The 2010 Autobacs Super GT Series was the eighteenth season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship including the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era and the sixth season as the Super GT series. It also marked the twenty-eighth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship.

In GT300 class, Group GT3 cars were eligible to enter as name of category F.

In both classes, every race was won by a different pairing, with the Weider Honda Racing duo Takashi Kogure and Loïc Duval eventually becoming GT500 champions for the first time, giving the Honda HSV-010 GT a championship-winning début season. Defending champions Juichi Wakisaka and André Lotterer finished the season as runners-up, while Toshihiro Kaneishi and Koudai Tsukakoshi finished third. In GT300, Kazuki Hoshino and Masataka Yanagida overhauled an 11-point deficit heading into the final round of the championship to claim the title for Hasemi Motorsport. Their final round win, coupled with finishes or lower than eighth place for Morio Nitta and Shinichi Takagi, and Ryo Orime and Nobuteru Taniguchi, gave them a championship-winning margin of nine points.

Drivers and teams

GT500

Team	Make	Car	Engine	#	Drivers	Tyre	Round
Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S	Lexus	Lexus SC430 GT500	Lexus RV8KG 3.4 L V8	1	Juichi Wakisaka	B	All
					André Lotterer		All
Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS	Lexus	Lexus SC430 GT500	Lexus RV8KG 3.4 L V8	6	Daisuke Itō	B	All
					Björn Wirdheim		All
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	Honda	Honda HSV-010 GT	Honda HR10EG 3.4 L V8	8	Ralph Firman	B	All
					Yuji Ide		All
					Takashi Kobayashi		6
Team Impul	Nissan	Nissan GT-R GT500	Nissan VRH34A 3.4 L V8	12	Tsugio Matsuda	B	All
					Ronnie Quintarelli		All
Keihin Real Racing	Honda	Honda HSV-010 GT	Honda HR10EG 3.4 L V8	17	Toshihiro Kaneishi	B	All
					Koudai Tsukakoshi		All
Weider Honda Racing	Honda	Honda HSV-010 GT	Honda HR10EG 3.4 L V8	18	Loïc Duval	B	All
					Takashi Kogure		All
Nismo	Nissan	Nissan GT-R GT500	Nissan VRH34A 3.4 L V8	23	Satoshi Motoyama	M	All
					Benoît Tréluyer		All
Kondō Racing	Nissan	Nissan GT-R GT500	Nissan VRH34A 3.4 L V8	24	João Paulo de Oliveira	Y	All
					Hironobu Yasuda		All
Nakajima Racing	Honda	Honda HSV-010 GT	Honda HR10EG 3.4 L V8	32	Ryo Michigami	D	All
					Yuhki Nakayama		All
Lexus Team Kraft	Lexus	Lexus SC430 GT500	Lexus RV8KG 3.4 L V8	35	Hiroaki Ishiura	B	All
					Kazuya Oshima		All
Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo	Lexus	Lexus SC430 GT500	Lexus RV8KG 3.4 L V8	38	Yuji Tachikawa	B	All
					Richard Lyons		All
Lexus Team SARD	Lexus	Lexus SC430 GT500	Lexus RV8KG 3.4 L V8	39	Kohei Hirate	D	All
					André Couto		1–7, NC
					Carlo van Dam		8
Team Kunimitsu	Honda	Honda HSV-010 GT	Honda HR10EG 3.4 L V8	100	Takuya Izawa	B	All
					Naoki Yamamoto		All

GT300

Team	Make	Car	Engine	#	Drivers	Tyre	Round
Apple K-ONE Shiden	Mooncraft	Mooncraft Shiden	Toyota 1UZ-FE 4.4 L V8	2	Hiroki Katoh	Y	All
					Hiroshi Hamaguchi		1–8
					Kazuho Takahashi		6, NC
Hasemi Motorsport	Nissan	Nissan Fairlady Z	Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6	3	Kazuki Hoshino	Y	All
					Masataka Yanagida		All
Team Mach	Vemac	Vemac RD408R	Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6	5	Tetsuji Tamanaka	Y	All
					Haruki Kurosawa		All
RE Amemiya Racing	Mazda	Mazda RX-7	Mazda RE20B 2.0 L 3-rotor	7	Ryo Orime	Y	All
					Nobuteru Taniguchi		All
Goodsmile Racing with COX	Porsche	Porsche 996 GT3-RSR Porsche 997 GT3-R	Porsche M96/73 3.6 L F6 Porsche M97/79 4.0 L F6	9	Taku Bamba	H	1–3, 5–8
					Masahiro Sasaki		1–3, 5–8, NC
					Mitsuhiro Kinoshita		6
					Hideto Yasuoka		NC
Jim Gainer Racing	Ferrari	Ferrari F430	Ferrari F136GT 4.3 L V8	11	Tetsuya Tanaka	D	All
					Katsuyuki Hiranaka		All
Racing Project Bandoh	Lexus	Lexus IS350	Lexus RV8J 3.4 L V8	19	Tatsuya Kataoka	Y	All
					Manabu Orido		All
Team RQS Motorsports	Vemac	Vemac RD350R	Zytek ZV348 4.0 L V8	22	Hisashi Wada	Y	6–8
					Masaki Jyonai		6–8
					Ryohei Sakaguchi		6
Samurai Team Tsuchiya	Porsche	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	Porsche M97/81 4.0 L F6	25	Akihiro Tsuzuki	Y	3, 5–8, NC
					Takeshi Tsuchiya		3, 5–8, NC
					Yoshio Tsuzuki		6
Team Taisan	Porsche	Porsche 996 GT3-RS	Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6	26	Igor Sushko	Y	1–3, 5–7
					Masayuki Ueda		1–3, 5–8, NC
					Shogo Mitsuyama		6, 8, NC
				51	Yuya Sakamoto		3, 5–8, NC
					Shogo Mitsuyama		3, 5, 7
					Hideki Yamauchi		8, NC
LMP Motorsport	Ferrari	Ferrari F430	Ferrari F136GT 4.3 L V8	27	Yutaka Yamagishi	Y	All
					Hiroshi Koizumi		All
	Porsche	Porsche 996 GT3-RS	Porsche M96/73 3.6 L F6	28	Akihiro Asai		6–8
					Yuki Iwasaki		6–8
EVA Racing Team apr	Toyota	Toyota Corolla Axio apr GT	Toyota 2GR-FSE 3.5 L V6	31	Kosuke Matsuura	Y	All
					Koki Saga		All
					Yuya Sakamoto		6
				74	Takuto Iguchi	M	All
					Yuji Kunimoto		All
Hankook KTR	Porsche	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	Porsche M97/81 4.0 L F6	33	Mitsuhiro Kinoshita	H	1–4
					Masami Kageyama		1–4, 7, NC
					Tomonobu Fujii		3, 7, NC
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	ASL	ASL ARTA Garaiya	Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6	43	Morio Nitta	M	All
					Shinichi Takagi		All
					Kyosuke Mineo		6
MOLA	Nissan	Nissan Fairlady Z	Nissan VQ35DE 3.5 L V6	46	Tsubasa Abe	Y	All
					Naoki Yokomizo		All
R&D Sport	Subaru	Subaru Legacy B4	Subaru EJ20 2.0 L Turbo F4	62	Kota Sasaki	Y	1–3, 5–8, NC
					Tetsuya Yamano		1–3, 5–8, NC
A speed	Aston Martin	Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT2	Aston Martin AJ37 4.7 L V8	66	Hideshi Matsuda	Y	All
					Hiroki Yoshimoto		All
					Tomonobu Fujii		6
JLOC	Lamborghini	Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3	Lamborghini 07L1 5.2 L V10	86	Yuhi Sekiguchi	Y	All
					Koji Yamanishi		All
				87	Hiroyuki Iiri		All
					Yuya Sakamoto		All
					Naohiro Furuya		6
				88	Shinya Hosokawa		1–7
					Atsushi Yogo		All
					Tsubasa Kurosawa		8, NC
Tomei Sports	Porsche	Porsche 996 GT3-RSR	Porsche M96/73 3.6 L F6	360	Keita Sawa	Y	1
					Takamori.com		1
					Masahiro Matsunaga		3–5, 7–8
					Atsushi Tanaka		3–5, 7–8
365 Thunder Asia Racing	Mosler	Mosler MT900M	Judd XV675 3.4 L V8	365	Melvin Choo	Y	2–8, NC
					Tim Sugden		2–5, 7
					Shinsuke Yamazaki		6
					Keita Sawa		6, NC
Bomex Rosso	Porsche	Porsche Boxster	Porsche M96/77 3.6 L F6	666	Junichiro Yamashita	Y	1, 3–8
					Takashi Miyamoto		1, 3
					Takamori.com		3–8
					Satoshi Kimura		6

• Goodsmile Racing with COX (#9) announced a mid-season car change that will occur at the fifth round. The Porsche 996 GT3-RSR was retired after the third round.
• Team apr changed the name on one of their cars midway through the season, as a promotion towards the movie adaption of animation series Neon Genesis Evangelion. Thus the #31 car runs under the "Eva Racing" banner since the third round, with the exception of the fourth round due to a copyright issue, with the #74 remaining unchanged.

Car changes

GT500

• Honda: Having used the NSX since 1996, Honda replaced the unique MR-layout model with a FMR-layout prototype HSV-010, which has been homologated by the JAF. However, Honda have cancelled their plans to produce a road-going model of the HSV-010.
• All three teams united their engine specification to 3.4 L V8 with an FR-layout vehicle which was planned to be done last season (only Lexus have made such changes last season).

GT300

• Hasemi Motorsport moved into the class from GT500, competing with a Nissan Fairlady Z.
• The JLOC team which previously used a Lamborghini Murciélago, have changed all their cars to Lamborghini Gallardos.
• A speed, a new team participating in Super GT, uses an Aston Martin V8 Vantage.
• Thunder Asia Racing, which raced in Malaysia last year, became the first team not based in Japan to participate in the full season in Super GT history. They use a Mosler MT900M, and in addition, Melvin Choo, one of the team's drivers, was appointed as the Super GT official negotiator to help bring a race to Singapore in future.
• Studie, which used a BMW Z4 in the 2008 and 2009 seasons, had originally planned to participate the series as AS Studie Racing in 2010, but did not participate due to the withdrawal of Advance Step. Advance Step had been a co-partner for Studie over the previous two seasons.^[1] However at the end of the season, the teams parted ways and will compete separately in 2011.
• Good Smile Racing made their debut in the series after becoming the primary sponsors for Studie under the Hatsune Miku banner in the past two seasons. Team COX, the first Porsche works team in Super GT, would become Good Smile Racing's partner. The team originally planned to use a 2010-specification Porsche 997 GT3-R for the entire season. However, as the car was delivered in late May, the team used a Porsche 996 RSR for the first three races of the season. They will also miss the event in Sepang, to test the new vehicle. Porsche and COX also announced that they are planning to supply at least one more GT3-R to other teams participating in 2011.^[2]
• RE Amemiya Racing announced it will be the final season of the Mazda RX-7, as after the season ends, the car will be donated to the motor racing museum of Malaysia. They would later announce their withdrawal from the series.
• R&D Sport have changed the drivetrain on their Subaru Legacy from AWD to RWD, making AWD cars absent.

Others

• The use of a three-way catalytic converter is compulsory for all teams.

Schedule

• The calendar was provisionally announced on September 25, 2009.^[3] Autopolis has been removed from the calendar, with no replacement round nor venue added. However, with alterations made to the 2010 Formula One calendar, including the moving of the Japanese Grand Prix, the calendar was altered on October 19, 2009.^[4]
• Apart from the eight championship rounds, a non-championship round, originally entitled Super GT and Formula Nippon Sprint Cup 2010, will be held at the conclusion of the season. After the Japan Automobile Federation recognised the race as a "JAF Grand Prix" round, it was renamed as JAF Grand Prix Super GT and Formula Nippon Sprint Cup 2010.
• The 400 km race at Fuji will adopt regulations with two mandatory pit stops, while the knockout qualifying format was used in the first two rounds as well as the Suzuka 700 km of the season.
• The 300 km race at Fuji scheduled to be held on September 12 was cancelled due to the serious damage to Oyama, the town where the circuit is located, caused by the typhoon Malou.^[5][6] This is the first event in Super GT to be cancelled by series organisers, and the first Japanese Grand touring round to be cancelled since Sepang in 2003.

Round	Race	Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest lap	Winner
1	Suzuka GT 300 km Report	Suzuka Circuit	March 21	#18 Weider Honda Racing	#18 Weider Honda Racing	#24 Kondō Racing
				Loïc Duval Takashi Kogure	Loïc Duval Takashi Kogure	João Paulo de Oliveira Hironobu Yasuda
				#7 RE Amemiya Racing	#5 Team Mach	#7 RE Amemiya Racing
				Nobuteru Taniguchi Ryo Orime	Haruki Kurosawa Tetsuji Tamanaka	Nobuteru Taniguchi Ryo Orime
2	Okayama GT 300 km Report	Okayama International Circuit	April 4	#18 Weider Honda Racing	#18 Weider Honda Racing	#18 Weider Honda Racing
				Loïc Duval Takashi Kogure	Loïc Duval Takashi Kogure	Loïc Duval Takashi Kogure
				#86 JLOC	#46 MOLA	#2 Apple K-ONE Shiden
				Koji Yamanishi Yuhi Sekiguchi	Naoki Yokomizo Tsubasa Abe	Hiroki Katoh Hiroshi Hamaguchi
3	Fuji GT 400 km Report	Fuji Speedway	May 2	#35 Lexus Team Kraft	#35 Lexus Team Kraft	#35 Lexus Team Kraft
				Hiroaki Ishiura Kazuya Oshima	Hiroaki Ishiura Kazuya Oshima	Hiroaki Ishiura Kazuya Oshima
				#33 Hankook KTR	#74 Team apr	#74 Team apr
				Mitsuhiro Kinoshita Masami Kageyama	Takuto Iguchi Yuji Kunimoto	Takuto Iguchi Yuji Kunimoto
4	Super GT International Series Malaysia Report	Sepang International Circuit	June 20	#12 Team Impul	#23 Motul Autech	#12 Team Impul
				Tsugio Matsuda Ronnie Quintarelli	Satoshi Motoyama Benoît Tréluyer	Tsugio Matsuda Ronnie Quintarelli
				#11 Jim Gainer Racing	#3 Hasemi Motorsport Z	#7 RE Amemiya Racing
				Tetsuya Tanaka Katsuyuki Hiranaka	Kazuki Hoshino Masataka Yanagida	Nobuteru Taniguchi Ryo Orime
5	Sugo GT 300 km Report	Sportsland SUGO	July 25	#23 Motul Autech	#23 Motul Autech	#17 Keihin Real Racing
				Satoshi Motoyama Benoît Tréluyer	Satoshi Motoyama Benoît Tréluyer	Toshihiro Kaneishi Koudai Tsukakoshi
				#2 Apple K-ONE Shiden	#2 Apple K-ONE Shiden	#2 Apple K-ONE Shiden
				Hiroshi Hamaguchi Hiroki Katoh	Hiroshi Hamaguchi Hiroki Katoh	Hiroshi Hamaguchi Hiroki Katoh
6	39th Pokka GT Summer Special Report	Suzuka Circuit	August 22	#8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	#23 Motul Autech	#8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri
				Ralph Firman Yuji Ide Takashi Kobayashi	Satoshi Motoyama Benoît Tréluyer	Ralph Firman Yuji Ide Takashi Kobayashi
				#26 Team Taisan	#62 R&D Sport	#62 R&D Sport
				Igor Sushko Masayuki Ueda Shogo Mitsuyama	Tetsuya Yamano Kota Sasaki	Tetsuya Yamano Kota Sasaki
7	Fuji GT 300 km	Fuji Speedway	September 12	Cancelled[5][6]
8	Motegi GT 250 km Report	Twin Ring Motegi	October 24	#18 Weider Honda Racing	#18 Weider Honda Racing	#1 Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S
				Loïc Duval Takashi Kogure	Loïc Duval Takashi Kogure	Juichi Wakisaka André Lotterer
				#3 Hasemi Motorsport Z	#74 Team apr	#3 Hasemi Motorsport Z
				Kazuki Hoshino Masataka Yanagida	Takuto Iguchi Yuji Kunimoto	Kazuki Hoshino Masataka Yanagida
NC	All Star Series Report	Fuji Speedway	November 13	#38 Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo	#6 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS	#38 Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo
				Richard Lyons	Björn Wirdheim	Richard Lyons
				#43 ASL	#11 Jim Gainer Racing	#11 Jim Gainer Racing
				Shinichi Takagi	Katsuyuki Hiranaka	Katsuyuki Hiranaka
			November 14	#12 Team Impul	#6 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS	#6 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS
				Tsugio Matsuda	Daisuke Itō	Daisuke Itō
				#43 ASL	#5 Team Mach	#11 Jim Gainer Racing
				Morio Nitta	Haruki Kurosawa	Tetsuya Tanaka

Standings

GT500 Drivers

Scoring system

Rank Driver SUZ OKA FUJ SEP SUG SUZ FUJ MOT PTS 1 Takashi Kogure Loïc Duval Ret 1 7 3 2 9 C 2 67 2 Juichi Wakisaka André Lotterer 4 3 2 8 7 10 C 1 62 3 Toshihiro Kaneishi Koudai Tsukakoshi 7 7 5 12 1 4 C 3 53 4 Daisuke Ito Björn Wirdheim 2 5 3 4 3 11 C 12 51 5 Tsugio Matsuda Ronnie Quintarelli Ret 4 6 1 4 12 C 5 47 6 Hiroaki Ishiura Kazuya Oshima 6 9 1 7 Ret 5 C 4 45 7 Satoshi Motoyama Benoît Tréluyer 8 Ret Ret 2 6 2 C 8 41 8 Naoki Yamamoto Takuya Izawa 3 8 10 5 8 3 C 6 40 9 Yuji Tachikawa Richard Lyons 9 2 4 6 9 6 C Ret 37 10 João Paulo de Oliveira Hironobu Yasuda 1 12 8 9 5 Ret C 10 32 11 Ralph Firman Yuji Ide Ret 6 11 11 12 1 C 7 29 12 Kohei Hirate 5 10 Ret 10 10 8 C 11 12 13 Andre Couto 5 10 Ret 10 10 8 C 12 14 Ryo Michigami Yuhki Nakayama 10 11 9 Ret 11 7 C 9 9 Carlo van Dam 11 0 Takashi Kobayashi 1 0 Rank Driver SUZ OKA FUJ SEP SUG SUZ FUJ MOT PTS

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX)

Teams' standings

Rank	Team	No.	SUZ	OKA	FUJ	SEP	SUG	SUZ	FUJ	MOT	Pts.
1	Weider Honda Racing	18	Ret	1	7	3	2	9	C	2	84
2	Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S	1	4	3	2	8	7	10	C	1	82
3	Keihin Real Racing	17	7	7	5	12	1	4	C	3	72
4	Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS	6	2	5	3	4	3	11	C	12	70
5	Team Impul	12	Ret	4	6	1	4	12	C	5	63
6	Lexus Team Kraft	35	6	9	1	7	Ret	5	C	4	62
7	Team Kunimitsu	100	3	8	10	5	8	3	C	6	60
8	Nismo	23	8	Ret	Ret	2	6	2	C	8	56
9	Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo	38	9	2	4	6	9	6	C	Ret	52
10	Kondo Racing	24	1	12	8	9	5	Ret	C	10	48
11	Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	8	Ret	6	11	11	12	1	C	7	42
12	Lexus Team SARD	39	5	10	Ret	10	10	8	C	11	26
13	Nakajima Racing	32	10	11	9	Ret	11	7	C	9	21
Rank	Team	No.	SUZ	OKA	FUJ	SEP	SUG	SUZ	FUJ	MOT	Pts.

GT300 Drivers

Scoring system

Rank Driver SUZ OKA FUJ SEP SUG SUZ FUJ MOT PTS 1 Masataka Yanagida Kazuki Hoshino 5 3 5 5 2 Ret C 1 64 2 Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi Ret 6 2 2 6 2 C 12 55 3 Ryo Orime Nobuteru Taniguchi 1 18 11 1 7 6 C 8 49 4 Hiroki Katoh Hiroshi Hamaguchi Ret 2 13 Ret 1 18 C 2 50 5 Takuto Iguchi Yuji Kunimoto 8 9 1 3 Ret 3 C 17 47 6 Naoki Yokomizo Tsubasa Abe 2 1 12 6 8 16 C 14 43 7 Tetsuya Tanaka Katsuyuki Hiranaka Ret 7 6 4 5 8 C 4 34 8 Tatsuya Kataoka Manabu Orido 3 14 4 9 Ret 4 C 7 33 9 Koji Yamanishi Yuhi Sekiguchi 7 4 16 15 10 5 C 3 30 10 Koki Saga Kousuke Matsuura Ret 5 9 8 3 Ret C 19 22 11 Kota Sasaki Tetsuya Yamano 13 12 Ret 13 1 C 10 21 12 Tetsuji Tamanaka Haruki Kurosawa 4 Ret 18 13 9 9 C 5 18 13 Takeshi Tsuchiya Akihiro Tsuzuki 7 4 Ret C 6 17 14 Hideshi Matsuda Hiroki Yoshimoto DSQ 15 3 12 11 Ret C 23 11 15 Yutaka Yamagishi Hiroshi Koizumi 9 11 8 10 DSQ 7 C 13 10 16 Mitsuhiro Kinoshita 6 8 Ret 16 10 C 8 17 Masami Kageyama 6 8 Ret 16 C 8 18 Atsushi Yogo DNQ 16 17 7 14 15 C Ret 4 19 Shinya Hosokawa DNQ 16 17 7 14 15 C 4 20 Taku Bamba Masahiro Sasaki 12 10 14 12 10 C 9 4 21 Hiroyuki Iiri Yuya Sakamoto 10 17 15 11 17 12 C 20 1 22 Masayuki Ueda 11 13 10 18 Ret C 11 1 23 Igor Sushko 11 13 10 18 Ret C 1 Rank Driver SUZ OKA FUJ SEP SUG SUZ FUJ MOT PTS

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX)