… LC500s were superior! NISMO GT-R made a good fight and became 2nd…
On May 3rd, SUPER GT ROUNDS 2 qualify session was hold at FUJI INTERNATIONAL CIRCUIT.
45 cars entered this round, but #360 couldn't attend the qualifying because of a crash during the official practice. On Pole is the LC500 #38 ZENT CERUMO LC500 (Tachikawa/Ishiura). Tachikawa renewed his own record of pole positions in the GT 500 class. And 2nd is #23 MOTUL AUTECH GT-R (Matsuda/RonnieQuintarelli) 3rd is #6 WAKO'S 4CR LC500 (Oshima/Andrea Caldarelli).
Qualify 1
GT 500 monopolizes the top Lexus at the last round in OKAYAMA. # 36 James Rossita who won the pole and 2nd # 38 Ishiura were in a close battle with a time difference of .033 seconds only. GT-R # 23 Matsuda lost control of his machine during attacking and coursed out. It seemed to be difficult to entry into Q2 in this situation, but he became 8th. In addition, the NSX #8 Nojiri ranked 5th.
Two Machines of Mercedes (#4 Good Smile HATSUNE MIKU AMG (Kataoka) and # 11 GAINER TANAX AMG GT 3 (Hiranaka) recorded a good time, #11 marked 1'35.864 is approaching the record time in remain 5 minutes of the qualifying. The fastest time in GT300 .3rd was # 9 GULF NAC PORSCHE 911 (Mineo).
Qualify 2
In the GT 500, Tachikawa, who is specialist at Fuji, gave a time closer to the course record and renewed his highest total pole position to 22 times.
# 23 Ronnie Quintarelli gave a good time to threaten the 2'1'28.168 Lexus midfield that follows Tachikawa, with 6 of the 8 entrants, 6 of them being LC500 and this time with Lexus momentum.
GT 300 class, # 4 Taniguchi always gave a steady time and pitted in with enough time left. 2nd is Jono Lester 3rd # 33 D'station Porsche (Sven Müller), 4th is # 11 Bjorn Wirdheim, and # 33 was outside of the course (with all 4 wheels), his lap time was canceled, and in the qualifying result he was demoted to 14th place.
The race will be held in tomorrow (2017 May 4).
QUALIFYING RESULT
GT500
1位： #38 ZENT CERUMO LC500(Tachikawa/Ishiura)
2位： #23 MOTUL AUTECH GT-R(Matsuda/Ronnie Quintarelli)
3位： #6 WAKO'S 4CR LC500(Oshima/Andrea caldartelli)
GT300
1位：#4 Good smile HATSUNE MIKU AMG(Taniguchi/Kataoka)
2位：#9 GULF NAC PORSCHE 911(Jono Lester/Mineo)
3位：#11 GAINER TANAX AMG GT3(Hiranaka/Bjorn Wirdheim)