2010 Super GT Series
Introduction Weider Honda Racing Honda HSV-010 GT of Takashi Kogure and Loïc Duval on display. Kogure and Duval each claimed their first Super GT championship. Weider Honda Racing also won the GT500 Teams title, ahead of Team TOM'S.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=== Team Make Car Engine # Drivers Tyre Round  Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S Lexus Lexus SC430 GT500 Lexus RV8KG 3.4 L V8 1  Juichi Wakisaka  All  André Lotterer All  Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS Lexus Lexus SC430 GT500 Lexus RV8KG 3.4 L V8 6  Daisuke Itō All  Björn WirdheimAll  Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Honda Honda HSV-010 GT Honda HR10EG 3.4 L V8 8  Ralph Firman  All  Yuji Ide All  Takashi Kobayashi 6  Team Impul Nissan Nissan GT-R GT500 Nissan VRH34A 3.4 L V8 12  Tsugio Matsuda  All  Ronnie Quintarelli All  Keihin Real Racing Honda Honda HSV-010 GT Honda HR10EG 3.4 L V8 17  Toshihiro Kaneishi  All  Koudai Tsukakoshi All  Weider Honda Racing Honda Honda HSV-010 GT Honda HR10EG 3.4 L V8 18  Loïc Duval  All  Takashi Kogure All  Nismo Nissan Nissan GT-R GT500 Nissan VRH34A 3.4 L V8 23  Satoshi Motoyama  All  Benoît Tréluyer All  Kondō Racing Nissan Nissan GT-R GT500 Nissan VRH34A 3.4 L V8 24  João Paulo de Oliveira  All  Hironobu Yasuda All  Nakajima Racing Honda Honda HSV-010 GT Honda HR10EG 3.4 L V8 32  Ryo Michigami  All  Yuhki Nakayama All  Lexus Team Kraft Lexus Lexus SC430 GT500 Lexus RV8KG 3.4 L V8 35  Hiroaki Ishiura  All  Kazuya Oshima All  Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo Lexus Lexus SC430 GT500 Lexus RV8KG 3.4 L V8 38  Yuji Tachikawa  All  Richard Lyons All  Lexus Team SARD Lexus Lexus SC430 GT500 Lexus RV8KG 3.4 L V8 39  Kohei Hirate  All  André Couto 1–7, NC  Carlo van Dam 8  Team Kunimitsu Honda Honda HSV-010 GT Honda HR10EG 3.4 L V8 100  Takuya Izawa  All  Naoki Yamamoto All===GT300=== Team Make Car Engine # Drivers Tyre Round  Apple K-ONE Shiden Mooncraft Mooncraft Shiden Toyota 1UZ-FE 4.4 L V8 2  Hiroki Katoh  All  Hiroshi Hamaguchi 1–8  Kazuho Takahashi 6, NC  Hasemi Motorsport Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6 3  Kazuki Hoshino  All  Masataka Yanagida All  Team Mach Vemac Vemac RD408R Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 5  Tetsuji Tamanaka  All  Haruki Kurosawa All  RE Amemiya Racing Mazda Mazda RX-7 Mazda RE20B 2.0 L 3-rotor 7  Ryo Orime  All  Nobuteru Taniguchi All  Goodsmile Racing with COX Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-RSRPorsche 997 GT3-R Porsche M96/73 3.6 L F6Porsche M97/79 4.0 L F6 9  Taku Bamba  1–3, 5–8  Masahiro Sasaki 1–3, 5–8, NC  Mitsuhiro Kinoshita 6  Hideto Yasuoka NC  Jim Gainer Racing Ferrari Ferrari F430 Ferrari F136GT 4.3 L V8 11  Tetsuya Tanaka  All  Katsuyuki Hiranaka All  Racing Project Bandoh Lexus Lexus IS350 Lexus RV8J 3.4 L V8 19  Tatsuya Kataoka  All  Manabu Orido All  Team RQS Motorsports Vemac Vemac RD350R Zytek ZV348 4.0 L V8 22  Hisashi Wada  6–8  Masaki Jyonai 6–8  Ryohei Sakaguchi 6  Samurai Team Tsuchiya Porsche Porsche 997 GT3-RSR Porsche M97/81 4.0 L F6 25  Akihiro Tsuzuki  3, 5–8, NC  Takeshi Tsuchiya 3, 5–8, NC  Yoshio Tsuzuki 6  Team Taisan Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-RS Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 26  Igor Sushko  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 Ferrari F136GT 4.3 L V8 27  Yutaka Yamagishi  All  Hiroshi Koizumi All Porsche Porsche 996 GT3-RS Porsche M96/73 3.6 L F6 28  Akihiro Asai 6–8  Yuki Iwasaki 6–8  EVA RacingTeam apr Toyota Toyota Corolla Axio apr GT Toyota 2GR-FSE 3.5 L V6 31  Kosuke Matsuura  All  Koki Saga All  Yuya Sakamoto 6 74  Takuto Iguchi  All  Yuji Kunimoto All  Hankook KTR Porsche Porsche 997 GT3-RSR Porsche M97/81 4.0 L F6 33  Mitsuhiro Kinoshita  1–4  Masami Kageyama 1–4, 7, NC  Tomonobu Fujii 3, 7, NC  Autobacs Racing Team Aguri ASL ASL ARTA Garaiya Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6 43  Morio Nitta  All  Shinichi Takagi All  Kyosuke Mineo 6  MOLA Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6 46  Tsubasa Abe  All  Naoki Yokomizo All  R&D Sport Subaru Subaru Legacy B4 Subaru EJ20 2.0 L Turbo F4 62  Kota Sasaki  1–3, 5–8, NC  Tetsuya Yamano 1–3, 5–8, NC  A speed Aston Martin Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT2 Aston Martin AJ37 4.7 L V8 66  Hideshi Matsuda  All  Hiroki Yoshimoto All  Tomonobu Fujii 6  JLOC Lamborghini Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3 Lamborghini 07L1 5.2 L V10 86  Yuhi Sekiguchi  All  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 Porsche M96/73 3.6 L F6 360  Keita Sawa  1  Takamori.com 1  Masahiro Matsunaga 3–5, 7–8  Atsushi Tanaka 3–5, 7–8  365 Thunder Asia Racing Mosler Mosler MT900M Judd XV675 3.4 L V8 365  Melvin Choo  2–8, NC  Tim Sugden 2–5, 7  Shinsuke Yamazaki 6  Keita Sawa 6, NC  Bomex Rosso Porsche Porsche Boxster Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6 666  Junichiro Yamashita  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. However at the end of the season, the teams parted ways and will compete separately in 2011. *Good Smile Racing made their debut in the series after becoming the primary sponsors for Studie under the Hatsune Miku banner in the past two seasons. Team COX, the first Porsche works team in Super GT, would become Good Smile Racing's partner. The team originally planned to use a 2010-specification Porsche 997 GT3-R for the entire season. 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. *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.Autopolis has been removed from the calendar, with no replacement round nor venue added. However, with alterations made to the  Formula One calendar, including the moving of the , the calendar was altered on October 19, 2009. * 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. 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'' 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  1RankDriverSUZOKAFUJSEPSUGSUZFUJMOTPTS1 Takashi Kogure Loïc DuvalRet17329C2672 Juichi Wakisaka André Lotterer4328710C1623 Toshihiro Kaneishi Koudai Tsukakoshi7751214C3534 Daisuke Ito Björn Wirdheim2534311C12515 Tsugio Matsuda Ronnie QuintarelliRet461412C5476 Hiroaki Ishiura Kazuya Oshima6917Ret5C4457 Satoshi Motoyama Benoît Tréluyer8RetRet262C8418 Naoki Yamamoto Takuya Izawa3810583C6409 Yuji Tachikawa Richard Lyons924696CRet3710 João Paulo de Oliveira Hironobu Yasuda112895RetC103211 Ralph Firman Yuji IdeRet61111121C72912 Kohei Hirate510Ret10108C111213 Andre Couto510Ret10108C1214 Ryo Michigami Yuhki Nakayama10119Ret117C99 Carlo van Dam110 Takashi Kobayashi10RankDriverSUZOKAFUJSEPSUGSUZFUJMOTPTS====Teams' standings====RankTeamNo.SUZOKAFUJSEPSUGSUZFUJMOTPts. 1 Weider Honda Racing 18'''''Ret''''''''''1'''''7329C'''''2''''' 842 Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S 14328710C1 82 3 Keihin Real Racing 177751214C3 724 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS 62534311C12 70 5 Team Impul 12Ret46'''1'''412C5 636 Lexus Team Kraft 3569'''''1'''''7Ret5C4 62 7 Team Kunimitsu 1003810583C6 60 8 Nismo 238RetRet''2'''''''6'''''''2''C8 56 9 Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo 38924696CRet 52 10 Kondo Racing 24112895RetC10 48 11 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri 8Ret6111112'''1'''C7 42 12 Lexus Team SARD 39510Ret10108C11 2613 Nakajima Racing 3210119Ret117C9 21RankTeamNo.SUZOKAFUJSEPSUGSUZFUJMOTPts.===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  1RankDriverSUZOKAFUJSEPSUGSUZFUJMOTPTS1 Masataka Yanagida Kazuki Hoshino53552RetC1642 Morio Nitta Shinichi TakagiRet62262C12553 Ryo Orime Nobuteru Taniguchi11811176C8494 Hiroki Katoh Hiroshi HamaguchiRet213Ret118C2505 Takuto Iguchi Yuji Kunimoto8913Ret3C17476 Naoki YokomizoTsubasa Abe21126816C14437 Tetsuya Tanaka Katsuyuki HiranakaRet76458C4348 Tatsuya Kataoka Manabu Orido31449Ret4C7339 Koji Yamanishi Yuhi Sekiguchi741615105C33010 Koki Saga Kousuke MatsuuraRet5983RetC192211 Kota Sasaki Tetsuya Yamano1312Ret131C102112 Tetsuji Tamanaka Haruki Kurosawa4Ret181399C51813 Takeshi Tsuchiya Akihiro Tsuzuki74RetC61714 Hideshi Matsuda Hiroki YoshimotoDSQ1531211RetC231115 Yutaka Yamagishi Hiroshi Koizumi911810DSQ7C131016 Mitsuhiro Kinoshita68Ret1610C817 Masami Kageyama68Ret16C818 Atsushi YogoDNQ161771415CRet419 Shinya HosokawaDNQ161771415C420 Taku Bamba Masahiro Sasaki1210141210C9421 Hiroyuki Iiri Yuya Sakamoto101715111712C20122 Masayuki Ueda11131018RetC11123 Igor Sushko11131018RetC1RankDriverSUZOKAFUJSEPSUGSUZFUJMOTPTS
References
External links *  Super GT official website