Suzuka hosts the Super Taikyu season’s opening round

The 2019 Super Taikyu kicks off this weekend at Suzuka with a 5-hour race and double champion DOME Racing returns for defending its title.
The team has won the championship twice running Honda Civic cars, the FK2 in 2017 and the FK8 last year. For the 2019 season they run one car for reigning champions Shinji Nakano, Tadao Uematsu and Hiroki Otsu; they have been joined by Mitsuhiro Endo who raced last year in the Volkswagen Golf GTI run by Adenau Racingline Performance.
Other Honda Civic cars have entered by RFC Racing, Team Noah and Hong Kong-based KCMG that fields an experienced trio: team principal Paul Ip, former Formula Renault Asia champion Jim Ka To and Matthew Howson, the 2015 FIA WEC vice-champion in LMP2.
Three squads run Audi RS 3 LMS cars: BRP, Team DreamDrive (third and fourth in last year’s championship) and Team    Mars.
The field is completed by the Adenau Racingline Golf GTI of Philippe Devesa, Shogo Mitsuyama and Australia’s Jake Parsons who is the reigning champion of the F3 Japan’s National Class.