No.8 #8 ARTA MUGEN HRC PRELUDE-GT
Kakunoshin Ohta
“(FUJI has been great for you since the previous SF, hasn’t it?) Thank you very much. But it has surely been different with SUPER GT. It may be pressure, but we seem to be a team that has a big load on or shoulders (a popular team with HRC support). Nonetheless in the last two rounds have been no good (with no points scored). Still the team has been trying hard to do something about this, and it has finally paid off. We really came into the qualifying with a serious attitude.”
No. 45 PONOS FERRARI 296 EVO
Shintaro Kawabata
” (Getting a pole position in my first appearance of the season) this kind of thing can actually happen (laughs). Since this is the car that the team has been working hard on, the result is clear. This time it has nothing to do with the fact that it was me driving. Rather, I was worried whether or not I would even get through Q1, I think we owe this Q1 result to Takuro (Shinohara). If it wasn’t for that, this would have been Takura’s pole position. All my thanks to Takura.”
