52 Cars On The Fuji Super TEC 24 Hours Entry List - Dailysportscar

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The Super Taikyu Organisation (STO) has released the provisional entry list for the upcoming 2023 NAPAC Fuji Super TEC 24 Hours, on 27-28 May at Fuji Speedway. The entry list is headlined by the presence of five GT3 cars in the ST-X class, ten GT4 cars in the ST-Z class, and six innovative cars in ST-Q including a world-first liquid hydrogen-fuelled racing vehicle.

A slimmed-down ST-X class is without the presence of Team 5Zigen, who won the opening round of the 2023 Eneos Super Taikyu Series at Suzuka Circuit. However, Nissan will still have two challengers for the overall victory to do battle against Lexus, Honda, and Mercedes-AMG.

Defending Fuji 24 Hours winners HELM Motorsports recently confirmed the addition of Jann Mardenborough to the team, for his return to real-world racing ahead of the release of the upcoming film Gran Turismo. Mardenborough will join all four members of last year’s winning crew – Yutaka Toriba, Yuya and Reiji Hiraki, and Shaun Thong.

The other Nissan customer team entered is GTNET Motor Sports, who’ve won this event in three of the previous four years. Kiyoto Fujinami will look to win this race for a fourth time alongside co-drivers Joe Shindo, Noboyuki Oyagi, Takayuki Aoki, and Natsu Sakaguchi.

Zhongsheng ROOKIE Racing have two open driver slots still to be filled – if they so choose – to share the #14 Mercedes-AMG GT3 with Ryuta Ukai, Naoya Gamou, Hibiki Taira, and Tatsuya Kataoka.

apr fields the #31 Lexus RC F GT3 and has a crew bulked up to six drivers with Hiroaki Nagai returning to join his brother Hideki, and Yuichi Nakayama and Yuta Kamimura joining fellow pros Kazuto Kotaka and Koki Saga.

Finally, KCMG’s #202 Honda NSX GT3 has five non-Japanese drivers aboard. Mainstays of KCMG’s international GT racing efforts, Edoardo Liberati and Josh Burdon, return to the team to join Paul Ip, Marchy Lee, and Ho-Pin Tung.

A loaded ST-Z category boasts some serious star power, with three-time Le Mans winner Kazuki Nakajima and reigning SUPER GT GT500 Champion Kazuki Hiramine forming half of Naniwa Denso Team Impul’s “Kazuki Quartet”; a reunion of Nissan racing legends Katsumasa Chiyo and Satoshi Motoyama in Porsche Team EBI Waimarama’s Cayman, and a pair of past GT500 champions, Tadasuke Makino and Masami Kageyama, in the Techno First Audi R8 GT4.

To say nothing of some of the other notable Japanese stars that dot the grid including young talents and legends alike – while from abroad, British national Sean Walkinshaw and French-Japanese Giuliano Alesi are also on the grid.

Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave could be the favourite with their Toyota GR Supra GT4 – especially with a track record of success at the Fuji 24 Hours that includes three ST-3 class wins in five years.

At long last, the Toyota GR Corolla H2 Concept will take part in its first race since converting to liquid hydrogen fuel. This will be a world-first for motorsport, and to celebrate the occasion, ROOKIE Racing invited Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT team principal and World Rally Championship’s all-time iron man Jari-Matti Latvala back to Japan to drive it – part of a crew featuring Hiroaki Ishiura, Masahiro Sasaki, Yasuhiro Ogura, and the legend himself, Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda.

The “Hydrogen Corolla” missed the first round at Suzuka and the recent official test day at Fuji due to a private testing incident which delayed its debut.

Another debuting vehicle is the Honda Civic Type R CNF-R from Team HRC, which as its name suggests is powered by carbon-neutral synthetic fuel. Hideki Mutoh, Takuya Izawa, and Hiroki Otsu are set to share the spotlight with a driver to be named later.

There will be four CNF-powered cars entered in ST-Q this year – the Toyota GR86 from ROOKIE Racing, the Subaru BRZ from Team SDA Engineering, and the Nissan Z Racing Concept from NISMO, which is entering for the first time since last year’s Fuji 24 Hours in this configuration.

Mazda Spirit Racing’s Mazda2 Bio Concept, fuelled by renewable biodiesel, completes an eclectic experimental class that won’t be fighting for trophies or points in the Super Taikyu Series – they’ll instead be focused on a singular goal of completing all 24 hours of racing with no issues.

These entries have brought out a slew of heavy hitters: Kazuya Oshima, Kenta Yamashita, and Yuhi Sekiguchi in the CNF GR86, Takuto Iguchi, Hideki Yamauchi, and Kota Sasaki in the BRZ; Yuui Tsutsumi and Ryohei Sakaguchi in the Mazda2 alongside Mazda’s head of design Ikuo Maeda, and four Nissan GT500 drivers – Kohei Hirate, Daiki Sasaki, Mitsunori Takaboshi, and all-time career wins leader Tsugio Matsuda in the Z.

While D’station Racing leaders Satoshi Hoshino and Tomonobu Fujii won’t be present as they prepare for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, young Casper Stevenson – who will race with Fujii and Hoshino at Le Mans – will take part in the Fuji 24 Hours. He’ll drive the #47 D’station Aston Martin Vantage GT8R, an ST-1 entry alongside the likes of Manabu Orido, Jake Parsons, and Tsubasa Kondo. ST-1 will continue a two-car fight between D’station and the #2 KTM X-Bow GTX.

A unique attraction for this event is that top-tier drivers are willing to drive in the production classes, and there’s no bigger name out there than two-time and defending Super Formula Champion, Tomoki Nojiri, who’ll drive an ST-2 class Honda Civic Type R.

24 Hours of Le Mans winner Seiji Ara, Super Formula alumnus Atsushi Miyake, and multi-time Super Taikyu series champion Tetsuya Tanaka are just a few of the big names running in ST-3. ST-4 is even more star-studded with the talents of Sho Tsuboi, Yuji Kunimoto, Takamitsu Matsui, Shunsuke Kohno, Masahiko Kageyama, Yuya Motojima, Togo Suganami, and Yusuke Tomibayashi around.

And while ST-5 has few big names, the smallest cars in the field will also provide plenty of action throughout the 24-hour race. The biggest name in the field, Tetsuya Yamano, is eager to return after a frightening crash at Suzuka two months ago.

This event also marks the beginning of a new era for Super Taikyu, as all 53 cars will run on Bridgestone tyres for the first time.

A unique challenge brought on under extraordinary circumstances will see teams in ST-4 and ST-5, and similar ST-Q cars, running on Bridgestone Potenza RE-71 performance street tyres, with all other teams using Bridgestone racing slick tyres.

	No.	Class	Team	Drivers	Car
	1	ST-X (GT3)	HELM Motorsports	Yutaka Toriba Yuya Hiraki Reiji Hiraki Jann Mardenborough 🇬🇧 Shaun Thong 🇭🇰	Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3
	14	ST-X (GT3)	Zhongsheng ROOKIE Racing	Ryuta Ukai Naoya Gamou Hibiki Taira Tatsuya Kataoka TBN TBN	Mercedes-AMG GT3
	31	ST-X (GT3)	apr	Hiroaki Nagai Kazuto Kotaka Koki Saga Hideki Nagai Yuichi Nakayama Yuta Kamimura	Lexus RC F GT3
	202	ST-X (GT3)	KCMG	Paul Ip 🇭🇰 Edoardo Liberati 🇮🇹 Marchy Lee 🇭🇰 Ho-Pin Tung 🇨🇳 Josh Burdon 🇦🇺	Honda NSX GT3
	819	ST-X (GT3)	GTNET Motor Sports	Joe Shindo Kiyoto Fujinami Takayuki Aoki Noboyuki Oyagi Natsu Sakaguchi	Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3
	19	ST-Z (GT4)	Birth Racing Project (BRP)	Kenji Suzuki Takeshi Suehiro Kohei Fukuda Tatsuya Tanigawa Anna Inotsume ♀ HIROBON	Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport
	20	ST-Z (GT4)	Naniwa Denso Team Impul	Yuki Tanaka Kazuki Hiramine Kazuki Oki Kazuki Hoshino Keishi Ishikawa Kazuki Nakajima	Nissan Z GT4
	21	ST-Z (GT4)	Audi Team Hitotsuyama	Daisuke Yamawaki Seiya Jin Sean Walkinshaw 🇬🇧 Yuki Ano Shinichi Takagi Yuki Fujii	Audi R8 LMS GT4
	22	ST-Z (GT4)	Porsche Team EBI Waimarama	Shota Kitazono Katsumasa Chiyo Naoya Yamano KIZUNA Satoshi Motoyama Giuliano Alesi 🇫🇷	Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport
	26	ST-Z (GT4)	Team ZeroOne	Ryuichiro Otsuka Ryuichiro Tomita Teppei Natori Takuro Shinohara Masataka Yanagida	Nissan Z GT4
	34	ST-Z (GT4)	Techno First	Masaki Kano Riki Okusa Hironobu Yasuda Tadasuke Makino Masami Kageyama	Audi R8 LMS GT4
	52	ST-Z (GT4)	Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave	Manabu Yamazaki Hiroki Yoshida Naoki Hattori Kohta Kawaai Seita Nonaka	Toyota GR Supra GT4
	75	ST-Z (GT4)	Team Noah	Toshiro Tsukada Yoshikazu Sobu Yu Kanamaru Kazuya Oshima [b.1997] Yasuhiro Ogushi TBN	Toyota GR Supra GT4
	555	ST-Z (GT4)	Auto Factory	Shigehiro Ikemoto Jun Tashiro Kazuki Tokufuji	Mercedes-AMG GT4
	885	ST-Z (GT4)	SHADE Racing	Hiro (Hiroyuki) Hayashi Katsuyuki Hiranaka Eijiro Shimizu Morio Nitta Yuhki Nakayama	Toyota GR Supra GT4
	28	ST-Q	ORC ROOKIE Racing	Keizo Kato Kenta Yamashita Kazuya Oshima [b.1987] Daisuke Toyoda Yuhi Sekiguchi Eisuke Sasaki	Toyota GR86 CNF Concept
	32	ST-Q	ORC ROOKIE Racing	Masahiro Sasaki MORIZO (Akio Toyoda) Hiroaki Ishiura Yasuhiro Ogura Jari-Matti Latvala 🇫🇮	Toyota GR Corolla H2 Concept
	55	ST-Q	Mazda Spirit Racing	Kazuhiro Terakawa Yutaka Seki Kaoru Ijiri Ikuo Maeda Ryohei Sakaguchi Yuui Tsutsumi	Mazda Mazda3 Bio Concept
	61	ST-Q	Team SDA Engineering	Koichi Hirota Hideki Yamauchi Takuto Iguchi Kazuhiro Ito Kota Sasaki Takuma Kamada	Subaru BRZ CNF Concept
	230	ST-Q	NISMO	Kohei Hirate Daiki Sasaki Mitsunori Takaboshi Tsugio Matsuda	Nissan Z CNF Concept
	271	ST-Q	Team HRC	Hideki Mutoh Takuya Izawa Hiroki Otsu TBN	Honda Civic Type R CNF-R
	2	ST-1	K's Frontier KTM Cars	Taiyo Ida Kazuho Takahashi Hiroki Katoh Hiroki Yoshimoto Takashi Kobayashi	KTM X-Bow GTX
	47	ST-1	D'station Racing	Tatsuya Hoshino Manabu Orido Kenji Hama Jake Parsons 🇦🇺 Tsubasa Kondo Casper Stevenson 🇬🇧	Aston Martin Vantage GT8R
	6	ST-2	Shinryo Racing Team	Tomohiro Tomimasu Yasushi Kikuchi Masazumi Ohashi Hitoshi Gotoh Takahiro Matsuzawa	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X
	7	ST-2	Shinryo Racing Team	Yoshiki Fujii Kensuke Anzai Masato Narisawa Kazuya Shimogaki Kazunari Yoshioka Tatsuya Usui	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X
	13	ST-2	Endless Sports	Masaya Hanazato Mizuki Ishizaka Reimei Ito Hitoshi Okada	Toyota GR Yaris
	225	ST-2	Kobe Toyopet Motor Sports	Kengo Ichijo Rin Arakawa Jiei Okuzumi Shunji Okumoto	Toyota GR Yaris
	743	ST-2	Honda R&D Challenge	Hiroaki Ishigaki Tomoki Nojiri Junichi Kidachi Hideki Kakinuma Shinichi Katsura Tetsumei Mochizuki	Honda Civic Type R (FL5)
	15	ST-3	Okabe Jidosha Motorsport	Masaya Kono Masaaki Nagashima Aruga Tomita Seiya Motojima Max Salo 🇫🇮 Yuya Nakajima	Nissan Fairlady Z34
	16	ST-3	Okabe Jidosha Motorsport	Hirokazu Suzuki Toru Tanaka Tetsuya Tanaka Kazuomi Komatsu Atsushi Miyake Tsubasa Mekaru	Nissan Fairlady Z34
	25	ST-3	Team ZeroOne	Genki Nishimura Kimiya Sato Seiji Ara Daiki Fujiwara Kota Matsui	Nissan Fairlady Z34
	38	ST-3	Tracy Sports with Delta	Sesshu Kondo Toshiki Ishimori Yoshiyuki Tsuruga Shunsuke Ozaki Takanobu Ishizuka	Lexus RC 350
	39	ST-3	Tracy Sports with Delta	Kazuaki Yasui Takashi Itoh Takumi Sanada Mamoru Okada Shinya Fujita Yoshinari Fujiwara	Lexus RC 350
	3	ST-4	Endless Sports	Hiroyuki Saka Ryo Ogawa Togo Suganami Yuya Motojima	Toyota GR86
	18	ST-4	Asano Racing Service	Takeo Asano Shinnosuke Ito Ryotaro Sawai Kazunori Nishimura Shoya Suzuki Kazumi Mikami ♀	Toyota GR86
	41	ST-4	Tracy Sports with Delta	Tomoaki Ichimori Yusuke Tomibayashi Hirotaka Ishii Dai Mizuno	Toyota GR86
	60	ST-4	Team G/Motion	Resshu Shioya Kengo Yamamoto Takao Seto Ken "Piston" Nishizawa Toshihiro Kubota	Toyota GR86
	66	ST-4	Over Drive	Kousei Kanto Kyosuke Inomata Takahisa Ohno Shigetomo Shimono Chihiro Inagaki Tatsuya Osaki	Mazda Roadster RF
	86	ST-4	TOM's Spirit	Hisashi Yabuki Takamitsu Matsui Shunsuke Kohno Sho Tsuboi	Toyota GR86
	884	ST-4	SHADE Racing	Masahiko Kageyama Yuji Kunimoto Shinnosuke Yamada Teppei Tsuruta	Toyota GR86
	4	ST-5	Team Bride	Yuya Ohta Hiroshi Ito Kaoru Arai Hiroki Kokuzawa Soichi Kurosu Shunsuke Sato	Honda Fit RS (GK5)
	11	ST-5	D.R.C EZO	Motoharu Sato Ryohei Oshima Hajime Omono Carlos Honda Ryoji Tashiro Katsuhiro Sato	Honda Fit RS (GK5)
	17	ST-5	Team NOPRO	Hideyoshi Nishizawa Tobio Ohtani Misaki Konishi Toshihiko Nogami Hiroaki Yamamoto Junichi Agematsu	Mazda Demio Diesel (DJ)
	37	ST-5	Team NOPRO	Yoshihiro Kato Tatsuya Nogami Suguru Kawana Masataka Inoue TBN	Mazda Demio (DE)
	50	ST-5	Love Drive Racing	Takashi Ohi Takafumi Katsuki Junko Fujii ♀ Mitsuhiro Kunisawa Futoshi Someya Isao Ihashi	Mazda Roadster
	65	ST-5	Over Drive	Shuichiro Hokazono Tatsuya Ota Hirohito Ito Eiji Niwa Sena Kuronuma Kyohei Kawamura	Mazda Roadster
	67	ST-5	Team Yamato	Shinya Uchiyama Ryohei Yasui Hideaki Ito Ryo Mukumoto	Honda Fit RS (GK5)
	72	ST-5	Nihon Automobile College (NATS)	Takumi Minamisawa Tatsuya Okahara Makoto Kanai Toshiya Nojima Tatsuya Ishii Tetsuya Yamano	Mazda Roadster
	88	ST-5	Murakami Motors	Hiroyuki Murakami Keiji Amemiya Ryohei Arioka Soichiro Yoshida Daichi Okamoto	Mazda Roadster
	120	ST-5	Mazda Spirit Racing	Haruhiko Sugino Noriyuki Higuchi Shohei Oda Tatsuya Minowa Junji Ueda Ryoto Kikuchi	Mazda Roadster
	222	ST-5	Honda Cars Tokai	Toshiki Takeuchi Masayuki Sumi Hajime Saimen Masaki Nishizawa Ryoji Matsumoto	Honda Fit RS (GS4)
	290	ST-5	AutoLabo	Masayuki Minato Takeshi Kitagawa Yuichi Yokoo Daisuke Ito Atsuhito Otomo Teiichiro Fukiya	Toyota Yaris (XP210)

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