Super GT 2024: Nissan, Honda and Toyota's GT500 line-ups On Thursday, Nissan announced a major overhaul of its line-up, ending the decade-long partnership between Ronnie Quintarelli and Tsugio Matsuda. Motorsport · Jan 18, 2024
Nissan suggests NDDP moniker no longer suited to #3 drivers Chiyo and Takaboshi were paired up at NDDP (short for the Nissan Driver Development Programme from which they both graduated) for the 2022 season, which coincided with NISMO taking over the running of the #3 car from B-Max Racing. Motorsport · Nov 16, 2023
P3 overall for NISMO Nissan “acceptable” after misfortunes Quintarelli and his team-mate in the flagship #23 Nissan car, Tsugio Matsuda, wrapped up their 2023 campaign last weekend at Motegi by finishing second behind the title-winning #36 TOM’S Toyota of Sho Tsuboi and Ritomo Miyata. Motorsport · Nov 7, 2023
Nissan’s Takaboshi regrets not pitting after losing Motegi win Takaboshi and his team-mate Katsumasa Chiyo commanded the majority of the 63-lap race, with Chiyo leading the opening stint from pole and Takaboshi stretching a 12-second lead over the field after taking over the #3 NDDP Racing Z on lap 25. Motorsport · Nov 5, 2023
Super GT Motegi: TOM'S Toyota takes title amid Nissan drama Katsumasa Chiyo and Mitsunori Takaboshi looked on course for a commanding victory from pole in the #3 NDDP Nissan Z for much of the race, but the arrival of rain in the closing stages opened the door for a late twist in the title battle. Autosport · Nov 5, 2023
Motegi SUPER GT: TOM'S Toyota takes title amid Nissan drama NDDP pair Katsumasa Chiyo and Mitsunori Takaboshi looked on course for a commanding victory from pole in the #3 Nissan Z for much of the race, but the arrival of rain in the closing stages opened the door for a late twist in the title battle. Motorsport · Nov 5, 2023
Honda NSX-GT farewell title hopes hang by thread after qualifying ARTA duo Nirei Fukuzumi and Hiroki Otsu came to Motegi 16 points down on the championship-leading TOM'S Toyota of Sho Tsuboi and Ritomo Miyata, needing a win to have any chance of winning the title. Motorsport · Nov 4, 2023
SUPER GT preview show: Who will win the final showdown? Toyota heads into the finale with the advantage, as TOM'S pair Sho Tsuboi and Ritomo Miyata take a seven-point lead to Motegi over NDDP Nissan rivals Katsumasa Chiyo and Mitsunori Takaboshi. Motorsport · Nov 2, 2023
Super GT Sugo: Real Honda victorious in red-flagged thriller Tsukakoshi came out on top in a pulsating battle with Toshiki Oyu in the closing stages of the 300km race following an earlier red flag. Autosport · Sep 17, 2023
Super GT Suzuka: ARTA ends Honda NSX's winless streak The #16 ARTA car of Fukuzumi and Otsu took advantage of a well-timed first pitstop under full-course yellow to cement their early lead, ultimately beating NISMO pair Tsugio Matsuda and Ronnie Quintarelli to victory by just over 10 seconds. Autosport · Aug 27, 2023
How mid-race recce allowed NDDP Nissan to dominate at Fuji The #3 Nissan Z shared by Chiyo and Mitsunori Takaboshi was the class of the field in a wet-dry race on Sunday that was interrupted by a red flag, taking the chequered flag some 44 seconds clear of the field. Motorsport · Aug 7, 2023
Matsuda targets Fuji Super GT return after leaving hospital Matsuda's #23 NISMO Nissan Z was involved in a high-speed accident at the 130R corner that brought the third round of the season to a premature halt. Autosport · Jul 19, 2023
SUPER GT updates pitstop rules after Suzuka confusion The third round of the season was cut short just after 75 percent distance following a huge crash at 130R involving the NISMO Nissan of Tsugio Matsuda and the JLOC Lamborghini of Kosuke Matsuura. Motorsport · Jul 7, 2023
SUPER GT promises pitstop rule changes in time for next race The saga surrounding which team won the red-flagged race, curtailed by a huge crash involving NISMO Nissan driver Tsugio Matsuda on lap 59 of 77, rumbled on for a week until the release of the official results last Monday. Motorsport · Jun 19, 2023
Motorsport · Jun 12, 2023 Nissan appeal rejected, Bandoh Toyota keeps Suzuka win The official results for the third round of the 2023 season were released on Monday, more than a week on from the 450km event, with no changes from the revised provisional results that were published late on the evening of the race.
Motorsport · Jun 5, 2023 How Bandoh, Yokohama ended seven-year SUPER GT win drought Bandoh pair Yuji Kunimoto and Sena Sakaguchi finished second on the road when Sunday's race was abandoned after a horrifying crash involving Nissan driver Tsugio Matsuda on lap 59 of 77, but were promoted to what many felt was a rightful win after a penalty for the NDDP Racing Nissan.
Motorsport · Jun 4, 2023 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.
Motorsport · Jun 4, 2023 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.
Motorsport · Nov 6, 2022 Chiyo: "No regrets" over first-lap title-deciding clash NDDP Nissan driver Katsumasa Chiyo says he has “no regrets” about his first-lap incident with the ARTA Honda of Tomoki Nojiri that all but ended his hopes of winning the 2022 SUPER GT title.
Autosport · Nov 6, 2022 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.
Motorsport · Nov 5, 2022 Baguette braced for tough all-Nissan fight in Motegi finale Impul Nissan driver Bertrand Baguette is braced for a tough battle against the points-leading NDDP Racing car for SUPER GT title honours as the two Z crews will start together on the grid for Sunday's Motegi finale.
Motorsport · Sep 30, 2022 Toyota and Honda's last chance to stem the Nissan tide Both Toyota and Honda go into this weekend's penultimate round of the SUPER GT season at Autopolis barely clinging on to their title ambitions. Can either marque force themselves back into the reckoning against Nissan?
Motorsport · May 6, 2022 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.