Honda remains in hunt for the 2022 SUPERGT title after Tadasuke Makino put the Kunimitsu squad on pole position for the Motegi finale. Full qualifying report:
After Naoki Yamamoto topped the first leg of qualifying in the #100 Honda NSX-GT, teammate Tadasuke Makino kept up the good work of his older teammate in Q2 as he lowered the GT500 lap record to 1m35.194s.
Takaboshi and Katsumasa Chiyo lead the championship by just 2.5 points over the Impul Nissan of Baguette and Kazuki Hiramine, with the extra point Makino and Yamamoto scored for pole position putting them 16 points off the top. The only Honda that didn’t make it into Q2 was the Real Racing entry, the marque’s best hope of winning the title, with Nobuharu Matsushita qualifying a disappointing 10th behind the #23 NISMO Nissan of Tsugio Matsuda.
Slowest of all were the two TOM’S entries in 14th and 15th positions, both ending up more than a second of the Q1 pace set by the Kunimitsu Honda.Honda's ARTA team smashed the lap record to claim pole position in the GT300 class, while Subaru’s title hopes took a big blow after Hideki Yamauchi suffered an uncharacteristic crash on his final flying lap.
However, the main headline from Q2 was an untimely crash from Yamauchi that could have major implications for the title battle.
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