Pole to podium for the #777 D'Station Racing AMR crew in Super GT at the weekend
Monday, May 05, 2025
Returning to the series with an unchanged driver line up of Tomonobu Fujii and Charlie Fagg aboard their #777 car, the crew were eager to avoid any repeat of the opening round where rain and accident damage prevented them from scoring a result otherwise higher up the GT300 class order than they did.
The race weekend certainly started off well in Free Practice where a best lap time of 1:36:664 was good enough for P4 in class, just 0.274 of a second off the lead pace before an aggregated time of 1:35:674 from Fagg and 1:34:820 from Fujii was worthy of a pole position start to Sundays race.
This time around, the race gods were kind as the entire race was completed under clear blue skies and warming sunshine for a change although that wasn’t enough for the team to enjoy an unaffected race plan.
Having maintained point at the head of the GT300 pack, the #777 car was one of the first to pit for service and driver change at or about the top of the first hour, but whilst fighting their way back up the leaderboard the car suffered a left rear puncture. Fortunately with the Dunlop tyre holding up until the pit lane, the team still had nearly half the race distance still to go to recover time lost in those last few corners.
That the crew soon did for the #777 car to recover the class lead going into the final half hour of the race, but they did still have to make one more visit to pit lane for enough fuel for the final ten minutes making for something of a nail biter for those watching on. Back down to third in class with just minutes left on the clock for Fagg to improve and whilst moving up to second was achieved, the distance to the class winning Ferrari crew was just too much to ask.
That the crew soon did for the #777 car to recover the class lead going into the final half hour of the race, but they did still have to make one more visit to pit lane for enough fuel for the final ten minutes making for something of a nail biter for those watching on. Back down to third in class with just minutes left on the clock for Fagg to improve and whilst moving up to second was achieved, the distance to the class winning Ferrari crew was just too much to ask.
Either way – a class pole position and a P2 class finish is still a great result in anyone’s book. Next stop will be a fly away event at Sepang. Malaysia at the end of June.
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