A year on from its first SuperGT win with the BMW M4 GT3, teamstudie beat the Toyota GT300s at their own strategy game to take another victory at Suzuka:
With the race being red-flagged and not resumed after the horror crash at 130R involving Nissan GT500 driver Tsugio Matsuda, Ara and Yanagida were victorious, repeating Studie's win at Suzuka a year ago with Ara and Tsubasa Kondo.
"After that, I was worried about being repassed by either the #2 or the #52, but the straight line speed of the BMW was strong, so it was a situation where I just had to hang on in the corners and we were able to keep first place." "We thought that pitting on the first lap would be difficult for fuel consumption, so we came in on the second lap," he said."As a result, the #52 car got ahead."Looking at the results, it would have been ok [to pit on the first lap], and in that case I think we would have been ahead and able to go at our own pace, and then we would haven’t been passed by the #7 [Studie] car.
However, Yoshida took a more measured view, saying the red flag probably saved the team from dropping positions late on.
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