Super GT Result - Sugo, July 29
Firman And Ito For Honda This was a wet one, at least to begin with, the rain starting just before the off, which meant a safety car led them round for six laps. Kogure in the #18 Honda led away from Ralph Firman in the #8 NSX. But Kogure was in trouble with his windscreen wipers, and Firman led as they got among the backmarkers. He stayed out front to the pit stops, at which point Ito took over on slicks (lap 40). He ran third initially, but the top three were three abreast starting lap 47, with Ito passing Michigami in #18 for second, and only just failing to pass the #1 Lexus of Wakaisaka. But a drive through penalty for #1 left Hondas 1-2, with Fabio Carbone making it a clean sweep for the NSXs in #32. Ito defended his lead to the flag, despite the attentions of Michigami. Ralph Firman, no less, will be telling the whole story of the race, the second win of the season for he and Ito, very soon. GT500
1 8 ARTA NSX Daisuke Ito / Ralph Firman 2:01'17.063 81 BS
2 18 TAKATA DOME NSX Ryo Michigami / Takashi Kogure 0'00.282 81 BS
3 32 EPSON NSX Loic DUVAL / Fabio CARBONE 0'23.302 81 DL
4 3 YellowHat YMS MobaHO ! TOMICA Z Sebastien Philippe / Masataka Yanagida 0'23.816 81 BS
5 1 houzan TOM'S SC430 Juichi Wakisaka / Andre Lotterer 0'40.398 81 BS
6 39 DENSO SARD SC430 Andre Couto / Katsuyuki Hiranaka 1'20.106 81 BS
7 12 CALSONIC IMPUL Z Kazuki Hoshino / Jeremie Dufour 1Lap 80 BS
8 25 ECLIPSE ADVAN SC430 Takeshi Tsuchiya / Manabu Orido 1Lap 80 YH
9 35 BANDAI 00 DUNLOP SC430 Naoki Hattori / Ronnie Quintarelli 1Lap 80 DL
10 24 WOODONE ADVAN Clarion Z J.P.L.De Oliveira / Seiji Ara 3Laps 78 YH
11 38 ZENT CERUMO SC430 Yuji Tachikawa / Toranosuke Takagi 9Laps 72 BS
12 100 RAYBRIG NSX Dominik Schwager / Shinya Hosokawa 13Laps 68 BS
23 XANAVI NISMO Z Satoshi Motoyama / Richard Lyons 34Laps NCF 47 BS
22 MOTUL AUTECH Z Michael Krumm / Tsugio Matsuda 43Laps NCF 38 BS
17 REAL NSX Katsutomo Kaneishi / Toshihiro Kaneishi 71Laps NCF 10 BS
6 Forum Eng. SC430 Tatsuya Kataoka / Bjorn Wirdheim DNS NCF BS GT300
1 19 WedsSport Celica Akira Iida / Yuhi Sekiguchi 2:01'43.362 75 YH
2 47 houzan DUNLOP Z Shigekazu Wakisaka / Shogo Mitsuyama 0'07.278 75 DL
3 33 HANKOOK NSC PORSCHE Mitsuhiro Kinoshita / Yuya Sakamoto 0'29.543 75 HK
4 2 Privée KENZO Asset Shiden Kazuho Takahashi / Hiroki Katoh 0'29.564 75 YH
5 62 WILLCOM ADVAN VEMAC408R Shinsuke Shibahara / Haruki Kurosawa 0'29.932 75 YH
6 46 houzan DUNLOP Z Kota Sasaki / Naoki Yokomizo 0'45.634 75 DL
7 31 DOUBLEHEAD apr MR-S Kyosuke Mineo / Yuya Sakamoto 0'51.313 75 MI
8 7 RE AMEMIYA ADVAN RX-7 Hiroyuki Iiri / Ryo Orime 1Lap 74 YH
9 88 AKTIO MURCIE RG-1 Hideshi Matsuda / Koji Yamanishi 1Lap 74 YH
10 11 TOTAL BENEFIT JIM CENTER F360 Masayuki Ueda / Ichijo Suga 2Laps 73 YH
11 55 DHG ADVAN FORD GT Daisuke Ikeda / Taku Bamba 2Laps 73 YH
12 13 ENDLESS ADVAN SENZAIKAKUMEI Z Masami Kageyama / Tomonobu Fujii 2Laps 73 YH
13 110 GREEN-TEC KUMHO BOXSTER-GT Takuya Kurosawa / Hidetoshi Mitsusada 2Laps 73 KH
14 5 KUMHO Proµ MACH-GO 320R Tetsuji Tamanaka / Hironori Takeuchi 2Laps 73 KH
15 101 TOY STORY Racing apr MR-S Kazuya Oshima / Hiroaki Ishiura 3Laps 72 MI
16 333 ADVAN UEMATSU 320R Tadao Uematsu / Ryohei Sakaguchi 3Laps 72 YH
17 111 KUMHO GREEN-TEC BOXSTER-GT Yasushi Kikuchi / Guts Jyonai 3Laps 72 KH
18 666 Rakuten BOMEX 320R Shogo Suho / Junichiro Yamashita 4Laps 71 YH
26 YUNKER-POWER TAISAN PORSCHE Nobuteru Taniguchi / Dominik Farnbacher 26Laps NCF 49 YH
77 CUSCO DUNLOP SUBARU IMPREZA Tetsuya Yamano / Takayuki Aoki 28Laps NCF 47 DL
43 ARTA Garaiya Morio Nitta / Shinichi Takagi 41Laps NCF 34 MI
9 LEYJUN DUNLOP MT900 Masaki Tanaka / Katsuhiko Tsutsui 41Laps NCF 34 DL | 
