Things never get easier for the D'Station Racing AMR team within the Super GT Series

The performance pressures upon the D’Station Racing Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 powered crew just intensified after a post-race penalty lost them the meagre points haul that the #777 crew were previously able to attain earlier today.

Racing at was/is still be labelled as the seventh round of the Japanese Super GT Series from Autopolis saw the #777 GT300 care of Tomonobu Fujii and Charlie Fagg needing a decent points haul this time around to put them into a better competitive position before the series rounds off at the season double header.

Already twenty-one points behind the #56 car going into this round, the #777’s own success ballast and fuel flow restriction would see them qualifying way down in P19 within the GT300 class going it todays three-hour race.

Running on a dry track under clear blue skies and sunshine, the Fujii/Fagg partnership had clawed their way up to the periphery of the top ten in class with still an hour to go before the crew took the chequered flag P8 in class.

 

However, a post-race time penalty for an earlier incident involving Fujii and the #7 car later saw that position drop to P22 in class – totally out of the championship points tally and with the #56 further extending their championship points lead sees the #777 now drop to third or fourth in class once the points adjustment has been made.

Whether that still gives the team two final shots at the GT300 crown at the seasonal finale from Motegi later next month has yet to be seen.

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