ARTA opens its counter in 2020, Honda crushes the competition in Motegi

The Honda NSX-GT were untouchable this Sunday in Motegi. Five cars monopolizing the top 5 at the finish, and an uncontested victory for the tandem Nirei Fukuzumi – Tomoki Nojiri.

After overtaking the leader and pole sitter Hiroki Otsu (Honda NSX-GT – Nakajima Racing-), Tomoki Nojiri built up a solid lead before giving way to his teammate Nirei Fukuzumi. A stop made, as for the Nakajima Racing car , before the intervention of the safety car, to evacuate a GT300.

Most of the rivals of the two leading cars will then have to wait after the safety car returns to observe their change of drivers, giving a clear lead to ARTA and Nakajima Racing, who finally finish in that order under the checkered flag.

Tadasuke Makino and Naoki Yamamoto complete the podium with the Honda NSX-GT – Team Kunimitsu. The pairs Sasahara – Mutoh (Team Mugen) and Baguette – Tsukakoshi (Real Racing) materialize the top 5 100% Honda, Bertrand Baguette and Koudai Tsukakoshi taking the opportunity to take the advantage in the championship.

The best Toyota GR Supra GT500, example n°37 of Team Tom's from Hirakawa – Yamashita takes 6th place ahead of the first Nissan GT-R Nismo GT500 – Team Motul of Ronnie Quintarelli and Tsugio Matsuda.

Sacha Fenestraz and Yuhi Sekiguchi (Toyota – Team Tom's) finished 13th. Joao Paulo de Oliveira and Kiyoto Fujinami impose their Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 – Kondo Racing in GT300.

The 2020 season finale of Super GT will take place on November 29 on the Fuji route.

Discover the full report of the Motegi Super GT event, in issue 2286 of AUTOhebdo, available from tomorrow evening in digital version and from next Wednesday on newsstands.