Quintarelli and his teammate Tsugio Matsuda took their best grid position of the 2022 campaign so far in eighth place, as the Italian driver managed to get the #23 car through Q1 for the first time this season.
Although Matsuda's Q2 lap was 1.3 seconds adrift of the pole benchmark set by Bandoh Toyota driver Sena Sakaguchi, Quintarelli was bullish of the team's chances of making up ground in Sunday's 100-lap race.
