2019 Super GT Series
The 2019 Super GT Series was a motor racing championship based in Japan for grand touring cars. The series is sanctioned by the Japan Automobile Federation (JAF) and run by the GT Association (GTA). It was the twenty-seventh season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship which includes the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era and the fifteenth season the series has competed under the Super GT name. It was the thirty-seventh overall season of a national JAF sportscar championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The season  began on April 14 and ended on November 24, after 8 championship races & 2 non-championship races. As the culmination of a unified set of technical regulations adopted by Super GT and the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM), the two series staged a joint-promotion race, the Super GT x DTM Dream Race at Fuji Speedway. TGR Team Wako's LeMans drivers Kazuya Oshima and Kenta Yamashita won the GT500 Drivers' Championship, while TGR Team KeePer TOM's won the Teams' Championship with Ryo Hirakawa and Nick Cassidy finishing second in the drivers' championship. It was the first GT500 title for  both Oshima and Yamashita. ARTA (Autobacs Racing Team Aguri) won the GT300 Drivers' and Teams' Championship with Shinichi Takagi winning his second drivers' title, and Nirei Fukuzumi winning in his first full season of sports car racing. This was the last season for the Lexus nameplate in GT500, and the last season where mid-engine layout vehicles could compete in the top class. 2018 champion Jenson Button left the series at the end of the season, and Team LeMans also withdrew as a factory GT500 team at the end of the year. Championship Standings. Drivers' championships. GT500. Notes: ‡ – The race  at Okayama was red flagged after completing 30 laps. Due to less than 75% of the scheduled distance being completed, half points were awarded to the classified finishers. GT300. Notes: ‡ – The race at Okayama was red flagged after completing 30 laps. Due to less than 75% of the scheduled distance being completed, half points were awarded to the classified finishers.