Jann Mardenborough (Jannthaman) ends a long absence from professional racing in this weekend's Fuji 24 Hours. The original gamer-to-racer tells us how it's been going so far: SuperTaikyu_STO
with brothers Yuya and Reiji Hiraki, Shaun Thong and gentleman racer Yutaka Toriba for this weekend’s blue riband round of the Super Taikyu series.
“When I got off the flight from the UK, I felt like I’m home. I spent a lot of my career in Japan, living in Tokyo, integrating myself as much as possible. So to return here is a good feeling.”On how the chance to race for Helm came about, he said: “Reiji and Yuya [Hiraki] contacted my management [Motors Formula Team] with the offer of racing here, and we started negotiations quickly afterwards.
Mardenborough said it took him only five laps of practice to get up to speed in the Helm Nissan GT-R, helped by private testing in GT3 and GT4 machinery during his absence from racing.
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