The marque’s flagship #23 NISMO machine of Ronnie Quintarelli and Tsugio Matsuda reached the magic figure in the first of four test sessions held over the course of the two days on Saturday morning, while Quintarelli was driving.
That was en route to the second-fastest time of the rain-disrupted test, as Quintarelli clocked a 1m28.139s to get within two tenths of the benchmark established by TOM’S Toyota driver Sho Tsuboi.
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Four-time series champion Quintarelli said he was pleased to get confirmation that the new Z has eliminated one of the weak points of Nissan’s previous GT500 model, the GT-R, whose high-downforce, high-drag philosophy made Fuji something of a weak track for the brand.
“We had a tailwind, but we reached 300km/h,” Quintarelli told Motorsport.com. “I was watching the speedometer before braking… but the tailwind made it really hard to stop the car, I had to brake earlier.
“With the GT-R, usually we were around 291, 292… with these conditions, maybe…
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