2011 Pokka GT Summer Special

The 2011 Pokka GT Summer Special was the fifth round of the 2011 Super GT season and despite the race being shortened to 500km following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, this was the 40th running of the 1000 km Suzuka event. It took place on August 21, 2011.

Layout of the Suzuka International Racing Course

Race results edit

Results are as follows:[1]

Pos Class No Team Drivers Chassis Tyre Laps
1 GT500 1 Weider Honda Racing   Takashi Kogure
  Loïc Duval
Honda HSV-010 GT B 86
2 GT500 46 S-Road MOLA   Masataka Yanagida
  Ronnie Quintarelli
Nissan GT-R M 86
3 GT500 12 Calsonic Team Impul   Tsugio Matsuda
  João Paulo de Oliveira
Nissan GT-R B 86
4 GT500 23 Motul NISMO   Satoshi Motoyama
  Benoît Tréluyer
Nissan GT-R B 86
5 GT500 39 Denso Team SARD   Hiroaki Ishiura
  Takuto Iguchi
Lexus SC430 M 86
6 GT500 36 Petronas Team TOM'S   Kazuki Nakajima
  André Lotterer
Lexus SC430 B 86
7 GT500 35 D'Station Team KRAFT   Juichi Wakisaka
  Andre Couto
Lexus SC430 B 86
8 GT500 36 ENEOS Team LeMans   Daisuke Ito
  Kazuya Oshima
Lexus SC430 B 86
9 GT500 8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri   Hideki Mutoh
  Takashi Kobayashi
Honda HSV-010 GT B 86
10 GT500 24 Advan Kondo Racing   Hironobu Yasuda
  Björn Wirdheim
Nissan GT-R Y 84
11 GT500 19 WedsSport Team Bandoh   Seiji Ara
  Tatsuya Kataoka
Lexus SC430 Y 83
12 GT500 17 Keihin Real Racing   Koudai Tsukakoshi
  Toshihiro Kaneishi
Honda HSV-010 GT B 83
13 GT500 32 EPSON Nakajima Racing   Ryo Michigami
  Yuhki Nakayama
Honda HSV-010 GT D 81
14 GT500 38 ZENT Team Cerumo   Yuji Tachikawa
  Kohei Hirate
Lexus SC430 B 81
15 GT300 62 R&D Sport   Kota Sasaki
  Tetsuya Yamano
Subaru Legacy B4 Y 79
16 GT300 33 Hankook KTR   Masami Kageyama
  Tomonobu Fujii
Porsche 911 GT3 R H 79
17 GT300 87 RIRE Racing JLOC   Manabu Orido
  Atsushi Yogo
Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3 Y 79
18 GT300 11 JIM Gainer Racing   Tetsuya Tanaka
  Katsuyuki Hiranaka
Ferrari 458 GTC D 78
19 GT300 4 Hatsune Miku Goodsmile Racing   Nobuteru Taniguchi
  Taku Bamba
BMW Z4 GT3 Y 78
20 GT300 2 Evangelion-01 Cars Tokai Dream28   Kazuho Takahashi
  Hiroki Kato
Mooncraft Shiden Y 78
21 GT300 74 apr   Yuji Kunimoto
  Morio Nitta
Toyota Corolla Axio Y 78
22 GT300 14 Team SG Changi   Ryo Orime
  Alexandre Imperatori
Lexus IS350 Y 78
23 GT300 25 ZENT Team Tsuchiya   Takeshi Tsuchiya
  Akihiro Tsuzuki
Porsche 997 GT3-RSR Y 78
24 GT300 86 JLOC   Yuya Sakamoto
  Takayuki Aoki
Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3 Y 77
25 GT300 27 NAC Ika Musume LMP Motorsport   Yutaka Yamagishi
  Hideki Yamauchi
Ferrari F430 GT2 Y 77
26 GT300 66 A speed   Kazuki Hoshino
  Hiroki Yoshimoto
Aston Martin Vantage GT2 Y 77
27 GT300 21 Hasepro apr   Koki Saga
  Yuki Iwasaki
Toyota Corolla Axio Y 76
28 GT300 26 Verity Team Taisan   Kyosuke Mineo
  Shogo Mitsuyama
  Junichiro Yamashita
Porsche 996 GT3 Y 76
29 GT300 88 JLOC   Hiroyuki Iiri
  Yuhi Sekiguchi
Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3 Y 76
30 GT300 33 Team Art Taste   Yasuhiro Shimizu
  Tim Bergmeister
Porsche 911 GT3 R Y 76
31 GT300 41 NetMove Team Taisan   Shinichi Yamaji
  Hiroshi Koizumi
Ferrari F430 GT2 Y 76
32 GT300 69 ThunderAsia Racing   Melvin Choo
  Hiroki Yoshida
  Naoki Yokomizo
Mosler MT900M Y 75
33 GT300 22 R'Qs Motorsports   Masaki Jyonai
  Hisashi Wada
Vemac RD350R Y 73
34 GT300 43 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri   Shinichi Takagi
  Kosuke Matsuura
ASL Garaiya B 60
DNF GT300 2 Evangelion-02 Direction Racing   Akira Mizutani
  Carlo van Dam
  You Yokomaku
Porsche 911 GT3 R Y 53
DNF GT300 34 Haruhi Racing Hankook KTR   Hiroshi Takamori
  Michael Kim
  Naoya Gamou
Porsche 997 GT3 RS H 51
DNF GT300 5 Team Mach   Tetsuji Tamanaka
  Haruki Kurosawa
Vemac RD320R Y 42
DNF GT500 100 Raybrig Team Kunimitsu   Takuya Izawa
  Naoki Yamamoto
Honda HSV-010 GT B 41

Note: The race ended after 86 of the scheduled 87 laps due to reaching the time limit of 6:30pm. Full points were awarded in Super GT rankings.

Statistics edit

  • GT500 Pole Position – #46 MOLA GT-R – 2:08.206
  • GT300 Pole Position – #43 ARTA Garaiya – 2:20.696
  • GT500 Fastest Lap – #46 MOLA GT-R – 1:59.923
  • GT300 Fastest Lap – #62 R&D Sport Subaru – 2:09.877
  • Winner's Race Time – 3:16:09.255

References edit

  1. ^ "GT500 RESULT: Race". supergt.net. 21 August 2011.