D'Station Racing finish Super GT 2026 with a P5 finish after their championship hopes were lost on Saturday

This weekend’s final race weekend of the Japanese Super GT Series was always going to be something of a challenge than usual for the #777 D’Station Racing Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 crew as their GT300 class championship win still had half a dozen crews still in contention for this double header.

Making up for lost ground from the cancelled third round of the season from Sepang meant for a shorter than usual 250km race length on Saturday as well as the season concluding round for what was round eight of the season following quickly on on Sunday.

 

The D’Station Racing team had already been forced to source an alternative driver to Tomonobu Fujii after the Team Manager exceeded the penalty point threshold after an end of race incident on track last time out, so for these two final races his position alongside co-driver Charlie Fagg was taken by their Super Taikyu Series racer Tsubasa Kondo.

Going into this race weekend twenty-five points in arrears but with fifty-two points still on offer, an early resurrection on race pace was essential for the team and having qualified eight in class fore race one, the potential was there. Unfortunately, that lasted only until the third corner when Kondo found himself upon the inner kerb of turn four which sent him into the side of the then race leading car. That contact left both cars with race ending damage and officially marked the end of the teams championship possibilities.

 

They did, however, manage to finish the year off upon something of a high at the end of round eight as going long into the pit window left Kondo able to hand over the #777 car to Fagg within the top five and whilst he briefly made up in higher positions, eventually rounded off the season with a P5 finish in class.

Their season ends with the words from Fagg after Saturdays incident – “next year!!

Photo credits – Team