GT500 GT500 vehicle changes •
Honda 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==