Honda claims pole position for SUPERGT's most prestigious race and in Toyota's backyard, while Nissan struggles with heavy success ballast. Full qualifying report:
Tadasuke Makino put Honda on pole position for SUPER GT’s Golden Week classic at Fuji Speedway, while Nissan struggled following its dominant win at Okayama.Free of any success ballast following a disastrous result in the season opener, Makino lapped the Toyota-owned circuit in 1m26.420s in the #100 Honda NSX-GT Type S to take Team Kunimitsu team’s first pole position since last year’s finale at Motegi.
Kazuya Oshima left it until the very end to set his best lap in qualifying, helping the Rookie Racing Toyota team jump from eighth to fourth with a time of 1m26.473s. Tomoki Nojiri was a disappointing seventh in the second of the two ARTA entries, while Nobuharu Matsushita was the slowest of the Q2 runners in the Real Racing Honda, albeit just over half a second of the pace in a closely-contested qualifying session.
Both cars are carrying heavy ballast into the Fuji round following their 1-2 result in the Okayama, with the #23 Nissan hobbled by 42kg of extra weight and the #3 car running 30kg heavier than usual. De Oliveira, a two-time GT300 champion with Kondo, set a best time of 1m35.114s in Q2, taking the top spot by 0.062s from the #31 apr Lexus LC500h driven by Kazuto Kotaka.
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