Fuji has been a Toyota stronghold for the previous couple of seasons, with the Shizuoka Prefecture song’s kilometre-long foremost straight having fun with to the strengths of the slippery, low-lope GR Supra GT500.
Nevertheless, that might all change this time round with the introduction of the fresh Nissan Z and Honda’s up to this level Sort S-primarily primarily based NSX-GT, as effectively as the adjustments Toyota has made to the Supra since closing three hundred and sixty five days.
Toyota purchased its campaign off to a winning originate closing month at Okayama, with the #14 Rookie Racing automobile of Kenta Yamashita and Kazuya Oshima taking the spoils, but Honda and Nissan every managed to earn a automobile on the podium as effectively, a transparent assign of a the fine three-potential war to come relieve in GT500.
Yamashita and Oshima will most likely be laborious-pressed to repeat their Okayama favor then again as they’re saddled with the most 42kg of success ballast, with every level earned price 2kg of additional weight.
Among those hoping to capitalise on having low success ballast would be the #36 TOM’S crew (Sho Tsuboi/Giuliano Alesi, 10kg), the Impul Nissan squad (Bertrand Baguette/Kazuki Hiramine, 8kg), and Honda outfits ARTA (Tomoki Nojiri/Nirei Fukuzumi, 2kg) and True Racing (Koudai Tsukakoshi/Nobuharu Matsushita, 4kg), which obtained closing three hundred and sixty five days’s Fuji Golden Week speed.
Strategy will also play the biggest characteristic, with every automobile having to create two pitstops in situation of the well-liked single stay.
In the GT300 class, every present this level is price 3kg of ballast, which implies the Kondo Racing Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 that obtained at Okayama (Joao Paulo de Oliveira/Kiyoto Fujinami) is saddled with 60kg of ballast.
Toyota’s GR Supra GT300 traditionally goes effectively around Fuji, with the LM Corsa group (Hiroki Yoshimoto/Shunsuke Kohno) enthusiastic so as to add to its pair of victories at the song closing three hundred and sixty five days. One other automobile to withhold an note on is the Group LeMans Audi R8 GT3 LMS Evo II, as ex-Formula 1 racer Roberto Merhi makes his debut.
Max Racing also makes its return after sitting out the Okayama opener, bringing the arena up to 28 vehicles in GT300 and 43 in total.
SUPER GT time time desk for Fuji, Round 2
Instances are Native/UK time (GMT+1)/EDT/PDT
Tuesday Would possibly additionally 3
Free practice (1h45 minutes) – 9.00am/1.00am/8.00pm (Monday)/5.00pm (Monday)
Qualifying – 3pm/7am/2am/11pm (Monday)
Wednesday Would possibly additionally 4
Warmth-up – 1.10pm/5.10am/12.10am/9.10pm (Tuesday)
Trot (100 laps) – 2.30pm/6.30am/1.30am/10.30pm (Tuesday)
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SUPER GT entry list for Fuji, Round 2
GT500 class:
|
Manufacturer |
Group |
Tyre |
No. |
Drivers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Nissan Z GT500 |
NDDP Racing |
Michelin |
3 |
Katsumasa Chiyo Mitsunori Takaboshi |
|
Group Impul |
Bridgestone |
12 |
Bertrand Baguette Kazuki Hiramine |
|
|
NISMO |
Michelin |
23 |
Ronnie Quintarelli Tsugio Matsuda |
|
|
Kondo Racing |
Yokohama |
24 |
Kohei Hirate Daiki Sasaki |
|
|
Toyota GR Supra |
Rookie Racing |
Bridgestone |
14 |
Kazuya Oshima Kenta Yamashita |
|
Racing Project Bandoh |
Yokohama |
19 |
Yuji Kunimoto Sena Sakaguchi |
|
|
TOM’S
|
Bridgestone |
36 |
Giuliano Alesi Sho Tsuboi |
|
|
37 |
Ritomo Miyata Sacha Fenestraz |
|||
|
Cerumo |
Bridgestone |
38 |
Hiroaki Ishiura Yuji Tachikawa |
|
|
SARD |
Bridgestone |
39 |
Yuhi Sekiguchi Yuichi Nakayama |
|
|
Honda NSX-GT (Sort S) |
ARTA |
Bridgestone |
8 |
Tomoki Nojiri Nirei Fukuzumi |
|
Group Mugen |
Dunlop |
16 |
Toshiki Oyu Ukyo Sasahara |
|
|
True Racing |
Bridgestone |
17 |
Koudai Tsukakoshi Nobuharu Matsushita |
|
|
Nakajima Racing |
Dunlop |
64 |
Takuya Izawa Hiroki Otsu |
|
|
Group Kunimitsu |
Bridgestone |
100 |
Naoki Yamamoto Tadasuke Makino |
GT300 class:
| No. | Group | Automobile | Tyre | Drivers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Inging | Toyota GR86 GT | B |
Hiroki Katoh Yuui Tsutsumi |
| 4 | Goodsmile Racing | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | Y |
Nobuteru Taniguchi Tatsuya Kataoka |
| 5 | Group Mach | Toyota 86 MC | Y |
Reiji Hiraki Yusuke Tomibayashi |
| 6 | Group LeMans | Audi R8 LMS GT3 | Y |
Yoshiaki Katayama Roberto Merhi Shintaro Kawabata |
| 7 | BMW Group Studie | BMW M4 GT3 | M |
Seiji Ara Augusto Farfus Tsubasa Kondo |
| 9 | Pacific CarGuy Racing | Ferrari 488 GT3 | Y |
Kei Cozzolino Takeshi Kimura |
| 10 | Gainer | Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 | D |
Ryuichiro Tomita Riki Okusa Yusuke Shiotsu |
| 11 | Gainer | Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 | D |
Hironobu Yasuda Keishi Ishikawa |
| 18 | Group UpGarage | Honda NSX GT3 | Y |
Takashi Kobayashi Kakunoshin Ota |
| 20 | Shade Racing | Toyota GR86 GT | D |
Katsuyuki Hiranaka Eijiro Shimizu |
| 22 | R’Qs Motor Sports activities | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | Y |
Hisashi Wada Masaki Jyonai |
| 25 | Group Tsuchiya | Toyota GR Supra GT300 | Y |
Takamitsu Matsui Seita Nonaka |
| 30 | apr | Toyota GR86 GT | Y |
Hiroaki Nagai Manabu Orido Hibiki Taira |
| 31 | apr | Toyota Prius PHV GR Sport | B |
Yuhki Nakayama Koki Saga |
| 34 | Busou Drago Corse | Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 | D |
Masataka Yanagida Yuji Ide |
| 48 | NILZZ Racing | Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 |
Y |
Taiyou Ida Yuki Tanaka |
| 50 | Arnage Racing | Toyota 86 MC | Y |
Masaki Kano Ryohei Sakaguchi Takeshi Suehiro |
| 52 | Saitama Toyopet GB | Toyota GR Supra GT300 | B |
Togo Suganami Kohta Kawaai |
| 55 | ARTA | Honda NSX GT3 | B |
Hideki Mutoh Iori Kimura |
| 56 | Kondo Racing | Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 | Y |
Kiyoto Fujinami JP de Oliveira |
| 60 | LM Corsa | Toyota GR Supra GT300 | D |
Hiroki Yoshimoto Shunsuke Kohno |
| 61 | Subaru/R&D Sport | Subaru BRZ | D |
Takuto Iguchi Hideki Yamauchi |
| 65 | LEON Racing | Mercedes-AMG GT3 | B |
Naoya Gamou Takuro Shinohara |
| 87 | JLOC | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | Y |
Kosuke Matsuura Natsu Sakaguchi |
| 88 | JLOC | Lamborghini Huracan GT3 | Y |
Takashi Kogure Yuya Motojima |
| 96 | Okay-tunes Racing | Lexus RC F GT3 | D |
Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi |
| 244 | Max Racing | Toyota GR Supra GT300 | Y |
Kimiya Sato Atsushi Miyake |
| 360 | Tomei Sports activities | Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 | Y |
Takayuki Aoki Atsushi Tanaka Yusaku Shibata |
Most contemporary SUPER GT championship standings
GT500 class:
GT300 class:
