The Kondo Nissan team had a 'star watching over us' after the miraculous way in which it clinched the SuperGT GT300 title despite shedding a wheel in the Motegi finale, says JPdeOliveira
Kondo Racing's title-winning Nissan GT300 team had a"star watching over us" in Sunday's Motegi SUPER GT finale, admits Joao Paulo de Oliveira after clinching a second crown in three years despite shedding a wheel.
The Gainer Nissan driven by Ryuichiro Tomita lost the fifth place it needed for Okusa to win the title at the start of the last lap, as he allowed the JLOC Lamborghini of Takashi Kogure to slip past for fifth. "It was a bit of a roller-coaster with the things that happened to us," reflected de Oliveira, who had been running fourth at the time of losing his wheel."It was out of my hands all of a sudden with that trouble.
"It was strange because I didn’t know the situation, not even on the last lap. I was in tears, I was crying. Sometimes things can happen in racing, but we had a [lucky] star watching over us."The Gainer car of Tomita, which finally finished eighth, was unable to maintain its pace due to a fuel shortage.
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