2013 Motegi GT 250km

The 2013 Motegi GT 250km was the final championship round of the 2013 Super GT season, the 8th points scoring race for GT500 cars and the 9th for GT300 cars. It took place on November 3, 2013 at Twin Ring Motegi in Motegi, Tochigi, Japan.

Background

Kohei Hirate and Yuji Tachikawa led the championship for Team Cerumo, having scored 58 points. Following their win at the previous race, TOM'S drivers Kazuki Nakajima and James Rossiter were 2nd in the championship, four points behind Cerumo. Eight teams in GT500 had a theoretical chance at winning the championship entering the Motegi round. In GT300 Team Mugen had an eight-point lead over Goodsmile Racing's Tatsuya Kataoka and Nobuteru Taniguchi, while in GT300 only five teams had a possibility of winning the championship. The Balance of Performance was re-adjusted in GT300, the air restrictor sizes for the Honda CR-Z and Subaru BRZ were returned to their sizes that were at the Fuji 300km round. [1]

Because Motegi was the final round of the championship, teams that competed in all rounds of the championship had their weight ballast removed, all cars with the exception of the #5 Team Mach Nissan GT-R GT3 ran without weight ballast. Unlike other rounds which are normally 300km in length, Motegi is only a 250km race. 38 cars entered the final round at Motegi, the #360 Tomei Sports Nissan GT-R GT3 not entering Motegi was the only change from the Autopolis entry list. [2]

Report

Practice

The #38 Team Cerumo Lexus SC430 was fastest GT500 car in practice while the #100 Team Kunimitsu Honda HSV-010 GT was second fastest. In GT300 The #11 Gainer Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 set the fastest time from the #16 Team Mugen Honda CR-Z. The #37 TOM'S SC430 caused the first red flag 17 minutes into the session after spinning off at the final turn. A second red flag came out 40 minutes in after the car that was fastest at the end of the session, #38 Team Cerumo SC430 spun off at turn 2. The #19 Bandoh SC430 also had a problem and stopped on circuit with 20 minutes remaining. [3]

Qualifying

Qualifying was held on November 2, 2013. In the first session for all GT300 cars the championship leader, the Team Mugen Honda CR-Z with Yuhki Nakayama was fastest from the #11 Gainer SLS. The session was red flagged as Takashi Kobayashi spun off at the hairpin and was unable to rejoin the circuit, and would have to start the race from the rear of the grid. The only championship-contending team eliminated in Q1 for GT300 was the #52 SLS with Hironori Takeuchi driving. In the first GT500 session Masataka Yanagida was fastest for NISMO, 2nd went to Takashi Kogure. Both Frédéric Makowiecki and James Rossiter, driving for teams that entered Motegi 3rd and 4th in the championship respectively failed to make the cutoff for the second session.

In the second GT300 session Kota Sasaki was fastest in the #61 Subaru BRZ, scoring the team's 5th pole position of the season and Sasaki's 10th in his career. Three of the 4 championship contending teams started in the top three, the GSR Hatsune Miku BMW that was 2nd in the championship would start 7th. Kazuya Oshima was fastest in the second GT500 qualifying session, setting a time a tenth faster than Koudai Tsukakoshi. The championship leading team would start 4th. [4]

Race

The race was held on November 3, 2013. Oshima started the #6 SC430 from pole position and kept his lead while Tetsuya Yamano was able to lead from the start in GT300, but on lap 4, Björn Wirdheim had overtaken Yamano for the lead, Wirdheim in the #11 Gainer SLS being able to lap much faster than anyone else in the class. On lap 4 in GT500 Kohei Hirate in the #38 SC430 passed Toshihiro Kaneishi in the #17 HSV-010 for 2nd and was then under attack from multiple cars behind. Oshima and Wirdheim kept extending their leads in their respective classes throughout the first stint, Oshima building nearly 20 seconds over Hirate and Wirdheim had nearly 40 seconds on 2nd.

The first pitstops occurred as early as lap 19, Kaneishi in the #17 being the first of the lead group to pit with Tsugio Matsuda, Juichi Wakisaka and Naoki Yamamoto pitting as well. Cerumo pitted a lap after and Yuji Tachikawa managed to keep his position over the #17, now with Koudai Tsukakoshi driving. On lap 32 Hiroaki Ishiura passed Tsukakoshi for 3rd, but 3 laps later Tsukakoshi re-passed Ishiura and began closing on Tachikawa again. Andre Couto and Ralph Firman made contact on lap 38, sending Firman into the wall and Couto receiving a drive-through penalty for the incident.[5] Tsukakoshi overtook Tachikawa for 2nd on lap 38 but Tachikawa still held a 2-point lead in the championship and with other Lexus SC430's behind there was no change in position for the rest of the race, giving Team Cerumo, Tachikawa and Hirate the championship. Yuji Kunimoto won his first GT500 race for Team LeMans and Oshima won his 3rd GT500 race.

Kota Sasaki was catching Yuhki Nakayama for 2nd in GT300 in the closing laps but with two laps to go Sasaki spun, which assured Nakayama would finish 2nd, which was enough for Team Mugen to win the GT300 championship by five points over the race winners of Katsuyuki Hiranaka and Björn Wirdheim, who were well ahead of anyone else in their class.[6]

Results

Qualifying

[7][8]

Pos No Team Q1 Driver Q2 Driver Qualifying 1 Qualifying 2 Tyre
GT500
1 6 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS Japan Yuji Kunimoto Japan Kazuya Oshima 1:42.117 1:41.367 B
2 17 Keihin Real Racing Japan Toshihiro Kaneishi Japan Koudai Tsukakoshi 1:42.292 1:41.490 B
3 23 Motul Autech NISMO Japan Masataka Yanagida Italy Ronnie Quintarelli 1:41.821 1:41.514 M
4 38 Lexus Team Zent Cerumo Japan Kohei Hirate Japan Yuji Tachikawa 1:42.022 1:41.582 B
5 39 Lexus Team DENSO SARD Japan Juichi Wakisaka Japan Hiroaki Ishiura 1:42.062 1:41.598 B
6 100 Raybrig Team Kunimitsu Japan Takashi Kogure Japan Takuya Izawa 1:41.996 1:42.144 B
7 37 Lexus Team KeePer TOM'S Japan Daisuke Ito Italy Andrea Caldarelli 1:42.305 1:42.323 B
8 12 Calsonic Team Impul Brazil João Paulo de Oliveira Japan Tsugio Matsuda 1:42.208 1:42.374 B
9 1 S-Road REITO MOLA Japan Yuhi Sekiguchi Japan Satoshi Motoyama 1:42.364 M
10 18 Weider Dome Racing France Frédéric Makowiecki Japan Naoki Yamamoto 1:42.399 M
11 24 D'Station ADVAN Kondo Racing Japan Hironobu Yasuda Germany Michael Krumm 1:42.463 Y
12 19 Lexus Team WedsSport Bandoh Portugal Andre Couto Japan Seiji Ara 1:42.558 Y
13 36 Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S United Kingdom James Rossiter Japan Kazuki Nakajima 1:42.564 B
14 8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Republic of Ireland Ralph Firman Japan Kosuke Matsuura 1:42.679 B
15 32 Epson Nakajima Racing Japan Daisuke Nakajima Japan Ryo Michigami 1:43.547 D
GT300
1 61 R&D Sport Japan Tetsuya Yamano Japan Kota Sasaki 1:49.156 1:48.264 M
2 11 Gainer Sweden Björn Wirdheim Japan Katsuyuki Hiranaka 1:49.090 1:48.354 D
3 16 Team Mugen Japan Yuhki Nakayama Japan Hideki Mutoh 1:48.636 1:48.389 B
4 3 NDDP Racing Japan Kazuki Hoshino Japan Daiki Sasaki 1:49.377 1:48.900 Y
5 62 Leon Racing Japan Tsubasa Kurosawa Japan Haruki Kurosawa 1:49.813 1:48.970 Y
6 88 JLOC Japan Manabu Orido Japan Takayuki Aoki 1:49.621 1:49.241 Y
7 4 GSR Hatsune Miku Japan Tatsuya Kataoka Japan Nobuteru Taniguchi 1:49.717 1:49.518 Y
8 87 JLOC Japan Hiroki Yoshimoto Japan Hideki Yamauchi 1:49.641 1:49.551 Y
9 33 Hankook KTR Japan Tomonobu Fujii Japan Masami Kageyama 1:49.826 1:49.600 H
10 0 Team Taisan Ken Endless Japan Naoki Yokomizo Japan Kyosuke Mineo 1:49.702 1:49.789 Y
11 10 Gainer Japan Tetsuya Tanaka Japan Masayuki Ueda 1:49.215 1:50.240 D
12 2 Cars Tokai Dream28 Japan Hiroki Katoh Japan Kazuho Takahashi 1:49.893 1:52.238 Y
13 48 Dijon Racing Japan Katsumasa Chiyo Japan Hiroshi Takamori 1:49.530 1:52.276 Y
14 31 apr Japan Morio Nitta Japan Koki Saga 1:50.063 Y
15 21 Hitotsuyama Racing United Kingdom Richard Lyons Japan Akihiro Tsuzuki 1:50.162 H
16 30 apr Japan Yuki Iwasaki United States Igor Sushko 1:50.420 Y
17 50 Arnage Racing Japan Hideto Yasuoka Japan Masaki Kano 1:50.440 Y
18 86 JLOC Japan Shinya Hosokawa Japan Koji Yamanishi 1:50.446 Y
19 22 R'Qs MotorSports Japan Hisashi Wada Japan Masaki Jyonai 1:50.544 Y
20 52 OKINAWA-IMP RACING with SHIFT Japan Hironori Takeuchi Japan Takeshi Tsuchiya 1:50.632 Y
21 5 Team Mach Japan Tetsuji Tamanaka Japan Junichiro Yamashita 1:51.337 Y
22 9 Pacific Direction Racing Japan Shogo Mitsuyama Japan You Yokomaku 1:51.707 Y
23 55 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Japan Takashi Kobayashi Japan Shinichi Takagi No Time B

Race

Race result is as follows.[9][10]

Pos No Team Drivers Chassis Tyre Time/Difference Laps
GT500
1 6 Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS Japan Yuji Kunimoto
Japan Kazuya Oshima
Lexus SC430 B 1:35:34.873 53
2 17 Keihin Real Racing Japan Toshihiro Kaneishi
Japan Koudai Tsukakoshi
Honda HSV-010 GT B +11.640 53
3 38 Lexus Team Zent Cerumo Japan Kohei Hirate
Japan Yuji Tachikawa
Lexus SC430 B +32.220 53
4 39 Lexus Team DENSO SARD Japan Hiroaki Ishiura
Japan Juichi Wakisaka
Lexus SC430 B +33.293 53
5 36 Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S Japan Kazuki Nakajima
United Kingdom James Rossiter
Lexus SC430 B +33.405 53
6 37 Lexus Team KeePer TOM'S Italy Andrea Caldarelli
Japan Daisuke Ito
Lexus SC430 B +43.352 53
7 18 Weider Dome Racing France Frédéric Makowiecki
Japan Naoki Yamamoto
Honda HSV-010 GT M +43.980 53
8 23 Motul Autech NISMO Italy Ronnie Quintarelli
Japan Masataka Yanagida
Nissan GT-R M +46.982 53
9 24 D'Station ADVAN Kondo Racing Germany Michael Krumm
Japan Hironobu Yasuda
Nissan GT-R Y +47.690 53
10 19 Lexus Team WedsSport Bandoh Japan Seiji Ara
Portugal Andre Couto
Lexus SC430 Y +57.947 53
11 32 Epson Nakajima Racing Japan Ryo Michigami
Japan Daisuke Nakajima
Honda HSV-010 GT D +1:03.938 53
12 100 Raybrig Team Kunimitsu Japan Takuya Izawa
Japan Takashi Kogure
Honda HSV-010 GT B +1:05.040 53
13 12 Calsonic Team Impul Brazil João Paulo de Oliveira
Japan Tsugio Matsuda
Nissan GT-R B +1 Lap 52
14 1 S-Road REITO MOLA Japan Satoshi Motoyama
Japan Yuhi Sekiguchi
Nissan GT-R M +6 Laps 47
15 8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Republic of Ireland Ralph Firman
Japan Kosuke Matsuura
Honda HSV-010 GT B +15 Laps 38
GT300
1 11 Gainer Japan Katsuyuki Hiranaka
Sweden Björn Wirdheim
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 D 1:36:39.089 51
2 16 Team Mugen Japan Hideki Mutoh
Japan Yuhki Nakayama
Honda CR-Z B +1 Lap 50
3 61 R&D Sport Japan Kota Sasaki
Japan Tetsuya Yamano
Subaru BRZ M +1 Lap 50
4 4 GSR Hatsune Miku Japan Tatsuya Kataoka
Japan Nobuteru Taniguchi
BMW Z4 GT3 Y +1 Lap 50
5 88 JLOC Japan Takayuki Aoki
Japan Manabu Orido
Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 Y +1 Lap 50
6 62 Leon Racing Japan Haruki Kurosawa
Japan Tsubasa Kurosawa
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Y +1 Lap 50
7 52 OKINAWA-IMP RACING with SHIFT Japan Hironori Takeuchi
Japan Takeshi Tsuchiya
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Y +1 Lap 50
8 87 JLOC Japan Hideki Yamauchi
Japan Hiroki Yoshimoto
Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 Y +1 Lap 50
9 3 NDDP Racing Japan Kazuki Hoshino
Japan Daiki Sasaki
Nissan GT-R GT3 Y +1 Lap 50
10 0 Team Taisan Ken Endless Japan Kyosuke Mineo
Japan Naoki Yokomizo
Porsche 997 GT3 Y +1 Lap 50
11 33 Hankook KTR Japan Tomonobu Fujii
Japan Masami Kageyama
Porsche 911 GT3-R H +1 Lap 50
12 10 Gainer Japan Tetsuya Tanaka
Japan Masayuki Ueda
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 D +1 Lap 50
13 86 JLOC Japan Shinya Hosokawa
Japan Koji Yamanishi
Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 Y +1 Lap 50
14 30 apr Japan Yuki Iwasaki
United States Igor Sushko
Nissan GT-R GT3 Y +1 Lap 50
15 55 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Japan Takashi Kobayashi
Japan Shinichi Takagi
Honda CR-Z B +1 Lap 50
16 22 R'Qs MotorSports Japan Masaki Jyonai
Japan Hisashi Wada
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Y +1 Lap 50
17 2 Cars Tokai Dream28 Japan Hiroki Katoh
Japan Kazuho Takahashi
McLaren MP4-12C GT3 Y +1 Lap 50
18 48 Dijon Racing Japan Katsumasa Chiyo
Japan Hiroshi Takamori
Nissan GT-R GT3 Y +1 Lap 50
19 9 Pacific Direction Racing Japan Shogo Mitsuyama
Japan You Yokomaku
Porsche 911 GT3-R Y +1 Lap 50
20 31 apr Japan Morio Nitta
Japan Koki Saga
Toyota Prius Y +2 Laps 49
21 21 Hitotsuyama Racing United Kingdom Richard Lyons
Japan Akihiro Tsuzuki
Audi R8 LMS ultra H +3 Laps 48
22 5 Team Mach Japan Tetsuji Tamanaka
Japan Junichiro Yamashita
Nissan GT-R GT3 Y +3 Laps 48
Ret 50 Arnage Racing Japan Masaki Kano
Japan Hideto Yasuoka
Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 Y +45 Laps 6

Point rankings after the event

GT500 Driver Point rankings
Rank Driver Points
1 Japan Kohei Hirate
Japan Yuji Tachikawa
69
2 Japan Toshihiro Kaneishi
Japan Koudai Tsukakoshi
67
3 Japan Kazuki Nakajima
United Kingdom James Rossiter
60
4 France Frédéric Makowiecki
Japan Naoki Yamamoto
56
5 Japan Yuji Kunimoto
Japan Kazuya Oshima
52

GT300 Driver Point rankings
Rank Driver Points
1 Japan Hideki Mutoh
Japan Yuhki Nakayama
85
2 Japan Katsuyuki Hiranaka
Sweden Björn Wirdheim
80
3 Japan Tatsuya Kataoka
Japan Nobuteru Taniguchi
70
4 Japan Kota Sasaki
Japan Tetsuya Yamano
66
5 Japan Hironori Takeuchi
Japan Takeshi Tsuchiya
60

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