Team UpGarage recruited 2022 F4 Japanese Champion Syun Koide to replace Kakunoshin Ohta, following his promotion to the GT500 class.NDDP Racing signed Niterra (formerly NGK) as their new title sponsor, replacing specialty dealer CraftSports. Team Impul's title sponsor, Marelli, retired the Calsonic brand and the car is now entered as the "Marelli Impul Z". Team Impul carried the GT500 champions number 1 plate, while Kazuki Hoshino was appointed Team Principal alongside his father, Kazuyoshi Hoshino, who continues as Team Director. There were no changes in teams and drivers from the 2022 season. Nissan: Nissan announced their GT500 class driver line-ups on 27 January 2023.Kakunoshin Ohta stepped up from GT300 to take Otsu's place at Nakajima Racing, alongside Takuya Izawa. In exchange, Nirei Fukuzumi moved to the number 16 car to partner Hiroki Otsu, who joined ARTA after three seasons at Nakajima Racing. Toshiki Oyu moved from the number 16 car (entered as Team Red Bull Mugen in 2022) to the number 8 ARTA Mugen car to partner Tomoki Nojiri. Mugen (M-TEC) will work together with ARTA and compete with two ARTA Mugen-branded cars under the ARTA entrant name. Honda: Honda Racing announced their GT500 class driver line-ups on 12 December 2022.TOM's drivers Ritomo Miyata and Giuliano Alesi exchanged cars, with Miyata going to the number 36 team and Alesi going to the number 37 with new sponsorship from Deloitte, alongside Ukyo Sasahara, who officially joined Toyota on 12 January 2023 after leaving Honda. Sacha Fenestraz, who raced with TOM'S, left the series to compete in Formula E with Nissan. Toyota: Toyota Gazoo Racing announced their GT500 class driver line-ups on 25 November 2022.Pacific Racing Team have replaced their Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo with a Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo.After selling their Toyota 86 Mother Chassis to Team Mach in the off-season, Anest Iwata Racing with Arnage (see Entrant changes below) changed to the Lexus RC F GT3.The Prius had served as apr's flagship car since 2012. apr replaced their Toyota GR Sport Prius PHV with a new hybrid GT300 car, the Lexus LC500h GT.As a result, 2023 is the final season for the second-generation NSX-GT. Honda announced that a new GT500 car based on the Civic Type R will debut in 2024.All teams will compete under a Japanese license. On 20 February, 2023, the GTA released the series entry list, featuring 15 entries in the GT500 class and 27 entries in the GT300 class. The number of tyre sets available for 450km races will be determined on a case-by-case basis. The number of tyre sets available to teams per race weekend has been limited to five sets of dry tyres and six sets of wet tyres for 300 kilometre race meetings, one set fewer for each than in 2022.The new ETS Renewablaze GTA R100 racing fuel was introduced to GT500 for the first round of the championship, and then GT300 for the third round. Super GT will debut a new, 100 percent sustainable carbon-neutral fuel manufactured by ETS Racing Fuels, a division of Haltermann Carless GmbH.As part of this initiative, Super GT have made the following regulation changes for 2023: The series aims to reduce carbon emissions by 50 percent by 2030. GTA chairman Masaaki Bandoh outlined the series' environmental initiative plans in November 2022, known as the "Super GT Green Project 2030". Team Impul and drivers Kazuki Hiramine and Bertrand Baguette entered the season as the defending GT500 champions, while Kondo Racing and driver João Paulo de Oliveira entered the season as the defending GT300 champions. It is also the forty-first overall season of a national JAF sportscar championship dating back to the All Japan Endurance/Sports Prototype Championship. It is the thirty-first season of the JAF Super GT Championship, which includes the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship era, and the nineteenth season under the Super GT name. The series is sanctioned by the Japan Automobile Federation (JAF) and run by the GT Association (GTA). The 2023 Super GT Series is a motor racing championship based in Japan for grand touring cars.
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