Suzuka GT 300km (Super GT) *Results*

[Shiba-Kun]

Round1 2008-03-16 sun

(Spectator: 32,000)
Race Start 14:00
Race Distance 52 Laps / 301.964 km
Suzuka Circuit 5.807 km

Result Review Race Weather:Fine | Coursery

GT500 Class

1 23 XANAVI NISMO GT-R Satoshi Motoyama Benoit Treluyer 1:44'03.977 52 BS
2 22 MOTUL AUTECH GT-R Michael Krumm Masataka Yanagida 0'00.854 52 BS
3 36 PETRONAS TOM'S SC430 Juichi Wakisaka Andre Lotterer 0'25.551 52 BS
4 38 ZENT CERUMO SC430 Yuji Tachikawa Richard Lyons 0'32.757 52 BS
5 24 WOODONE ADVAN Clarion GT-R J. P. L. De Oliveira Seiji Ara 0'47.966 52 YH
6 35 houzan KRAFT SC430 Peter Dumbreck Tatsuya Kataoka 1'12.218 52 BS
7 18 TAKATA DOME NSX Ryo Michigami Takashi Kogure 1'23.777 52 BS
8 17 REAL NSX Katsutomo Kaneishi Toshihiro Kaneishi 1'37.516 52 BS
9 6 ENEOS SC430 Daisuke Ito Bjorn Wirdheim 1'42.861 52 BS
10 32 EPSON NSX Loic DUVAL Katsuyuki Hiranaka 1'45.416 52 DL
11 25 ECLIPSE ADVAN SC430 Takeshi Tsuchiya Hiroaki Ishiura 1Lap 51 YH
12 39 DENSO DUNLOP SARD SC430 Toranosuke Takagi Andre Couto 1Lap 51 DL
13 100 RAYBRIG NSX Yuji Ide Shinya Hosokawa 1Lap 51 BS
14 1 ARTA NSX Ralph Firman Takuya Izawa 5Laps 47 BS
15 3 YellowHat YMS TOMICA GT-R Ronnie Quintarelli Naoki Yokomizo 11Laps 41 BS

Classified (GT500: 36 Laps)
12 CALSONIC IMPUL GT-R Tsugio Matsuda Sebastien Philippe 17Laps 35 BS


GT300 Class

1 7 ORC AMEMIYA SGC-7 Hiroyuki Iiri Ryo Orime 1:45'39.045 48 YH
2 2 Privée KENZO Asset Shiden Kazuho Takahashi Hiroki Katoh 0'14.827 48 YH
3 26 YUNKER POWER TAISAN PORSCHE Nobuteru Taniguchi Shinichi Yamaji 0'31.416 48 YH
4 81 DAISHIN ADVAN Z Takayuki Aoki Tomonobu Fujii 0'33.011 48 YH
5 43 ARTA Garaiya Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi 1Lap 47 MI
6 77 CUSCO DUNLOP SUBARU IMPREZA Tetsuya Yamano Kota Sasaki 1Lap 47 DL
7 19 WedsSport Celica Manabu Orido Tsubasa Abe 1Lap 47 YH
8 4 EBBRO UEMATSU 320R Ryohei Sakaguchi Masaki Matsushita 1Lap 47 YH
9 110 KUMHO BOXSTER-GT Hidetoshi Mitsusada Daisuke Ikeda 1Lap 47 KH
10 31 DOUBLEHEAD avex apr MR-S Kyosuke Mineo Yuya Sakamoto 1Lap 47 MI
11 33 HANKOOK PORSCHE Mitsuhiro Kinoshita Masami Kageyama 1Lap 47 HK
12 11 JIMCENTER DIXCEL ADVAN F430 Tetsuya Tanaka Masayuki Ueda 1Lap 47 YH
13 95 Lightning McQueen apr MR-S Kohei Hirate Keisuke Kunimoto 1Lap 47 MI
14 5 Proμ MACH-GO 320R Tetsuji Tamanaka Naoya Yamano 2Laps 46 YH
15 111 ARKTECH BOXSTER-GT Hiroshi Koizumi Guts Jyonai 2Laps 46 KH
16 16 CHUGAI UEMATSU 350R Tadao Uematsu Katsuhiko Tsutsui 2Laps 46 YH
17 666 Rakuten BOMEX 320R Shogo Suho Junichiro Yamashita 3Laps 45 KH
18 27 ISHIMATSU RYUMA HANKOOK GT3 Takashi Inoue Hwang Jin-Woo 3Laps 45 HK
19 118 4CARAT SON GT3 Takashi Miyamoto Takashi Ohi 3Laps 45 YH
20 70 GAIKOKUYA ADVAN GT3-RS Takehide Maeda Yutaka Yamagishi 4Laps 44 YH

Classified (GT300: 33 Laps)

46 MOLA LEOPALACE Z Kazuki Hoshino Hironobu Yasuda 19Laps 29 MI
66 DGRQ MURCIE RG-1 Koji Yamanishi Atsushi Yogo 26Laps 22 YH


Tire = BS:Bridgestone / DLunlop / HK:Hankook / KH:Kumho / MI:Michelin / YH:Yokohama

WH = Handicap Weight (kg) / +1:Promotion of Performance (Level 1) / +2:Promotion of Performance (Level 2)

Start: 14:05'27 / Finish: 15:49'30


GT500 Best Lap Top3 :
1'56.136 : No.12 CALSONIC IMPUL GT-R (Tsugio Matsuda)
1'56.957 : No.32 EPSON NSX (Katsuyuki Hiranaka)
1'57.046 : No.24 WOODONE ADVAN Clarion GT-R (J. P. L. De Oliveira)


GT300 Best Lap Top3 :
2'07.846 : No.2 Privée KENZO Asset Shiden (Hiroki Katoh)
2'08.140 : No.7 ORC AMEMIYA SGC-7 (Hiroyuki Iiri)
2'08.517 : No.26 YUNKER POWER TAISAN PORSCHE (Nobuteru Taniguchi

[ThirdLane]

damn, is that right? Did I just read that the GT-R beat the SC430 by 26 seconds? I've read that GT is going to impose a rule change by the next round so that the GT-R won't be dominating this season onward

[Shiba-Kun]

Originally Posted by ThirdLane

damn, is that right? Did I just read that the GT-R beat the SC430 by 26 seconds? I've read that GT is going to impose a rule change by the next round so that the GT-R won't be dominating this season onward

I bet they wait until the next testing period to see how the ballast effects the times of the field. Also I'm not sure under what circumstances they gained the 25+ on the rest of the field (speaking of the 1st & 2nd place cars).

But if it's a legit time differential, then yeah I'm in agreement that the GT Assoc. will have to do something about the competitive disadvantage. It's still a formula series after all.

[Shiba-Kun]

I just read the race recap. The 3rd place grid starter spun out and damaged his GT-R (so Nissan had 1-3 places at the front of the grid). This let the first two GT-R's open up a 5+ second gap to the field.

Later the repaired Calsonic GT-R came back to the race and clocked the fastest lap time!

So me thinks the Nissans = light speed fast!

[ThirdLane]

Originally Posted by Shiba-Kun

I bet they wait until the next testing period to see how the ballast effects the times of the field. Also I'm not sure under what circumstances they gained the 25+ on the rest of the field (speaking of the 1st & 2nd place cars).

But if it's a legit time differential, then yeah I'm in agreement that the GT Assoc. will have to do something about the competitive disadvantage. It's still a formula series after all.

weight ballast is definitely coming per the rules but I've read that GT Association might overhaul their rule books to curb the GT-R's pace

[Hotlavaaaa]

It makes sense that the GT-R is fast. It is the newest car after all. I know all the cars are constantly developed but having the newest developed from the ground up car has definitely given Nissan the upper hand. It's also good to see the Amemiya RX-7 get a win after going winless last year. Here's some photos from the race.

[Shiba-Kun]

^ I'm not so sure about that. Even if it's the newest model car, the teams are still forced to fit within a specific race forumla. For example the NSX teams were the fastest last year even if the platform is an elderly one.

[ThirdLane]

Originally Posted by Shiba-Kun

^ I'm not so sure about that. Even if it's the newest model car, the teams are still forced to fit within a specific race forumla. For example the NSX teams were the fastest last year even if the platform is an elderly one.

or when Toyota first started using SC430 as their GT500 car, they didn't immediately open a big f'ing can of 26seconds advantage on the first race

[UltraMagneticAL]

so there's only a 1 second difference between the gt300 1st place and gt500 1st place?

[Hotlavaaaa]

Originally Posted by UltraMagneticAL

so there's only a 1 second difference between the gt300 1st place and gt500 1st place?

wut? The time after the GT500/300 winners is in hours if that is what you mean.

[UltraMagneticAL]

yeah i read that wrong. i was kinda glossed over at the office when i read that and not totally there upstairs. but still, only a minute difference between the 500 and 300 classes shows something definitely caused a 26 second differential between 1st and 3rd in gt500.

anyone remember the video i posted when jgtc came to america? i have it somewhere online. i think it's somewhere here on superhonda. i'll try to find it later.

[Hotlavaaaa]

Originally Posted by UltraMagneticAL

yeah i read that wrong. i was kinda glossed over at the office when i read that and not totally there upstairs. but still, only a minute difference between the 500 and 300 classes shows something definitely caused a 26 second differential between 1st and 3rd in gt500.

anyone remember the video i posted when jgtc came to america? i have it somewhere online. i think it's somewhere here on superhonda. i'll try to find it later.

The GT300 winner ran 48 laps in the time it took the GT500 winner to run the race distance of 52 laps, so the one minute gap is the time gap between the GT500 winner taking the checkers and the next time the GT300 leader crossed the line to finish their race. I have a video from GT Live that I downloaded from here. It's shot from the grandstand where the drifting course was. Not sure if that's the one you're talking about.

[Shiba-Kun]

Yup yup. The field isn't frozen, they still need to race back to the start/finish line on the final lap.