Nissan locks out the front row for the opening round of the SuperGT season with a dominant performance at Okayama. Full report:
The two NISMO Nissans finished 1.5s clear of the opposition led by Nakajima Honda, as newcomer Kakunoshin Ohta put in an impressive performance on his GT500 debut to take third on the grid.
Toshiki Oyu had an off earlier in qualifying en route to seventh in the #8 ARTA Honda, which must serve a five-second stop/go penalty in the race following an unscheduled chassis change ahead of the weekend. Sho Tsuboi’s time of 1m30.565s put the #37 TOM’S Toyota in 10th place, ahead of the Kondo Nissan piloted by Daiki Sasaki.
Only 14 GT500 cars took part in qualifying, with the SARD Toyota outfit sitting out the session following a crash in practice earlier on Saturday morning.Naoya Gamou dominated qualifying in his class to put the #65 Leon Mercedes AMG GT3 on pole position for the opening round of the season. DTM champion Bruno Spengler impressed on his debut weekend in SUPER GT to qualify the #7 Studie BMW M4 GT3 third on the grid with a time that was just 0.003s slower than Tsutsumi’s best lap.
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