The Fuji 24 Hours Race - also known as the NAPAC Fuji 24 Hours Race for sponsorship reasons - is a 24-hour GT, touring car and production sports car endurance race held annually at Fuji Speedway in Oyama, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
The race is sanctioned by the Japan Automobile Federation (JAF) and promoted by the Super Taikyu MIRAI Organization (STMO), and is the longest round of the Super Taikyu Series. Since its revival in 2018, the Fuji 24 Hours has traditionally been held late in the spring season, either in early June or late May.
History
The first 24-hour automobile endurance race in Japan was held at Fuji Speedway in April 1967, but the Fuji 24 Hours Race would only be held one more time in 1968 before the event was discontinued for several decades.
On 1 September 2017 - 50 years after the race was first held - Fuji Speedway announced the revival of the Fuji 24 Hours Race as a round of the Super Taikyu Series, beginning in 2018. This was the first 24-hour endurance race to be held in Japan since the Tokachi 24 Hours was last staged in 2008. The "Super TEC" event name (used until 2024) is a homage to the Fuji Inter TEC Race, which was held from 1985 to 1998 as part of the All-Japan Touring Car Championship.
Beginning in 2021, Super Taikyu introduced the ST-Q class for manufacturer-developed, non-homologated special vehicles. At that year's Fuji Super TEC 24 Hours Race, Toyota introduced a specially developed Toyota GR Corolla concept vehicle powered by a hydrogen internal combustion engine. The car successfully completed the 24-hour race. In 2023, the GR Corolla H2 Concept re-debuted at the Fuji 24 Hours Race after being converted from using gaseous hydrogen to liquid hydrogen and also completed the race.
Nissan introduced a new car for the 2022 race - the Nissan Z Racing Concept - which would serve as the prototype for the Nissan Z GT4 that launched in 2023.
List of winners +YearDriversTeamCarLayoutDistanceSeries1967 Shihomi Hosoya Yoshio Otsubo Toyota Motor Sports Club (TMSC)Toyota 2000GT6 km537 laps1968 Tōru Itaya Takatoshi Teranishi Sports Car Club of Nissan (SCCN)Nissan Fairlady 2000512 laps2018 Teruhiko Hamano Kazuki Hoshino Kiyoto Fujinami Hironobu Yasuda Sun Zheng GTNET Motor Sports Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 (MY2015)4.563 km 759 lapsSuper Taikyu 2019 Teruhiko Hamano Kazuki Hoshino Kiyoto Fujinami Kazuki Hiramine GTNET Motor Sports Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 (MY2015)801 laps2020 Daisuke Yamawaki Shinichi Takagi Shaun Thong Yuki Nemoto Mercedes-AMG Team Hirix Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO528 laps2021 Nobuyuki Oyagi Takayuki Aoki Kiyoto Fujinami Natsu Sakaguchi GTNET Motor Sports Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 (MY2018)763 laps2022 Yutaka Toriba Yuya Hiraki Reiji Hiraki Shaun Thong HELM Motorsports Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 (MY2018)760 laps2023 Ryuta Ukai Naoya Gamou Hibiki Taira Tatsuya Kataoka Zhongsheng Rookie Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO730 laps2024 Ryuta Ukai Giuliano Alesi Naoya Gamou Tatsuya Kataoka Zhongsheng Rookie RacingMercedes-AMG GT3 EVO773 laps2025 Tatsuya Kataoka Yuya Motojima Yuhki Nakayama Shunji Okumoto TKRIMercedes-AMG GT3 EVO572 laps2026 Tatsuya Kataoka Yuhki Nakayama Yuya Motojima TKRIMercedes-AMG GT3 EVO793 laps
Records
Multiple overall wins by driver WinsDriverYears 4 Tatsuya Kataoka2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 3 Kiyoto Fujinami2018, 2019, 20212 Teruhiko Hamano2018, 2019 Kazuki Hoshino2018, 2019 Shaun Thong2020, 2022 Ryuta Ukai2023, 2024 Naoya Gamou2023, 2024 2025, 2026 Yuhki Nakayama2025, 2026 Yuya Motojima2025, 2026
Multiple overall wins by team +WinsTeamYears3 GTNET Motor Sports2018, 2019, 20212 Zhongsheng Rookie Racing2023, 2024 TKRI2025, 2026
Overall wins by manufacturer +WinsManufacturerYears5 Nissan1968, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 Mercedes-AMG2020, 2023, 2024, 2025, 20261 Toyota1967
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