Breaking news
Super GT
Super GT reveals 45-car 2020 entry list
SUPER GT has issued a 45-car entry list for the 2020 season, with 15 GT500 cars bolstered by an expanded field of 30 GT300 entrants.
Rachit Thukral
Edited: Feb 29, 2020, 4:40 PM
Copy link
Share on Viber
Toyota, which previously competed under its Lexus brand in GT500, will once again have the highest representation in the series' flagship category, with six GR Supras fielded by four teams.
TOM’S will again field two cars, while Cerumo has also added a second entry following the exit of last year’s championship-winning Team LeMans squad.
Honda will run five NSX-GTs, with the engine now placed at the front of the car to comply with the Class One regulations, while Nissan will enter four brand new GT-Rs.
Intriguingly, the car name for Team Mugen’s #16 NSX-GT has yet to be confirmed, raising the possibility of the outfit gaining significant sponsorship from Red Bull.
This would be an extension of an arrangement that began when now-AlphaTauri Formula 1 driver Pierre Gasly raced for Mugen in Super Formula in 2017.
Expanded GT300 field
An expanded 2020 GT300 field will see the return of BMW, with Team Studie re-joining the grid after a two-year hiatus.
Studie’s BMW M6 GT3 will be piloted by Tomohide Yamaguchi and former Le Mans 24 Hours winner Seiji Ara, who was left without a drive following Team Goh’s move to IndyCar with Alex Palou and Dale Coyne Racing.
As previously announced, factory Aston Martin driver Nicki Thiim will make his SUPER GT debut with the factory-supported D’station team, joining team incumbent Tomonobu Fujii.
Thiim replaces Joao Paulo de Oliveira in D’station’s line-up, the Brazilian driver returning to Nissan’s fold with Kondo Racing in 2020.
Elsewhere, Audi works driver Christopher Mies will compete for local outfit Hitotsuyama, racing an Audi R8 alongside Shintaro Kawabata.
In all, the GT300 field will feature 23 GT300 cars, four JAF-GT300s and three ‘Mother Chassis’ machines.
Although SUPER GT's indigenous Mother Chassis cars have increasingly fallen out of favour with the teams, with Tsuchiya Engineering famously ditching it for a Porsche 911 GT3 R, Team Mach and Cars Tokai Dream28 have both showed faith in the concept for another season, while Inging is also entering a Toyota 86 MC for its expansion into the GT300 ranks.
The GT300 class' tyre manufacturer rivalry has also received a boost this season following the return of Michelin with the D'station team.
This means that Michelin, Dunlop, Bridgestone and Yokohama will form a four-way fight in both classes of the Japan-based series.
GT500 entry list:
No Driver Team Car Tyre 36
Sacha Fenestraz
Yuhi Sekiguchi
TOM'S Toyota Bridgestone 37
Nick Cassidy
Ryo Hirakawa
TOM'S Toyota Bridgestone 19
Yuji Kunimoto
Ritomo Miyata
Bandoh Toyota Yokohama 38
Hiroaki Ishiura
Yuji Tachikawa
Cerumo Toyota Bridgestone 14
Kazuya Oshima
Sho Tsuboi
Cerumo Toyota Bridgestone 39
Heikki Kovalainen
Yuichi Nakayama
SARD Toyota Bridgestone 100
Naoki Yamamoto
Tadasuke Makino
Kunimitsu Honda Bridgestone 8
Tomoki Nojiri
Nirei Fukuzumi
ARTA Honda Bridgestone 16
Hideki Mutoh
Ukyo Sasahara
Mugen Honda Yokohama 17
Bertrand Baguette
Koudai Tsukakoshi
Real Racing Honda Bridgestone 64
Takuya Izawa
Hiroki Otsu
Nakajima Racing Honda Dunlop 3
Kohei Hirate
Katsumasa Chiyo
B-Max Nissan Michelin 12
Daiski Sasaki
Kazuki Hiramine
Impul Nissan Bridgestone 23
Ronnie Quintarelli
Tsugio Matsuda
NISMO Nissan Michelin 24
Mitsunori Takaboshi
Jann Mardenborough
Kondo Nissan Yokohama
We want your opinion!
What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?
Take our 5 minute survey.
- The Motorsport.com Team
Read and post comments
Read also :
Share Or Save This Story
Copy link
Share on Viber
Previous article Audi factory driver Mies to race in Super GT
Next article Honda Super GT signing has F1 potential - Mugen
Top Comments
There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?
View More & Comment
More from
Rachit Thukral
Raul Fernandez still compromised after Indonesia finger injury: “I’m not at 100%”
MotoGP
MotoGP
Australian GP
4 h
Raul Fernandez still compromised after Indonesia finger injury: “I’m not at 100%”
Dan Ticktum secures Formula E Gen4 berth with newly-acquired Fortescue Zero team
Formula E
Formula E 7 h
Dan Ticktum secures Formula E Gen4 berth with newly-acquired Fortescue Zero team
Latest news
Tim Clark wants NASCAR to be better storytellers to counter "brand perception problem"
NASCAR Cup
NAS NASCAR Cup 10 min
Tim Clark wants NASCAR to be better storytellers to counter "brand perception problem"
Why NASCAR's Zane Smith fine for Carson Hocevar contact was consistent
NASCAR Cup
NAS NASCAR Cup
Talladega II
36 min
Why NASCAR's Zane Smith fine for Carson Hocevar contact was consistent
Jimmie Johnson on the NASCAR business world: "It's a war"
NASCAR Cup
NAS NASCAR Cup 47 min
Jimmie Johnson on the NASCAR business world: "It's a war"
David Alonso lashes out at Dani Holgado: "When you’re not a good person, there’s nothing you can do"
Moto2
MOT2 Moto2
Phillip Island
47 min
David Alonso lashes out at Dani Holgado: "When you’re not a good person, there’s nothing you can do"
Subscribe and access Motorsport.com with your ad-blocker.
From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.
You have 2 options:
- Become a subscriber.
- Disable your adblocker.
Subscribe now Already subscribed? Sign in here
Already disabled your adblocker?
Reload page
Manage Alerts
Subscribe