2018 Super GT Series

Driver Changes

Team Transfers

• Honda: 2009 Formula 1 World Champion Jenson Button, who made his series debut with Team Mugen at the 2017 Suzuka 1000km, will run full-time with Honda and Team Kunimitsu in 2018. Takuya Izawa moves from Team Kunimitsu to Autobacs Racing Team Aguri, replacing Takashi Kobayashi.
• Toyota: Former F1, and current WEC and Super Formula driver Kamui Kobayashi will make his full-time GT500 debut with Lexus Team SARD; Yuhi Sekiguchi replaces James Rossiter at Lexus Team au TOM's, and Toyota young driver Kenta Yamashita moves up to GT500 full-time with Lexus Team WedsSport BANDOH, replacing Sekiguchi. Two-time GT500 champion Kohei Hirate moves out of GT500 to drive the #31 Toyota Prius for apr Racing.
• Nissan: Reigning All-Japan Formula 3 Champion Mitsunori Takaboshi steps up to GT500 full-time with Kondo Racing, replacing Daiki Sasaki, who moves over to Team Impul to drive the Calsonic GT-R. Satoshi Motoyama and Katsumasa Chiyo move from MOLA to their replacement team, NDDP Racing with B-Max.
• Former GT500 driver Hironobu Yasuda and two-time GT300 champion Kazuki Hoshino move to Gainer, from Team Impul and NDDP Racing respectively, to drive their new Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3s.
• Toyota young driver Sho Tsuboi will replace Kenta Yamashita at Tsuchiya Engineering.
• Three-time GT300 champion Morio Nitta moves to LM Corsa Lexus RC F GT3 to replace Sho Tsuboi.
• Rintaro Kubo moves from apr Racing, and Keishi Ishikawa moves from Rn-sports, to Pacific with Gulf Racing.

  Entering Super GT

• Formula E standout Felix Rosenqvist will make his Super GT debut in the GT500 class for Lexus Team Wako's LeMans.
• Two-time FIA F4 Japanese Champion Ritomo Miyata makes his series debut with LM Corsa.
• Former All-Japan Formula 3 race winner Hiroki Otsu makes his series debut with Modulo Drago Corse.
• Gentleman racer Takeshi Kimura makes his series debut with CarGuy Racing.
• FIA F4 Japanese graduate Yuya Hiraki makes his series debut with Team Mach, replacing Kiyoto Fujinami as Natsu Sakaguchi's co-driver.
• Bentley factory driver Jules Gounon makes his Super GT debut in a one-off for EIcars Bentley at the Fuji 500-mile race.

  Returning to Super GT

• 2000 GT500 Champion Ryo Michigami returns to the series as a full-time competitor with his Modulo Drago Corse team, after racing in the World Touring Car Championship in 2017.
• Naoki Yokomizo, the 2012 GT300 Champion, returns after a year-long hiatus to drive for the new CarGuy Racing team.
• Masaki Kano and Hideto Yasuoka both return to the series with Arnage Racing.

  Leaving Super GT

• Andrea Caldarelli confirmed that he would leave Toyota and Super GT this season, focusing solely on his commitments as a factory driver at Lamborghini Squadra Corse.
• James Rossiter stepped away from full-time Super GT racing in 2018, but will continue to race in Japan in the Super Formula championship.
• Akira Iida will step away from full-time driving duties, and became team director of the #60 LM Corsa Lexus RC F GT3.
• Jono Lester was released from Pacific with Gulf Racing after the 2017 season, and will not return to Super GT in 2018 – but did pledge to return to the series in the future.

  Team Changes

• NDDP Racing moved up to the GT500 class for 2018, entering as NDDP Racing with B-Max. They take the place of MOLA, who withdrew from the series at the end of 2017.
• BMW Team Studie, the 2011 GT300 class Champion announced in January that they would switch to the Blancpain GT Series Asia GT4 category, and suspended operations in Super GT for the foreseeable future.
• CarGuy Racing makes their Super GT debut with the all-new Honda NSX GT3. They previously competed in the Super Taikyu Series and Blancpain GT Series Asia.
• Drago Corse, who competed from 2015 to 2016 as Drago Modulo Honda Racing, return to the series in GT300 with another Honda NSX GT3. They will be known as Modulo Drago Corse.
• VivaC Team Tsuchiya reverted to their original name, Tsuchiya Engineering, following the withdrawal of their title sponsor VivaC.
• The #51 LM Corsa Lexus RC F GT3 changes its number to #96, and has a new title sponsor in Okayama Toyopet / K-Tunes Racing. The team will be officially known as K-Tunes Racing LM Corsa from 2018.
• Panther Team Thailand switched from the Dome-built Toyota 86 MC to the Lexus RC F GT3.
• Gainer switched to a full-on effort with Nissan, fielding two brand-new 2018 Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3s.
• Arnage Racing separated from INGING Motorsport after one season, and also switch vehicles to the Mercedes-AMG GT3.

  Results

Round	Circuit	Date	Class	Pole Position	Race Winner
1	Okayama International Circuit Report	7–8 April	GT500	No. 17 Real Racing	No. 17 Real Racing
1	Okayama International Circuit Report	7–8 April	GT500	Koudai Tsukakoshi Takashi Kogure	Koudai Tsukakoshi Takashi Kogure
1	Okayama International Circuit Report	7–8 April	GT300	No. 88 JLOC	No. 18 Team UpGarage
1	Okayama International Circuit Report	7–8 April	GT300	Marco Mapelli Kazuki Hiramine	Yuhki Nakayama Takashi Kobayashi
2	Fuji Speedway Report	3–4 May	GT500	No. 38 Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo	No. 23 NISMO
2	Fuji Speedway Report	3–4 May	GT500	Yuji Tachikawa Hiroaki Ishiura	Tsugio Matsuda Ronnie Quintarelli
2	Fuji Speedway Report	3–4 May	GT300	No. 55 ARTA	No. 55 ARTA
2	Fuji Speedway Report	3–4 May	GT300	Shinichi Takagi Sean Walkinshaw	Shinichi Takagi Sean Walkinshaw
3	Suzuka Circuit Report	19–20 May	GT500	No. 8 ARTA	No. 8 ARTA
3	Suzuka Circuit Report	19–20 May	GT500	Tomoki Nojiri Takuya Izawa	Tomoki Nojiri Takuya Izawa
3	Suzuka Circuit Report	19–20 May	GT300	No. 96 K-Tunes LM Corsa	No. 96 K-Tunes LM Corsa
3	Suzuka Circuit Report	19–20 May	GT300	Yuichi Nakayama Morio Nitta	Yuichi Nakayama Morio Nitta
4	Chang International Circuit Report	30 June-1 July	GT500	No. 16 Team Mugen	No. 39 Lexus Team SARD
4	Chang International Circuit Report	30 June-1 July	GT500	Hideki Mutoh Daisuke Nakajima	Heikki Kovalainen Kamui Kobayashi
4	Chang International Circuit Report	30 June-1 July	GT300	No. 65 K2 R&D LEON Racing	No. 11 Gainer
4	Chang International Circuit Report	30 June-1 July	GT300	Haruki Kurosawa Naoya Gamou	Katsuyuki Hiranaka Hironobu Yasuda
5	Fuji Speedway Report	4–5 August	GT500	No. 23 NISMO	No. 36 Lexus Team au Tom's
5	Fuji Speedway Report	4–5 August	GT500	Tsugio Matsuda Ronnie Quintarelli	Kazuki Nakajima Yuhi Sekiguchi
5	Fuji Speedway Report	4–5 August	GT300	No. 25 Tsuchiya Engineering	No. 55 ARTA
5	Fuji Speedway Report	4–5 August	GT300	Tsubasa Kondo Takamitsu Matsui Sho Tsuboi	Shinichi Takagi Sean Walkinshaw
6	Sportsland SUGO Report	15–16 September	GT500	No. 100 Team Kunimitsu	No. 100 Team Kunimitsu
6	Sportsland SUGO Report	15–16 September	GT500	Jenson Button Naoki Yamamoto	Jenson Button Naoki Yamamoto
6	Sportsland SUGO Report	15–16 September	GT300	No. 61 R&D Sport	No. 61 R&D Sport
6	Sportsland SUGO Report	15–16 September	GT300	Takuto Iguchi Hideki Yamauchi	Takuto Iguchi Hideki Yamauchi
7	Autopolis Report	20–21 October	GT500	No. 8 ARTA	No. 1 Lexus Team KeePer Tom's
7	Autopolis Report	20–21 October	GT500	Tomoki Nojiri Takuya Izawa	Nick Cassidy Ryō Hirakawa
7	Autopolis Report	20–21 October	GT300	No. 25 Tsuchiya Engineering	No. 96 K-Tunes Racing LM Corsa
7	Autopolis Report	20–21 October	GT300	Takamitsu Matsui Sho Tsuboi	Yuichi Nakayama Morio Nitta
8	Twin Ring Motegi Report	10–11 November	GT500	No. 8 ARTA	No. 8 ARTA
8	Twin Ring Motegi Report	10–11 November	GT500	Tomoki Nojiri Takuya Izawa	Tomoki Nojiri Takuya Izawa
8	Twin Ring Motegi Report	10–11 November	GT300	No. 88 JLOC	No. 65 K2 R&D LEON Racing
8	Twin Ring Motegi Report	10–11 November	GT300	Marco Mapelli Kazuki Hiramine	Haruki Kurosawa Naoya Gamou

Championship Standings

Drivers' championships

GT500

GT300