2013 Autopolis GT 300km

The 2013 Autopolis GT 300 km was the seventh round of the 2013 Super GT season and the 8th points scoring race for GT300 cars. It took place on October 6, 2013 at Autopolis near Kamitsue, Oita, Japan.

Background

Dome Racing drivers Frédéric Makowiecki and Naoki Yamamoto were tied on 46 points for the championship lead with Impul's João Paulo de Oliveira and Tsugio Matsuda. Following their win in at the 3 Hours of Fuji Team Mugen extended their championship lead in GT300 to 16 points over the Gainer Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 of Katsuyuki Hiranaka and Björn Wirdheim. With Autopolis being the 2nd last round of the season, instead of having weight ballast equal to twice the number of points scored in the season, teams that competed in all previous 6 races had their weight ballast reduced to the number of points they scored.

After running a 2013-spec Porsche 997 GT3, Team Taisan reverted to running a 2012-spec Porsche for balance of performance reasons.[1] The GTA adjusted the balance of performance for both JAF-GT and FIA GT3 cars. For the JAF-GT cars the air restrictor sizes were reduced in an effort to reduce power, however The Toyota Prius was not given any adjustments. The Nissan GT-R GT3 was given a slight increase in boost pressure.[2]

39 cars were entered for the race, the only change from the previous round was that the Dijon Racing Callaway Corvette Z06.R GT3 did not enter Autopolis.

Report

Practice

The practice session began in wet conditions. The #36 Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S Lexus SC430 was the fastest car in GT500 and the #10 Gainer Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 was the fastest GT300 car. The session was red flagged 13 minutes in after Naoki Yamamoto spun off-road and crashed. The session resumed 9 minutes later but due to worsening conditions few teams completed laps on the circuit. The session was later red flagged 48 minutes in and not restarted due to poor visibility.[3]

Qualifying

Qualifying was scheduled to be held on October 5, 2013, but due to the heavy rain and fog that cancelled the practice session, qualifying was cancelled and rescheduled to October 6. Instead of the standard 15 and 8 minute knockout sessions for both GT500 and GT300 cars, there would only be a single 25 minute session for both classes.[4]

Race

Results

Qualifying

[5][6]

Pos No Team Driver Qualifying Tyre
GT500
1 38 Lexus Team Zent Cerumo Yuji Tachikawa 1:38.174 B
2 23 Motul Autech NISMO Ronnie Quintarelli 1:38.209 M
3 18 Weider Dome Racing Frédéric Makowiecki 1:38.220 M
4 1 S-Road REITO MOLA Satoshi Motoyama 1:38.346 M
5 12 Calsonic Team Impul João Paulo de Oliveira 1:38.385 B
6 100 Raybrig Team Kunimitsu Takashi Kogure 1:38.566 B
7 37 Lexus Team KeePer TOM'S Daisuke Ito 1:38.573 B
8 17 Keihin Real Racing Koudai Tsukakoshi 1:38.661 B
9 8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Ralph Firman 1:38.725 B
10 36 Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S Kazuki Nakajima 1:38.856 B
11 24 D'Station ADVAN Kondo Racing Hironobu Yasuda 1:39.012 Y
12 6 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS Kazuya Oshima 1:39.227 B
13 39 Lexus Team DENSO SARD Hiroaki Ishiura 1:39.569 B
14 19 Lexus Team WedsSport Bandoh Andre Couto 1:39.893 Y
15 32 Epson Nakajima Racing Daisuke Nakajima 1:40.606 D
GT300
1 3 NDDP Racing Kazuki Hoshino 1:47.222 Y
2 48 Dijon Racing Katsumasa Chiyo 1:47.236 Y
3 50 Arnage Racing Hideto Yasuoka 1:48.036 Y
4 61 R&D Sport Kota Sasaki 1:48.408 Y
5 30 apr Yuki Iwasaki 1:48.416 Y
6 11 Gainer Katsuyuki Hiranaka 1:48.564 D
7 21 Hitotsuyama Racing Richard Lyons 1:48.571 H
8 4 GSR Hatsune Miku Tatsuya Kataoka 1:48.906 Y
9 10 Gainer Tetsuya Tanaka 1:49.229 D
10 52 OKINAWA-IMP RACING with SHIFT Takeshi Tsuchiya 1:49.243 Y
11 33 Hankook KTR Masami Kageyama 1:49.363 H
12 87 JLOC Hiroki Yoshimoto 1:49.423 Y
13 22 R'Qs MotorSports Hisashi Wada 1:49.473 Y
14 62 Leon Racing Haruki Kurosawa 1:49.547 Y
15 2 Cars Tokai Dream28 Hiroki Katoh 1:49.557 Y
16 16 Team Mugen Hideki Mutoh 1:49.620 B
17 360 Tomei Sports Takuya Shirasaka 1:49.727 Y
18 5 Team Mach Tetsuji Tamanaka 1:49.754 Y
19 86 JLOC Koji Yamanishi 1:50.032 Y
20 88 JLOC Manabu Orido 1:50.125 Y
21 31 apr Morio Nitta 1:50.406 Y
22 9 Pacific Direction Racing Shogo Mitsuyama 1:51.310 Y
23 0 Team Taisan Ken Endless Naoki Yokomizo 1:51.352 Y
24 55 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Takashi Kobayashi 1:51.402 B

Race

Race result is as follows.[7][8]

Pos No Team Drivers Chassis Tyre Time/Difference Laps
GT500
1 36 Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S Kazuki Nakajima
James Rossiter		 Lexus SC430 B 1:55:03.613 65
2 38 Lexus Team Zent Cerumo Kohei Hirate
Yuji Tachikawa		 Lexus SC430 B +2.622 65
3 17 Keihin Real Racing Toshihiro Kaneishi
Koudai Tsukakoshi		 Honda HSV-010 GT B +2.811 65
4 1 S-Road REITO MOLA Satoshi Motoyama
Yuhi Sekiguchi		 Nissan GT-R M +11.227 65
5 18 Weider Dome Racing Frédéric Makowiecki
Naoki Yamamoto		 Honda HSV-010 GT M +11.841 65
6 24 D'Station ADVAN Kondo Racing Michael Krumm
Hironobu Yasuda		 Nissan GT-R Y +12.326 65
7 39 Lexus Team DENSO SARD Hiroaki Ishiura
Juichi Wakisaka		 Lexus SC430 B +12.735 65
8 23 Motul Autech NISMO Ronnie Quintarelli
Masataka Yanagida		 Nissan GT-R M +24.134 65
9 37 Lexus Team KeePer TOM'S Andrea Caldarelli
Daisuke Ito		 Lexus SC430 B +24.474 65
10 32 Epson Nakajima Racing Ryo Michigami
Daisuke Nakajima		 Honda HSV-010 GT D +46.935 65
11 6 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS Yuji Kunimoto
Kazuya Oshima		 Lexus SC430 B +52.084 65
12 100 Raybrig Team Kunimitsu Takuya Izawa
Takashi Kogure		 Honda HSV-010 GT B +1:18.304 65
13 19 Lexus Team WedsSport Bandoh Seiji Ara
Andre Couto		 Lexus SC430 Y +1 Lap 64
14 8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Ralph Firman
Kosuke Matsuura		 Honda HSV-010 GT B +4 Laps 61
Ret 12 Calsonic Team Impul João Paulo de Oliveira
Tsugio Matsuda		 Nissan GT-R B +32 Laps 33
GT300
1 4 GSR Hatsune Miku Tatsuya Kataoka
Nobuteru Taniguchi		 BMW Z4 GT3 Y 1:56:59.345 62
2 50 Arnage Racing Masaki Kano
Hideto Yasuoka		 Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 Y +1 Lap 61
3 52 OKINAWA-IMP RACING with SHIFT Hironori Takeuchi
Takeshi Tsuchiya		 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Y +1 Lap 61
4 11 Gainer Katsuyuki Hiranaka
Björn Wirdheim		 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 D +1 Lap 61
5 33 Hankook KTR Tomonobu Fujii
Masami Kageyama		 Porsche 911 GT3-R H +1 Lap 61
6 30 apr Yuki Iwasaki
Igor Sushko		 Nissan GT-R GT3 Y +1 Lap 61
7 61 R&D Sport Kota Sasaki
Tetsuya Yamano		 Subaru BRZ M +1 Lap 61
8 0 Team Taisan Ken Endless Kyosuke Mineo
Naoki Yokomizo		 Porsche 997 GT3 Y +1 Lap 61
9 16 Team Mugen Hideki Mutoh
Yuhki Nakayama		 Honda CR-Z B +2 Laps 60
10 87 JLOC Hideki Yamauchi
Hiroki Yoshimoto		 Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 Y +2 Laps 60
11 2 Cars Tokai Dream28 Hiroki Katoh
Kazuho Takahashi		 McLaren MP4-12C GT3 Y +2 Laps 60
12 88 JLOC Takayuki Aoki
Manabu Orido		 Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 Y +2 Laps 60
13 86 JLOC Shinya Hosokawa
Koji Yamanishi		 Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 Y +2 Laps 60
14 22 R'Qs MotorSports Masaki Jyonai
Hisashi Wada		 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Y +2 Laps 60
15 31 apr Morio Nitta
Koki Saga		 Toyota Prius Y +2 Laps 60
16 55 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Takashi Kobayashi
Shinichi Takagi		 Honda CR-Z B +2 Laps 60
17 48 Dijon Racing Katsumasa Chiyo
Hiroshi Takamori		 Nissan GT-R GT3 Y +2 Laps 60
18 62 Leon Racing Haruki Kurosawa
Tsubasa Kurosawa		 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Y +3 Laps 59
19 9 Pacific Direction Racing Shogo Mitsuyama
You Yokomaku		 Porsche 911 GT3-R Y +4 Laps 58
20 10 Gainer Tetsuya Tanaka
Masayuki Ueda		 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 D +5 Laps 57
21 21 Hitotsuyama Racing Richard Lyons
Akihiro Tsuzuki		 Audi R8 LMS ultra H +5 Laps 57
22 5 Team Mach Tetsuji Tamanaka
Junichiro Yamashita		 Nissan GT-R GT3 Y +8 Laps 54
23 360 Tomei Sports Takuya Shirasaka
Atsushi Tanaka		 Nissan GT-R GT3 Y +15 Laps 47
Ret 3 NDDP Racing Kazuki Hoshino
Daiki Sasaki		 Nissan GT-R GT3 Y +26 Laps 36
  • GT500 Fastest Lap – Kohei Hirate, #38 Lexus Team Zent Cerumo Lexus SC430 – 1:40.434
  • GT300 Fastest Lap – Tetsuya Yamano, #61 R&D Sport Subaru BRZ – 1:48.799

Point rankings after the event
  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both GT500 and GT300 classes.

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