Suzuka SUPER GT: Quintarelli wins big pole position for Nissan

Driving the #23 Nissan Z in Michelin shoes, Quintarelli earned him and Matsuda their first pole position since Fuji 2019, as well as being the first non-Toyota pole position for the 2022 season player.

The Italian topped the second quarter pole battle with a best time of 1:45.169, beating Nobuharu Matsushita’s #17 Real Racing Honda NSX by 0.180- GT.

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Honda’s top spot in Q1 was provided by Toshiki Oyu’s Dunlop-equipped Mugen car, but teammate Ukyo Sasahara couldn’t quite match Oyu’s pace in Q2 and ended up third fastest with 1m 45.442s.

The Racing Project Bandoh Toyota GR Supra, who has been on pole for the past three races, only finished fourth this time in the hands of Yuji Kunimoto, followed by Yuji Tac’s Cerumo Toyota hikawa.

Kohei Hirate finished sixth in the Kondo Nissan Z while the Q2 order was filled by Yuichi Nakayama’s SARD Toyota and Tadasuke Makino aboard the Honda Kunimitsu team.

None of the three cars fitted with the Stage 1 fuel flow limiter were removed from the start of qualifying.

Chiyo Chiyo came closest to winning #3 NDDP Racing Nissan May at Suzuka, but had to settle for 9th, Ritomo Miyata finished #37 TOM’S Toyota ahead of points 11, while Kenta Yamashita was 14th in his Rookie Racing Supra.

GT300: Ganer tops the list, Subaru struggles

GT300 class pole position took #10 Gainer Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3’s Ryuichiro Tomita, Riki Osusa and Yusuke Shiozu.

Okusa, who had taken pole at the SUPER GT visit to Suzuka in May but failed a post-qualifying technical check, the rookie was the one to be beaten again this time, posted The 1m56.995s were out 0.054 seconds ahead of Atsushi Miyake’s Max Racing Toyota GR Supra.

Takashi Kogure in the #88 JLOC Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo in third place, followed by the championship title Kondo Racing Nissan GT-R of Kiyoto Fujinami and Tatsuya Kataoka in the Goodsmile Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo.

Title-winning Subaru, carrying 88kg of successful ballast after the Fuji victory, exited Q1 to start 22nd, one place ahead of the Team Studie BMW M4 GT3.

GT500 qualifying results:

TEAM



1

twenty three

M

1’45.169

2

17



HONDA

Panasonic Nobuharu

Kouyo Tsukagoshi



REAL RACING



B

1’45.349

15

12



Impulsive

B

Position		Do not.		car	driver		tire	time
Nissan	Matsuda Second Life Ronnie Quintarelli NISMO
3 HONDA Otomo Toshiki Sasahara Ukyo Mugen D 1’45.442 Yuji Kunimoto Sakaguchi Sena Racing Project Bandoh Y 1’45.582 5 38 Toyota Shipu Boming Yuji Tachikawa Cerumo B 1’45.674 6 Hirata Akira Sasaki Daiki Kondo La Capella Y 1’45.811 7 39 Toyota Nakayama Yuichi Sekiguchi Yuri SARD B 1’45.893 10 8 HONDA Fukuzumi Erling Nojiri Tomoki ARTA B 1’46.025 Giuliano Alessi Kotsuboi Tom’s B 1’46.103 13 Takuya Izawa Otsu Hiroki 14 14 Toyota Yamashita Kenta 16 4 19 Toyota twenty four Nissan 8 100 HONDA Yamamoto Naoki Chusuke Makino Guoguang B 1’46.118 9 3 Nissan Chiyo Katsumasa Kotori Takahashi NDDP Racing M 1’46.008 (Q1) 11 37 Toyota Sasha Fenetraz Ritomo Miyata TOM’S B 1’46.055 12 36 Nissan 64 HONDA Nakajima Racing D 1’46.154 Kazuya Oshima Rookie Racing B 1’46.211	Nissan Bertrand bread Hiraing Kazuki	1’46.260