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GT300 cars suspected of sandbagging at Okayama

GT300 cars suspected of sandbagging at Okayama

The timesheets for the two-day test in the GT300 class were dominated by FIA GT3 machinery, with the fastest time coming on the opening day courtesy of Takashi Kogure in the #88 JLOC Lamborghini, followed by the K-Tunes Racing Lexus and Pacific CarGuy Racing Ferrari.

Just one GT300-rules car (formerly JAF GT300) breached the combined top 10 for the two-day test, the Saitama Toyopet Toyota GR Supra that topped the order on the second day of running.

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Kohta Kawaai’s best time in the Supra, a 1m25.917s, was good for fourth overall, but was almost seven tenths slower than Kogure’s best in the JLOC Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo.

Last year, the previously dominant FIA GT3 cars won just two of the year’s eight races, with Subaru’s all-new GT300-rules BRZ winning the championship having scored four poles.

That led Kondo Racing’s Joao Paulo de Oliveira, who shares a Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 with Kiyoto Fujinami, to declare that the GT300 cars were “on another planet” at the end of…

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