A few weeks ago, this writer attempted to rank the top five GT500 line-ups in SUPER GT this year. As it so happened, the top three were all Honda teams.
That’s partly because Honda has three strong ‘A’ drivers in its three Bridgestone cars in the form of Naoki Yamamoto, Tomoki Nojiri and Koudai Tsukakoshi, with each paired by a fast young driver with experience of racing in Europe. And there’s not a lot wrong with the marque’s two other line-ups either.
But perhaps you can have two much of a good thing, because Honda faces some potentially tricky driver decisions next year. As well as its 10 GT500 incumbents, it has a number of young drivers to choose from – not only those racing in Japan, but also in Europe.
Firstly, let’s review the young drivers that Honda has on its books. In Japan, there’s Ren Sato, who drove in GT300 last year but made the headlines for all the wrong reasons as he took out the Kunimitsu NSX-GT of Yamamoto in the Fuji Speedway finale,…
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