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2026 Super GT Series

The 2026 Super GT Series is a motor racing championship based in Japan for grand touring cars, which is the thirty-fourth season of the Super GT series, tracing its lineage to the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship era. It is the twenty-second season for the series under the Super GT name, and the forty-fourth season of a Japan Automobile Federation (JAF) national sportscar championship, dating back to the All Japan Endurance/Sports Prototype Championship.

Calendar
The provisional calendar for 2026 was confirmed on 5 August 2025, which consists of eight races. On 9 January 2026, the dates of the Sepang International Circuit round were shifted from 19–20 June to 20–21 June. Before the first round, it was announced that the round at Sepang was cancelled and the season was reduced to seven races. == Regulation changes ==
Regulation changes
On 19 October 2025, it was announced that the 2026 season would be the last with different tire manufacturers competing against one another. The series will switch to a single tire manufacturer in each class in 2027. Teams are now only permitted to use one engine per season, and the standard fuel flow rate of GT500 engines has been reduced from 95 kilogrammes per hour to 90.2 kg/h. GT500 Success Weight has been modified. Once a car accumulates over 50 kilogrammes of Success Weight, the engine fuel flow rate is reduced to 88 kg/h. When that car accumulates more than 67 kg of Success Weight, a "success refuelling restrictor" is installed in to lengthen the refuelling time during pit stops. An even smaller restrictor is installed once the car accumulates more than 84 kg of Success Weight. In addition, none of the original 50 kg of physical ballast weight is removed until the Success Weight is reduced over the final two rounds of the season. No individual can serve as both an active racing driver and as a team director simultaneously. ==Teams and drivers==
Teams and drivers
GT500 GT500 vehicle changesHonda Racing Corporation (HRC) introduced the new HRC Prelude-GT as its GT500 vehicle, replacing the Civic Type R-GT after two seasons. GT500 entrant changes Nissan announced its line-ups on 9 December 2025. Matsuda become the new team director for NISMO, replacing Takeshi Nakajima. Atsushi Miyake transferred from NISMO NDDP to Kondo Racing, replacing Matsuda in the No. 24 car. Kondo Racing will also switch to Bridgestone tires, after competing in GT500 with Yokohama for 20 years. • NISMO scaled down to one car from two, discontinuing the No. 3 car that had been running under the NISMO NDDP banner. Daiki Sasaki was retained by Nissan as its GT500 reserve driver. • The No. 8 ARTA Honda will be operated as a works team with direct support from HRC. The No. 8 car will be driven by Kakunoshin Ohta, who returns to the series after a year away, and Hiroki Otsu, who moves over from the No. 16 car. They replace Tomoki Nojiri, who will now drive the No. 16 car alongside Ren Sato, and Nobuharu Matsushita, who will drive exclusively in the Super Formula Championship for Honda customer team Delightworks Racing. • 2025 Super Formula Lights champion and GT300 class race winner Yuto Nomura was promoted to GT500 with Real Racing, replacing Syun Koide, who will serve as Honda's GT500 reserve driver. • Nakajima Racing Super Formula driver Igor Omura Fraga was promoted to drive the team's GT500 car after three years in GT300 with Anest Iwata Racing. Fraga replaces Takuya Izawa, who retired from the series after 17 years to become the new Team Director. • Porsche Motorsport Asia Pacific customer team Seven x Seven Racing will receive the updated Porsche 911 GT3 R (992.2). • K-tunes Racing changed tyre suppliers from Dunlop to Bridgestone. • Team UpGarage will receive technical support from Real Racing, replacing Servus Japan. HFDP driver and F4 Japan graduate Kotaro Shimbara will make his series debut, replacing newly-promoted GT500 driver Yuto Nomura. Seven x Seven Racing also saw Tsubasa Kondo left to compete in GT World Challenge Asia with Porsche Centre Okazaki. they signed reigning Porsche Carrera Cup Middle East champion Taichi Watarai to be their third driver. He was replaced by Two time FIA WEC champion Kamui Kobayashi at Rookie Racing. ==Results==
Results
Drivers credited with winning Pole Position and the race's fastest lap for their respective teams are indicated in bold text. ==Championship standings==
Championship standings
Drivers' championships ; Race points ;Scoring system GT500 GT300 Teams' championships ; Race points ;Scoring system GT500 GT300 ==Notes==
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