As per the first day of running on Tuesday, Nissan squads locked out the top three positions as the Yokohama marque gears up to give the new Z GT500 car its race debut at Okayama in April.
The #23 NISMO car shared by Ronnie Quintarelli and Tsugio Matsuda logged the quickest time of the day in the morning session, a 1m44.515s, surpassing the Tuesday benchmark set by the #230 test car by over three tenths.
It was also faster than the best qualifying time at Suzuka set last year, a 1m44.733s, but it should be noted that the cooler conditions of winter tend to produce deceptively fast laptimes due to the relative thickness of the air increasing downforce.
Impul’s Bridgestone-shod Z was second-fastest on a 1m44.659s, as new Nissan recruit Bertrand Baguette continued to accumulate mileage in the #12 car he’ll share with Kazuki Hiramine this year.
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