Safety Car thwarts D'Station Racings efforts in Super Taikyu from Autopolis

Sunday, July 27, 2025

It was an opportunity thwarted by a mid-race Safety Car intervention that stopped the D’Station Racing Aston Martin Racing team from securing another podium finish within their domestic Super Taikyu Series visit to Autopolis earlier today.

With the #777 AMR Vantage GT3 car of Satoshi Hoshino, Yuta Kamimura and Tomonbu Fujii narrowly missing out on pole position by just 0.032 of a second saw this five-hour race start under clear blue skies and sunshine around this complex 4.67km circuit.

Fujii opened the proceedings for the team, yet he had to spend his entire opening stint chasing the #101 third placed starting Audi to hold a comfortable P2 at the top of the first hour. Hoshino was aboard next who took the car towards the halfway mark to the race but their post stop outlap was slowed by being the wrong side of a Safety Car for a car in the barrier.

From that point on, it was impossible for the #777 crew to make further inroads into the gap to their ST-X class rivals ahead where they ultimately finished fourth overall just under a lap down to the top three finishes.