Honda managed to win last weekend's SuperGT finale at Motegi, but it was Nissan that ended up winning the title. The Sakura marque reckons September's rain-affected Sugo race is where it all went wrong this year:
In last weekend's Motegi season finale, Honda scored a first pole position and a second win with the updated Type S version of the NSX-GT as Team Kunimitsu pair Naoki Yamamoto and Tadasuke Makino dominated.
Both the Kunimitsu and Real NSX-GTs had looked good for a strong result in the dry, but the rain meant they ended up eighth and 12th respectively. "The point at which the momentum shifted was the wet race at Sugo. There we had to score big points at a track well suited to our car, and we couldn't. I think that was the biggest cause for our defeat."Despite a promising start to the race for the Real Honda, as Matsushita went from 10th on the grid to fourth early on, the car shared by he and Tsukakoshi lacked the pace later in the race to mount a real challenge.
"Then things calmed down and I handed over to Koudai, but after that the pace with the tyres wasn’t good, and we struggled a lot. That was it, I think. We didn’t have the pace to catch up. It’s quite a big shame, but that’s how it is.
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