8	6	5	4	3	2	1	1
Fuji 500 Miles	25	18	13	10	8	6	5	4	3	2	1

GT500

Driver Ranking GT500 2019 Series[42] Rank Driver OKA‡ FUJ SUZ BUR FUJ AUT SUG MOT Points 1 Kazuya Oshima Kenta Yamashita 13 8 3 1 1 6 6 2 85 2 Ryo Hirakawa Nick Cassidy 12 7 2 2 4 3 4 1 83 3 Tsugio Matsuda Ronnie Quintarelli 2 2 Ret 11 3 13 3 8 52.5 4 Yuji Tachikawa Hiroaki Ishiura 8 1 6 7 Ret 4 11 4 46.5 5 Heikki Kovalainen Yuichi Nakayama 11 4 5 5 Ret 1 7 11 44 6 Koudai Tsukakoshi Bertrand Baguette 14 5 Ret 13 8 2 5 5 39 7 Yuhi Sekiguchi 9 Ret 1 9 Ret 10 10 3 38 Kazuki Nakajima 9 1 9 Ret 10 10 3 38 8 Naoki Yamamoto Jenson Button 15 3 13 12 2 Ret 8 6 37 9 Kohei Hirate Frederic Makowiecki 4 6 9 6 11 11 1 DNS 36 10 Tomoki Nojiri Takuya Izawa 1 9 4 Ret 7 5 12 13 31 11 Yuji Kunimoto Sho Tsuboi 6 13 7 3 9 8 13 7 27.5 12 Narain Karthikeyan Tadasuke Makino 10 10 11 10 10 7 2 12 23.5 13 Daiki Sasaki 3 12 10 8 5 12 14 Ret 17.5 James Rossiter 3 12 10 8 5 14 Ret 17.5 14 Mitsunori Takaboshi Jann Mardenborough 5 14 8 4 Ret 9 15 10 17 15 Hideki Mutoh Daisuke Nakajima 7 11 12 Ret 6 14 9 9 12 16 Katsumasa Chiyo 12 0 - Ritomo Miyata Ret - Rank Driver OKA‡ FUJ SUZ BUR FUJ AUT SUG MOT Points

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) Excluded (EX)

Notes:

‡ – The race at Okayama was red flagged after completing 30 laps. Due to less than 75% of the scheduled distance being completed, half points were awarded to the classified finishers.

GT300

Driver Ranking GT300 2019 Series[43]

Rank	Driver	OKA‡	FUJ	SUZ	BUR	FUJ	AUT	SUG	MOT	Points
1	Shinichi Takagi Nirei Fukuzumi	2	2	6	9	6	6	1	4	69.5
2	Morio Nitta Sena Sakaguchi	1	16	1	14	15	5	3	3	58
3	Katsuyuki Hiranaka Hironobu Yasuda	21	1	9	8	9	15	22	1	48
4	Nobuteru Taniguchi Tatsuya Kataoka	8	6	4	12	8	4	2	5	47.5
5	Naoya Gamou	6	5	14	3	Ret	7	4	2	46.5
6	Kazuki Hiramine Sacha Fenestraz	5	4	18	2	7	8	5	6	46
7	Takashi Kogure Yuya Motojima	10	3	19	5	5	3	20	11	36.5
8	Tsubasa Takahashi André Couto	16	11	17	7	1	Ret	26	23	29
9	Shigekazu Wakisaka Hiroki Yoshida	3	13	27	23	2	24	8	13	27.5
10	Hiroki Yoshimoto	7	9	10	15	22	1	19	9	27
11	Togo Suganami						7	4	2	27
12	Ritomo Miyata	7		10	15	22	1	19	9	25
13	Kiyoto Fujinami		11			1				25
14	Kazuki Hoshino Keishi Ishikawa	Ret	10	12	1	14	10	15	16	22
15	Alex Palou Seiji Ara	19	14	13		Ret	2	12	7	20
16	Haruki Kurosawa	6	5	14	3	Ret				19.5
17	Ryo Michigami Hiroki Otsu	9	26	7	10	3	11	13	24	19
18	Takuto Iguchi Hideki Yamauchi	4	28	3	11	10	Ret	28	12	18
19	Takamitsu Matsui Kimiya Sato	Ret	18	5	4	26	16	27	18	17
20	Shaun Thong	Ret	7	28	6	16	19	6	8	17
21	Natsu Sakaguchi Yuya Hiraki	Ret	Ret	2		17	17	18	14	15
22	Takashi Kobayashi Kosuke Matsuura	11	12	15	24	4	9	10	19	13
23	Shinya Michimi		7			16	19	6	8	12
24	Richard Lyons Ryuichiro Tomita	13	8	8	13	13	13	7	27	10
25	Marchy Lee	Ret	7	28	6	16				5
26	Dominik Farnbacher		9							2
27	Naoki Yokomizo Kyosuke Mineo	15	22	22	16	19	22	9	15	2
28	Takayuki Aoki Yusaku Shibata	Ret	15	20		27	25	11	10	1
Rank	Driver	OKA‡	FUJ	SUZ	BUR	FUJ	AUT	SUG	MOT	Points

Notes:

‡ – The race at Okayama was red flagged after completing 30 laps. Due to less than 75% of the scheduled distance being completed, half points were awarded to the classified finishers.

Notes

1. Team Mugen's Daisuke Nakajima set the fastest time in qualifying, but received a five-place grid penalty for a chassis change after Hideki Mutoh crashed the car in Friday practice. Loïc Duval was promoted to pole position in his place.

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External links

• Super GT official website