D'Station Racing hope for better fortune as the Super GT Series heads to Suzuka

 

With both America and Europe seeing most of the Aston Martin Racing powered action this weekend, the Japanese Super GT Series will also be running what is their fifth scheduled round of the season from Suzuka.

Although only running as the fourth actual race weekend of the season after the cancellation of their annual fly-away round from Sepang and couple of months ago, we again look forward to the #777 D’Station Racing AMR Vantage GT3 of Tomonobu Fujii and Charlie Fagg to support.

 

Last time out at the beginning of August at their ‘home’ circuit of Fuji Speedway, the #777 car was severely handicapped with both a maximum success ballast allocation as well as a fuel flow restrictor being applied during their pitstop which obviously affected the team’s performance.

Eventually finishing P23 within their GT300 class, that also saw their championship slump down the order from the head of the pack prior to that 300km event to come away fifth overall in the championship, but still just five points behind the new leaders.

 

Going into this weekend’s 300km race this weekend, their success ballast remains at 70kg over the car’s declared base weight but that is no longer as much as those now above them in the championship.

Competing within another GT300 class size of twenty-nine runners, track action will begin again with Practice and Qualifying on Saturday before the race on Sunday.

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