Toyota swept both days of last weekend’s pre-season test at Okayama courtesy of the #36 TOM’S GR Supra of reigning champion Sho Tsuboi and GT500 rookie Giuliano Alesi, with Tsuboi setting the benchmark time of 1m18.116s.
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Last year, Toyota dominated the opening round at the former Pacific Grand Prix venue, locking out the top four positions while rival GT500 manufacturers Honda and Nissan both struggled.
However, both Honda’s new-look NSX-GT Type S and Nissan’s brand-new Z were close to the pace last weekend, with all three marques split by just 0.130s in the combined timesheets after two days.
Combined Okayama laptimes:
Pos. # Driver Team/Car Time/Gap Session 1 36 Sho Tsuboi TOM’S Toyota 1’18.116 Day 2 am 2 8 Tomoki Nojiri ARTA Honda +0.068 Day 1 am 3 17 Nobuharu Matsushita Real Honda +0.099 Day 1 pm 4 100 Naoki Yamamoto Kunimitsu Honda +0.102 Day 1 am 5 23 Tsugio Matsuda NISMO Nissan +0.130 Day 2 am
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