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Why Toyota’s top SUPER GT team is looking difficult to stop

After winning the second round of the season at Fuji, TOM’S duo Sho Tsuboi and Ritomo Miyata talked down their prospects of doing the same in the following race at Suzuka. That’s to be expected; cars rarely win races carrying 40kg of success ballast, after all.

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Winning Nissan penalised after mass protest, Bandoh Toyota wins

Katsumasa Chiyo and Mitsunori Takaboshi were initially declared the winners of the 450km race after it was cut short for a huge crash involving the sister NISMO car of Tsugio Matsuda and the JLOC Lamborghini Huracan of Kosuke Matsuura.

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Suzuka SUPER GT: NDDP Nissan declared winner after race-ending crash

The #3 Nissan Z of Katsumasa Chiyo and Mitsunori Takaboshi was ahead on the road at the time of Matsuda's huge crash on lap 59 of 77 by virtue of not yet having completed its second refuelling stop.

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Suzuka Super GT: Huge crash brings race to early end

The #23 NISMO Nissan Z of Matsuda and the #87 JLOC Lamborghini Huracan GT3 of Matsuura were caught up in a frightening accident at 130R that brought out the red flags on lap 59 of 77.

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Suzuka SUPER GT: Huge crash brings race to early end

The #23 NISMO Nissan Z of Matsuda and the #87 JLOC Lamborghini Huracan GT3 of Matsuura were caught up in a frightening accident at 130R that brought out the red flags on lap 59 of 77.

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SUPER GT reveals discussions to bring back overseas races

The series has not held a race outside of Japan since it last visited Buriram in Thailand in the summer of 2019, with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic causing races both there and at Sepang in Malaysia to be scratched from the 2020 calendar.

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New Yokohama wet tyre "very bad" in heavy rain, strong in damp

The minimalistic tread pattern of the new tyre appears to take inspiration from the design that rival tyre manufacturer Michelin used to dominate the only wet race of the 2022 season at Sugo.

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Nissan leads rain-soaked opening day of Fuji SUPER GT test

Mitsunori Takaboshi set the day's benchmark time of 1m36.400s aboard the #3 NDDP Racing-branded Nissan Z he shares with Katsumasa Chiyo in the two-hour afternoon session, when conditions were at their best.

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The signs Toyota can still threaten Honda in Okayama opener

SUPER GT pre-season testing times have always been tricky to get a read on, but the introduction of the new for 2023 carbon-neutral fuel (CNF) has made it harder than ever to discern which of the three GT500 manufacturers has the advantage.

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Toyota tops final Suzuka test day, big crash for Nakajima Honda

Toyota squad Racing Project Bandoh topped the timesheets on the final day of SUPER GT manufacturer testing at Suzuka on Friday, as the Nakajima Racing Honda suffered a major crash at 130R.

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Honda NSX smashes lap record on first day of Suzuka SUPER GT test

Honda continued its domination of SUPER GT manufacturer testing at Suzuka on Thursday, as the ARTA team demolished the existing lap record to set the pace.

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Super GT Motegi: Impul ends Nissan’s title drought in dramatic finale

Nissan claimed its first SUPER GT title in seven years after Impul duo Bertrand Baguette and Kazuki Hiramine finished second to Kunimitsu Honda’s Tadasuke Makino and Naoki Yamamoto in the Motegi decider.

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Do SUPER GT's testing rules unfairly favour Yokohama?

Toyota team Racing Project Bandoh has taken four poles out of six so far this year in SUPER GT - but is there an argument to say that the series’ in-season testing rules give tyre supplier something of an unearned advantage?

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Super GT Sugo: Bandoh Toyota scores fourth pole of 2022

Toyota team Racing Project Bandoh scored its fourth Super GT pole in six races this season in qualifying for this weekend’s Sugo round.

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Sugo SUPER GT: Bandoh Toyota scores fourth pole of 2022

Toyota SUPER GT team Racing Project Bandoh scored its fourth pole in six races this season in qualifying for this weekend’s Sugo round.

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Super GT Suzuka: New Nissan Z dominates for first GT500 win

NISMO duo Katsumasa Chiyo and Mitsunori Takaboshi claimed a maiden Super GT victory for the new Nissan Z with a commanding drive at Suzuka, as BMW took top honours in the GT300 class.

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SUPER GT unlikely to return to Thailand, Malaysia next year

SUPER GT is unlikely to race outside of Japan in 2023, with GTA chairman Masaaki Bandoh saying that it still remains 'difficult' to hold events in Thailand and Malaysia.

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Bandoh Toyota "lost everything" with Fuji tyre warm-up woes

The pole-winning Racing Project Bandoh Toyota 'lost everything in a lap and a half' at the start of SUPER GT's Fuji 450km with its poor tyre warm-up, admits the team's chief engineer Varun Srinivasan.

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Fuji SUPER GT: Bandoh Toyota on pole for Golden Week enduro

Sena Sakaguchi put the Racing Project Bandoh Toyota team on pole position for Wednesday’s Golden Week SUPER GT race at Fuji Speedway, with Kondo Racing making it a front row lock-out for Yokohama.

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Super GT Okayama: Toyota locks out front row for season opener

Toyota locked out the front row of the grid for the opening round of the 2022 Super GT season at Okayama, with Kazuya Oshima claiming pole position in the Rookie Racing GR Supra.

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Okayama SUPER GT: Toyota locks out front row for season opener

Toyota locked out the front row of the grid for the opening round of the 2022 SUPER GT season at Okayama, with Kazuya Oshima claiming pole position in the Rookie Racing GR Supra.

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