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47 Entries For Motegi Super Taikyu 5 Hours

Four GT3s and 11 GT4s headline one-day event at Mobility Resort Motegi

The Eneos Super Taikyu Series Empowered by Bridgestone returns this Saturday for the fourth round of the 2024 season at Mobility Resort Motegi. This year’s Motegi Super Taikyu 5 Hours Race is a one-day event, with qualifying and the race on the same day – this Saturday, 7 September.

47 cars across eight classes have entered, with four entries in the ST-X (GT3) category.

Of note, Zhongsheng ROOKIE Racing is absent from the entry list once again and in fact, ROOKIE Racing has already confirmed several weeks ago that it would sit out the Motegi round, meaning the team’s two ST-Q class cars will be absent as well. Mazda Spirit Racing has also elected not to bring either of its two ST-Q entries.

That leaves just the two Mercedes-AMG GT3s from TKRI and Craft-Bamboo Racing, the Lexus RC F GT3 from apr, and the GTNET MotorSports Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 to compete for top honours in ST-X.

Only GTNET MotorSports has changed drivers from the previous round – gentleman driver Noboyuki Oyagi is back on the entry list alongside ‘A’ driver Nobuhiro Imada, Kiyoto Fujinami, and Natsu Sakaguchi.

There are no changes on the ST-Z entry list from the previous round either – and that’s a relief to fans of Naniwa Denso Team Impul, following another big accident at Autopolis in the previous round. Yuki Tanaka, Kazuki Hiramine, and Kazuki Oki are expected to drive the rebuilt #20 Nissan Z NISMO GT4.

In ST-Q, there are only three entries this time. Team HRC’s #271 Honda Civic Type R CNF-R is back this time, appropriately for the team’s home race at the Honda-owned circuit. Of note, Souta Arao – a Super Formula Lights driver and member of the Honda Formula Dream Project – will get his first taste of endurance racing, driving the #271 Civic alongside Honda factory driver Hiroki Otsu and past series champion Shinichi Katsura.

The #61 Subaru HighPerformanceX Future Concept is also back for its second race, joining the GT4-based #92 GR Team Spirit Toyota GR Supra Racing Concept in the exhibition category.

Rounding out the field are three ST-TCR entries, the single ST-1 class KTM X-Bow GTX, four cars in the returning ST-3 class, seven entries in ST-4, and 14 cars in ST-5.

ClassNo.TeamDriversVehicle
ST-X (GT3)23TKRIDaisuke (Matsunaga)
Yuya Motojima
Yuhki Nakayama
Mercedes-AMG GT3
ST-X (GT3)31aprHiroaki Nagai
Kazuto Kotaka
Miki Koyama ♀️
Koki Saga
Lexus RC F GT3
ST-X (GT3)33Craft-Bamboo RacingJeffrey Lee 🇹🇼
Liang Jiatong 🇨🇳
Dean Chen 🇨🇦
Kakunoshin Ohta
Mercedes-AMG GT3
ST-X (GT3)81GTNET MotorSportsNobuhiro Imada
Kiyoto Fujinami
Noboyuki Oyagi
Natsu Sakaguchi
Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3
ST-Z (GT4)5Team NoahToshiro Tsukada
Yu Kanamaru
Kokoro Morita
Aruga Tomita
Toyota GR Supra GT4 Evo
ST-Z (GT4)19Birth Racing Project[BRP]Yuki Fujii
Takeshi Suehiro
Anna Inotsume ♀️
Kazuya Oshima (Neyagawa)
Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS
ST-Z (GT4)20Team ImpulYuki Tanaka
Kazuki Hiramine
Kazuki Oki
Nissan Z NISMO GT4
ST-Z (GT4)21Hitotsuyama RacingDaisuke Yamawaki
Sean Walkinshaw 🇬🇧
James Pull 🇬🇧
Shintaro Kawabata
Mercedes-AMG GT4
ST-Z (GT4)22Porsche Team EBIShota Kitazono
Rintaro Kubo
Naoya Yamano
Yugo Iwasawa
Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport
ST-Z (GT4)25Team ZeroOneTadao Uematsu
Tsugio Matsuda
Kimiya Sato
Teppei Natori
Nissan Z NISMO GT4
ST-Z (GT4)26Team ZeroOneRyuichiro Otsuka
Ryuichiro Tomita
Takuro Shinohara
Seiji Ara
Nissan Z NISMO GT4
ST-Z (GT4)34Techno FirstMasaki Kano
Ryoma Henzan
Hironobu Yasuda
Riki Okusa
Audi R8 LMS GT4
ST-Z (GT4)52Saitama Green BraveManabu Yamazaki
Hiroki Yoshida
Naoki Hattori
Seita Nonaka
Toyota GR Supra GT4 Evo
ST-Z (GT4)111Buzz Progress RacingNagayasu Miyagi
Max Yuki Salo 🇫🇮
TBN
Taiga Imoto
Mercedes-AMG GT4
ST-Z (GT4)885SHADE RacingHiro Hayashi
Katsuyuki Hiranaka
Eijiro Shimizu
Toyota GR Supra GT4 Evo
ST-TCR97M&K RacingMitsuhiro Endo
Shinji Nakano
Ryusuke Masumoto
TBN
Honda Civic Type R TCR (FL5)
ST-TCR98M&K RacingKizuna (Shigeru Sato)
Lee Jung Woo 🇰🇷
Sena Yamamoto
TBN
Honda Civic Type R TCR (FL5)
ST-TCR430Audi Team Show ApexYoshinari Fujiwara
Shigetomo Shimono
Shozo Tagahara
Audi RS 3 LMS
ST-Q61Team SDA EngineeringKazuhiro Ito
Hideki Yamauchi
Takuto Iguchi
Masafumi Hanazawa
Subaru High Performance X Future Concept
ST-Q92GR Team SpiritKeizo Kato
Kenta Yamashita
Shunsuke Kohno
TBN
Toyota GR Supra Racing Concept
ST-Q271Team HRCHiroki Otsu
Souta Arao
Shinichi Katsura
Honda Civic Type R CNF-R
ST-12K's Frontier KTM CarsTaiyo Ida
Hiroki Katoh
Kazuho Takahashi
Hiroki Yoshimoto
KTM X-Bow GTX
ST-315Okabe Jidosha MotorsportShuji Maejima
Masaaki Nagashima
Tsubasa Mekaru
Seiya Motojima
Nissan Fairlady Z34
ST-316Okabe Jidosha MotorsportKazuomi Komatsu
Toru Tanaka
Tetsuya Tanaka
Masaya Kohno
Nissan Fairlady Z34
ST-338Tracy Sports with DeltaToshiki Komura
Yuma Shoji
Toshiki Ishimori
TBN
Lexus RC 350
ST-339Tracy Sports with DeltaShinya Fujita
Takashi Ito
Dai Mizuno
Takumi Sanada
Lexus RC 350
ST-43Endless SportsHiroyuki Saka
Togo Suganami
Ryo Ogawa
Toyota GR86
ST-418Asano Racing ServiceTakeo Asano
Shinnosuke Ito
Kazumi Mikami ♀️
Yuta Kamimura
Toyota GR86
ST-441Tracy Sports with DeltaHirotaka Ishii
Yusuke Tomibayashi
Shunsuke Ozaki
Toyota GR86
ST-460Team G/Motion'Resshu Shioya
Masayuki Minato
Keisuke Ohara
Takumi Umehara
Toyota GR86
ST-466Over DriveKyosuke Inomata
Kohei Tokumasu
Takahisa Ohno
Hirohito Ito
Mazda Roadster RF
ST-4216HMR RacingKenbow (Kensuke Ehara)
Kota Sasaki
Tomomitsu Senoo
Ishiken (Kenji Ishikawa)
Toyota GR86
ST-4885SHADE RacingMasahiko Kageyama
Yuji Kunimoto
Shinnosuke Yamada
Teppei Tsuruta
Toyota GR86
ST-54Team BrideYuya Ohta
Kaoru Arai
Takao Seto
Hiroshi Ito
Honda Fit4 RS (GS4)
ST-511D.R.C EZOHajime Omono
Ryohei Oshima
Ryoji Tashiro
Masaharu Nishioka
Honda Fit3 RS (GK5)
ST-517Team NOPROHideyoshi Nishizawa
Tobio Otani
Misaki Konishi
Toshihiko Nogami
Mazda Mazda2 Diesel Turbo (DJ5FS)
ST-537Team NOPROJohnny (Toru) Ogura
Suguru Kawana
Hiroaki Yamamoto
Yoshihiro Kato
Mazda Demio (DE5FS)
ST-565Over DriveTatsuya Ota
Shuichiro Hokazono
Sena Kuronuma
Takuma Ikeda
Mazda Roadster
ST-567Team YamatoShinya Uchiyama
Ryohei Yasui
Ryo Mukumoto
Yoshihiko Nakamura
Honda Fit3 RS (GK5)
ST-576Buzz Progress RacingMasaki Ano
Junpei Kato
Hitoshi Sakai
Ken Alex (Watanabe)
Mazda Roadster
ST-588Murakami MotorsHiroyuki Murakami
Daichi Okamoto
Soichiro Yoshida
Ryohei Arioka
Mazda Roadster
ST-589Murakami MotorsShinichi Uemura
Marie Iwaoka ♀️
Takeshi Wakitani
Keiji Amemiya
Mazda Roadster
ST-5110Access Racing TeamToshiyuki Matsuda
Shingo Wada
Sota Muto
Akita
Toyota Vitz (NCP131)
ST-5120Mazda Spirit RacingJunji Ueda
Tatsuya Minowa
Shohei Oda
Subaru Kumeta
Mazda Roadster
ST-5222Honda Cars TokaiToshiki Takeuchi
Masayuki Sumi
Masaki Nishihata
Honda Fit4 RS (GS4)
ST-5290AutoLaboYuichi Yokoo
Yuuma Murata
Takeshi Kitagawa
Ayaka Takano ♀️
Toyota Yaris (MXPA10)
ST-5888Team Select Hotels GroupTakuya Shiga
Taro Matsunami
Hiroshi Nakamura
Takaya Kusano
Honda Fit3 RS (GK5)

Qualifying starts Saturday at 8:00 AM JST (local time), then the Motegi Super Taikyu 5 Hour Race goes green at 12:30 JST. The race will be available to watch, live and free, on the official Super Taikyu YouTube channel (STai TV) with Japanese commentary from Yuko Kazuno, Hideo Fukuyama, and pit reporter MC Hirata.

Feature image © STO