The 2026 Super GT Series (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2026 Autobacs Super GT Series) is a motor racing championship based in Japan for grand touring cars, which is the thirty-fourth season of the Super GT series, tracing its lineage to the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship era. It is the twenty-second season for the series under the Super GT name, and the forty-fourth season of a Japan Automobile Federation (JAF) national sportscar championship, dating back to the All Japan Endurance/Sports Prototype Championship.
TGR Team TOM'S drivers Sho Tsuboi and Kenta Yamashita enter the season as the defending champions of the GT500 class. While Togo Suganami & Naoya Gamou, driving for K2 R&D LEON Racing enter the season as the defending champions of the GT300 class.
Calendar The provisional calendar for 2026 was confirmed on 5 August 2025, which consists of eight races. On 9 January 2026, the dates of the Sepang International Circuit round were shifted from 19 to 20 June to 20–21 June. Before the first round, it was announced that the round at Sepang was cancelled due to the Middle East war and Fuel cost soaring, but later on 2 August 2026 was announced the Motegi round will have 2 races as the Sepang replacement.
Round Race Circuit Location Dates Map of circuit locations 1 Okayama GT 300 km Race Okayama International Circuit Mimasaka, Okayama Prefecture 11–12 April 2 Fuji GT 3 Hours Race GW Special Fuji Speedway Oyama, Shizuoka Prefecture 3–4 May 3 Fuji GT 300 km Race 1–2 August 4 Suzuka GT 300 km Race Suzuka Circuit Suzuka, Mie Prefecture 22–23 August 5 Sugo GT 300 km Race Sportsland Sugo Murata, Miyagi Prefecture 19–20 September 6 Autopolis GT 3 Hours Race Autopolis Hita, Oita Prefecture 17–18 October 7 Motegi GT 250 km Race Mobility Resort Motegi Motegi, Tochigi Prefecture 7–8 November 8 Motegi GT 250 km Race Grand Final Cancelled Rounds — Sepang GT 300 km Race Sepang International Circuit Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia 20–21 June
Regulation changes On 19 October 2025, it was announced that the 2026 season would be the last with different tire manufacturers competing against one another. The series will switch to a single tire manufacturer in each class in 2027.
Teams are now only permitted to use one engine per season, and the standard fuel flow rate of GT500 engines has been reduced from 95 kilogrammes per hour to 90.2 kg/h.
GT500 Success Weight has been modified. Once a car accumulates over 50 kilogrammes of Success Weight, the engine fuel flow rate is reduced to 88 kg/h. When that car accumulates more than 67 kg of Success Weight, a "success refuelling restrictor" is installed in to lengthen the refuelling time during pit stops. An even smaller restrictor is installed once the car accumulates more than 84 kg of Success Weight. In addition, none of the original 50 kg of physical ballast weight is removed until the Success Weight is reduced over the final two rounds of the season. +2026 GT500 Success Weight FormulaSuccess Weight (SW)0–50 kg51–67 kg68–84 kg85–100 kgBallast weight0–50 kg50 kgEngine fuel flow rate90.2 kg/h88.0 kg/hSuccess fuelling restrictor Standard (25mm)Level 1 (21mm)Level 2 (19mm)
No individual can serve as both an active racing driver and as a team director simultaneously.
Teams and drivers GT500 Team Make Car Engine Drivers Tire Rounds Team HRC ARTA Mugen Honda Honda HRC Prelude-GT Honda HR-420E 2.0 L Turbo I4 8 Kakunoshin Ohta 1–6 Hiroki Otsu ARTA Mugen 16 Tomoki Nojiri 1–6 Ren Sato Team Impul Nissan Nissan Z NISMO GT500 Nissan NR4S26 2.0 L Turbo I412 Kazuki Hiramine 1–6 Bertrand Baguette TGR Team ENEOS ROOKIE Toyota GR Toyota GR Supra GT500 Toyota RI4BG 2.0 L Turbo I4 14 Nirei Fukuzumi 1–6 Kazuya Oshima Astemo Real Racing Honda Honda HRC Prelude-GT Honda HR-420E 2.0 L Turbo I4 17 Koudai Tsukakoshi 1–6 Yuto Nomura TGR Team WedsSport Bandoh Toyota GR Toyota GR Supra GT500 Toyota RI4BG 2.0 L Turbo I4 19 Yuji Kunimoto 1–6 Sena Sakaguchi NISMO Nissan Nissan Z NISMO GT500 Nissan NR4S26 2.0 L Turbo I4 23 Katsumasa Chiyo 1–6 Mitsunori Takaboshi Daiki Sasaki5 Kondo Racing Nissan Nissan Z NISMO GT500 Nissan NR4S26 2.0 L Turbo I4 24 Teppei Natori 1–6 Atsushi Miyake TGR Team au TOM'S Toyota GR Toyota GR Supra GT500 Toyota RI4BG 2.0 L Turbo I4 36 Sho Tsuboi 1–6 Kenta Yamashita TGR Team Deloitte TOM'S 37 Ukyo Sasahara 1–6 Giuliano Alesi TGR Team KeePer Cerumo Toyota GR Toyota GR Supra GT500 Toyota RI4BG 2.0 L Turbo I4 38 Toshiki Oyu 1–6 Rikuto Kobayashi TGR Team SARD Toyota GR Toyota GR Supra GT500 Toyota RI4BG 2.0 L Turbo I4 39 Yuhi Sekiguchi 1–6 Sacha Fenestraz Modulo Nakajima Racing Honda Honda HRC Prelude-GT Honda HR-420E 2.0 L Turbo I4 64 Riki Okusa 1–6 Igor Omura Fraga Stanley Team Kunimitsu Honda Honda HRC Prelude-GT Honda HR-420E 2.0 L Turbo I4 100 Naoki Yamamoto 1–6 Tadasuke Makino
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. Two-time GT500 Champion Tsugio Matsuda retired from Super GT after 20 seasons as a Nissan GT500 driver, and 26 seasons in GT500 in total. 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.
Toyota announced its driver line-ups on 19 December 2025. TGR Team au TOM'S will revert to using the number 36 instead of the number 1 reserved for the reigning GT500 champion team. TGR-DC driver Rikuto Kobayashi was promoted to GT500 with TGR Team KeePer Cerumo after two seasons in GT300. He will replace Hiroaki Ishiura, who retired from racing in GT500 after 18 seasons and will move to GT300 with Team ENEOS Rookie.
Honda announced its driver line-ups on 23 December 2025. 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.
GT500 mid-season changes Katsumasa Chiyo has withdrawn from the Sugo round after suffered a broken toe. Nismo reserve driver, Daiki Sasaki replaces Chiyo, and partner with Mitsunori Takaboshi.
GT300 Team Make Car Engine Drivers Tire Rounds Hyper Water Racing Inging Toyota GR Toyota GR86 GT300 Toyota 2UR-GSE 5.4 L V8 2 Yuui Tsutsumi 1–6 Kazuhisa Urabe Goodsmile Racing & TeamUKYO Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8 4 Nobuteru Taniguchi 1–6 Tatsuya Kataoka Team Mach Toyota Toyota 86 MC GT300 GTA V8 4.5 L V8 5 Yusuke Shiotsu 1–6 Souta Arao Kimiya Sato 5 Velorex Ferrari Ferrari 296 GT3 Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo Ferrari F163CE 3.0 L Turbo V6 6 Yoshiaki Katayama 1–6 Niklas Krütten CarGuy MKS Racing Ferrari Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo Ferrari F163CE 3.0 L Turbo V6 7 Zak O'Sullivan 1–6 Reimei Ito 1–2, 6 Kiyoshi Umegaki 2–6 Pacific Racing Team BMW BMW M4 GT3 Evo BMW P58 3.0 L Turbo I6 9 Yusuke Tomibayashi 1–6 Yuta Fujiwara Rintaro Kubo 2, 6 GAINER Nissan Nissan Fairlady Z GT300 (RZ34) Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 L Turbo V6 11 Ryuichiro Tomita 1–6 Kazuki Oki Anest Iwata Racing 26 Hironobu Yasuda 1–6 Lee Jungwoo Yusuke Mitsui 6 Team UpGarage Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8 18 Takashi Kobayashi 1–6 Kotaro Shimbara SHADE Racing Lexus Lexus RC F GT3 Lexus 2UR-GSE 5.4 L V8 20 Katsuyuki Hiranaka 1–6 Eijiro Shimizu R'Qs Motor Sports Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8 22 Masaki Kano 1–6 Hisashi Wada 1, 3–6 Yuma Shoji 2, 6 Masaki Jyonai 2 Hoppy Team Tsuchiya Toyota GR Toyota GR Supra GT300 Toyota 2UR-GSE 5.4 L V8 25 Takamitsu Matsui 1–6 Ryota Horachi apr Toyota GR Toyota GR86 GT300 Toyota 2UR-GSE 5.4 L V8 30 Hibiki Taira 1–6 Hiroaki Nagai 1, 3–6 Manabu Orido 2, 6 Lexus Lexus LC 500h GT300 Lexus 2UR-GSE 5.4 L Hybrid V8 31 Kazuto Kotaka 1–6 Miki Koyama Charlie Wurz 2, 6 Team ENEOS Rookie Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8 32 Hiroaki Ishiura 1–6 Tokiya Suzuki 1, 3–6 Kamui Kobayashi 2 Ponos Racing Ferrari Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo Ferrari F163CE 3.0 L Turbo V6 45 Takuro Shinohara 1–6 Kei Cozzolino 1–2 Shintaro Kawabata 3–6 Kento Omiya 3–6 Nilzz Racing Nissan Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 L Turbo V6 48 James Pull 1–6 Taiyo Ida 1–4, 6 Daiki Fujiwara 2, 5–6 Saitama Green Brave Toyota GR Toyota GR Supra GT300 Toyota 2UR-GSE 5.4 L V8 52 Hiroki Yoshida 1–6 Seita Nonaka Kondo Racing Nissan Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 L Turbo V6 56 João Paulo de Oliveira 1–6 Iori Kimura LM corsa Lexus Lexus LC 500 GT300 Lexus 2UR-GSE 5.4 L V8 60 Hiroki Yoshimoto 1–6 Shunsuke Kohno R&D Sport Subaru Subaru BRZ GT300 (ZD8) Subaru EG33 3.0 L Turbo Flat-6 61 Takuto Iguchi 1–6 Hideki Yamauchi HELM Motorsports Nissan Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 L Turbo V6 62 Yuya Hiraki 1–6 Reiji Hiraki K2 R&D LEON Racing Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8 65 Naoya Gamou 1–6 Togo Suganami Haruki Kurosawa 2, 6 JLOC Lamborghini Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 2 Lamborghini DGF 5.2 L V10 87 Yuya Motojima 1–6 Kosuke Matsuura Kohta Kawaai 2, 6 88 Takashi Kogure 1–6 Daniil Kvyat Natsu Sakaguchi 2, 6 K-tunes Racing Lexus Lexus RC F GT3 Lexus 2UR-GSE 5.4 L V8 96 Morio Nitta 1–6 Shinichi Takagi Tomei Sports Nissan Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 L Turbo V6 360 Rin Arakawa 1–6 Yu Kanamaru 1–2, 4–6 Atsushi Tanaka 2, 6 Hironobu Shimizu 3 Seven x Seven Racing Porsche Porsche 911 GT3 R (992.2) Porsche M97/80 4.2 L Flat-6 666 Sven Müller 1–6 Kiyoto Fujinami 1–4 Taichi Watarai 4–6 D'station Racing Aston Martin Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Evo Aston Martin AMR16A 4.0 L Turbo V8 777 Tomonobu Fujii 1–6 Charlie Fagg
GT300 vehicle changes Ferrari customer team Ponos Racing and CarGuy MKS Racing will receive the new Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo package. Velorex are expected to receive theirs during the season. Porsche Motorsport Asia Pacific customer team Seven x Seven Racing will receive the updated Porsche 911 GT3 R (992.2). SHADE Racing replaced its Toyota GR86 GT300 with the Lexus RC F GT3. R&D Sport replaced the No. 61 Subaru BRZ GT300's four-cylinder EJ20 engine with the six-cylinder EG33 engine used in the Subaru Alcyone SVX. Anest Iwata Racing replaced its Lexus RC F with the Nissan Fairlady Z GT300. Pacific Racing Team replaced its Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo with the BMW M4 GT3 Evo, marking the first outing in Super GT for the latest version of the M4 and bringing BMW M back to the championship for the first time since 2024.
GT300 entrant changes
Kazuhisa Urabe was promoted to a full-time seat at Inging Motorsport, replacing apr bound Hibiki Taira.