Tremendous GT reveals 44-car entry listing for 2021 season

This yr’s grid will function 15 automobiles within the prime GT500 class, whereas the GT300 class will likely be made up of 29 automobiles, a discount of 1 in comparison with final yr.

The make-up of the GT500 grid for the 2021 marketing campaign was already recognized, with producers Toyota, Honda and Nissan having all introduced their plans final month.

Toyota is as soon as once more fielding six GR Supras, making it one of the best represented marque within the senior class, whereas Honda enters 5 NSX-GTs and Nissan sticks to working 4 GT-Rs.

Bridgestone provides tyres for almost all of the category – 9 automobiles – versus a pair of entries every for rivals Michelin, Yokohama and Dunlop.

The Mugen Honda doesn’t have a tyre maker named on the entry listing, however ran with Dunlop rubber at a personal check at Okayama in the beginning of this month.

GT500 class entry listing:

Extra groups confirmed in GT300

Within the GT300 ranks, a couple of further entries have been confirmed by the publication of the entry listing on prime of those who had already been introduced.

Amongst these, Workforce Mach (Toyota 86 MC), Workforce Studie (BMW M6 GT3), Workforce Hitotsuyama (Audi R8 LMS), R’Qs Motor Sports activities (Mercedes-AMG GT3) and the two-car JLOC Lamborghini Huracan squad will all be current on the grid this yr.

GT300 Begin Motion

Photograph by: Masahide Kamio

Subaru can also be listed with its nonetheless yet-to-be formally unveiled 2021-spec BRZ, with Takuto Iguchi and Hideki Yamauchi each returning as drivers.

Ex-System 2 racer Giuliano Alesi is notably lacking from the entry listing, however is predicted to have not less than some involvement within the Workforce Thailand Lexus programme.

Michelin drops out of GT300

The entry listing seems to substantiate that Michelin won’t be concerned within the GT300 class this yr, with Bridgestone, Yokohama and Dunlop set for a three-way tyre battle. Yokohama will provide the majority of the category with 19 automobiles, versus 5 apiece for Bridgestone and Dunlop.

Michelin equipped two automobiles in GT300 final yr, the LM Corsa Lexus RC F GT3 and the D’station Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT3.

LM Corsa has switched to Dunlop for 2021 because it trades its Lexus for a Toyota GR Supra GT300, whereas D’station shouldn’t be returning to SUPER GT following the dissolution of its partnership with Pacific Racing, which earlier on Thursday confirmed its 2021 plans.

In addition to D’station, the Hong Kong-based X Works Audi group can also be absent from the 2021 entry listing, of final yr’s GT300 groups.

Workforce Mach and JLOC are the one groups nonetheless to announce their drivers for the season.

The entry listing additionally confirms that simply two of the so-called ‘Mom chassis’ automobiles, that are primarily based round an ordinary Dome chassis, are current: the Workforce Mach Toyota and the previously-confirmed Lotus Evora run collectively by Inging Motorsport and Vehicles Tokai Dream28.

Nonetheless, the variety of JAF GT300 automobiles has elevated to 6, with the rest of the sector (21 automobiles) being made up by FIA GT3 equipment.

A complete of 12 manufacturers will likely be represented in GT300 this yr: Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Subaru, Lotus, Lexus, Ferrari and Lamborghini. 

GT300 class entry listing: