GT500

• Toyota:
  • Petrochemical company WAKO's replaced Eneos as the title sponsor of Team Le Mans. Andrea Caldarelli switched from the KeePer TOM's team to the Wako's LeMans team.
  • Three-time GT500 champion Juichi Wakisaka announced his retirement from racing at the Toyota Gazoo Racing press conference on February 4. He will stay in the series as the team principal of Lexus Team Wako's LeMans. Yuji Kunimoto moved over from Team LeMans to drive for the WedsSport BANDOH team fill the seat from Wakisaka.
  • Two-time and defending 1000 km Suzuka winner James Rossiter switched from the Petronas TOM's team to the KeePer TOM's team. Reigning Japanese Formula 3 champion Nick Cassidy joined the number 36 TOM's team. He was the first driver from New Zealand to race in the series since Mark Porter in 1998. Au replaced Petronas as the title sponsor of the number 36 TOM'S RC-F.
• Honda:
  • Takashi Kogure and Hideki Mutoh swapped seats within the Honda fleet. Mutoh moved to Drago Modulo Honda Racing alongside Oliver Turvey, while Kogure joined Koudai Tsukakoshi at Keihin Real Racing.
• Nissan:
  • Katsumasa Chiyo stepped up to the GT500 class for 2016 driving for MOLA, after helping GAINER [fr; ja] secure their first GT300 championship last season.
  • Masataka Yanagida moved from MOLA to Kondo Racing, his third different team in four seasons.
  • Forum Engineering took over from D'Station as the title sponsor of Kondo Racing. Former GT500 champion Michael Krumm had no plans to race in Super GT in 2016 after competing for Kondo Racing last season.

GT300

• After participating in selected rounds last year, Ryuichiro Tomita became a full-time driver of the #0 GAINER Nissan GT-R.
• Kota Sasaki drove a second Toyota Prius GT for apr.
• Mitsunori Takaboshi left the series after a successful rookie season with NDDP to drive in Blancpain GT. However, he returned for the fourth race of the season at Fuji Speedway. GT Academy champion and Nissan factory driver Jann Mardenborough joined the NDDP team, partnering Kazuki Hoshino.
• Former Rolex 24 champion Jörg Bergmeister joined Excellence Porsche Team KTR on a full-time basis, after driving two rounds for the team in 2014.
• WEC LMP1 driver Pierre Kaffer drove for Audi Team Braille in his debut GT300 campaign.
• Porsche Carrera Cup Japan champion Yuya Motojima, as well as fellow PCCJ drivers Rintaro Kubo and Hiroaki Nagai, moved to GT300, driving for Team Taisan SARD, Arnage Racing, and apr respectively.
• Shinnosuke Yamada graduated from the F4 Japanese Championship to race for Team Upgarage with Bandoh.
• South African Adrian Zaugg and Japanese-Italian driver Kei Cozzolino made their Super GT debuts for Lamborghini Team Direction.
• Inaugural GT Academy champion Lucas Ordóñez returned to racing in Europe, competing in the Blancpain GT Series for NISMO RJN Motorsport.
• Alexandre Imperatori left Super GT to focus on his World Endurance Championship campaign with Rebellion Racing.
• Former 24h Nürburgring winner Christian Mamerow did not return to the series after running a partial campaign with Audi Team Racing Tech.
• EVA Racing became the primary sponsor of the Rn-sports AMG.
• Gulf Racing merged with Pacific Racing Team to form Gulf Racing with PACIFIC, fielding an all-new Porsche 911 GT3-R.
• Direction Racing changed their name to Lamborghini Team Direction, and also fielded two Huracán GT3s.
• Before the start of the season, an entry was announced for Audi Team Braille, with a new 2016 Audi R8 LMS and veteran World Endurance Championship driver Pierre Kaffer. However, the team never appeared in the 2016 season.
• After withdrawing from the 2015 season, Team Taisan returned to GT300 in alliance with SARD.

Mid-season changes

• From the second round, Team Taisan SARD switched to a 2016 model Audi R8 LMS.

GT500

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Driver Ranking GT500 2016 Series[8][9] Rank Driver OKA FUJ SUG FUJ SUZ CHA MOT MOT Points 1 Heikki Kovalainen Kohei Hirate 7 2 2 8 8 7 2 1 82 2 Kazuya Oshima Andrea Caldarelli 4 5 4 9 4 3 4 2 69 3 Tsugio Matsuda Ronnie Quintarelli 1 1 9 4 6 14 9 7 62 4 Yuhi Sekiguchi Yuji Kunimoto 9 8 5 10 5 1 5 3 58 5 Daisuke Ito Nick Cassidy 8 4 11 5 2 11 3 4 54 6 Yuji Tachikawa Hiroaki Ishiura 6 14 3 7 1 15 6 9 52 7 Daiki Sasaki Masataka Yanagida 13 9 1 Ret 12 13 1 10 43 8 Hironobu Yasuda João Paulo de Oliveira 5 11 Ret 1 Ret 4 7 8 43 9 Ryō Hirakawa James Rossiter 2 3 8 12 Ret 9 Ret 5 38 10 Satoshi Motoyama 3 7 13 Ret 3 12 8 6 36 11 Koudai Tsukakoshi Takashi Kogure 11 12 6 2 10 6 Ret 11 27 12 Katsumasa Chiyo 3 7 13 Ret 12 8 6 23 13 Hideki Mutoh 12 13 7 Ret Ret 2 12 15 20 14 Naoki Yamamoto Takuya Izawa 10 Ret 10 3 7 10 10 12 20 15 Kosuke Matsuura Tomoki Nojiri Ret 6 14 6 9 8 11 13 16 16 Tadasuke Makino 2 12 15 15 17 Mitsunori Takaboshi 3 13 18 Daisuke Nakajima Bertrand Baguette 14 10 12 11 11 5 13 14 7 19 Oliver Turvey 12 13 7 Ret Ret 5 Rank Driver OKA FUJ SUG FUJ SUZ CHA MOT MOT Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX)

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GT300

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Driver Ranking GT300 2016 Series^[10][11]

Rank	Driver	OKA	FUJ	SUG	FUJ	SUZ	CHA	MOT	MOT	Points
1	Takeshi Tsuchiya Takamitsu Matsui	6	3	2	13	22	1	7	1	78
2	Kōki Saga Yūichi Nakayama	12	20	1	25	2	5	24	2	60
3	Tomonobu Fujii Richard Lyons	7	7	Ret	2	6	24	1	4	57
4	Kazuki Hoshino Jann Mardenborough	10	1	5	6	10	2	13	6	52
5	Shinichi Takagi Takashi Kobayashi	11	2	Ret	1	14	3	Ret	DNS	48
6	Takuto Iguchi Hideki Yamauchi	23	11	3	3	1	Ret	23	13	47
7	Nobuteru Taniguchi Tatsuya Kataoka	2	18	7	5	5	8	18	3	47
8	Andre Couto Ryūichirō Tomita	8	5	11	9	3	4	5	15	38
9	Katsuyuki Hiranaka Bjorn Wirdheim	4	Ret	4	7	Ret	9	4	10	32
10	Naoya Yamano	22	23	14	24	7	7	2	5	30
11	Kazuki Hiramine Manabu Orido	9	25	6	4	9	10	3	Ret	30
12	Haruki Kurosawa Naoya Gamou	1	Ret	16	23	8	11	9	24	26
13	Jörg Bergmeister	22	23				7	2	5	25
14	Yuhki Nakayama Shinnosuke Yamada	15	4	8	10	4	22	12	9	25
15	Seiji Ara Jörg Müller	3	24	10	20	DNS	6	15	12	17
16	Morio Nitta Akihiro Tsuzuki	5	6	9	11	11	12	11	Ret	13
17	Yūya Motojima	20	15	19	8	20		6	7	12
18	Tsubasa Kondō							6	7	9
19	Shinya Hosokawa Kimiya Satō	13	8	22	19	17	21	8	11	6
20	Shigekazu Wakisaka		6			11				5
21	Yūya Sakamoto				24	7				5
22	Ryōhei Sakaguchi Hiroki Yoshida	DNS	Ret	13	21	13	17	22	8	3
23	Shōgo Mitsuyama	20	15	19	8	20				3
24	Hiroaki Nagai Kōta Sasaki	14	9	18	15	24	14	16	17	2
25	Takayuki Aoki		10	17	12	21		10	14	2
26	Masaki Tanaka	27	10			21				1
27	Hiroshi Takamori	27	10	17		21				1
28	Mitsunori Takaboshi				12			10	14	1
–	Yūsaku Shibata	26	16	12	Ret	12		25	22	0
–	Shōta Kiyohara		16	12		12				0
–	Rintarō Kubo Hideto Yasuoka	18	12	Ret	16	16	15	26	19	0
–	Atsushi Tanaka	26	16		Ret	12		25	22	0
–	Masaki Kanō		12			16				0
–	Naoki Yokomizo Adrian Zaugg	21	19	15	18	25	13	14	16	0
–	Hiroki Katoh Kazuho Takahashi	17	13	23	Ret	Ret		19	Ret	0
–	Kazuya Tsuruta Masayuki Ueda	24	14	21	22	15	16	17	20	0
–	Masami Kageyama		22	Ret	14	Ret		Ret	23	0
–	Junichirō Yamashita		22	Ret	14	Ret				0
–	Tim Bergmeister			14						0
–	Keishi Ishikawa					15				0
–	Kyōsuke Mineo	16	17			19		27	18	0
–	Kei Cozzolino	16	17							0
–	Akira Iida Hiroki Yoshimoto	25	21	Ret	17	18	23	20	Ret	0
–	Taiyō Iida					17				0
–	Hironori Takeuchi					19		27	18	0
–	Nattavude Charoensukhawatana Piti Bhirombhakdi						18			0
–	Dominik Farnbacher					18				0
–	Masaki Jyonai Hisashi Wada	19	Ret	20	Ret	23	19	21	21	0
–	Jono Lester					19				0
–	Shinji Nakano					20				0
–	Chonsawat Asavahame Morgan Haber						20			0
–	Tetsuji Tamanaka		22			Ret		Ret	23	0
–	Kenta Yamashita					22				0
–	Tohjirō Azuma					23				0
–	Tadasuke Makino					Ret				0
–	Dylan Derdaele		Ret							0
–	Augusto Farfus					DNS				–
Rank	Driver	OKA	FUJ	SUG	FUJ	SUZ	CHA	MOT	MOT	Points

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