On March 26 and 27, SUPER GT's official test took place at the Fuji Speedway in Shizuoka Pref.


Session 3

Weather: Cloudy/Rain | Course: Dry/Wet | Air Temp: 10°C | Track Temp: 22°C

Second day of testing started with morning session commencing again at 9:30 AM. Just like the first day, the track remained wet from the rain that showered the night before. The session initiated with overcast sky that looked like the rain was about to drop. At about ten minutes into the session, the weather changed drastically. Large drops of rain poured down on the circuit, and even hail hit the ground of Fuji Speedway. Session was suspended for ten minutes due to the Mother Nature event. Weather improved very quickly after session resumed, just like the previous day. Nevertheless, the track surface did not dry up as quickly. SUPER GT cars improved their times as the condition got better. With the session remaining less than 20 minutes to go, the record line started to dry up, and No.100 RAYBRIG NSX (Yuji Ide/Shinya Hosokawa) driven by Hosokawa marked 1 min 36.368 sec which became the top time of the session.


No.100 RAYBRIG NSX

In the GT300 class, No.77 CUSCO DUNLOP SUBARU IMPREZA (Tetsuya Yamano/Kota Sasaki) started off the day well again with Yamano marking 1 min 45.765 sec. No.46 MOLA LEOPALACE Z came in second with 1 min 46.034 sec and No.88 DGRQ GALLARDO RG-3 (Hideshi Matsuda/Naohiro Furuya), who could not run in the race at the season opener due to some problems, followed at third with 1 min 46.117 sec.



No.77 CUSCO DUNLOP SUBARU IMPREZA
Session 4

Weather: Fine | Course: Dry | Air Temp: 12°C | Track Temp: 20°C

Afternoon session started at 2 PM with light rain shower falling on the track right after the start. Fortunately, clear sky showed out in the clouds after some while, enabling the session to be run in dry-condition despite the clouds.

About an hour into the session, No.100 RAYBRIG NSX bettered the time that No.12 GT-R had recorded the previous day with 1 min 34.333 sec. And then, No.32 EPSON NSX lapped at the best with 1 min 34.299 sec which put NSXs on the first and second place on the timing monitor. No.3 YellowHat YMS TOMICA GT-R (Ronnie Quintarelli/Naoki Yokomizo) with 1 min 34.337 sec was at third place. No.38 ZENT CERUMO SC430 with 10th best time overall at 1 min 35.048 sec was the leader among SC430s.

NISMO's development car, No.230 GT-R, only made about 10 laps the day before, but showed good runs today. NISMO General Manager Kunihiko Kakiomoto explained, "We had a gearbox problem yesterday so we couldn't run very much. We are working around the aerodynamics mainly on the load rack for Fuji spec. We are positioning the car as advanced development car, and we have (tests for) next year too, so we are trying many things on the car comprehensively as we lack data as well as field testing at Fuji Speedway."


No.230 NISMO GT-R

Looking to the GT300 class in the afternoon, No.26 YUNKER POWER TAISAN PORSCHE (Nobuteru Taniguchi/Shinichi Yamaji) favoring Fuji marked 1 min 43.377 sec. No.11 JIMGAINER DIXCEL ADVAN F430 (Tetsuya Tanaka/Masayuki Ueda) followed at second with 1 min 43.767 sec. But the overall best of the GT300 class in the two-day testing went to the time recorded by No.77 car.