In 2014, Super GT and the German touring car series DTM announced the creation of "Class One",[4] which would unify GT500's and DTM's technical regulations, allowing manufacturers to race in both series with a single specification of car. This race mostly contains JGTC cars, as the event itself is actually based on the real-life JGTC that ran from 1993 to 2004, before being renamed "Super GT" in 2005. International sports car racing is unbelievably confusing, with a half dozen classes that all look the same and have nearly the same names. The FWD cars were mostly unsuccessful, failing to win any championships. The American Le Mans Series also has a spec class called GTC, which is for Porsche 911 GT3 (named after the road car, not the class) cup cars only. GT racing started out many years back with GT1. All of its dates outside of Europe and Asia were cancelled, so it became GT3 Eurasia most of the time, and paired up with GT3 Europe. Yes, as in the plural of Prius. [15], In response to increasing cornering speeds, another aerodynamic overhaul was introduced in 2017, lowering downforce by 25%. Like the series, Super GT drivers are very popular in Japan with a growing international fanbase. It saw the Corvette C6.R, the Aston Martin DBR9 and the Saleen S7R race for wins all over the world. Since 2014, GT500 cars have been powered by single-turbocharged, inline four-cylinder engines with two liters of displacement and producing over 650 horsepower. The pace of a GT500 car is roughly equivalent to that of the fastest non-hybrid Le Mans Prototypes.[11]. Japan's national SUPER GT brings another GT class to the table with its smaller GT300 series, which was originally intended for super low power, super high downforce local creations, but a few years back they started allowing in GT3 cars and they've over-run the series. [12][13], Four-door sedans have never run in the GT500 class, despite the regulations being changed in 2012 to permit their entry. Actual weight ballast will be capped at 50 kilograms for reasons of practicality and safety. Super GT is unique in its open and blunt statement that it is committed to providing exciting racing first, at the expense of runaway investment by works teams. [8][9] Suzuka remained on the Super GT calendar, but with a shorter 300 km race.[10]. However, SRO decided they wanted the class to live longer, so they took their FIA GT championship and split it into two parts: GT1 World, a series for old GT1 cars on the world stage with pro-pro drivers, and GT3 Europe, a series for current GT3 cars on the European stage with pro-am drivers. Another popular GT300 driver was Tetsuya Yamano, who runs his own driving school and took the GT300 class victory at Sepang for three consecutive years. The 1000 km Suzuka rejoined the series in 2006, becoming the longest and most prestigious race on the calendar. In addition, only defending team champions are allowed to use number 0 (for GT300 champions) and 1 (for GT500 champions), although it isn't mandatory for defending champions to use those numbers. The Z4 GT3, 911 GT3 R and SLS AMG are displacing the quirky likes of the GT300 CRZs, BRZs and Prii. In the GT300 class, notable drivers include Nobuteru Taniguchi of Goodsmile Racing, who is also well known as a D1GP competitor,[36] and Manabu Orido, a former D1GP judge currently driving for JLOC. Now they run the same cars everywhere so I stopped watching GT3. Spot entry in 2014. When a car's assigned ballast exceeds 50 kilograms, it will be assigned a lesser amount of weight ballast, but a fuel flow restriction will be imposed, the severity of which increases according to the size of the assigned weight handicap. Between 2006 to 2019, Toyota was represented in GT500 by its luxury vehicle brand, Lexus, after the retirement of the Toyota Supra from the series; the Supra returned in 2020 following the revival of the nameplate. Corvettes raced the European marques and everything made sense. A certain cancellation will come in 2014 since ALMS merged with Grand-Am. This article was republished with permission of Porsche914yr74.

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