As per the opening day of the test, Sho Tsuboi set the best time at the wheel of the au-branded TOM’S GR Supra during the two-hour morning session, marginally improving on his Saturday benchmark with a 1m18.116s.
That was enough to beat the best of the all-new Nissan Zs, the #23 NISMO car of Tsugio Matsuda, by 0.130s.
Matsuda had briefly put the #23 car at the top of the times with his effort of 1m28.246s before it was eclipsed by Tsuboi, improving on his best time from Saturday by almost half a second.
Katsumasa Chiyo made it two NISMO-run Zs inside the top three aboard the #3 NDDP Racing car, albeit fractionally slower than the best time his new teammate Mitsunori Takaboshi did on the opening day.
Chiyo was also involved in a collision with the #88 JLOC Lamborghini of Takashi Kogure at Turn 2 that caused the third and final red flag of an incident-packed morning session, although the #3 car escaped with only minor damage and was able to continue running thereafter.
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