Finishing the SuperGT season as the top Toyota squad in the standings means Rookie Racing achieved the 'minimum' this year, feels kentayamashitaa:
Yamashita and his teammate aboard the #14 Toyota GR Supra, Kazuya Oshima, salvaged a third-place finish from 11th on the grid in Sunday's Motegi finale, giving them a first podium finish since their victory at Okayama in April.
Yamashita was then able to keep pace with the two leading cars, the Team Kunimitsu Honda and Impul Nissan, in his stint, while also holding off a late charge from the recovering NDDP Racing Nissan to clinch third. "Qualifying and the race are two separate things, and it feels like we had a bad set-up for qualifying. For the race we worked hard and found a different set-up direction. But if you asked me if we would have a better qualifying with this set-up, I don’t think we would have."Third place meant that Yamashita and Oshima crucially finished the year as the top Toyota duo in the standings in fifth, beating TOM'S duo Sacha Fenestraz and Ritomo Miyata by six points in the final reckoning.
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