The championship’s only international entrant is taking a year out of competition as Japan’s COVID-19 travel restrictions are set to prevent the team’s Thai owners from travelling to the country for a third season in a row.
It brings to an end five years of participation in SUPER GT for the team that have yielded no points finishes, although a return in 2023 is planned.
Following a pair of one-off outings at local circuit Buriram, Team Thailand first joined SUPER GT full-time in 2017 campaigning a Toyota 86 Mother Chassis car for Thai duo Nattapong Horthongkum and Nattavude Charoensukhawatana.
It switched to a Lexus RC F GT3 for 2019, signing 2018 GT300 runner-up Sean Walkinshaw to partner Horthongkum, but results failed to pick up.
The team missed the opening round of the 2020 season as COVID-19 restrictions disrupted its plans, then fielding an all-Japanese line-up of Masahiro Sasaki and Yuui Tsutumi before Walkinshaw returned for the final three races, joined by new…
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