2024 Super GT Series

A confirmed eight round provisional 2024 calendar was announced on 3 August 2023. On 3 October 2023, it was announced that the seventh round at Autopolis would be moved back two weeks to 19–20 October, in order to eliminate a clash of dates with the MotoGP Japanese Grand Prix. On 29 February 2024, distances for all rounds were confirmed. The Golden Week race at Fuji Speedway, the Spring race at Suzuka Circuit, and the penultimate race at Autopolis will be three-hour timed races, the first championship races to be run to a timed format. The Summer races at Fuji and Suzuka will be 350 kilometres long. On 28 August 2024, it was announced that the 2nd Suzuka round was postponed to 7–8 December due to the threat of Typhoon Shanshan, followed by an 21 October 2024 announcement the race will be reduced from 61 laps (350 km) to 52 laps (300 km)with an earlier (12.40) start featuring a time certain finish of 15.30 if the 52 laps cannot be completed by then. == Regulation changes ==

The GTA confirmed several changes for the 2024 Super GT season. Aggregate qualifying format Super GT introduced a new aggregate qualifying system on 9 February, replacing the knockout format which had been used since 2013. • Under the new format, the grids in GT500 and GT300 will be determined by the combined Q1 and Q2 times of each team's two nominated drivers. • Each team is only allowed to use one set of tyres throughout Q1 and Q2, and must start the race on the same set of tyres. • Teams that don't participate in qualifying, fail to set a time in both qualifying sessions, or fail to meet the 107% minimum time after Q2 will have to start the race from the pits. • Points will now be awarded to the top three qualifiers in each class. The pole-winning team and drivers now earn three points, while second place earns two points and third place earns one point. • Pole position will be credited to both drivers on the pole-winning team that run in qualifying. On 12 March, a follow-up bulletin would detail the changes made to GT300 qualifying: • Similar to recent years, the GT300 field would be split into two groups for Q1 based on the most recent Teams' Championship standings, with odd number-ranked teams in Group A and even number-ranked teams in Group B. A pre-event lottery would determine which group goes first in Q1. • After both Q1 groups have run, the cars would be regrouped for Q2. The top eight cars in each Q1 group will go into Q2 Group 1, and the cars that finished outside the top eight in each group would go into Q2 Group 2. • Once Group 2 and Group 1 have run, the final grid order will be determined based on these final groupings: • Positions 1-12: Top 12 combined times in Q2 Group 1. • Positions 13-20: Combined times of the top four in Q2 Group 2 and bottom four in Q2 Group 1. • Positions 21-27: Combined times of the remaining cars that finished fifth or lower in Q2 Group 2. • In the event of rain, the GT300 grid will be determined from Q2 times only. Other changes Beginning in 2024, GT300 teams will use 50 percent renewable carbon-neutral synthetic fuel supplied by ETS Racing Fuels. Teams will only be allocated four sets of dry tyres for 300 kilometre races, down from five sets in 2023. Five sets of dry tyres will be available for 350 km events, and six sets of tyres will be available in three-hour timed events. GT300 success ballast has been reduced to a maximum of 100 kilogrammes to just 80 kg. GT300 teams will now receive two kilogrammes of Success Weight per drivers' championship point scored from rounds one through six. There is a limit of 50 points (100 kg). ==Teams and drivers==

GT500 GT300 Vehicle changes GT500 • Honda Racing Corporation introduced the new Civic Type R-GT in 2024, replacing the second-generation NSX-GT that has run for 7 years. • Nissan Motorsports & Customizing introduced a new version of the Nissan Z GT500, the Nissan Z NISMO GT500, based on its road-going production variant. GT300 • Team LeMans entered a new Ferrari 296 GT3, replacing its previous Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II which had raced for three seasons. • The former number 10 GAINER Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 was replaced by the number 45 Ferrari 296 GT3 entered by PONOS Racing. (see Entrant changes below). Former Honda driver Toshiki Oyu moved to Cerumo. Car care company KeePer, which previously served as the main sponsor for the TOM'S number 37 car, replaced long time sponsor ZENT as the title sponsor of Team Cerumo. • Reigning GT500 champion Ritomo Miyata left the series after the 2023 season to compete overseas in Formula 2 and the European Le Mans Series. 2019 GT500 champion Kenta Yamashita joined reigning champion team au TOM'S to fill the seat vacated by Miyata. TOM'S elected not to use the GT500 champion's number "1" in 2024. Two-time GT500 Champion Michael Krumm became the new team director of the number 37 Deloitte TOM'S GR Supra. Jun Yamada was promoted to the role of general manager overseeing both TOM'S cars. • Nirei Fukuzumi also followed Oyu move to Toyota from Honda as he moved to Rookie Racing replacing au TOM'S-bound Kenta Yamashita. • Honda announced its driver line-ups on 12 December 2023. Tsugio Matsuda leaves the number 23 NISMO car. This marked the end of Matsuda and Quintarelli's partnership which lasted for 11 years. last year's runner-up Katsumasa Chiyo replaced Matsuda. While the number 3 car rebranded to "NISMO NDDP" entry, former Max Racing GT300 driver Atsushi Miyake replaced Chiyo. • Kondo Racing have a new line up as Daiki Sasaki and Kohei Hirate were dropped from Nissan's GT500 line-ups, with Sasaki stayed with Kondo Racing and Hirate to the new entry of HELM Motorsports. Two-time GT500 champion Tsugio Matsuda and Teppei Natori promoted from the team's GT300 setup. GT300 • D'station Racing returned to the series for the first time since 2020, fielding the Aston Martin Vantage GT3 with Dunlop tyres. Their drivers Atsushi Miyake and Kimiya Sato moved to NISMO NDDP and Tsuchiya respectively. • 2023 FIA F4 Japanese Champion Rikuto Kobayashi and runner-up Jin Nakamura made their full-time series debuts with apr. Kobayashi drives the number 30 Toyota GR86 alongside Hiroaki Nagai, while two-time GT300 champion Manabu Orido remained with the team as its third driver. Nakamura drives the number 31 Lexus LC 500h alongside Kazuto Kotaka, replacing Koki Saga who focus on Super Taikyu ST-X class program with apr. • Tomei Sports promoted Takuya Otaki, who had been a spot starter since 2020, to a full-time seat in 2024. As Tomei Sports owner Atsushi Tanaka has the role of third driver with rookie Rin Arakawa, the 2021 FIA F4 Japanese Championship runner-up. Reimei Ito move to Porsche Carrera Cup Japan with Bingo Racing with Showa Auto, and Yugo Iwasawa race in Super Taikyu ST-Z with Porsche Team EBI . • Liang Jiatong left Pacific Racing Team and the series as he moved to GT World Challenge Asia with Harmony Racing. Yusuke Tomibayashi transferred from Team Mach to Pacific Racing Team. F4 graduate Yuta Fujiwara made his series debut as the Team's third driver. • Reigning Super Taikyu Series ST-3 Class champion driver Takashi Ito picked as the fourth driver for NILZZ Racing, and replaces Yusaku Shibata for the fourth round at Fuji, and last round of Suzuka. • JLOC car number 87 replaced their previous GT3 EVO model car with the new Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO2 for the fourth round at Fuji Speedway. • Togo Suganami miss the SUGO round due to illness, Tsuchiya Engineering's third driver Kimiya Sato replace him for the round. • Manabu Orido, and Rin Arakawa replaces Hiroaki Nagai, and Takuya Otaki respectively for the Motegi round. • Former Yogibo Racing driver Reimei Ito joins LM corsa as the third driver for the last round at Suzuka. While GAINER recruited Super Taikyu ST-Z driver Kazuki Oki as their third driver for that round. • Takuya Otaki returned for the final round, with Takayuki Aoki replaced by Tomei's owner Atsushi Tanaka. ==Results==

Drivers' championships ; Race points ; Qualifying points GT500 Bold – PoleItalics – Fastest Lap† — Did not finish but classified GT300 Teams' championships ; Race points GT500 GT300 ==Notes==