Four-time SuperGT champion Ronnie Quintarelli says the Nissan Z is the best it has felt all season after an encouraging showing in Saturday's qualifying at Fuji.
Quintarelli and his teammate Tsugio Matsuda took their best grid position of the 2022 campaign so far in eighth place, as the Italian driver managed to get the #23 car through Q1 for the first time this season.Although Matsuda's Q2 lap was 1.3 seconds adrift of the pole benchmark set by Bandoh Toyota driver Sena Sakaguchi, Quintarelli was bullish of the team's chances of making up ground in Sunday's 100-lap race.
"We worked on the set-up, we had some information from car #3, because [up to now] each crew was going its own way. So this time we mixed their set-up with our set-up and it felt good. "I was hoping Tsugio would be P5 [in Q2], but he couldn’t put the sectors together," said Quintarelli."With P5, I would be confident. With P8, we need to work a bit harder, but I’m still optimistic.
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