Sugo SUPER GT: Honda's Oyu pips Quintarelli to pole

2023-09-16 P1racenews AI Bruno Spengler Daiki Sasaki Eijiro Shimizu Giuliano Alesi Hibiki Taira Hideki Yamauchi Koki Saga. Mitsunori Takaboshi Morio Nitta Motorsport Oyu Nirei Fukuzumi Nobuharu Matsushita Ritomo Miyata Seiji Ara Sena Sakaguchi Shinichi Takagi Shun Koide Takashi Kobayashi Teppei Natori Tomoki Nojiri Tsugio Matsuda Yuichi Nakayama Yuji Tachikawa Yuui Tsutsumi

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Sugo SUPER GT: Honda's Oyu pips Quintarelli to pole

Oyu dominated the Q2 pole shootout at Sugo, setting a record-breaking lap time of 1m09.413s in the #8 ARTA Honda NSX-GT. Quintarelli came close but fell short by just 0.073s. The top three qualifiers all beat last year’s pole record. In the GT300 class, Morio Nitta and Shinichi Takagi took pole in the K-tunes Racing Lexus RC F GT3. Eijiro Shimizu finished second in the Shade Racing Toyota GR86 GT, while Hideki Yamauchi settled for third in his Subaru. Teppei Natori and the Kondo Racing Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 were the fastest of the cars carrying the maximum 100kg of success ballast.

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