Fuji 450km SUPER GT – schedule, how to watch, entry list

Fuji has been a Toyota stronghold for the past couple of seasons, with the Shizuoka Prefecture track's kilometre-long main straight playing to the strengths of the slippery, low-drag GR Supra GT500.

However, that could all change this time round with the introduction of the new Nissan Z and Honda's updated Type S-based NSX-GT, as well as the changes Toyota has made to the Supra since last year.

Toyota got its campaign off to a winning start last month at Okayama, with the #14 Rookie Racing car of Kenta Yamashita and Kazuya Oshima taking the spoils, but Honda and Nissan each managed to get a car on the podium as well, a clear sign of a the fantastic three-way battle to come in GT500.

Yamashita and Oshima will be hard-pressed to repeat their Okayama win however as they are saddled with the maximum 42kg of success ballast, with each point earned worth 2kg of extra weight.

Among those hoping to capitalise on having low success ballast will be the #36 TOM'S crew (Sho Tsuboi/Giuliano Alesi, 10kg), the Impul Nissan squad (Bertrand Baguette/Kazuki Hiramine, 8kg), and Honda outfits ARTA (Tomoki Nojiri/Nirei Fukuzumi, 2kg) and Real Racing (Koudai Tsukakoshi/Nobuharu Matsushita, 4kg), which won last year's Fuji Golden Week race.

Strategy will also play an important role, with each car having to make two pitstops instead of the normal single stop.

In the GT300 class, every point so far is worth 3kg of ballast, meaning the Kondo Racing Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 that won at Okayama (Joao Paulo de Oliveira/Kiyoto Fujinami) is saddled with 60kg of ballast.

Toyota's GR Supra GT300 traditionally goes well around Fuji, with the LM Corsa team (Hiroki Yoshimoto/Shunsuke Kohno) keen to add to its pair of victories at the track last year. Another car to keep an eye on is the Team LeMans Audi R8 GT3 LMS Evo II, as ex-Formula 1 racer Roberto Merhi makes his debut.

Max Racing also makes its return after sitting out the Okayama opener, bringing the field up to 28 cars in GT300 and 43 in total.

SUPER GT time schedule for Fuji, Round 2

Times are Local/UK time (GMT+1)/EDT/PDT 

Tuesday May 3

Free practice (1h45 minutes) – 9.00am/1.00am/8.00pm (Monday)/5.00pm (Monday)

Qualifying – 3pm/7am/2am/11pm (Monday)

Wednesday May 4

Warm-up – 1.10pm/5.10am/12.10am/9.10pm (Tuesday)

Race (100 laps) – 2.30pm/6.30am/1.30am/10.30pm (Tuesday)

How can I watch SUPER GT at Fuji?

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SUPER GT entry list for Fuji, Round 2

GT500 class: 

Manufacturer	Team	Tyre	No.	Drivers
Nissan Z GT500	NDDP Racing	Michelin	3	Katsumasa Chiyo  Mitsunori Takaboshi
	Team Impul	Bridgestone	12	Bertrand Baguette  Kazuki Hiramine
	NISMO	Michelin	23	Ronnie Quintarelli  Tsugio Matsuda
	Kondo Racing	Yokohama	24	Kohei Hirate  Daiki Sasaki
Toyota GR Supra	Rookie Racing	Bridgestone	14	Kazuya Oshima  Kenta Yamashita
	Racing Project Bandoh	Yokohama	19	Yuji Kunimoto  Sena Sakaguchi
	TOM’S	Bridgestone	36	Giuliano Alesi  Sho Tsuboi
			37	Ritomo Miyata  Sacha Fenestraz
	Cerumo	Bridgestone	38	Hiroaki Ishiura  Yuji Tachikawa
	SARD	Bridgestone	39	Yuhi Sekiguchi  Yuichi Nakayama
Honda NSX-GT (Type S)	ARTA	Bridgestone	8	Tomoki Nojiri  Nirei Fukuzumi
	Team Mugen	Dunlop	16	Toshiki Oyu  Ukyo Sasahara
	Real Racing	Bridgestone	17	Koudai Tsukakoshi  Nobuharu Matsushita
	Nakajima Racing	Dunlop	64	Takuya Izawa  Hiroki Otsu
	Team Kunimitsu	Bridgestone	100	Naoki Yamamoto  Tadasuke Makino

GT300 class:

No.	Team	Car	Tyre	Drivers
2	Inging	Toyota GR86 GT	B	Hiroki Katoh  Yuui Tsutsumi
4	Goodsmile Racing	Mercedes-AMG GT3	Y	Nobuteru Taniguchi  Tatsuya Kataoka
5	Team Mach	Toyota 86 MC	Y	Reiji Hiraki  Yusuke Tomibayashi
6	Team LeMans	Audi R8 LMS GT3	Y	Yoshiaki Katayama  Roberto Merhi  Shintaro Kawabata
7	BMW Team Studie	BMW M4 GT3	M	Seiji Ara  Augusto Farfus  Tsubasa Kondo
9	Pacific CarGuy Racing	Ferrari 488 GT3	Y	Kei Cozzolino  Takeshi Kimura
10	Gainer	Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3	D	Ryuichiro Tomita  Riki Okusa  Yusuke Shiotsu
11	Gainer	Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3	D	Hironobu Yasuda  Keishi Ishikawa
18	Team UpGarage	Honda NSX GT3	Y	Takashi Kobayashi  Kakunoshin Ota
20	Shade Racing	Toyota GR86 GT	D	Katsuyuki Hiranaka  Eijiro Shimizu
22	R'Qs Motor Sports	Mercedes-AMG GT3	Y	Hisashi Wada  Masaki Jyonai
25	Team Tsuchiya	Toyota GR Supra GT300	Y	Takamitsu Matsui  Seita Nonaka
30	apr	Toyota GR86 GT	Y	Hiroaki Nagai  Manabu Orido  Hibiki Taira
31	apr	Toyota Prius PHV GR Sport	B	Yuhki Nakayama  Koki Saga
34	Busou Drago Corse	Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3	D	Masataka Yanagida  Yuji Ide
48	NILZZ Racing	Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3	Y	Taiyou Ida  Yuki Tanaka
50	Arnage Racing	Toyota 86 MC	Y	Masaki Kano  Ryohei Sakaguchi  Takeshi Suehiro
52	Saitama Toyopet GB	Toyota GR Supra GT300	B	Togo Suganami  Kohta Kawaai
55	ARTA	Honda NSX GT3	B	Hideki Mutoh  Iori Kimura
56	Kondo Racing	Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3	Y	Kiyoto Fujinami  JP de Oliveira
60	LM Corsa	Toyota GR Supra GT300	D	Hiroki Yoshimoto  Shunsuke Kohno
61	Subaru/R&D Sport	Subaru BRZ	D	Takuto Iguchi  Hideki Yamauchi
65	LEON Racing	Mercedes-AMG GT3	B	Naoya Gamou  Takuro Shinohara
87	JLOC	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	Y	Kosuke Matsuura  Natsu Sakaguchi
88	JLOC	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	Y	Takashi Kogure  Yuya Motojima
96	K-tunes Racing	Lexus RC F GT3	D	Morio Nitta  Shinichi Takagi
244	Max Racing	Toyota GR Supra GT300	Y	Kimiya Sato  Atsushi Miyake
360	Tomei Sports	Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3	Y	Takayuki Aoki  Atsushi Tanaka  Yusaku Shibata

Current SUPER GT championship standings

GT500 class:

Pos.	Team/Car	Drivers	Points	Ballast
1	Rookie Racing Toyota	Kazuya Oshima  Kenta Yamashita	21	42kg
2	Kunimitsu Honda	Naoki Yamamoto  Tadasuke Makino	15	30kg
3	NISMO Nissan	Ronnie Quintarelli  Tsugio Matsuda	11	22kg
4	Cerumo Toyota	Yuji Tachikawa  Hiroaki Ishiura	8	16kg
5	NDDP Nissan	Katsumasa Chiyo  Mitsunori Takaboshi	6	12kg
6	TOM'S Toyota	Giuliano Alesi  Sho Tsuboi	5	10kg
7	Impul Nissan	Bertrand Baguette  Kazuki Hiramine	4	8kg
8	SARD Toyota	Yuhi Sekiguchi  Yuichi Nakayama	3	6kg
9	Real Racing Honda	Koudai Tsukakoshi  Nobuharu Matsushita	2	4kg
10	ARTA Honda	Tomoki Nojiri  Nirei Fukuzumi	1	2kg

GT300 class:

Pos.	Team/Car	Drivers	Points	Ballast
1	Kondo Racing Nissan	Kiyoto Fujinami  JP de Oliveira	20	60kg
2	UpGarage Honda	Takashi Kobayashi  Kakunoshin Ota	15	45kg
3	LEON Mercedes	Naoya Gamou  Takuro Shinohara	11	33kg
4	Pacific CarGuy Ferrari	Kei Cozzolino  Naoki Yokomizo	8	24kg
5	LeMans Audi	Satoshi Motoyama  Yoshiaki Katayama	6	18kg
6	Gainer Nissan	Ryuichiro Tomita  Riki Okusa	5	15kg
7	Goodsmile Mercedes	Nobuteru Taniguchi  Tatsuya Kataoka	4	12kg
8	JLOC Lamborghini	Kosuke Matsuura  Natsu Sakaguchi	3	9kg
9	Subaru	Takuto Iguchi  Hideki Yamauchi	3	9kg
10	Gainer Nissan	Hironobu Yasuda  Keishi Ishikawa	1	3kg