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 Raciing 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 drving 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 Japan Kohei Hirate Japan Yuji Tachikawa 1:32.480 1:32.548 B
2 37 Lexus Team KeePer TOM'S Japan Daisuke Ito Italy Andrea Caldarelli 1:32.909 1:32.820 B
3 18 Weider Dome Racing France Frédéric Makowiecki Japan Naoki Yamamoto 1:32.858 1:32.824 M
4 100 Raybrig Team Kunimitsu Japan Takashi Kogure Japan Takuya Izawa 1:33.137 1:32.842 B
5 36 Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S United Kingdom James Rossiter Japan Kazuki Nakajima 1:33.049 1:32.925 B
6 6 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS Japan Yuji Kunimoto Japan Kazuya Oshima 1:32.812 1:33.047 B
7 1 S-Road REITO MOLA Japan Yuhi Sekiguchi Japan Satoshi Motoyama 1:32.683 1:33.062 M
8 17 Keihin Real Racing Japan Koudai Tsukakoshi Japan Toshihiro Kaneishi 1:33.228 1:33.271 B
9 23 Motul Autech NISMO Japan Masataka Yanagida Italy Ronnie Quintarelli 1:33.330 M
10 24 D'Station ADVAN Kondo Racing Japan Hironobu Yasuda Germany Michael Krumm 1:33.391 Y
11 8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Republic of Ireland Ralph Firman Japan Kosuke Matsuura 1:33.396 B
12 39 Lexus Team DENSO SARD Japan Juichi Wakisaka Japan Hiroaki Ishiura 1:33.434 B
13 19 Lexus Team WedsSport Bandoh Portugal Andre Couto Japan Seiji Ara 1:33.478 Y
14 12 Calsonic Team Impul Brazil João Paulo de Oliveira Japan Tsugio Matsuda 1:33.610 B
15 32 Epson Nakajima Racing Japan Ryo Michigami Japan Daisuke Nakajima 1:33.714 D
GT300
1 55 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Japan Takashi Kobayashi Japan Shinichi Takagi 1:39.824 1:38.773 B
2 3 NDDP Racing Japan Daiki Sasaki Japan Kazuki Hoshino 1:39.478 1:39.198 Y
3 16 Team Mugen Japan Yuhki Nakayama Japan Hideki Mutoh 1:39.713 1:39.237 B
4 61 R&D Sport Japan Tetsuya Yamano Japan Kota Sasaki 1:40.052 1:39.403 M
5 4 GSR Hatsune Miku Japan Nobuteru Taniguchi Japan Tatsuya Kataoka 1:39.861 1:39.598 Y
6 11 Gainer Japan Katsuyuki Hiranaka Sweden Björn Wirdheim 1:40.170 1:39.644 D
7 5 Team Mach Japan Junichiro Yamashita Japan Tetsuji Tamanaka 1:40.186 1:39.873 Y
8 10 Gainer Japan Tetsuya Tanaka Japan Masayuki Ueda 1:40.430 1:39.959 D
9 31 apr Japan Morio Nitta Japan Koki Saga 1:39.926 1:40.065 Y
10 30 apr Japan Yuki Iwasaki United States Igor Sushko 1:40.378 1:40.191 Y
11 2 Cars Tokai Dream28 Japan Hiroki Katoh Japan Kazuho Takahashi 1:40.016 1:41.252 Y
12 48 Dijon Racing Japan Katsumasa Chiyo Japan Hiroshi Takamori 1:39.799 1:41.636 Y
13 9 Pacific Direction Racing Japan Shogo Mitsuyama Japan You Yokomaku 1:40.274 1:41.905 Y
14 86 JLOC Japan Koji Yamanishi Japan Shinya Hosokawa 1:40.438 Y
15 88 JLOC Japan Takayuki Aoki Japan Manabu Orido 1:40.522 Y
16 52 OKINAWA-IMP RACING with SHIFT Japan Takeshi Tsuchiya Japan Hironori Takeuchi 1:40.613 Y
17 50 Arnage Racing Japan Hideto Yasuoka Japan Masaki Kano 1:40.640 Y
18 62 Leon Racing Japan Tsubasa Kurosawa Japan Haruki Kurosawa 1:40.642 Y
19 87 JLOC Japan Hideki Yamauchi Japan Hiroki Yoshimoto 1:40.711 Y
20 33 Hankook KTR Japan Masami Kageyama Japan Tomonobu Fujii 1:40.926 H
21 22 R'Qs MotorSports Japan Masaki Jyonai Japan Hisashi Wada 1:41.185 Y
22 360 Tomei Sports Japan Takuya Shirasaka Japan Atsushi Tanaka 1:41.241 Y
23 0 Team Taisan Ken Endless Japan Naoki Yokomizo Japan Kyosuke Mineo 1:41.325 Y
24 21 Hitotsuyama Racing United Kingdom Richard Lyons Japan Akihiro Tsuzuki 1:41.387 H
25 96 Dijon Racing Japan Masaki Tanaka Japan 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 Japan Kohei Hirate
Japan Yuji Tachikawa
Lexus SC430 B 1:53:20.347 66
2 17 Keihin Real Racing Japan Toshihiro Kaneishi
Japan Koudai Tsukakoshi
Honda HSV-010 GT B +2.862 66
3 37 Lexus Team KeePer TOM'S Italy Andrea Caldarelli
Japan Daisuke Ito
Lexus SC430 B +8.247 66
4 6 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS Japan Yuji Kunimoto
Japan Kazuya Oshima
Lexus SC430 B +21.705 66
5 18 Weider Dome Racing France Frédéric Makowiecki
Japan Naoki Yamamoto
Honda HSV-010 GT M +29.431 66
6 12 Calsonic Team Impul Brazil João Paulo de Oliveira
Japan Tsugio Matsuda
Nissan GT-R B +37.231 66
7 1 S-Road REITO MOLA Japan Satoshi Motoyama
Japan Yuhi Sekiguchi
Nissan GT-R M +44.094 66
8 8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Republic of Ireland Ralph Firman
Japan Kosuke Matsuura
Honda HSV-010 GT B +47.620 66
9 23 Motul Autech NISMO Italy Ronnie Quintarelli
Japan Masataka Yanagida
Nissan GT-R M +49.414 66
10 24 D'Station ADVAN Kondo Racing Germany Michael Krumm
Japan Hironobu Yasuda
Nissan GT-R Y +1:09.683 66
11 39 Lexus Team DENSO SARD Japan Hiroaki Ishiura
Japan Juichi Wakisaka
Lexus SC430 B +1 Lap 65
12 36 Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S Japan Kazuki Nakajima
United Kingdom James Rossiter
Lexus SC430 B +1 Lap 65
Ret 19 Lexus Team WedsSport Bandoh Japan Seiji Ara
Portugal Andre Couto
Lexus SC430 Y +30 Laps 36
Ret 100 Raybrig Team Kunimitsu Japan Takuya Izawa
Japan Takashi Kogure
Honda HSV-010 GT B +40 Laps 26
Ret 32 Epson Nakajima Racing Japan Ryo Michigami
Japan Daisuke Nakajima
Honda HSV-010 GT D +46 Laps 18
GT300
1 4 GSR Hatsune Miku Japan Tatsuya Kataoka
Japan Nobuteru Taniguchi
BMW Z4 GT3 Y 1:54:00.235 62
2 31 apr Japan Morio Nitta
Japan Koki Saga
Toyota Prius Y +47.884 62
3 86 JLOC Japan Shinya Hosokawa
Japan Koji Yamanishi
Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 Y +53.267 62
4 62 Leon Racing Japan Haruki Kurosawa
Japan Tsubasa Kurosawa
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Y +54.931 62
5 3 NDDP Racing Japan Kazuki Hoshino
Japan Daiki Sasaki
Nissan GT-R GT3 Y +1 Lap 61
10 10 Gainer Japan Tetsuya Tanaka
Japan Masayuki Ueda
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 D +1 Lap 61
13 11 Gainer Japan Katsuyuki Hiranaka
Sweden Björn Wirdheim
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 D +1 Lap 61
8 16 Team Mugen Japan Hideki Mutoh
Japan Yuhki Nakayama
Honda CR-Z B +1 Lap 61
9 61 R&D Sport Japan Kota Sasaki
Japan Tetsuya Yamano
Subaru BRZ M +1 Lap 61
10 52 OKINAWA-IMP RACING with SHIFT Japan Hironori Takeuchi
Japan Takeshi Tsuchiya
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Y +1 Lap 61
11 5 Team Mach Japan Tetsuji Tamanaka
Japan Junichiro Yamashita
Nissan GT-R GT3 Y +1 Lap 61
12 30 apr Japan Yuki Iwasaki
United States Igor Sushko
Nissan GT-R GT3 Y +1 Lap 61
13 21 Hitotsuyama Racing United Kingdom Richard Lyons
Japan Akihiro Tsuzuki
Audi R8 LMS ultra H +1 Lap 61
14 2 Cars Tokai Dream28 Japan Hiroki Katoh
Japan Kazuho Takahashi
McLaren MP4-12C GT3 Y +1 Lap 61
15 33 Hankook KTR Japan Tomonobu Fujii
Japan Masami Kageyama
Porsche 911 GT3-R H +1 Lap 61
16 55 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Japan Takashi Kobayashi
Japan Shinichi Takagi
Honda CR-Z B +1 Lap 61
17 22 R'Qs MotorSports Japan Masaki Jyonai
Japan Hisashi Wada
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Y +1 Lap 61
18 50 Arnage Racing Japan Masaki Kano
Japan Hideto Yasuoka
Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 Y +2 Laps 60
19 0 Team Taisan Ken Endless Japan Kyosuke Mineo
Japan Naoki Yokomizo
Porsche 997 GT3 Y +2 Laps 60
20 87 JLOC Japan Hideki Yamauchi
Japan Hiroki Yoshimoto
Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 Y +2 Laps 60
21 9 Pacific Direction Racing Japan Shogo Mitsuyama
Japan You Yokomaku
Porsche 911 GT3-R Y +3 Laps 59
22 96 Dijon Racing Japan Shin Ikegami
Japan Masaki Tanaka
Callaway Corvette Z06.R GT3 Y +4 Laps 58
23 360 Tomei Sports Japan Takuya Shirasaka
Japan Atsushi Tanaka
Nissan GT-R GT3 Y +9 Laps 53
Ret 48 Dijon Racing Japan Katsumasa Chiyo
Japan Hiroshi Takamori
Nissan GT-R GT3 Y +22 Lap 40
Ret 88 JLOC Japan Takayuki Aoki
Japan Manabu Orido
Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 Y +29 Laps 33

Point rankings after the event

GT500 Driver Point rankings
Rank Driver Points
1 France Frédéric Makowiecki
Japan Naoki Yamamoto
46
2 Brazil João Paulo de Oliveira
Japan Tsugio Matsuda
46
3 Italy Ronnie Quintarelli
Japan Masataka Yanagida
44
4 Japan Kohei Hirate
Japan Yuji Tachikawa
43
5 Japan Toshihiro Kaneishi
Japan Koudai Tsukakoshi
41

GT300 Driver Point rankings
Rank Driver Points
1 Japan Hideki Mutoh
Japan Yuhki Nakayama
60
2 Japan Katsuyuki Hiranaka
Sweden Björn Wirdheim
46
3 Japan Kota Sasaki
Japan Tetsuya Yamano
46
4 Japan Hironori Takeuchi
Japan Takeshi Tsuchiya
43
5 Japan Tatsuya Kataoka
Japan Nobuteru Taniguchi
42

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