The 2010 Suzuka GT 300km was the first round of the 2010 Super GT season. It took place on March 21, 2010.
The 2010 Suzuka GT 300km was the first round of the 2010 Super GT season. It took place on March 21, 2010.
| Pos | No | Team/Car | Drivers | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GT500 Results | |||||||
| 1 | 24 | HIS Advan Kondo GT-R |  João Paulo de Oliveira  Kironobu Yasuda | 52 | 1:53:23.333 | 10 | 20 |
| 2 | 6 | ENEOS SC430 | Daisuke Ito  Björn Wirdheim | 52 | +9.322 | 4 | 15 |
| 3 | 100 | Raybrig HSV-010 | Takuya Izawa Naoki Yamamoto | 52 | +15.397 | 7 | 11 |
| 4 | 1 | Petronas TOM'S SC430 | Juichi Wakisaka  André Lotterer | 52 | +17.954 | 8 | 8 |
| 5 | 39 | Denso Dunlop SARD SC430 |  André Couto Kohei Hirate | 52 | +19.326 | 13 | 6 |
| 6 | 35 | MJ Kraft SC430 | Hiroaki Ishiura Kazuya Oshima | 52 | +20.363 | 5 | 5 |
| 7 | 17 | Keihin HSV-010 | Toshihiro Kaneishi Koudai Tsukakoshi | 52 | +46.508 | 9 | 4 |
| 8 | 23 | Motul Autech GT-R | Satoshi Motoyama  Benoît Tréluyer | 52 | +1:32.333 | 3 | 3 |
| 9 | 38 | ZENT Cerumo SC430 | Yuji Tachikawa  Richard Lyons | 51 | +1 Lap | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | 32 | Epson HSV-010 | Ryo Michigami Yukhi Nakayama | 51 | +1 Lap | 11 | 1 |
| 11 DNF | 12 | Calsonic Impul GT-R | Tsugio Matsuda  Ronnie Quintarelli | 10 | Collision | 6 | |
| 12 DNF | 8 | ARTA HSV-010 |  Ralph Firman Yuji Ide | 10 | Collision | 8 | |
| 13 DNF | 18 | Weider HSV-010 | Takashi Kogure Loïc Duval | 10 | Collision | 1 | |
| GT300 Results | |||||||
| 1 | 7 | M7 Mutiara Motors Amemiya SGC7 | Nobuteru Taniguchi Ryo Orime | 48 | 1:53:59.916 | 1 | 20 |
| 2 | 46 | Up Start MOLA Z | Naoki Yokozimo Tsubasa Abe | 48 | +31.894 | 3 | 15 |
| 3 | 19 | WedsSport IS350 | Manabu Orido Tatsuya Kataoka | 48 | +36.498 | 6 | 11 |
| 4 | 5 | Machgogogo Shaken 408R | Tetsuji Tamanaka Haruki Kurosawa | 48 | +37.184 | 19 | 8 |
| 5 | 3 | Hasemi Sport Tomica Z | Kazuki Hoshino Masataka Yanagida | 48 | +50.302 | 7 | 6 |
| 6 | 33 | Hankook Porsche | Mitsuhiro Kinoshita Masami Kageyama | 48 | +50.400 | 12 | 5 |
| 7 | 86 | JLOC Lamborghini RG-3 | Koji Yamanishi Yuhi Sekiguchi | 48 | +53.837 | 8 | 4 |
| 8 | 74 | Corolla Axio apr GT | Takuto Iguchi Yuji Kunimoto | 48 | +1:02.919 | 5 | 3 |
| 9 | 27 | NAC Eiseicom LMP Ferrari | Yutaka Yamagishi Hiroshi Koizumi | 48 | +1:05.724 | 13 | 2 |
| 10 | 87 | JLOC Lamborghini RG3 | Hiroyuki Iiri Yuya Sakamoto | 48 | +1:24.323 | 10 | 1 |
| 11 | 26 | Cinecitta Taisan Porsche |  Igor Sushko Masayuki Ueda | 47 | +1 Lap | 14 | |
| 12 | 9 | Hatsunemiku X GSR Porsche | Taku Bamba Masahiro Sasaki | 46 | +2 Laps | 16 | |
| 13 | 62 | R&D Sport Legacy B4 | Tetsuya Yamano Kota Sasaki | 44 | +4 Laps | 20 | |
| 14 | 666 | Bomex Lian Boxster | Junichiro Yamashita Shogo Suho | 38 | +10 Laps | 17 | |
| 15 DNF | 11 | Jim Gainer Dixcel Dunlop F430 | Tetsuya Tanaka Katsuyuki Hiranaka | 27 | Radiator | 2 | |
| 16 DNF | 31 | apr Corolla Axio | Koki Saga Kosuke Matsuura | 1 | Collision | 9 | |
| 17 DNF | 43 | ARTA Garaiya | Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi | 1 | Collision | 4 | |
| 18 DNF | 2 | Apple•K-ONE•Shiden | Hiroki Katoh Hiroshi Hamaguchi | 1 | Collision | 11 | |
| DSQ | 66 | triple a Vantage GT2 | Hideshi Matsuda Hiroki Yoshimoto | – | Disqualification [1] | 15 | |
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