Tsuboi was left to lament making his mandatory pitstop on lap 26 of 40 during Sunday's race, moments after long-time leader Yuhi Sekiguchi lost a wheel and triggered a safety car period.
The Inging Toyota driver was just leaving the pits as the safety car was called, and while he was initially happy to have jumped ahead of Tomoki Nojiri, it was the drivers that stayed out on track for one more lap that really benefitted from the intervention.
