Entry list issued for Fuji DTM/Super GT 'Dream Race'

A total of seven cars from the DTM - four Audi RS5 DTMs and three BMW M4 DTMs - will join the regular field of 15 GT500 cars for the pair of races on November 23-24.

While almost all of the SUPER GT teams have elected to split driving duties across their two full-season drivers, Audi and BMW's chosen drivers will take part in both races.

As previously announced, Marco Wittmann, Kamui Kobayashi and Alex Zanardi make up BMW's line-up for the event, while Audi has picked Rene Rast, Loic Duval, Benoit Treluyer and Mike Rockenfeller to represent it.

Only two full-season GT500 drivers are absent: Jenson Button and Bertrand Baguette.

Button, who made his final SUPER GT appearance in this month's Motegi season finale, had already indicated he would not take part in the Fuji races, while Baguette is absent on Intercontinental GT Challenge duties at Kyalami with Honda.

Naoki Yamamoto will therefore contest both races in the Team Kunimitsu NSX-GT, while Real Racing's Honda will be driven by Koudai Tsukakoshi each day.

The full line-up of drivers for the two races can be seen below:

Entry list:

No.	Car	Entrant	Driver Race 1 (Sat)	Driver Race 2 (Sun)
00	BMW	BMW Team RBM	Kamui Kobayashi	Kamui Kobayashi
1	Honda	Team Kunimitsu	Naoki Yamamoto	Naoki Yamamoto
3	Nissan	NDDP Racing with B-Max	Frederic Makowiecki	Kohei Hirate
4	BMW	BMW Team RBM	Alex Zanardi	Alex Zanardi
6	Lexus	Lexus Team LeMans	Kenta Yamashita	Kazuya Oshima
8	Honda	ARTA	Takuya Izawa	Tomoki Nojiri
11	BMW	BMW Team RBM	Marco Wittmann	Marco Wittmann
12	Nissan	Team Impul	Daiki Sasaki	James Rossiter
16	Honda	Team Mugen	Hideki Mutoh	Daisuke Nakajima
17	Honda	Real Racing	Koudai Tsukakoshi	Koudai Tsukakoshi
19	Lexus	Lexus Team Bandoh	Sho Tsuboi	Yuji Kunimoto
21	Audi	WRT Hitotsuyama Audi	Benoit Treluyer	Benoit Treluyer
23	Nissan	NISMO	Ronnie Quintarelli	Tsugio Matsuda
24	Nissan	Kondo Racing	Jann Mardenborough	Mitsunori Takaboshi
28	Audi	Audi Sport Team Phoenix	Loic Duval	Loic Duval
33	Audi	Audi Sport Team Rosberg	Rene Rast	Rene Rast
36	Lexus	Lexus Team TOM'S	Yuhi Sekiguchi	Kazuki Nakajima
37	Lexus	Lexus Team TOM'S	Nick Cassidy	Ryo Hirakawa
38	Lexus	Lexus Team Cerumo	Yuji Tachikawa	Hiroaki Ishiura
39	Lexus	Lexus Team SARD	Yuichi Nakayama	Heikki Kovalainen
64	Honda	Nakajima Racing	Tadasuke Makino	Narain Karthikeyan
99	Audi	Audi Sport Abt Sportsline	Mike Rockenfeller	Mike Rockenfeller

Support races attract meagre 12-car entry

Just 12 cars are set to contest the two support races for SUPER GT's GT300 cars at Fuji, known collectively as the 'auto sport Web Sprint Cup'.

Of these, only seven are full-season SUPER GT entries, while the remainder are cars that have raced in Super Taikyu and the Suzuka 10 Hours this year.

The full-season GT300 teams participating are NILLZ Racing (Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3), Tsuchiya Engineering (Toyota 86 MC), apr (Toyota GR Sport Prius PHV), Saitama Toyopet (Toyota Mark X MC), LM Corsa (Lexus RC F GT3) and Tomei Sports (Nissan).

NILLZ Racing, apr and LM Corsa are fielding two cars each, although in the case of LM Corsa it is entering a Ferrari 488 GT3 alongside one of its regular Lexus entries.

Among the extra entries is a McLaren 720S GT3 entered by Hanashima Racing, which was raced by Mika Hakkinen in the Suzuka 10 Hours (below) but is set to be driven in Fuji by historics racer Katsuaki Kubota and Toyota-backed youngster Kazuto Kotaka.

The Corvette C7 GT3-R that appeared at Suzuka is also making another outing under the 'BINGO RACING' banner, boosting the number of marques represented to six.