Toyota monopolises prime 4 as moist Fuji SUPER GT take a look at ends

The #14 Rookie Racing Toyota concluded the ultimate official take a look at with the quickest time of 1m39.293s, set by the returning Kenta Yamashita throughout a part of barely lighter rain throughout the two-hour afternoon session.

That was somewhat beneath three seconds slower than one of the best time recorded by the pace-setting NDDP Racing Nissan on Saturday afternoon, when circumstances had been at their least treacherous throughout each days of testing.

All of the quickest instances of Sunday’s working had been set across the similar time, with Ukyo Sasahara placing the #37 TOM’S automotive second on a 1m39.360s, adopted by Yuhi Sekiguchi within the SARD Toyota on a 1m40.150s.

Fourth-fastest was the #36 TOM’S automotive with Ritomo Miyata on the wheel, which means the 4 Toyotas working with the brand new aero system within the bonnet cooling ducts had been on the head of the timesheets.

Better of the non-Toyotas was the #16 ARTA Honda NSX-GT, somewhat over a second off the tempo, adopted by the Crew Kunimitsu Honda in sixth.

Bridgestone proved the tyre to have within the heavier moist circumstances of Sunday, as evidenced by a lockout of the highest eight positions in GT500 and the highest 4 in GT300 within the morning session.

Quickest on that event was the #36 TOM’S Toyota of Sho Tsuboi with a greatest time of 1m41.661s.

#36 au TOM’S GR Supra

Photograph by: Masahide Kamio

The faster of the 2 Michelin-shod NISMO Nissan Zs was solely ninth-fastest within the morning and two seconds off the tempo, however the #3 automotive of Katsumasa Chiyo closed the hole to 1.1s when the rain eased throughout the afternoon session to take the seventh-fastest time of the day.

Alternatively, Ronnie Quintarelli prompted the day’s first purple flag when he crashed on the 100R right-hander on his out lap within the sister #23 Nissan, which did not reappear for the remainder of the afternoon.

Yokohama’s new-spec moist tyre, which appeared to work properly within the combined circumstances of Saturday afternoon, proved hopelessly off the tempo within the full moist circumstances prevailing on Sunday.

The Kondo Racing Nissan of Daiki Sasaki accomplished solely 9 laps within the afternoon, one of the best of which was virtually 10 seconds off the tempo, after registering a single, excruciatingly gradual flying lap within the morning.

Toyota squad Racing Undertaking Bandoh did not run within the afternoon in any respect, leaving it on the backside of the timesheets for the day on the power of Yuji Kunimoto’s greatest effort within the morning session.

Within the GT300 class, the quickest time of the day belonged to the Saitama Toyopet Inexperienced Courageous Toyota GR Supra GT, which was one among solely seven vehicles within the class to exit within the afternoon.

Hiroki Yoshida set the benchmark time of 1m48.404s, outpacing the Dunlop-shod works Subaru BRZ of Hideki Yamauchi to the tune of 0.176s.

#61 SUBARU BRZ R&D SPORT

Photograph by: Masahide Kamio

Third-fastest was the Crew UpGarage Honda NSX GT3, which prompted the second and last purple flag of the day when rookie Shun Koide suffered an off on the similar a part of the monitor as Quintarelli.

Setting the tempo within the morning session was the Inging Toyota GR86 GT of Yuui Tsutsumi with a 1m50.762s, adopted by Yoshida within the likewise Bridgestone-shod Saitama Toyopet Supra.

In addition to the Tsuchiya Engineering Supra that was closely broken in a crash on Saturday, 9 different vehicles didn’t run within the morning session, and all of those ended up sitting out the day fully.

This group included each JLOC Lamborghini Huracan GT3s, the Goodsmile Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3, the #10 Gainer Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 and the Ok-tunes Racing Lexus RC F GT3.

Fuji SUPER GT testing instances (GT500 class):