The 2022 Super GT Series was a motor racing championship based in Japan for grand touring cars, sanctioned by the Japan Automobile Federation (JAF) and run by the GT Association (GTA). It was the thirtieth season of the JAF Super GT Championship which includes the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship era, and the eighteenth season under the Super GT name. It was also the fortieth overall season of a national JAF sportscar championship dating back to the All Japan Endurance/Sports Prototype Championship.
Team Impul won the GT500 championship for the first time since 1995, as Kazuki Hiramine and Bertrand Baguette won the Drivers' Championship. It was the first Teams' Championship for Impul since the inaugural 1994 season, and the first championship for the new Nissan Z GT500 which made its debut this season. In GT300, Kondo Racing, Kiyoto Fujinami, and João Paulo de Oliveira won their second set of Drivers' and Teams' Championships in three years.
A confirmed eight round provisional 2022 calendar was announced on 6 August 2021. [1] The calendar was updated on 20 October 2021, with the sixth round at Sportsland Sugo moving from the weekend of 10–11 September to 17–18 September, avoiding a clash of dates with the 2022 FIA WEC 6 Hours of Fuji. [2] Distances for all events were confirmed on 5 March 2022: Rounds two and four at Fuji Speedway, and round five at Suzuka Circuit, were 450 kilometre races, while all other rounds were 300 kilometres. [3]
Round | Race | Circuit | Dates |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Okayama GT 300 km Race | Okayama International Circuit | 16–17 April |
2 | FAV Hotel Fuji GT 450 km Race [4] | Fuji Speedway | 3–4 May |
3 | Takanokono Hotel Suzuka GT 300 km Race [5] | Suzuka Circuit | 28–29 May |
4 | Fujimaki Group Fuji GT 100 Lap Race [6] | Fuji Speedway | 6–7 August |
5 | Fujimaki Group Suzuka GT 450 km Race [7] | Suzuka Circuit | 27–28 August |
6 | Sugo GT 300 km Race | Sportsland Sugo | 17–18 September |
7 | FAV Hotel Autopolis GT 300 km Race [8] | Autopolis | 1–2 October |
8 | Motegi GT 300 km Race | Mobility Resort Motegi | 5–6 November |
All teams competed under a Japanese license.
Drivers credited with winning Pole Position for their respective teams are indicated in bold text.
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | Pole |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Points | 20 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
|
Bold – Pole |
Rank | Driver | Team | OKA |
FUJ1 [d] |
SUZ1 |
FUJ2 |
SUZ2 |
SUG |
AUT |
MOT |
Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Kiyoto Fujinami Joao Paulo de Oliveira |
No. 56 Kondo Racing | 1 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 52 |
2 |
Takuto Iguchi Hideki Yamauchi |
No. 61 R&D Sport | 9 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 49.5 |
3 | Riki Okusa | No. 10 GAINER | 6 | 1 | 15 | 22 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 49 |
4 | Kohta Kawaai | No. 52 Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave | Ret | 9 | 4 | 14 | 4 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 48 |
5 | Hiroki Yoshida | No. 52 Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave | Ret | 4 | 14 | 4 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 47 | |
6 | Ryuichiro Tomita | No. 10 GAINER | 6 | 1 | 15 | 22 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 45 | |
7 |
Hironobu Yasuda Keishi Ishikawa |
No. 11 GAINER | 10 | 4 | Ret | 2 | 16 | 2 | 14 | 14 | 35 |
8 |
Takashi Kobayashi Kakunoshin Ohta |
No. 18 Team UpGarage | 2 | 13 | Ret | 3 | 14 | 11 | 19 | 4 | 34 |
9 |
Nobuteru Taniguchi Tatsuya Kataoka |
No. 4 Goodsmile Racing & Team UKYO | 7 | 16 | 11 | 13 | 1 | Ret | 6 | 7 | 33 |
10 |
Naoya Gamou Takuro Shinohara |
No. 65 K2 R&D LEON Racing | 3 | 15 | 13 | Ret | 6 | 6 | 3 | 18 | 33 |
11 | Seiji Ara | No. 7 BMW Team Studie x CSL | Ret | Ret | 1 | 21 | 12 | 5 | 12 | 9 | 29 |
12 |
Hideki Mutoh Iori Kimura |
No. 55 ARTA | 15 | Ret | 10 | Ret | 24 | 7 | 18 | 1 | 26 |
13 |
Takashi Kogure Yuya Motojima |
No. 88 JLOC | 17 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 25 |
14 |
Hiroki Katoh Yuui Tsutsumi |
No. 2 muta Racing INGING | 20 | 8 | 14 | 18 | 8 | 1 | Ret | 12 | 24.5 |
15 |
Kosuke Matsuura Natsu Sakaguchi |
No. 87 JLOC | 8 | 12 | 16 | 8 | 9 | 19 | 11 | 2 | 23 |
16 |
Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi |
No. 96 K-Tunes Racing | Ret | 6 | 7 | 5 | 25 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 22.5 |
17 | Tsubasa Kondo | No. 7 BMW Team Studie x CSL | Ret | 1 | 12 | 12 | 21 | ||||
18 |
Yusuke Tomibayashi Reiji Hiraki |
No. 5 Team Mach | 18 | 24 | 2 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 225 | Ret | 15 |
19 | Manabu Orido | No. 30 apr | 13 | 18 | 8 | 15 | 3 | 20 | 17 | Ret | 14 |
20 |
Masataka Yanagida Yuji Ide |
No. 34 Busou Drago Corse | 11 | 2 | 6 | 12.5 | |||||
21 | Yoshiaki Katayama | No. 6 Team LeMans | 5 | 14 | 18 | 16 | 5 | 16 | 20 | 13 | 12 |
22 | Hibiki Taira | No. 30 apr | 18 | 15 | 3 | 11 | |||||
22 | Yuta Kamimura | No. 30 apr | 3 | 11 | |||||||
23 |
Hiroki Yoshimoto Shunsuke Kohno |
No. 60 LM Corsa | 12 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 22 | 11 | 11 |
24 | Kei Cozzolino | No. 9 Pacific CarGuy Racing | 4 | 23 | 17 | 12 | 11 | Ret | 13 | 15 | 8 |
24 | Naoki Yokomizo | No. 9 Pacific CarGuy Racing | 4 | 11 | 8 | ||||||
25 | Augusto Farfus | No. 7 BMW Team Studie x CSL | Ret | Ret | 21 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 8 | ||
26 | Roberto Merhi Muntan | No. 6 Team LeMans | 14 | 18 | 16 | 5 | 16 | 20 | 13 | 6 | |
26 | Satoshi Motoyama | No. 6 Team LeMans | 5 | 6 | |||||||
27 |
Katsuyuki Hiranaka Eijiro Shimizu |
No. 20 SHADE Racing | 14 | 20 | Ret | Ret | 7 | 23 | 9 | 21 | 6 |
28 | Yusuke Shiotsu | No. 10 GAINER | 1 [b] | 22 | 2 [e] | 7 | 5 | ||||
29 | Ryohei Sakaguchi | No. 50 Arnage Racing | 16 | 25 | 20 | 7 | 23 | 22 | 21 | 16 | 4 |
29 | Masaki Kano | No. 50 Arnage Racing | 16 | 25 | 7 | 23 | 22 | 21 | 4 | ||
29 | Takeshi Suehiro | No. 50 Arnage Racing | 25 | 7 | 23 | 4 | |||||
30 | Hiroaki Nagai | No. 30 apr | 13 | 18 | 8 | 15 | 20 | 17 | Ret | 3 | |
31 | Takayuki Aoki | No. 360 Tomei Sports | 21 | 10 | 19 | 10 | 20 | 12 | 23 | 10 | 2.5 |
32 | Yusaku Shibata | No. 360 Tomei Sports | 10 | 19 | 10 | 20 | 12 | 23 | 1.5 | ||
33 | Togo Suganami | No. 52 Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave | 9 | 1 | |||||||
34 |
Takamitsu Matsui Seita Nonaka |
No. 25 Hoppy Team Tsuchiya | 22 | 11 | Ret | 15 | 10 | 16 | Ret | 1 | |
35 |
Kimiya Sato Atsushi Miyake |
No. 244 Max Racing | 19 | 22 | Ret | Ret | 14 | 10 | 17 | 1 | |
36 | Teppei Natori | No. 360 Tomei Sports | 10 | 1 | |||||||
37 | Atsushi Tanaka | No. 360 Tomei Sports | 21 | 10 | 10 [f] | 20 | 0.5 | ||||
- | Shinnosuke Yamada | No. 20 SHADE Racing | 7 [g] | 0 | |||||||
- |
Koki Saga Yuhki Nakayama |
No. 31 apr | 19 | 22 | 23 | 11 | 26 | 17 | 15 | Ret | 0 |
- | Kazuto Kotaka | No. 31 apr | 11 | 26 | 0 | ||||||
- | Takeshi Kimura | No. 9 Pacific CarGuy Racing | 23 | 17 | 12 | Ret | 13 | 15 | 0 | ||
- | Shintaro Kawabata | No. 6 Team LeMans | 14 | 0 | |||||||
No. 9 Pacific CarGuy Racing | 12 | ||||||||||
- | Ryosei Yamashita | No. 50 Arnage Racing | 20 | 16 | 0 | ||||||
- | Taiyo Ida | No. 48 NILZZ Racing | 23 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 26 | 23 | 0 |
- | Yuki Tanaka | No. 48 NILZZ Racing | 23 | 21 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 26 | 23 | 0 | |
- | Masaya Kohno | No. 48 NILZZ Racing | 19 | 22 | 0 | ||||||
- |
Masaki Jyonai Hisashi Wada |
No. 22 R'Qs Motor Sports | Ret | Ret | 20 | 21 | 24 | 24 | 22 | 0 | |
- | Yuya Hiraki | No. 48 NILZZ Racing | 21 | 0 | |||||||
Rank | Driver | Team | OKA |
FUJ1 |
SUZ1 |
FUJ2 |
SUZ2 |
SUG |
AUT |
MOT |
Points |
The 2022 Super GT Series was a motor racing championship based in Japan for grand touring cars, sanctioned by the Japan Automobile Federation (JAF) and run by the GT Association (GTA). It was the thirtieth season of the JAF Super GT Championship which includes the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship era, and the eighteenth season under the Super GT name. It was also the fortieth overall season of a national JAF sportscar championship dating back to the All Japan Endurance/Sports Prototype Championship.
Team Impul won the GT500 championship for the first time since 1995, as Kazuki Hiramine and Bertrand Baguette won the Drivers' Championship. It was the first Teams' Championship for Impul since the inaugural 1994 season, and the first championship for the new Nissan Z GT500 which made its debut this season. In GT300, Kondo Racing, Kiyoto Fujinami, and João Paulo de Oliveira won their second set of Drivers' and Teams' Championships in three years.
A confirmed eight round provisional 2022 calendar was announced on 6 August 2021. [1] The calendar was updated on 20 October 2021, with the sixth round at Sportsland Sugo moving from the weekend of 10–11 September to 17–18 September, avoiding a clash of dates with the 2022 FIA WEC 6 Hours of Fuji. [2] Distances for all events were confirmed on 5 March 2022: Rounds two and four at Fuji Speedway, and round five at Suzuka Circuit, were 450 kilometre races, while all other rounds were 300 kilometres. [3]
Round | Race | Circuit | Dates |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Okayama GT 300 km Race | Okayama International Circuit | 16–17 April |
2 | FAV Hotel Fuji GT 450 km Race [4] | Fuji Speedway | 3–4 May |
3 | Takanokono Hotel Suzuka GT 300 km Race [5] | Suzuka Circuit | 28–29 May |
4 | Fujimaki Group Fuji GT 100 Lap Race [6] | Fuji Speedway | 6–7 August |
5 | Fujimaki Group Suzuka GT 450 km Race [7] | Suzuka Circuit | 27–28 August |
6 | Sugo GT 300 km Race | Sportsland Sugo | 17–18 September |
7 | FAV Hotel Autopolis GT 300 km Race [8] | Autopolis | 1–2 October |
8 | Motegi GT 300 km Race | Mobility Resort Motegi | 5–6 November |
All teams competed under a Japanese license.
Drivers credited with winning Pole Position for their respective teams are indicated in bold text.
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | Pole |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Points | 20 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
|
Bold – Pole |
Rank | Driver | Team | OKA |
FUJ1 [d] |
SUZ1 |
FUJ2 |
SUZ2 |
SUG |
AUT |
MOT |
Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Kiyoto Fujinami Joao Paulo de Oliveira |
No. 56 Kondo Racing | 1 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 52 |
2 |
Takuto Iguchi Hideki Yamauchi |
No. 61 R&D Sport | 9 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 49.5 |
3 | Riki Okusa | No. 10 GAINER | 6 | 1 | 15 | 22 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 49 |
4 | Kohta Kawaai | No. 52 Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave | Ret | 9 | 4 | 14 | 4 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 48 |
5 | Hiroki Yoshida | No. 52 Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave | Ret | 4 | 14 | 4 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 47 | |
6 | Ryuichiro Tomita | No. 10 GAINER | 6 | 1 | 15 | 22 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 45 | |
7 |
Hironobu Yasuda Keishi Ishikawa |
No. 11 GAINER | 10 | 4 | Ret | 2 | 16 | 2 | 14 | 14 | 35 |
8 |
Takashi Kobayashi Kakunoshin Ohta |
No. 18 Team UpGarage | 2 | 13 | Ret | 3 | 14 | 11 | 19 | 4 | 34 |
9 |
Nobuteru Taniguchi Tatsuya Kataoka |
No. 4 Goodsmile Racing & Team UKYO | 7 | 16 | 11 | 13 | 1 | Ret | 6 | 7 | 33 |
10 |
Naoya Gamou Takuro Shinohara |
No. 65 K2 R&D LEON Racing | 3 | 15 | 13 | Ret | 6 | 6 | 3 | 18 | 33 |
11 | Seiji Ara | No. 7 BMW Team Studie x CSL | Ret | Ret | 1 | 21 | 12 | 5 | 12 | 9 | 29 |
12 |
Hideki Mutoh Iori Kimura |
No. 55 ARTA | 15 | Ret | 10 | Ret | 24 | 7 | 18 | 1 | 26 |
13 |
Takashi Kogure Yuya Motojima |
No. 88 JLOC | 17 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 25 |
14 |
Hiroki Katoh Yuui Tsutsumi |
No. 2 muta Racing INGING | 20 | 8 | 14 | 18 | 8 | 1 | Ret | 12 | 24.5 |
15 |
Kosuke Matsuura Natsu Sakaguchi |
No. 87 JLOC | 8 | 12 | 16 | 8 | 9 | 19 | 11 | 2 | 23 |
16 |
Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi |
No. 96 K-Tunes Racing | Ret | 6 | 7 | 5 | 25 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 22.5 |
17 | Tsubasa Kondo | No. 7 BMW Team Studie x CSL | Ret | 1 | 12 | 12 | 21 | ||||
18 |
Yusuke Tomibayashi Reiji Hiraki |
No. 5 Team Mach | 18 | 24 | 2 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 225 | Ret | 15 |
19 | Manabu Orido | No. 30 apr | 13 | 18 | 8 | 15 | 3 | 20 | 17 | Ret | 14 |
20 |
Masataka Yanagida Yuji Ide |
No. 34 Busou Drago Corse | 11 | 2 | 6 | 12.5 | |||||
21 | Yoshiaki Katayama | No. 6 Team LeMans | 5 | 14 | 18 | 16 | 5 | 16 | 20 | 13 | 12 |
22 | Hibiki Taira | No. 30 apr | 18 | 15 | 3 | 11 | |||||
22 | Yuta Kamimura | No. 30 apr | 3 | 11 | |||||||
23 |
Hiroki Yoshimoto Shunsuke Kohno |
No. 60 LM Corsa | 12 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 22 | 11 | 11 |
24 | Kei Cozzolino | No. 9 Pacific CarGuy Racing | 4 | 23 | 17 | 12 | 11 | Ret | 13 | 15 | 8 |
24 | Naoki Yokomizo | No. 9 Pacific CarGuy Racing | 4 | 11 | 8 | ||||||
25 | Augusto Farfus | No. 7 BMW Team Studie x CSL | Ret | Ret | 21 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 8 | ||
26 | Roberto Merhi Muntan | No. 6 Team LeMans | 14 | 18 | 16 | 5 | 16 | 20 | 13 | 6 | |
26 | Satoshi Motoyama | No. 6 Team LeMans | 5 | 6 | |||||||
27 |
Katsuyuki Hiranaka Eijiro Shimizu |
No. 20 SHADE Racing | 14 | 20 | Ret | Ret | 7 | 23 | 9 | 21 | 6 |
28 | Yusuke Shiotsu | No. 10 GAINER | 1 [b] | 22 | 2 [e] | 7 | 5 | ||||
29 | Ryohei Sakaguchi | No. 50 Arnage Racing | 16 | 25 | 20 | 7 | 23 | 22 | 21 | 16 | 4 |
29 | Masaki Kano | No. 50 Arnage Racing | 16 | 25 | 7 | 23 | 22 | 21 | 4 | ||
29 | Takeshi Suehiro | No. 50 Arnage Racing | 25 | 7 | 23 | 4 | |||||
30 | Hiroaki Nagai | No. 30 apr | 13 | 18 | 8 | 15 | 20 | 17 | Ret | 3 | |
31 | Takayuki Aoki | No. 360 Tomei Sports | 21 | 10 | 19 | 10 | 20 | 12 | 23 | 10 | 2.5 |
32 | Yusaku Shibata | No. 360 Tomei Sports | 10 | 19 | 10 | 20 | 12 | 23 | 1.5 | ||
33 | Togo Suganami | No. 52 Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave | 9 | 1 | |||||||
34 |
Takamitsu Matsui Seita Nonaka |
No. 25 Hoppy Team Tsuchiya | 22 | 11 | Ret | 15 | 10 | 16 | Ret | 1 | |
35 |
Kimiya Sato Atsushi Miyake |
No. 244 Max Racing | 19 | 22 | Ret | Ret | 14 | 10 | 17 | 1 | |
36 | Teppei Natori | No. 360 Tomei Sports | 10 | 1 | |||||||
37 | Atsushi Tanaka | No. 360 Tomei Sports | 21 | 10 | 10 [f] | 20 | 0.5 | ||||
- | Shinnosuke Yamada | No. 20 SHADE Racing | 7 [g] | 0 | |||||||
- |
Koki Saga Yuhki Nakayama |
No. 31 apr | 19 | 22 | 23 | 11 | 26 | 17 | 15 | Ret | 0 |
- | Kazuto Kotaka | No. 31 apr | 11 | 26 | 0 | ||||||
- | Takeshi Kimura | No. 9 Pacific CarGuy Racing | 23 | 17 | 12 | Ret | 13 | 15 | 0 | ||
- | Shintaro Kawabata | No. 6 Team LeMans | 14 | 0 | |||||||
No. 9 Pacific CarGuy Racing | 12 | ||||||||||
- | Ryosei Yamashita | No. 50 Arnage Racing | 20 | 16 | 0 | ||||||
- | Taiyo Ida | No. 48 NILZZ Racing | 23 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 26 | 23 | 0 |
- | Yuki Tanaka | No. 48 NILZZ Racing | 23 | 21 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 26 | 23 | 0 | |
- | Masaya Kohno | No. 48 NILZZ Racing | 19 | 22 | 0 | ||||||
- |
Masaki Jyonai Hisashi Wada |
No. 22 R'Qs Motor Sports | Ret | Ret | 20 | 21 | 24 | 24 | 22 | 0 | |
- | Yuya Hiraki | No. 48 NILZZ Racing | 21 | 0 | |||||||
Rank | Driver | Team | OKA |
FUJ1 |
SUZ1 |
FUJ2 |
SUZ2 |
SUG |
AUT |
MOT |
Points |