The 2016 Autobacs Super GT Series was the twenty-fourth season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship including the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era, and the twelfth season under the name Super GT. It was the thirty-fourth overall season of a national JAF sportscar championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The season began on April 10 and ended on November 13, after 8 races.
| Round | Race | Circuit | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Okayama GT 300 km |  Okayama International Circuit | April 10 |
| 2 | Fuji GT 500 km | Fuji Speedway | May 4 |
| 3 | Sugo GT 300 km | Sportsland SUGO | July 24 |
| 4 | Fuji GT 300 km | Fuji Speedway | August 7 |
| 5 | 45th International Suzuka 1000km 1000 km | Suzuka Circuit | August 28 |
| 6 | Buriram United Super GT Race 300 km |  Chang International Circuit | October 9 |
| 7 | Motegi GT 250 km I [1] | Twin Ring Motegi | November 12 |
| 8 | Motegi GT 250 km II [1] | November 13 |
2016 International venue |
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | Pole |
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| Points | 20 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Suzuka | 25 | 18 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
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| Rank | Driver | OKA | FUJ | SUG | FUJ | SUZ | CHA | MOT | MOT | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Takeshi Tsuchiya Takamitsu Matsui | 6 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 22 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 78 |
| 2 | Kōki Saga Yūichi Nakayama | 12 | 20 | 1 | 25 | 2 | 5 | 24 | 2 | 60 |
| 3 | Tomonobu Fujii  Richard Lyons | 7 | 7 | Ret | 2 | 6 | 24 | 1 | 4 | 57 |
| 4 | Kazuki Hoshino Jann Mardenborough | 10 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 52 |
| 5 | Shinichi Takagi Takashi Kobayashi | 11 | 2 | Ret | 1 | 14 | 3 | Ret | DNS | 48 |
| 6 | Takuto Iguchi Hideki Yamauchi | 23 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 1 | Ret | 23 | 13 | 47 |
| 7 | Nobuteru Taniguchi Tatsuya Kataoka | 2 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 18 | 3 | 47 |
| 8 |  Andre Couto Ryūichirō Tomita | 8 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 38 |
| 9 | Katsuyuki Hiranaka  Bjorn Wirdheim | 4 | Ret | 4 | 7 | Ret | 9 | 4 | 10 | 32 |
| 10 | Naoya Yamano | 22 | 23 | 14 | 24 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 30 |
| 11 | Kazuki Hiramine Manabu Orido | 9 | 25 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 3 | Ret | 30 |
| 12 | Haruki Kurosawa Naoya Gamou | 1 | Ret | 16 | 23 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 24 | 26 |
| 13 |  Jörg Bergmeister | 22 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 25 | |||
| 14 | Yuhki Nakayama Shinnosuke Yamada | 15 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 22 | 12 | 9 | 25 |
| 15 | Seiji Ara Jörg Müller | 3 | 24 | 10 | 20 | DNS | 6 | 15 | 12 | 17 |
| 16 | Morio Nitta Akihiro Tsuzuki | 5 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 11 | Ret | 13 |
| 17 | Yūya Motojima | 20 | 15 | 19 | 8 | 20 | 6 | 7 | 12 | |
| 18 | Tsubasa Kondō | 6 | 7 | 9 | ||||||
| 19 | Shinya Hosokawa Kimiya Satō | 13 | 8 | 22 | 19 | 17 | 21 | 8 | 11 | 6 |
| 20 | Shigekazu Wakisaka | 6 | 11 | 5 | ||||||
| 21 | Yūya Sakamoto | 24 | 7 | 5 | ||||||
| 22 | Ryōhei Sakaguchi Hiroki Yoshida | DNS | Ret | 13 | 21 | 13 | 17 | 22 | 8 | 3 |
| 23 | Shōgo Mitsuyama | 20 | 15 | 19 | 8 | 20 | 3 | |||
| 24 | Hiroaki Nagai Kōta Sasaki | 14 | 9 | 18 | 15 | 24 | 14 | 16 | 17 | 2 |
| 25 | Takayuki Aoki | 10 | 17 | 12 | 21 | 10 | 14 | 2 | ||
| 26 | Masaki Tanaka | 27 | 10 | 21 | 1 | |||||
| 27 | Hiroshi Takamori | 27 | 10 | 17 | 21 | 1 | ||||
| 28 | Mitsunori Takaboshi | 12 | 10 | 14 | 1 | |||||
| – | Yūsaku Shibata | 26 | 16 | 12 | Ret | 12 | 25 | 22 | 0 | |
| – | Shōta Kiyohara | 16 | 12 | 12 | 0 | |||||
| – | Rintarō Kubo Hideto Yasuoka | 18 | 12 | Ret | 16 | 16 | 15 | 26 | 19 | 0 |
| – | Atsushi Tanaka | 26 | 16 | Ret | 12 | 25 | 22 | 0 | ||
| – | Masaki Kanō | 12 | 16 | 0 | ||||||
| – | Naoki Yokomizo  Adrian Zaugg | 21 | 19 | 15 | 18 | 25 | 13 | 14 | 16 | 0 |
| – | Hiroki Katoh Kazuho Takahashi | 17 | 13 | 23 | Ret | Ret | 19 | Ret | 0 | |
| – | Kazuya Tsuruta Masayuki Ueda | 24 | 14 | 21 | 22 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 20 | 0 |
| – | Masami Kageyama | 22 | Ret | 14 | Ret | Ret | 23 | 0 | ||
| – | Junichirō Yamashita | 22 | Ret | 14 | Ret | 0 | ||||
| – | Tim Bergmeister | 14 | 0 | |||||||
| – | Keishi Ishikawa | 15 | 0 | |||||||
| – | Kyōsuke Mineo | 16 | 17 | 19 | 27 | 18 | 0 | |||
| – |  Kei Cozzolino | 16 | 17 | 0 | ||||||
| – | Akira Iida Hiroki Yoshimoto | 25 | 21 | Ret | 17 | 18 | 23 | 20 | Ret | 0 |
| – | Taiyō Iida | 17 | 0 | |||||||
| – | Hironori Takeuchi | 19 | 27 | 18 | 0 | |||||
| – | Nattavude Charoensukhawatana Piti Bhirombhakdi | 18 | 0 | |||||||
| – | Dominik Farnbacher | 18 | 0 | |||||||
| – | Masaki Jyonai Hisashi Wada | 19 | Ret | 20 | Ret | 23 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 0 |
| – |  Jono Lester | 19 | 0 | |||||||
| – | Shinji Nakano | 20 | 0 | |||||||
| – | Chonsawat Asavahame Morgan Haber | 20 | 0 | |||||||
| – | Tetsuji Tamanaka | 22 | Ret | Ret | 23 | 0 | ||||
| – | Kenta Yamashita | 22 | 0 | |||||||
| – | Tohjirō Azuma | 23 | 0 | |||||||
| – | Tadasuke Makino | Ret | 0 | |||||||
| – |  Dylan Derdaele | Ret | 0 | |||||||
| – |  Augusto Farfus | DNS | – | |||||||
| Rank | Driver | OKA | FUJ | SUG | FUJ | SUZ | CHA | MOT | MOT | Points |
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