2018 Super GT Series

2018 Super GT Series

GT500 Drivers' Champion:
Naoki Yamamoto & Jenson Button
GT500 Teams' Champion:
Team Kunimitsu
GT300 Drivers' Champion:
Haruki Kurosawa & Naoya Gamou
GT300 Teams' Champion:
K2 R&D LEON Racing

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2017

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2019

Support series:
F4 Japanese Championship

Jenson Button (pictured in 2012) won the GT500 title alongside Naoki Yamamoto.

2018 GT500 champions, No. 100 Raybrig Team Kunimitsu Honda NSX-GT

The 2018 Autobacs Super GT Series was the twenty-sixth season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship including the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era and the fourteenth season the series has competed under the Super GT name. It was the thirty-sixth overall season of a national JAF sportscar championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The season began on April 8 and ended on November 11, after 8 races.

In the GT500 class, Team Kunimitsu won their first-ever championship with the all-star lineup of series veteran Naoki Yamamoto and 2009 Formula One champion Jenson Button, narrowly beating defending champions Ryō Hirakawa and Nick Cassidy at the final race in Motegi to clinch the title after both teams came in to the race tied in points. It was the first championship title for Honda in the GT500 class since 2010. Yamamoto, who had won the 2018 Super Formula title before the season finale, became just the fourth driver to win both the GT500 and Super Formula titles in the same year, while Button became the first rookie to win the GT500 title since Tora Takagi in 2005.

In the GT300 class, the No. 65 LEON CVSTOS AMG fielded by K2 R&D LEON Racing won the championship in Motegi after overcoming a 12-point deficit over the then-points leader No. 55 ARTA BMW, giving series veteran Haruki Kurosawa and Naoya Gamou their first championship title in the series. The No. 55 ARTA team, despite winning two races in the season, were ultimately too inconsistent in their championship challenge, as two races without scoring a point coupled with poor performance in both Sugo and Motegi ultimately cost them the championship over the more consistent LEON AMG. The No. 31 Toyota Prius apr GT of Koki Saga and Kohei Hirate would finish third, just one point behind the ARTA BMW, while defending champions Goodsmile Racing finished fourth after a poor start to the season and a tire issue in Autopolis ultimately cost them the chance to defend the title.

Schedule

Round	Race	Circuit	Date
1	Okayama GT 300 km	Okayama International Circuit	April 7–8
2	Fuji GT 500 km	Fuji Speedway	May 3–4
3	Suzuka GT 300 km	Suzuka Circuit	May 19–20
4	Buriram United Super GT Race 300 km	Chang International Circuit	June 30 – July 1
5	Fuji GT 500 miles	Fuji Speedway	August 4–5
6	Sugo GT 300 km	Sportsland Sugo	September 15–16
7	Autopolis GT 300 km	Autopolis	October 20–21
8	Motegi GT 250 km	Twin Ring Motegi	November 10–11

Schedule changes

• On March 4, 2017, Suzuka Circuit, the Stéphane Ratel Organisation, and the GT Association announced that the Suzuka 1000km would become the Suzuka 10 Hours from 2018, and moves to the Intercontinental GT Challenge. The Super GT championship round at Suzuka moves to May 19–20 and will be a 300km race, as it was from 1995 to 2010.
• To replace the Suzuka 1000km as the series' endurance round, the Fuji GT 300km, held in early August, was lengthened to a 500 mile (804 kilometer) race. The Fuji 500 Mile Race was originally held from 1977 to 1992.
• The race at Buriram United International Circuit in Thailand was moved from the seventh to the fourth round of the championship, on June 30 – July 1.
• The race at Sportsland Sugo was moved from the fourth to the sixth round of the championship, on September 15–16.
• The race at Autopolis was moved from the third to the seventh round of the championship, on October 20–21.

Teams and drivers

GT500

Team	Car	Engine	Make	No.	Drivers	Tyre	Rounds
Lexus Team KeePer TOM'S [1]	Lexus	Lexus LC500 GT500	Lexus RI4AG 2.0 L Turbo I4	1	Ryō Hirakawa [1]	B	All
					Nick Cassidy [1]
Lexus Team au TOM'S [1]				36	Kazuki Nakajima [1]	B	1, 3–8
					Yuhi Sekiguchi [1]		All
					James Rossiter [2]		2
NDDP by B-Max Racing [3]	Nissan	Nissan GT-R NISMO GT500	Nissan NR20A 2.0 L Turbo I4	3	Satoshi Motoyama [3]	M	All
					Katsumasa Chiyo [3]
Lexus Team LeMans Wako's [1]	Lexus	Lexus LC500 GT500	Lexus RI4AG 2.0 L Turbo I4	6	Kazuya Oshima [1]	B	All
					Felix Rosenqvist [1]		1–2, 4–8
					James Rossiter [2]		3
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri [4]	Honda	Honda NSX-GT	Honda HR-417E 2.0 L Turbo I4	8	Tomoki Nojiri [4]	B	All
					Takuya Izawa [4]
Team Impul [3]	Nissan	Nissan GT-R NISMO GT500	Nissan NR20A 2.0 L Turbo I4	12	Daiki Sasaki [3]	B	All
					Jann Mardenborough [3]
Team Mugen [4]	Honda	Honda NSX-GT	Honda HR-417E 2.0 L Turbo I4	16	Hideki Mutoh [4]	Y	All
					Daisuke Nakajima [4]
REAL Racing [4]	Honda	Honda NSX-GT	Honda HR-417E 2.0 L Turbo I4	17	Koudai Tsukakoshi [4]	B	All
					Takashi Kogure [4]
Lexus Team WedsSport Bandoh [1]	Lexus	Lexus LC500 GT500	Lexus RI4AG 2.0 L Turbo I4	19	Yuji Kunimoto [1]	Y	All
					Kenta Yamashita [1]
NISMO [3]	Nissan	Nissan GT-R NISMO GT500	Nissan NR20A 2.0 L Turbo I4	23	Tsugio Matsuda [3]	M	All
					Ronnie Quintarelli [3]
Kondo Racing [3]	Nissan	Nissan GT-R NISMO GT500	Nissan NR20A 2.0 L Turbo I4	24	João Paulo de Oliveira [3]	Y	All
					Mitsunori Takaboshi [3]
Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo [1]	Lexus	Lexus LC500 GT500	Lexus RI4AG 2.0 L Turbo I4	38	Yuji Tachikawa [1]	B	All
					Hiroaki Ishiura [1]
Lexus Team SARD [1]	Lexus	Lexus LC500 GT500	Lexus RI4AG 2.0 L Turbo I4	39	Heikki Kovalainen [1]	B	All
					Kamui Kobayashi [1]		1, 3–8
					Sho Tsuboi [2]		2
Nakajima Racing [4]	Honda	Honda NSX-GT	Honda HR-417E 2.0 L Turbo I4	64	Bertrand Baguette [4]	D	All
					Kosuke Matsuura [4]
Team Kunimitsu [4]	Honda	Honda NSX-GT	Honda HR-417E 2.0 L Turbo I4	100	Naoki Yamamoto [4]	B	All
					Jenson Button [5]

GT300

Team	Make	Car	Engine	No.	Drivers	Tyre	Rounds
Goodsmile Racing with Team Ukyo [6]	Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG GT3	Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8	0	Nobuteru Taniguchi [6]	Y	All
					Tatsuya Kataoka [6]
Cars Tokai Dream28 [7]	Lotus	Lotus Evora MC	GTA V8 4.5 L V8	2	Kazuho Takahashi [6]	Y	All
					Hiroki Katoh [6]
Team Mach [8]	Toyota	Toyota 86 MC	GTA V8 4.5 L V8	5	Natsu Sakaguchi [8]	Y	1–3, 5–8
					Yuya Hiraki [8]
					Tetsuji Tamanaka [2]		2
					Kiyoto Fujinami		5
D'station Racing [9]	Porsche	Porsche 911 GT3 R	Porsche M97/80 4.0 L F6	7	Tomonobu Fujii [9]	Y	All
					Sven Müller [9]
Pacific with Gulf Racing [10]	Porsche	Porsche 911 GT3 R	Porsche M97/80 4.0 L F6	9	Rintaro Kubo [10]	Y	All
					Keishi Ishikawa [10]
					Kyosuke Mineo		5
GAINER [3]	Nissan	Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 (2018)	Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 L Twin Turbo V6	10	Kazuki Hoshino [3]	Y	All
					Hiroki Yoshida [3]
				11	Katsuyuki Hiranaka [3]	D	All
					Hironobu Yasuda [3]
Team UpGarage [11]	Toyota	Toyota 86 MC	GTA V8 4.5 L V8	18	Yuhki Nakayama [11]	Y	All
					Takashi Kobayashi [11]
Audi Team Hitotsuyama [12]	Audi	Audi R8 LMS	Audi DAR 5.2 L V10	21	Richard Lyons [12]	D	All
					Ryuichiro Tomita [12]
					Takuro Shinohara [2]		2
R'Qs Motor Sports	Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG GT3	Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8	22	Hisashi Wada	Y	1–3, 5–8
					Masaki Jyonai
					Masayuki Ueda		5
Tsuchiya Engineering [1]	Toyota	Toyota 86 MC	GTA V8 4.5 L V8	25	Takamitsu Matsui [1]	Y	All
					Sho Tsuboi [1]		1, 3–8
					Tsubasa Kondo [2]		2, 5
					Takeshi Tsuchiya [2]		2
Team Taisan [13]	Audi	Audi R8 LMS	Audi DAR 5.2 L V10	26	Shinnosuke Yamada [13]	Y	1–3, 5–8
					Shintarō Kawabata [13]
					Shinji Nakano [2]		2
apr [1]	Toyota	Toyota Prius apr GT	Toyota RV8KLM 3.4 L Hybrid V8	30	Hiroaki Nagai	Y	All
					Kota Sasaki		1-5
					Manabu Orido		6-8
				31	Koki Saga [14]	B	All
					Kohei Hirate [14]
est cola by AAS Motorsport	Bentley	Bentley Continental GT3 (2016)	Bentley EA824 4.0 L Twin Turbo V8	32	Maxime Jousse	M	4
					Kantadhee Kusiri
Modulo Drago Corse [14] [15]	Honda	Honda NSX GT3	Honda JNC1 3.5 L Twin Turbo V6	34	Ryo Michigami [14]	Y	All
					Hiroki Otsu [14]
Arto Panther Team Thailand [1]	Lexus	Lexus RC F GT3	Lexus 2UR-GSE 5.4 L V8	35	Nattavude Charoensukhawatana [1]	Y	All
					Nattapong Horthongkum [1]
					Koji Yamanishi		5
Dijon Racing [3]	Nissan	Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 (2017)	Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 L Twin Turbo V6	48	Masaki Tanaka [3]	Y	1–3, 5–8
					Taiyō Iida [3]		1–2, 5
					Richard Bradley [2]		2–3, 7–8
					Hiroshi Takamori		6
Arnage Racing [16]	Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG GT3	Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8	50	Masaki Kano [16]	Y	All
					Hideto Yasuoka [16]
					Yūya Sakamoto [2]		2
Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave [17]	Toyota	Toyota Mark X MC	GTA V8 4.5 L V8	52	Taku Bamba [17]	Y	All
					Shigekazu Wakisaka [17]
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri [17]	BMW	BMW M6 GT3	BMW S63B44 4.4 L Twin Turbo V8	55	Shinichi Takagi [17]	B	All
					Sean Walkinshaw [17]
LM Corsa – OTG Motor Sports [1]	Lexus	Lexus RC F GT3	Lexus 2UR-GSE 5.4 L V8	60	Hiroki Yoshimoto [18]	Y	All
					Ritomo Miyata [18]
K-Tunes Racing LM Corsa [1]				96	Morio Nitta [17]	B	All
					Yuichi Nakayama [17]
R&D Sport [19]	Subaru	Subaru BRZ R&D Sport	Subaru EJ20 2.0 L Turbo F4	61	Takuto Iguchi [19]	D	All
					Hideki Yamauchi [19]
K2 R&D LEON Racing [20]	Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG GT3	Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8	65	Haruki Kurosawa [20]	B	All
					Naoya Gamou [20]
JLOC [21]	Lamborghini	Lamborghini Huracán GT3	Lamborghini DFJ 5.2 L V10	87	Kimiya Sato [21]	Y	All
					Yuya Motojima [21]
					Tsubasa Takahashi		2
				88	Kazuki Hiramine [21]	Y	All
					Marco Mapelli [21]		1–3, 6–8
					Andrea Caldarelli [21]		4
EIcars Bentley [22]	Bentley	Bentley Continental GT3	Bentley EA824 4.0 L Twin Turbo V8	117	Yuji Ide [22]	Y	1–3, 5–8
					Ryohei Sakaguchi [22]
					Jules Gounon		5
Tomei Sports [3]	Nissan	Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 (2017)	Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 L Twin Turbo V6	360	Yusaku Shibata [23]	Y	1–2, 5–8
					Takayuki Aoki [23]		1–3, 6, 8
					Atsushi Tanaka [23]		3, 5, 7
					Masataka Yanagida [23]		5
CarGuy Racing [24]	Honda	Honda NSX GT3	Honda JNC1 3.5 L Twin Turbo V6	777	Naoki Yokomizo [24]	Y	1–3, 5, 7–8
					Takeshi Kimura [24]
					Kei Cozzolino [2]		2

Notes

Vehicle Changes

GT300

• Panther Team Thailand switched from the Dome-built Toyota 86 MC to the Lexus RC F GT3.
• GAINER switched to a full-on effort with Nissan, fielding two brand-new 2018 Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3s.
• Arnage Racing separated from INGING Motorsport after one season, and also switch vehicles to the Mercedes-AMG GT3.

Entrant changes

GT500

• Honda:
  • 2009 Formula 1 World Champion Jenson Button, who made his series debut with Team Mugen at the 2017 Suzuka 1000km, will run full-time with Honda and Team Kunimitsu in 2018.
  • Takuya Izawa moves from Team Kunimitsu to Autobacs Racing Team Aguri, replacing Takashi Kobayashi.
• Toyota:
  • Former F1, and current WEC and Super Formula driver Kamui Kobayashi will make his full-time GT500 debut with Lexus Team SARD
  • * James Rossiter stepped away from full-time Super GT racing in 2018, but will continue to race in Japan in the Super Formula championship. Yuhi Sekiguchi replaces Rossiter at Lexus Team au TOM's
  • Toyota young driver Kenta Yamashita moves up to GT500 full-time with Lexus Team WedsSport BANDOH, replacing Sekiguchi.
  • Formula E standout Felix Rosenqvist will make his Super GT debut in the GT500 class for Lexus Team Wako's LeMans. Replaces Andrea Caldarelli who confirmed that he would leave Toyota and Super GT this season, focusing solely on his commitments as a factory driver at Lamborghini Squadra Corse.
• Nissan:
  • Reigning All-Japan Formula 3 Champion Mitsunori Takaboshi steps up to GT500 full-time with Kondo Racing, replacing Daiki Sasaki, who moves over to Team Impul to drive the Calsonic GT-R.
  • NDDP Racing moved up to the GT500 class for 2018, entering as NDDP Racing with B-Max. They take the place of MOLA, who withdrew from the series at the end of 2017. Satoshi Motoyama and Katsumasa Chiyo stays to the new team.

GT300

• Former GT500 driver Hironobu Yasuda and two-time GT300 champion Kazuki Hoshino move to Gainer, from Team Impul and NDDP Racing respectively, to drive their new Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3s.
• Takashi Kobayashi moves to Team UpGarage, replacing Shintaro Kawabata.
• VivaC Team Tsuchiya reverted to their original name, Tsuchiya Engineering, following the withdrawal of their title sponsor VivaC. Toyota young driver Sho Tsuboi will replace Kenta Yamashita at Tsuchiya Engineering.
• Akira Iida will step away from full-time driving duties, and became team director of the #60 LM Corsa Lexus RC F GT3. Two-time FIA F4 Japanese Champion Ritomo Miyata makes his series debut with LM Corsa.
• The #51 LM Corsa Lexus RC F GT3 changes its number to #96, and has a new title sponsor in Okayama Toyopet / K-Tunes Racing. The team will be officially known as K-Tunes Racing LM Corsa from 2018. Three-time GT300 champion Morio Nitta moves to K-Tunes LM Corsa Lexus RC F GT3 to replace Sho Tsuboi.
• Jono Lester was released from Pacific with Gulf Racing after the 2017 season, and will not return to Super GT in 2018. Pacific with Gulf Racing recruit Rintaro Kubo from apr, and Keishi Ishikawa who moves from Rn-sports. Kyosuke Mineo become the third driver.
• Two-time GT500 champion Kohei Hirate moves out of GT500 to drive the #31 Toyota Prius for apr Racing. And two-time GT300 champion Manabu Orido joined apr Racing midseason to replace Kota Sasaki.
• Drago Corse, who competed from 2015 to 2016 as Drago Modulo Honda Racing, return to the series in GT300 with another Honda NSX GT3. They will be known as Modulo Drago Corse. 2000 GT500 Champion Ryo Michigami returns to the series as a full-time driver owner, after racing in the World Touring Car Championship in 2017. Former All-Japan Formula 3 race winner Hiroki Otsu makes his series debut with Modulo Drago Corse.
• FIA F4 Japanese graduate Yuya Hiraki makes his series debut with Team Mach, replacing Kiyoto Fujinami as Natsu Sakaguchi's co-driver.
• Audi Team Hitotsuyama recruit Ryuichiro Tomita to replace Masataka Yanagida
• Masaki Kano and Hideto Yasuoka both return to the series with Arnage Racing.
• CarGuy Racing makes their Super GT debut with the all-new Honda NSX GT3. They previously competed in the Super Taikyu Series and Blancpain GT Series Asia. Gentleman racer Takeshi Kimura makes his series debut with CarGuy Racing. Naoki Yokomizo, the 2012 GT300 Champion, returns after a year-long hiatus to drive for the new CarGuy Racing team.
• BMW Team Studie, the 2011 GT300 class Champion (by then co-joint with Goodsmile Racing) announced in January that they would switch to the Blancpain GT Series Asia GT4 category, and suspended operations in Super GT for the foreseeable future.
• Bentley factory driver Jules Gounon makes his Super GT debut in a one-off for EIcars Bentley at the Fuji 500-mile race. ^[25]

Results

Round	Circuit	Date	Class	Pole Position	Race Winner
1	Okayama International Circuit Report	7–8 April	GT500	No. 17 REAL Racing	No. 17 REAL Racing
				Koudai Tsukakoshi Takashi Kogure	Koudai Tsukakoshi Takashi Kogure
			GT300	No. 88 JLOC	No. 18 Team UpGarage
				Kazuki Hiramine Marco Mapelli	Yuhki Nakayama Takashi Kobayashi
2	Fuji Speedway Report	3–4 May	GT500	No. 38 Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo	No. 23 NISMO
				Yuji Tachikawa Hiroaki Ishiura	Tsugio Matsuda Ronnie Quintarelli
			GT300	No. 55 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	No. 55 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri
				Shinichi Takagi Sean Walkinshaw	Shinichi Takagi Sean Walkinshaw
3	Suzuka Circuit Report	19–20 May	GT500	No. 8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	No. 8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri
				Tomoki Nojiri Takuya Izawa	Tomoki Nojiri Takuya Izawa
			GT300	No. 96 K-Tunes LM Corsa	No. 96 K-Tunes LM Corsa
				Yuichi Nakayama Morio Nitta	Yuichi Nakayama Morio Nitta
4	Chang International Circuit Report	30 June-1 July	GT500	No. 16 Team Mugen	No. 39 Lexus Team SARD
				Hideki Mutoh Daisuke Nakajima	Heikki Kovalainen Kamui Kobayashi
			GT300	No. 65 K2 R&D LEON Racing	No. 11 GAINER
				Haruki Kurosawa Naoya Gamou	Katsuyuki Hiranaka Hironobu Yasuda
5	Fuji Speedway Report	4–5 August	GT500	No. 23 NISMO	No. 36 Lexus Team au TOM'S
				Tsugio Matsuda Ronnie Quintarelli	Kazuki Nakajima Yuhi Sekiguchi
			GT300	No. 25 Tsuchiya Engineering	No. 55 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri
				Tsubasa Kondō Takamitsu Matsui Shō Tsuboi	Shinichi Takagi Sean Walkinshaw
6	Sportsland Sugo Report	15–16 September	GT500	No. 100 Team Kunimitsu	No. 100 Team Kunimitsu
				Jenson Button Naoki Yamamoto	Jenson Button Naoki Yamamoto
			GT300	No. 61 R&D Sport	No. 61 R&D Sport
				Takuto Iguchi Hideki Yamauchi	Takuto Iguchi Hideki Yamauchi
7	Autopolis Report	20–21 October	GT500	No. 8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	No. 1 Lexus Team KeePer TOM'S
				Tomoki Nojiri Takuya Izawa	Nick Cassidy Ryō Hirakawa
			GT300	No. 25 Tsuchiya Engineering	No. 96 K-Tunes Racing LM Corsa
				Takamitsu Matsui Sho Tsuboi	Yuichi Nakayama Morio Nitta
8	Twin Ring Motegi Report	10–11 November	GT500	No. 8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	No. 8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri
				Tomoki Nojiri Takuya Izawa	Tomoki Nojiri Takuya Izawa
			GT300	No. 88 JLOC	No. 65 K2 R&D LEON Racing
				Kazuki Hiramine Marco Mapelli	Haruki Kurosawa Naoya Gamou

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 mile	25	18	13	10	8	6	5	4	3	2	1

GT500

Driver Ranking GT500 2018 Series [26] Rank Driver Team OKA FUJ SUZ CHA FUJ SUG AUT MOT Points 1 Naoki Yamamoto Jenson Button No. 100 Team Kunimitsu 2 9 2 11 5 1 5 3 78 2 Ryō Hirakawa Nick Cassidy No. 1 Lexus Team KeePer TOM'S 3 7 3 8 2 14 1 4 75 3 Tomoki Nojiri Takuya Izawa No. 8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri 11 8 1 Ret 4 2 12 1 71 4 Yuji Tachikawa Hiroaki Ishiura No. 38 Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo 8 3 8 4 8 5 4 2 59 5 Yuhi Sekiguchi No. 36 Lexus Team au TOM'S 13 4 5 10 1 12 2 13 55 6 Kazuki Nakajima No. 36 Lexus Team au TOM'S 13 5 10 1 12 2 13 47 7 Koudai Tsukakoshi Takashi Kogure No. 17 REAL Racing 1 11 11 7 3 9 6 15 45 8 Tsugio Matsuda Ronnie Quintarelli No. 23 NISMO 5 1 6 12 9 7 15 7 43 9 Heikki Kovalainen No. 39 Lexus Team SARD 12 2 Ret 1 11 10 8 8 42 10 Kazuya Oshima No. 6 Lexus Team LeMans Wako's 4 5 12 2 7 11 9 6 41 Felix Rosenqvist No. 6 Lexus Team LeMans Wako's 4 5 2 7 11 9 6 41 11 Yuji Kunimoto Kenta Yamashita No. 19 Lexus Team WedsSport Bandoh 9 12 13 3 10 Ret 3 5 32 12 Daiki Sasaki Jann Mardenborough No. 12 Team Impul 14 6 4 6 12 3 11 11 29 13 Kamui Kobayashi No. 39 Lexus Team SARD 12 Ret 1 11 10 8 8 27 14 Joao Paulo de Oliveira Mitsunori Takaboshi No. 24 Kondo Racing 6 13 9 Ret 6 6 7 10 23 15 Hideki Mutoh Daisuke Nakajima No. 16 Team Mugen 10 14 Ret 5 14 4 14 14 16 16 Sho Tsuboi No. 39 Lexus Team SARD 2 15 17 Satoshi Motoyama Katsumasa Chiyo No. 3 NDDP by B-Max Racing 7 10 7 13 15 8 13 9 14 18 James Rossiter No. 6 Lexus Team LeMans Wako's 4 12 8 19 Bertrand Baguette Kosuke Matsuura No. 64 Nakajima Racing 15 Ret 10 9 13 13 10 12 4 Rank Driver Team OKA FUJ SUZ CHA FUJ SUG AUT MOT Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX)

GT300

Driver Ranking GT300 2018 Series ^[27]

Rank	Driver	Team	OKA	FUJ	SUZ	CHA	FUJ	SUG	AUT	MOT	Points
1	Haruki Kurosawa Naoya Gamou	No. 65 K2 R&D LEON Racing	4	4	7	4	4	8	5	1	68
2	Shinichi Takagi Sean Walkinshaw	No. 55 ARTA	6	1	20	11	1	10	4	9	62
3	Koki Saga Kohei Hirate	No. 31 apr	Ret	2	9	2	3	25	10	2	61
4	Nobuteru Taniguchi Tatsuya Kataoka	No. 0 Goodsmile Racing with Team Ukyo	8	5	8	7	2	3	19	3	56
5	Katsuyuki Hiranaka Hironobu Yasuda	No. 11 GAINER	5	3	16	1	22	19	6	5	48
6	Morio Nitta Yuichi Nakayama	No.96 K-Tunes LM Corsa	14	14	1	10	10	14	1	10	45
7	Takamitsu Matsui	No. 25 Tsuchiya Engineering	3	Ret	2	19	5	24	24	8	39
	Sho Tsuboi	No. 25 Tsuchiya Engineering	3		2	19	5	24	24	8	39
8	Takuto Iguchi Hideki Yamauchi	No. 61 R&D Sport	18	Ret	3	Ret	Ret	1	15	6	37
9	Tomonobu Fujii Sven Müller	No. 7 D'station Racing	2	6	11	8	7	12	8	7	35
10	Kazuki Hiramine	No. 88 JLOC	7	9	4	6	6	5	13	27	33
11	Kimiya Sato Yuya Motojima	No. 87 JLOC	12	16	12	5	Ret	13	2	4	29
12	Yuhki Nakayama Takashi Kobayshi	No. 18 Team UpGarage	1	13	6	18	9	11	27	Ret	28
13	Marco Mapelli	No. 88 JLOC	7	9	4		6	5	13	27	28
14	Ryo Michigami Hiroki Otsu	No. 34 Modulo Drago Corse	Ret	8	26	9	DNS	4	3	14	24
15	Ritomo Miyata Hiroki Yoshimoto	No. 60 LM Corsa	17	7	5	3	Ret	9	12	24	23
16	Kazuki Hoshino Hiroki Yoshida	No. 10 GAINER	13	11	10	Ret	8	2	9	15	22
17	Rintaro Kubo Keishi Ishikawa	No. 9 Pacific with Gulf Racing	16	17	15	16	15	6	11	12	5
18	Andrea Caldarelli	No. JLOC				6					5
19	Taku Bamba Shigekazu Wakisaka	No. 52 Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave	11	19	14	17	Ret	7	17	13	4
20	Natsu Sakaguchi Yuya Hiraki	No. 5 Team Mach	Ret	12	Ret		19	22	7	18	4
21	Shintaro Kawabata Shinnosuke Yamada	No. 26 Team Taisan	9	15	28		Ret	20	20	16	2
22	Richard Lyons Ryuichiro Tomita	No. 21 Audi Team Hitotsuyama	Ret	10	23	Ret	14	23	14	11	1
23	Masaki Kano Hideto Yasuoka	No. 50 Arnage Racing	10	20	19	13	11	17	16	20	1
24	Tsubasa Kondo	No. 25 Tsuchiya Engineering		Ret			5				1
-	Takuro Shinohara	No. 21 Audi Team Hitotsuyama		10 [lower-alpha 1]			14				0
-	Yuya Sakamoto	No. 50 Arnage Racing		20			11				0
-	Kazuho Takahashi Hiroki Katoh	No. 2 Cars Tokai Dream28	23	23	13	12	20	Ret	21	22	0
-	Yusaku Shibata	No. 360 Tomei Sports	Ret				12	Ret	23	17	0
-	Takayuki Aoki	No. 360 Tomei Sports	Ret	Ret	27		12	Ret		17	0
-	Masataka Yanagida	No. 360 Tomei Sports					12				0
-	Tetsuji Tamanaka	No. 5 Team Mach		12							0
-	Yuji Ide Ryohei Sakaguchi	No. 117 EIcars Bentley	21	22	18		13	15	18	19	0
-	Jules Gounon	No. 117 EIcars Bentley					13				0
-	Maxime Jousse Kantadhee Kusiri	No. 32 est cola by AAS Motorsport				14					0
-	Nattavude Charoensukhawatana Nattapong Horthongkum	No. 35 Arto Panther Team Thailand	24	24	24	15	16	18	22	25	0
-	Takeshi Kimura Naoki Yokomizo	No. CarGuy Racing	15	26	21		17		Ret	23	0
-	Kyosuke Mineo	No. 9 Pacific with Gulf Racing					15				0
-	Shinji Nakano	No. 26 Team Taisan		15			Ret				0
-	Hiroaki Nagai	No. 30 apr	20	18	17	Ret	Ret	16	26	21	0
-	Manabu Orido	No. 30 apr					Ret	16	26	21	0
-	Koji Yamanishi	No. 35 Arto Panther Team Thailand					16				0
-	Tsubasa Takahashi	No. 87 JLOC		16			Ret				0
-	Kota Sasaki	No. 30 apr	20	18	17	Ret	Ret				0
-	Masaki Tanaka	No. 48 Dijon Racing	22	21	22		18	21	28	26	0
-	Richard Bradley	No. 48 Dijon Racing		21	22		18		28	26	0
-	Taiyou Iida	No. 48 Dijon Racing	22	21			18				0
-	Masaki Jyonai Hisashi Wada	No. 22 R'Qs Motor Sports	19	25	25		21		25	28	0
-	Kiyoto Fujinami	No. 5 Team Mach					19				0
-	Masayuki Ueda	No. 22 R'Qs Motor Sports					21				0
-	Hiroshi Takamori	No. 48 Dijon Racing						21			0
-	Atsushi Tanaka	No. 360 Tomei Sports		Ret	27				23		0
-	Kei Cozzolino	No. 777 CarGuy Racing		26							0
-	Takeshi Tsuchiya	No. 25 Tsuchiya Engineering		Ret							0
Rank	Driver	Team	OKA	FUJ	SUZ	CHA	FUJ	SUG	AUT	MOT	Points

Notes

1. Takuro Shinohara did not run during the race as a third driver and was ineligible for championship points.

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External links

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