He may have qualified P3 on his SFormula return at Sugo, but Tomoki_Nojiri says he is still not fully recovered from his collapsed lung. Plus, Liam Lawson reflects on a tough day after qualifying in P6:
Nojiri ended up just 0.213 seconds off the pace of his SUPER GT team-mate Oyu in the Q2 pole shootout, delivering a lap time that was almost two tenths faster than Red Bull junior Lawson.
"This time I was focused on increasing the downforce and using the peak grip of the car," explained Nojiri."I think it was because we forgot about trying to make the car easy to drive and focused on the peak grip that I am here today [in the top three]."By watching from the outside at Autopolis, I felt like it’s not just him who I have to fight against.
"We had a very strong car at Autopolis, but here we don’t quite have the speed of the top two," said the New Zealander."But for me, learning this track… I would like to do qualifying again now, looking back.
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