Honda has announced the team which Jenson Button will race for in the 2018 Super GT series.
Button will drive an NSX-GT for Team Kunimitsu, which is run by multiple 250cc motorcycle race winner and one-time F1 grand prix starter Kunimitsu Takahashi.
He will partner 2013 Super Formula champion and multiple Super GT race winner Naoki Yamamoto, replacing 2009 championship runner-up Takuya Izawa.
Izawa goes back to ARTA to join Tomoki Nojiri.
As part of the reshuffle, Takashi Kobayashi has been dropped from Honda’s Super GT roster, despite picking up a win alongside Nojiri at Fuji last year.
Elsewhere, Mugen, which gave Button his Super GT debut in last year’s Suzuka 1000km race, has retained both Daisuke Nakajima and Hideki Mutoh.
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There are no changes at Real Racing either, with Koudai Tsukakoshi and Takashi Kogure staying on for another year.
Nakajima Racing will also field an unchanged line-up of Kosuke Matsuura and Bertrand Baguette, the latter being Honda’s only other international driver apart from Button.
Round 1 of the 2018 Super GT season takes place at Okayama International Circuit on April 7-8.
Honda’s 2018 Super GT line-up
ARTA: Tomoki Nojiri/Takuya Izawa
Mugen: Hideki Mutoh/Daisuke Nakajima
Real Racing: Koudai Tsukakoshi/Takashi Kogure
Nakajima Racing: Kosuke Matsuura/Bertrand Baguette
Team Kunimitsu: Naoki Yamamoto/Jenson Button
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