The GT Association (GTA) has published the entry list for the upcoming Super GT official test at Fuji Speedway, which runs from 26-27 March.
42 cars are on the entry list for this second and final official pre-season test of the year, including all 15 GT500 cars, and 27 GT300 cars.
After missing the previous test at Okayama International Circuit, muta Racing INGING and Hoppy Team Tsuchiya are expected to appear with their new cars. The #2 muta Racing Toyota GR86 GT will be driven by Hiroki Katoh and Yuui Tsutsumi, as scheduled.
Also on the entry list is the new #25 Hoppy Schatz GR Supra, the new GT300 regulation Supra constructed by Tsuchiya Engineering. Their regular drivers, Takamitsu Matsui and rookie Seita Nonaka, will be joined by Kimiya Sato – who drove with Hoppy Team Tsuchiya for the past three seasons. Sato is set to race with Tsuchiya-affiliated Max Racing in 2022, but the team have withdrawn from this test following the passing of team founder Tsuyoshi Oono earlier this month.
They are one of several teams bringing a third driver to the test, in preparation for the upcoming 450 kilometre Golden Week race at Fuji on 3-4 May.
First, Team Mach will continue to evaluate their rookie driving candidates from Okayama: Yusuke Tomibayashi, Masaya Kono, and Kazuya Oshima will once again drive the #5 Mach MC86.
2012 GT300 champion Naoki Yokomizo, who appeared in three races for Pacific CarGuy Racing last season, will test for them again at Fuji.
2021 Porsche Japan junior driver and Formula Regional Japanese Championship race winner, Ryunosuke Sawa, has been tapped to drive the #30 apr Toyota GR86 GT. The 20-year-old will hope to pass his rookie orientation test.
NILZZ Racing have not yet confirmed their second driver alongside Taiyo Iida for 2022: Yuki Tanaka will test for them at Fuji, as will Joe Shindo, MP Racing’s gentleman driver in the Super Taikyu Series.
Arnage Racing will give Takeshi Suehiro (neé Matsumoto) his first test in a GT300 car aboard their Arnage MC86. Suehiro, 34, is a former Nissan Driver Development Program (NDDP) young driver, who has since gone on to win championships in Super Taikyu and the TCR Japan Series. He married in August 2020, but continued racing under his previous surname until 2021.
Tomei Sports will welcome back a familiar face, enlisting six-time national gymkhana champion and Asian Le Mans Series race winner Yusaku Shibata as their third driver. Shibata last raced for this team in 2020.
Nobuteru Taniguchi, who missed the Okayama test due to a health issue, is set to rejoin Goodsmile Racing & Team UKYO at Fuji.
BMW Team Studie x CSL will be without Brazilian Augusto Farfus for the second test, meaning that Seiji Ara and Tsubasa Kondo will handle testing duties of their BMW M4 GT3.
| Class | No. | Vehicle/Registered Name | Drivers | Entrant | Tyres |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GT500 | 3 | Nissan Z GT500 Craftsports Motul Z | Katsumasa Chiyo Mitsunori Takaboshi | NDDP Racing | Michelin |
| GT500 | 8 | Honda NSX-GT ARTA NSX-GT | Tomoki Nojiri Nirei Fukuzumi | ARTA | Bridgestone |
| GT500 | 12 | Nissan Z GT500 Calsonic Impul Z | Kazuki Hiramine Bertrand Baguette | Team Impul | Bridgestone |
| GT500 | 14 | Toyota GR Supra GT500 Eneos X Prime GR Supra | Kazuya Oshima [b.1987] Kenta Yamashita | TGR Team Eneos ROOKIE | Bridgestone |
| GT500 | 16 | Honda NSX-GT Red Bull Motul Mugen NSX-GT | Ukyo Sasahara Toshiki Oyu | Team Red Bull Mugen | Dunlop |
| GT500 | 17 | Honda NSX-GT Astemo NSX-GT | Koudai Tsukakoshi Nobuharu Matsushita | Astemo Real Racing | Bridgestone |
| GT500 | 19 | Toyota GR Supra GT500 WedsSport Advan GR Supra | Yuji Kunimoto Sena Sakaguchi | TGR Team WedsSport Bandoh | Yokohama |
| GT500 | 23 | Nissan Z GT500 Motul Autech Z | Tsugio Matsuda Ronnie Quintarelli | NISMO | Michelin |
| GT500 | 24 | Nissan Z GT500 Realize Corporation Advan GT-R | Daiki Sasaki Kohei Hirate | Kondo Racing | Yokohama |
| GT500 | 36 | Toyota GR Supra GT500 au TOM's GR Supra | Sho Tsuboi Giuliano Alesi | TGR Team au TOM's | Bridgestone |
| GT500 | 37 | Toyota GR Supra GT500 KeePer TOM's GR Supra | Sacha Fenestraz Ritomo Miyata | TGR Team KeePer TOM's | Bridgestone |
| GT500 | 38 | Toyota GR Supra GT500 ZENT Cerumo GR Supra | Yuji Tachikawa Hiroaki Ishiura | TGR Team ZENT Cerumo | Bridgestone |
| GT500 | 39 | Toyota GR Supra GT500 Denso Kobelco SARD GR Supra | Yuhi Sekiguchi Yuichi Nakayama | TGR Team SARD | Bridgestone |
| GT500 | 64 | Honda NSX-GT Modulo NSX-GT | Takuya Izawa Hiroki Otsu | Modulo Nakajima Racing | Dunlop |
| GT500 | 100 | Honda NSX-GT Stanley NSX-GT | Naoki Yamamoto Tadasuke Makino | Team Kunimitsu | Bridgestone |
| GT300 | 2 | Toyota GR86 GT300 muta Racing GR86 GT | Hiroki Katoh Yuui Tsutsumi | muta Racing INGING | Bridgestone |
| GT300 | 4 | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Goodsmile Hatsune Miku AMG | Nobuteru Taniguchi Tatsuya Kataoka | Goodsmile Racing & TeamUKYO | Yokohama |
| GT300 | 5 | Dome MC86 Mach Syaken Air Buster MC86 Mach Go | Yusuke Tomibayashi Masaya Kono Kazuya Oshima [b.1997] | Team Mach | Yokohama |
| GT300 | 6 | Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II Team LeMans Audi R8 LMS | Satoshi Motoyama Yoshiaki Katayama | Motoyama Racing w/Team LeMans | Yokohama |
| GT300 | 7 | BMW M4 GT3 Studie BMW M4 | Seiji Ara Tsubasa Kondo | BMW Team Studie x CSL | Michelin |
| GT300 | 9 | Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo Pacific Hololive NAC Ferrari | Takeshi Kimura Kei Cozzolino Naoki Yokomizo | Pacific CarGuy Racing | Yokohama |
| GT300 | 10 | Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 TanaX Gainer GT-R | Ryuichiro Tomita Riki Okusa Yusuke Shiotsu | Gainer | Dunlop |
| GT300 | 11 | Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 Gainer TanaX GT-R | Hironobu Yasuda Keishi Ishikawa | Gainer | Dunlop |
| GT300 | 18 | Honda NSX GT3 Evo UPGarage NSX GT3 | Takashi Kobayashi Kakunoshin Ota | Team UPGarage | Yokohama |
| GT300 | 20 | Toyota GR86 GT300 SHADE Racing GR86 GT | Katsuyuki Hiranaka Eijiro Shimizu | SHADE Racing | Dunlop |
| GT300 | 22 | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo R'Qs AMG GT3 | Hisashi Wada Masaki Jyonai | R'Qs Motor Sports | Yokohama |
| GT300 | 25 | Toyota GR Supra GT300 Hoppy Schatz GR Supra | Takamitsu Matsui Seita Nonaka Kimiya Sato | Hoppy Team Tsuchiya | Yokohama |
| GT300 | 30 | Toyota GR86 GT300 apr GR86 GT | Hiroaki Nagai Manabu Orido Ryunosuke Sawa | apr | Yokohama |
| GT300 | 31 | Toyota GR Sport Prius PHV GT apr GR Sport Prius GT | Koki Saga Yuhki Nakayama | apr | Bridgestone |
| GT300 | 34 | Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 Busou raffinée GT-R | Masataka Yanagida Yuji Ide | Busou Drago Corse | Dunlop |
| GT300 | 48 | Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 Shokumou/K's Frontier GT-R | Taiyo Iida Yuki Tanaka Joe Shindo | NILZZ Racing | Yokohama |
| GT300 | 50 | Dome MC86 Arnage MC86 | Masaki Kano Ryohei Sakaguchi Takeshi Suehiro | Arnage Racing | Yokohama |
| GT300 | 52 | Toyota GR Supra GT300 Saitama Toyopet GB GR Supra GT | Hiroki Yoshida Kohta Kawaai | Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave | Bridgestone |
| GT300 | 55 | Honda NSX GT3 Evo ARTA NSX GT3 | Hideki Mutoh Iori Kimura | ARTA | Bridgestone |
| GT300 | 56 | Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 Realize Nissan Mechanic Challenge GT-R | Kiyoto Fujinami João Paulo de Oliveira | Kondo Racing | Yokohama |
| GT300 | 60 | Toyota GR Supra GT300 Syntium LMcorsa GR Supra GT | Hiroki Yoshimoto Shunsuke Kohno | LM corsa | Dunlop |
| GT300 | 61 | Subaru BRZ GT300 Subaru BRZ R&D Sport | Takuto Iguchi Hideki Yamauchi | R&D Sport | Dunlop |
| GT300 | 65 | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo LEON Pyramid AMG | Naoya Gamou Takuro Shinohara | K2 R&D LEON Racing | Bridgestone |
| GT300 | 87 | Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo I TBN | Kosuke Matsuura Natsu Sakaguchi | JLOC | Yokohama |
| GT300 | 88 | Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo I TBN | Takashi Kogure Yuya Motojima | JLOC | Yokohama |
| GT300 | 96 | Lexus RC F GT3 K-tunes RC F GT3 | Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi | K-tunes Racing | Dunlop |
| GT300 | 360 | Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 RunUp Rivaux GT-R | Takayuki Aoki Atsushi Tanaka Yusaku Shibata | Tomei Sports | Yokohama |
Entry list current as of 15 March 2022
Images courtesy of the GT Association (GTA)
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