2013 Fuji GT 300km

The 2013 Fuji GT 300km was the sixth round of the 2013 Super GT season. It took place on September 8, 2013 at the Fuji Speedway in Oyama, Shizuoka, Japan.

Background

NISMO drivers Ronnie Quintarelli and Masataka Yanagida led the GT500 championship standings by one point over Impul's João Paulo de Oliveira and Tsugio Matsuda, while Team Mugen led the GT300 championship over R&D Sport's Subaru BRZ.

A total of 40 cars were entered for the race, all 38 cars that raced at Suzuka were in the Fuji race with their normal 2-driver lineups, while the Tomei Sports Nissan GT-R GT3 returned to the series after missing Suzuka, as did the Dijon Racing Callaway Corvette Z06.R GT3.

Report

Practice

The #1 MOLA Nissan GT-R was the fastest car in the GT500 class, while the #6 Team LeMans Lexus SC430 was 2nd fastest. In GT300 the #30 apr Nissan GT-R GT3 was fastest from two other Nissan GT-R's, the #3 NDDP Racing in 2nd and the #5 Team Mach in 3rd. The #50 Arnage Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 had suspension trouble during the session and only managed 23rd fastest.[1]

Qualifying

Qualifying was held on September 7, 2013. Daiki Sasaki was the fastest driver in the first session for the GT300 cars from Yuhki Nakayama and Katsumasa Chiyo. The team ranked 4th in points, the #52 with Takeshi Tsuchiya driving only managed 16th fastest in the session. In the first session for GT500 cars Kohei Hirate was fastest from Yuhi Sekiguchi and Yuji Kunimoto. Neither the NISMO team or the Impul teams, ranked 1st and 2nd in the championship made the second session for the top 8 cars, Yanagida put in a laptime good enough for only 9th place, Oliveira was 14th fastest for Impul.

In the second GT300 qualifying session Shinichi Takagi was fastest with a 1:38.773, giving the #55 ARTA Honda CR-Z its second pole position of the season and the third for the Honda CR-Z. Kazuki Hoshino was 2nd fastest in the #3 NDDP Racing Nissan GT-R GT3, 0.425 seconds slower than Takagi's laptime. Hideki Mutoh qualified the championship leading car in 3rd place despite carrying 114 kg of weight ballast from the team's results during the season. The team that won the 500km race earlier in the season, the #31 apr Toyota Prius was 9th fastest. In the second session for GT500 cars the #38 Team ZENT Cerumo Lexus SC430 with Yuji Tachikawa driving was again fastest in Q2 and gave Tachikawa his 18th pole position in Super GT, and his 8th at Fuji Speedway. Tachikawa's lap of a 1:32.548 was 0.272 seconds faster than Andrea Caldarelli in 2nd. Kazuki Nakajima was 6th fastest in the team that won the 500 km race earlier in the year.[2][3]

Race

The race was held on September 8, 2013, starting at 2:00pm local time. Kohei Hirate led the field from pole position in GT500 while in GT300 Daiki Sasaki passed Shinichi Takagi for the race lead, the polesitting car having to change its engine before the race. Takagi would drop to fourth place but contact with Björn Wirdheim caused bodywork on the CR-Z to rub on the rear wheels, forcing the team to make a pitstop. On lap 19 Ryo Michigami driving the #32 Nakajima Racing Honda HSV-010 GT had a left-rear tyre puncture while travelling down the main straight, spun and crashed into the guardrail. With debris scattered over the circuit the safety car was brought out on lap 21. During the safety car all the GT500 teams with the exception of the #24 Kondo Racing Nissan GT-R decided to make their pitstops.

The #1 MOLA GT-R managed to get Yuhi Sekiguchi into the lead in the pitstops, from the #17 HSV-010 with Koudai Tsukakoshi driving and Daisuke Ito in the #37 SC430 in 4th, however Sekiguchi was deemed to have been in violation of the restart procedure and were later given a drive-through penalty. The #4 GSR Hatsune Miku BMW started 5th in GT300 but were able to take the lead of the cars that had made their pitstop under the safety car. The #100 Team Kunimitsu HSV-010 retired following the restart due to radiator damage, while the #19 Bandoh SC430 retired from steering rod damage due to contact with a GT300 car. Juichi Wakisaka in the #39 SARD SC430 was given a drive-through penalty for a collision with Kazuki Nakajima in the #36 TOM'S SC430. On lap 43 Yuji Tachikawa managed to get the #38 back into the race lead after passing Tsukakoshi and the lead #24 GT-R with Hironobu Yasuda, who was slowing to make his pitstop. Tachikawa would hold off Tsukakoshi in the slippery conditions for the remaining 22 laps and win his 15th GT500 race. Nobuteru Taniguchi in the #4 BMW was unchallenged following the safety car, once the cars ahead pitted he was in the lead, and won by a margin of over 47 seconds over the #31 apr Toyota Prius.[4][5][6]

Results

Qualifying

[7][8]

Pos No Team Q1 Driver Q2 Driver Qualifying 1 Qualifying 2 Tyre
GT500
1 38 Lexus Team Zent Cerumo Kohei Hirate Yuji Tachikawa 1:32.480 1:32.548 B
2 37 Lexus Team KeePer TOM'S Daisuke Ito Andrea Caldarelli 1:32.909 1:32.820 B
3 18 Weider Dome Racing Frédéric Makowiecki Naoki Yamamoto 1:32.858 1:32.824 M
4 100 Raybrig Team Kunimitsu Takashi Kogure Takuya Izawa 1:33.137 1:32.842 B
5 36 Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S James Rossiter Kazuki Nakajima 1:33.049 1:32.925 B
6 6 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS Yuji Kunimoto Kazuya Oshima 1:32.812 1:33.047 B
7 1 S-Road REITO MOLA Yuhi Sekiguchi Satoshi Motoyama 1:32.683 1:33.062 M
8 17 Keihin Real Racing Koudai Tsukakoshi Toshihiro Kaneishi 1:33.228 1:33.271 B
9 23 Motul Autech NISMO Masataka Yanagida Ronnie Quintarelli 1:33.330 M
10 24 D'Station ADVAN Kondo Racing Hironobu Yasuda Michael Krumm 1:33.391 Y
11 8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Ralph Firman Kosuke Matsuura 1:33.396 B
12 39 Lexus Team DENSO SARD Juichi Wakisaka Hiroaki Ishiura 1:33.434 B
13 19 Lexus Team WedsSport Bandoh Andre Couto Seiji Ara 1:33.478 Y
14 12 Calsonic Team Impul João Paulo de Oliveira Tsugio Matsuda 1:33.610 B
15 32 Epson Nakajima Racing Ryo Michigami Daisuke Nakajima 1:33.714 D
GT300
1 55 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Takashi Kobayashi Shinichi Takagi 1:39.824 1:38.773 B
2 3 NDDP Racing Daiki Sasaki Kazuki Hoshino 1:39.478 1:39.198 Y
3 16 Team Mugen Yuhki Nakayama Hideki Mutoh 1:39.713 1:39.237 B
4 61 R&D Sport Tetsuya Yamano Kota Sasaki 1:40.052 1:39.403 M
5 4 GSR Hatsune Miku Nobuteru Taniguchi Tatsuya Kataoka 1:39.861 1:39.598 Y
6 11 Gainer Katsuyuki Hiranaka Björn Wirdheim 1:40.170 1:39.644 D
7 5 Team Mach Junichiro Yamashita Tetsuji Tamanaka 1:40.186 1:39.873 Y
8 10 Gainer Tetsuya Tanaka Masayuki Ueda 1:40.430 1:39.959 D
9 31 apr Morio Nitta Koki Saga 1:39.926 1:40.065 Y
10 30 apr Yuki Iwasaki Igor Sushko 1:40.378 1:40.191 Y
11 2 Cars Tokai Dream28 Hiroki Katoh Kazuho Takahashi 1:40.016 1:41.252 Y
12 48 Dijon Racing Katsumasa Chiyo Hiroshi Takamori 1:39.799 1:41.636 Y
13 9 Pacific Direction Racing Shogo Mitsuyama You Yokomaku 1:40.274 1:41.905 Y
14 86 JLOC Koji Yamanishi Shinya Hosokawa 1:40.438 Y
15 88 JLOC Takayuki Aoki Manabu Orido 1:40.522 Y
16 52 OKINAWA-IMP RACING with SHIFT Takeshi Tsuchiya Hironori Takeuchi 1:40.613 Y
17 50 Arnage Racing Hideto Yasuoka Masaki Kano 1:40.640 Y
18 62 Leon Racing Tsubasa Kurosawa Haruki Kurosawa 1:40.642 Y
19 87 JLOC Hideki Yamauchi Hiroki Yoshimoto 1:40.711 Y
20 33 Hankook KTR Masami Kageyama Tomonobu Fujii 1:40.926 H
21 22 R'Qs MotorSports Masaki Jyonai Hisashi Wada 1:41.185 Y
22 360 Tomei Sports Takuya Shirasaka Atsushi Tanaka 1:41.241 Y
23 0 Team Taisan Ken Endless Naoki Yokomizo Kyosuke Mineo 1:41.325 Y
24 21 Hitotsuyama Racing Richard Lyons Akihiro Tsuzuki 1:41.387 H
25 96 Dijon Racing Masaki Tanaka Shin Ikegami 1:45.086 Y

Race

Race result is as follows.[9][10]

Pos No Team Drivers Chassis Tyre Time/Difference Laps
GT500
1 38 Lexus Team Zent Cerumo Kohei Hirate
Yuji Tachikawa		 Lexus SC430 B 1:53:20.347 66
2 17 Keihin Real Racing Toshihiro Kaneishi
Koudai Tsukakoshi		 Honda HSV-010 GT B +2.862 66
3 37 Lexus Team KeePer TOM'S Andrea Caldarelli
Daisuke Ito		 Lexus SC430 B +8.247 66
4 6 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS Yuji Kunimoto
Kazuya Oshima		 Lexus SC430 B +21.705 66
5 18 Weider Dome Racing Frédéric Makowiecki
Naoki Yamamoto		 Honda HSV-010 GT M +29.431 66
6 12 Calsonic Team Impul João Paulo de Oliveira
Tsugio Matsuda		 Nissan GT-R B +37.231 66
7 1 S-Road REITO MOLA Satoshi Motoyama
Yuhi Sekiguchi		 Nissan GT-R M +44.094 66
8 8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Ralph Firman
Kosuke Matsuura		 Honda HSV-010 GT B +47.620 66
9 23 Motul Autech NISMO Ronnie Quintarelli
Masataka Yanagida		 Nissan GT-R M +49.414 66
10 24 D'Station ADVAN Kondo Racing Michael Krumm
Hironobu Yasuda		 Nissan GT-R Y +1:09.683 66
11 39 Lexus Team DENSO SARD Hiroaki Ishiura
Juichi Wakisaka		 Lexus SC430 B +1 Lap 65
12 36 Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S Kazuki Nakajima
James Rossiter		 Lexus SC430 B +1 Lap 65
Ret 19 Lexus Team WedsSport Bandoh Seiji Ara
Andre Couto		 Lexus SC430 Y +30 Laps 36
Ret 100 Raybrig Team Kunimitsu Takuya Izawa
Takashi Kogure		 Honda HSV-010 GT B +40 Laps 26
Ret 32 Epson Nakajima Racing Ryo Michigami
Daisuke Nakajima		 Honda HSV-010 GT D +46 Laps 18
GT300
1 4 GSR Hatsune Miku Tatsuya Kataoka
Nobuteru Taniguchi		 BMW Z4 GT3 Y 1:54:00.235 62
2 31 apr Morio Nitta
Koki Saga		 Toyota Prius Y +47.884 62
3 86 JLOC Shinya Hosokawa
Koji Yamanishi		 Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 Y +53.267 62
4 62 Leon Racing Haruki Kurosawa
Tsubasa Kurosawa		 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Y +54.931 62
5 3 NDDP Racing Kazuki Hoshino
Daiki Sasaki		 Nissan GT-R GT3 Y +1 Lap 61
10 10 Gainer Tetsuya Tanaka
Masayuki Ueda		 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 D +1 Lap 61
13 11 Gainer Katsuyuki Hiranaka
Björn Wirdheim		 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 D +1 Lap 61
8 16 Team Mugen Hideki Mutoh
Yuhki Nakayama		 Honda CR-Z B +1 Lap 61
9 61 R&D Sport Kota Sasaki
Tetsuya Yamano		 Subaru BRZ M +1 Lap 61
10 52 OKINAWA-IMP RACING with SHIFT Hironori Takeuchi
Takeshi Tsuchiya		 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Y +1 Lap 61
11 5 Team Mach Tetsuji Tamanaka
Junichiro Yamashita		 Nissan GT-R GT3 Y +1 Lap 61
12 30 apr Yuki Iwasaki
Igor Sushko		 Nissan GT-R GT3 Y +1 Lap 61
13 21 Hitotsuyama Racing Richard Lyons
Akihiro Tsuzuki		 Audi R8 LMS ultra H +1 Lap 61
14 2 Cars Tokai Dream28 Hiroki Katoh
Kazuho Takahashi		 McLaren MP4-12C GT3 Y +1 Lap 61
15 33 Hankook KTR Tomonobu Fujii
Masami Kageyama		 Porsche 911 GT3-R H +1 Lap 61
16 55 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Takashi Kobayashi
Shinichi Takagi		 Honda CR-Z B +1 Lap 61
17 22 R'Qs MotorSports Masaki Jyonai
Hisashi Wada		 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Y +1 Lap 61
18 50 Arnage Racing Masaki Kano
Hideto Yasuoka		 Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 Y +2 Laps 60
19 0 Team Taisan Ken Endless Kyosuke Mineo
Naoki Yokomizo		 Porsche 997 GT3 Y +2 Laps 60
20 87 JLOC Hideki Yamauchi
Hiroki Yoshimoto		 Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 Y +2 Laps 60
21 9 Pacific Direction Racing Shogo Mitsuyama
You Yokomaku		 Porsche 911 GT3-R Y +3 Laps 59
22 96 Dijon Racing Shin Ikegami
Masaki Tanaka		 Callaway Corvette Z06.R GT3 Y +4 Laps 58
23 360 Tomei Sports Takuya Shirasaka
Atsushi Tanaka		 Nissan GT-R GT3 Y +9 Laps 53
Ret 48 Dijon Racing Katsumasa Chiyo
Hiroshi Takamori		 Nissan GT-R GT3 Y +22 Lap 40
Ret 88 JLOC Takayuki Aoki
Manabu Orido		 Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 Y +29 Laps 33

Point rankings after the event
  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both GT500 and GT300 classes.
gollark: Nim? Rust?
gollark: Even if we do end up actually switching stuff over to them in the next N years, there will be *so many* devices which don't get updated.
gollark: While there are quantum-cryptography-proof cryptographic schemes around, they're barely in the early stages of being standardized, not really deployed in any common protocols yet, not reviewed as thoroughly as existing primitives, and generally not very production-ready.
gollark: Which allows factoring things faster, and also apparently discrete logarithm problems somehow.
gollark: Quantum computers can apparently cause problems for all widely deployed asymmetric cryptography via Shor's algorithm.

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