2010 Super GT Series explained

The 2010 Autobacs Super GT Series was the eighteenth season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship including the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era and the sixth season as the Super GT series. It also marked the twenty-eighth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship.

In GT300 class, Group GT3 cars were eligible to enter as name of category F.

In both classes, every race was won by a different pairing, with the Weider Honda Racing duo Takashi Kogure and Loïc Duval eventually becoming GT500 champions for the first time, giving the Honda HSV-010 GT a championship-winning début season. Defending champions Juichi Wakisaka and André Lotterer finished the season as runners-up, while Toshihiro Kaneishi and Koudai Tsukakoshi finished third. In GT300, Kazuki Hoshino and Masataka Yanagida overhauled an 11-point deficit heading into the final round of the championship to claim the title for Hasemi Motorsport. Their final round win, coupled with finishes or lower than eighth place for Morio Nitta and Shinichi Takagi, and Ryo Orime and Nobuteru Taniguchi, gave them a championship-winning margin of nine points.

Drivers and teams

GT500

TeamMakeCarEngineDriversTyreRound
Lexus Team Petronas TOM'SLexusLexus SC430 GT500Lexus RV8KG 3.4 L V81 Juichi Wakisakaalign=center rowspan=2All
André LottererAll
Lexus Team LeMans ENEOSLexusLexus SC430 GT500Lexus RV8KG 3.4 L V86 Daisuke Itōalign=center rowspan=2All
Björn WirdheimAll
Autobacs Racing Team AguriHondaHonda HSV-010 GTHonda HR10EG 3.4 L V88 Ralph Firmanalign=center rowspan=3All
Yuji IdeAll
Takashi Kobayashi6
Team ImpulNissanNissan GT-R GT500Nissan VRH34A 3.4 L V812 Tsugio Matsudaalign=center rowspan=2All
Ronnie QuintarelliAll
Keihin Real RacingHondaHonda HSV-010 GTHonda HR10EG 3.4 L V817 Toshihiro Kaneishialign=center rowspan=2All
Koudai TsukakoshiAll
Weider Honda RacingHondaHonda HSV-010 GTHonda HR10EG 3.4 L V818 Loïc Duvalalign=center rowspan=2All
Takashi KogureAll
NismoNissanNissan GT-R GT500Nissan VRH34A 3.4 L V823 Satoshi Motoyamaalign=center rowspan=2All
Benoît TréluyerAll
Kondō RacingNissanNissan GT-R GT500Nissan VRH34A 3.4 L V824 João Paulo de Oliveiraalign=center rowspan=2All
Hironobu YasudaAll
Nakajima RacingHondaHonda HSV-010 GTHonda HR10EG 3.4 L V832 Ryo Michigamialign=center rowspan=2All
Yuhki NakayamaAll
Lexus Team KraftLexusLexus SC430 GT500Lexus RV8KG 3.4 L V835 Hiroaki Ishiuraalign=center rowspan=2All
Kazuya OshimaAll
Lexus Team ZENT CerumoLexusLexus SC430 GT500Lexus RV8KG 3.4 L V838 Yuji Tachikawaalign=center rowspan=2All
Richard LyonsAll
Lexus Team SARDLexusLexus SC430 GT500Lexus RV8KG 3.4 L V839 Kohei Hiratealign=center rowspan=3All
André Couto1–7, NC
Carlo van Dam8
Team KunimitsuHondaHonda HSV-010 GTHonda HR10EG 3.4 L V8100 Takuya Izawaalign=center rowspan=2All
Naoki YamamotoAll

GT300

TeamMakeCarEngineDriversTyreRound
Apple K-ONE ShidenMooncraftMooncraft ShidenToyota 1UZ-FE 4.4 L V82 Hiroki Katohalign=center rowspan=3All
Hiroshi Hamaguchi1–8
Kazuho Takahashi6, NC
Hasemi MotorsportNissanNissan Fairlady ZNissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V63 Kazuki Hoshinoalign=center rowspan=2All
Masataka YanagidaAll
Team MachVemacVemac RD408RPorsche M96/77 3.6 L F65 Tetsuji Tamanakaalign=center rowspan=2All
Haruki KurosawaAll
RE Amemiya RacingMazdaMazda RX-7Mazda RE20B 2.0 L 3-rotor7 Ryo Orimealign=center rowspan=2All
Nobuteru TaniguchiAll
Goodsmile Racing with COXPorschePorsche 996 GT3-RSR
Porsche 997 GT3-R
Porsche M96/73 3.6 L F6
Porsche M97/79 4.0 L F6
9 Taku Bambaalign=center rowspan=41–3, 5–8
Masahiro Sasaki1–3, 5–8, NC
Mitsuhiro Kinoshita6
Hideto YasuokaNC
Jim Gainer RacingFerrariFerrari F430Ferrari F136GT 4.3 L V811 Tetsuya Tanakaalign=center rowspan=2All
Katsuyuki HiranakaAll
Racing Project BandohLexusLexus IS350Lexus RV8J 3.4 L V819 Tatsuya Kataokaalign=center rowspan=2All
Manabu OridoAll
Team RQS MotorsportsVemacVemac RD350RZytek ZV348 4.0 L V822 Hisashi Wadaalign=center rowspan=36–8
Masaki Jyonai6–8
Ryohei Sakaguchi6
Samurai Team TsuchiyaPorschePorsche 997 GT3-RSRPorsche M97/81 4.0 L F625 Akihiro Tsuzukialign=center rowspan=33, 5–8, NC
Takeshi Tsuchiya3, 5–8, NC
Yoshio Tsuzuki6
Team TaisanPorschePorsche 996 GT3-RSPorsche M96/77 3.6 L F626 Igor Sushkoalign=center rowspan=61–3, 5–7
Masayuki Ueda1–3, 5–8, NC
Shogo Mitsuyama6, 8, NC
51 Yuya Sakamoto3, 5–8, NC
Shogo Mitsuyama3, 5, 7
Hideki Yamauchi8, NC
LMP MotorsportFerrariFerrari F430Ferrari F136GT 4.3 L V827 Yutaka Yamagishialign=center rowspan=4All
Hiroshi KoizumiAll
PorschePorsche 996 GT3-RSPorsche M96/73 3.6 L F628 Akihiro Asai6–8
Yuki Iwasaki6–8
EVA Racing
Team apr
ToyotaToyota Corolla Axio apr GTToyota 2GR-FSE 3.5 L V631 Kosuke Matsuuraalign=center rowspan=3All
Koki SagaAll
Yuya Sakamoto6
74 Takuto Iguchialign=center rowspan=2All
Yuji KunimotoAll
Hankook KTRPorschePorsche 997 GT3-RSRPorsche M97/81 4.0 L F633 Mitsuhiro Kinoshitaalign=center rowspan=31–4
Masami Kageyama1–4, 7, NC
Tomonobu Fujii3, 7, NC
Autobacs Racing Team AguriASLASL ARTA GaraiyaNissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V643 Morio Nittaalign=center rowspan=3All
Shinichi TakagiAll
Kyosuke Mineo6
MOLANissanNissan Fairlady ZNissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V646 Tsubasa Abealign=center rowspan=2All
Naoki YokomizoAll
R&D SportSubaruSubaru Legacy B4Subaru EJ20 2.0 L Turbo F462 Kota Sasakialign=center rowspan=21–3, 5–8, NC
Tetsuya Yamano1–3, 5–8, NC
A speedAston MartinAston Martin V8 Vantage GT2Aston Martin AJ37 4.7 L V866 Hideshi Matsudaalign=center rowspan=3All
Hiroki YoshimotoAll
Tomonobu Fujii6
JLOCLamborghiniLamborghini Gallardo RG-3Lamborghini 07L1 5.2 L V1086 Yuhi Sekiguchialign=center rowspan=8All
Koji YamanishiAll
87 Hiroyuki IiriAll
Yuya SakamotoAll
Naohiro Furuya6
88 Shinya Hosokawa1–7
Atsushi YogoAll
Tsubasa Kurosawa8, NC
Tomei SportsPorschePorsche 996 GT3-RSRPorsche M96/73 3.6 L F6360 Keita Sawaalign=center rowspan=41
Takamori.com1
Masahiro Matsunaga3–5, 7–8
Atsushi Tanaka3–5, 7–8
365 Thunder Asia RacingMoslerMosler MT900MJudd XV675 3.4 L V8365 Melvin Chooalign=center rowspan=42–8, NC
Tim Sugden2–5, 7
Shinsuke Yamazaki6
Keita Sawa6, NC
Bomex RossoPorschePorsche BoxsterPorsche M96/77 3.6 L F6666 Junichiro Yamashitaalign=center rowspan=41, 3–8
Takashi Miyamoto1, 3
Takamori.com3–8
Satoshi Kimura6

Car changes

GT500

Having used the NSX since 1996, Honda replaced the unique MR-layout model with a FMR-layout prototype HSV-010, which has been homologated by the JAF. However, Honda have cancelled their plans to produce a road-going model of the HSV-010.

GT300

Others

Schedule

RoundRaceCircuitDatePole PositionFastest lapWinner
1Suzuka GT 300 km
Report
Suzuka CircuitMarch 21
  1. 18 Weider Honda Racing
  1. 18 Weider Honda Racing
  1. 24 Kondō Racing
Loïc Duval
Takashi Kogure
Loïc Duval
Takashi Kogure
João Paulo de Oliveira
Hironobu Yasuda
  1. 7 RE Amemiya Racing
  1. 5 Team Mach
  1. 7 RE Amemiya Racing
Nobuteru Taniguchi
Ryo Orime
Haruki Kurosawa
Tetsuji Tamanaka
Nobuteru Taniguchi
Ryo Orime
2Okayama GT 300 km
Report
Okayama International CircuitApril 4
  1. 18 Weider Honda Racing
  1. 18 Weider Honda Racing
  1. 18 Weider Honda Racing
Loïc Duval
Takashi Kogure
Loïc Duval
Takashi Kogure
Loïc Duval
Takashi Kogure
  1. 86 JLOC
  1. 46 MOLA
  1. 2 Apple K-ONE Shiden
Koji Yamanishi
Yuhi Sekiguchi
Naoki Yokomizo
Tsubasa Abe
Hiroki Katoh
Hiroshi Hamaguchi
3Fuji GT 400 km
Report
Fuji SpeedwayMay 2
  1. 35 Lexus Team Kraft
  1. 35 Lexus Team Kraft
  1. 35 Lexus Team Kraft
Hiroaki Ishiura
Kazuya Oshima
Hiroaki Ishiura
Kazuya Oshima
Hiroaki Ishiura
Kazuya Oshima
  1. 33 Hankook KTR
  1. 74 Team apr
  1. 74 Team apr
Mitsuhiro Kinoshita
Masami Kageyama
Takuto Iguchi
Yuji Kunimoto
Takuto Iguchi
Yuji Kunimoto
4Super GT International Series Malaysia
Report
Sepang International CircuitJune 20
  1. 12 Team Impul
  1. 23 Motul Autech
  1. 12 Team Impul
Tsugio Matsuda
Ronnie Quintarelli
Satoshi Motoyama
Benoît Tréluyer
Tsugio Matsuda
Ronnie Quintarelli
  1. 11 Jim Gainer Racing
  1. 3 Hasemi Motorsport Z
  1. 7 RE Amemiya Racing
Tetsuya Tanaka
Katsuyuki Hiranaka
Kazuki Hoshino
Masataka Yanagida
Nobuteru Taniguchi
Ryo Orime
5Sugo GT 300 km
Report
Sportsland SUGOJuly 25
  1. 23 Motul Autech
  1. 23 Motul Autech
  1. 17 Keihin Real Racing
Satoshi Motoyama
Benoît Tréluyer
Satoshi Motoyama
Benoît Tréluyer
Toshihiro Kaneishi
Koudai Tsukakoshi
  1. 2 Apple K-ONE Shiden
  1. 2 Apple K-ONE Shiden
  1. 2 Apple K-ONE Shiden
Hiroshi Hamaguchi
Hiroki Katoh
Hiroshi Hamaguchi
Hiroki Katoh
Hiroshi Hamaguchi
Hiroki Katoh
639th Pokka GT Summer Special
Report
Suzuka CircuitAugust 22
  1. 8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri
  1. 23 Motul Autech
  1. 8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri
Ralph Firman
Yuji Ide
Takashi Kobayashi
Satoshi Motoyama
Benoît Tréluyer
Ralph Firman
Yuji Ide
Takashi Kobayashi
  1. 26 Team Taisan
  1. 62 R&D Sport
  1. 62 R&D Sport
Igor Sushko
Masayuki Ueda
Shogo Mitsuyama
Tetsuya Yamano
Kota Sasaki
Tetsuya Yamano
Kota Sasaki
7Fuji GT 300 km Fuji SpeedwaySeptember 12Cancelled
8Motegi GT 250 km
Report
Twin Ring MotegiOctober 24
  1. 18 Weider Honda Racing
  1. 18 Weider Honda Racing
  1. 1 Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S
Loïc Duval
Takashi Kogure
Loïc Duval
Takashi Kogure
Juichi Wakisaka
André Lotterer
  1. 3 Hasemi Motorsport Z
  1. 74 Team apr
  1. 3 Hasemi Motorsport Z
Kazuki Hoshino
Masataka Yanagida
Takuto Iguchi
Yuji Kunimoto
Kazuki Hoshino
Masataka Yanagida
NCAll Star Series
Report
Fuji SpeedwayNovember 13
  1. 38 Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo
  1. 6 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS
  1. 38 Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo
Richard Lyons Björn Wirdheim Richard Lyons
  1. 43 ASL
  1. 11 Jim Gainer Racing
  1. 11 Jim Gainer Racing
Shinichi Takagi Katsuyuki Hiranaka Katsuyuki Hiranaka
November 14
  1. 12 Team Impul
  1. 6 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS
  1. 6 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS
Tsugio Matsuda Daisuke Itō Daisuke Itō
  1. 43 ASL
  1. 5 Team Mach
  1. 11 Jim Gainer Racing
Morio Nitta Haruki Kurosawa Tetsuya Tanaka

Standings

GT500 Drivers

Scoring system:
Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th
Points 20 15 11 8 6 5 4 3 2 1
RankDriverSUZ
OKA
FUJ
SEP
SUG
SUZ
FUJ
MOT
PTS
1 Takashi Kogure
Loïc Duval
Ret17329C267
2 Juichi Wakisaka
André Lotterer
4328710C162
3 Toshihiro Kaneishi
Koudai Tsukakoshi
7751214C353
4 Daisuke Ito
Björn Wirdheim
2534311C1251
5 Tsugio Matsuda
Ronnie Quintarelli
Ret461412C547
6 Hiroaki Ishiura
Kazuya Oshima
6917Ret5C445
7 Satoshi Motoyama
Benoît Tréluyer
8RetRet262C841
8 Naoki Yamamoto
Takuya Izawa
3810583C640
9 Yuji Tachikawa
Richard Lyons
924696CRet37
10 João Paulo de Oliveira
Hironobu Yasuda
112895RetC1032
11 Ralph Firman
Yuji Ide
Ret61111121C729
12 Kohei Hirate510Ret10108C1112
13 Andre Couto510Ret10108C12
14 Ryo Michigami
Yuhki Nakayama
10119Ret117C99
Carlo van Dam110
Takashi Kobayashi10
RankDriverSUZ
OKA
FUJ
SEP
SUG
SUZ
FUJ
MOT
PTS

Teams' standings

RankTeamNo.SUZ
OKA
FUJ
SEP
SUG
SUZ
FUJ
MOT
Pts.
1Weider Honda Racing18Ret17329C284
2Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S14328710C182
3Keihin Real Racing177751214C372
4Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS62534311C1270
5Team Impul12Ret461412C563
6Lexus Team Kraft356917Ret5C462
7Team Kunimitsu1003810583C660
8Nismo238RetRet262C856
9Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo38924696CRet52
10Kondo Racing24112895RetC1048
11Autobacs Racing Team Aguri8Ret61111121C742
12Lexus Team SARD39510Ret10108C1126
13Nakajima Racing3210119Ret117C921
RankTeamNo.SUZ
OKA
FUJ
SEP
SUG
SUZ
FUJ
MOT
Pts.

GT300 Drivers

Scoring system:
Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th
Points 20 15 11 8 6 5 4 3 2 1
RankDriverSUZ
OKA
FUJ
SEP
SUG
SUZ
FUJ
MOT
PTS
1 Masataka Yanagida
Kazuki Hoshino
53552RetC164
2 Morio Nitta
Shinichi Takagi
Ret62262C1255
3 Ryo Orime
Nobuteru Taniguchi
11811176C849
4 Hiroki Katoh
Hiroshi Hamaguchi
Ret213Ret118C250
5 Takuto Iguchi
Yuji Kunimoto
8913Ret3C1747
6 Naoki Yokomizo
Tsubasa Abe
21126816C1443
7 Tetsuya Tanaka
Katsuyuki Hiranaka
Ret76458C434
8 Tatsuya Kataoka
Manabu Orido
31449Ret4C733
9 Koji Yamanishi
Yuhi Sekiguchi
741615105C330
10 Koki Saga
Kousuke Matsuura
Ret5983RetC1922
11 Kota Sasaki
Tetsuya Yamano
1312Ret131C1021
12 Tetsuji Tamanaka
Haruki Kurosawa
4Ret181399C518
13 Takeshi Tsuchiya
Akihiro Tsuzuki
74RetC617
14 Hideshi Matsuda
Hiroki Yoshimoto
DSQ1531211RetC2311
15 Yutaka Yamagishi
Hiroshi Koizumi
911810DSQ7C1310
16 Mitsuhiro Kinoshita68Ret1610C8
17 Masami Kageyama68Ret16C8
18 Atsushi YogoDNQ161771415CRet4
19 Shinya HosokawaDNQ161771415C4
20 Taku Bamba
Masahiro Sasaki
1210141210C94
21 Hiroyuki Iiri
Yuya Sakamoto
101715111712C201
22 Masayuki Ueda11131018RetC111
23 Igor Sushko11131018RetC1
RankDriverSUZ
OKA
FUJ
SEP
SUG
SUZ
FUJ
MOT
PTS

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: 初音ミク×BMW復活へ スタディがGSRと来季のコラボを発表 . Autosport Web . i-dea . 2010-12-07 . 2010-12-08 . ja.
  2. News: "新初音ミク号"ポルシェ997GT3R、富士で初お披露目 . Autosport Web . i-dea . 2010-06-14 . 2010-06-15 . ja.
  3. News: 2010年SUPER GTカレンダー一部変更について . . supergt.net . . 2009-09-25 . 2009-12-17 . ja . https://web.archive.org/web/20110723172913/https://ww2.supergt.net/gta_media_room/2009gta_data/201_releas/090925_sgt10calendar.pdf . 2011-07-23 . dead .
  4. News: Partial revisions to the 2010 SUPER GT provisional calendar . supergt.net . . 2009-10-19 . 2009-12-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100611225336/http://ww2.supergt.net/gtcgi/prg/NList02.dll/Code?No=NS014164&List=15 . 2010-06-11 . dead .
  5. News: Press release: 2010 AUTOBACS SUPER GT 第7戦の開催中止について. PDF. fsw.tv. Fuji Speedway. 2010-09-09. 2010-09-09. ja. https://web.archive.org/web/20110719135559/http://www.fsw.tv/press/pdf/166. 2011-07-19. dead.
  6. News: Round 7 of the 2010 AUTOBACS SUPER GT series cancelled. supergt.net. Super GT. 2010-09-09. 2010-09-09.