The 2018 Suzuka 10 Hours was endurance event that took place on August 26, 2018 at the Suzuka Circuit in Suzuka City, Japan. It was the 47th edition of the Summer Endurance Classic at Suzuka, and the first as part of the Intercontinental GT Challenge, running under the ten-hour format (the race having previously been a 1000-kilometer format). The race was won by the GruppeM Racing team with Maro Engel, Raffaele Marciello and Tristan Vautier driving.

Due to regulation change, GT300 cars were still eligible to race in Suzuka 10 Hours, while GT500 cars were banned.

Classification

Pos Car No. Class Entrant Drivers Vehicle Laps 1 888 P Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing Maro Engel Raffaele Marciello Tristan Vautier Mercedes-AMG GT3 276 2 43 P Mercedes-AMG Team Strakka Racing Maximilian Götz Álvaro Parente Lewis Williamson Mercedes-AMG GT3 276 3 6 P Audi Sport Team Absolute Racing Christopher Haase Kelvin van der Linde Markus Winkelhock Audi R8 LMS 276 4 66 P Audi Sport Team WRT Christopher Mies Dries Vanthoor Frédéric Vervisch Audi R8 LMS 276 5 00 P Mercedes-AMG Team Good Smile Tatsuya Kataoka Kamui Kobayashi Nobuteru Taniguchi Mercedes-AMG GT3 275 6 08 P Bentley Team M-Sport Vincent Abril Andy Soucek Maxime Soulet Bentley Continental GT3 275 7 44 P Strakka Racing Maximilian Buhk Oliver Rowland Adrien Tambay Mercedes-AMG GT3 275 8 21 P Audi Sport Team Hitotsuyama Richard Lyons Alessio Picariello Ryuichiro Tomita Audi R8 LMS 275 9 17 P Audi Sport Team WRT Jake Dennis Stuart Leonard Sheldon van der Linde Audi R8 LMS 275 10 75 PA SunEnergy1 Racing Mikaël Grenier Kenny Habul Luca Stolz Mercedes-AMG GT3 275 11 991 P Craft-Bamboo Racing Kévin Estre Mathieu Jaminet Laurens Vanthoor Porsche 911 GT3 R 275 12 911 P Manthey Racing Romain Dumas Frédéric Makowiecki Dirk Werner Porsche 911 GT3 R 275 13 28 PA HubAuto Corsa Nick Foster David Perel Hiroki Yoshida Ferrari 488 GT3 275 14 11 P GAINER Katsuyuki Hiranaka Kazuki Hoshino Hironobu Yasuda Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 274 15 88 P JLOC Andrea Caldarelli Kazuki Hiramine Marco Mapelli Lamborghini Huracán GT3 273 16 8 P ARN Racing Kohei Hirate Hiroaki Nagai Koki Saga Ferrari 488 GT3 273 17 87 PA JLOC Taiyo Iida Yuya Motojima Kimiya Sato Lamborghini Huracán GT3 273 18 10 P Honda Team Motul Hideki Mutoh Daisuke Nakajima Naoki Yamamoto Honda NSX GT3 272 19 54 PA Black Swan Racing Jeroen Bleekemolen Marc Miller Tim Pappas Porsche 911 GT3 R 271 20 91 PA Singha-Team AAI Tom Blomqvist Akira Iida Piti Bhirombhakdi BMW M6 GT3 270 21 34 P Modulo Drago Corse Takashi Kogure Ryo Michigami Hiroki Otsu Honda NSX GT3 270 22 13 PA Absolute Racing Congfu Cheng Adderly Fong Jingzu Sun Audi R8 LMS 270 23 777 PA CarGuy Racing Kei Cozzolino Takeshi Kimura Naoki Yokomizo Honda NSX GT3 268 24 27 P HubAuto Corsa Matt Griffin Miguel Molina Davide Rigon Ferrari 488 GT3 267 25 112 Am Sato, Yamashita-SS/Rn-Sports Norio Kubo Atsushi Sato Ryosei Yamashita Mercedes-AMG GT3 264 26 37 PA Callaway Competition with Bingo Racing Yuta Kamimura Yuichi Mikasa Shinji Takei Chevrolet Corvette C7 GT3-R 260 27 18 P Team UpGarage Takuto Iguchi Takashi Kobayashi Yuhki Nakayama Toyota 86 MC 246 28 77 PA D'station Racing Jono Lester Satoshi Hoshino Tsubasa Kondo Porsche 911 GT3 R 246 29 07 P Bentley Team M-Sport Jules Gounon Steven Kane Jordan Pepper Bentley Continental GT3 217 Not Classified - 018 P KCMG Katsumasa Chiyo Tsugio Matsuda Alexandre Imperatori Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 155 - 28 PA CarsTokaiDream28 Hiroshi Hamaguchi Hiroki Katoh Kazuho Takahashi Lotus Evora MC 98 - 23 P KCMG Richard Bradley Oliver Jarvis Edoardo Liberati Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 95 - 58 P Garage 59 Ben Barnicoat Andrew Watson Côme Ledogar McLaren 650S GT3 77 - 7 P D'station Racing Earl Bamber Tomonobu Fujii Sven Müller Porsche 911 GT3 R 72 - 42 PA Strakka Racing Felipe Fraga David Fumanelli Nick Leventis Mercedes-AMG GT3 22

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