Kizuku Hirota and Hideto Yasuoka will split the remaining four races, replacing Yamashita. Team Le Mans announced that they will take over vehicle maintenance and operation for Audi Team Hitotsuyama beginning in 2020. #ForTheDrivers #LotusEvija #gwspeedweek Sean Walkinshaw and. Back at Fuji, where the second race at least was going so well until Nojiri’s faux-pas, the team has a chance to finally capitalise on the inherent speed of its package this weekend, if both drivers can keep their noses clean. This page was last edited on 13 October 2020, at 14:55. X Works Racing will change from the Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 to the Audi R8 LMS GT3 in 2020. Analytics cookies collect information that is used in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used, this helps us to improve yours and others experience of the website. But any upturn in form now will arrive too late to save their championship chances. The following race at Motegi promised much as Kovalainen and Nakayama qualified fourth, only to fall backwards in the race owing to a failed tyre gamble that left them down in ninth. It was both Nakajima and Dunlop’s first pole in GT500 since 2012, and while that pace couldn’t quite be replicated in the race, Takuya Izawa and Hiroki Otsu still came away with an encouraging fourth place, the team’s best dry-weather result in three years. For Rounds 3 & 4, CarGuy Racing owner and driver Takeshi Kimura joined the team. But events in 2020 leave you wondering if the formula could be heading for a revival. But with the JAF GT300 contingent enjoying a revival of their own this year, the chances of a non-GT3 car winning the title for the first time since 2016 certainly can’t be disregarded. We’ll continue to keep you updated with news from the next races, but in the meantime enjoy the photos below: Tune into the the Goodwood SpeedWeek live stream today to watch a special "History of Lotus" feature For Round 2, former Eurocup Formula Renault driver Hiroyuki Matsumura entered his first Super GT event since 2008. Two rounds were scheduled to take place at Twin Ring Motegi. That will act as a severe handicap at a track like Fuji, but nonetheless the four Toyota crews can realistically target some solid top-six or top-eight finishes that could make all the difference when the weight handicaps come off and the title is finally decided… also at Fuji. The high point of their season arguably came before the first race even took place, when Fukuzumi set a new lap record around Fuji in Q1. With Kazuki Hiramine and Sacha Fenestraz's respective promotions to GT500, Kondo Racing announced a new lineup for their GT300 team, featuring 2010 Japanese Top Formula Champion, BMW Team Studie x CSL welcomes 2004 24 Hours of Le Mans winner. #4 Goodsmile Racing & Team Ukyo Mercedes AMG GT3: Nobuteru Taniguchi, Tatsuya Kataoka, Makowiecki admits Super GT return would be "difficult", Quintarelli: Nissan hopes depend on all GT-Rs performing, Wolff explains why Red Bull supply view has changed from 2016, Why Vietnam cancelled a race that was not going to happen, How Hulkenberg inspired Racing Point upgrade package, Schumacher helmet "one of coolest gifts in sport" - Ricciardo, MotoGP riders fear FP3 delay not enough amid cold weather. Super GT 2020 Class 1 Super GT Cars Unveiled. The 2020 Super GT Series is a motor racing championship based in Japan for grand touring cars. BMW Team Studie will enter the GT300 class for the first time since 2017 under the name "BMW Team Studie x CSL", using the current. This information is used for profiling purposes and to help identify you, so that we can show you targeted and personalised marketing content, both on our website, via email (where you consent to marketing) and in other contexts, such as on other websites or through other marketing channels. #ForTheDrivers #gwspeedweek, The all-electric Lotus Evija hypercar makes its dynamic public debut at Goodwood SpeedWeek this weekend. Ford hasn't released official pricing for the 2021 GT, but we expect the supercar to continue to start at $500,000. With a light yet powerful design, this is what true innovation looks like, the GT gives you the purest … All-Japan F3 National Class race winner Kizuku Hirota joins Arnage Racing as a third driver. INGING Motorsport will return to the GT300 class as a stand-alone entry in 2020, fielding a. Lexus Customer Racing teams K-Tunes Racing and LM Corsa will change tyre suppliers for the 2020 season: K-Tunes Racing will switch from Bridgestone to Dunlop, and LM Corsa will switch from Dunlop to Michelin. And that’s before you consider the disadvantage SARD already faces compared to the two-car teams. Two rounds were scheduled to take place at Suzuka Circuit, with one scheduled for August 23, the date that was originally set for the cancelled 2020 Suzuka 10 Hours. Our website cannot function properly without these cookies, and they can only be disabled by changing your browser preferences (please note if disabled our website may not work or show correctly on your device). ⠀ This season saw a number of corporate sponsors purchasing naming rights for individual rounds. It is the twenty-eighth season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship which includes the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era and the sixteenth season the series to compete under the Super GT name. #8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Honda NSX-GT: Tomoki Nojiri, Nirei Fukuzumi. Built to JAF-GT GT300 regulations, the GT300 GR Supra will be powered by Toyota's 5.4 litre, On December 6, 2019, Tsuchiya Engineering announced a customer racing partnership with. In GT300, Yokohama’s GT3 runners have also by and large struggled. Upon their return to the series at Round 2, arto Ping An Team Thailand appointed Masahiro Sasaki and Yuui Tsutsumi to drive for the next four rounds. SUPER GT is set up in such a way that winning multiple races in the first half of the season is a rare feat indeed. Max Racing, who had competed in the Pirelli Super Taikyu Series' ST-X (FIA GT3) category from 2018 to 2019, announced that they will move up to the GT300 class of Super GT beginning in 2020. Kohta Kawaai graduates from the FIA F4 Japanese Championship to drive for Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave. ⠀ Super GT is the premier professional GT Championship in Japan, and highly regarded worldwide. A total of 45 teams have registered to take part in the 2020 Super GT season, 15 teams from the GT500 class, and 30 teams from the GT300 class. On January 29, 2020, Tsuchiya Engineering announced an expanded partnership with title sponsor. For what amounts to the second Nissan factory car, the #3 NDDP/B-Max machine of Katsumasa Chiyo and Kohei Hirate, there’s been good consistency but little in the way of front-running pace, with sixth their best finish so far. ⠀ On July 26, 2019, the GTA announced the provisional calendar for the 2020 Super GT series, with the number of rounds remaining at 8, but with an increase in the number of overseas races, with the return of Chang International Circuit in Thailand, and for the first time since 2013 Super GT Series, a return to Sepang International Circuit, in Malaysia. It’s a marked contrast to the situation last year, where GT3 cars won every race and ended up locking out the top eight spots in the championship. With the 2020 Summer Olympics postponed, the Fuji Speedway round, traditionally scheduled for the Golden Week holiday of May 4, was moved to August 9. arto Ping An Team Thailand, formerly Panther arto Team Thailand, missed Round 1 due to several personnel being unable to enter Japan. ⠀ #ForTheDrivers #gwspeedweek, Today's #MyLotus is @chrisaw_13's Elise S2 111s.⠀ Both TOM’S cars arrive at this weekend’s Fuji race with stage-two fuel flow restrictors as a result of their success, while the Cerumo cars have stage-one restrictors. X Works Racing hired multiple replacement drivers for Alex Au: For Round 1, TCR Japan Series driver Takuro Shinohara joined the team for his first Super GT appearance since 2018. Now it’s the turn of Baguette and Tsukakoshi to prove they can do the same – their title chances could well hinge upon it. The 2020 Super GT Series is a motor racing championship based in Japan for grand touring cars.The series is sanctioned by the Japan Automobile Federation (JAF) and run by the GT Association (GTA). Lotus Cars Design Director Russell Carr and Chief Aerodynamicist Richard Hill share their vision for Evija, the first British all-electric hypercar - For The Drivers. Matters weren’t helped at the start of the year by Heikki Kovalainen missing the opening two races of the season due to travel restrictions. Our recommended settings are that these cookies are all active but if you aren't happy with this you can manage your preferences by clicking "manage cookie preferences". The rounds at Okayama International Circuit, Autopolis, and Sportsland Sugo in Japan, as well as the round at Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia, were all cancelled for 2020. So far, so normal. We use cookies to understand how you engage with our website across all your devices, this includes recording your browsing habits and activity. Oono Associates purchased naming rights for Rounds all four rounds held at Fuji Speedway, under their Takanoko Hotel property based in Matsuyama, Japan. At the time, dates for neither of the overseas rounds were revealed, although the races were expected to take place between June and August. Steel manufacturer Fujimaki Group purchased naming rights for Round 3 at Suzuka Circuit, and Round 4 at Twin Ring Motegi. The Fuji 500 mile [ja] round, introduced to replace the 1000 km of Suzuka, was dropped to avoid a clash with the 2020 Summer Olympics, which would be held in Tokyo. On-track, the highlights have been two fifth places at Fuji Round 1 and Suzuka, although the latter result could have been more than that had Yuichi Nakayama not been rear-ended by Nirei Fukuzumi’s ARTA Honda around half-distance. Australian Jake Parsons returns to Super GT after a two-year absence, driving for Modulo Drago Corse alongside owner/driver. SUPER GT is set up in such a way that winning multiple races in the first half of the season is a rare feat indeed. For the #36 TOM’S crew of Sacha Fenestraz and Yuhi Sekiguchi, that race was the most recent one at Motegi, where some slightly overzealous defending from Sekiguchi against Nick Cassidy in the sister car probably meant a handful of points went begging. Likewise, the #14 Cerumo pair of Sho Tsuboi and Kazuya Oshima suffered from tardy pitwork at Suzuka, where the #38 machine of Hiroaki Ishiura and Yuji Tachikawa was forced out with gearbox trouble while fighting for victory. Of the three, only the Lotus looks to be a serious contender for the crown, thanks in part to the considerable driving talents of veterans Hiroki Katoh and Masataka Yanagida. Real Racing now has two points in hand over the #36 TOM’S crew at the head of the standings, but has crossed the threshold at which the harshest stage three fuel flow restrictor is applied. The revised 2020-spec Nissan GT-R looked in pre-season testing like it might struggle to match all-new designs from Honda and Toyota this year. This weekend's Fuji SUPER GT round marks the start of the second half of the 2020 season. Its best placed car in the standings is the Cars Dream Tokai28 Lotus, which has the advantage of being considerably lighter and therefore easier on its tyres. On March 18, 2020, the original opening round at Okayama International Circuit was postponed to an undetermined date due to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic. [5] On April 5, 2020, the series released its first revised calendar, which was scheduled to begin on July 12 at Okayama. But all three have had their highlights this year, with Team Mach getting on the podium in the Fuji opener, Inging grabbing pole at Round 2 and of course the Lotus taking a first win for a MC car in two years that weekend. It’s hard to pick a stand-out crew from among them, but suffice to say that all four have given themselves a chance of the championship at this stage of the season – even though they can all point to at least one result that should have been better. [7] On June 8, 2020, it was confirmed that the eighth and final round would take place at Fuji Speedway on November 29, after the round at Chang International Circuit in Thailand, which was provisionally scheduled to take place on December 27, was cancelled. But progress has still been slow, with overheating problems over a stint somewhat overshadowing the one-lap gains. Results-wise, Mugen’s surprise podium last time out at Motegi stands out as the only bright spot in an otherwise bleak landscape. But as the only Bridgestone Toyota not hobbled by a fuel restrictor this weekend at Fuji, the team does have a good chance to show it can still be a serious contender when the stars align. Since then it’s pretty much all been downhill for ARTA, with a poor tyre choice and Honda’s general lack of race pace against the rampant Toyotas ending its hopes of a strong start to the year, Nojiri spinning out of the lead in the second Fuji race, Fukuzumi throwing away a possible podium by colliding with the SARD Toyota at Suzuka and then getting tangled up with Mardenborough’s Kondo Nissan at Motegi. The Race YouTube channel will broadcast the full 2020 Super GT season live – the only place outside Japan where the spectacular sportscar series can be watched. Super GT 2020. The year started perfectly for the new car with a top-five lockout at the Fuji opener, and while there have been no further triumphs since then, Toyota crews have taken seven of a possible 12 podium finishes so far, against four for Honda and just one for Nissan. After Sena Sakaguchi was called up to TGR Team SARD for Round 2, K-Tunes Racing appointed Shigekazu Wakisaka to replace him in the same event. The 2020 Ford GT is a clear indicator that this half-million-dollar supercar has more to give. The potential was there even in 2019, as evidenced by the team’s two pole positions (the only one for Honda runners of that year), but it’s only this season that the team has been able to realise that potential. Super GT is the premier professional GT Championship in Japan, and highly regarded worldwide. It may be Honda that leads the way in the drivers’ championship at the halfway stage at the season, but with four strong cars in the top six of the standings, Toyota seems like the stronger bet to triumph in its first year of GT500 competition with the new GR Supra. This year an Lotus Evora MC GT300 driven by professional drivers Hiroki Katoh and Masataka Yanagida is taking part and is already seeing success with two podium finishes from three races, including a first ever Super GT win for Lotus in the second race! Toyota, Honda and Nissan unveil 2020 Super GT cars built to Class 1 regs… A trio of top-four finishes for the works Subaru BRZ and victory for the Saitama Toyopet Supra in the opener have left them fourth and fifth overall at the halfway point. Perhaps it was not much surprise that a light, Bridgestone-shod Honda triumphed in the second weekend of the year at Fuji, but Baguette and Tsukakoshi’s subsequent win last time out at Motegi – which was achieved in pretty emphatic fashion despite their 46kg of success ballast – was by no means in the script. There are just three cars based around the standard Dome tub still on the grid in 2020, with Team Mach being joined in fielding an 86 MC by Inging Motorsport, along with the venerable Lotus Evora MC of Cars Tokai Dream28. #36 au TOM'S GR Supra, #37 KeePer TOM'S GR Supra. It is the thirty-eighth overall season of a national JAF sportscar championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. Introducing the next generation of supercar - The 2018 Ford GT. Due to travel restrictions put into place as a result of the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic, several driver changes were necessitated, starting from the opening round at Fuji Speedway. Best of the Yokohama GT3 cars is the Kondo Nissan in seventh in the standings, with a best finish of fourth, and expected front-runners like the Goodsmile Racing Mercedes and the Drago Corse Honda have so far failed to make much of an impression, scrapping only for minor points placings. The series is sanctioned by the Japan Automobile Federation (JAF) and run by the GT Association (GTA). Necessary cookies enable core functionality. Kondo and Impul go into this weekend with essentially no handicap weight and fresh engines to boot (the #23 and #3 crews already took their changes in the previous two races), so there can be no more excuses to finally start scoring serious points – especially for Impul. It was the #23 car’s first race of the year carrying any serious handicap weight, and that performance doesn’t bode well for this weekend’s Fuji race. Before this year, you have to go back to 2016 for the previous time it happened, and the time before that was 2008. Meanwhile, a catalogue of misfortunes too numerous to mention here in recent races have prevented Kondo Racing adding to the solitary point Jann Mardenborough and Mitsunori Takaboshi scored in the season opener, while Impul’s Bridgestone-shod GT-R is the only GT500 runner yet to score in four races, a situation for which Daiki Sasaki has to shoulder the large portion of the blame.
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