2013 Motegi GT 250km

The 2013 Motegi GT 250km was the final championship round of the 2013 Super GT season, the 8th points scoring race for GT500 cars and the 9th for GT300 cars. It took place on November 3, 2013 at Twin Ring Motegi in Motegi, Tochigi, Japan.

Background

Kohei Hirate and Yuji Tachikawa led the championship for Team Cerumo, having scored 58 points. Following their win at the previous race, TOM'S drivers Kazuki Nakajima and James Rossiter were 2nd in the championship, four points behind Cerumo. Eight teams in GT500 had a theoretical chance at winning the championship entering the Motegi round. In GT300 Team Mugen had an eight-point lead over Goodsmile Racing's Tatsuya Kataoka and Nobuteru Taniguchi, while in GT300 only five teams had a possibility of winning the championship. The Balance of Performance was re-adjusted in GT300, the air restrictor sizes for the Honda CR-Z and Subaru BRZ were returned to their sizes that were at the Fuji 300km round. [1]

Because Motegi was the final round of the championship, teams that competed in all rounds of the championship had their weight ballast removed, all cars with the exception of the #5 Team Mach Nissan GT-R GT3 ran without weight ballast. Unlike other rounds which are normally 300km in length, Motegi is only a 250km race. 38 cars entered the final round at Motegi, the #360 Tomei Sports Nissan GT-R GT3 not entering Motegi was the only change from the Autopolis entry list. [2]

Report

Practice

The #38 Team Cerumo Lexus SC430 was fastest GT500 car in practice while the #100 Team Kunimitsu Honda HSV-010 GT was second fastest. In GT300 The #11 Gainer Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 set the fastest time from the #16 Team Mugen Honda CR-Z. The #37 TOM'S SC430 caused the first red flag 17 minutes into the session after spinning off at the final turn. A second red flag came out 40 minutes in after the car that was fastest at the end of the session, #38 Team Cerumo SC430 spun off at turn 2. The #19 Bandoh SC430 also had a problem and stopped on circuit with 20 minutes remaining. [3]

Qualifying

Qualifying was held on November 2, 2013. In the first session for all GT300 cars the championship leader, the Team Mugen Honda CR-Z with Yuhki Nakayama was fastest from the #11 Gainer SLS. The session was red flagged as Takashi Kobayashi spun off at the hairpin and was unable to rejoin the circuit, and would have to start the race from the rear of the grid. The only championship-contending team eliminated in Q1 for GT300 was the #52 SLS with Hironori Takeuchi driving. In the first GT500 session Masataka Yanagida was fastest for NISMO, 2nd went to Takashi Kogure. Both Frédéric Makowiecki and James Rossiter, driving for teams that entered Motegi 3rd and 4th in the championship respectively failed to make the cutoff for the second session.

In the second GT300 session Kota Sasaki was fastest in the #61 Subaru BRZ, scoring the team's 5th pole position of the season and Sasaki's 10th in his career. Three of the 4 championship contending teams started in the top three, the GSR Hatsune Miku BMW that was 2nd in the championship would start 7th. Kazuya Oshima was fastest in the second GT500 qualifying session, setting a time a tenth faster than Koudai Tsukakoshi. The championship leading team would start 4th. [4]

Race

The race was held on November 3, 2013. Oshima started the #6 SC430 from pole position and kept his lead while Tetsuya Yamano was able to lead from the start in GT300, but on lap 4, Björn Wirdheim had overtaken Yamano for the lead, Wirdheim in the #11 Gainer SLS being able to lap much faster than anyone else in the class. On lap 4 in GT500 Kohei Hirate in the #38 SC430 passed Toshihiro Kaneishi in the #17 HSV-010 for 2nd and was then under attack from multiple cars behind. Oshima and Wirdheim kept extending their leads in their respective classes throughout the first stint, Oshima building nearly 20 seconds over Hirate and Wirdheim had nearly 40 seconds on 2nd.

The first pitstops occurred as early as lap 19, Kaneishi in the #17 being the first of the lead group to pit with Tsugio Matsuda, Juichi Wakisaka and Naoki Yamamoto pitting as well. Cerumo pitted a lap after and Yuji Tachikawa managed to keep his position over the #17, now with Koudai Tsukakoshi driving. On lap 32 Hiroaki Ishiura passed Tsukakoshi for 3rd, but 3 laps later Tsukakoshi re-passed Ishiura and began closing on Tachikawa again. Andre Couto and Ralph Firman made contact on lap 38, sending Firman into the wall and Couto receiving a drive-through penalty for the incident.[5] Tsukakoshi overtook Tachikawa for 2nd on lap 38 but Tachikawa still held a 2-point lead in the championship and with other Lexus SC430's behind there was no change in position for the rest of the race, giving Team Cerumo, Tachikawa and Hirate the championship. Yuji Kunimoto won his first GT500 race for Team LeMans and Oshima won his 3rd GT500 race.

Kota Sasaki was catching Yuhki Nakayama for 2nd in GT300 in the closing laps but with two laps to go Sasaki spun, which assured Nakayama would finish 2nd, which was enough for Team Mugen to win the GT300 championship by five points over the race winners of Katsuyuki Hiranaka and Björn Wirdheim, who were well ahead of anyone else in their class.[6]

Results

Qualifying

[7][8]

Pos No Team Q1 Driver Q2 Driver Qualifying 1 Qualifying 2 Tyre
GT500
1 6 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS Yuji Kunimoto Kazuya Oshima 1:42.117 1:41.367 B
2 17 Keihin Real Racing Toshihiro Kaneishi Koudai Tsukakoshi 1:42.292 1:41.490 B
3 23 Motul Autech NISMO Masataka Yanagida Ronnie Quintarelli 1:41.821 1:41.514 M
4 38 Lexus Team Zent Cerumo Kohei Hirate Yuji Tachikawa 1:42.022 1:41.582 B
5 39 Lexus Team DENSO SARD Juichi Wakisaka Hiroaki Ishiura 1:42.062 1:41.598 B
6 100 Raybrig Team Kunimitsu Takashi Kogure Takuya Izawa 1:41.996 1:42.144 B
7 37 Lexus Team KeePer TOM'S Daisuke Ito Andrea Caldarelli 1:42.305 1:42.323 B
8 12 Calsonic Team Impul João Paulo de Oliveira Tsugio Matsuda 1:42.208 1:42.374 B
9 1 S-Road REITO MOLA Yuhi Sekiguchi Satoshi Motoyama 1:42.364 M
10 18 Weider Dome Racing Frédéric Makowiecki Naoki Yamamoto 1:42.399 M
11 24 D'Station ADVAN Kondo Racing Hironobu Yasuda Michael Krumm 1:42.463 Y
12 19 Lexus Team WedsSport Bandoh Andre Couto Seiji Ara 1:42.558 Y
13 36 Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S James Rossiter Kazuki Nakajima 1:42.564 B
14 8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Ralph Firman Kosuke Matsuura 1:42.679 B
15 32 Epson Nakajima Racing Daisuke Nakajima Ryo Michigami 1:43.547 D
GT300
1 61 R&D Sport Tetsuya Yamano Kota Sasaki 1:49.156 1:48.264 M
2 11 Gainer Björn Wirdheim Katsuyuki Hiranaka 1:49.090 1:48.354 D
3 16 Team Mugen Yuhki Nakayama Hideki Mutoh 1:48.636 1:48.389 B
4 3 NDDP Racing Kazuki Hoshino Daiki Sasaki 1:49.377 1:48.900 Y
5 62 Leon Racing Tsubasa Kurosawa Haruki Kurosawa 1:49.813 1:48.970 Y
6 88 JLOC Manabu Orido Takayuki Aoki 1:49.621 1:49.241 Y
7 4 GSR Hatsune Miku Tatsuya Kataoka Nobuteru Taniguchi 1:49.717 1:49.518 Y
8 87 JLOC Hiroki Yoshimoto Hideki Yamauchi 1:49.641 1:49.551 Y
9 33 Hankook KTR Tomonobu Fujii Masami Kageyama 1:49.826 1:49.600 H
10 0 Team Taisan Ken Endless Naoki Yokomizo Kyosuke Mineo 1:49.702 1:49.789 Y
11 10 Gainer Tetsuya Tanaka Masayuki Ueda 1:49.215 1:50.240 D
12 2 Cars Tokai Dream28 Hiroki Katoh Kazuho Takahashi 1:49.893 1:52.238 Y
13 48 Dijon Racing Katsumasa Chiyo Hiroshi Takamori 1:49.530 1:52.276 Y
14 31 apr Morio Nitta Koki Saga 1:50.063 Y
15 21 Hitotsuyama Racing Richard Lyons Akihiro Tsuzuki 1:50.162 H
16 30 apr Yuki Iwasaki Igor Sushko 1:50.420 Y
17 50 Arnage Racing Hideto Yasuoka Masaki Kano 1:50.440 Y
18 86 JLOC Shinya Hosokawa Koji Yamanishi 1:50.446 Y
19 22 R'Qs MotorSports Hisashi Wada Masaki Jyonai 1:50.544 Y
20 52 OKINAWA-IMP RACING with SHIFT Hironori Takeuchi Takeshi Tsuchiya 1:50.632 Y
21 5 Team Mach Tetsuji Tamanaka Junichiro Yamashita 1:51.337 Y
22 9 Pacific Direction Racing Shogo Mitsuyama You Yokomaku 1:51.707 Y
23 55 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Takashi Kobayashi Shinichi Takagi No Time B

Race

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

Pos No Team Drivers Chassis Tyre Time/Difference Laps
GT500
1 6 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS Yuji Kunimoto
Kazuya Oshima		 Lexus SC430 B 1:35:34.873 53
2 17 Keihin Real Racing Toshihiro Kaneishi
Koudai Tsukakoshi		 Honda HSV-010 GT B +11.640 53
3 38 Lexus Team Zent Cerumo Kohei Hirate
Yuji Tachikawa		 Lexus SC430 B +32.220 53
4 39 Lexus Team DENSO SARD Hiroaki Ishiura
Juichi Wakisaka		 Lexus SC430 B +33.293 53
5 36 Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S Kazuki Nakajima
James Rossiter		 Lexus SC430 B +33.405 53
6 37 Lexus Team KeePer TOM'S Andrea Caldarelli
Daisuke Ito		 Lexus SC430 B +43.352 53
7 18 Weider Dome Racing Frédéric Makowiecki
Naoki Yamamoto		 Honda HSV-010 GT M +43.980 53
8 23 Motul Autech NISMO Ronnie Quintarelli
Masataka Yanagida		 Nissan GT-R M +46.982 53
9 24 D'Station ADVAN Kondo Racing Michael Krumm
Hironobu Yasuda		 Nissan GT-R Y +47.690 53
10 19 Lexus Team WedsSport Bandoh Seiji Ara
Andre Couto		 Lexus SC430 Y +57.947 53
11 32 Epson Nakajima Racing Ryo Michigami
Daisuke Nakajima		 Honda HSV-010 GT D +1:03.938 53
12 100 Raybrig Team Kunimitsu Takuya Izawa
Takashi Kogure		 Honda HSV-010 GT B +1:05.040 53
13 12 Calsonic Team Impul João Paulo de Oliveira
Tsugio Matsuda		 Nissan GT-R B +1 Lap 52
14 1 S-Road REITO MOLA Satoshi Motoyama
Yuhi Sekiguchi		 Nissan GT-R M +6 Laps 47
15 8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Ralph Firman
Kosuke Matsuura		 Honda HSV-010 GT B +15 Laps 38
GT300
1 11 Gainer Katsuyuki Hiranaka
Björn Wirdheim		 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 D 1:36:39.089 51
2 16 Team Mugen Hideki Mutoh
Yuhki Nakayama		 Honda CR-Z B +1 Lap 50
3 61 R&D Sport Kota Sasaki
Tetsuya Yamano		 Subaru BRZ M +1 Lap 50
4 4 GSR Hatsune Miku Tatsuya Kataoka
Nobuteru Taniguchi		 BMW Z4 GT3 Y +1 Lap 50
5 88 JLOC Takayuki Aoki
Manabu Orido		 Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 Y +1 Lap 50
6 62 Leon Racing Haruki Kurosawa
Tsubasa Kurosawa		 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Y +1 Lap 50
7 52 OKINAWA-IMP RACING with SHIFT Hironori Takeuchi
Takeshi Tsuchiya		 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Y +1 Lap 50
8 87 JLOC Hideki Yamauchi
Hiroki Yoshimoto		 Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 Y +1 Lap 50
9 3 NDDP Racing Kazuki Hoshino
Daiki Sasaki		 Nissan GT-R GT3 Y +1 Lap 50
10 0 Team Taisan Ken Endless Kyosuke Mineo
Naoki Yokomizo		 Porsche 997 GT3 Y +1 Lap 50
11 33 Hankook KTR Tomonobu Fujii
Masami Kageyama		 Porsche 911 GT3-R H +1 Lap 50
12 10 Gainer Tetsuya Tanaka
Masayuki Ueda		 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 D +1 Lap 50
13 86 JLOC Shinya Hosokawa
Koji Yamanishi		 Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 Y +1 Lap 50
14 30 apr Yuki Iwasaki
Igor Sushko		 Nissan GT-R GT3 Y +1 Lap 50
15 55 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Takashi Kobayashi
Shinichi Takagi		 Honda CR-Z B +1 Lap 50
16 22 R'Qs MotorSports Masaki Jyonai
Hisashi Wada		 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Y +1 Lap 50
17 2 Cars Tokai Dream28 Hiroki Katoh
Kazuho Takahashi		 McLaren MP4-12C GT3 Y +1 Lap 50
18 48 Dijon Racing Katsumasa Chiyo
Hiroshi Takamori		 Nissan GT-R GT3 Y +1 Lap 50
19 9 Pacific Direction Racing Shogo Mitsuyama
You Yokomaku		 Porsche 911 GT3-R Y +1 Lap 50
20 31 apr Morio Nitta
Koki Saga		 Toyota Prius Y +2 Laps 49
21 21 Hitotsuyama Racing Richard Lyons
Akihiro Tsuzuki		 Audi R8 LMS ultra H +3 Laps 48
22 5 Team Mach Tetsuji Tamanaka
Junichiro Yamashita		 Nissan GT-R GT3 Y +3 Laps 48
Ret 50 Arnage Racing Masaki Kano
Hideto Yasuoka		 Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 Y +45 Laps 6
  • GT500 Fastest Lap – Kazuya Oshima, #6 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS Lexus SC430 – 1:44.056
  • GT300 Fastest Lap – Kota Sasaki, #61 R&D Sport Subaru BRZ – 1:50.728

Point rankings after the event
  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both GT500 and GT300 classes.
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