The 2024 Japan Cup Series is the third season of SRO Motorsports Group and Team Asia One GT Management's GT World Challenge Asia, an auto racing series for grand tourer cars in Japan. The races are contested with GT3-spec and GT4-spec cars. The season began on 8 June at the Sportsland SUGO in Miyagi and is scheduled to end on 25 August at Okayama International Circuit in Okayama. [1]
Starting from this season, the Japan Cup had separated from the main GTWCA race, and would run as a stand-alone race. [1]
Japan Cup Calendar
| Round | Circuit | Date |
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| 1 |  Sportsland SUGO, Murata, Miyagi | 8–9 June |
| 2 | Fuji Speedway, Oyama, Shizuoka | 22–23 June |
| 3 | Suzuka International Racing Course, Suzuka, Mie | 6–7 July |
| 4 | Okayama International Circuit, Mimasaka, Okayama | 24–25 August |
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Bold indicates overall winner for each car class (GT3 and GT4).
| Round | Circuit | Pole Position | Pro/Am Winners | Am Winners | GT4 Silver-Am Winner | GT4 Am Winner | ||
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| 1 | R1 | Sportsland SUGO | No. 98 K-tunes Racing | No. 9 Bingo Racing | No. 55 Team Macchina | No. 50 YZ Racing | No. 16 ABSSA Motorsport | |
| Shinichi Takagi Daisuke Yamawaki | Ukyo Sasahara Shinji Takei | Tadao Uematsu | Yuki Fujii Masaki Kano | Kiwamu Katayama Takashi Toyoda | ||||
| R2 | No. 98 K-tunes Racing | No. 9 Bingo Racing | No. 55 Team Macchina |  No. 39 Toyota Gazoo Racing Indonesia | No. 16 ABSSA Motorsport | |||
| Shinichi Takagi Daisuke Yamawaki | Ukyo Sasahara Shinji Takei | Tadao Uematsu | Haridarma Manoppo Seita Nonaka | Kiwamu Katayama Takashi Toyoda | ||||
| 2 | R1 | Fuji Speedway | No. 98 K-tunes Racing | No. 98 K-tunes Racing | No. 55 Team Macchina | No. 39 Toyota Gazoo Racing Indonesia | No. 64 JBR | |
| Shinichi Takagi Daisuke Yamawaki | Shinichi Takagi Daisuke Yamawaki | Tadao Uematsu | Haridarma Manoppo Kazuhisa Urabe | Yasutaka Ando Osamu Kondo | ||||
| R2 | No. 98 K-tunes Racing | No. 98 K-tunes Racing | No. 55 Team Macchina | No. 82 Sunrise BLVD | No. 64 JBR | |||
| Shinichi Takagi Daisuke Yamawaki | Shinichi Takagi Daisuke Yamawaki | Tadao Uematsu | Daiki Fujiwara Yoshimoto Makino | Yasutaka Ando Osamu Kondo | ||||
| 3 | R1 | Suzuka | No. 9 Bingo Racing | No. 96 K-tunes Racing | No. 7 Comet Racing | No. 38 Wakayama Toyota with Hojust Racing | No. 47 D'station Racing | |
| "Motoki" Shinji Takei | Morio Nitta Kazunori Suenaga | Yorikatsu Tsujiko Yusuke Yamasaki | Toshiyuki Ochiai Takeshi Suehiro | Kenji Hama Tatsuya Hoshino | ||||
| R2 | No. 98 K-tunes Racing | |||||||
| Shinichi Takagi Daisuke Yamawaki | ||||||||
| 4 | R1 | Okayama | ||||||
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Championship points are awarded for the first ten positions in each race. Entries are required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points. Individual drivers are required to participate for a minimum of 25 minutes in order to earn championship points in any race.
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
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| Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
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Notes:
| Pos. | Driver | Team | SUG | FUJ | SUZ | OKA | Points | ||||||||||||
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| GT3 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Shinichi Takagi Daisuke Yamawaki | No. 98 K-tunes Racing | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | P | 104 | ||||||||||
| 2 | Morio Nitta Kazunori Suenaga | No. 96 K-tunes Racing | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 88 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Ukyo Sasahara Shinji Takei | No. 9 Bingo Racing | 1 | 1 | 50 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | Akira Mizutani Yuki Nemoto | No. 563 ANR With VSR | 3 | 4 | 27 | ||||||||||||||
| Pos. | Driver | Team | SUG | FUJ | SUZ | OKA | Points | ||||||||||||
| Pos. | Driver | Team | SUG | FUJ | SUZ | OKA | Points | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GT4 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Haridarma Manoppo | No. 39 Toyota Gazoo Racing Indonesia | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 92 | |||||||||||
| 2 | Yuki Fujii Masaki Kano | No. 50 YZ Racing | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 88 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Takeshi Suehiro | No. 38 Wakayama Toyota with Hojust Racing | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | P | 88 | ||||||||||
| 5 | Daiki Fujiwara Yoshimoto Makino | No. 82 Sunrise BLVD | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 70 | |||||||||||
| 6 | Toshiyuki Ochiai | No. 38 Wakayama Toyota with Hojust Racing | 2 | 2 | 1 | P | 61 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Seita Nonaka | No. 39 Toyota Gazoo Racing Indonesia | 4 | 1 | 3 | 52 | |||||||||||||
| 8 | Masahiko Kageyama Yoshichika Nagai | No. 97 K-tunes Racing | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 50 | |||||||||||
| 9 | Kazuhisa Urabe | No. 39 Toyota Gazoo Racing Indonesia | 1 | 3 | 40 | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | Noriyuki Higuchi | No. 38 Wakayama Toyota with Hojust Racing | 3 | 4 | 27 | ||||||||||||||
| Pos. | Driver | Team | SUG | FUJ | SUZ | OKA | Points | ||||||||||||
| Pos. | Driver | Team | SUG | FUJ | SUZ | OKA | Points | ||||||||||||
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| GT3 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Tadao Uematsu | No. 55 Team Macchina | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 118 | |||||||||||
| 2 | Yorikatsu Tsujiko Yusuke Yamasaki | No. 7 Comet Racing | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 94 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Atsushi Tanaka | No. 360 RunUp Sports | 4 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 62 | |||||||||||
| 5 | Masaaki Nishikawa | No. 360 RunUp Sports | 4 | 3 | 6 | WD | 3 | 50 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Kenji Hama Tatsuya Hoshino | No. 47 D'station Racing | 3 | Ret | 4 | 5 | 37 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | "Motoki" Shinji Takei | No. 9 Bingo Racing | 2 | 3 | Ret | P | 33 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Nobuyuki Oyagi Ryuichiro Oyagi | No. 81 GTNET Motorsports | 5 | 6 | 18 | ||||||||||||||
| GT4 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Takashi Toyoda | No. 16 ABSSA Motorsport | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 86 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Kiwamu Katayama | No. 16 ABSSA Motorsport | 1 | 1 | 50 | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | Yasutaka Ando Osamu Kondo | No. 64 JBR | 1 | 1 | 50 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | Yasuto Fukui | No. 16 ABSSA Motorsport | 2 | 2 | 36 | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | Kenji Hama Tatsuya Hoshino | No. 47 D'station Racing | 1 | P | 25 | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | "Hiro" Miou Katayama | No. 64 JBR | 2 | 18 | |||||||||||||||
| Pos. | Driver | Team | SUG | FUJ | SUZ | OKA | Points | ||||||||||||
| Pos. | Team | SUG | FUJ | SUZ | OKA | Points | |||||||||||||
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| GT3 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | K-tunes Racing | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 179 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| 2 | Bingo Racing | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | Ret | 72 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Team Macchina | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 72 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Comet Racing | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 60 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | RunUp Sports | 8 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 32 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | ANR With VSR | 3 | 7 | 21 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | D'station Racing | 7 | Ret | 6 | 7 | 20 | |||||||||||||
| 8 | GTNET Motorsports | 7 | 8 | 10 | |||||||||||||||
| GT4 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Toyota Gazoo Racing Indonesia | 12 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 92 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | YZ Racing | 9 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 88 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Wakayama Toyota with Hojust Racing | 10 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 88 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Sunrise BLVD | 11 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 70 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | K-tunes Racing | 13 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 48 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | ABSSA Motorsport | 14 | 13 | 16 | 16 | 28 | |||||||||||||
| 7 | JBR | 15 | 15 | 14 | 22 | ||||||||||||||
| 8 | D'station Racing | 12 | 10 | ||||||||||||||||
| Pos. | Team | SUG | FUJ | SUZ | OKA | Points | |||||||||||||
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