2009 Suzuka Pokka GT Summer Special

The 2009 Suzuka Pokka GT Summer Special was the sixth round of the 2009 Super GT season and was the 38th running of the 1000 km Suzuka event, although for the first time since 1969, the race was not 1000 km in length as in a bid to reduce CO₂ emissions, the race distance was shortented to 700 km.[1] It took place on August 23, 2009.

Race results

Results are as follows:[2]

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Chassis	Tyre	Laps
1	GT500	35	Team KRAFT	Hiroaki Ishiura Kazuya Oshima	Lexus SC430	B	121
2	GT500	3	Tomica Hasemi Motorsports	Hironobu Yasuda Ronnie Quintarelli	Nissan GT-R	M	121
3	GT500	38	ZENT Team Cerumo	Yuji Tachikawa Richard Lyons	Lexus SC430	B	121
4	GT500	18	Rockstar Team Yoshiki and Dome Project	Takashi Kogure Ryo Michigami	Honda NSX	B	121
5	GT500	12	Calsonic Team Impul	Tsugio Matsuda Sebastien Philippe	Nissan GT-R	B	121
6	GT500	1	Motul NISMO	Satoshi Motoyama Michael Krumm	Nissan GT-R	B	121
7	GT500	39	Denso Team SARD	Andre Couto Kohei Hirate	Lexus SC430	D	121
8	GT500	36	Petronas Team TOM'S	Juichi Wakisaka André Lotterer	Lexus SC430	B	121
9	GT500	100	Raybrig Team Kunimitsu	Yuji Ide Shinya Hosokawa	Honda NSX	B	121
10	GT500	17	Keihin Real Racing	Koudai Tsukakoshi Toshihiro Kaneishi Katsutomo Kaneishi	Honda NSX	B	120
11	GT500	24	HIS Advan Kondo Racing	Seiji Ara João Paulo de Oliveira	Nissan GT-R	Y	119
12	GT300	46	S-Road MOLA	Kazuki Hoshino Masataka Yanagida	Nissan Z	Y	112
13	GT300	43	Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	Shinichi Takagi Morio Nitta	ASL Garaiya	M	112
14	GT300	2	Apple K-one Cars Tokai Dream28	Hiroki Yoshimoto Hiroki Kato	Mooncraft Shiden	Y	112
15	GT300	74	apr	Yuji Kunimoto Takuto Iguchi	Toyota Corolla Axio	M	112
16	GT300	11	JIM Gainer Racing	Tetsuya Tanaka Katsuyuki Hiranaka	Ferrari F430 GT2	Y	110
17	GT300	19	WedsSport Team Bandoh	Manabu Orido Tatsuya Kataoka	Lexus IS350	Y	112
18	GT300	7	M7 Mutiara RE Amemiya	Nobuteru Taniguchi Ryo Orime	Mazda RX-7	Y	112
19	GT300	81	Team Daishin	Takayuki Aoki Tomonobu Fujii Koji Aoyama	Ferrari F430 GT2	Y	112
20	GT300	52	Team Shift	Yuhi Sekiguchi Naoya Yamano Kota Sasaki	Lexus IS350	K	111
21	GT300	88	triple a JLOC	Yuya Sakamoto Hideshi Matsuda	Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3	Y	111
22	GT300	55	J-Trust Tomei Sports	Yutaka Yamagishi Hiroshi Koizumi	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	Y	110
23	GT300	87	giraffa JLOC	Hisashi Wada Hiroyuki Iiri	Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3	Y	110
24	GT300	666	FieLDS Bomex Rosso	Junichiro Yamashita Shogo Suho Takashi Miyamoto	Vemac RD320R	K	107
25	GT300	4	Lian Bomex Rosso	Yoshihiro Ito Michihito Uwazumi Subaru Yamamoto	Porsche Boxster	K	104
26	GT300	10	JIM Gainer Racing	Masayuki Ueda Masataka Kawaguchi	Ferrari 360	Y	103
27	GT300	26	UpStart Team Taisan	Haruki Kurosawa Tsubasa Abe Katsuhiko Tsutsui	Porsche 996 GT3-RS	Y	100
28	GT300	66	triple a JLOC	Koji Yamanishi Atsushi Yogo	Lamborghini Murcielago RG-1	Y	94
29	GT300	31	Avex apr	Kyosuke Mineo Hiroshi Takamori Yuya Sakamoto	Toyota Corolla Axio	Y	93
30	GT500	8	Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	Takuya Izawa Ralph Firman	Honda NSX	B	84
DNF	GT500	6	ENEOS Team LeMans	Daisuke Ito Björn Wirdheim	Lexus SC430	B	64
DNF	GT300	808	Hatsune Miku Studie GLAD Racing	Yasushi Kikuchi Taku Bamba Shozo Tagahara	BMW Z4	Y	60
DNF	GT300	5	Team Mach	Tetsuji Tamanaka Akazame Oyaji	Vemac RD320R	Y	27
DNF	GT500	32	EPSON Nakajima Racing	Loïc Duval Yuhki Nakayama	Honda NSX	D	12

Statistics

• GT500 Pole Position – #35 KRAFT SC430 – 1:55.724
• GT300 Pole Position – #81 Daishin F430 – 2:07.439
• GT500 Fastest Lap – #35 KRAFT SC430 – 1:58.093
• GT300 Fastest Lap – #5 Team Mach Vemac – 2:09.282
• Winner's Race Time – 4:16:02.744

References

1. "Decision on race distances for race 3, race 6 and the final race of Super GT". as-web.jp. 22 March 2009.
2. "2009 Round6 Race Result". supergt.net. 23 August 2009. Archived from the original on 22 February 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2012.