The Japanese series announced the Balance of Performance for this weekend’s Okayama season opener last week, with the GT300 machines that dominated the 2021 campaign hit with a combination of weight increases, turbo boost pressure decreases and smaller air restrictors.
Meanwhile, the FIA GT3 machinery that make up the bulk of the field have seen only minor adjustments compared to last year.
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De Oliveira was one of the most vocal critics of the BoP last year as he and Kondo teammate Kiyoto Fujinami finished runner-up in the standings behind Subaru duo Takuto Iguchi and Hideki Yamauchi.
Asked by Motorsport.com for his opinion on the revised BoP for Okayama, which also includes extra weight designed to slow the cars further on a track with little in the way of run-off areas, de Oliveira said that moves to peg back the GT300s are welcome, but not in any way surprising.
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