Completing the global Aston Martin Racing powered package for this weekend will be by no means least, the #777 D’Station Racing AMR Vantage GT3 of Tomonobu Fujii and Charlie Fagg as they chase their domestic Super GT Series GT300 championship crown.

Competing this weekend at round six of the series revised 2026 calendar for Sugo, the AMR powered crew find themselves second within the class championship table so far just one point behind the leaders after a comeback race last time out at Suzuka saw the crew deliver a vital thirteen points after the non-scoring round at their home round at Fuji Speedway the round before that.

 

The entry list for Sugo shows another usual twenty-nine strong GT300 class entry but with the #777 again carrying a near maximum success ballast of 96kg to (presumably) go alongside their fuel flow restriction during the mandatory pitstops over the last two rounds.

This 300km event will again see Free Practice and Qualifying take place on Saturday with the race on Sunday.

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The Japanese D’Station Racing Aston Martin Racing team did their Super GT Championship ambitions a world as they saw out the fifth round of the season from Suzuka earlier today.

Again running both Tomonobu Fujii and Charlie Fagg aboard the green liveried #777 car, the last round of the season was a bitter pill for them all to swallow as both high success ballast and a fuel flow restrictor saw it impossible for them to even consider even a lower end points finish, but this weekend was different.

 

Having lost a fair wedge of that earlier success ballast (thanks to their poor result at Fuji Speedway), the newfound performance of the #777 was quickly realised in qualifying as the car booked a front row start for Sunday’s 300km race from second in the GT300 class.

Starting on a bright and warm track, it was full defence mode for most of the opening lap as the #777 defended its second position on track with Viger – sometimes going the long way around the corners just to stay where they were before eventually the challenging Mercedes did drop back. The team would maintain their position up until the first FCY for a stranded GT500 in the gravel on lap seventeen.

 

Pitting early compared to some within class, the #777 did fall outside of the top ten as they waited for the remaining half of the grid to make their respective stops to equalise out that equation as the race entered its second half. That was eventually realised by about lap thirty but which time the Aston Martin had dropped to fourth in class.

With just five laps to go, a late Safety Car for another GT500 car in the gravel and tyre wall calmed things down but the circuit damage would see the race finishing still behind the Safety Car with the D’Station Racing crew claiming enough points to pull their championship points back up to second in class as the series heads to Sugo towards the end of September.

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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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Fuji’s return round of the 2026 Super GT Series was always going to be a difficult race affair for the #777 D’Station Racing Aston Martin Racing powered crew as the effects of the then championship leading status took full effect.

Having skipped the last round due to the cancellation of the fly-away race from Sepang, the last race from Fuji Speedway in early May had been the last time the collective GT500 and GT300 classes had been together ahead of what was to be a ‘usual’ 300km race this time around.

With both Tomonobu Fujii and Charlie Fagg back aboard the #777 AMR Vantage GT3, Saturday’s qualifying position of P27 out of a GT300 class size of twenty-nine cars came as no surprise to them.

 

The race itself got underway on Sunday in a startling way as it was red flagged on only the fifth lap after a GT500 car became airborne along the damp start straight before coming down in something of a crumpled heap. Fortunately, the driver was reported as being otherwise no worse for his unplanned flight along the pit wall but the necessary time for his extraction from the car and the clean-up operation was obviously made.

The race eventually got back underway with still fifty-five minutes on the clock but for the #777 crew, the 70kg of additional success ballast and the additional ten seconds on the refuelling meant that they were never to be in contention within the top twenty in class.

 

The crew eventually finished P23 as attention now moves onto Suzuka at the end of August.

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The D’Station Racing Aston Martin Racing claimed enough points at the end of their second round to the Japanese Super GT Series earlier today to retain (an albeit slender) lead within their GT300 class.

Racing today at their ‘home’ circuit of Fujii Speedway, the #777 crew of Tomonobu Fujii and Charlie Fagg were facing the prospect of running this weekend’s three-hour race (as opposed to a more traditional 300km race) with maximum success ballast after their lights to flag class win at the end of the opening round from Okayama.

 

Reporting back during Free Practice and Qualifying issues of tyre degradation and a lowered level of performance (with the BoP ballast weight having its desired effect), the crew were having to find compromises to make up for that.

Having Qualified in eleventh within their class set of twenty-eight other entries, it was a warm start to the day as Fujii again did the opening stint to the race before handing over to Fagg in P9th before he too elevated their track position in class up to seventh at the end of his run.

 

With the success ballast and a new fuel flow restrictor being imposed onto their stops, the #777 crew still managed to come home In seventh for nine more valuable championship points to secure their class lead as the series now has an elongated wait through the period of the now postponed visit to Sepang before its next round of the season, again from Fuji Speedway in early August.

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D’Station Racing will be upon home turf this weekend as they face the second round of the Japanese Super GT Series from their local Fuji Speedway circuit.

Having won the opening round to the season at Okayama a month ago with their #777 Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 with drivers Tomonobu Fujii and Charlie Fagg aboard, all will be looking for something similar this weekend as their race demands increases from a usual 300km affair to a three-hour enduro.

 

For this weekend’s second round to the now seven round season (having had the series indefinitely postpone its travels to Sepang) again sees the #777 crew compete within a twenty-nine strong GT300 class entry plus those faster GT500 class cars too. With this longer race, some of the GT300 entries will be running a three-man crew but not D’Station.

As a result of the #777 crew winning last time out, they will be saddled with an additional 52kg of success ballast for their efforts for an event which will see their usual split format qualifying on Saturday before the race on Sunday.

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Emulating the race winning ways of their AMR powered European cousins this weekend, the Japanese based D’Station Racing Aston Martin Racing team went one better than the Comtoyou Racing team at their opening round of their national Super GT Series.

Beating the #7 Comtoyou Racing’s qualifying position by one to secure a season opening pole position within the GT300 class at today’s Okayama opener, the #777 D’Station Racing pairing of Tomonobu Fujii and Charlie Fagg went on to run a near lights to flag class win at the end of the 300km race.

 

With weather conditions staying fine over the race weekend, the #777 backed up a good pre-season build up started the officially timed sessions only eighth fastest in Free Practice before going onto shave another 2.4 seconds off that lap time to secure pole position from the #2 Bridgestone tyre shod Toyota.

In a surprisingly clean race, an early stop for fuel for the #777 still saw them come through to the midway stop and driver change in the class lead before Fagg rounded off an otherwise faultless team performance to win the class by over seven seconds.

 

The next round will be from the teams ‘home’ circuit of Fuji Speedway in just over two weeks’ time.

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Rounding off the Aston Martin Racing powered involvement around the world this weekend is another significant GT series kicking off its 2026 campaign as the Japanese Super GT season gets underway at Okayama.

Formerly running as part of an eight-round calendar but some new released by the series earlier in the week saw there long haul to Sepang get postponed indefinitely with the series citing increasing travel costs as the reason.

 

Despite that, the headlining Japanese GT series continues to be in rude health both in the topflight GT500 class as well as the GT3 based GT300 class which is where we will find the D’Station Racing Aston Martin Raving Vantage GT3 again.

This time familiarity will be the case as drivers Tomonobu Fujii and Charlie Fagg reunite for another campaign in the class, something that the team excelled at during the middle of last season before unfortunately falling away at the end after crashing out of an important round.

 

 

The Japanese based D’Station Racing team confirmed some good news today as well as detailing a shift from their usual positions for their domestic racing programme this season.

Firstly, the good news was that of their Aston Martin Racing powered return to the topflight Super GT Series with drivers Tomonobu Fujii and Charlie Fagg pairing up again for their third season togther aboard their #777 entry.

 

It was a disappointing conclusion to their Super GT Series endeavours for the D’Station Racing Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 team at the end of today’s final round of the season from Motegi.

Having already lost their chance at the GT300 class crown after an untimely string of three no or low points scoring rounds, their arrival at a circuit not exactly suited to their car’s performance characteristics didn’t raise any hopes of a final resurgence going into this final round either.

 

There’s no let up for the D’Station Racing team as they head out for their third back-to-back racing weekend within their domestic arena – this time for the finale of their headlining Super GT Series programme.

Now with three outings out within the GT300 class producing no or low championship points finishes for their #777 Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 entry of Tomonobu Fujii and Charlie Fagg, their class championship battles are sadly at an end although there are of course possibilities for them to climb back up the leaderboard slightly by the end of Sunday’s 300km finale from Motegi.

 

Another non-points scoring finish to the penultimate round of the Super GT Series season earlier today effectively consigns the D’Station Racing Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 season to what might have been.

With Tomonobu Fujii and Charlie Fagg again combining well this season, this weekend’s visit to Autopolis needed the #777 crew to be on top form again in order to cut the points deficit to those crews ahead of theme within their GT300 class going into the final round of the season but poor pace from their car took them in the opposite direction.

 

One series bucking the trend of not running their final round of the season just yet is the Japanese Super GT Series which instead will be running its penultimate round to their eight-round season this weekend from Autopolis.

Within the midst of the combined GT500 and GT300 entries should be the #777 D’Station Racing Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 of Tomonobu Fujii and Charlie Fagg again as they look to see if there’s anything that could be done to rejuvenate their GT300 championship charge after their DNF last time out at Sugo.

 

Two more series with Aston Martin Racing powered crews competing over in Asia this weekend completes our preview of events as both the Japanese Super GT Series goes again with their sixth round of the season from Sugo whilst the Thailand Super Series races their penultimate round to their season from Sepang.

First and foremost, will of course be the Super GT Series as the D’Station Racing AMR Vantage GT3 of Tomonobu Fujii and Charlie Fagg look to rekindle that rich vein of success that sadly alluded them last time out at Suzuka.

D’Station Racing’s recent Super GT Series podium winning streak sadly came to an end today as the Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 driver pairing of Tomonobu Fujii and Charlie Fagg suffered a late race tyre issue.

Having taken a GT300 class win apiece after the two individual races ran last time out at Fuji Speedway, the Japanese squad were hopeful of continuing that pace this weekend as the headline domestic series visited Suzuka for round five of the season.

 

The Super GT Series will get back to business next weekend as their fifth round of the season takes the mixed GT500 and GT300 entry to Suzuka and a more traditional 300km race after the two sprint races last time out at Fuji.

For those individually driven sprint races, the #777 D’Station Racing Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 of Tomonobu Fujii and Charlie Fagg of course surprised themselves with a class winning double act for the two drivers over the course of the weekend.

 

It was a near perfect race weekend for the Japanese D’Station Racing team as they returned for something unusual within their domestic topflight Super GT Series and its fourth round of the season.

Racing this time at their local Fuji Speedway circuit, the Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 pairing of Tomonobu Fujii and Charlie Fagg would this time run solo in two individual races (approximately an hour long each) with the Saturday Practice, Qualifying and race conducted by just Fagg whilst Fujii would do similar on Sunday.

 

D’Station Racing’s involvement in this weekend’s fourth round of the Super GT Series concludes our mainstream involvement for Aston Martin Racing powered entries around the globe as they prepare to battle out something rather different.

Back to their home circuit of Fuji Speedway, the locally based team again prepare to field their #777 AMR Vantage GT3 within the GT300 class but this time around, there will be two individually driven sprint races over the course of both Saturday and Sunday to keep drivers Tomonobu Fujii and Charlie Fagg occupied.