2009 Suzuka Pokka GT Summer Special

The 2009 Suzuka Pokka GT Summer Special was the sixth round of the 2009 Super GT season and was the 38th running of the 1000 km Suzuka event, although for the first time since 1969, the race was not 1000 km in length as in a bid to reduce CO2 emissions, the race distance was shortented to 700 km.[1] It took place on August 23, 2009.

Layout of the Suzuka International Racing Course

Race results edit

Results are as follows:[2]

Pos Class No Team Drivers Chassis Tyre Laps
1 GT500 35 Team KRAFT   Hiroaki Ishiura
  Kazuya Oshima
Lexus SC430 B 121
2 GT500 3 Tomica Hasemi Motorsports   Hironobu Yasuda
  Ronnie Quintarelli
Nissan GT-R M 121
3 GT500 38 ZENT Team Cerumo   Yuji Tachikawa
  Richard Lyons
Lexus SC430 B 121
4 GT500 18 Rockstar Team Yoshiki and Dome Project   Takashi Kogure
  Ryo Michigami
Honda NSX B 121
5 GT500 12 Calsonic Team Impul   Tsugio Matsuda
  Sebastien Philippe
Nissan GT-R B 121
6 GT500 1 Motul NISMO   Satoshi Motoyama
  Michael Krumm
Nissan GT-R B 121
7 GT500 39 Denso Team SARD   Andre Couto
  Kohei Hirate
Lexus SC430 D 121
8 GT500 36 Petronas Team TOM'S   Juichi Wakisaka
  André Lotterer
Lexus SC430 B 121
9 GT500 100 Raybrig Team Kunimitsu   Yuji Ide
  Shinya Hosokawa
Honda NSX B 121
10 GT500 17 Keihin Real Racing   Koudai Tsukakoshi
  Toshihiro Kaneishi
  Katsutomo Kaneishi
Honda NSX B 120
11 GT500 24 HIS Advan Kondo Racing   Seiji Ara
  João Paulo de Oliveira
Nissan GT-R Y 119
12 GT300 46 S-Road MOLA   Kazuki Hoshino
  Masataka Yanagida
Nissan Z Y 112
13 GT300 43 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri   Shinichi Takagi
  Morio Nitta
ASL Garaiya M 112
14 GT300 2 Apple K-one Cars Tokai Dream28   Hiroki Yoshimoto
  Hiroki Kato
Mooncraft Shiden Y 112
15 GT300 74 apr   Yuji Kunimoto
  Takuto Iguchi
Toyota Corolla Axio M 112
16 GT300 11 JIM Gainer Racing   Tetsuya Tanaka
  Katsuyuki Hiranaka
Ferrari F430 GT2 Y 110
17 GT300 19 WedsSport Team Bandoh   Manabu Orido
  Tatsuya Kataoka
Lexus IS350 Y 112
18 GT300 7 M7 Mutiara RE Amemiya   Nobuteru Taniguchi
  Ryo Orime
Mazda RX-7 Y 112
19 GT300 81 Team Daishin   Takayuki Aoki
  Tomonobu Fujii
  Koji Aoyama
Ferrari F430 GT2 Y 112
20 GT300 52 Team Shift   Yuhi Sekiguchi
  Naoya Yamano
  Kota Sasaki
Lexus IS350 K 111
21 GT300 88 triple a JLOC   Yuya Sakamoto
  Hideshi Matsuda
Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3 Y 111
22 GT300 55 J-Trust Tomei Sports   Yutaka Yamagishi
  Hiroshi Koizumi
Porsche 997 GT3-RSR Y 110
23 GT300 87 giraffa JLOC   Hisashi Wada
  Hiroyuki Iiri
Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3 Y 110
24 GT300 666 FieLDS Bomex Rosso   Junichiro Yamashita
  Shogo Suho
  Takashi Miyamoto
Vemac RD320R K 107
25 GT300 4 Lian Bomex Rosso   Yoshihiro Ito
  Michihito Uwazumi
  Subaru Yamamoto
Porsche Boxster K 104
26 GT300 10 JIM Gainer Racing   Masayuki Ueda
  Masataka Kawaguchi
Ferrari 360 Y 103
27 GT300 26 UpStart Team Taisan   Haruki Kurosawa
  Tsubasa Abe
  Katsuhiko Tsutsui
Porsche 996 GT3-RS Y 100
28 GT300 66 triple a JLOC   Koji Yamanishi
  Atsushi Yogo
Lamborghini Murcielago RG-1 Y 94
29 GT300 31 Avex apr   Kyosuke Mineo
  Hiroshi Takamori
  Yuya Sakamoto
Toyota Corolla Axio Y 93
30 GT500 8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri   Takuya Izawa
  Ralph Firman
Honda NSX B 84
DNF GT500 6 ENEOS Team LeMans   Daisuke Ito
  Björn Wirdheim
Lexus SC430 B 64
DNF GT300 808 Hatsune Miku Studie GLAD Racing   Yasushi Kikuchi
  Taku Bamba
  Shozo Tagahara
BMW Z4 Y 60
DNF GT300 5 Team Mach   Tetsuji Tamanaka
  Akazame Oyaji
Vemac RD320R Y 27
DNF GT500 32 EPSON Nakajima Racing   Loïc Duval
  Yuhki Nakayama
Honda NSX D 12

Statistics edit

  • GT500 Pole Position – #35 KRAFT SC430 – 1:55.724
  • GT300 Pole Position – #81 Daishin F430 – 2:07.439
  • GT500 Fastest Lap – #35 KRAFT SC430 – 1:58.093
  • GT300 Fastest Lap – #5 Team Mach Vemac – 2:09.282
  • Winner's Race Time – 4:16:02.744

References edit

  1. ^ "Decision on race distances for race 3, race 6 and the final race of Super GT". as-web.jp. 22 March 2009.
  2. ^ "2009 Round6 Race Result". supergt.net. 23 August 2009. Archived from the original on 22 February 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2012.