The collaboration between Motoyama and ex-Toyota GT500 squad Team LeMans has come to an end just days after the Audi outfit scored its first-ever points with fifth place in the 2022 curtain-raiser.
Motoyama’s name was absent from the entry list for the second round of the season at Fuji when it was published on Tuesday, with ex-Formula 1 racer Roberto Merhi and Shintaro Kawabata instead joining Yoshiaki Katayama.
The team name had also changed from ‘Motoyama Racing w/ Team LeMans’ to simply ‘Team LeMans’.
A press release issued by Motoyama stated that the change resulted from a “termination of the contract from the team side”.
Merhi is expected to race for the team for the rest of the season as Katayama’s new partner, starting with the 450km Golden Week event at Fuji on May 3-4.
Long-time Nissan SUPER GT driver Motoyama, who won GT500 titles for the brand in 2003, ’04 and ’08, entered the GT300 class for the first time sharing an Audi with Katayama, with the duo failing to score…
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