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This Nissan GT-R GT500 video clip was shot at Suzuka Circuit Japan. This new Nissan machine are expected to compete in the next year Super GT series. With this rumors we hope that the race next year will be more challenging with more new model especially from the GTR family. The last GTR
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JOAO Paolo Lima de Oliveira and Seiji Ara gave the Kondo Racing team a historic first GT500 class Super GT win in a surprising and incident-packed Round Four at the Sepang Circuit yesterday.
It was Brazilian de Oliveira’s first victory since he joined the Super GT bandwagon last year and 2004 24 hours of Le Mans winner Ara’s second ever win, his first, ironically, also achieved in 2004.
The duo also drove the Woodone Advan Z to the first victory for tyre-supplier Yokohama since 2005 resulting in an all-around emotional end for everyone in their team.
The Woodone Advan Z started 14th on the grid but gradually moved up and once they took the lead midway through, built up an 11-second lead over the trailing pack led by the Raybrig NSX of Dominik Schwager and Shinya Hosokawa.
The pole position Takata Dome NSX of Takashi Kogure and Ryo Michigami, favoured for the win after proving to be the fastest in practice and qualifying, stalled on the formation lap and was never revived.
It was a different story in the GT300 class where the pole position apr MR-S of Kazuya Oshima and Hiroaki Ishiura led from the start, relinquished the lead momentarily and regained it when the ARTA Garaiya of Morio Nitta and Shinichi Takagi spun off dramatically, crashing into a steel barrier to end their race.
But it wasn’t all easy going for the apr MR-S crew as the heat and unpredictable conditions caused havoc before they could finally savour their second win of the season.
Results — GT500: 1 Woodone Advan Z (J.P. Lima de Oliveira-Seiji Ara) 1:49:13.410s, 2 Raybrig NSX (Dominik Schwager-Shinya Hosokawa) 1:49:24.461s, 3 Calsonic Impul Z (Benoit Treluyer-Kazuki Hoshino) 1:49:31.643s; 4 ZENT Cerumo SC430 (Yuji Tachikawa-Toranosuke Takagi) 1:49:40591s, 5 Eclipse Advan SC430 (Takeshi Tsuchiya-Manabu Orido) 1:49:41.104s.
GT300: 1 apr MR-S (Kazuya Oshima-Hiroaki Ishiura) 1:49:53.783s, 2 Ebbro 350R (Tetsuya Tanaka-Shinsuke Yamazaki) 1:50:09.570s, 3 Houzan Dunlop Z (Kota Sasaki-Naoki Yokomizo) 1:50:11.620s, 4 Houzan Dunlop Z (Shigekazu Wakisaka-Shogo Mitsuyama) 1:50:12.620s, 5 Cusco Subaru Impreza (Tetsuya Yamano-Takayuki Aoki) 1:50:23.470s.
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The JGTC is run by the GT Association, which was founded in 1994 as a successor to the failed Japan Sport Prototype Car Championship (JSPC). The collapse of JSPC motivated various companies and organizations in the automotive and racing industries to establish a series that was more fan-friendly and gave a better return to sponsors.
In researching the failure of the JSPC, the GT Association found an over-reliance on technology that led to an explosion of costs, eventually killing the series. Too much emphasis was placed on obscure cars the public could not identify with, and the entertainment value in the end was minimal. JGTC set out to find an optimal balance between technology, human drama and entertainment. The basis for the series became production cars we could all relate to. Limits were set on power output to prevent costs from spiraling out of control.
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