2008 Super GT season
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The 2008 Autobacs Super GT Series will be the 15th season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship, the 4th year under the Super GT name. It is a series comprised of Grand Touring race cars divided into two categories: GT500 and GT300. It will begin March 15 and will end on November 9, 2008 after 9 races.

2008 Xanavi nismo GT-R (R35).

Major Developments in the Car Factories

In this season, Nissan introduces the GT-R replacing the Fairlady Z (also known as the Nissan 350Z) in GT500 class.

BMW returns to the series in Round 6, partipating in GT300 class with a Z4. Their previous participation was in 2002, before JGTC reformed to Super GT.

Schedule

Round	Race	Circuit	Date
1	Suzuka GT 300km	Suzuka Circuit	March 16
2	Okayama GT 300km	Okayama International Circuit	April 13
3	Fuji GT 500km	Fuji Speedway	May 4
4	Super GT International Series Malaysia	Sepang International Circuit	June 22
5	SUGO GT 300km	Sportsland SUGO	July 27
6	International POKKA 1000km	Suzuka Circuit	August 24
7	Motegi GT 300km	Twin Ring Motegi	September 14
8	Autopolis GT 300km	Autopolis	October 19
9	Fuji GT 300km	Fuji Speedway	November 9

Season Winners

Rd	Circuit	GT500 Winning Team	GT300 Winning Team	Results
		GT500 Winning Drivers	GT300 Winning Drivers
1	Suzuka	#23 Xanavi Nismo GT-R	#7 ORC Amemiya SGC-7	Results
		Satoshi Motoyama Benoit Treluyer	Hiroyuki Iiri Ryo Orime
2	Okayama	#23 Xanavi Nismo GT-R	#43 ARTA Garaiya	Results
		Satoshi Motoyama Benoit Treluyer	Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi
3	Mt. Fuji	#38 ZENT Cerumo SC430	#95 Lightning McQueen apr MR-S	Results
		Yuji Tachikawa Richard Lyons	Kohei Hirate Keisuke Kunimoto
4	Kuala Lumpur	#24 Woodone ADVAN Clarion GT-R	#77 Cusco Dunlop Subaru Impreza	Results
		Joao Paulo Lima De Oliveira Seiji Ara	Tetsuya Yamano Kouta Sasaki
5	Sportsland SUGO	#18 Takata DOME NSX	#43 ARTA Garaiya	Results
		Ryo Michigami Takashi Kogure	Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi
6	Suzuka	#12 Calsonic IMPUL GT-R	#46 MOLA LEOPALACE Z	Results
		Tsugio Matsuda Sebastien Philippe	Kazuki Hoshino Hironobu Yasuda
7	Motegi	#3 Yellow Hat YMS Tomica GT-R	#19 Weds Sport IS350	Results
		Ronnie Quintarelli Naoki Yokomizo	Manabu Orido Tsubasa Abe
8	Autopolis	#23 Xanavi Nismo GT-R	#81 Daishin Advan 350Z	Results
		Satoshi Motoyama Benoit Treluyer	Takayuki Aoki Tomonobu Fujii
9	Mt. Fuji	#12 Calsonic IMPUL GT-R	#26 Yunker-Power Taisan Porsche 996 GT3	Results
		Tsugio Matsuda Sebastien Philippe	Nobuteru Taniguchi Dominik Farnbacher

Trivia

• The Cusco Dunlop Subaru Impreza's victory in Sepang marked the first AWD car win in Super GT/JGTC history. As the JGTC/Super GT did not allow using AWD drivetrain until 2006. This also marked the first 4-door cars win in JGTC/Super GT history. (See Subaru Impreza entry for details)

• Quite a number of cars in GT300 Class used images and color schemes involving animation-styles this season, apart from the long-timed presence Mach 5-styled prototype, three other cars also adopted such style of color schemes for at least one race:
  • The apr, which used Toy Story as their car scheme in previous 2 seasons, continued to corporate with the Disney Interactive. They used the Lightning McQueen's scheme from Cars instead this year. This not only changed their car and team name, but also made its car number changed from #101 to #95(the number of Lightning McQueen) as well.
  • The BMW Z4(#808) debuting in this season used Hatsune Miku, a character in Vocaloid series, as a part of color scheme. They put Hatsune Miku's name on the car as a result. Most medias footnoted it as the first "Itasha" participated in the top-classed motorsport event. And they will continue to use the scheme with minor changes in the following season.
  • The MOLA, Champion team of the year, used Kagamine Rin and Len, which also coming from the Vocaloid series, as a part of their images of their 350Z(#46) in their final race. They did not change their car name like the three other teams.

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