2013 Super GT Season

2013 Super GT Season
Previous 2012		Next 2014
The start of the season's final race.
Number of races	8
First race	2013 Okayama GT 300 km
Last race	2013 Motegi GT 250 km
Tyre Suppliers	B - M - Y - D - Hankook
Points	10 places 20-15-11-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 25-18-13-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 (Rd.5)
Drivers' Championship (GT500)
Champion	Tachikawa / Hirate		69
Runner-up	Tsukakoshi / Kaneishi		67
3rd place	Nakajima / Rossiter		60
Teams' Championship (GT500)
Champions	Lexus Team ZENT CERUNO		89
Runners-up	Keihin Real Racing		85
3rd place	Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S		80
Drivers' Championship (GT300)
Champion	Mutoh / Nakayama		85
Runner-up	Hiranaka / Wirdheim		80
3rd place	Taniguchi / Kataoka		70
Teams' Championship (GT300)
Champions	Team Mugen		107
Runners-up	GAINER		100
3rd place	GSR&Studie with TeamUKYO		87

The 2013 Super GT season (2013年のSUPER GT 2013-nen no SUPER GT) was the 20th season of the JGTC.

The season saw Yuji Tachikawa and Kohei Hirate taking their title in GT500 for Team CERUMO, with Hideki Mutoh and Yuhki Nakayama taking their title in GT300 for Team Mugen.

There was about to be held an exhibition event held at Korea for the first time in Korea International Circuit, but was cancelled.

CalendarEdit

	Date held	Circuit held	Event distance	Pole Position (GT500)	Fastest Lap (GT500)	Winner (GT500)	Pole Position (GT300)	Fastest Lap (GT300)	Winner (GT300)
Round 1	6th - 7th April	Okayama International Circuit	300 km	Yanagida Quintarelli	[IRL] Firman Matsuura	Izawa Kogure	Yamano K.Sasaki	Hoshino D.Sasaki	Hiranaka Wirdheim
Round 2	28th - 29th April	Fuji International Speedway	500 km	Nakajima Rossiter	Nakajima Rossiter	Nakajima Rossiter	Yamano K.Sasaki	Mutoh Nakayama	Nitta Saga
Round 3	15th - 16th June	[MAS] Sepang International Circuit	300 km	Matsuda Oliveira	Yamamoto Makowiecki	Matsuda Oliveira	Takagi Kobayashi	Yamano K.Sasaki	Takagi Kobayashi
Round 4	27th - 28th July	Sportsland SUGO	300 km	Motoyama Sekiguchi	Motoyama Sekiguchi	[IRL] Firman Matsuura	Yamano K.Sasaki	Yamano K.Sasaki	Takagi Kobayashi
Round 5	17th - 18th August	Suzuka Circuit	1000 km	Yanagida Quintarelli	Yamamoto Makowiecki	Yamamoto Makowiecki	Yamano K.Sasaki Takuto Iguchi	Yamano K.Sasaki Iguchi	Yamano K.Sasaki Iguchi
Round 6	7th - 8th September	Fuji International Speedway	300 km	Tachikawa Hirate	Tachikawa Hirate	Tachikawa Hirate	Takagi Kobayashi	Taniguchi Kataoka	Taniguchi Kataoka
Asian LMS	21st - 22nd September	Fuji International Speedway	3 Hours	N/A	N/A	N/A	Mutoh Nakayama	Mutoh Nakayama	Mutoh Nakayama
Round 7	5th - 6th October	Autopolis International Racing Course	300 km	Tachikawa Hirate	Tachikawa Hirate	Nakajima Rossiter	Hoshino D.Sasaki	Yamano K.Sasaki	Taniguchi Kataoka
Round 8	2nd - 3rd November	Twin Ring Motegi	250 km	Oshima Kunimoto	Oshima Kunimoto	Oshima Kunimoto	Yamano K.Sasaki	Yamano K.Sasaki	Hiranaka Wirdheim
Fuji Sprint Cup (Day 1)	22th - 23th November	Fuji Inteernational Speedway	100 km (Race 1 and Race 2)	Naoki Yamamoto	Yuji Kunimoto	Koudai Tsukakoshi	Daiki Sasaki	Daiki Sasaki	Daiki Sasaki
Fuji Sprint Cup (Day 2)	24th November	Fuji International Speedway	100 km	Kazuya Oshima	Kazuya Oshima	Kazuya Oshima	Daiki Sasaki	Daiki Sasaki	Hiroki Katoh

Point systemEdit

For the 5th round held at Suzuka, the winner will get 25 points, the runner-up will get 18, and the 3rd place finisher will get 13 points.

Entry ListEdit

GT500 ClassEdit

Number	Car	Drivers	Entrant	Tyre
1	REITO MOLA GT-R	Satoshi Motoyama Yuhi Sekiguchi	MOLA Racing	M
6	ENEOS SUSTINA SC430	Kazuya Oshima Yuji Kunimoto	Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS	B
8	ARTA HSV-010	[IRL] Ralph Firman Kosuke Matsuura	V T E Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Founder Aguri Suzuki Notable Personnel Aguri Suzuki · Keiichi Tsuchiya Former Notable Personnel ? 2014 Drivers Kosuke Matsuura · Vitantonio Liuzzi Former Drivers [IRE] Ralph Firman (2005-2013) · Takashi Kobayashi (2010-2012) · Hideki Mutoh (2011) · Takuya Izawa (2008-2009) · Daisuke Ito (2004-2007) · Yuji Ide (2007,2010) · Katsutomo Kaneishi (2001-2004) · Toshihiro Kaneishi (2003,2006) · Keiichi Tsuchiya (2000-2003) Champions Ito / Firman (2007) Season Reports 2001 · 2007 · 2013 Full results	B
12	CALSONIC IMPUL GT-R	Tsugio Matsuda João Paulo Lima de Oliveira	TEAM IMPUL	B
17	KEIHIN HSV-010	Koudai Tsukakoshi Toshihiro Kaneishi	Keihin Real Racing	B
18	Weider Modulo HSV-010	Naoki Yamamoto Frédéric Makowiecki	Weider Modulo Dome Racing	M
19	WedsSport ADVAN SC430	Seiji Ara André Couto	Lexus Team WedsSport Bandoh	Y
23	MOTUL AUTECH GT-R	Masataka Yanagida Ronnie Quintarelli	Nismo	M
24	D'station ADVAN GT-R	Hironobu Yasuda Michael Krumm	Kondo Racing	Y
32	Epson HSV-010	Ryo Michigami Daisuke Nakajima	Epson Nakajima Racing	D
36	PETRONAS TOM'S SC430	Kazuki Nakajima James Rossiter	Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S	B
37	KeePer TOM'S SC430	Daisuke Ito Andrea Caldarelli	Lexus Team KeePer TOM'S	B
38	ZENT CERUMO SC430	Yuji Tachikawa Kohei Hirate	Lexus Team ZENT CERUMO	B
39	DENSO KOBELCO SC430	Juichi Wakisaka Hiroaki Ishiura	Lexus Team SARD	B
100	RAYBRIG HSV-010	Takuya Izawa Takashi Kogure	Team Kunimitsu	B

GT300 ClassEdit

Number	Car	Drivers	Entrant	Tyre
0	ENDLESS TAISAN PORSCHE	Kyosuke Mineo Naoki Yokomizo	Team Taisan KEN Endless	Y
2	EVA-RT Hatsugoki Apple McLaren MP4-12C GT3 (Rd.1-2,4-) EVA-RT Hatsugoki Petronas McLaren MP4-12C GT3 (Rd.3)	Kazuho Takahashi Hiroki Katoh Carlo van Dam (Rd.5)	Cars Tokai Dream28	Y
3	S Road NDDP GT-R GT3	Kazuki Hoshino Daiki Sasaki [ESP] Lucas Ordoñez (Rd.5)	NDDP Racing	Y
4	GSR Hatsune Miku BMW Z4 GT3	Nobuteru Taniguchi Tatsuya Kataoka Jörg Müller (Rd.5)	Goodsmile Racing	Y
5	Mach GoGoGo Shaken Ferrari 458 GT3 (Rd.1-3) Mach GoGoGo Shaken Nissan GT-R GT3 (Rd.5-)	Tetsuji Tamanaka Junichiro Yamashita Naofumi Omoto (Rd.2,5) Naoya Yamano (Asian LMS)	Team Mach	Y
7	OGT Bonds Racing GT-R GT3 (Rd.1-2)	Igor Sushko Ryo Orime (Rd.1) Yuji Ide (Rd.2)	Bonds Racing	Y
9	NAC KOUKAKUKIDOUTAI Porsche	Shogo Mitsuyama Yu Yokomaku Yuya Sakamoto (Rd.5)	Direction Racing	Y
10	GAINER Rn-SPORTS DIXCEL SLS	Tetsuya Tanaka Masayuki Ueda Masataka Kawaguchi (Rd.5)	GAINER	D
11	GAINER DIXCEL SLS	Katsuyuki Hiranaka Björn Wirdheim	GAINER	D
16	MUGEN CR-Z GT	Hideki Mutoh Yuhki Nakayama	Team Mugen	B
21	ZENT Audi R8 LMS ultra	Akihiro Tsuzuki Richard Lyons	Hitotsuyama Racing	Hankook
22	GREEN TEC SLS AMG GT3	Hisashi Wada Masaki Jyonai	R'Qs Motorsports	Y
30	IWASAKI apr R8 (Rd.1-3) IWASAKI OGT Racing GT-R GT3 (Rd.4-)	Yuki Iwasaki [MAL] Fairuz Fauzy (Rd.1-2) Igor Sushko (Rd.3-) Kenji Kobayashi (Rd.2,5)	apr Racing	Y
31	PANASONIC apr PRIUS GT	Morio Nitta Koki Saga Yuichi Nakayama (Rd.5)	apr Racing	Y
33	HANKOOK PORSCHE	Masami Kageyama Tomonobu Fujii	HANKOOK KTR	Hankook
35	NISMO ATHLETE GT-R GT3 (FSC)	Alex Buncombe [ESP] Lucas Ordoñez	NISMO ATHLETE Global Team	Y
48	DIJON RACING IS GT-R	Hiroshi Takamori Katsumasa Chiyo Masaki Tanaka (Rd.5)	DIJON Racing	Y
50	Exe Aston Martin	Masaki Kano Hideto Yasuoka Ryohei Sakaguchi (Rd.2,5)	Arnage Racing	Y
52	OKINAWA-IMP SLS	Hironori Takeuchi Takeshi Tsuchiya Naoya Gamou (Rd.5) Motoyoshi Yoshida (Asian LMS)	Team Shift	Y
55	ARTA CR-Z GT	Shinichi Takagi Takashi Kobayashi Tomoki Nojiri (Rd.5)	Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	B
61	R&D SPORT SUBARU BRZ	Tetsuya Yamano Kota Sasaki Takuto Iguchi (Rd.5)	R&D SPORT	M
62	LEON SLS	Haruki Kurosawa Masanobu Kato (Rd.1-2) Tsubasa Kurosawa (Rd.2-) Akihiko Nakaya (Rd.5)	LEON RACING	Y
86	CRYSTAL CROCO Lamborghini Gallardo GT3	Koji Yamanishi Shinya Hosokawa Yuya Sakamoto (Rd.5)	JLOC	Y
87	LA SEINE Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 (Rd.1-8)	Hideki Yamauchi Hiroki Yoshimoto	JLOC	Y
88	MANEPA Lamborghini Gallardo GT3	Manabu Orido (Rd.1-8) Takayuki Aoki (Rd.1-8) Hideki Yamauchi (FSC) Hiroki Yoshimoto (FSC)	JLOC	Y
96	DIJON WAKO'S ENDLESS Z06.R GT3 (Rd.2,4,6,FSC)	Masaki Tanaka Keiichi Inoue (Rd.2,FSC) Makoto Ikegami (Rd.4,6)	DIJON Racing	Y
360	RUN UP GROUP GT-R (Rd.1-4,6-)¹	Takuya Shirasaka Atsushi Tanaka	TOMEI SPORTS	Y

Driver ChangesEdit

GT500Edit

• Team Kunimitsu driver Naoki Yamamoto and Dome Racing Team driver Takashi Kogure swapped seats. Yamamoto will move to Dome Racing Team, and Kogure will nove to Team Kunimitsu.
• Team Mugen driver Daisuke Nakajima and Nakajima Racing driver Yuhki Nakayama swapped classes. Nakayama will move to Team Mugen, and Nakajima will move to Nakajima Racing.
• Takashi Kobayashi and Kosuke Matsuura swapped classes. Kobayashi goes to the GT300 class, and Matsuura to GT500 class.
• 2012 FIA GT1 runner-up Frédéric Makowiecki will join the the Dome Racing Team. He left FIA GT1 and joined Super GT. However, he still races for World Endurance Championship.
• Force India test driver James Rossiter will join the Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S team, replcaing Frenchman Loïc Duval. He was a test driver for Force India from F1. However, he will still test for Force India.
• After having no drive for the 2013 season, Frenchman Loïc Duval will race for the World Endurance Championship.

GT300Edit

• German WTCC driver Jörg Müller will be the third driver for the Goodsmile Racing team for the 5th round, held at Suzuka.
• GT Academy champion Lucas Ordoñez will race for NDDP Racing at the 5th round. Since he was a GT Academy champion, he will partipicate in Super GT for the 5th round.
• Jann Mardenborough and Alex Buncombe will be a test driver for NDDP Racing, testing at Fuji. Later, it was confirmed that Alex Buncombe will join the season for the Fuji Sprint Cup, with the Nismo Athlete Global Team team, partnering with teammate Lucas Ordoñez.
• Daiki Sasaki will join NDDP Racing with Kazuki Hoshino. He was the 3rd driver for the 2012 season for NDDP Racing.
• Former Team Kunimitsu driver Shinya Hosokawa will return to the series, driving for the JLOC team. His last run was in 2010, with the same team.
• Fairuz Fauzy will join apr Racing, where he was replaced by Igor Sushko at the 3rd round and onwards. He was a driver for Thunder Asia Racing that only entered in Round 3 at Sepang.
• British driver Richard Lyons will stay in Super GT for the Hitotsuyama Racing team, partnering with Akihiro Tsuzuki. He was a driver for TEAM CERUMO in 2010 with Yuji Tachikawa before, got no drive in 2011, and then he entered back to the season in 2012.
• Yu Yokomaku will race for Direction Racing. He was the 3rd driver for Direction Racing since 2011.
• apr Racing's third driver, Yuichi Nakayama, will race for the same team in the 5th round held at Suzuka.
• LMP Motorsport driver Takuto Iguchi wil race for the R&D SPORT team in the 5th round held at Suzuka.
• Japanese rookie Hisao Shigeta will race for Direction Racing at the 3rd round held at Sepang, replacing Yu Yokomaku.
• LMP Motorsport driver Yutaka Yamagishi will leave the season, as LMP Motorsport had no eligible cars for the season.
• Swiss female driver Cyndie Allemann will leave the season, having no drive.
• Team SGC driver Alexandre Imperatori has no drive for the season, when Team SGC withdrew from the season. He will race for the World Endurance Championship with Team KCMG.

Mid-season changesEdit

• Yuji Ide will race for Bonds Racing for the second round, replacing Ryo Orime. He was a driver for Team Kunimitsu in 2009 and Autobacs Racing Team Aguri in 2010, and now entered to Bonds Racing. Later, before the third round, the team withdrew, and he got no drive.

Test DriversEdit

• Marco Bonanomi will be a test driver for the season, but there is no information which team he will be.
• Oliver Jarvis will test for the Hitotsuyama Racing team at Motegi.
• After a horrible accident at Fuji in 2012, Tim Bergmeister will be a test driver for the Hankook KTR team.

Point RankingEdit

Driver's Championship (in progress)Edit

• Bold text indicates pole position, italic text indicates fastest lap.
• For the unofficial Manufacturer's Championship, see here.

GT500Edit

Position	Car Number	Drivers	Rd.1	Rd.2	Rd.3	Rd.4	Rd.5	Rd.6	Rd.7	Rd.8	Points	Standings after Rd.8
1st	#38	Yuji Tachikawa Kohei Hirate	4th	2nd	14th	Ret	11th	1st	2nd	3rd	69	Held position
2nd	#17	Koudai Tsukakoshi Toshihiro Kaneishi	2nd	Ret	5th	Ret	7th	2nd	3rd	2nd	67	2POS
3rd	#36	Kazuki Nakajima James Rossiter	12th	1st	11th	10th	3rd	12th	1st	5th	60	1POS
4th	#18	Naoki Yamamoto Frédéric Makowiecki	5th	10th	4th	Ret	1st	5th	5th	7th	56	1POS
5th	#6	Kazuya Oshima Yuji Kunimoto	7th	3rd	7th	6th	Ret	4th	11th	1st	52	5POS
6th	#23	Masataka Yanagida Ronnie Quintarelli	3rd	Ret	9th	3rd	2nd	9th	8th	8th	50	1POS
7th	#39	Juichi Wakisaka Hiroaki Ishiura	8th	4th	2nd	4th	9th	11th	7th	4th	49	1POS
8th	#37	Daisuke Ito Andrea Caldarelli	15th	6th	10th	2nd	5th	3rd	9th	6th	47	1POS
9th	#12	Tsugio Matsuda João Paulo Lima de Oliveira	6th	5th	1st	Ret	4th	6th	Ret	13th	46	3POS
10th	#100	Takuya Izawa Takashi Kogure	1st	7th	3rd	Ret	10th	Ret	12th	12th	37	1POS
11th	#8	[IRL] Ralph Firman Kosuke Matsuura	9th	8th	8th	1st	12th	8th	14th	Ret	31	Held position
12th	#1	Satoshi Motoyama Yuhi Sekiguchi	10th	9th	6th	7th	8th	8th	4th	Ret	28	Held position
13th	24	Hironobu Yasuda Michael Krumm	13th	12th	13th	5th	Ret	10th	6th	9th	14	Held position
14th	#19	Seiji Ara André Couto	14th	11th	15th	9th	6th	Ret	13th	10th	9	Held position
15th	32	Ryo Michigami Daisuke Nakajima	11th	13th	12th	8th	13th	Ret	10th	11th	4	Held position

GT300 (NOT DONE)Edit

Position	Car Number	Drivers	Rd.1	Rd.2	Rd.3	Rd.4	Rd.5	Rd.6	Asian LMS	Rd.7	Rd.8	Points	Standings after Rd.8
1st	#16	Hideki Mutoh Yuhki Nakayama	7th	2nd	2nd	2nd	5th	8th	1st	9th	2nd	85	Held position
3rd	#4	Nobuteru Taniguchi Tatsuya Kataoka	2nd	9th	6th	15th	DSQ	1st	-	1st	4th	70	1POS
2nd	#11	Katsuyuki Hiranaka Björn Wirdheim	1st	6th	3rd	13th	6th	7th	2nd	4th	1st	80	1POS
5th	#52	Hironori Takeuchi Takeshi Tsuchiya	4th	4th	12th	4th	2nd	10th	6th	3rd	7th	60	1POS
4th	#61	Tetsuya Tamano Kota Sasaki	5th	Ret	4th	6th	1st	9th	3rd	7th	3rd	70	1POS
6th	#62	Haruki Kurosawa	6th	8th	8th	7th	3rd	4th	8th	18th	6th	42	1POS
7th	#55	Shinichi Takagi Takashi Kobayashi	12th	19th	1st	1st	Ret	16th	Ret	16th		40	1POS
8th	#31	Morio Nitta Koki Saga	Ret	1st	Ret	22nd	15th	3rd	-	15th		35	Held position
9th	#62	Tsubasa Kurosawa	-	DNP	8th	7th	3rd	4th	8th	18th	6th	34	Held position
10th	#61	Takuto Iguchi	-	-	-	-	1st	-	-	-	-	25	Held position
11th	#87	Hideki Yamauchi Hiroki Yoshimoto	3rd	7th	Ret	5th	Ret	20th	-	10th		22	2POS
12th	#0	Kyosuke Mineo Naoki Yokomizo	10th	NC	11th	3rd	7th	18th	4th	8th		24	Held position
13th	#86	Koji Yamanishi Shinya Hosokawa	11th	3rd	9th	12th	Ret	3rd	-	13th		24	2POS

Team's ChampionshipEdit

GT500Edit

† = Did not finished, but was classified.