5. Bertrand Baguette/Kazuki Hiramine (Impul Nissan)
It was a close call between Impul’s new line-up and Rookie Racing Toyota pairing Kazuya Oshima and Kenta Yamashita. While Yamashita is undoubtedly one of the championship’s ace talents, we feel that the Baguette-Hiramine axis is the better balanced and, frankly, more exciting line-up of the two, as well as the pick of all the Nissan combinations.
As has been well-documented, Baguette arrives at Impul after a straight swap with Nobuharu Matsushita, who along with Hiramine helped end a five-year winless streak for Kazuyoshi Hoshino’s team last year. Baguette’s aggressive style is not dissimilar to that of the man he replaces, and is sure to gel well with the equally committed Hiramine.
Communication will be no issue either as Hiramine is fluent in English, and was already acquainted with Baguette thanks to a mutual friend in former JLOC Lamborghini man Marco Mapelli (Hiramine’s GT300 teammate in 2018). That strong…
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