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Suzuka 450km
Super GT
VenueSuzuka International Racing Course
First race1966
Laps78
Duration450 km
Previous names1000 km Suzuka
GT Summer Special
Suzuka 10 Hours
Most wins (driver)Kunimitsu Takahashi (4)
Most wins (manufacturer)Porsche (11)

The Suzuka Summer Endurance Race is an annual motorsport event for sports cars that has been held at the Suzuka International Racing Course, Mie Prefecture, Japan since 1966,[1] and the oldest automobile endurance race in Japan. From 1966 to 2017, the event was known as the Suzuka 1000 km, a 1000 kilometre race held as part of various championships including Super GT, the All-Japan Endurance/Sports Prototype Championship, the FIA GT Championship, the BPR Global GT Series, and the FIA World Sportscar Championship. From 2018 to 2019, it was the Suzuka 10 Hours for the Intercontinental GT Challenge. Since 2020, the race has not been held due to the COVID-19 pandemic, although a Super GT round has been held at Suzuka during the event's traditional summer time slot.

History

Fireworks at the 2014 race.

The race, as a 1000 kilometre race, was first held as a standalone event from 1966 to 1973. After a hiatus, the event returned in 1980 for three years before joining the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship, the forerunner to Super GT, in 1983.[1] The event later hosted a round of the 1992 World Sportscar Championship before these series were cancelled. After that the race became part of many different series, including the BPR Global GT Series from 1994 to 1996, the FIA GT Championship from 1997 to 1998, and the Super Taikyu Series as well as returning to being a non-championship event. In 2006, the race was added to the Super GT championship calendar for the first time. Previously, the race was open to JGTC/Super GT cars, but only a handful of competitors from the Super GT championship took part. In 2018, the race moved to the Intercontinental GT Challenge championship, replacing the Sepang 12 Hours held in Malaysia, featuring GT3 and select GT300 class cars from Super GT.[2]

Beverage company Pokka served as the title sponsor of the race from 1994 until 2014. In 2019, Japanese banking company SMBC and collector car auction house BH Auction became the new joint title sponsors of the Suzuka 10 Hours.

The 2020 running of the race, originally scheduled for 22 August, was cancelled as a result of the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic. The planned running of the race in 2021 was cancelled, also due to the influence of the coronavirus pandemic, and was not scheduled for the 2022 calendar year.

Format

The race was traditionally held over 1000 kilometres from 1966 to 2008. From 2009 to 2011, the race length varied; the 2009 Super GT race was shortened to 700 km due to increasing costs and CO2 emissions regulations, as well as the economic crisis. The 700 km distance was retained in 2010, but as a result of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and Super GT energy conservation regulations in force that year, the race was cut to 500 km.[1] From 2012, the race returned to being a 1000 kilometre event. In 2018, the race became a 10-hour event as part of its move from Super GT into the Intercontinental GT Challenge, matching the distance of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race Petit Le Mans held in Braselton, Georgia (United States).[2][3]

In 2018 and 2019, the race offered a prize purse of ¥100 million Yen, with the overall winner receiving a ¥30 million share, the second-place finisher receiving ¥10 million, and the third-place finisher receiving ¥5 million. Prize money is also awarded for the top team in a number of sub-classes including Pro-Am Cup, Silver Cup, and Am Cup. The top teams from Super GT and Super Taikyu also receive a prize bonus, as well as the winner of the Asia Award (given to the top team with no less than two Asian drivers), and the fastest team in both phases of qualifying. In 2019, a "Team of the Day" award was introduced, allowing viewers to vote for their favourite team during the race - who will also receive a prize bonus.[4]

The Suzuka round reverted to Super GT in 2020, as the IGTC race could not be conducted because of Japanese restrictions. It was held as a 300 km race. The same occurred in 2021 with the traditional summer date. In 2022, the Super GT race will now be extended to 450 km, returning to the former endurance.

Winners

Among drivers, Kunimitsu Takahashi holds the all-time record with four overall victories at the Suzuka 1000 km, winning for the first time in 1973, then taking three more victories during the Group C era of the JSPC in 1984, 1985, and 1989. Five other drivers - Daisuke Ito, Ryo Michigami, Naoki Nagasaka, Sébastien Philippe, and Juichi Wakisaka, have won the event three times overall.

Several past winners of the race have also won the 24 Hours of Le Mans, including Henri Pescarolo, Vern Schuppan, Masanori Sekiya, Stanley Dickens, Yannick Dalmas, Derek Warwick, JJ Lehto, Benoît Tréluyer, Loïc Duval, and Kazuki Nakajima. Past winners including Marcel Tiemann, Bernd Schneider, Frédéric Makowiecki, Maro Engel, Kelvin van der Linde, Dries Vanthoor, and Frédéric Vervisch have also won the Nürburgring 24 Hour race. Other notable former winners include three-time 24 Hours of Daytona winner Bob Wollek, 1989 Japanese Grand Prix winner Alessandro Nannini, 2015 FIA World Endurance Drivers' Champion and Formula One Grand Prix winner Mark Webber, four-time Super GT GT500 Drivers' Champion Ronnie Quintarelli, all-time GT500 class wins leader Tsugio Matsuda, and 2018 and 2020 Japanese "double champion" Naoki Yamamoto.

In recent years, the event has drawn interest from previous Formula One world champion drivers, many of whom had raced at Suzuka Circuit for years during their F1 careers. 2009 champion Jenson Button made his Super GT debut in the 2017 running of the Suzuka 1000 km, and in 2019, two-time world champion Mika Häkkinen returned to compete at the Suzuka 10 Hours.

Porsche have more victories in the race than any manufacturer - eleven in total, spanning from 1967 to 1994. The winningest Japanese marques are Honda and Toyota, who have each won the race eight times overall, just ahead of Nissan with seven victories. Toyota's Lexus luxury brand has also won the race five times representing Toyota in the GT500 class of Super GT, from 2006 to 2017.

List of winners

Year Overall Winner(s) Entrant Car Series Length
1966 Japan Sachio Fukuzawa [ja]
Japan Tomohiko Tsutsumi [ja] 		Toyota 2000GT Non-championship 1000 km [5]
1967 Japan Shintaro Taki [ja]
Japan Kenjiro Tanaka [ja] 		Porsche 906 [6]
1968 Japan Sachio Fukuzawa [ja]
Japan Hiroshi Fushida 		Toyota 7 [7]
1969 Japan Tomohiko Tsutsumi [ja]
Japan Jiro Yoneyama 		Porsche 906 [8]
1970 Japan Kawakami Nishino
Japan Koji Fujita 		Nissan Fairlady Z432 [9]
1971 Japan Yoshimasa Kawaguchi
Japan Hiroshi Fushida 		Porsche 910 [10]
1972 Japan Harukuni Takahashi [ja]
Japan Kenichi Takeshita 		Toyota Celica 1600GT-R [11]
1973 Japan Kunimitsu Takahashi
Japan Kenji Tohira 		Nissan Fairlady Z432R [12]
1974
–
1979 		Not held
1980 Japan Hironobu Tatsumi
Japan Naoki Nagasaka 		Japan Red Carpet Racing Team March 75S-Mazda Non-championship 1000 km [13]
1981 France Bob Wollek
France Henri Pescarolo 		Germany Porsche Kremer Racing Porsche 935 K3 [14]
1982 Japan Fumiyasu Sato
Japan Naoki Nagasaka 		Japan Auto Beaurex Motor Sports BMW M1 [15]
1983 Japan Naohiro Fujita
Australia Vern Schuppan 		Japan Trust Racing Team Porsche 956 All-Japan Endurance Championship [16]
1984 Japan Kunimitsu Takahashi
Japan Kenji Takahashi
United Kingdom Geoff Lees 		Japan Advan Sport Team Nova Porsche 956 [17]
1985 Japan Kunimitsu Takahashi
Japan Kenji Takahashi 		Japan Advan Sport Team Nova Porsche 962C [18]
1986 Japan Jiro Yoneyama
Japan Hideki Okada
Japan Tsunehisa Asai 		Japan FromA Racing Porsche 956 [19]
1987 United Kingdom Geoff Lees
Japan Masanori Sekiya
Japan Hitoshi Ogawa 		Japan Toyota Team TOM's Toyota 87C All-Japan Sports Prototype Championship [20]
1988 Japan Hideki Okada
Sweden Stanley Dickens 		Japan FromA Racing Porsche 962C [21]
1989 Japan Kunimitsu Takahashi
Sweden Stanley Dickens 		Japan Advan Alpha Nova Racing Porsche 962C [22]
1990 Japan Kazuyoshi Hoshino
Japan Toshio Suzuki 		Japan Nissan Motorsports Nissan R90CP [23]
1991 Austria Roland Ratzenberger
France Pierre-Henri Raphanel
Japan Naoki Nagasaka 		Japan Toyota Team SARD Toyota 91C-V [24]
1992 United Kingdom Derek Warwick
France Yannick Dalmas 		France Peugeot Talbot Sport Peugeot 905 Evo 1B FIA World Sportscar Championship [25]
1993 Japan Takao Wada
Japan Toshio Suzuki 		Japan Team LeMans Nissan R92CP Non-championship [26]
1994 France Jean-Pierre Jarier
France Bob Wollek
Spain Jesús Pareja 		France Larbre Competition Porsche 911 Turbo S LM-GT BPR Global GT Series [27]
1995 United Kingdom Ray Bellm
Brazil Maurizio Sandro Sala
Japan Masanori Sekiya 		United Kingdom GTC Racing McLaren F1 GTR-BMW [28]
1996 United Kingdom Ray Bellm
United Kingdom James Weaver
Finland JJ Lehto 		United Kingdom Gulf Racing GTC McLaren F1 GTR-BMW [29]
1997 Italy Alessandro Nannini
Germany Marcel Tiemann 		Germany AMG-Mercedes Mercedes-Benz CLK-GTR FIA GT Championship [30]
1998 Germany Bernd Schneider
Australia Mark Webber 		Germany AMG-Mercedes Mercedes-Benz CLK LM [31]
1999 Japan Osamu Nakako
Japan Ryo Michigami
Japan Katsutomo Kaneishi 		Japan Mugen x Dome Project Honda NSX GT500 Non-championship [32]
2000 Japan Juichi Wakisaka
Japan Katsutomo Kaneishi
Japan Daisuke Ito 		Japan Mugen x Dome Project Honda NSX GT500 [33]
2001 Japan Hironori Takeuchi
Japan Yuji Tachikawa
Japan Shigekazu Wakisaka 		Japan Toyota Team Cerumo Toyota Supra GT500 [34]
2002 Japan Juichi Wakisaka
Japan Akira Iida
Japan Shigekazu Wakisaka 		Japan Esso Toyota Team LeMans Toyota Supra GT500 [35]
2003 Japan Ryo Michigami
France Sébastien Philippe 		Japan Dome Racing Team Honda NSX GT500 [36]
2004 Japan Ryo Michigami
France Sébastien Philippe
Japan Daisuke Ito 		Japan Dome Racing Team Honda NSX GT500 [37]
2005 Macau André Couto
Italy Ronnie Quintarelli
Japan Hayanari Shimoda 		Japan Denso Toyota Team SARD Toyota Supra GT500 [38]
2006 France Benoît Tréluyer
Japan Kazuki Hoshino
France Jérémie Dufour [fr] 		Japan Calsonic Team Impul Nissan Fairlady Z GT500 Super GT Series [39]
2007 Germany André Lotterer
Japan Juichi Wakisaka
United Kingdom Oliver Jarvis 		Japan Houzan Toyota Team TOM's Lexus SC430 GT500 [40]
2008 Japan Tsugio Matsuda
France Sébastien Philippe 		Japan Calsonic Team Impul Nissan GT-R GT500 [41]
2009 Japan Hiroaki Ishiura
Japan Kazuya Oshima 		Japan Lexus Team Kraft Lexus SC430 GT500 700 km [42]
2010 Republic of Ireland Ralph Firman
Japan Yuji Ide
Japan Takashi Kobayashi 		Japan Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Honda HSV-010 GT GT500 [43]
2011 Japan Takashi Kogure
France Loïc Duval 		Japan Weider Honda Racing Honda HSV-010 GT GT500 500 km [44]
2012 Japan Masataka Yanagida
Italy Ronnie Quintarelli 		Japan MOLA International Nissan GT-R GT500 1000 km [45]
2013 France Frédéric Makowiecki
Japan Naoki Yamamoto 		Japan Weider Modulo Dome Racing Honda HSV-010 GT GT500 [46]
[47]
2014 Japan Kazuki Nakajima
United Kingdom James Rossiter 		Japan Lexus Team Petronas TOM's Lexus RC F GT500 [48]
[49]
2015 Japan Daisuke Ito
United Kingdom James Rossiter 		Japan Lexus Team Petronas TOM's Lexus RC F GT500 [50]
[51]
2016 Japan Yuji Tachikawa
Japan Hiroaki Ishiura 		Japan Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo Lexus RC F GT500 [52]
[53]
2017 Belgium Bertrand Baguette
Japan Kosuke Matsuura 		Japan Nakajima Racing Honda NSX-GT GT500 [54]
[55]
2018 Germany Maro Engel
Italy Raffaele Marciello
France Tristan Vautier 		Hong Kong Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 Intercontinental GT Challenge 1603 km
996 mi
(10 hours) 		[56]
2019 South Africa Kelvin van der Linde
Belgium Dries Vanthoor
Belgium Frédéric Vervisch 		Belgium Audi Sport Team WRT Audi R8 LMS Evo 1556 km
967 mi
(10 hours) 		[57]
2020

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2021

Not held due to the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic

Multiple winners

By driver

Wins Driver Years
4 Japan Kunimitsu Takahashi 1973, 1984, 1985, 1989
3 Japan Naoki Nagasaka 1980, 1982, 1991
Japan Ryo Michigami 1999, 2003, 2004
Japan Juichi Wakisaka 2000, 2002, 2007
France Sébastien Philippe 2003, 2004, 2008
Japan Daisuke Ito 2000, 2004, 2015
2 Japan Sachio Fukuzawa 1966, 1968
Japan Tomohiko Tsutsumi 1966, 1969
Japan Hiroshi Fushida 1968, 1971
Japan Kenji Takahashi 1984, 1985
Japan Jiro Yoneyama 1969, 1986
United Kingdom Geoff Lees 1984, 1987
Japan Hideki Okada 1986, 1988
Sweden Stanley Dickens 1988, 1989
Japan Toshio Suzuki 1990, 1993
France Bob Wollek 1981, 1994
Japan Masanori Sekiya 1987, 1995
United Kingdom Ray Bellm 1995, 1996
Japan Katsutomo Kaneishi 1999, 2000
Japan Shigekazu Wakisaka 2001, 2002
Italy Ronnie Quintarelli 2005, 2012
United Kingdom James Rossiter 2014, 2015
Japan Yuji Tachikawa 2001, 2016
Japan Hiroaki Ishiura 2009, 2016

By manufacturer

Wins Manufacturer Years
11 Germany Porsche 1967, 1969, 1971, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1994
8 Japan Toyota 1966, 1968, 1972, 1987, 1991, 2001, 2002, 2005
Japan Honda 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2017
7 Japan Nissan 1970, 1973, 1990, 1993, 2006, 2008, 2012
5 Japan Lexus 2007, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2016
3 Germany Mercedes-Benz 1997, 1998, 2018
2 United Kingdom McLaren 1995, 1996

Event names

  • 1966–93: Suzuka 1000 km
  • 1994–08: International Pokka 1000 km
  • 2009–12: Pokka GT Summer Special
  • 2013–14: International Pokka Sapporo 1000 km
  • 2015–17: International Suzuka 1000 km
  • 2018: Suzuka 10 Hours
  • 2019–present: SMBC BH Auction Suzuka 10 Hours

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