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.
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
GT300
- Notes
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
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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
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
- ^ a b 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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