Super GT reveals 44-car entry list for 2021 season - Motorsport.com, Edition: Global

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This year's grid will feature 15 cars in the top GT500 class, while the GT300 category will be made up of 29 cars, a reduction of one compared to last year.

The make-up of the GT500 grid for the 2021 campaign was already known, with manufacturers Toyota, Honda and Nissan having all announced their plans last month.

Toyota is once again fielding six GR Supras, making it the best represented marque in the senior class, while Honda enters five NSX-GTs and Nissan sticks to running four GT-Rs.

Bridgestone supplies tyres for the majority of the class - nine cars - versus a pair of entries each for rivals Michelin, Yokohama and Dunlop.

The Mugen Honda does not have a tyre maker named on the entry list, but ran with Dunlop rubber at a private test at Okayama at the start of this month.

GT500 class entry list:

Manufacturer	Team	Tyre	No.	Drivers
Nissan (GT-R)	NISMO	Michelin	23	Ronnie Quintarelli  Tsugio Matsuda
	Kondo Racing	Yokohama	24	Mitsunori Takaboshi  Daiki Sasaki
	Team Impul	Bridgestone	12	Nobuharu Matsushita  Kazuki Hiramine
	NDDP/B-Max Racing	Michelin	3	Kohei Hirate  Katsumasa Chiyo
Toyota (GR Supra)	TOM’S	Bridgestone	36	Yuhi Sekiguchi  Sho Tsuboi
			37	Ryo Hirakawa  Sacha Fenestraz
	Racing Project Bandoh	Yokohama	19	Yuji Kunimoto  Ritomo Miyata
	SARD	Bridgestone	39	Heikki Kovalainen  Yuichi Nakayama
	Cerumo	Bridgestone	38	Hiroaki Ishiura  Yuji Tachikawa
	Rookie Racing	Bridgestone	14	Kazuya Oshima  Kenta Yamashita
Honda (NSX-GT)	Team Kunimitsu	Bridgestone	1	Naoki Yamamoto  Tadasuke Makino
	ARTA	Bridgestone	8	Tomoki Nojiri  Nirei Fukuzumi
	Team Mugen	Dunlop	16	Toshiki Oyu  Ukyo Sasahara
	Nakajima Racing	Dunlop	64	Takuya Izawa  Hiroki Otsu
	Real Racing	Bridgestone	17	Koudai Tsukakoshi  Bertrand Baguette

More teams confirmed in GT300

In the GT300 ranks, a few additional entries have been confirmed by the publication of the entry list on top of those that had already been announced.

Among those, Team Mach (Toyota 86 MC), Team Studie (BMW M6 GT3), Team Hitotsuyama (Audi R8 LMS), R'Qs Motor Sports (Mercedes-AMG GT3) and the two-car JLOC Lamborghini Huracan squad will all be present on the grid this year.

GT300 Start Action

Photo by: Masahide Kamio

Subaru is also listed with its still yet-to-be officially unveiled 2021-spec BRZ, with Takuto Iguchi and Hideki Yamauchi both returning as drivers.

Ex-Formula 2 racer Giuliano Alesi is notably missing from the entry list, but is expected to have at least some involvement in the Team Thailand Lexus programme.

Michelin drops out of GT300

The entry list appears to confirm that Michelin will not be involved in the GT300 class this year, with Bridgestone, Yokohama and Dunlop set for a three-way tyre war. Yokohama will supply the bulk of the class with 19 cars, versus five apiece for Bridgestone and Dunlop.

Michelin supplied two cars in GT300 last year, the LM Corsa Lexus RC F GT3 and the D'station Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT3.

LM Corsa has switched to Dunlop for 2021 as it trades its Lexus for a Toyota GR Supra GT300, while D'station is not returning to SUPER GT following the dissolution of its partnership with Pacific Racing, which earlier on Thursday confirmed its 2021 plans.

As well as D'station, the Hong Kong-based X Works Audi team is also absent from the 2021 entry list, of last year's GT300 teams.

Team Mach and JLOC are the only teams still to announce their drivers for the season.

The entry list also confirms that just two of the so-called 'Mother chassis' cars, which are based around a standard Dome chassis, are present: the Team Mach Toyota and the previously-confirmed Lotus Evora run jointly by Inging Motorsport and Cars Tokai Dream28.

However, the number of JAF GT300 cars has increased to six, with the remainder of the field (21 cars) being made up by FIA GT3 machinery.

A total of 12 brands will be represented in GT300 this year: Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Subaru, Lotus, Lexus, Ferrari and Lamborghini. 

GT300 class entry list:

No.	Team	Car	Tyre	Drivers
2	Inging & Cars Tokai Dream28	Lotus Evora MC	Bridgestone	Hiroki Katoh  Ryohei Sakaguchi
4	Goodsmile Racing with Team Ukyo	Mercedes-AMG GT3	Yokohama	Nobuteru Taniguchi  Tatsuya Kataoka
5	Team Mach	Toyota 86 MC	Yokohama	TBA
6	Team LeMans with Motoyama Racing	Audi R8 LMS	Yokohama	Satoshi Motoyama  Yoshiaki Katayama
7	Team Studie	BMW M6 GT3	Yokohama	Seiji Ara  Tomohide Yamaguchi
9	Pacific CarGuy Racing	Ferrari 488 GT3	Yokohama	Takeshi Kimura  Kei Cozzolino
10	Gainer	Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3	Dunlop	Kazuki Hoshino  Keishi Ishikawa
11	Gainer	Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3	Dunlop	Katsuyuki Hiranaka  Hironobu Yasuda
18	Team UpGarage	Honda NSX GT3	Yokohama	Teppei Natori  Takashi Kobayashi
21	Team Hitotsuyama	Audi R8 LMS	Yokohama	Shintaro Kawabata  Takuro Shinahara
22	R'Qs Motor Sports	Mercedes-AMG GT3	Yokohama	Hisashi Wada  Masaki Jyonai
25	Team Tsuchiya	Porsche 911 GT3 R	Yokohama	Takamitsu Matsui  Kimiya Sato
30	apr	Toyota Prius GHV GR Sport	Yokohama	Hiroaki Nagai  Manabu Orido
31	apr	Toyota Prius GHV GR Sport	Bridgestone	Yuhki Nakayama  Koki Saga
34	Drago Corse	Honda NSX GT3	Yokohama	Ryo Michigami  Shogo Mitsuyama
35	Team Thailand	Lexus RC F GT3	Yokohama	Sean Walkinshaw  N. Hortongkum
48	NILZZ Racing	Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3	Yokohama	Taiyou Iida  Yuki Tanaka
50	Arnage Racing	Mercedes-AMG GT3	Yokohama	Masaki Kano  Masataka Yanagida
52	Saitama Toyopet Green Brave	Toyota GR Supra GT300	Bridgestone	Hiroki Yoshida  Kohta Kawaai
55	ARTA	Honda NSX GT3	Bridgestone	Shinichi Takagi  Ren Sato
56	Kondo Racing	Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3	Yokohama	Kiyoto Fujinami  Joao Paulo de Oliveira
60	LM Corsa	Toyota GR Supra GT300	Dunlop	Hiroki Yoshimoto  Shunsuke Kohno
61	R&D Sport	Subaru BRZ (2021)	Dunlop	Takuto Iguchi  Hideki Yamauchi
65	LEON Racing	Mercedes-AMG GT3	Bridgestone	Naoya Gamou  Togo Suganami
87	JLOC	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	Yokohama	TBA
88	JLOC	Lamborghini Huracan GT3	Yokohama	TBA
96	K-Tunes Racing (LM Corsa)	Lexus RC F GT3	Dunlop	Morio Nitta  Sena Sakaguchi
244	Max Racing	Toyota GR Supra GT300	Yokohama	Yuui Tsutsumi  Atsushi Miyake
360	RUNUP (Tomei Sports)	Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3	Yokohama	Takayuki Aoki  Atsushi Tanaka

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