2010 Super GT Series

2010 Super GT Series season
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The No. 18 Weider Honda Racing Honda HSV-010 GT of Takashi Kogure and Loïc Duval at the Okayama round of the season. Despite winning only one race, Kogure and Duval each claimed their first Super GT championship. Weider Honda also won the GT500 Teams title, ahead of Team TOM'S.

The 2010 Autobacs Super GT Series was the 17th season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship.

In both classes, every race was won by a different pairing, with 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

Team	Make	Car	#	Drivers	Tyre	Round
Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S	Lexus	Lexus SC430	1	Juichi Wakisaka	B	All
Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S	Lexus	Lexus SC430	1	André Lotterer	B	All
Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS	Lexus	Lexus SC430	6	Daisuke Itō	B	All
Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS	Lexus	Lexus SC430	6	Björn Wirdheim	B	All
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	Honda	Honda HSV-010 GT	8	Ralph Firman	B	All
				Yuji Ide		All
				Takashi Kobayashi		6
Team Impul	Nissan	Nissan GT-R	12	Tsugio Matsuda	B	All
Team Impul	Nissan	Nissan GT-R	12	Ronnie Quintarelli	B	All
Keihin Real Racing	Honda	Honda HSV-010 GT	17	Toshihiro Kaneishi	B	All
Keihin Real Racing	Honda	Honda HSV-010 GT	17	Koudai Tsukakoshi	B	All
Weider Honda Racing	Honda	Honda HSV-010 GT	18	Loïc Duval	B	All
Weider Honda Racing	Honda	Honda HSV-010 GT	18	Takashi Kogure	B	All
Nismo	Nissan	Nissan GT-R	23	Satoshi Motoyama	M	All
Nismo	Nissan	Nissan GT-R	23	Benoît Tréluyer	M	All
Kondō Racing	Nissan	Nissan GT-R	24	João Paulo de Oliveira	Y	All
Kondō Racing	Nissan	Nissan GT-R	24	Hironobu Yasuda	Y	All
Nakajima Racing	Honda	Honda HSV-010 GT	32	Ryo Michigami	D	All
Nakajima Racing	Honda	Honda HSV-010 GT	32	Yuhki Nakayama	D	All
Lexus Team Kraft	Lexus	Lexus SC430	35	Hiroaki Ishiura	B	All
Lexus Team Kraft	Lexus	Lexus SC430	35	Kazuya Oshima	B	All
Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo	Lexus	Lexus SC430	38	Yuji Tachikawa	B	All
Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo	Lexus	Lexus SC430	38	Richard Lyons	B	All
Lexus Team SARD	Lexus	Lexus SC430	39	Kohei Hirate	D	All
				André Couto		1–7, NC
				Carlo van Dam		8
Team Kunimitsu	Honda	Honda HSV-010 GT	100	Takuya Izawa	B	All
Team Kunimitsu	Honda	Honda HSV-010 GT	100	Naoki Yamamoto	B	All

GT300

Team	Make	Car	#	Drivers	Tyre	Round
Apple K-ONE Shiden	Mooncraft	Mooncraft Shiden	2	Hiroki Katoh	Y	All
				Hiroshi Hamaguchi		1–8
				Kazuho Takahashi		6, NC
Hasemi Motorsport	Nissan	Nissan Fairlady Z	3	Kazuki Hoshino	Y	All
Hasemi Motorsport	Nissan	Nissan Fairlady Z	3	Masataka Yanagida	Y	All
Team Mach	Vemac	Vemac RD408R	5	Tetsuji Tamanaka	Y	All
Team Mach	Vemac	Vemac RD408R	5	Haruki Kurosawa	Y	All
RE Amemiya Racing	Mazda	Mazda RX-7	7	Ryo Orime	Y	All
RE Amemiya Racing	Mazda	Mazda RX-7	7	Nobuteru Taniguchi	Y	All
Goodsmile Racing with COX	Porsche	Porsche 996 GT3-RSR Porsche 997 GT3-R	9	Taku Bamba	H	1–3, 5–8
				Masahiro Sasaki		1–3, 5–8, NC
				Mitsuhiro Kinoshita		6
				Hideto Yasuoka		NC
Jim Gainer Racing	Ferrari	Ferrari F430	11	Tetsuya Tanaka	D	All
Jim Gainer Racing	Ferrari	Ferrari F430	11	Katsuyuki Hiranaka	D	All
Racing Project Bandoh	Lexus	Lexus IS350	19	Tatsuya Kataoka	Y	All
Racing Project Bandoh	Lexus	Lexus IS350	19	Manabu Orido	Y	All
Team RQS Motorsports	Vemac	Vemac 350R	22	Hisashi Wada	Y	6–8
				Masaki Jyonai		6–8
				Ryohei Sakaguchi		6
Samurai Team Tsuchiya	Porsche	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	25	Akihiro Tsuzuki	Y	3, 5–8, NC
				Takeshi Tsuchiya		3, 5–8, NC
				Yoshio Tsuzuki		6
Team Taisan	Porsche	Porsche 996 GT3-RS	26	Igor Sushko	Y	1–3, 5–7
				Masayuki Ueda		1–3, 5–8, NC
				Shogo Mitsuyama		6, 8, NC
			51	Yuya Sakamoto		3, 5–8, NC
				Shogo Mitsuyama		3, 5, 7
				Hideki Yamauchi		8, NC
LMP Motorsport	Ferrari	Ferrari F430	27	Yutaka Yamagishi	Y	All
	Ferrari	Ferrari F430	27	Hiroshi Koizumi		All
	Porsche	Porsche 996 GT3-RS	28	Akihiro Asai		6–8
	Porsche	Porsche 996 GT3-RS	28	Yuki Iwasaki		6–8
EVA Racing Team apr	Toyota	Toyota Corolla Axio	31	Kosuke Matsuura	Y	All
				Koki Saga		All
				Yuya Sakamoto		6
			74	Takuto Iguchi	M	All
			74	Yuji Kunimoto	M	All
Hankook KTR	Porsche	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	33	Mitsuhiro Kinoshita	H	1–4
				Masami Kageyama		1–4, 7, NC
				Tomonobu Fujii		3, 7, NC
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	ASL	ASL Garaiya	43	Morio Nitta	M	All
				Shinichi Takagi		All
				Kyosuke Mineo		6
MOLA	Nissan	Nissan Fairlady Z	46	Tsubasa Abe	Y	All
MOLA	Nissan	Nissan Fairlady Z	46	Naoki Yokomizo	Y	All
R&D Sport	Subaru	Subaru Legacy B4	62	Kota Sasaki	Y	1–3, 5–8, NC
R&D Sport	Subaru	Subaru Legacy B4	62	Tetsuya Yamano	Y	1–3, 5–8, NC
A speed	Aston Martin	Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT2	66	Hideshi Matsuda	Y	All
				Hiroki Yoshimoto		All
				Tomonobu Fujii		6
JLOC	Lamborghini	Lamborghini Gallardo	86	Yuhi Sekiguchi	Y	All
			86	Koji Yamanishi		All
			87	Hiroyuki Iiri		All
				Yuya Sakamoto		All
				Naohiro Furuya		6
			88	Shinya Hosokawa		1–7
				Atsushi Yogo		All
				Tsubasa Kurosawa		8, NC
Tomei Sports	Porsche	Porsche 996 GT3-RSR	360	Keita Sawa	Y	1
				Takamori.com		1
				Masahiro Matsunaga		3–5, 7–8
				Atsushi Tanaka		3–5, 7–8
365 Thunder Asia Racing	Mosler	Mosler MT900M	365	Melvin Choo	Y	2–8, NC
				Tim Sugden		2–5, 7
				Shinsuke Yamazaki		6
				Keita Sawa		6, NC
Bomex Rosso	Porsche	Porsche Boxster	666	Junichiro Yamashita	Y	1, 3–8
				Takashi Miyamoto		1, 3
				Takamori.com		3–8
				Satoshi Kimura		6

Goodsmile Racing with COX (#9) announced a mid-season car change that will occur at the fifth round. The Porsche 996 GT3-RSR was retired after the third round.
Team apr changed the name on one of their cars midway through the season, as a promotion towards the movie adaption of animation series Neon Genesis Evangelion. Thus the #31 car runs under the "Eva Racing" banner since the third round, with the exception of the fourth round due to a copyright issue, with the #74 remaining unchanged.

Car changes

GT500

Honda: 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.
All three teams united their engine specification to 3.4 L V8 with an FR-layout vehicle which was planned to be done last season (only Lexus have made such changes last season).

GT300

Hasemi Motorsport moved into the class from GT500, competing with a Nissan Fairlady Z.
The JLOC team which previously used a Lamborghini Murciélago, have changed all their cars to Lamborghini Gallardos.
A speed, a new team participating in Super GT, uses an Aston Martin V8 Vantage.
Thunder Asia Racing, which raced in Malaysia last year, became the first team not based in Japan to participate in the full season in Super GT history. They use a Mosler MT900M, and in addition, Melvin Choo, one of the team's drivers, was appointed as the Super GT official negotiator to help bring a race to Singapore in future.
Studie, which used a BMW Z4 in the 2008 and 2009 seasons, had originally planned to participate the series as AS Studie Racing in 2010, but did not participate due to the withdrawal of Advance Step. Advance Step had been a co-partner for Studie over the previous two seasons.^[1] However at the end of the season, the teams parted ways and will compete separately in 2011.
Team COX, the first Porsche works team in Super GT, uses a 2010-specification Porsche 997 GT3-R, as the only car not delivered to Europe in 2010. However, as the car was delivered in late May, the team used a Porsche 996 RSR for the first three races of the season. They will also miss the event in Sepang, to test the new vehicle. Porsche and COX also announced that they are planning to supply at least one more GT3-R to other teams participating in 2011.^[2]
RE Amemiya Racing announced it will be the final season of the Mazda RX-7, as after the season ends, the car will be donated to the motor racing museum of Malaysia. They would later announce their withdrawal from the series.
R&D Sport have changed the drivetrain on their Subaru Legacy from AWD to RWD, making AWD cars absent.

Others

The use of a three-way catalytic converter is compulsory for all teams.

Schedule

The calendar was provisionally announced on September 25, 2009.^[3] Autopolis has been removed from the calendar, with no replacement round nor venue added. However, with alterations made to the 2010 Formula One calendar, including the moving of the Japanese Grand Prix, the calendar was altered on October 19, 2009.^[4]
Apart from the eight championship rounds, a non-championship round, originally entitled Super GT and Formula Nippon Sprint Cup 2010, will be held at the conclusion of the season. After the Japan Automobile Federation recognised the race as a "JAF Grand Prix" round, it was renamed as JAF Grand Prix Super GT and Formula Nippon Sprint Cup 2010.
The 400 km race at Fuji will adopt regulations with two mandatory pit stops, while the knockout qualifying format was used in the first two rounds as well as the Suzuka 700 km of the season.
The 300 km race at Fuji scheduled to be held on September 12 was cancelled due to the serious damage to Oyama, the town where the circuit is located, caused by the typhoon Malou.^[5]^[6] This is the first event in Super GT to be cancelled by series organisers, and the first Japanese Grand touring round to be cancelled since Sepang in 2003.

Round	Race	Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest lap	Winner
1	Suzuka GT 300 km Report	Suzuka Circuit	March 21	#18 Weider Honda Racing	#18 Weider Honda Racing	#24 Kondō Racing
				Loïc Duval Takashi Kogure	Loïc Duval Takashi Kogure	João Paulo de Oliveira Hironobu Yasuda
				#7 RE Amemiya Racing	#5 Team Mach	#7 RE Amemiya Racing
				Nobuteru Taniguchi Ryo Orime	Haruki Kurosawa Tetsuji Tamanaka	Nobuteru Taniguchi Ryo Orime
2	Okayama GT 300 km Report	Okayama International Circuit	April 4	#18 Weider Honda Racing	#18 Weider Honda Racing	#18 Weider Honda Racing
				Loïc Duval Takashi Kogure	Loïc Duval Takashi Kogure	Loïc Duval Takashi Kogure
				#86 JLOC	#46 MOLA	#2 Apple K-ONE Shiden
				Koji Yamanishi Yuhi Sekiguchi	Naoki Yokomizo Tsubasa Abe	Hiroki Katoh Hiroshi Hamaguchi
3	Fuji GT 400 km Report	Fuji Speedway	May 2	#35 Lexus Team Kraft	#35 Lexus Team Kraft	#35 Lexus Team Kraft
				Hiroaki Ishiura Kazuya Oshima	Hiroaki Ishiura Kazuya Oshima	Hiroaki Ishiura Kazuya Oshima
				#33 Hankook KTR	#74 Team apr	#74 Team apr
				Mitsuhiro Kinoshita Masami Kageyama	Takuto Iguchi Yuji Kunimoto	Takuto Iguchi Yuji Kunimoto
4	Super GT International Series Malaysia Report	Sepang International Circuit	June 20	#12 Team Impul	#23 Motul Autech	#12 Team Impul
				Tsugio Matsuda Ronnie Quintarelli	Satoshi Motoyama Benoît Tréluyer	Tsugio Matsuda Ronnie Quintarelli
				#11 Jim Gainer Racing	#3 Hasemi Motorsport Z	#7 RE Amemiya Racing
				Tetsuya Tanaka Katsuyuki Hiranaka	Kazuki Hoshino Masataka Yanagida	Nobuteru Taniguchi Ryo Orime
5	Sugo GT 300 km Report	Sportsland SUGO	July 25	#23 Motul Autech	#23 Motul Autech	#17 Keihin Real Racing
				Satoshi Motoyama Benoît Tréluyer	Satoshi Motoyama Benoît Tréluyer	Toshihiro Kaneishi Koudai Tsukakoshi
				#2 Apple K-ONE Shiden	#2 Apple K-ONE Shiden	#2 Apple K-ONE Shiden
				Hiroshi Hamaguchi Hiroki Katoh	Hiroshi Hamaguchi Hiroki Katoh	Hiroshi Hamaguchi Hiroki Katoh
6	39th Pokka GT Summer Special Report	Suzuka Circuit	August 22	#8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	#23 Motul Autech	#8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri
				Ralph Firman Yuji Ide Takashi Kobayashi	Satoshi Motoyama Benoît Tréluyer	Ralph Firman Yuji Ide Takashi Kobayashi
				#26 Team Taisan	#62 R&D Sport	#62 R&D Sport
				Igor Sushko Masayuki Ueda Shogo Mitsuyama	Tetsuya Yamano Kota Sasaki	Tetsuya Yamano Kota Sasaki
7	Fuji GT 300 km	Fuji Speedway	September 12	Cancelled^[5]^[6]
8	Motegi GT 250 km Report	Twin Ring Motegi	October 24	#18 Weider Honda Racing	#18 Weider Honda Racing	#1 Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S
				Loïc Duval Takashi Kogure	Loïc Duval Takashi Kogure	Juichi Wakisaka André Lotterer
				#3 Hasemi Motorsport Z	#74 Team apr	#3 Hasemi Motorsport Z
				Kazuki Hoshino Masataka Yanagida	Takuto Iguchi Yuji Kunimoto	Kazuki Hoshino Masataka Yanagida
NC	All Star Series Report	Fuji Speedway	November 13	#38 Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo	#6 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS	#38 Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo
				Richard Lyons	Björn Wirdheim	Richard Lyons
				#43 ASL	#11 Jim Gainer Racing	#11 Jim Gainer Racing
				Shinichi Takagi	Katsuyuki Hiranaka	Katsuyuki Hiranaka
			November 14	#12 Team Impul	#6 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS	#6 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS
				Tsugio Matsuda	Daisuke Itō	Daisuke Itō
				#43 ASL	#5 Team Mach	#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

Rank	Driver	SUZ	OKA	FUJ	SEP	SUG	SUZ	FUJ	MOT	PTS
1	Takashi Kogure Loïc Duval	Ret	1	7	3	2	9	C	2	67
2	Juichi Wakisaka André Lotterer	4	3	2	8	7	10	C	1	62
3	Toshihiro Kaneishi Koudai Tsukakoshi	7	7	5	12	1	4	C	3	53
4	Daisuke Ito Björn Wirdheim	2	5	3	4	3	11	C	12	51
5	Tsugio Matsuda Ronnie Quintarelli	Ret	4	6	1	4	12	C	5	47
6	Hiroaki Ishiura Kazuya Oshima	6	9	1	7	Ret	5	C	4	45
7	Satoshi Motoyama Benoît Tréluyer	8	Ret	Ret	2	6	2	C	8	41
8	Naoki Yamamoto Takuya Izawa	3	8	10	5	8	3	C	6	40
9	Yuji Tachikawa Richard Lyons	9	2	4	6	9	6	C	Ret	37
10	João Paulo de Oliveira Hironobu Yasuda	1	12	8	9	5	Ret	C	10	32
11	Ralph Firman Yuji Ide	Ret	6	11	11	12	1	C	7	29
12	Kohei Hirate	5	10	Ret	10	10	8	C	11	12
13	Andre Couto	5	10	Ret	10	10	8	C		12
14	Ryo Michigami Yuhki Nakayama	10	11	9	Ret	11	7	C	9	9
	Carlo van Dam								11	0
	Takashi Kobayashi						1			0
Rank	Driver	SUZ	OKA	FUJ	SEP	SUG	SUZ	FUJ	MOT	PTS

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd place
Bronze	3rd place
Green	Points finish
Blue	Non-points finish
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Retired (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red	Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
	Withdrew (WD)
	Race cancelled (C)
Blank	Did not participate (DNP)
Blank	Excluded (EX)

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

Rank	Driver	SUZ	OKA	FUJ	SEP	SUG	SUZ	FUJ	MOT	PTS
1	Masataka Yanagida Kazuki Hoshino	5	3	5	5	2	Ret	C	1	64
2	Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi	Ret	6	2	2	6	2	C	12	55
3	Ryo Orime Nobuteru Taniguchi	1	18	11	1	7	6	C	8	49
4	Hiroki Katoh Hiroshi Hamaguchi	Ret	2	13	Ret	1	18	C	2	50
5	Takuto Iguchi Yuji Kunimoto	8	9	1	3	Ret	3	C	17	47
6	Naoki Yokomizo Tsubasa Abe	2	1	12	6	8	16	C	14	43
7	Tetsuya Tanaka Katsuyuki Hiranaka	Ret	7	6	4	5	8	C	4	34
8	Tatsuya Kataoka Manabu Orido	3	14	4	9	Ret	4	C	7	33
9	Koji Yamanishi Yuhi Sekiguchi	7	4	16	15	10	5	C	3	30
10	Koki Saga Kousuke Matsuura	Ret	5	9	8	3	Ret	C	19	22
11	Kota Sasaki Tetsuya Yamano	13	12	Ret		13	1	C	10	21
12	Tetsuji Tamanaka Haruki Kurosawa	4	Ret	18	13	9	9	C	5	18
13	Takeshi Tsuchiya Akihiro Tsuzuki			7		4	Ret	C	6	17
14	Hideshi Matsuda Hiroki Yoshimoto	DSQ	15	3	12	11	Ret	C	23	11
15	Yutaka Yamagishi Hiroshi Koizumi	9	11	8	10	DSQ	7	C	13	10
16	Mitsuhiro Kinoshita	6	8	Ret	16		10	C		8
17	Masami Kageyama	6	8	Ret	16			C		8
18	Atsushi Yogo	DNQ	16	17	7	14	15	C	Ret	4
19	Shinya Hosokawa	DNQ	16	17	7	14	15	C		4
20	Taku Bamba Masahiro Sasaki	12	10	14		12	10	C	9	4
21	Hiroyuki Iiri Yuya Sakamoto	10	17	15	11	17	12	C	20	1
22	Masayuki Ueda	11	13	10		18	Ret	C	11	1
23	Igor Sushko	11	13	10		18	Ret	C		1
Rank	Driver	SUZ	OKA	FUJ	SEP	SUG	SUZ	FUJ	MOT	PTS

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd place
Bronze	3rd place
Green	Points finish
Blue	Non-points finish
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Retired (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red	Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
	Withdrew (WD)
	Race cancelled (C)
Blank	Did not participate (DNP)
Blank	Excluded (EX)

References

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↑ ""新初音ミク号"ポルシェ997GT3R、富士で初お披露目". Autosport Web (in Japanese) (i-dea). 2010-06-14. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
↑ "2010年SUPER GTカレンダー一部変更について" (PDF). supergt.net (in Japanese) (Super GT). 2009-09-25. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
↑ "Partial revisions to the 2010 SUPER GT provisional calendar". supergt.net (Super GT). 2009-10-19. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
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