KL-racer wrote:Yes, it's me again. I just noticed that in the entry list for GT500, there are no teams running the Nissan 350Z! Which is odd indeed.
With that in mind, is it okay for myself to enter a team just for GT500 as well as running the series? Or is it against the rules?
If it's not against the rules, the team name would be Project Kivasports, running the Nissan 350Z, drivers would be Ryo Michigami and Akira Iida. Both drivers would be paid 2.5 million yen. The car number would be 24.
What do you guys think?
It's cool with me.
LONGLIVEMARUSSIA
Things I was wrong about: Kimi to Ferrari, Perez out of McLaren, Maldonado to Lotus, Kobash comes back, Gutierrez stays, Chilton stays, Boullier leaves Lotus.
KL-racer wrote:Yes, it's me again. I just noticed that in the entry list for GT500, there are no teams running the Nissan 350Z! Which is odd indeed.
With that in mind, is it okay for myself to enter a team just for GT500 as well as running the series? Or is it against the rules?
If it's not against the rules, the team name would be Project Kivasports, running the Nissan 350Z, drivers would be Ryo Michigami and Akira Iida. Both drivers would be paid 2.5 million yen. The car number would be 24.
What do you guys think?
Well, as long as you can prove that its stats are not being juiced, that's fine. For example, when I ran TMRRC, I won almost everything, but I had the replays to prove everything was above board and there was no kind of unfair advantage going on.
I guess the reason no-one is running the 350Z is because it couldn't match its rivals often. Nissan didn't win a drivers title with it, but its replacement, the GT-R R35, won in its debut season.
Novitopoli wrote:Everytime someone orders at Pizza Hut, an Italian dies.
I can run the 350Z. I'll add the rest of the info later. EDIT Team Name: Hayate Auto Garage #46 Nissan 350Z (GT500) Joao Paulo de Oliveira(BRA)/Takeshi Tsuchiya(JPN)
Oh and like Hound55 and Stramala, I'm also cool with you running a team
Well, the SUPER GT season finally begins at Okayama. This season looks like it's going to be interesting, only two Nissan 350Z's against six NSX's and six Supra's in GT500. Meanwhile, in GT300, it's anybody's guess who's going to win this time around. Can we see the Front-drive Integra Type R or the Mitsubishi EVO win a race? Let's get this season started with the qualifying session!
GT500 1 R. Michigami/A. Iida (Project KivaSport) 1:38.893 2 J. Paulo De Oliverira/T. Tsuchiya (Hayate Auto Garage) 1:38.983 3 D. Ito/R. Lyons (Dynamite Racing Team) 1:38.985 4 M. Salo/K. Hirate (Nippon Nagoya) 1:39.020 5 S. Yamamoto/Y. Tachikawa (ARTA) 1:39.046 6 C. Fittipaldi/S. Nakano (Grand Honshu Racing) 1:39.081 7 O. Beretta/S. Motoyama (Equinox-Lamb Racing) 1:39.126 8 R. Firman/H. Noda (Advan Racing Team) 1:39.176 9 C. Bouchut/T. Takagi (Denso Pulsar Racing) 1:39.233 10 L. Duval/H. Mutoh (Fireball Racing) 1:39.234 11 H. Matsushita/J. Courtney (Panasonic TOM'S Racing) 1:39.336 12 H. Mitsusada/R. Collard (Takagi Racing Enterprises) 1:39.342 13 A. Lotterer/B. Treluyer (Zuken ENEOS IBR) 1:39.448 14 J. Dufour/T. Kaneishi (Castrol Racing Team) 1:39.465
WOW! Just days ago, Nissan was considering quitting SUPER GT because of the lack of teams running their 350Z, until two teams signed on as late entries. Ironically enough, it was Project KivaSport getting the pole position, and the other Nissan team, Hayate Auto Garage managing to lock out the front row for Nissan. Meanwhile, two time KL-racer Alternate DTM champion Beretta, will start 7th for his SUPER GT debut.
GT300 1 Y. Kunimoto/S. Ara (Fireball Racing) 1:43.396 2 T. Scheider/K. Sasaki (Equinox-Lamb Racing) 1:43.591 3 T. Yamano/H. Kurosawa (Dynamite Racing Team) 1:43.814 4 H. Yoshimoto/J.M. Gounon (Xanavi Pulsar Racing) 1:44.034 5 A. Couto/A. Zuber (Nippon Nagoya) 1:44.144 6 H. Matsuda/H.P. Tung (Panasonic TOM'S Racing) 1:44.278 7 N. Hattori/T. Suzuki (Grand Honshu Racing) 1:44.343 8 N. Taniguchi/M. Apicella (MMC IBR) 1:44.793 9 R. Fukuda/N. Fontana (Takagi Racing Enterprises) 1:44.854
Meanwhile, the 2000 KL Racer's Alternate DTM champion, Timo Scheider will start second in GT300 for his SUPER GT debut. Fireball racing got the pole position by almost two tenths. It's kind of disappointing for MMC and Takagi Racing enterprises, they were somewhat off the pace.
Now posted to PMMF . . . F1 management 2011!
After yet another long intermission . . . I finally posted round 8. What will happen in the second half? Stay Tuned
Well, here's the round 1 race results from Okayama.
GT500 1 D. Ito/R. Lyons (Dynamite Racing Team) 2:25:11.365 2 O. Beretta/S. Motoyama (Equinox-Lamb Racing) 2:25:26.325 3 J. Paulo De Oliverira/T. Tsuchiya (Hayate Auto Garage) 2:25:44.851 4 C. Bouchut/T. Takagi (Denso Pulsar Racing) 2:26:06.458 5 S. Yamamoto/Y. Tachikawa (ARTA) 2:26:07.850 6 J. Dufour/T. Kaneishi (Castrol Racing Team) 1 lap R. Firman/H. Noda (Advan Racing Team) DNF lap 68 H. Mitsusada/R. Collard (Takagi Racing Enterprises) DNF lap 60 M. Salo/K. Hirate (Nippon Nagoya) DNF lap 52 C. Fittipaldi/S. Nakano (Grand Honshu Racing) DNF lap 48 L. Duval/H. Mutoh (Fireball Racing) DNF lap 44 A. Lotterer/B. Treluyer (Zuken ENEOS IBR) DNF lap 26 H. Matsushita/J. Courtney (Panasonic TOM'S Racing) DNF lap 20 R. Michigami/A. Iida (Project KivaSport) DNF lap 19 Dynamite Racing team draws first blood for GT500. Equinox-Lamb racing has to settle for a 2nd. The Nissan 350Z of Hayate Auto Garage, rounds out the podium. It's a shock that only six cars finished the race in GT500. GT300 1 T. Yamano/H. Kurosawa (Dynamite Racing Team) 2:26:52.918 2 A. Couto/A. Zuber (Nippon Nagoya) 2:27:12.959 3 N. Hattori/T. Suzuki (Grand Honshu Racing) 2:27:15.596 4 T. Scheider/K. Sasaki (Equinox-Lamb Racing) 2:27:18.710 5 N. Taniguchi/M. Apicella (MMC IBR) 2:27:31.430 6 H. Matsuda/H.P. Tung (Panasonic TOM'S Racing) 2:27:35.632 Y. Kunimoto/S. Ara (Fireball Racing) DNF lap 68 R. Fukuda/N. Fontana (Takagi Racing Enterprises) DNF lap 48 H. Yoshimoto/J.M. Gounon (Xanavi Pulsar Racing) DNF lap 39 In addition, Dynamite racing team also drew first blood in GT300. Nippon Nagoya finished 2nd and Grand Honshu rounds out the podium. The SUPER GT debut of Timo Scheider didn't go as well as Beretta, but he did get 3 points for finishing 4th. MMC did finish the race in 5th and Panasonic TOM's gets the final point for GT300. Like GT500, only six GT300 cars finished the race.
Now posted to PMMF . . . F1 management 2011!
After yet another long intermission . . . I finally posted round 8. What will happen in the second half? Stay Tuned
Kazaki Takeda, Fireball Racing Team Principal wrote:Disappointing start to the season for us with two DNF's. Yuji and Seiji did well to get Pole Position, but problems took them out of the race. Loic and Hideki will come back stronger next time around!
The Integra is now RWD here. Remember the story of WedsSport Celica '03? Just like that. (Since the Impreza is RWD in SuperGT, I assume the same can be said for Lancer here)
Hiroshi Takagi wrote:Collard literally binned it to the corner where da Silva hit Zimmer when my son Kazuhiko competed in F1RGP2C. And looks like the Integra seems a bit way, yes, too "timid" for this race.
(This is non-canon, I know, but let's insert some RWRS World references... shall I?
Advan would like to spend 9 million, 3 million yen across each stat
LONGLIVEMARUSSIA
Things I was wrong about: Kimi to Ferrari, Perez out of McLaren, Maldonado to Lotus, Kobash comes back, Gutierrez stays, Chilton stays, Boullier leaves Lotus.
After some time to assess their performance at Okayama, the SUPER GT series flies to Sepang for Round 2 of the season. Here's the qualifying results
GT500 1 L. Duval/H. Mutoh (Fireball Racing) 1:57.620 2 S. Yamamoto/Y. Tachikawa (ARTA) 1:57.814 3 R. Michigami/A. Iida (Project KivaSport) 1:57.899 4 R. Firman/H. Noda (Advan Racing Team) 1:57.925 5 H. Matsushita/J. Courtney (Panasonic TOM'S Racing) 1:57.979 6 C. Fittipaldi/S. Nakano (Grand Honshu Racing) 1:57.991 7 O. Beretta/S. Motoyama (Equinox-Lamb Racing) 1:57.994 8 M. Salo/K. Hirate (Nippon Nagoya) 1:58.217 9 A. Lotterer/B. Treluyer (Zuken ENEOS IBR) 1:58.271 10 J. Paulo De Oliverira/T. Tsuchiya (Hayate Auto Garage) 1:58.273 11 J. Dufour/T. Kaneishi (Castrol Racing Team) 1:58.380 12 H. Mitsusada/R. Collard (Takagi Racing Enterprises) 1:58.393 13 C. Bouchut/T. Takagi (Denso Pulsar Racing) 1:58.402 14 D. Ito/R. Lyons (Dynamite Racing Team) 1:58.743
Fireball racing got pole position for GT500 by nearly two tenths over the ARTA team. Kivasport ends up qualifying 3rd despite not bringing any upgrades for this race. Dynamite Racing team brings up the rear of the pack no doubt suffered by the success ballast.
GT300 1 Y. Kunimoto/S. Ara (Fireball Racing) 2:01.790 2 T. Scheider/K. Sasaki (Equinox-Lamb Racing) 2:02.347 3 H. Matsuda/H.P. Tung (Panasonic TOM'S Racing) 2:02.873 4 Y. Ide/T. Matsuda (ARTA) 2:02.990 5 H. Yoshimoto/J.M. Gounon (Xanavi Pulsar Racing) 2:03.015 6 N. Taniguchi/M. Apicella (MMC IBR) 2:03.046 7 N. Hattori/T. Suzuki (Grand Honshu Racing) 2:03.364 8 R. Fukuda/N. Fontana (Takagi Racing Enterprises) 2:03.473 9 A. Couto/A. Zuber (Nippon Nagoya) 2:03.734 10 T. Yamano/H. Kurosawa (Dynamite Racing Team) 2:04.198
Fireball racing also got Pole position for GT300, by nearly a six tenth margin over Equinox-Lamb. The ARTA ASL Gariaya ended up qualifying 4th on it's debut and like the GT500 class, Dynamite Racing team brings up the rear due to success ballast.
Now posted to PMMF . . . F1 management 2011!
After yet another long intermission . . . I finally posted round 8. What will happen in the second half? Stay Tuned
Well, here's the round 2 race results from Sepang.
GT500 1 L. Duval/H. Mutoh (Fireball Racing) 3:09:58.630 2 H. Mitsusada/R. Collard (Takagi Racing Enterprises) 3:10:10.693 3 A. Lotterer/B. Treluyer (Zuken ENEOS IBR) 3:10:25.527 4 C. Fittipaldi/S. Nakano (Grand Honshu Racing) 3:10:26.825 5 S. Yamamoto/Y. Tachikawa (ARTA) 3:10:42.668 6 O. Beretta/S. Motoyama (Equinox-Lamb Racing) 3:10:49.515 7 M. Salo/K. Hirate (Nippon Nagoya) 3:10:50.860 J. Dufour/T. Kaneishi (Castrol Racing Team) DNF lap 83 H. Matsushita/J. Courtney (Panasonic TOM'S Racing) DNF lap 74 D. Ito/R. Lyons (Dynamite Racing Team) DNF lap 73 C. Bouchut/T. Takagi (Denso Pulsar Racing) DNF lap 51 J. Paulo De Oliverira/T. Tsuchiya (Hayate Auto Garage) DNF lap 21 R. Firman/H. Noda (Advan Racing Team) DNF lap 19 R. Michigami/A. Iida (Project KivaSport) DNF lap 10
Fireball racing got the win from Pole position, but it wasn't easy with Takagi racing and Zuken closing down on their necks. Grand Honshu got 4th, ARTA ended up fifth and Equinox-Lamb got the final point for 6th. Meanwhile, race reliability for Kivasport continues to haunt them, they didn't finish the race again.
GT300 1 T. Scheider/K. Sasaki (Equinox-Lamb Racing) 3:11:52.831 2 Y. Ide/T. Matsuda (ARTA) 3:11:54.384 3 H. Matsuda/H.P. Tung (Panasonic TOM'S Racing) 3:12:12.529 4 H. Yoshimoto/J.M. Gounon (Xanavi Pulsar Racing) 3:12:18.216 5 R. Fukuda/N. Fontana (Takagi Racing Enterprises) 3:12:56.438 T. Yamano/H. Kurosawa (Dynamite Racing Team) DNF lap 81 N. Hattori/T. Suzuki (Grand Honshu Racing) DNF lap 70 N. Taniguchi/M. Apicella (MMC IBR) DNF lap 44 Y. Kunimoto/S. Ara (Fireball Racing) DNF lap 39 A. Couto/A. Zuber (Nippon Nagoya) DNF lap 31
Meanwhile, Equinox-lamb won the race in GT300 spoiling the chance of the ASL Gariaya winning in it's debut race. ARTA finished 2nd, with Panasonic TOM's rounding out the podium. Xanavi Pulsar ended up 4th, with Takagi Racing 5th but Dynamite racing team ended up not finishing the race despite being 6th, so they will not get points or extra success ballast due to them failing to take the checkered flag.
Now posted to PMMF . . . F1 management 2011!
After yet another long intermission . . . I finally posted round 8. What will happen in the second half? Stay Tuned
Kazaki Takeda, Fireball Racing Team Principal wrote:Great race from Loic and Hideki to take the win from pole position in GT500! Very good effort. Sadly Yuji and Seiji once again DNF'ed from pole position in GT300, which is something we need to make sure doesn't happen again.
Hiroshi Takagi wrote:At least neither drivers messed up today. Keep it up! The Integra is off the pace though, I might consider a S2000 instead for 2006...
0.5 on each category on NSX and 1 on each category on Integra.
We are back on Japanese Soil for Round 3 of the SUPER GT season. Here's the qualifying results from Sugo.
GT500 1 S. Yamamoto/Y. Tachikawa (ARTA) 1:35.620 2 D. Ito/R. Lyons (Dynamite Racing Team) 1:35.621 3 A. Lotterer/B. Treluyer (Zuken ENEOS IBR) 1:35.640 4 R. Michigami/A. Iida (Project KivaSport) 1:35.663 5 L. Duval/H. Mutoh (Fireball Racing) 1:35.769 6 M. Salo/K. Hirate (Nippon Nagoya) 1:35.777 7 R. Firman/H. Noda (Advan Racing Team) 1:35.810 8 H. Matsushita/J. Courtney (Panasonic TOM'S Racing) 1:36.035 9 C. Fittipaldi/S. Nakano (Grand Honshu Racing) 1:36.073 10 O. Beretta/S. Motoyama (Equinox-Lamb Racing) 1:36.101 11 J. Dufour/T. Kaneishi (Castrol Racing Team) 1:36.344 12 C. Bouchut/T. Takagi (Denso Pulsar Racing) 1:36.358 13 H. Mitsusada/R. Collard (Takagi Racing Enterprises) 1:36.393 14 J. Paulo De Oliverira/T. Tsuchiya (Hayate Auto Garage) 1:36.567
ARTA takes the pole position for GT500 by the smallest possible margin allowed by the program, 1 thousandth of a second. Zuken and Kivasport will start on round 2. Meanwhile, Hayate auto garage will start from last place in GT500 GT300 1 Y. Ide/T. Matsuda (ARTA) 1:39.736 2 Y. Kunimoto/S. Ara (Fireball Racing) 1:39.859 3 N. Taniguchi/M. Apicella (MMC IBR) 1:40.131 4 R. Fukuda/N. Fontana (Takagi Racing Enterprises) 1:40.558 5 N. Hattori/T. Suzuki (Grand Honshu Racing) 1:40.780 6 T. Yamano/H. Kurosawa (Dynamite Racing Team) 1:40.799 7 H. Yoshimoto/J.M. Gounon (Xanavi Pulsar Racing) 1:41.264 8 H. Matsuda/H.P. Tung (Panasonic TOM'S Racing) 1:41.343 9 A. Couto/A. Zuber (Nippon Nagoya) 1:41.392 10 T. Scheider/K. Sasaki (Equinox-Lamb Racing) 1:41.478
ARTA also takes the pole position for GT300, this time by a little over a tenth of a second over fireball racing. MMC starts 3rd, Equinox-Lamb is suffering with success ballast, they will start last in GT300.
Now posted to PMMF . . . F1 management 2011!
After yet another long intermission . . . I finally posted round 8. What will happen in the second half? Stay Tuned
GT500 1 S. Yamamoto/Y. Tachikawa (ARTA) 2:18:38.618 2 D. Ito/R. Lyons (Dynamite Racing Team) 2:19:44.980 3 R. Firman/H. Noda (Advan Racing Team) 2:19:46.589 4 H. Mitsusada/R. Collard (Takagi Racing Enterprises) 2:20:00.271 5 R. Michigami/A. Iida (Project KivaSport) 2:20:09.828 6 H. Matsushita/J. Courtney (Panasonic TOM'S Racing) 2:20:15.552 7 A. Lotterer/B. Treluyer (Zuken ENEOS IBR) 1 lap 8 M. Salo/K. Hirate (Nippon Nagoya) 1 lap 9 O. Beretta/S. Motoyama (Equinox-Lamb Racing) 1 lap 10 J. Dufour/T. Kaneishi (Castrol Racing Team) 1 lap C. Bouchut/T. Takagi (Denso Pulsar Racing) DNF lap 77 J. Paulo De Oliverira/T. Tsuchiya (Hayate Auto Garage) DNF lap 65 C. Fittipaldi/S. Nakano (Grand Honshu Racing) DNF lap 56 L. Duval/H. Mutoh (Fireball Racing) DNF lap 35
ARTA managed to win the race from pole, Dynamite and Advan round out the podium for GT500. Kivasport finally got on the points board with a 5th place finish. GT300 1 Y. Kunimoto/S. Ara (Fireball Racing) 2:20:53.664 2 Y. Ide/T. Matsuda (ARTA) 2:21:02.595 3 H. Yoshimoto/J.M. Gounon (Xanavi Pulsar Racing) 2:21:25.872 4 T. Yamano/H. Kurosawa (Dynamite Racing Team) 2:21:31.460 5 A. Couto/A. Zuber (Nippon Nagoya) 2:21:37.511 6 H. Matsuda/H.P. Tung (Panasonic TOM'S Racing) 2:21:49.132 N. Taniguchi/M. Apicella (MMC IBR) DNF lap 71 R. Fukuda/N. Fontana (Takagi Racing Enterprises) DNF lap 39 N. Hattori/T. Suzuki (Grand Honshu Racing) DNF lap 14 T. Scheider/K. Sasaki (Equinox-Lamb Racing) DNF lap 7
Fireball racing got the win in GT300, once again ARTA comes in 2nd, and Xanavi Pulsar rounds out the podium for GT300. Dynamite, Nippon Nagoya and Panasonic TOM'S rounds out the points paying positions.
Now posted to PMMF . . . F1 management 2011!
After yet another long intermission . . . I finally posted round 8. What will happen in the second half? Stay Tuned
Kazaki Takeda, Fireball Racing Team Principal wrote:Looks like we are only able to finish one of the cars each time. We have to step up a bit, because we are definitely among the fastest.
0.5 points on each category in GT300.
EDIT: Are the results going into the wiki at some point?
Add 3 million yen for each category again for Advan
LONGLIVEMARUSSIA
Things I was wrong about: Kimi to Ferrari, Perez out of McLaren, Maldonado to Lotus, Kobash comes back, Gutierrez stays, Chilton stays, Boullier leaves Lotus.
We'd also like to spend 3 million in each category in GT500, and 2 million in each category for GT300.
Mitch Hedberg wrote:I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Man, you really like Tide...
Well, I been taking summer classes, that's the reason why this series is moving along slower than usual. But, I finally got to editing the first post and the xml file. So, here's the round 4 qualifying results from Laguna Seca!
GT500 1 S. Yamamoto/Y. Tachikawa (ARTA) 1:39.658 2 A. Lotterer/B. Treluyer (Zuken ENEOS IBR) 1:39.693 3 L. Duval/H. Mutoh (Fireball Racing) 1:39.702 4 M. Salo/K. Hirate (Nippon Nagoya) 1:39.705 5 R. Michigami/A. Iida (Project KivaSport) 1:39.710 6 D. Ito/R. Lyons (Dynamite Racing Team) 1:39.948 7 R. Firman/H. Noda (Advan Racing Team) 1:39.986 8 O. Beretta/S. Motoyama (Equinox-Lamb Racing) 1:39.987 9 J. Dufour/T. Kaneishi (Castrol Racing Team) 1:40.016 10 H. Matsushita/J. Courtney (Panasonic TOM'S Racing) 1:40.173 11 C. Bouchut/T. Takagi (Denso Pulsar Racing) 1:40.181 12 C. Fittipaldi/S. Nakano (Grand Honshu Racing) 1:40.183 13 J. Paulo De Oliverira/T. Tsuchiya (Hayate Auto Garage) 1:40.243 14 H. Mitsusada/R. Collard (Takagi Racing Enterprises) 1:40.575
ARTA got pole position for GT500 and it was a close fight throughout the session. GT300 1 Y. Ide/T. Matsuda (ARTA) 1:43.930 2 N. Taniguchi/M. Apicella (MMC IBR) 1:44.069 3 Y. Kunimoto/S. Ara (Fireball Racing) 1:44.402 4 N. Hattori/T. Suzuki (Grand Honshu Racing) 1:44.574 5 R. Fukuda/N. Fontana (Takagi Racing Enterprises) 1:44.575 6 T. Yamano/H. Kurosawa (Dynamite Racing Team) 1:44.628 7 H. Yoshimoto/J.M. Gounon (Xanavi Pulsar Racing) 1:45.062 8 A. Couto/A. Zuber (Nippon Nagoya) 1:45.290 9 H. Matsuda/H.P. Tung (Panasonic TOM'S Racing) 1:45.338 10 T. Scheider/K. Sasaki (Equinox-Lamb Racing) 1:45.479
ARTA also got the pole for GT300, just beating out the Lancer EVO. This one was slightly easier for these guys.
Now posted to PMMF . . . F1 management 2011!
After yet another long intermission . . . I finally posted round 8. What will happen in the second half? Stay Tuned
Well, here's the round 4 race results from Laguna Seca
GT500 1 A. Lotterer/B. Treluyer (Zuken ENEOS IBR) 2:43:17.674 2 S. Yamamoto/Y. Tachikawa (ARTA) 2:43:21.137 3 J. Dufour/T. Kaneishi (Castrol Racing Team) 2:43:22.479 4 M. Salo/K. Hirate (Nippon Nagoya) 2:43:29.590 5 C. Bouchut/T. Takagi (Denso Pulsar Racing) 2:43:30.207 6 H. Mitsusada/R. Collard (Takagi Racing Enterprises) 2:44:03.662 7 H. Matsushita/J. Courtney (Panasonic TOM'S Racing) 2:44:19.975 8 J. Paulo De Oliverira/T. Tsuchiya (Hayate Auto Garage) 2:44:30.421 9 R. Firman/H. Noda (Advan Racing Team) 2:44:45.130 R. Michigami/A. Iida (Project KivaSport) DNF lap 47 L. Duval/H. Mutoh (Fireball Racing) DNF lap 33 C. Fittipaldi/S. Nakano (Grand Honshu Racing) DNF lap 11 D. Ito/R. Lyons (Dynamite Racing Team) DNF lap 7 O. Beretta/S. Motoyama (Equinox-Lamb Racing) DNF lap 2
IBR finally got their first win in GT500. The ARTA got close towards the end, but by that time it was too late. GT300 1 N. Taniguchi/M. Apicella (MMC IBR) 2:44:52.303 2 R. Fukuda/N. Fontana (Takagi Racing Enterprises) 2:44:57.121 3 T. Yamano/H. Kurosawa (Dynamite Racing Team) 2:45:06.858 4 H. Yoshimoto/J.M. Gounon (Xanavi Pulsar Racing) 2:45:35.670 5 A. Couto/A. Zuber (Nippon Nagoya) 2:45:45.825 T. Scheider/K. Sasaki (Equinox-Lamb Racing) DNF lap 59 Y. Ide/T. Matsuda (ARTA) DNF lap 28 H. Matsuda/H.P. Tung (Panasonic TOM'S Racing) DNF lap 27 N. Hattori/T. Suzuki (Grand Honshu Racing) DNF lap 14 Y. Kunimoto/S. Ara (Fireball Racing) DNF lap 11
In addition, IBR also got the win in GT300, with Takagi Racing finishing 2nd. Equinox-Lamb was 6th but since they didn't finish the race, they don't get the points, prize money or success ballast added on.
Now posted to PMMF . . . F1 management 2011!
After yet another long intermission . . . I finally posted round 8. What will happen in the second half? Stay Tuned