BREAKING: Formula 1 World Champion
@JensonButton
announces at Honda Racing Thanks Day 2017 that he will race full-time in the
@SUPERGT_JP
Series in 2018!
#SuperGT
Some much happier news to report today: Two-time GT300 Champion Shinichi Takagi has been discharged from hospital, and will continue his rehabilitation in an effort to return for the 2021
#SUPERGT
season!
The challenge of a lifetime awaits!
#SuperGT
#SFormula
Double Champion Naoki Yamamoto will drive in the first free practice for Scuderia Toro Rosso Honda in the Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix!
#F1
#JapaneseGP
In two weeks,
@JujuNoda_Racing
will make another piece of Super Formula history when she becomes the youngest driver to ever start a Japanese Top Formula race!
Mike Thackwell has held the record since his debut on 1979.9.23.
#SFormula
Thirty years ago, two-time GT300 Champion
@MAXORIDOMANABU
was getting his start in motorsport - not in single-seaters or karting, but in grassroots drift competitions hosted by CARBOY Magazine.
#SuperGT
๐จ The first Japanese woman - and the youngest ever - to race in Japanese Top Formula competition is
@JujuNoda_Racing
!
She's been announced as the driver of the
#53
@tgm_grandprix
Dallara/Honda!
#SFormula
The Japanese motor racing community has lost one of its greatest voices.
Our sincerest condolences go out to the family and friends of longtime Formula 1 and Japanese Top Formula commentator Jun Imamiya. #ไปๅฎฎ็ด
Many have pointed out the new PONOS
@nakajimaracing
livery's resemblance to classic Kintetsu Railway cars of years past.
Fittingly, Kintetsu owns & operates the Suzuka Line and the Shiroko Station, which is the nearest to Suzuka Circuit.
#SFormula
Two years ago at Honda Racing Thanks Day,
@JensonButton
announced the start of a new journey.
Today, that journey ends with one more salute to the Honda faithful. ๐
@TM_Kunimitsu100
#HRTD2019
๐ต๏ธโโ๏ธ๐ธ A redesigned Honda NSX-GT, based on the limited edition Type S model, has broken cover at Twin Ring Motegi.
More info at
@dailysportscar
:
Photos captured by 'Mappy Packman'
#SUPERGT
2021 GT300 MOST POPULAR DRIVER
2021ๅนดใฎGT300ใฎๆใไบบๆฐใฎใใใใฉใคใใผ
The winner, for the fifth time in as many years, is
@NOB_TANIGUCHI
! He received 14.6% of votes in a closely-fought battle, but still stands as GT300's most popular driver! โญโญโญโญโญ
#SUPERGT
#SGTAwards
14 seasons.
41 race wins.
36 pole positions.
5 driversโ championships.
4 teamsโ championships.
And a generation of incredible racing memories โค๏ธ
The Nissan GT-R R35 makes its final GT500 appearance at Fuji next weekend.
#SUPERGT
#FujiFinal
It is 3 May, 1998 in Japan.
On this day 25 years ago, there was a horrible multi-car accident in terrible weather.
But then, there was a tremendous act of courage which saved the life of a fellow racer.
#SUPERGT
#Fuji450km
Every session, around most of the world. ๐ฏ๐ต๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ฆ๐ท๐ง๐ท๐ฌ๐ง๐ฎ๐ช๐ฉ๐ช๐ซ๐ท๐ฎ๐น๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐พ๐จ๐ณ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐บ๐ณ๐ฟ
#SuperGT
#Okayama300km
It was worth the wait ๐
@IMPUL_official
's GT500 Championships are the first for the team since '94/'95, the first and second seasons of
@SUPERGT_JP
as we know it today.
#SUPERGT
By our count, 186 drivers have competed in
@SUPERGT_JP
GT500 and scored at least one championship point.
Here are the Top 5๏ธโฃ0๏ธโฃ drivers, ranked by career points scored.
#SUPERGT
Juju will be only the fourth woman to race in the Japanese Top Formula Championship, joining Divina Galica (1980), Sarah Kavanagh (1997), and
@TataCalde
(2020/21).
#SFormula
This weekend will see one of the most anticipated official racing debuts in the history of Japan, as 14-year-old Juju Noda will make her FIA F4 Danish Championship debut in Silkeborg's Jyllands-Ringen Circuit.
@NODA_Racing
#Juju10
Making history:
@1gorFraga
is the first
@thegranturismo
World Series champion - and Gran Turismo 7 in-game character - to race in
#SUPERGT
!
Awaiting word on Sarah's debut...
This weekend is likely to be the final race of a perennial fan-favourite.
@aprRacing
's hybrid-powered Toyota Prius GT300 has served as an example of genius and creative design since 2012, in its many iterations! ๐ฅฒ
#SUPERGT
#MotegiGrandFinal
R33, R34, Z33, R35 - every new
@NISMO
GT500 model has won the championship in its first year of service.
The new Nissan Z (RZ34) will try and keep that streak going in its debut year!
#SUPERGT
#MotegiGrandFinal
๐จ 52 Cars are on the
#FUJI24H
entry list!
Featuring five GT3s, ten GT4s, six innovative vehicles -including the world's first race car powered by liquid hydrogen fuel - and many more!
#SuperTaikyu
#S
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Guess who's on the charge?
@JensonButton
now has the Raybrig NSX up into 4th, having set a few purple laps as the track is quickly drying out!
#SuperGT
#Fuji500km
Heikki Kovalainen will forever be remembered for helping drive
@SARD_Racing
to their first GT500 Championship in 2016, ending a 22-year championship drought for one of Japan's oldest racing teams.
#SUPERGT
Long-time Nissan factory driver Kenji Tohira, who raced in
#JTC
,
#SuperTaikyu
, and
#SUPERGT
- among many other series and big races - passed away today at the age of 83.
We would like to extend our condolences to Tohira-san's family, friends, and colleagues.
Out of the Concept stage, ready to hit the track - here comes the 2024
@HondaRacingGLB
Civic Type R-GT!
It'll make its public debut this Tuesday at Okayama:
#SUPERGT
#CIVICTYPERGT
TATIANA CALDERON
@TataCalde
Calderรณn has already made her mark as Super Formula's most experienced woman racer of all time.
She returns to the all-womens'
@Richard_Mille
Racing Team Oreca for her second
#LeMans24
appearance.
#SGTxLM24
Undisputed Champion ๐๐
Anna
@inotsume3
is the first woman in the brief history of the
@TCRJapanseries
to win the unified (Sat & Sun Series) championship! ๐
#TCRJapan
2021 GT500 MOST POPULAR TEAM
2021ๅนดGT500ใฎๆใไบบๆฐใฎใใใใผใ
The winner is
@TM_Kunimitsu100
! It's the fourth consecutive year that they have been voted most popular GT500 team, with 30.6% of the votes! ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ
#SUPERGT
#SGTAwards
New season, same awesome field - will carbon-neutral fuel and longer-life tyres shake up the running order?
Read much more in our in-depth, English-language
@SUPERGT_JP
GT500 Class preview, at
@dailysportscar
:
#SUPERGT