DRIVING SUPPORT SYSTEM

A driving support control apparatus acquires forward information regarding a state ahead of an own vehicle V, sets a preceding vehicle as a tracking target and executes tracking control of causing the own vehicle to automatically track this tracking target. While an offset preceding vehicle V traveling laterally ahead of the own vehicle and a front preceding vehicle V traveling ahead of the offset preceding vehicle V and traveling at a closer position than the offset preceding vehicle V along a vehicle width direction are recognized, the driving support control apparatus sets the offset preceding vehicle V as the tracking target in a case where a distance between the two preceding vehicles V and V is greater than a predetermined distance threshold and sets the front preceding vehicle V as the tracking target in a case where the distance between the preceding vehicles is less than the distance threshold.