2017 Super Taikyu Series

The 2017 Super Taikyu Series was the 26th season of the Super Taikyu Series. The season started on 1 April at Twin Ring Motegi and ended on 15 October at Okayama International Circuit.

Teams and drivers

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Team Car Drivers Rounds Kondō Racing Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 1 Tomonobu Fujii All Kazuki Hiramine Yudai Uchida Endless Sports Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 3 Yuya Motojima All Yukinori Taniguchi Hideki Yamauchi ARN RACING Ferrari 488 GT3 8 Hiroaki Nagai All Kota Sasaki Yuki Shiraishi 3 Tsubasa Mekaru 5 K's Frontier Porsche 997 GT3-R 25 Taiyō Iida 1–2, 5–6 Tetsuo Ogino Shinichi Takagi 1 Tomoki Nojiri 2, 5–6 HubAuto Racing Ferrari 488 GT3 89 Morris Chen 1–5 Yuya Sakamoto Hiroki Yoshimoto 1–4 Daiki Yoshimoto 5 Shunsuke Kohno GTNET MOTOR SPORTS Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 99 Kiyoto Fujinami All Kazuki Hoshino Tadao Uematsu Rn-sports Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 112 Nobuo Kubo 3–6 Atsushi Sato Ryōsei Yamashita Masayuki Ueda 5 D'Station Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R 777 Seiji Ara All Satoshi Hoshino Tsubasa Kondo CarGuy Racing Lamborghini Huracán GT3 999 Takeshi Kimura 3–6 Afiq Yazid Naoki Yokomizo 3–5 Kei Cozzolino 5–6 Sources:

ST–TCR

Team Car Drivers Rounds Adenau Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR 10 Philippe Devesa 3, 5–6 Shōgo Mitsuyama Toshikazu Wakisaka 5 Birth Racing Project Audi RS 3 LMS TCR 19 Kei Akiyoshi All Kōichi Okumura Yūsaku Shibata 2 Yoshimitsu Ueno 4–5 Daisuke Yamawaki 1, 3, 5–6 Audi Team DreamDrive Audi RS 3 LMS TCR 45 Takuya Shirakasa All Shōzo Tagahara Naoto Takeda Toshihiro Arai 5 Modulo Racing Project Honda Civic Type-R TCR 97 Shinichi Ebisawa 1–4 Shinichi Ito All Shinji Nakano Hidenori Konai 5–6 Ryō Michigami 5 MOTUL DOME RACING PROJECT 98 Keishi Ishikawa All Hiroki Kato Takuya Kurosawa Hiroki Yoshida 5 Sources:

ST–1

Team Car Drivers Rounds apr Porsche 911 GT3 Cup 31 Masami Kageyama All Katsuhito Ogawa Ryūichirō Tomita BEND BMW Z4M Coupe 51 Shinya Hosokawa 1, 5 Daisuke Ikeda Masamitsu Ishihara Atsushi Yogō 5 Sources:

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Team Car Drivers Rounds Shinryo Racing Team Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 6 Yasushi Kikuchi All Masazumi Ohashi Tomohiro Tomimasu 7 Atsushi Ishizaki All Masato Narisawa Soichiro Yoshida Genki Nishimura 5 RS OGAWA Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X 20 Sesshū Kondō All Takeshi Matsumoto Kazuya Shimogaki Junji Ueda 5 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX 30 Katsuichi Ito 1–3 Hajime Oami Shinya Sato TOWAINTEC Racing Subaru WRX STi 59 Hitoshi Goto All Manabu Osawa Nobuteru Taniguchi 5 Sources:

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Team Car Drivers Rounds OKABEJIDOSHA motorsport Nissan Fairlady Z (Z34) 14 Yasuhiro Arai All Toshiaki Koshimizu Manabu Yamazaki Yoshinobu Masuda 5 15 Masaaki Nagashima All Tetsuya Tanaka Toru Tanaka Kazumi Komatsu 5 23 Mitsunori Atake All Masaya Kōno Manabu Oohara Takahiko Shimazawa 5 Team Nopro Mazda Axela Diesel Turbo 17 Tatsuya Nogami All Toshihiko Nogami Tatsuya Tanigawa Hiroki Yamada 5 TECHNO FIRST Nissan Fairlady Z 34 Satoshi Matsubara All Satoshi Motoyama Hironobu Yasuda Masaki Kano 5 Tracy Sports Lexus IS350 38 Makoto Hotta All Ryōhei Sakaguchi Morio Nitta 5 Lexus RC350 39 Syuji Maejima All Yūya Tezuka Akira Suzuki Taketoshi Matsui 5 Le Beausset Motorsports Lexus RC350 62 Yūya Hiraki 1, 5 Yuichi Nakayama All Koki Saga Kenta Yamashita 2–6 Saitama Toyopet GreenBrave Toyota Mark X 68 Naoki Hattori All Takayuki Hiranuma Shigekazu Wakisaka NDS Racing Section Nissan Fairlady Z (Z33) 118 Yosunari Fujiwara 4 Yuji Kiitaki Toshirō Tsukada Sources:

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Team Car Drivers Rounds RIKU Honda Civic Type-R 12 Hayato Date 1–2, 5–6 "Riku" Takayuki Matsui Shigekazu Namiki 5 Endless Sports Toyota 86 13 Masaya Hanazato All Ryō Ogawa Tsubasa Takahashi Asano Racing Service Toyota 86 18 Takeo Asano All Masataka Inoue Kazunori Nishimura 1, 5 Daiji Yamada 2, 4 Teruyuki Kasahara 5 Shukukazu Shiba 6 Tarmac Pro Racing Team Toyota Vitz GRMN Turbo 26 Kazuhiko Kawanago 1–5 Mitsuaki Matsuo All Tobio Ohtani Makiguchi Technique Subaru BRZ 27 Masaki Baba All Isao Ihashi Takahiro Muraji T's Concept Toyota 86 28 Tohjiro Azuma 6 Masayuki Ueda Tetsuya Moriyama 29 Tohjiro Azuma 1–5 Daisuke Matsunaga Tetsuya Moriyama 1, 5 Yasuhiro Ogura 2–3, 5–6 Yuji Takahashi 6 Miki Koyama TRACYSPORTS Toyota 86 40 Ryuju Fujita All Teruhiko Hamano Akiya Yoshimoto Yukihiko Yamamoto 5 TC CORSE Mazda Roadster 54 Teruaki Kato All Yuui Tsutsumi AUTOFACTORY Toyota 86 55 Takashi Ito All Masayuki Tanaka Jun Tashiro G-motion with KRP Honda Integra Type-R 58 Kōichi Kobayashi 6 Retsushu Shioya Sakiko Tsuji 60 Kazuyuki Matsumoto 1–3, 5–6 Takahiro Matsuzawa Hajime Suzuki 1–3, 6 Toshirō Tsukada 5 Su Wuxi amuse & SPV Racing Toyota 86 74 Ryūta Uketa 5–6 Kenny Lee 5 Tetsuya Hibino 6 Hitoshi Matsui 100 Hachiro Osaka 1–4 Takashi Shibuya All Tadashi Watanabe Nanami Tsukamoto 6 CUSCO RACING Toyota 86 77 Kōji Endō All Yasunori Nakajima Eiji Yamada TOM'S Spirit Toyota 86 86 Naoya Gamou All Takamitsu Matsui Takuto Iguchi 1, 5 Sho Tsuboi 2–6 SKR ENGINEERING Honda S2000 93 Yuya Ohta All Masahiro Sasaki Yūsaku Shibata 5 ASTMIL Racing Honda Integra Type-R 96 Keiichi Inoue 1 Yuki Nemoto W.S. ENGINEERING Honda S2000 116 Yasuhiro Ogushi 4, 6 Tetsuya Shuto Yoshida Yasuyuki Yukari Yukari Racing Honda Integra Type-R 220 Yoshiyuki Tsuruga 6 Takahiro Watanabe Kōsuke Watari GLORYRACING with A-ONE Honda Civic Type-R Euro 333 Kizuku Hirota 1, 3, 5–6 Yuya Nakajima Kazuhisa Shimoyama 1, 3, 5 Inouchi Tomohiro 5 Sources:

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Team Car Drivers Rounds TEAM221 BOMEX with Auto Laboratory ND5RC Mazda Roadster 2 Katsuhiko Tsutsui 1–5 Junichirou Yamashita Kōji Yamanishi 1–4 Yamanishi Yasuji 5 Takahiro Tanaka TEAM BRIDE Honda Fit 3 RS 4 Seijiro Aihara 2 Karurosu Honda 4, 6 Toshiya Ito 1, 3, 5 Susumu Nakamura All Junzo Shibatani Kurosu Souichi 5 Team Blood Sports Toyota Vitz RS 11 Takahiro Miki All Takao Ohnishi Hiroyuki Itagaki 2 Koki Oiwa 1, 4–5 Kazuya Ōshima 5 Masashi Tojo 3, 6 apr Mazda Roadster 32 Akihiro Harashima 1–2, 5–6 Akie Iinuma 1–2, 5 Tatsuya Okahara Naoya Kawashima 6 Junko Takahashi Hideki Kobayashi 5 TEAM NOPRO Mazda Demio Diesel Turbo 37 Kaoru Ijiri All Yutaka Seki Go Umeda Dijon Racing Honda Fit 3 RS 48 Genki Nishimura 1–4 Zene Okazaki All Dr.Takamori Keiichi Inoue 5–6 LOVE DRIVE RACING Mazda Roadster 50 Marie Iwaoka All Enami Kitahira 1–3 Hiroko Komatsu 1, 3–6 Eriko Yamamoto 2 Anna Innaumi 5–6 Yumiko Sekasaki 5 M&K Management Co., Ltd. Honda Fit 3 RS 57 Mitsuhiro Endo All Ryusuke Masumoto Kenta Harada 1–3, 5–6 Yasunori Matsumoto 4 Shinichi Morimoto 5 OVER DRIVE Mazda Demio 66 Ric Hashimoto All Ryuichiro Ohtsuka Takayuki Takechi Nishiyama Takashi 5 TEAM YAMATO Honda Fit 3 RS 67 Ryō Nakagawa 6 Ryōhei Yasui J'S RACING Honda Fit 3 RS 69 Takahisa Ohno All Junichi Umemoto Hideaki Yamada 1–4 Hirokazu Takahashi 5 Tomomitsu Senoo 5–6 700 "Hirobon" All Seiji Imuta 2, 3–6 Yusuke Ohga 2, 5 Hirokazu Takahashi 1 Leo Teranishi 1, 3–6 Murakami Motors Mazda Roadster 88 Hiroyuki Murakami All Takeshi Wakitani Masato Kato 4–6 Keiji Amemiya 5 Apurosu Racing Toyota Vitz RS 213 Takashi Azuma All Futoshi Omeya 1–4 Yuichi Yokoo 1, 3, 5–6 Sources:

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