【SUPER GT Round 1 / Okayama International Circuit】

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SUPER GT Round 1

Date 15-16 April 2023
Course Okayama International Circuit
Weather Race : Cloudy/Rain, Qualify : Cloudy/Rain
Surface Race : Dry/Wet, Qualify : Dry/Wet
Race Laps 82 Laps
(1Lap = 3,703m)

Result | GT500 Class

Pos. No. Machine Driver Laps Total Time/Diff. SW
1 23 MOTUL AUTECH Z Tsugio Matsuda Ronnie Quintarelli 61 2:44’47.342
2 3 Niterra MOTUL Z Katsumasa Chiyo Mitsunori Takaboshi 61 1.496
3 8 ARTA MUGEN NSX-GT Tomoki Nojiri Toshiki Oyu 61 4.788
4 14 ENEOS X PRIME GR Supra Kazuya Oshima Kenta Yamashita 61 7.077
5 38 ZENT CERUMO GR Supra Yuji Tachikawa Hiroaki Ishiura 61 14.372
6 1 MARELLI IMPUL Z Kazuki Hiramine Bertrand Baguette 61 18.942
7 17 Astemo NSX-GT Koudai Tsukakoshi Nobuharu Matsushita 61 22.578
8 39 DENSO KOBELCO SARD GR Supra Yuhi Sekiguchi Yuichi Nakayama 61 24.977
9 19 WedsSport ADVAN GR Supra Yuji Kunimoto Sena Sakaguchi 61 28.023
10 64 Modulo NSX-GT Takuya Izawa Kakunoshin Ohta 61 35.881
11 16 ARTA MUGEN NSX-GT Nirei Fukuzumi Hiroki Otsu 61 11.614
12 100 STANLEY NSX-GT Naoki Yamamoto Tadasuke Makino 60 1 Lap
13 37 Deloitte TOM’S GR Supra Ukyo Sasahara Giuliano Alesi 60 1 Lap
14 24 Realize corporation ADVAN Z Daiki Sasaki Kohei Hirate 59 2 Laps
15 36 au TOM’S GR Supra Sho Tsuboi Ritomo Miyata 56 5 Laps

Result | GT300 Class

Pos. No. Machine Driver Laps Total Time/Diff. SW
1 18 UPGARAGE NSX GT3 Takashi Kobayashi Syun Koide 59 2:45’26.030
2 65 LEON PYRAMID AMG Naoya Gamou Takuro Shinohara 59 3.592
3 244 HACHI-ICHI GR Supra GT Kimiya Sato Atsushi Miyake 59 15.613
4 27 Yogibo NSX GT3 Yugo Iwasawa Reimei Ito 59 17.778
5 52 SAITAMATOYOPET GB GR Supra GT Hiroki Yoshida Kohta Kawaai 59 23.343
6 7 Studie BMW M4 Seiji Ara Bruno Spengler 59 26.255
7 87 Bamboo Airways LAMBORGHINI GT3 Kosuke Matsuura Natsu Sakaguchi 59 28.621
8 60 Syntium LMcorsa GR Supra GT Hiroki Yoshimoto Shunsuke Kohno 59 34.888
9 4 GOODSMILE HATSUNE MIKU AMG Nobuteru Taniguchi Tatsuya Kataoka 59 36.143
10 56 REALIZE NISSAN MECHANIC CHALLENGE GT-R Joao Paulo de Oliveira Teppei Natori 59 40.750
11 10 PONOS GAINER GT-R Hironobu Yasuda Riki Okusa 59 01:01.9
12 50 ANEST IWATA Racing RC F GT3 Igor Omura Fraga Yuga Furutani 58 1 Lap
13 30 apr GR86 GT Manabu Orido Yuta Kamimura 58 1 Lap
14 96 K-tunes RC F GT3 Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi 58 1 Lap
15 5 MACHSYAKEN AIR BUSTER MC86 MACH GO Yusuke Tomibayashi Takamitsu Matsui 58 1 Lap
16 31 apr LC500h GT Koki Saga Kazuto Kotaka 58 1 Lap
17 25 HOPPY Schatz GR Supra GT Togo Suganami Seita Nonaka 58 1 Lap
18 2 muta Racing GR86 GT Yuui Tsutsumi Hibiki Taira 57 2 Laps
19 48 SHOKUMOU Ks Frontier GT-R Taiyo Ida Yuki Tanaka 57 2 Laps
20 22 R’Qs AMG GT3 Hisashi Wada Masaki Jyonai 57 2 Laps
21 6 DOBOT Audi R8 LMS Yoshiaki Katayama Roberto Merhi Muntan 56 3 Laps
22 61 SUBARU BRZ R&D SPORT Takuto Iguchi Hideki Yamauchi 51 8 Laps
23 9 PACIFIC VSPO NAC AMG Ryohei Sakaguchi Liang Jiatong 47 12 Laps
24 88 JLOC LAMBORGHINI GT3 Takashi Kogure Yuya Motojima 47 12 Laps
20 SHADE RACING GR86 GT Katsuyuki Hiranaka Eijiro Shimizu 35 24 Laps
11 GAINER TANAX GT-R Ryuichiro Tomita Keishi Ishikawa 14 45 Laps
360 RUNUP RIVAUX GT-R Takayuki Aoki Atsushi Tanaka 14 45 Laps

*Marked in red : YOKOHAMA Tire

・SW = Success Weight (kg)

※Full Course Yellow : 1. 13:57’47(16laps) – 13:58’51(17laps) 2. 14:57’20(48laps) – 15:04’57(51laps)

※Safety Car : 1. 15:58’51(17laps) – 14:15’34(22laps) 2. 15:58’51(17laps) – 14:15’34(22laps) Red Flag : 1. 15:15’28(55laps) – 15:35’00 2. 15:56’17(61laps) – 16:24’59(RedFlag / Race Finish)

■Fastest Lap
[GT500] 1’19.736 No.100 STANLEY NSX-GT Tadasuke Makino
[GT300] 1’26.874 No.65 LEON PYRAMID AMG Takuro Shinohara

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