TOM’S GR Supra goes two-for-two in Super GT with Fuji 3 Hours win

The Fuji GT 3 Hours, Round 2 of the AUTOBACS Super GT series, was held on Monday (a holiday in Japan) at Fuji Speedway. The rain that had been expected never fell during the race, to the delight of the 50,000-strong crowd on hand.

In the top GT500 class, the winner of the opening round of the season – the No. 36 au TOM’S GR Supra of Sho Tsuboi/Kenta Yamashita – came through to take its second win in a row this season. In the GT300 class, the No. 56 Realize Mechanic Nissan Challenge GT-R driven by Joao Paulo de Oliveira and Iori Kimura) started the race from sixth position on the grid, moved up to take the lead in the first half and went on to take its first win since 2023.

GT500

The pole-starting No. 14 Eneos X Prime GR Supra of Nirei Fukuzumi/Kazuya Ohshima took the lead in the early stages. By the 34th lap of the race Fukuzumi widened his lead over the No. 36 au TOM’S GR Supra to more than 20 seconds before turning over the wheel to his teammate Oshima. The pursuing car No. 36 also made its pit stop on the same lap.

By the 65th lap, the gap between the two leaders was down to less than 10s, and by the 74th lap it was less than 4s, at which point the No. 36 made its second pit stop first on the 76th lap prior to the leading car No. 14, which pitted two laps later and changed drivers from Oshima to Fukuzumi. When it returned to the race on 79th lap, it was passed for the lead by car No. 36. Although No. 14 did its best to give chase, in the latter stages of the race No. 36 gradually increased its lead, and in the end it finished the 3-hour/115-lap race with a lead of 8.786s.

Finishing in third place was the No. 23 Motul Niterra Z of Katsumasa Chiyo/Mitsunori Takaboshi that had started the race from third position and following a collision with the No. 38 KeePer Cerumo GR Supra (Toshiki Oyu/Rikuto Kobayashi) had run off the track but made a quick recovery and held off the pursuing No. 24 Realize Corporation Z of Teppei Natori/Atsushi Miyake) and the No. 39 Denso Kobelco SARD GR Supra (Yuhi Sekiguchi/Sacha Fenestraz) to get its first podium finish of the season. The fastest finisher among the Honda HRC Prelude-GT cars was the No. 16 ARTA Mugenentry driven by Tomoki Nojiri and Ren Sato in fifth place.

GT300

In the GT300 class race, the pole-sitting No. 61 Subaru BRZ R&D Sport entry of Takuto Iguchi/Hideki Yamauchi) led the race in the early stages but lost ground due to tire trouble. After completing its first pit stop, the No. 56 Realize Nissan Mechanic Challenge GT-R Joao Paulo de Oliveira and Iori Kimura, which had started the race in sixth position, steadily worked its way up through the field to emerge in the lead. It then held off pursuers including the No. 666 seven x seven Porsche GT3R EVO (Sven Mulle/Kiyoto Fujinami), the No. 65 Leon Pyramid AMG (Naoya Gamou/Togo Suganami/Haruki Kurosawa) and the No. 31 apr LC500h GT (Kazuto Kotaka/Miki Koyama/Charlie Wurz) to win its first race since Round 2 at Fuji in 2023.

• RACER Network and the RACER+ app are the broadcast home for Super GT in the U.S. and Canada. All seven rounds of the 2026 Super GT Series will be broadcast live and on-demand. Next up: Round 3 at the Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia on June 20-21.