Sunday, August 23, 2009

First Victory for exciting pair of drivers and the SC430!

GT500 Winner : No. 35 KRAFT SC430 ; Hiroaki Ishiura - Kazuya Oshima

SUZUKA CIRCUIT : August 23, 2009 - The 6th round of the 2009 AUTOBACS SUPER GT series, the 38th INTERNATIONAL Pokka GT SUMMER SPECIAL, was held on Aug. 23 at the Suzuka Circuit (one lap 5.807km x 121 laps) in Mie Prefecture. The winner of the GT500 class was the KRAFT SC430 driven by Hiroaki Ishiura and Kazuya Oshima.


Hiroaki Ishiura and Kazuya Oshima had driven the KRAFT SC430 to win the pole position on Saturday. Ishiura is in his second season in the GT500 class, while Oshima is a rookie this season.

The race was shortened this yea from its previous 1,000 km to 700 km. From his pole-position start, Ishiura soon pulled away and opened up a gap over the competition. After Oshima took the wheel he continued to race on in the lead unchallenged. By the 65th lap at mid-race, he had a 10-second lead over the 2nd-place Honda NSX.

In the latter stages of the race a trailing car caught fire and the safety car came out to slow the race, causing the KRAFT SC430 to lose most of its lead margin, but with a well timed pit stop and an effective race strategy they managed to maintain the lead and run on to a pole-to-checkered victory.

Ishiura and Oshima also paired as drivers in the GT300 class in 2007 and won the driver's title that year. Now they are paired again in the GT500 class and this is their first victory in this class. This represents the second win for the LEXUS TEAM KRAFT, following a win in round 3 of the 2006 season. This is the second win this season for the Lexus 430 after winning the 2nd round, also here at Suzuka.

GT300 Winner : No. 46 S Road MOLA Z ; Kazuki Hoshino - Masataka Yanagida

In the GT300 class the victory went to the S Road MOLA Z (Kazuki Hoshino/Masataka Yanagida) after fighting back from a 14th place qualifying position with a skillfully run race while others suffered mishaps and passing the leader just before the last lap to score a dramatic win. This team also won last year's round 6 at Suzuka, giving them two-in-a row at the Suzuka summer festival of racing.


Winner Comments

GT500

Hiroaki Ishiura: "The first stint had to be run on the tire we ran the qualifying with, so my big concern was how to make the tires last. After building up a 3 or 4-second margin of lead, I started going easier on the tires. Even so, it got difficult near the end and car No. 3 was closing in. After I got through that, however, things got easier. It was a bit nerve-wracking when the Safety Car came out and we lost our margin, but the team made a good decision from the pit and we were able to build up a margin of lead again. That was a major factor in our victory today. After that I nervously watched Oshima drive with my heart racing (laughs). Last year I was given a big opportunity [to drive in the GT500 as one of the Toyota ace drivers] and it turned out to be a season with a lot of pressure for me, but with this victory I feel relieved at last."

Kazuya Oshima: "The machine has been in good condition all weekend, we won the pole position and everything was fine up to that point. In the race I concentrated on not making any mistakes and keeping my concentration to the end. I am so relieved now that I was able to make to the end with no mistakes. We lost our 10-second margin when the safety car came out, but I told myself that couldn't be helped and returned to the race determined to go all out. I was feeling good too, and I knew that the tires would hold out to the finish, so I was confident that even if they the competition caught up with me I could still outrun them. But in the latter stages of the race my cool suit stopped functioning and I soon drank all of my drink supply, so by the end I was running purely on will power (grimaces)."

GT300

Kazuki Hoshino: "We didn't decide whether to divide the race into three stints (with pit stops) or four stints, so we decided to make that decision after watching Yanagida's first stint. Seeing how well he drove and gained ground for us, we decided to go for a 3-stint race, and that turned out to be the right decision. The race development also went in our favor and we got 3rd position after the Safety Car came out. Last year taught me that if you don't give up until its over good things are bound to come your way [he won the title in the last lap of the last race], so I kept my hopes up all the time I was watching Yanagida drive. I don't even remember the moment when he passed the leader. The mechanics were all embracing each other in joy even though the race wasn't over yet (laughs). I am really grateful to everyone."

Masataka Yanagida: "This is really unbelievable for me. We started in 14th place and won at the very end of the race. I really feel wonderful to be able be here now in this place as the winner. At the end, when I saw a GT500 car pass the No. 2 car on the 130R curve, I decided to make my move there. The three cars competing for the lead were all running at about the same pace, so it wasn't really possible to pass it alone. When being passed by a GT500 car, the GT300 car suffers a time loss, so I decided to use that chance and pulled up alongside it on the 130R curve and then passed it in the chicane.
Thinking about the series title, the two of us (drivers) decided that this race at Suzuka was our last chance to keep the possibility of a title alive. The fact that we were able to win here in the last lap is a great result that will surely carry over into the last three rounds of the season. I am going to keep my hopes up for the remaining races and not give up until its over."

Race result : 2009 AUTOBACS SUPER GT Round 6 - 38th INTERNATIONAL Pokka GT SUMMER SPECIAL

SUZUKA CIRCUIT - Length : 5.807km x 121 Laps =702.647 km - Weather: Fine - Course: Dry - Spectators: 34,000

GT500 - Classification





























































































Pos
No.
Machine
Drivers
Time
135KRAFT SC430Hiroaki Ishiura

Kazuya Oshima
4:16'02.744
23HASEMI TOMICA EBBRO GT-RRonnie Quintarelli

Hironobu Yasuda
0'10.681
338ZENT CERUMO SC430Yuji Tachikawa

Richard Lyons
0'18.450
418ROCKSTAR DOME NSXRyo Michigami

Takashi Kogure
0'20.928
512IMPUL CALSONIC GT-RTsugio Matsuda

Sebastien Philippe
0'36.905
61MOTUL AUTECH GT-RSatoshi Motoyama

Michael Krumm
0'37.189
739DUNLOP SARD SC430Andre Couto

Kohei Hirate
0'49.525
836PETRONAS TOM'S SC430Juichi Wakisaka

Andre Lotterer
1'00.967
9100RAYBRIG NSXYuji Ide

Shinya Hosokawa
1'44.360
1017KEIHIN NSXToshihiro Kaneishi

Koudai Tsukakoshi

Katsutomo Kaneishi
1Lap
1124HIS ADVAN KONDO GT-RJoao Paulo Lima de Oliveira

Seiji Ara
2Laps
128ARTA NSXRalph Firman

Takuya Izawa
37Laps



GT300 - Classification







































































































































Pos
No.
Machine
Drivers
Time
1 46 S Road MOLA Z Kazuki Hoshino

Masataka Yanagida
4:17'12.955
2 43 ARTA Garaiya Morio Nitta

Shinichi Takagi
0'00.607
3 2 APPLE•K-one•Shiden Hiroki Katoh

Hiroki Yoshimoto
0'01.430
4 74 COROLLA Axio apr GT Takuto Iguchi

Yuji Kunimoto
0'04.601
5 11 JIMGAINER ADVAN F430 Tetsuya Tanaka

Katsuyuki Hiranaka
0'04.947
6 19 WedsSport IS350 Manabu Orido

Tatsuya Kataoka
0'27.750
7 7 M7 MUTIARA MOTORSAMEMIYASGC 7 Nobuteru Taniguchi

Ryo Orime
0'28.398
8 81 DAISHIN ADVAN Ferrari Takayuki Aoki

Tomonobu Fujii

Koji Aoyama
0'33.009
9 52 KUMHO TIRE SHIFT IS350 Kota Sasaki

Naoya Yamano

Yuhi Sekiguchi
1Lap
10 88 triple a GALLARDO RG-3 Hideshi Matsuda

Yuya Sakamoto
1Lap
11 55 J-TRUST F-PRO OUTOKITTO PORSCHE Yutaka Yamagishi

Hiroshi Koizumi
2Laps
12 87 giraffa GALLARDO RG-3 Hiroyuki Iiri

Hisashi Wada
2Laps
13 666 FieLDS BOMEX 320R Shogo Suho

Junichiro Yamashita

Takashi Miyamoto
5Laps
14 4 BOMEX LIAN BOXSTER Michito Uezumi

Yoshihiro Ito

Subaru Yamamoto
8Laps
15 10 JIMGAINER ADVAN F360 Masayuki Ueda

Masataka Kawaguchi
9Laps
16 26 UP START TAISAN PORCHE Haruki Kurosawa

Tsubasa Abe

Katsuhiko Tsutsui
12Laps
17 66 triple a MURCIE RG-1 Koji Yamanishi

Atsushi Yogo
18Laps
18 31 avex apr COROLLA Axio Yuya Sakamoto

Kyosuke Mineo

Takamori.com
19Laps


GT500 - Point Ranking






































































































































































































































Pos
No
Driver
R1
R2R3
R4
R5R6
Total
11Satoshi Motoyama
-

-

20

3

20

5

48
21Benoit Treluyer
-

-

20

3

20

-

43
336Jyuichi Wakisaka

Andre Lotterer
-

15

15

5

4

3

42
43Ronnie Quintarelli

Hironobu Yasuda
-

-

4

20

2

15

41
518Ryo Michigami

Takashi Kogure
15

6

-

-

11

8

40
638Yuji Tachikawa

Richard Lyons
5

20

2

1

1

11

40
724J.P.L.de Oliveira

Seiji Ara
20

3

8

6

-

-

37
835Hiroaki Ishiura

Kazuya Oshima
2

4

6

2

-

20

34
98Ralph Firman

Takuya Izawa
11






11

11

-

-

33
1017Toshihiro Kaneishi

Koudai Tsukakoshi
6

5

-

15

5

1

32
1112Matsuda Tsugio

Sebastien Philippe
8

11

-

4

3

6

32
1239Andre Couto

Kohei Hirate
-

1

1

-

15

4

21
13100Yuji Ide
3

-

-

8

8

2

21
14100Shinya Hosokawa
3

-

-

8

8

2

21
156Daisuke Ito

Bjorn Wirdheim
1

8

5

-

6

-

20
1632Loic Duval

Yuki Nakayama
4

2

3

-

-

-

9
1717Michael Krumm
-

-

-

-

-

5

5
1817Katsutomo Kaneishi
-

-

-

-

-

1

1


GT300 - Point Ranking






















































































































































































































































































Pos
No
Driver
R1
R2R3
R4
R5R6
Total
143Morio Nitta

Shinichi Takagi
15

6

20

1

2

15

59
22Hiroki Katoh
5

4

2

20

15

11

57
319Manabu Orido

Tatsuya Kataoka
20

3

6

15

6

5

55
446Kazuki Hoshino

Masataka Yanagida
4

11

5

8

5

20

53
52Hiroki Yoshimoto
-

4

2

20

15

11

52
67Nobuteru Taniguchi

Ryo Orime
11

15

11

11






4

52
733Mitsuhiro Kinoshita

Masami Kageyama
-

20

-

-

20

-

40
811Tetuya Tanaka

Katuyuki Hiranaka
8

8

-

3

11

6

36
981Takayuki Aoki

Tomonobu Fujii
-

5

15

-

8

3

31
1074Takuto Iguchi

Yuji Kunimoto
6

2

3

-

3

8

22
1126Tsubasa Abe
1

1

8

-

4

-

14
1231Yuya Sakamoto
2






4

5

1

-

12
1331Hideki Yamauchi
2






4

5

-

-

11
1426Haruki Kurosawa
1

1

8






-






10
1552Kouta Sasaki

Naoya Yamano
3

-

-

4

-

2

9
1666Koji Yamanishi

Atsushi Yogo
-

-

-

6

-

-

6
172Kazuho Takahashi
5

-

-

-

-

-

5
1826Tsubasa Kurosawa
-

-

-

-

4

-

4
1910Masayuki Ueda

Masataka Kawaguchi
-

-

-

2

-

-

2
2052Yuhi Sekiguchi
-

-

-

-

-

2

2
215Tetsuji Tamanaka

Akazame Oyaji
-

-

1

-

-

-

1
2231Kyosuke Mineo
-

-

-

-

1

-

1

GT500 - Team Point Ranking





































































































































































































Pos
No
Team
R1
R2 R3
R4
R5 R6
Total
1 1 NISMO
1

3

23

6

23

8

64
2 36 LEXUS TEAM PETRONAS TOM'S
1

18

18

8

6

6

57
3 38 LEXUS TEAM ZENT CERUMO
7

23

5

4

3

14

56
4 18 TEAM YOSHIKI & DOME PROJECT
18

9

2

2

14

11

56
5 3 HASEMI MOTOR SPORT
1

1

7

23

4

18

54
6 24 KONDO RACING
23

6

11

9

1

1

51
7 35 LEXUS TEAM KRAFT
4

7

9

5

1

23

49
8 17 KEIHIN REAL RACING
8

8

2

18

8

3

47
9 12 TEAM IMPUL
11

14

1

7

5

9

47
10 8 AUTOBACS RACING TEAM AGURI
14

1

14

14

1

1

45
11 39 LEXUS TEAM SARD
1

4

4

2

18

7

36
12 100 TEAM KUNIMITSU
5

2

2

11

11

5

36
13 6 LEXUS TEAM LeMans ENEOS
2

11

8

1

9

-

31
14 32 NAKAJIMA RACING
6

5

6

3

2

-

22
15 21 TEAM NOVA
1

-

1

-

-

-

2

GT300 - Team Point Ranking





































































































































































































































































































Pos
No
Team
R1
R2 R3
R4
R5 R6
Total
1 43 AUTOBACS RACING TEAM AGURI
18

9

23

4

5

18

77
2 2 Cars Tokai Dream28
8

7

3

23

18

14

73
3 19 RACING PROJECT BANDOH
23

6

9

18

9

8

73
4 46 TEAM NISHIZAWA MOLA
7

14

8

11

8

23

71
5 7 M7 RE-AMEMIYA RACING
14

18

14

14

3

7

70
6 11 JIMGAINER
11

11






6

14

9

51
7 33 HANKOOK KTR
-

23

-

-

23

-

46
8 81 TEAM DAISHIN
1

8

18






11

6

44
9 74 apr
9

5

6

1

6

11

38
10 31 apr
3

3

7

8

4

1

26
11 26 Team TAISAN
2

4

11






7

1

25
12 52 SHIFT
4

1

1

7

1

5

19
13 66 JLOC
1






1

9

3

1

15
14 88 JLOC





3

1






3

4

11
15 10 JIMGAINER





1

1

5

1

1

9
16 5 TEAM MACH
1

3

2

1

1






8
17 55 TOMEI SPORTS
1

3

1

-

1

1

7
18 666 Avanzza Rosso
1

1

1

1

1

1

6
19 87 JLOC
1











1

1

1

4
20 111 ARKTECH MOTORSPORTS
1

1

1

1

-

-

4
21 808 Studie GLAD Racing
1






1

-

1






3
22 110 ARKTECH MOTORSPORTS










1

-

1

-

2
23 4 Avanzza Rosso
-

-

-

-

-

1

1




Hi-light images : 2009 AUTOBACS SUPER GT series, the 38th INTERNATIONAL Pokka GT SUMMER SPECIAL









[Source : Official SUPER GT]

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