2018 SUPER GT FULL RACE - ROUND 2 - FUJI - LIVE, ENGLISH COMMENTARY

as they call it though I think the most super thing about this next few days is Super GT of course and it is looking like it's gonna be quite an interesting race the grid is a little bit mixed up with a few different cars in a few different places a few different drivers as well the laser at Fuji always throws a curveball latter's as you say on the lower slopes of Mount Fuji it's not a given that the the weather's going to be good and a slightly longer duration for today's race I'm as well looking at 500 kilometres so almost three hours but you know the safety cars always coming to play with Super GT and the weather we're just waiting for a weather update from the circuit at the moment I'm hopeful I'll place that on Twitter quite soon but yesterday the weather was absolutely abysmal in the free practice had to be delayed due to that fuji fog that rolled in and you couldn't see anything so everyone's sitting around in the fog not really moving anywhere yeah I got a lovely got Santa lovely folks who have the wonderful slopes of Mount Fuji and all it was was just a screen of fog and he did get a fantastic view of Fuji Speedway will have some BTS in minutes ever look around the track at the moment and my waiver updates still aren't coming through from Japan at the moment I just have I don't even have pictures of food which I normally have at this point of the day very disappointing yeah so clearly a little bit of slow motion at fuji speedway there's a lot of controversy at the last race if you remember yeah yeah ronique in tireli made what i thought was a fantastic start not only a fantastic start but the first sort of sector of the opening lap I thought was terrific and he received a nominal tee for a jump start but looking at the the onboard footage you could argue that he was perhaps a little bit far back from the car in front of him but he was only forced to do so because he was staying behind the car that was in seventh on the grid but that's the rules let's have a look we can have a look at that and we can see what everybody else thinks about well talk us real I mean you'd be better placed in here we go have a look at the rolling stock so we're coming final corner and the black box on me white overpass overhead is the lights they've read at the moment Green now Ronnie states behind the car on his right and it doesn't overtake there's the start line side I think that's good and it's it's a little messy because the the Honda NSX on the front row makes a full stop and look at this from kids running around the outside there and the great suddenly me too [Music] absolutely nothing bad somewhere you know it really ruins the the Nissan chance is in in the first round and I don't know I don't think that penalty was fair I still don't know what now that video quite a few times and you can watch the full race on a boards I forget where that link is actually but if you hit like and subscribe on this mo TV or someone will post it up in the chat at the moment there is a link to the full race from that car number 23 Motel Alltech GTR gt500 all from the start from lights to flag complete race and it's fantastic to watch but it wasn't really when that onboard footage appeared I was like oh I thought it was gonna give us clarification on why he received to jumpstart nice sort of watched it for the first time thought no and then I I I watched it thinking our right maybe a couple of rows jumped the start and he was just the one that caught the eye of the race director for making such a spectacular start but no they don't go to lights go green I can't say it myself yeah III don't think that however the decision was made and when a decision is made like I I know drivers for example that have been penalized for overtaking under a yellow flag and they've taken the race director their onboard footage and it can you show me he has no I have an observers report you overtook under a yellow flag and you can't see it on the video you can't see it from the driver's seat you can't see it from the onboard footage so yeah a difficult one and yeah that did spoil the the the chances of the Nissan that the at the opening round well one thing we can ever look at what's well looking at Okayama having putting that into the past to some degree let's have a look at what's happened in the last couple of days of BG speed where here we are this is qualifying that took place yesterday and this severe Matsuda and when he came to release on Xmas cross that's the full-scale car Chiho they're signing and there's the gain t in that new GTR there's a bloke from Wales leading to the cool pikmin aroun the coast oh that's a nice fishing thing Oh fish heads fish heads fish heads there you go refueling went on with plan tires they have proved to be very strong in qualifying here we just replay the niche lunch of GTR gt500 clearly a bit more potent through the council it could never known that we smile at shorter car and there you go some these sponsors appearing across what you're going to see in some of the classes running smiling looking a bit good as well there's to shout crowd and now we've met those guys and this my supporters club you can see that L film is my TV they are wonderful people and eventually after people did smarty shops in wing Harris the castle underwear the gt300 qualifying and that has been as you can see on the screen it largely dominated by the Subaru BRZ some of the other mother chassis comes the lotus extract Fuji Speedway but also the gain of tonight's GTR gt3 hundreds of us the new specification Nissan GTR gt3 looking very very potent around here long straight as well yeah a real mix of tight corners and long straight so difficult to get a balance between the mother chassis smaller gt3 hundreds and the FIA TT threes but here we've got the GT 500s going out for their qualifying session just looking of gt500 bear and it is it was clear it was gonna be good for the Nissan GTR GT was bottoming out there through those huge down first and I see you through there yeah so even just a bit of smoke backing onto the ground lest geocoding for his run he's very quick as well as gamers Michelin tires really working in and not the less than ideal conditions the Fuji Speedway the fall came really that sort of started a little bit late but it's toilet time track it is yeah the the preseason test was a dominated by the Lexus we see Alexis on pole position today through the obstacles to safety the final sector book you've just cut back so yeah it's a it's a wonderful circuit it's going to be a great race it's it's certainly going to be tight at the front and we're going to see actually in both classes there's that fork in the background on stretching which is always quite an interesting thing to see now talking about that penalty in Akiyama because that is going to be something that cutting that goes and goes is that ironic in Torelli did accept the penalty on through after being showing the video because apparently he'd overtaken the 19 car before the line but I saw cars in front overtaking VA as well so I just think yeah I'm not having that penalty frankly and it ruined the race didn't it yeah yeah it really did so yeah very disappointing hopefully we get a nice clean start in both classes today long long front straight at the Fuji Motor Speedway so it will be it will be a battle royale down into that tight right-hander at turn one and then that long that just the scraps because Fuji Speedway it's turned to where you get a real turn one is great overtaking opportunity but once I get enough to turn to and into those Wiggly bits in the middle which I think you've got the names of yeah so the the first Wiggly bit is a delicious sparkling Brown sugary beverage which I'm not sure I should mention that rhymes with whoa Corolla the turn for the 100 are and remember the the are in Japanese corners is just the radius in meters so 100 R is a huge corner you can take various positions through there it's not just like there's a single racing line zero why it is absolutely in super smooth and super grippy in places offline as well so yeah the first sector big sweeps right left a long long right then into the first hairpin at turn six then going downhill towards the really tight section at the bottom of a circuit turn 10 11 12 and then just finish finishing off with the double hairpin at Nets 13 14 15 and it's very it's very did that that final corner if after that long sweep down the bottom as you go into Donald gone the uphill yeah going to the uphill section it's really easy to lose a lot there isn't it oh and it's so hot it yeah it's so hard to gain it back because the last sector of the lap is so technical it's easy to lose it on the way down there but you just can't gain it back you've we saw last year as well any kind of off-track excursion down there is very very costly because then you're running on to the front straight with cold tires wet tires whatever they might be you know it's going to be damp and slippery off line and yeah you're going to be how long is that start/finish straight because it's huge because you're gonna lose a huge amount of time down there yeah look it's almost a mile and what's that him in European well the actual length is one thousand four hundred and seventy five meters there really is nothing to do in corner well there's a well what's a mile is it 1609 I don't know title segment I think a mile are obsolete meshes morning North America if you're listening speaking of which corn was mentioned cool many miles quick Cornwall Nissan I know tuned in Miss and ela are somewhere in the state's massive fans have missed my TV and so just gonna give a shout out to them so if you're anywhere near Cornwall America go and buy a car going by a car probably a mic roof that's a thing in America 4p isn't I don't know missile micro is very fine car so also if you like all of this like and subscribe Facebook Twitter and an insta fingy Instagram all of them are the pictures of food isn't it that is the picture is we haven't got any pictures of food I need to tweet some pictures of food which I always do all this food yeah super GT food that the racetrack is absolutely fantastic if you like various forms of cooked meat which is always very good form but I still haven't got I've got starting drivers but haven't got pictures of food and Fuji speedo is one of my favourite eating places we should looking at this should we ever we have a look at the last race cause someone said stop talking about food let's have a look at the previous race and more Akiyama we did talk about it a little bit but it this is what actually happened during the race there we are some GTRs and these are just highlights of Akiyama you can watch the race interval of course here on it and is made TV with our talking over it there's the bumblebee car that didn't have a good race giving at the end and we'll talk about that as on the starting grid a little bit more 82 laps of Okayama the first full season race of that English bloke from not far from corner it didn't go well so fit for him but what we discovered was he did the entire race without changing his tires yeah he was so slow yeah very light on his tyres at the at the start and yeah here's the gt300 start the Lamborghini leading there from the the GTR two very different GT FIA gt3 specification cars you know something we haven't had so you normally expect even though it's a near-empty real everything rain yet no Super GT a lot of rain through the season if you haven't watched the season c4 GT before that's the moment we had for the bumblebee GTR than the gt3 very hard hit into the wall after being rear-ended by a Honda NSX we can see that right there that's the you know the Mugen car was did that yeah I remember using the term harpooned and yeah watching that it was yeah a really hard hit into unprotected concrete wall and the driver he's sitting out this race he'll be sitting at another couple but he is getting better and hopefully we'll see him back in Super GT soon well the car is fixed and is out and is running reasonably well but I think they've had a bit of bolting it back together troubles as you may do after you've hastily bought the Bedford together for round two but they are in the race and they will start in the race shortly we will see that at Fuji Speedway and the yeah the bumblebee GTR is back in good condition and fully operational we've bit with a different driver in the line and there are a few different drivers on the grid because this is a 500 kilometer race some of the gt300 teams have adopted a free driver line-up you will see some different names on the grid as well in a gt500 James Rossiter is back that's going to be exciting yeah some of our Toyota superstars driving with an Alexis factory router there on Toyota duty at WAC spa this weekend so great to have James Rossiter back he's progressive as we know so looking forward to seeing him in action well we're gonna go over to Fuji Speedway in a moment because I know we've got the life which of the cars on the starting grid and we'll have a look at that and while we're talking about the starting grid obviously we'll mentioned that James Rossiter is back he will be the the English driver will be behind the wheel of the AU Tom's LC LC 500 correctly raced last year I think it's really good to see him back in Super GT not everybody in GT 500 will necessarily agree with that but he's a great dream Lee exciting driver to watch our track and also extremely quick when he gets on it yeah very quick starting from the second row of the grid it will be terrific to see how he gets on we're into weight handicapping as well this second stage of the season and he's James is sitting on the second row with the lightest car with 12 kilos no no no way low balance on it sorry I was looking at the wrong line there yeah alongside you he sekiguchi well pronounced yes exactly should be a perfect on that the ever big changes in the nut in the number 39 car that won a championship a few years back alongside high key Kovalainen and the renunciation and that is show su boy show su boy mais is in that car taking the place of the auricular driver because he is off on WT duty as well yeah it's yeah quality quantity just because some of the drivers are away they've been replaced by seasoned professionals and yeah really really looking for two down in gt300 the first of the three driver the free driver lineups is the car guy gt3 Honda which is in fit starts the race in 13th position yo camisa Kimura and cazuli no K causally knows a name I haven't encountered before but maybe some paid attention debt that fell down in the gt300 ranking the team Mack the number five car which has the best livery and the best paint shop the painted truck in the paddock in my opinion there are some pictures of that on Twitter already that Sakaguchi Iraqi and Tama naka at the wheel of that Yokohama should car in the number 17 at 21 not at all works out E is Richard Lyons Tomita at being joined by Takara Sheen Jara on the dunlop shot r8 there then in the 19th 19th position in TT 300 the legal frontier a Lamborghini gt3 is driven by Kimi SR to Eugene Motty Jima and to sue but Tsubasa Takahashi in the nice 1319 that are mentioned and the brilliantly but but very quick but surprisingly far down the grid in 2020 first position is too hoppy 86 MC hoppy is a kind of non-alcoholic beer thing which he meets true so true and have a very nice time if you're that way inclined which I am takemitsu Matsui Tsubasa condo and Turkish Takeshi shuya sewer I can never pronounce that team very well I need to read affiliation go with a very famous team in Super GT they are out to say that's he's back on the grid in his own team and a 500 kilometer race will divide up touchwood quite nicely into three stents the race the race should be just under three hours in length so those guys with three drivers per car will just be taking a single stint each the exe AMG gt3 starts 22nd position Misaki Kanda can oh rather he dead - yes sir yes Walker and you you yeah Sakamoto this is the first time I've read some of these names actually later yes sir ochre is an old Formula Ford client of mine he Hillary he drove for John LaBelle's Modena formula for team at the festival and he came through the old BRDC single seater championship and went back to Japan raced in Japanese Formula 3 and as yeah Dunley he was a Carrera Cup champion Carrera Cup Japan champion as well so yeah really good driver had a toe so I've seen him race definitely then in the 2014 rav4 cosima sponsored car Shiina circuit Cena circuit Yamada Shintaro car bata and Shinji Nakano in at that car making it free drivers and the last of the free driver lineups is bumblebee itself which we talked about no this not bumblebee sorry it is mint Zilla that long is Richard Bradley at the yes red at the helm Richard Bradley's got into that with ty you leader and Misaki Tanaka and the production creates clawford point Inklings because we can go lives at fuji speedway and here we go I think we'll be coming in are we gonna go straight to the starting grid oh I hope so it's my paper like I say it's my favorite part I'm a big fan of the podiums myself but here we go get in the podium this time fuji GT 500 kilometers of this fantastic race circuit in Aoyama just a little way south of Tokyo in the mountains Mount Fuji there you can just see the edge of it in the background of the shop this is literally on Mount Fuji and it does look like a glorious day in Japan there is Fuji San an active volcano and here's the starting grid on pole position it's the sensor remote LC 500 touch car starts that car along side the way cost LC v hunter identical cars bit of a steamer at the wheel of that the first of in this sounds of motor or tech GTR is in per position alongside James Rossiter starting at the au Tom's LT 500 that should be exciting on the first lap Mikey Kovalainen behind him in 5th position in the den so sponsored car Hideko Muto starting in sixth position the first surfer NSX GTS craft sports kept immature Masaccio in seventh position alongside you he can Emoto in eighth position in the advant win support at Bernal C 500 there is the keeper Tom's LC 500 reigning champions rear O'Hara Cara and Nick Cassidy start Knight position alongside Naoki Yamamoto and Jenson Button they're not gonna be able to repeat their no tire strategy this time in 10th Bertie baguette is in 11th in the modulo n sx GT and after NSX GT and 12th look there's the cal sonic blue car Yan Martin restarting that car he's got a point to prove so far down in 1314 position is the kahan NSX GT whose speaker brushing teeth in it and JP Oliveira in 15th rounding out the gt500 feels seems smaller this function it yeah only because you know the gt300 are going to be so exact here comes the arter BMW the orange BMW gt3 Shawn walking Shoaib not starting Takagi starts that car the super L said very strong car on the dunlop tires in second position alongside the leone AMG GT camry starts that there is a teeny Miku in a fourth fifth position great start for the for the Lotus they're in fifth as I say sixth position the cynthia mel c % him RC F gt500 cars model up the first if the Toyota Priuses East like did say Prius seventh position cohere RT then the Nissan gain at annex GTR 8th position with hironaka starting that one the D station port of tamil uji uji in 9th position tenth fission is Hoshino starting the game you ever gain a 10x GTR great position for that team right both cars in top ten eleven position the kenwood NSX gt3 in eleventh the money for Lamborghini in it 1213 fifth car guy NSX gt3 talks about that causally know starting that he's a new guy in that car I think the Mexican in 14th that is the team at number five mother chassis car then another Mafia tries to car alongside it in 15 hits up garage 86 alongside the run up GTR 16th that's bumblebee foyer 17th is Richard Lyon starting the not at all works out er 8 and then the K Tunes Lexus alongside him in 18 the legal frontier line bikini is in 19th one of those three driver lineups then the golf Porsche in 20th the hot the 86 lovely pink and white livery on that in 21st and the exe Lamborghini gt3 we just spoke about that in the pre-race row in 22nd they bothered with the whole rest of the t3 he's looking quite pleased to be here isn't he what I got to say hello there you go welcome to auto back super GT Dei thin Fuji Speedway see I'm reading ahead of the transformation there great thank you very much we'll see more from mr. orange jacket later and race he is from auto backs the sponsor of Super GT it's like a giant Alfred Zorn a firm much better than Eva I believe absolutely fantastic to see that team they've got two cars on the grid and lots of fans in the ground son looks a bit quite there at the moment that suppose everybody's out there at the back buying some food yeah they're expecting a hundred thousand spectators over the race weekend here at Fuji obviously racing on the public holiday they take the they take Star Wars day as a public holiday is now a tank it's called Golden Week I've been to this is my first ever Super GT race was this race got back in 2005 and the pulled GT was racing in that series better absolutely fantastic sunny day everybody in Japan has the week off it's a bit like Christmas and Easter and rolled into one and it's brilliant and it's just a long holiday Golden Week it's a lovely time to be in Japan we should be having a national anthem about now but apparently not so we will stop talking over the national anthem flags waving there as two lot two red lights are on and the police are all ready to set off so maybe they just give the national anthem I don't know what the sake world Drivers Championship is there lots of other motorsport actually going on in at the world of Nissan we've got Formula e we'll talk a bit about that later in the race the the Blancpain Endurance series British GT all sorts even Australian supercars and the World Endurance Championship of course lots of police bikes out there so you're not gonna have a national anthem today don't know what but there you go there go and one of them's in orange to red I enjoy various gherkin split strategy yeah I see if they were a lot of bikers out there today or maybe they just didn't get the email about boys over the weekend remember it's blue jacket Friday nuts think the first two guys this is for police cars as well this is one of the things you see in Super GT FCC for first Super GT race you will always see a police escort for the start of the first formation lap to formation laps here at Fuji Speedway the first one with the policeman the second one and maybe some police women and the second one with the Honda NSX pace car but this formation that I think this is a really cool feature of racing there we by talking about this we we have managed to introduce circuit Safari in quite a lot of series now across the world they did it at fuji speedway for WEC we've seen it Silverstone with a Routemaster bus with British GT that was fantastic to see like the next thing I'd like to see the Northampton police you know do you do it do and lead out at Silverstone or maybe Kent Police at Branson there's a race at Brands Hatch today isn't there so here's a message to if you're if you're in Canada you work for chemical these ghosts at Brands Hatch talk to motorsport vision or SRO or whoever's using that race meeting and I would like to see you know some old police cars or the current police cars leading out the the field on the opening lap of the race because I think there's any letters of complaint no you got anything better to do it's a great great safety message it is and you know it integrates the local police force and look from a racing drivers perspective it gives the guys a chance to get to laps of heat into their tires of course the super GT series no tire warmers so they'll have come out the pits on stone-cold slicks and even though that we're only going really slowly behind the safety car they're accelerating and braking getting heat into the brakes into the wheel that is transposed through into the carcass of the tire and yeah the police will then pull off at the end of this first parade lap they'll be replaced by our safety car or formation vehicle and then we'll have a second lap a little bit quicker before the start I think you know I'm still thinking about police cars in different race series I mean just think about this they like police cruisers at Talladega or like Daytona cyma David Boger International Raceway on Sunday right I want to see some police cruisers going around ahead of Bristol Bristol that'd be fantastic yeah there'll be a budding young I'm not going to get into throwing beer it's very uncouth us yeah hey deal gonzalez Salgado quite rightly remembers in the incredibly rainy Okayama race of 2015 or one of these police motorcyclists fell off and it was probably the most embarrassing moment of that policeman's career maybe he doesn't have a career anymore good that that's a lovely piece of camerawork isn't it that is beautiful but it's such a long straight isn't it one of nearly one and a half kilometers of just straight line drafting overtaking wonderfulness yeah you can you can overtake and be overtaken on the same straight this track was originally built for Nazca it was it was built as an oval wasn't it well they'd but they never finished building it they ran out of money when they got half way around the track see they had a big first banks section which was originally used to racing and listen absolutely air raised in videos of Carl on board videos of cars racing round there in the big group seven here at any rate easy powerful sports cars and of course it was lately it was literally lethal people were killed on that banking yeah you you look at this facility here and it looks like a a wonderful modern two or three year old circuit it was it was built in 1965 some that's even older than me nothing so that part marking from but the they never managed to get the second half of the oval built so I decided to build on that and probably on that the say-so of Stirling possible people they started they built this road course which is heavily reworked for the comes to 2007 or 2006 Japanese grown free yes which was held at this circuit and that softly still the outright lap record around here though the super forum the cars all get quite close as are a number of other categories they it's one of those circuits that has been re-engineered but the re-engineering hasn't really taken much away from the spirit of the track no you can look at the width of the circuit you look at the radius of the corners there's some lovely open corners here is the corner that we were talking about this is turn four into the 100r this never-ending right-hander that then comes round pops over a little crest where the safety car is there then into this left-hand happened they're just coming into now now really taking opportunity sorry sir that's right are we gonna see any start line violations this time to a crisis going around you're gonna see stick to starts you're going to see the gt500 cars is up and form up in a minute into a 2x2 formation Oh quite a few of them symposiums have turned up yet and then the gt300 cars will drop right back and have their own separate start so it's a split screen mode and watch both starts at the same time it can be quite hectic here at Fuji Speedway so now you can see the gt500 is getting ready to form up into that 2x2 fashion Dunsinane style I think it's referred to if you are in 1920s English and the nock herringbone no that's known as the sustain that stack at the end of the race so yeah they'll have covered start procedure in detail in drivers briefing they'll have reviewed the footage from the first round and yeah I think we're going to be looking at a start this time round and hopefully it'll be a clean one with no penalties because I'm really upset the mix of the first racer well coming up 500 kilometers of noise excitement and the finest motor racing action anywhere in the world live here on Nismo TV we're gonna be here throughout a lot uninterrupted there is that stonking long straight will Nismo be victorious we'll find out after 500 kilometers there is Reid now are we gonna get a second yet okay these week and he's gonna gonna stop and have a an organized grid oh wait no [Music] in past the grid board there we go to the two-by-two formation and make sure nobody does anything naughty those guys are brave to be stood there gt3 up turrets coming and the sensor room a car is looking a little bit far ahead that's not a very organized two-by-two DM mardenborough out position there at the back as well the lights of red lights are on though it looks like we're going to get the start thumbs up from the starter and the lights will go out and we will be racing for 500 kilometers the gt300 field is just starting the start/finish straight now it's a very long hold here the revs are going up I can hear them we still got red lights and green now we are racing in but there is the motor cortex I already got it so what at the Honda so he's going to move up to second is he yes very easy kind of a baby that one no drama through there and turn one and that is the motor Lord GTR now challenging before the need position third position a lot of cold tires that's why the cars are darting around so much here is taking free country I'll keep an eye on that and Rob you watch gt500 areas about for the lead right now through that log 100r and yeah the motel or tech car looking every race in there in second position and SUNY because Riley gaps in third position in cheating 300 put a huge gaggle of girls scrapping it out for the lower positions of the top ten Contini Beco still side by side of the Liana mercedes-amg identical in all ways apart from maybe the headlights and insurance package Kinta rally around the outside for the lead coming into turn 13 wow I was a great move there in gt500 Misun leads but back in gt300 there is just a huge pack of cars the Shaun Walkinshaw driven a Tartar BMW leads but that Subarus right on his tail but it looks like a fantastic scrap for the lead him he's got wider professional life well as the way Cos Cob around the outside of the crate winters taking them well if that easy though he's being pushed away president through bone mr. Rubin coming into pity went very well to the inside I was just thinking that's exactly what we spoke about pre-show you if you make a mistake at that final sector you run off line he's got a little bit of dirt on his tires that's really cost him too he's gone from on the leading on the opening Blackmun's gonna lose another place is and the way Coast car on driver on our right I think very tight battle at the top cross it worth doing his normal being working his way through but he's open the door no he's not he slammed it shut and that is pure James Rossiter racing this is why some of the guys through a little bit I'm a beat with James last season but east back and he's gone for he's got it between the tee but he's proven proving himself here if it wasn't for that number 16 Motul sponsored honda it would be whose conspicuous by his absence Roddick in Torelli he's checked out at the front of the field all the lex i battling big sorry one likes as many likes us all alexis battling together behind has really allowed him to just put some clean air between him and the field which is pop you need here at Fuji with that front straight being almost as you said a kilometer and a half long but great start from kids are really really aggressive took they took the position for the race lead friendly outside at this corner that we're looking at now and amazing really the Michelin tire seems have done straight in and for the motel or tech GTR and if that's the case your eye out or the other miss Lynette should discern a GTR and that will be working its way through the field is there is it as b-max engineering car or is that the forum engine area can't quite make out whiteness that's the B max engineering car they're targeting with the arter NSX behind him and following the raper again a sex which is making a move on the keeper Tom's LC 500 the delays I don't seem to be making this way he's tried that a couple of times now and it's not it's not working there the weight and look as worthless though the weight handicap really coming into play as the drivers drag that success ballast through and out of the huge long front straight drivers still running side by side as they will run down through the left-hander there at coca-cola corner into turn fourth and into the hundred our news from RJ O'Connell of Super GT world the find website which we are very good friends off here and is my TV the bumblebee Nissan GTR the 360 sports run up car has not started the race so it is not left it's gorgeous so maybe some more problems from that as we expected it did take part in qualifying so we're just not quite sure what the issue there is and the triple 7 car hasn't it is still in the pits or has come back to the pits so some GT 5 gt300 dramas for some teams but right now it's all about this number 23 motel or take GTR which is just as you say look at that see you seconds now get to the rest of the field the fastest lap last lap round as well he's pushing really hard and looks really clean as well there everything looks just really nicely under control there as well Komachi 300 leader the arter BMW m6 which also look massive clean air behind him and between him and the Subaru BRZ a lot of people talking about the sparks coming off the car so you'll be seeing a lot of that as the tires go down and as the precious Jane's throughout the race we get a safe to posi loads of that questions coming at Western running in the number 23 he's off the G in the middle of the fly-in 5,500 here is the gt500 James Rossiter there at the wheel of orange and white LC 500 Lexus battling with I'm cotton if it was fight because I take it very easy juicer is listening thank you [Music] battling but they'll wake us car on the tail of them as well they've got but they're misses an honor match in a speedboat circuit or Toyota these cars are engineered not all that far away in at Yokohama pretty idea based as on this boat also in Yokohama different part out but they are both in Yokohama it's like the Japanese version of bratli or Indianapolis where all the automotive expertise is based it's also got a nice harbor in big ferris wheel I'm looking forward now as they come through the final sector this is going to be a Lexus drag race down to turn one Kovalainen Rossiter Oshima there we go it is great to see James Rossiter back in at Super GT standing in as a substitute because both Nakajima and Kobayashi are at Spa World Endurance Championship Duty but look at the gap there the Zen sumo car and a motor Lord oh oh it's a sensory we're beginning to close up it break thus they're off at the end of the straight not so surprising but it more presents everywhere that perhaps on with the other cars brakes being work particularly hard in a cast I've got a lot of fuel on board the car is at its heaviest and coming down from almost 200 miles an hour to use my Imperial measurement or 300 kilometres an hour into turn one very tight first corner here at Fuji that's quick now something else you need to be quick about if you are watching us on a Facebook Facebook life do something right now go into your browser type in live.com is mo TV press Enter or send or whatever magic button you use and join us over on YouTube because we're going affair or Facebook just in a moment but come and join us on YouTube for the full race so it makes really that if you're watching on Facebook three abreast in GT 300 and ever that doesn't always end well lights not working there on the NSX station really well at the moments and winning races wherever they go in in other series and Smike wilds that guy that's the modulo NSX and that's the car that will see assaulted the GTR at the last race Rama really it's quite a nice looking livery is got over a whiff of retro about the livery as well just doesn't look finished to me though and it just looks like it might be missing some stickers it's obvious like the livery before they put the stickers on yes [Music] but it also reminds me a little bit of the article really og's Enrico now that far is actually a Fugees make it's obviously in the paddock and it is still in running condition I'd love to see that back out as it as it would be the ce o--'s it which is the all top the gt300 garner are two classes in CP GT which we normally discuss at length and I'm going to there's gt500 which is the all works car in turbocharged in white little cylinders in got fiber monocoque chassis is shared with the DTM championship as are they arithmetic regulation suspension regulations transmissions many other systems on my car and there is a unification coming between those team championships with a joint race announced for next season most likely I was over in Felton back the AMG headquarters had a really good look around one of those carbon monocoque chassis Zin there beautiful piece of engineering as we see two abreast on the front straight and that Honda does have a straight line advantage over the over the Porsche I know he got the benefit of the tow but here we go into two on this almost side by side they're against them it's a great battle to watch now gt300 what you're watching now is a battle of two gt3 cars but it's not just FIA gt3 specification girls in a gt300 there are two other subgroups there is a mother chassis which you'll see there massa Toyota gt86 the mark Toyota mark X and of course the run wonderful the Lotus Evora now they all use the identical carbon fibre monocoque chassis they don't share their car fundamental chassis they all have a very familiar-looking four and a half litre v8 normally aspirated engine the Lotus has it in the back the other two cars have it in the front and then we have this the Toyota Prius this is a Jeff gt300 JAF gt300 this is a real road car that has just been modified beyond real recognition the engine has been taken out of the front of lmp1 Toyota engine has been put in the back it still has its hybrid system the high participant on that this cars comes from the Toyota Camry and it is the production car library that the 1.8 liter four-cylinder atkinson cycle petrol engine that you'd find in the road car is long gone note it southeast three and a half liter normally aspirated lmp1 that v8 in the back of that furrious they're two of those pre I out there and also meeting those same technical regulations is the Subaru BRZ there it is that is fitted with a derivative of the old World Rally Championship engine that's the flat-four boxer ej20 very nice engine in that car and that again this is the production car chassis great overtaking action going on down the start/finish line between those two girls still and ironic into Rennie roger economists just pointed out to set the faster that we were 130 point eight the stefan retail organization the SRO doing the balance of performance in gt300 and does a great job as we see our first view this weekend of the wonky sticker ow d that's nice to have a crash and going back to the gt500 action we can see the Honda's they're making their way through the traffic if you're watching super GT for the first time white lights gt500 yellow lights gt300 and just what we had in sport is that gt500 to have got into the gt300 traffic and that almost always spells over taking action and some sort of chaos particularly through the final sector sorry October that's alright just through the final sector you've got to time when you catch these little clumps these little packs of gt300 cars that are still battling position and that's the lead right there that's Remos right on the tail of the motor little take GTR and that is because Ginter really seems to have got held up by that Lamborghini quite arrogant terribly and look at that lost from a 2.1 second gap - nothing yes the effect of traffic yeah the traffic particularly at the final sector these corners from 12 through to 16 are almost back to back this hardly any overtaking opportunity and if you get trapped behind a wide gt300 and you've got to look the back of the Lamborghini they the rear vision is difficult the cars were on a rear facing camera a little screen but you know through that final SEC - you're quite busy as a driver in here very costly for him to rally he's now got to pick his way carefully through the room people think he's worth carefully through the remaining looking there's hundreds of them pick his way through the traffic ahead of him as cleanly as he can and get his head down get back into that fast it's like rhythm that Am was set in before oh that's the thing he went from fastest lap to having just have been complete battle of the century male I mean in just one moment that's how quick these reaction changes here to the GT and that century makeup must realize he's got to get in front of the motel or tech GTR to have any chance of ever being competitive in the opening phase of this race and that's why he is racing so hard against ronique in Torelli but the gain at annexed are not making life too easy for the lexus there that was very nearly contact between 500 and 300 in Torelli looking around the outside of the Lamborghini there makes his way through the sensor remote car looking particularly racy as they come down the bottom of the hill into turn 10 now if you're unable to watch this race all the way through live change of plans but if you can't change your plans and it's very important means you can't watch it live we are going all of these races are available permanently here on YouTube so you won't you don't have to write down when it's available on-demand after the racer will be interested me uploading the full race after the race so there you go that answers the question that Vinci oh oh I didn't see your name actually became up there you go what could possibly be more importantly watching this since you know apart from childbirth what could be possibly more important than this well a little fact when my daughter was born I was actually reading a copy of secret GT a Super GT magazine oh yeah sorry we're watching this thinking it's a bank holiday when actually there are some people that have to go to work in how inconvenient in Japan you can read magazines like this about Super Duty every week but it is a holiday week in Japan its Golden Week and that is why we are racing on Friday or if you're in America Thursday but this is why we're racing on Friday it's a big holiday week in Japan and traditionally this long-distance we do Speedway race is held in Golden Week if you are going to go to a Super GT race at any time in your life and I recommend everybody watching this does do it and it so this is probably the best race for a foreigner to come to we just be very very easy to get to with this fantastic battle to the lead it's a great place to spectate and Golden Week is a lovely time to be in Japan this is worst-case scenario here for kin Torelli he's come across a pair of battling GT 300s at that final sector oh hey Kovalainen looking at the inside of his teammate look behind this dream job so this is total James Rossiter territory traffic difficulties super aggressive there you go straight up the inside and he's got a kick over lined up has he he's gonna push him out wide putting these races right off the track he's cannot hold on there are gonna be some conversations everybody's remembered what Rossiter is like and they know that he's one of the most aggressive drivers in the field if not the most aggressive he's got the Taiwan kovalainen will he get a share toe of the century row there is the Lotus Evora we've hardly seen it this they're just dragging each other along this 1.4 kilometers straight whoo he's going to get into the first corner first and Lotus is staying well out of this it's just a train of cars he was nearly bump-drafting they're trying it around the outside that's not gonna work James and you've got to watch your rear view because there is the way cos car are you gonna get a better run out of turn one not quite but he's got the toe again down into the next section Wow Wow this is just nose-to-tail wherever you look there's a battle between 1st and 2nd 2nd 3rd 4th 5th they're all together and the the traffic coming into play even with the width of Fuji it just leads to such tight overtaking girl black pink maneuvers between the cars well our icon says if you think James Rossiter is aggressive weight sales and you Gucci gets in the car I think you're wrong there are J Rossiter has been out of this for a few races now or a couple of races he hasn't got a full-time driving super duty this season one of the reasons was it was felt he might have been a little bit too aggressive at points last year there's some fantastic action you can watch here on at Nismo TV don't forget to Like and subscribe subscribe and leave a comment comment but we're getting a lovely amount of comments coming in at the moment anyway there's contact there was it between at SUNY weaker in the number for Mercedes and at the 39 Lexus who is gone super defensive but we are now getting a stop car like Shep train of cars down start/finish line [Music] young the friend says he has to leave for school in one hour should he change your plans yes yarn this is a real education and great racing and looking at the message I think maybe in chest infection market coming on yeah for a high temperature exactly says dr. Vaughn there there's train cancellations or something probably traffic [Music] cut in line and around the outside of the BR said their second position gt300 by just over five seconds to the leader so that really be a lip read has checked out in that category there is the super in BL says quite hard to tell it apart from the gt500 is slightly smaller knees go he's left indicating there to open the door that was sir the mindful driving there yeah the the indicators on some of the cars have located really conveniently just on the can of t piece of the wheel where the drivers thumbs are so the first thing you can reach for is your is your indicator you know the gt300 cars are keen to lose as little time as possible and if they can show the 500 which side they'd like to be overtaking on it yourself okay es fitness savage asks on the YouTube chat is are all of these races live on YouTube here on at mismo TV yes is the answer you can go back and have a look at since 20 [Music] I was there I should know I've called all but a couple of these races but I can't remember there's a quite the speed years worth of racing action you can watch libeling bull or as live on mismo TV hit subscribe there I'm here savage and tuned it I'm always really pleased to get messages like that like I've just stumbled across it's racing on YouTube it's incredible and it's like yes it is look at this there's a field of my 50 incredible GT cars these GT 500 they're going around the Fuji in the speed of almost a Formula One car they're so quick racing with FIA gt3 it's just quality it's quantity and imagine just stumbling across a racing series like this you'd never see before you this is quite impressive if that guy Bertie bike he's won L'Amour knees it's quite handy it's like the first time I played Gran Turismo what about one of the the things about this racing series is that if it first came to real common knowledge in the West because of the computer games Gran Turismo yes and the GT Academy has actually seen one of the drivers you know and a couple of drivers go from play computer games into this championship yeah mother bear being the most famous example of that yeah it's a GT Academy legend now yeah mardenborough the GT Academy has produced lots of great drivers who were still out there competing today and Florian Strauss racing it GTR in the in block pan Asia for example other routes in tsuki GTF included the one that Michael Kovalainen camere kobayashi new GE de yeah absolutely no course that that Vincent juncture well and Heikki Kovalainen oh here we go speaking of Jenson Button he drives a Honda and this is Bertram baguette in the Epson Honda there he's having to defend down the inside and the Lexus very late on his prey that was there drama get down a position and for those of you are so inclined I've never fully understood this myself you can switch to the studio cab there is a little button down on YouTube that lets you switch between camera angles between studio cam and the race action personally I'd have it on the Ray section all the way but if you like to do cam you can see us sitting here talking about what you can see on the other camera the occasional can you hold city things up do the camera and you can see and you can see a copy of the latest edition of Autosport magazine that sort of spilled Japan and that has a fantastic technical overview of the Nissan GTR gt500 and the mobile chassis girls which in in my world is just thank frankly what sir what what's a collective noun for a group of Honda on those it's a trio of Hondas but trio doesn't quite do it justice this is like a small three car Honda train coming through but crusher Ponder's potentially let's see so the Artur car in the middle air the team car of the leading BMW m6 the teammate car of the leading BMW m6 birds from baguette in the white car I think he might be struggling with a little bit of straight-line speed maybe running just a little bit all winged perhaps he's having to defend her every time on the front straight in this case wondering about the copyright that magazine that's pretty messy because I've learned [Music] that is a fantastic home the battle going on so third romba get losses two places on two consecutive laps and the is that the rate bread cart behind it is already the rate recover that's the car that you will later in the race see the guy through the West Country and not rub off the other one James Ross certain no he's just plates of the car he's already in that orange and white Lexus LC 500 as the rate has reached one of it's sort of not lulls because there's a massive battle there goes the Ray bring up the inside of the episode that's quite an easy maneuver and I think he left the year there are team orders amongst some of the gt500 manufacturer team such as this and that could have been it that could have been a strategic one to keep the Red Bull Lexus of Nick Cassidy so Burt the just looking at the way Bertie Baggett was going backwards there on and then you know losing three places on within a couple of laps he's the only Honda in the field and the only gt500 car in the field on Dunlop rubber Sam so maybe the Dunlop sir just starting to go away a little bit for the other top manufacturers car that could be a reason it is a tire wall championship here in Super GT there there you go the Epson is being now past 11 team elders you're right there the grips and is fading as the Red Bull Lexus passes or tries to pass doesn't quite get it done this time moves to try and go on get the drive out corner Bridgestone's on the lexus there as we look at it as he makes the movement yeah I think the Dunlop's on the on the Honda might be struggling there there's no model broken lifted race from yeah yeah conspicuous by its absence yeah yeah usually one of the real fast drivers the Lotus headlights on exactly it's you know it's it's so easy to identifying the cars on that long front shot when they've got in the yellow light on for gt300 or white for gt500 and the two cars they're the Lotus in the head of that trio and the NSX at the back they're both of the lights off unfortunately now that Lotus Evora you can see just sitting in front of the Mercedes of Honda that Lotus Evora has a carbon fiber monocoque chassis four and a half litre v8 normally aspirated engine mounted in at the back and these basically nothing the only thing that comes from careful on that car is the badge and maybe the headlight cluster the taillight cluster rather headlights our display here's the the battle for second overall another pair of Lexus heading down into turn one Kovalainen looks to the inside and it's just me a battle of who breaks latest a you cog on [Music] around and through and as you say some where is James Rossiter he should be there in the back of our shots and he isn't so something has happened to James has cost him a little bit of time he's lost one and a half coming up to two seconds yeah so is that sighs this is it as I'm saying this is a tyre wall championship there are my different tire manufacturers represented yo Kharma Bridgestone the cloth especially for Thor wait Roger a penance pregnant we seen a change of position they're in gt300 that Leon Mercedes has worked his way past the Lotus which had now appears to be fading now this Lotus Evora is very gentle on it tart on its tires and it can laugh make go very long and even perhaps one fewer pitstop than the other cars and that so it's created nearly gave the Honda the run on the Leon Mercedes he's just drafted back past the Leon Mercedes the Honda's got the inside of both of them and oh wait what replay no I think we just got from life to not live oh this is the replay I'm really confused now I know this one's a reflexes gate and written in the top there you go I think this might be live yes it's live there we go yeah there we are welcome back everybody and the Mercedes leaves a big hole in the air and those are two slippery little cars behind him so yeah the Mercedes nimble through the through the medium speed corners maybe a little bit cumbersome through the really slow stuff I was about to say is that toyota mark X going very slowly what I should say is that to type mark X going slower than normal it's very very very very very slow yeah I think my ex may have some trouble that's the other moba chassis car very Sasori in now focused cab so that is another was four and half liter v8 engines mother chassis cars based loosely on a saloon car model available from the Saitama toyopet dealership James that's us trouble that's trouble therefore Takagi's it it is that was a very slow looking BMW and it's a very slow looking Nexus there there's a lot of cars in trouble there's the tight armor toyopet there's the mark X car but I talked about and that is trouble for the wets poor LC 500 is where he's got a tired tires come down the wheels off for a task on down he's still overtaking TT 300 cars but look at the way the front of the cars moving there's something on the right rear of that guy right there adventure yet left rear puncture for the wet sport car so the team will be desperately I I think there's problem to the BMW in the leader of gt300 he did look slow didn't he wasn't using the full wit for the track and that's always a telltale oh the 19 cars desperately trying to get back to the pits as fast as possible but if that's I and let's go firm the body works gone yeah he's just got the final couple of corners to go so the the team will be preparing a new left rear tire they'll change probably a pair of rear tires either probably do all four and drive a change at this point 20 laps in it's quite it's a little early but you can see the tire degradation is beginning to kick in few new sponsors in the back of that words ball car thing he's made it back to the pits but this is now do the tires coming apart now this is what and if that goes there it'll be a safety car for sure will it just hold on just for him to get into the pit entry will he block the pit entry with debris no but there is now debris down on start/finish straight I don't think there was much I think it's just tire rubber so ravelin carbon-fiber say no danger there we haven't seen what's befallen the toyota mark x and BMW uarter m6 well no it hasn't as lost his position so it might not be such a big problem so the first proper pit stop of the race but it's not even written up it's an emergency boots up they are fueling no that's why they're waiting to change the tires so fuel goes in first double stinting then the driver no driver change there somebody else coming down the pit lane that was the mark edge which will Sophia Starbuck gradually left area for that car to they worked on a brand new set of sticky Yokohama advance I hope they go doesn't stinting that car and that's driver is one of those two ways presses no questions have come in about these these pair of three I what specs are they they are a Toyota Prius Road car while we're watching here the Prius is overtaking not quite as oh that's in a Miku there you go so the Predators on the move up through the fields and again I think that's the tire at the tired evolution the Prius is quite kind on its tires as well of that height resistant Oxford cohere Rd big old lmp1 engine in the back of that I thought remember three and a half it's a four liter engine etc and a half earlier it's four liter our v8 k and everyone introduced in the original generation Toyota ts030 at naman the rebellion r1 in its original guise of it intricately trace its roots back to an Indy car engine to go far yes and their spell so eight four nine finn gt300 the knees approach duty-free specification cars the porter and the lesser spotted lexus yeah I was just thinking we haven't seen the the RC F at all today another car we haven't seen as a Bentley in this race as well Sam as driven by UGA expect Bentley not the newspaper lately inconspicuous invisible almost didn't even get it on the starting grid but it is out there Miata looks to the outside and the Lexus is he going to get the cutback that's what he's angling for and you always ask terrific traction off the corners of course the engine dangling over the rear wheels there is just perfect to put the weight way you need it and accelerate the car efficiently so some questions coming in saying the the RV 8k engine was based on the formula Nippon engine actually originally I think it dates back to the indica before the formula Nippon days many engines have their there the family tree back into IndyCar many blocks in in in road cars can trace their engine roots back to IndyCar heritage yeah and there's a lot of those that that great Indy car might be Trump car forget which flavor of oval racing in America it was but one of those is better no winner champ car and in cars two separate series yes think it was probably Indy car but remember yeah chap car had the Lola chassis didn't it the really good-looking lower chassis [Music] here and I can't remember which way it might be before the split the entrance though but it's a lot this is the last car to really use this engine it's being phased out and there is a new four-cylinder turbocharged Toyota engine from TRD which I think we'll see in the Prius next year which is very potent and looking at the speed of these gt500 cars you have to remember Sam if you're watching the Super GT for the first time here these are a 2-liter turbocharged unit a look at the power they're producing the process Oh quick but being listen to them they're so cool to listen to they make such a lovely noise now the battle for the lead is evolving but the number 39 car there is the dents OLC 500 is caught up to the motel or tech GTR and I suggest that means the the Michelin tyres are beginning to reach their end of life money can't already perhaps getting ready to hand over to CEO Matsuda and the Lexus running on the Bridgestone rubber so to manufacturers nice and and Lexus to tire manufactures richland Bridgestone now running head-to-head for the race lead and that's another 8300 cars ahead so it looks like quite a while until that 39 cars ready for a pit stop though unless they're going to double student Ikey Kovalainen so you took zoo zoo boy sho sho subbu it is is not looking ready to get into a car but his teammate is looking ready to get into the lead they're battling with those two gt3 hundreds that definitely holding up running in Cirelli very badly in the Lexus is right on the tail of the Nissan GTR gt500 and of course defending they're almost into the final corner kinter le Hatton hustlers way past and Kovalainen now in the perfect position to get a huge telephony so Ronnie defends goes to the drivers right to hug the pitbull he's going to make over line and go around the outside round the outside for the lead well ii will say made it look easy it's a little hairy t exactly yeah Ronnie looks to get the cut back but no him take over line and through into the lead questions come in about the engines in these gt500 cars the two meter in line direct-injection what what turbocharged are they using them at big ones kept really really big ones different per manufacturer that's three different engine it's not a spec engine now there's a telling telling image as well so you gave attitude and not ready to make a pit stop so there are they can adopt intronic in tireli or are they just going to deal with this type of degradation the pace is clearly dropping now on the motor the Alltech GTR and Alexia nearly century bollocks is now beginning to home in on the rear of him as well so lots of questions coming in about engines and where the engines rule well there's some fantastic chat going on in you two about engine histories which I'm quite into I'm not gonna get distracted by Walter know what Oldsmobile engine was used in the Aurora yeah what was in the front of the panels and lmp1 [Music] yeah engine again a really big one so there's been also some chat going on about the relative speeds of these girls just how fast is gt500 in comparison to say DTM in comparison DTM the gt500 leaves the DTM car standing very still yeah DTM car is very heavily handicapped in terms of a tiny little air restrictor they're held back in all manner of ways Aero efficiency etc etc whereas the Super GT cars are watching here release to the performances released to the full potential of the performances released the teams and the drivers enter yeah in terms of a lap time what would it be Sam probably I mean late or 9 seconds a lap quicker I will guess oh that's it well that's not many happen is it it's a Honda or non direction here motor in is our battling for position in there Honda NSX is is our obviously was informing GP to as it then was f2 is we now have to cool it and then behind them is it was just that humdinger going on but these cars also have that 2 liter engine but they are the 2 liter engines in at these gt500 cars are around 100 to 150 horsepower more powerful than the v8s used in the DTM and of course it's the tyre wall championship so the cars have more power and more grip there will be a little bit lighter as well the smaller capacity engine the weight I think the weight limit is the same oh is it the same place the same weight limit so there but one thing that is slated for these Honda NSX is is they have mid-engined cars not grunt engines like the DTM cars in the other two gt500 so they have a slightly different monocoque it's the same concepts roughly the same design but it has a slight different scalloping to allow the front wheels have full range of movement so it's not slightly less stiffness and they have a slight weight handicap there's resolve there big lump of debris there on startup straight I thought I saw something fly up earlier it almost looks like a dive plane or a big lump of carbon there coming out of turn 16 on the front straight comparing lap sides the gt500 to other classes is at the moment a little bit difficult because we haven't had a WEC race in good conditions at Fuji Speedway since the current and the regulations were introduced last year it was heavy rain at the track so we can't see see how the cars compared to an lmp2 for example or the current generation and a few ones pre-season testing here the cars were going around the in sort of high 28 very very low pulling fingers out there yeah high 28 low 29 and qualifying yesterday yesterday Paul was a 127 9 so they've got a second a lap quicker than Nathan in pre-season testing and I think a 28-0 would be something around the pace of a privateer lmp1 Cup it's quicker than the privateer lmp1 car as it was last time criteria we want girlfriend in good conditions yeah meets quicker than an Audi r18 hybrid in 2014 these girls would be quicker than the Audi r8 don't forget to like that's don't forget to like and just smash that like done yeah thank you I make one mistake well I make many mistakes but a particularly good bob was yes calling Jenson Button the wrong name hey hashtag hashtag Benson and shuttin did the mountain there you go that is everybody Shearer getting ready for a pit stop yeah that was the look of a man about to put his balaclava on and boom he delivered and that is a it's a few laps away he's looking very calming petrol you'd normally get the five fingers waved at you from the pit wall in terms of year five laps to go pop your helmet on you're always aware that if a safety car were to come out now it would sorry if something that could cause a safety car were to happen now you you'd probably look to make that change because of course the pit lane is closed when the safety car comes out but so you've normally get the call five laps beforehand to Scott getting ready the role of a team manager in the you know the guy in charge of the pit wall is quite fascinating in schools go racing there's a great video elsewhere on this mo TV about Bob Neville who runs our JN the nicest man in global motor racing I don't know I wouldn't want to be UPS I would want to upset him oh oh it's lazy you got to watch no years true well there's a great mrs. Bob you could there's a great video you can watch about his life and his role in running the gt3 teams in the block manager inch series and British GT and there'll be some of that coming up next week on Nismo TV yeah i've been lucky enough to drive for rjn so much and go yeah and you realize what a fabulously hard-working family the nevile's are and even though they run this international what people perceive as a semi works and is mo miss an team it's a it's a pretty small family it's a it's a close-knit group of guys that works so well as a unit together and it's just it's been a privilege of mine to be part of that did you get a coffee cup [Music] there is the Subaru BRZ quite short whoa watching a Gucci here running around in second position in gt300 his lap times a very consistent consistent given the traffic and we've seen the way he's been letting GT 500s by and he's not closing particularly on the race leader he's been 11 seconds back I'd say every time we look at this car for any length of time machen if they built a road car of that itself hundreds machine if they built a road car of the Prius they'd sell I think I think they do so sorry imagine if they sold a Prius with like a honking great racing client well let's have a look at Hatsune Miku they're being introduced gently to dear mother breath at a nice view of that etosha livery painfully embarrassing is the translation I think very cool be a better translation unlike those breaks refueling the up garage gt86 we mentioned earlier the brakes really get a pounding here at Fuji coming from such high speed on the front straight down to very low speed for turn one and as soon as a car becomes stationary and loses that through flow of cooling air you get little hotspots on the disc a lot of that smoke is caused by pieces of debris which held in the wheel by the centrifugal force that wheel turning they drop on the caliper and start melting and it all looks quite spectacular but erm fairly harmless in the end questions coming will Nismo TV have coverage off this is Iike 10 hours later this year which is part of the Super GT organization schedule but jointly with SRO who run the Blancpain Endurance series and the answer to that question is I quite simply don't know and I'm looking around 10 hours [Music] installed in my diary and I really like I fancy a trip to Japan I always wanted to expand yeah yeah I I think a Sam Collins rock bath works outing to Japan sorry and The Associated production team yeah just come to works outing to Japan would be in order to thoroughly and professionally cover the event eating all that lovely yeah they serve a lovely type of yam around the area around Fuji Speedway and it's a local speciality you can get it some very traditional restaurants toss it around a car I can't recall having a yam Oh we'll take you've it up brilliant okay I'd love it if we go to Suzuka I've got a place rude on noodles anyway here we go here's that Toyota that Toyota here's that Honda train coming down into turn one and the Ray Barry car looks at the inside I couldn't quite see who that was in the pit lane that's not made that stick 100 that's the car that will be taken over by Jenson Button at some point yeah Moto's got a bit of damage in that blu-ray berry car there's a bit of carbon flapping off compact he's listening to me as well good lad thank you producer yeah there was some damage there looks like he's had some contact with a GT 300 or the number 8 there there is Jenson Button it's inevitable a little bit of contact will happen as the drivers make their way through the traffic now they had a very cunning strategy no tire stops at last race out in off the armor we thought Jensen just before underperformed and was very slow in general the reality is in the safe and tires and very secure I've got a great result as which was his forte in Formula one and just because he changed formula doesn't mean you change your skillset and he was incredible at looking after tires in Formula One and just showed showed that in Super GT there's a lot of debris down on the exit of the final corner someone's hit it as well since you spread it across the track but right now the battle for the lead is nowhere near done ronique into early just holding there in the back but look the motel or taking treat the minute the Sun GTR 290 2.7 kph top speed there on the straight in the den so LC hung they'll see 500 just shy of 300 kph and that is the difference but is that are going to be played out across Lexus versus in this and through the field absolutely not because here comes a Yan mardenborough on his flatmate Nick Cassidy oh I know Terry how is and it's what makes car here a car was at the wheel of the Red Bull Lexus and Yan is squeezing it squeezing it squeezing it and as we say Nick Cassidy the Lexus driver lives with Yan mardenborough in at Shinagawa Tokyo and Yan's made a very good first place move born lat Red Bull Tom's Elsie 500 fantastic move there as yeah that looked a little spicy at one point going through the centre of term one but no Yan's made it stick the hoppy 86 in the in the pit lane no bad news for them that is a very competitive time at number 25 normally and even though in a long-distance race like this the body language mechanic shows that the performance quite serious well making a brief move there a bit until it was the making 500 there is a gt3 engine 300 leader BMW right in front of ya mardenborough and pushing him back into the clutches of that Lexus fortunately the BMW cub comes across and covers the Lexus as well so although that it did look like ya might lose out the a quarter as well that's one important moment obviously a massive fan of young Martin Brent it's always good to see him doing well there is yawns teammate in the yesterday getting ready to miss my TV we don't have to be impartial about yeah yes he is a legend isn't it miss my TV are there going to be any thoughts in this sound plans for long-distance racing going cause I'm actually sure I've looked asked honestly I can't sell is normally a couple of GTRs within the vln de novo from your ass but that's one of the things you know go and this side have involvement and Nismo have involvement in global motor scooter EMSA doing its erases all around the world Australian supercar asked me about Aussie super car seat yet podiums left right and center in Aussie super Gaza I just can't keep up with everything well it was a small matter of winning the super close there was that and that that win may mean at the end of the season is event called the Nismo go free which we cover here on this mo TV and it's a fantastic event the gt500 cars go up against all comers all of a winning cars from across the world of Nismo and this year it could well include a Daytona Prototype much a sport for a moment that very yellow was it written that degree it's that that is gonna cause problems but that was the first time I've seen one of the leading GT 500 hit it and to me now I'm thinking that's a potential puncture hazard look it's the Bentley it does exist you ge de there the wheel of that car he of the flipping city hurries yeah so this is the battle for the lead it's its battle and all I called war separated by 0.6 seconds : stalemate yeah leader puts a move on the Bentley there that Bentley being engineered by Brad Fincham how do I work for work with in the Middle East at dragon racing it's one of the the team of staff that fly around the world support in those cars so Brad I'd know if there's a Sun racing in pln because I know engineers and Bentley in that championship but there we go as you say stalemate between the leaders as they come down now into the lowest point of Fuji they're gonna sort of stop making their way up through this final technical sector the gaps going going out to swine you can see on the screen there the top gt300 runners now beginning to make their first pit stops yeah this is where we're at the point now approaching 32 33 laps in where I'd expect to start seeing a routine stops being made now well we know we're expecting a stock from the raper again at six the 100 car there but you've got four Honda's all together it's like the Honda Cup and I think young Martin pretty good at that as well it is just at the back of the field behind the Artur and it sits there flattening for sixth position there's the Ray Briana sakes still battling motile we are treating all of these guys to head to the pit lane we haven't seen the Cal Sonic garage yet we could from this switch over to Japanese this my TV and they have a garage cam but it's not always to get the car you want it to be I thought for a moment the Honda's were heading just running really defensive as they was all three go tight to the pit wall now Muto defends Yamamoto down the inside though as he made it stick he has good move well our economists told us that in the enthusiastic chatter girl in the pit lane amy has told us there's a compressor failure on the hoppy 86 mother's trusty car but that's not a turbocharged engine so I've known its gate compressor I tried to be a smart aleck and said that I think that's either oil tank or gear compressor because those two things are located in where the regular boots on that car would be but I thought no I'm just gonna leave myself wide open but I could have looked you could have looked I saw a hero but no I heard on the side of there you go that's the source of probably a transmission for the 86 they're unusual because the transmission in that car is is Wow well if that's not going to get a punk just how are they not got bunches with that huge impact on carbon fiber on both right-hand side tires on the lakes and certainly one of the tires in the motor will take GTR I know they're both Pitts Pitts bound picked wood fan but you can see the debris being hit by so many cars flying up in the background yeah and it's the air comes Rossiter it's the carbon fiber sharks they it neat shatters into almost needles sound and they just gonna cause trouble and when I say cause trouble they'll pick up a little puncture as they make their way down the front straight the centrifugal force of the tire will keep the tire in place until the driver hits the brakes and then back so James Rossiter climbs out second group cheat jumps in unassisted just doing his own belt sometimes it's easier for a driver to do that this is the driver RJ O'Connell belief is going to be the more aggressive driver of the a you but behind it's got the way cost LC 500 as well the Lex I clearly following the same strategy I'd expect to see the wakelock there the since Remo and the wedge sport in imminently as well and that could summon in the den so and that means a reactions from this mode the works there's no card number 23 to come in and we are expecting high damage on those girls as well nice clean stock from the looking at the way Coast yeah clean too and away so remember no tire warmer so these drivers running on stone-cold slicks they've got to be careful we saw the way cuz common things slide there is he left the pit box and yeah they're gonna have limited cornering capability for the first couple of corners and then it will take a lap or two tee at the tires fully up to an operating temperature of about 70 degrees there come at those two lc5 hundreds out of the pit box they've lost about a lap there so yeah just a for a lap they've lost but that doesn't matter because you'll see this auto will shuffle up massively but because these cars are still slow that's not what you want to do on your brand new tires [Music] flat spot that was just breaking too hard on cold slicks and even when he released the brakes the tire held on that little flat spot so yeah and possibly want to watch for later in the state for the way Costco yeah that's that's that's not gone well I've been trying it just in my head calculate 35 so we are looking at to stop race yeah three steps to stop yeah we're not we say the free driver cars place that they don't want have to use the free drivers remember so we've seen to you in the mother chassis car sometimes driving that's the 25 car oh and there's damage for the the dermal op showed 61 car I think oh it's a puncture there's a surprise yeah right no I know I think this is just a scheduled stop but he got the debris as he was coming in not only those damage on the 61 it looked lower the right rear so whether he's had a little tap when it's is unsettled the bodywork I might be wrong it might at least a piece of camera he's a true on pit road anyways yeah because last time but that point is where the debris was open there over the Prius ended and it was that the 100 the recall was that the KN if you thinking in that's what happened here so the Prius is looks out of oh well that's unusual oops so the gt300 number 30 Prius either out braked himself but it didn't look like it all decay him breaks early and pull the gt300 car looked like he was about to have a run on the gt500 that's extremely unusual I'm thinking have we missed it tires cold perhaps he braked earlier now that would be service yeah thought but yeah you have very unusual to see that that was bad now that would make a lot of sense the Katyn has been a little bit anonymous in this race actually and the swordfish are out this is the secret secret finger swordfish because we did see was the the was it the cake in with the the swordfish nose on it at the end of the Opera so yes it was there's some fantastic pictures of that in the media now of this car brand round after the race with chunk of air and laboratory work sticking out the front of it a half of the race the drivers rule just there's a big slice missing out the front of it but people have to call that the swordfish NSX there you go so this is the section of the race when you see this is twice in this race really with the pitstop cycles we're still waiting for the top runners in both classes to head to pit road the longer they can make the tires last that for freedom they have with the strategy as the race goes on and that could really play out we haven't had a safe to go yet the safety car specific treaty are not unusual here comes the 100 great britain nsx for Jenson Button to take over they're still that debris down pit lane looks like yeah Martin Perez coming it's hand over as well in the blue car Bikel sonic yeah is he is fully committed into pit road yeah and although that was close from both of Linux legends with a little bit on the brakes and yeah nearly got him then sensory mow is in as well behind that I think that's the sin tiem Parsi 3 [Music] and is the Rey bricks today's Jenson Button getting in through his second race of the season it is round two of course in his third ever Super GT race I'm looking at the tires and definitely doing a full service so driver change and refueling there's the Zen sumo car doing full service as well so taking tires as well the lesser spotted RCF in the background also in pit road so as soon as the fuel man pulls out they'll be changing the front tires on the Ray Barry NSX any second now I don't think this team I was thinking this team now with the first third of the race completed will this team have the opportunity to double spin inspires like did pull the first 250 kilometer rail a deathly abilities a double stint the driver as well Jenson Button one of the greatest guys in global motorsport there was talk when he retired from Formula One that he was going to go and do the World Triathlon championship he's a elite level athlete fender so he's certainly up for two hours of work this afternoon around Fuji the Benson John is trending again so Benson German is absolutely on it this could this could be a brilliant strategy from having the ability we know they can double stint as we know they can double stick drivers want to keep an eye out Heikki Kovalainen in handing over to his teammate as we look back to the battling because ed and Prius in gt300 this is the position I'm not sure what the position is because it's all on pit stop cycles but these are the two Jeff gt300 mother stresses believe it or not that is a Toyota Prius and that is a Subaru BRZ and these are both built up from production the cars there's not much production car left after but so that there is they are both production cars I tip my cap at those engineers to see the pace that they can achieve from a car based on a production car is fantastic race car engineering magazine has done in-depth technical analysis of both of those cars are no because I wrote them and there are the two race leaders in GT 500 coming out of the pits but looked at the top of the screen will you see there's the frierson-bey are said the gt300 front runners but are the rest of the gt500 frontrunners this is crucial the forum engineering GTR is currently leading the race but he hasn't stopped yet so that's a little bit artificial as it stands second position in in reality is still a motor or tech GTR just behind his number 39 who seems that Lexus things have got a bit of an advantage on the pitch lobster ever stood Guerra Matsuda but we know the Michelin tire comes in quicker and will - will the Rae brick and the arter Otto Beck's NSX just good news there we didn't spot it with a 360 Sports run-up GTR bumblebee there it is out on track so whatever their early problems are they've resolved them and got on a course mr. orange jacket we pleased electrifying stuff this isn't it still me mr. Raja still leading GT air he drove he'll be happy but this is fantastic I mean this sort of racing is is wonderful and we talk about the Prius a hybrid racing amongst these just aerodynamic masterpieces fantastic engine and we talk about some of engine technology as well being really innovative stuff exciting innovation and that's one of things let me sounds really into and that's why this uncertainty formula e starting later this year with the new the brand new generation - they call it I think it's car but actually generation free because everyone forgot about the first ever for Eureka never raced built by really good-looking cars second or third generation ly the emotional eight the latest incarnation of normal area to be racing next year if the way things are heading you know we've been talking about efficiency for years I've always been impressed with 600 plus horsepower per two-liter four-cylinder engine myself but you know it's the way global transportation solutions are heading towards everybody's talking about efficiency and formulary a testing ground for those new technologies and that you've already does is pretty quick and this one's got a really long history in electric cars going back to the foundation of the country before miss Ann was even a thing when it was still at AMA automobile company Tama the same area that Japan's first ever race circuit was built and I written this ad one I think the second different race there is the battle for third position now with the since rewrote finally catching up onto the back of the motor vortex GTR but to DES initially era at the wheel of the bows and now and in I think Matt sorry Sam I think Matsuda has just taken his time to get the tires up to temperature whether it whether it's a car issue whether it's the time manufacturer issue but the Lexus just seemed to hit the ground running just a little bit quicker and Tsuboi that you can see him running ahead there in the Lexus is called out a second and a half just on his out lap so Matsuda really needs to get into a nice groove here nice confidence-inspiring groove make sure that he doesn't lose any places those Alexis is behind are looking very racy sorry well yeah one likes as many Lexus Lex I this Lex I Alan Partridge so sir if you don't know who Alan Partridge is he's a very famous English television presenter who is an expert on food if you haven't seen Alan Partridge use YouTube perhaps not now at another time is put Alan Partridge in T Alan Partridge is Greatest Hits I think will be fifteen minutes of your life very well spent aha here comes the a youth songs car and it is indeed a very aggressive second city you Chi Connell super GT well predicted is all over the tale of issue euro who is that helping that's helping Atsugi Matsuda in the motel or tech GTR and euro you know that's quite right isn't it that is super aggressive driving and they got a touch are they no but he's running right so wide well that's not friendly is it that's cost both of them to be fair though but it was exactly what Matsuda needed it's brought him a little bit of cleaner he can now just think about getting his head down and catching the Lexus ahead but yes some really aggressive stuff from circa Gucci that's sporting there yeah a bleached short cropped hair style yeah I mean the drivers in some of these these cars the particular Lex I team-mates need to be a bit careful because they get fined if they hit him hit him someone who's from the same manufacturer careful gt300 leader makes his pit stop Sam yeah that's the 55 gun that would be for sure looking sure to get into it as that's Hatsune Miku battles with the almost identical Leone AMG GT I love the way you just say sure what can show now completely normally yep the Japanese translation of Walkinshaw when you translate it on our official documentation that we have access to their comes up with walking show so yeah again if you're watching super TT for the first time Shawn walking sure the son of the great Tom walk ensure the legendary team owner but to the Friends of Nismo TV Shawn walking show there is helping his teammate sure there's been I think that's that's true I'm walking short no that's not Sean's helmet oh that's takagi so getting out there's two I'm getting in okay so the the captions are wrong and the starting driverless was wrong I didn't think walking Joe was in that car and started yeah I think this is what control in English now brilliant okay so Austin Wilson asked isn't is my TV the only one streaming the spin yes absolutely Austin we are mismo TV has been showing Super GT since I think 2014 I can't actually remember and I haven't bothered checking but I was here so I should remember I just think it is a fantastic thing that this Mo's brought this racing to the world because it's now becoming Cup and it's one of the fastest growing race racing series in terms of views on you can see why so if you are watching Super GT for the first time if you are loving this inter Lexus battle and who wouldn't be please click like please click subscribe tell your nan to watch yeah you know she loved it she loved it everybody should be watching this I mean this is this is just pure motor racing it is wonderful and when you're actually on the track there you know the thing about Super GT is when you're in the paddock they're all this then this something leaking out the back of the could be oh yeah I'll be fuel that could just be coming out of an overflow okay yeah I know he's building up to speed because he's just come out the pits on cold tires but it's particularly slow could beer on there right now he who leads gt300 he's disappeared a little quickly yeah I coulda shot now was it something leaking or was it a bit of tyre on bodywork we'll have to wait and see he's still got likes on he's still pushing so you see but Sony's definitely pushing their this year getting a little bit sideways that's not going to keep you tires of life is extinct maksoon has made good his escape from the front of these two blacks aye but we saw that before that mish Lance come in he disappeared scalpers off down the road and then comes back up to bat yeah and I could see I would be old all over the road there is Sekiguchi right off the track and four wheels off on the exit at that corner that could help him down the street but he could have lost a bit of traction out of the corner as well [Music] it is this that Oh is being done this year is in the tow but I don't think close enough to make the movies gonna have a try I always made it send out well yeah look we have a lock up as well will to get the cut back yes he will all four wheels off he would have had to give up a position anyway I think there but yeah [Music] rain break nsx and the people told us Jenson Button and Nick Cassidy going wheel to wheel the Kiwi versus the West countryman and he wins big switch for Jenson Button coming out of McLaren Formula One and Pete chose to come in racing super GT he'd seen the action on lismo TV and thought it looked great and decided to get involved you know you can't blame him he's any human in the pits [Music] good smile AMG and if you've bitten our producers giggling saying how can you know that's true because he put it on Instagram which apparently is a online electronic photo thing for predominate pictures of noodles oh right well there you go or just other food items are available you got me thinking earlier about Suzuka I know a particularly good mood on noodle place at Suzuka I'll have to get that I'll have to take you oh yeah there we go absolutely well in gt300 as we have seen D'Amico isn't a bit because she needed to get some new rubber the leader of that category is as I predicted now balota which we know can go run silly be pumped the long stings yes I mean that since that car was introducing from very very late a military decision saying its second driver is not as good as the first but he will only be getting one bite of the cherry the slightly slower driver you would expect the quicker yet to be getting back in towards the towards the end of the race the Lotus is designed and engineered by moon Croft takuya's company which is in saitama I think I've been there I discovered member where it was makuu leaving the pit lane and being passed by chris on TV I'm not quite tell that's the 34:31 obviously the number very difficult to identify the paint job gives away it's a sort of work to go out there is the au Tom's LC 500 ahead of the Zent that battle is still going on and the outtakes get in the way of them there these two stickers straight on the heavy now if you are a teen boss would you get on the radio to one of these two drivers to calm them down a little bit at the moment because they are in danger of running into each other and you don't want a Red Bull situation that was Christian Horner again using the gift of hindsight just let that go too far and the answer by John Brown free to teammates can operate very very efficiently working as a pair I was racing a GT car at Sebring and them on and I remember the two Bentley's the LMP nine hundred cars as they work there as they were back then they worked as a pair and from a GT driver's perspective I only saw one Bentley and then two came past nose to tail just working incredibly efficiently through the traffic and this is what those two lacks I could be doing instead of strapping and letting matsuda make good his escape it's important to point out they're not team mates but they are all works cars so Lexus and cultivator have are in charge of all of their teams and this is Toyota's home track exactly all their employees will have been given a ticket they'll have brought their wife their family someone else's wife and they'll be in the Grant's hopefully not all together but you know they'll be wanting a strong showing and by having it into team squabble they are just letting the Misun escape the Civic I ask is there a rule on how many laps a driver can do before they have to do a change yeah that's usually a rule of thumb normally the timer driver can do is restricted in terms of rest time so a driver has to rest for a certain percentage of time within block time for example you have to rest a 75% of what you've just done before you can then get back in the car I summon our technical rules expert well our rules extra sporting rules expert RJ O'Connell on that one RJ what is the driving regulation times here at the 500 kilometres race I don't think there is one I think you do have to do a driver change but don't have the minimum well little ribbon on the sleeve over psyche asam the form a little more marina just denotes that he's allowed to go on the pit wall it's a wonderful sort of backwards thing that you have to wear these little pin safety pin those ribbons on your sleeve to say you can go other people no armband or anything light it's just a little weave ribbon that flutters away in the wind [Music] we look at these cars heading down the start/finish line here at future speed weighs 46 laps complete and CP stacks 8 says he told he's now to smash that like button she didn't understand me do it for her that's because you said the word button not Joe Johnson tell smash the like jut and then she'd be right in there and give you a fist bump as well nitro mixes asks is Super GT series only in Japan no it goes to Thailand once a year as well used to go to Malaysia and there are plans for international growth for the championship it has been to California before but don't think they'll repeat that but there are distinct possibilities a return to sip a now the forbidden one isn't their ticket to tea used to get bigger audience they've been crowded surveying the Formula One ever did a circuit that would suit these cars down to the ground would be the Singapore Street track although that would be good you imagine that either a week before a week after the Grand Prix obvious daunting where's good news the hoppy number 25 for P 86 is very slowly still stuck in and that's not happy is akin is did you say hot people happy is it not happy hoppy oh and that's definitely not right he's got that completely wrong you going backwards but surah there has looped it somehow how's he managed that did he have health yes he did the leon mercedes helped him wasn't using his mirrors they're battling for gt300 that's bad from the mercedes cars left-hand-drive he had a massive white Honda over his left children just didn't spot it so I think he's going to get driving moral hazard penalty for that I give him one yeah in Cebu GT you don't just have penalties you have moral hazard penalties that's Haruki Kurosawa there you go well morally hazardous and the 64 still hasn't got going well that's surprising because no damage had been done there to Matsuda he's just struggling to get it going now we've seen this at the Honda's before off beyond the last year where they couldn't start top hot starting yeah they would they were struggling remember these cars of mid-engine yes in the back they have slightly less throughflow you can see the engine is going but he keeps stalling it this reminds me a little bit of every year at filming a student at the Silverstone or hockenheim weathering the insurance of him they can't quite get the cars to go again after everybody this guys getting the entrance of fire but it doesn't look like he's keeping it to get to keep it running could that be the end of the gt500 definitely moral hazardous it could be a case it's worth pointing out that these cars are on a very small clutch pack and unlike a road car where the clutch is hundreds and hundreds of times in every journey the clutch is in these cars are just used for pulling away so we see double wave yellows warning the drivers are there it is yeah he is struggling to pull away and that could be a clutch problem it's gern around it's got a point in the right direction he's clearly got the engine started because he we saw him making an attempts to pull away but on how good the battery is that that's responsive if it's out or like they've just identified my haircut nonetheless or lack of haircut nonetheless first response vehicle if you have more super duty before your infratry we're about seeing this and skyline yes and it's not the Nissan Skyline you're probably thinking is it for blood areas a fighter good going ish no maybe no well that was alarming we could have almost been viral then Sam yeah we really could have been we may still be able to how to make up on the Renault six start well using a sound Scotland seems to be the is the Nissan Skyline SUV and there is some confusion finally the Lotus Evora makes a pit stop in gt300 where is he gonna feed back out into the fields he's done almost half the rain yet and it'll be a little bit it'll do a very short stint and it'll be the other half of the race again so they noticed don't write that one off until the gt300 corners and I'm just trying to see where the competitive free countries are this debris down to turn one now didn't see where that came from but it got clobbered by gt500 there it's just off the line if anyone goes a bit deep into the law they're gonna get a puncture I think just looks where this under comes in turns in and now we've gone for a fixed camera angle which in sleep and GT land as we discover glossary of the Suzuka race isn't necessarily a good thing know either they've got to commercial in Japan because they don't normally oh there might have been something am afraid oh there you go to Priya's wedding profession say Tsuboi leading the race in the South run LC 500 team sod six and a half seconds the good from Matsuda who has settled into a rhythm now and the second drive is just a little bit off the PERT off the pace of the first ones Eve we saw the lap times floating around the one minute thirty ones the second drivers in dune 132 so the the circuit has evolved away as the rubber goes down it hasn't necessarily meant that they've got quicker and of course the traffic is now fairly somebody didn't hold on to their lunch bag sandwich back go there I mean the villagers would be good well what are we watching here oh is this where the debris came in yeah massive chunk of bodywork or something class of excite kids rank it yes if someone's dropped their company yeah drop this yeah mantra on the sail well well that didn't take very long down barber in front of the rape unisex making it look very easy will the raper get so down the straight yes it will do I need to talk about just heat insulation material and how it looks like comfort blanket or will people just know now too no it wasn't quite young driving some of these okay [Music] so let's have a look yeah model a battling here with Nike Sasaki though it's not yellow it's like it's a sake about lingua Jenson Button there you go I'm catching up with myself now Daiki wolf 23 I think is to it handle is not sure what the wolf is a reference to but he just likes it and Jenson Button coming off worse thank you odd line there behind the Lamborghini there's young Barbara which is a little race especially quite evening hello yeah he's looking happy looking pumped if you ever want to meet a real car enthusiast yeah like just genuinely gets excited about the tiniest element to the car so my friend statement got something on Facebook this week about the BMW 750il to the 12-cylinder BMW 7-series long wheelbase limousine first comments the et actually is a car geek which is great you know I love the latter pieces I think he's brilliant and for him to bring his passion and enthusiasm and go from veteran gamer - professional racing driver and still have the bowler hat of nerdiness is just terrific now Enzo Mar has just said fencing Judson is not doing so good we fought this last time but could they be playing a cunning strategy could they be double stinting the time from the second run and it's quite possible at Mecca given a huge advantage in the race their strategy could be so cunning they may have pinned the tail to it and called it a weasel it could be more cunning it's so cunning it could actually be have a doctor in cunning from the College of cunning from Cambridge University and through that Ben Elton or was that Rowan Atkins was Rolex when it was the throw there is responded with just making his way back along the grass to be wherever he lives one of the things about super GT and in Japanese racing in general they use response vehicles that's them no it's not it's not notice right chase the track so what my thought was comfort like it or heat is heat insulation it's astroturf now we have this at Silverstone actively we see a few years ago beyond the Kirby is what looks like grass it's not it's an artificial grass and that's rolling up yeah oh that's gonna cause a safety go because that could cause a major issue yeah we're gonna have to have a safety car for them to either remove they're gonna have to strip it all up because that astroturf is tough it's quite substantial if you've got load of that all over yeah if you get a section of astroturf on the front of your car it will block cooling ducts and it's just simply not safe and the astroturf is held down so knows we pulling out I watch now I wonder if they're going to throw are they gonna call us they can actually making this baby up in the control tower the control tower at fuji speedway has a direct line of sight to that girl and i wonder if the race controller is staring out the windows even know about that well they weren't terribly bothered about the massive piece of debris that sat there and then got atomized over the course of the next 20 laps but you'd expect them to do something i think they'd be almost obliged to at least go and have a look at it see if they can do something about it but we have seen this before where astroturf as well and it has resulted in safety sharp yellow yeah it probably a full safety virtually because it would be quite a lengthy lengthy one what that could mean for the race is that we get to talk a bit more about formulary and old historic cars which I would like to develop stories particularly but it could mean we have an accident mad dash to the finish heaven forbid that well we've kind of got that already you can see what we're looking at P to three-peat plural but my teeth in p2 p3 and p4 still within a the spread of a couple of seconds for the top ten is separated by 44 seconds take it down to the 12 and the Kraft sports GTO of Geo cheers got it's not the wheel of it at the moment 56 seconds covers it so half a lap really after an hour and twenty minutes of racing and half a lap between 12 so there still any gt300 similar story the top 10 spread by 56 seconds now the alerts of borås back in 10th position though let that mislead you that's it's slow driver in it they'll do a pit stop early I suspect and then go for a very long second in a safety car would not sue that would actually would suit that car yeah only two drivers in that Lotus and it would be great if there was a safety car in this second period of the race so the the slower driver would limit the damage done to that local right in vain We Trust says the race has gone so fast exclamation that's because it's exciting yes in vain because she's really been watching too much Formula One well actually the last Grand Prix was pretty exciting I watched it twice you know normally they just follow each other round overtaking me that one is relatively rare whereas you know somewhere around the back of the Fuji Motor Speedway three GT 300 cars are now three abreast absolutely and that's just the permanent condition of gt300 Daytona Prototype GT one that asks are this gt300 a full Pro category or is it pro-am it's I would say pro-am I think it's a really nice pro-am and when you look when we have the scrolling grid at the top of the races you can see a selection of younger professional drivers and you see you wonder if they also did a good job is the first pass over the 500 kilometer that how was it it was okay the car and the tires were working well so I didn't have any big issues and yeah I was able to get up to the front and then I tried to open the gap initially you know I looked like Ronnie was able to follow me then just the last four of my laps I managed to make a couple of seconds so it was okay my uncle is name a German touch of the time Oh kumamotos interviews Japanese and translated by the Japanese TV but into the European driver in English they give us the feed from the adjacent units covering Japan boy sure it made a great German it's amazing very little practice and yesterday we had some coke so he meets people more practice and now he's doing amazing so he's a great young driver and I think he's a hero he's very talented obviously a good feel for the car so he's doing a good job sobbing Kamui good rap for the rest of race master citizen Association ordinary Harris is any time today so god I cannot issue difficult economic as to do a mystical inescutcheon agarrado respected what he said he worked hard at the very forefront of the film and he just sat down and tried to hand over the the later show Tsuboi who well as he said he's a great young driver and he looks about 13 14 but we were just talking about the the gt300 category and yeah they would say yes pro-am between the younger pro and a slightly older Gentry as well at GT 500 few manufacturers in 2500 have used Super GT to showcase their new young talent llamada preparing prime example of that as if Nike Sasaki tada seemed the neck to the sea Makino the from the driver was extremely competitive on his first ever gt500 race a couple years ago turned up was a second one quicker than his team on his first outing so he's gone over to Europe for a bit of formula 3 action and is doing average here perhaps the former three gone not suiting his aggressive driving style people drink up it's to Alexis's making their way past Manila on the front straight Maqsood and nipping past the Gulf Porsches well not really spoken about that car this afternoon either I think mrs. Kovalainen this to Nadine not sure if it's the real mrs. Kovalainen or not it will build mrs. kovalainen listen Catherine yeah oh well they she will be well Chester yeah come on yeah I don't know hello is Catherine's not actually that of Japanese zealand and neither so father Steve there we go yeah so pinkie kovalainen father-in-law ladies and gentlemen 24 hours Oh his name is Steve go get Wikipedia yeah that's a religious question yes there you go shadow line 22 for 8 it says how close to these cars to DTM cars very very close when they're standing still not so close when they're moving these because a much much quicker than DTM cars and the racing is much much greater as you can see here but the battle for third position as issue era is still trying to get past sekiguchi I mean they could hammer their tyres doing this wrong the thing we have as well within Super Duty in DTM all the car simple category where is now we have the gt500 and the gt300 returners multi-class action as well as as we're looking at here the inter class he's got a habit in our rivalry oh here we go [Music] and they are totally tucked up together this instrument and the au Tomsk are absolutely together he's gonna have a run down into the first corner are they gonna make this work this got contact written all over it actually oh he's going these full better of it you can extract our wide and get the run into the treaty 300 cars just in the wrong place with the wonky sticker no didn't work if you're as desperate to get fast now they're gonna be going like this oh yeah I think this is gonna hammer their toilets really good it's certainly not helping and of course they're pushing each other so hard they are going to find themselves off the conventional racing line when you're making moves or defending whatever it might be you find yourself on the slightly dirtier side of the track I was a late lunch on that term RCF GT 390 officer he's smiling is definitely smart TV viewer needs a beard that boy no you woke up your Burton I'm in the series this is Shane with us in the studio some proteins needs to grow a beard there's a hashtag Jane yet beard ferocity is he old enough to grab it yeah look he's even if this year stroking his smooth face in in like a disappointing language I'm gonna be having a drink I'm gonna get help for that well there we look at this great battle between these two Lex i-ight I'm wondering I just can't I can't believe that they haven't done anything about that grass cream astroturf on the excess of groceries astroturf on the exit of the final corner it doesn't seem to be tearing up as badly as it was every feature speedway's lovely much better was yesterday and oh yeah at Silverstone when they safeguard the astroturf came off in big rolls whereas it looks like it's just [Music] there is the battle tween the blue car kal sonic get ready to actually 16 yes exactly they built it and there well there is a real legend of Nissan Motor Racing totally getting into it we do have a really good interview with him we go elsewhere or Nismo TV or it's on to time pincer maneuver and it's still not done I'm still going on we have a great interview with him button is my TV but I don't think it's like that I'm not sure the Giri and dissect IKEA Sasaki really entertaining us around Fuji Speedway halfway through now well past halfway through this 500 kilometer race and the Fuji Speedway it's Golden Week in Japan we are racing on Friday at live on this mode TV don't forget to follow us as he gets the move done but lose it again down the inside at Dunlop corner brilliant food came from nowhere just on the brakes I think you caught the NSX snoozing and this is the second round of 2018 super GT season if you're liking this action and how can you not hit like subscribe and let us know we're gonna bring you all of the second after this race live and uninterrupted here on this my TV we can have interviews action and of course an unmissable podium at ceremony at the end of the race this has been don't forget it like 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gt300 there are paid professional drivers you'll see names all up until start this season people like view on Burton time you race for 11 years out here earning a very nice salary before returning to Europe for this season and it be all said is in engine trouble again we've seen this before the ej20 has cried enough and that is yeah well there's a telltale yes smoke from the front a little wish yeah that's a that's a breather so it's hot it's smoky and it's certainly not happy the engineer miss number 61 see reveals it is derived from a World Rally Championship engine throughout old boxer not so far out of it at the moment it has had trouble floor when it works it's super competitive boxer engines are you know but when it does it well that's what happens they were on for a fantastic result here at Fuji Speedway and of course Subaru well he's very unhappy with that nothing the driver can do he's just fed up I'm perfect the car is less so part break yet and a real this is the first big race for these guys this season you know it's the first 500 kilometer race in front of huge crowds during the public holiday and yeah they were doing so well they were keeping the BMW honest in the head of the field and yeah lost a a podium position in the second half of the race now these cars you might not see we don't have too many onboard cameras during the race the super is the only car that has an onboard camera that works reliable during a series amusing for whatever reason that's just the situation but most of these GT 500 cars are carrying onboard cameras and I'm quite often the footage gets put out after the race I would really like to see the rear view camera of that orange and Yau Tom's car and the front view camera of the Zen Cerullo because it would be fantastic and this guy is definitely making highlights real isn't it yeah the negative body language the young man there is heartbreaking but these two lacks I have been locked together now what's week coming into maybe the six or seven clapping this is the biggest gap we've seen between them which must be about three car lengths three or four darling snap and yeah absolutely and outrage upon us just pointed something out to me but the max the max 5 GT 86 which is not normally a big repetitive car is up into the top 10 in gt300 bonnet Mary which is pretty great for them so I think we are as I said at the beginning the top of the race are so we're going to get slightly unusual rate result here and I think we are on target for that particularly in GT 300 let's see that again yeah there you go the harry's even made the roll a yeah [Music] Super GT attempts to destroy Fuji Speedway facility attract you know trying to lay down the fence the last corners falling apart and they'll get rid of that broken Biasi fairly soon I'm looking ahead we're coming into gt300 traffic now with this battle between the two Lexus where we are and if he notices the first the second cars are in place there as well they'll be in that traffic at the moment we'll soon yeah Matsuda be able to me that would be smoke out the back over the au Tom's car there are just or a Spencer engine failure is unusual for Lexus let's me technology on these cars lots of need technology on these cars the technology engine a lot of them are using three tape pre changer ignition systems the same Spore middle one yes quite what this basically does is allow some of the field to ignite before the spark and it gives you a much higher efficiency level and that's compression ratio of the engine going really sky-high unless you run a cable feel you have to use in these cars is too big restricting facts because they have to purchase the feel of these cars from the pumps at the racetrack yeah it's - it has to be the commercially available racetrack paddock fuel so each track has slightly different fuel so you can't have the field and the the efficiency in these petrol engines these four-cylinder turbocharged see the race leader they're running out to really try not to avoid astroturf debris on the outside of the final corner there at turn 16 the efficiency of these agencies will as I say the pre chamber ignition the direct injection the the pressure at the fuel injector head is phenomenal sort of three and a half thousand bar I heard talked about and that's you know you can't make your head round there the fuel is almost atomized and then is burn before the spark plug ignites the rest it's yeah fascinating and right within semi diesels yeah exactly they are they they they almost burn the fuel like a like a a diesel has been the direct injection era of diesel engines and they will have retained the ignition systems now one thing we're talking about there what the reason we're talking about the technology of these consoles this innovation is quite exciting so that's the reason companies like Nissan are involved in motor racing to actually develop cars but what makes the engines in these cars so relevant is because they're using that available feel on the pump it's very greatly applicable to road cars of the future and there's not you know they're not using special super high octane race fuel as you said a moment ago so it comes out of the fuel pump at the at the at the motor racing venue so if you if you turn up mercedes-amg GT car to do a track day next Wednesday will be doing using the same fuel as the motel or Tech GT 500 works team were using at the weekend and the fuel at of the armor is different to the fuel food is being wasted fuel at Suzuka and Sugo and actually sometimes there's a choice of three or four different pumps in the different manufacturers in in the Vatican sometimes actually go to the gt500 teams definitely do this they go to the racetrack a couple of weeks before buy a sample of the fuel from the pump take it home and map their engines based on the fuel they can buy from the various pumps to find which one is the best engine development is ongoing in GT 500 so the different specs of engine are introduced through the season so there are an hour to fully develop these engines and when you say is ongoing engine development will be ongoing session to session and also lap to lap the drivers have a facility on the steering wheel to change the engine map it used to be the case that drivers had access to really three maps one for qualifying one for race and one for safety car whereas now you're looking at fine tuning the engine performance and maximizing performance and maximizing efficiency it's not just one or the other now if you are watching this there's 2700 of you live on at YouTube that's a few more if you do it around in other places as well I know a lot more a few of you watching this on the catch-up service later on if you're enjoying this make sure you hit the like button the like button the more likes the get the more videos are more in in in depth behind the scenes stuff we can put out in the weeks two weeks between the races so we need 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specification wonder NSX and they've got the gt500 quandary NSA so you can see how different those two cars actually are the gt500 goes actually physically bigger than the gt3 good-looking Road car the the Honda NSX really did a pretty quite unusual looking car the GT look as good as a micro Ninasam mike is really cool I saw one of them that I know it's just saying that this is my TV I genuinely think those are we gonna come around to Nismo micro and Nismo Leafs as it because it has it come to that Thai cavernous moly I'd heaviness bay leaf as well man and is born is my micro where we live in Qatar where we've not you and I are actually gone but where my wife and I live in Cornwall stabilisation a a mismo leaf would be the perfect car you can't do more than about 20 miles and my wife drives like a maniac morning Rebecca if you're listening I I to me that the mic here or the leaf I'd quite happily say Kiva just performance cars good fun cars to drive okay so making pitstop is the forum engineering gt-r sequence dating oh no it's not actually that's just about right 66 laps on the board yeah the first sequence of pit stops is on that 35 so we're expecting lap 71 to 72 so it's a little on the early side full service e to prepare of rear tires the fuel is going in now the guys are ready on the front of the car to change the front tires reset the picture are siliceous micro-cut be streamed on this my TV yes I think some of it will be though I think no one actually looked at the schedule but yes I think we'll get some action on Nismo TV this year it'll probably be in French Lee meanwhile back with the Lexi battle you're right the leap a forward facing and rear facing camera feed of this would be half an hour very very well spent because these guys although we're looking at or running nose to tail they will have been going left of traffic right of traffic over the top of traffic I think they between them they've made themselves less competitive they were quite close if you remember to the batter the first and second yeah and that's just gone down the road now because they know the motel Alltech GTR in second position is in clear air yep the Zen Center about the Nike Kovalainen 's and his teammate his name is case because I've just saw the back five car up running rail quite nicely he's running also in clean air and they're just making it work as Jenson Button goes wheel to wheel with Daisuke Nakajima Nakajima nearly making that work on through the 16 motile car I think button isn't making well never say no because we said this at the last round yeah a rose like meanings really needed given if they didn't stop for tire so we really need to see if they're going to double stint driver and tires for the second spin that ultra economy of super GT world as Daisuke Nakajima gets the job done on Jenson Button button goes to the undercut gets a thumb I think Nakajima Mike hang on round the outside there and anywhere we're coming into the coca-cola corner at the left-hander here still [Music] yep now that's button now is button conserving the tires Risa just off the pace there is some still we still speculated how good is Jenson Button in a sports car the results aren't showing at the moment let's see let's say yeah exactly because we discounted him at the start of the the Akiyama race and yeah there he was on the podium placings golf clubs at the end so we'll see I don't think they got golf clubs in third did they not they know they got very small trophy the exhalation of at the end of the races there's a podium ceremony as in all championships and super GT it's just quite different if you've never seen it before just stay tuned at the end of this race we will have have it in and yeah the podium clarity is unusual it's better it's definitely better it's just like a podium ceremony but better in any way and it was Jenson buttons first time on the Vince and jumps first time on the podium since 20 [Music] it was a Brazilian or 1813 swing which he won and so he wasn't quite sure how to behave in the baby but he came back to him but that was on a race that was a very smart Drive of race strategy so was that good but we have yet to see very great piece from button in these cars because he will be at the LeMond 24 hours this year as well it has been announced in an LMP 1l car again going toe to toe with miss on powered car and this one is half hour I can agree and we're looking at the number 100 car [Music] and passing around the outside over gt300 car little bit of a lull in the action at the moment as the field gets spread but this is just before the pitstop sequence the tires are at the Elvises the blue car is on the back of Kurosawa there I found myself looking at the lap counter there Sam just thinking how many laps to go and we're coming up to about 40 41 laps to go because the tires every offline now is enormous it's gonna be almost the marbles off line going down the the straight is only going to get worse and worse and worse we've got some pieces of tire we've got the little pieces of astroturf if you saw karasawa who's coming into pits but a look of it to run over some of that as he makes his way into pit road safely down to pit speed well before the line are very conservative not like we saw the Lapera gt500 cars coming in a few months ago the great question came in from Marcus growth saying is it only Pitts speed limit you can be penalized in the pit lane for no absolutely not if you look when the car comes to stop here there'll be a difference between the fuelers and the tires now will they do the tires first no fuel goes in first and you'll notice the chaps sitting there on the tires no tire warmers of course allowed in at Super GT the trap sitting on their tires are sitting waiting for used to change tire but they're not allowed to get involved in the car while it's being refueled as is the airline's man sitting there waiting as soon as you can see the airlocks man is studying the refueling guy when the refueling guy pulls back because the Yale ants go in the car shoot up on the jacks and then the tires will be changed they're doing fronts first only two people two people doing the tire changes so it's not three team of three like another series so one man one gun and then they'll run round to the back of the car no they won't body front front tires only are now we are seeing tire strategy coming into play as I thought we might the Mercedes is quite kind on it stars I noticed that the Hasidim eco only car only took a pair of tires at its first stop as well so the time saved is far the time safe I'm not changing the the rears they think will be yes yes yes yes Larry puncher yeah thought it was I thought I saw the driver struggling so this is another left rear puncture is this now a consequence of there's a consequence of Jenson Button no it's gone they're all on its own yeah I'm just thinking is it a consequence of running out over where the pins that would be holding that astroturf are located but it would have I think it would have gone earlier in the lap if that was the case but can't look all the rubbish and debris on the track knows more than they are to lunch in fact lunch back there now well as we get up to the second well the second phase of this three-phase race is coming today and we don't have silly points in the middle of it like NASCAR does which ruins the sport I think we have just pure racing brings it on in strategy terms this culture for the number 16 Motul NSX might not be catastrophic because it we are just entering the six edge of the pit window yeah they're going to have to sort of to bring forwards their final stop go a bit longer on the tyres in the field that the car is quite capable of it drivers take a look at guitars life we'll wait and see there it goes so that could be not the worst thing in the world if a safety car happens for example in the final segment of this race that would be beneficial to the Honda here we go the race leader's number 39 Susu boy I Kovalainen like to get back into that car imminently finish the race and he's got quite a lead their graduating between this brewery and a half from five and a half seconds traffic dependent of course the course in Super GT you can that can disappear in a second as we saw earlier in the race for the motor loss at car losing a three-second lead in the tooth into corners gt300 traffic Andres Andreas my friend andreas from Germany asked is there any information about another team taking an ismo engine to LeMond other than by collars I dress ask me this about eight times andreas I don't know the answer but there is a car that it fits straight into so the spokesman so yeah rumors of a sec a second my college car joining WEC at some point I don't think Philemon and of course possibility of an LMP one then I'd really want current all together taking in its own engine and there's more than one type in essentially you can take for anything one but no news at all on that other than the by college car which we all know about because it's racing this weekend at Spa tomorrow yes sorry and the TV director is just still out there there's an abandoned super on the side of throat yeah that's going to say that something to the racemate and the drivers just off-camera still shaking the the crowd barrier so we are expecting the next pit sequence the final pit sequence and then it is the dash to the finish three fantastic let's really fantastic right this doesn't feel like we've done a 500 kilometer race at all 72 laps completed 110 pit stops coming a battle for the lead is separated by four three and four seconds depending on traffic the Sun is getting low in the sky here at Fuji Speedway Mount Fuji sitting looking absolutely lovely just off to the end of the main grandstand at the final corner you get a great view of it out of the cars wind screens just about this point of the track you can get it at Gran Turismo 2 but it's much better in reality to enjoying this race action they'd like and subscribe that's a bit more he's doing he's just there he's just watching it hiking home aligner is being talked is cooking it and this my TV he's probably looking at what's coming up doing at least my TV well I've got lots more formula e in insightful reprogram started coming up and the v8 supercars oh and the since Rebecca goes gets forced off my gt300 there is that battle continues between the au Thomas KUB I think that's coming in the pits is a yes he is giving sent a bit of free line free reign the Brock had endurance series is in actually the Sprint Series the GT sport motor team are KN not in action in the sprinters but is in action in the insurance series which is silver so next week and that will be live on Nismo TV in full of course also next week the block ground Asia series will be in Thailand so you go Matsuda and Florian Strauss to be in the KCMG car in their new specification GTR GT freeze might think that also is live on this boat Eevee I can't remember and since they it's the Blancpain Endurance series they're definitely live on this my team is just mentioned European LaVon Series in action at Monza with the LeMans Cup and rota Lamont Nissan powering all of the LMP three cars of course including Ricardo Sanchez is in the Lamont Cup alongside his blocked by commitments this year so about his initial he San fantastic and of course we have just heard the features this has been the featured mark in the mid submitting historic road event at Road Atlanta there's some lovely onboard videos on that on mismo TV already it's also the featured market the Monterey Historics at guna sake of Istanbul some cars in action there and it could fill as retro fever bite then there's a race at bog Paulo Raceway in Australia land with the supercars and the last round at Phillip Island ring Kelly's got a pair of podiums than having managed to get 12 12 second and third fantastic and is racing this weekend at mid-ohio in M so which is OK on line so ESM is doing very very well okay can I just point out the man who's got in the the AU Lexus it looks like the Kraken James Rossiter got in that car with the body language of a man on a mission the regulations state that they the drive getting out the cars the rest with two thirds of their driving time so he's now done that he's back out on cold tires the way cos car also doing their final full service taking one of the tear offs off the windscreen to give the second driver Clearview now in the words of Tommi makinen which is probably being radiator every single driver getting into one of these cars at the moment maximum attack [Music] and it will be as I say once these pits equus pits weeks as a cycled through this is going to be whiter race to the flag you can see that the the guys in orange they're the pit lane scrutineers are watching very carefully the sequence and they're looking for those infringement serve rules and regulations that we spoke about earlier now in NASCAR there's a fantastic segment they put in most races will crank it up now that's where you just listen to the engine the sound of the engines of these cars no we're talking about into specifications of these cars - 2 liter turbocharged very similar technology to fully on it essentially identical technology to form of the 1 v6 engines but in a four-cylinder 2-liter arranger indiscernible 1.6 v6 but listen to these engines will go it will hopefully we'll get some good gt500 sounds at the moment and we're going to be turning the sound up in a minute [Music] and trying to listen to the sound of these cars now let's get sound on this [Music] looks like we saw Jetson butter popping out of his under there panting oh it's back pending the car back to Yamamoto and they're not double sleeping the driver we didn't get to notice if they double stick the tires I'm just gonna whine back our instant replay tom tonality so we can just see if they did do that but a sound of these cars for the leaf the pits will hear the Lexus as it leaves me in a moment when these tire change has finished they are definitely doing tire changes as you can see on this it's a roommate [Applause] there we see that we saw the Red Bull Lexus in the pits there as well so once this sequence is cycled through the battle will be on for the victory here I think the podium is going to be a night game quite quite clearly there at Fuji when this Hounslow does that make a difference for drivers yeah very much so the the Sun sort of obscene sets in the west and as you head towards the horizon going west a real glare it's obviously not murky today but you can see this moisture in the air that's caught by the Setting Sun and the headlights now looking brighter as they make their way down into turn one yeah it's absolutely quite a lot of you clearly enjoyed that loud sound of the cars I can see the reaction we might do a bit more of that later on might do this I want to get this and GTO Honda Alexis I want to hear the GTR coming out one thing when you're at a Super GT race what you will discover is that the gt500 cars all sound different to each other you can tell them apart just by the sound particularly when they're coming into a corner [Music] that's another Lexus and that is the race leader for the former race leader the motel or tech GTR has yet to stock will swill will do a crank it up when that car comes into the pits the number 23 will hear what a GTR sounds like leaving the pit lane here at Fuji Speedway my answer is I know what it sounds like it sounds really really good 76 laps completed here at Fuji Speedway and I still haven't managed to watch my instant replay of the rape Rika NSX is pit stop because my people getting distracted by what's going on on track they did come to in quite late I was watching you couldn't see if they did a full service or indeed a driver change but yeah two more Lexuses saint cars and he's had his work cut out this afternoon defending incredibly hard road and then three three abreast on lap 77 Zen car just wants to race with everybody all day fantastic show they're putting on I mean I know informant one you have like a the driver of the race award I think an entertainer of the race the Zen car now here we go the Nissan GTR motor water car comes in from the lead ronique into really handing getting in I think yes we've CEO Matsuda getting out surprising Zac Matsuda's usually the faster driver we will get the sound up or we will just be listening in the to this car as it pulls out of pit lane and oh they cut away so we're going to have some royal sounds now are we going to listen to it because we've got all to details the blue Careca and blue car is together we're just gonna listen to this process as it goes on that informal on day yeah absolutely bone what that sound he's just epically good when you hear it in reality and it's pretty good when you hear it on this my TV as well love and ice burn out as well I've always been a big fan of the NASCAR pit stops when they are rushing to get heat in their rear tires and when you leave the pits and just do a big smoky burnout of course it looks great but also the drives are doing everything they can to quickly get heat in the rear tires to tire stop on the Ray bring NSX no driver driver yes okay so button isn't going to the flag okay they train driver Yamamoto got in the car but they only changed the Front's on the NSX so that could be a very key point in this race okay so they were floating around eight for ninth we'll have to keep an eye on that soak in tireli back in the red Nissan GTR [Music] and holding the lead at the moment and that could be that mismo played a blinder and got back into the lead and leapfrog by staying out they have leapfrogged the 39 at Lexus LC 500 this is going to be a battle for the lead to the flag yeah there goes the very competitive Toyota Prius but the Arthur m6 is back in the leader 5300 very quick efficient final stop there from the Nismo team has seen them as you say leapfrog the first one leaders the previous leader Heikki Kovalainen you can you can see the gap nail it's just over a couple of seconds and the p1 and p2 are going to be running well there they are that's the gap beginning first a second and we have what if this is about it to be a battle now to the flat to the flag between two of the finest blond-haired drivers in sports car racing roni roni Kinser le and Heike kovalainen are going to be dueling this out it's Toyota in second vs. Nissan in first one lap fresher tires for Ronnie Clinton rally but they're not quite as warm up to temperature is mica Kovalainen put both drivers know how to deal with that but the gap is going to close down and then what what happened it's Michelin versus Bridgestone Nissan vs. Lexus and in the pits in gt300 is the arthur m6 BMW mr. orange jackets favorites on Wharton show getting out of that car Tom's son indeed Shawn so on in these two fares of distance covered this is it this is the battle to the end there's Manila question about the headlights are the headlight through the headlights have to be on in a Super GT no they don't but I think they should be yeah makes easy to sell the cars part it would certainly make our job and the job of the spectators identifying which class the cars are running in I think it's a safety thing as well it's always good from a driver's perspective to have cars running with headlights on you just kind of catch them in your peripheral vision a little bit easier and yeah we see the Sunni Miko Mercedes has inherited the lead of gt300 that could be on pit stop cycles the arter BMW we're looking at now has been dominant all afternoon well that gaps coming down from 2.6 seconds to 1.5 at the sector to control line and I think you'll see these two cars get together bit of a scrap and then the motor on tech CTR will use that decided a basic run he's tricky capri-sun here we go he chose it he's had it - that was his second no that's just simply say ok ok I thought you 2nd delicious beverage now in the first stint rollicking Torelli lost a load of time going through gt300 traffic that cost him the lead he's approaching the gaggle of the leading pack in gt300 again will you've learned from his mistake it's not a question of learning from your mistake you know he's been doing this an awfully long time he's an extremely gifted pilot you just have to be in the right place at the right time and sometimes the the traffic falls for you and other times it doesn't and it would be unusual for him to lose it twice in traffic I think he will be driving an exceptionally wide Nissan GTR in about four laps time if Heikki has the run of the traffic anders blows that to almost two second gap new fastest lap from Yamamoto Jenson Button steamer a 130 point five and that's after just the two-tire stops they obviously needed those fronts don't rule out the raper again [Music] right brain yeah Benson John don't know and here's the Zen sumo battling with another car they just really want to finish that in third don't know it's desperate to get third position it like some sort of black side display team they see we're gonna bang into each other that'll be a bit moral and again I'm gonna drive you into the back of the it's all Lexus here there's gt300 Lexus there that's the gt3 Lakes Garcia three from great sounds they come past the piers and there we see the same car running over those marbles that I was talking about a moment ago slightly dirty attires can he hold the liner term just about that he's good to be vulnerable as they make their breath towards the left at coca-cola corner here now he's still leads they come round into turn four and then into the long 100 our corner here this long never-ending right-hander 30 laps to go no pit stops expected from the frontrunners now at suny miku maybe i haven't checked her pit stops leading GT 300 in the zero Mercedes just have a quick look at a moment to see if she has got two stops on the board we certainly didn't see her coming to the pits for a second time no she only took two tires of the first stop as well so that would be probably do a full service of the next pit stop ronique in Torelli the mission lines have come in on the metal or tech GTR fastest at 130 point four six oh they are on a mission that's three seconds qualifying pace but I think there's a lot of times going to come tumbling down now that's the there you go confirmation had seen Oh Miku hasn't stopped modulo NSA's hasn't stopped levels preventive the Benita Lamborghini has just thoughts as I said its name and the its Lumiere Aldi has also not thought but all of the serious one at the locus of borer hasn't stopped but that strategy is not playing out because it is it was last bit in was 44 but it's down in a level position with its slow driver they really should be stopping to put the fast guy back in by now and that strategy is not working out for them there is Hatsune Miku expected to come and visit mechanics got this lab snow snake the drives left as they make their way down the front strength member most 1500 meters long this front straight gives the drivers real chance to breathe and relax takagi in the on the road second-place gt300 car but he will be inheriting the lead when hatsune amico makes their stop you know this is all setting up to an absolutely sensational finish this race because we know those Michelin tires only motel or tech GTR start to fade towards the end of the stint we know the Lexus is strong at the end of the spin there's not a big gap between them and this is gonna be a grandstand finish I suspect you know on paper 500 kilometers could be quite a long time you think three hours for motor racing that's gonna be a fairly lengthy affair rubbish it's just flown by like the final of the Formula Ford Festival everywhere we've looked there's been action has been strategy it's a superb and you know a fabulous grid of cars around a fabulous venue driven by a gifted group of drivers being engineered by some fantastically knowledgeable team personalities it's just a winning winning flavor key factor in the race right there the date the Sun is falling in the sky air temperature is down to 19 degrees track temp 2025 degrees and that's gonna have a massive effect effect on the time for today now there are different compounds of tire within each tire manufacturers range that we don't get that tire compound beta until after the race but they have like a soft media of super soft but that's per manufacturer so the number of different tires that each manufacturer can picture is 5500 ikkyu larly is huge but what tires are on that car right now and have they taken in to account the weather conditions the fact the track is cooling it's significantly now yeah you can see the Sun beginning to set now first glimmers of to highlight Sun getting much lower in the sky and shadows becoming much longer the flames more prominent on exhausts on the miss and they're just underneath the motor logo on the right hand door you can see that all becoming more obvious as the Sun begins to set the cameras making it look a lot lighter than actually ISM yeah here we are 28 to go get those guys waving the flags their arms get types they do that for the full race every time then this eye comes apart the Nismo flags are waived do they not do like a split strategy and like when they change drivers they change waivers sure I mean they did come to the mornin do it through the year the mom but that was I think they might be back to do it for the college girl sure there we go hit like about sticker sticker on the only really annoys me hit like hit hit subscribe send me to Japan and I will go and interview the flag wavers I did know I flew into Japanese as I fell after I've been there hashtag you can once even watch the elsewhere and there's my TV so I hit like and subscribe and we'll bring you more of the news booth the Nismo shout is in the news mode or free coverage from last year as early which is well worth watching after this yeah some of the cars that do that the Heritage parades iconic vehicles and yeah well worth watching on the news mo YouTube channel there's Kevin Coval Islands husband [Music] better known as Mikey in second position in the 39 car now this is this is a waiting game now look that that's fairly consistent lap times they got a gt300 in the middle of there but insisted lap times he's driving at the pace he needs to driver this is going to be about the time performance at the end of the race the gap between the first and second disengages about 3-4 seconds it was before the gap will change and ebb and flow with the gt300 traffic they're out traveling moment as I say he gets into the back of traffic that's the top 10 gt300 cards there's the max 5 car number 5 which has two numbers on the side it has its own number and then a the regulatory official number plate what I think you also think Oh the interviews come in Japanese which is gonna be very it's okay as you know I speak monthly Japanese show Tsuboi commonly finished on a PT test was there it did its target if so how do they probably Kaiser so you know I come on a second so so is a key this thought okay we said you left the present for make sure that if victory comes their way do i or side by I've done this good or is it traditional on a few Japanese bank holidays to leave a gift in someone else's it's looking very competitive boy is the new star I give the Lexus driver line a run-up in the NFP one else like that how you'd expect so you've seen across there try the roster I'm sure he's just explaining the other hoping to be in the right place at the right time with the right tire in about half an hour's time yeah it's a nice drive he said to moisturize thank you very much was the end of it that gap has gone out and the it will do it will do its four point eight seconds and it's holding around to that position it's fluctuating a little bit with the traffic there in Nissan leadside two seconds later Toyota the DeKalb Sonic GT arctor said position making its way gradually through the field I think yeah monitor is back behind the wheel of that car yes you would expect so they've made their second stop away from our cameras the 64 Epson NSX never got back going I actually their friends will hold a clutch clutch problem could have been well was permanent had seen a Miku still to make it stop quite a big gap to second position not enough to retain the lead though after she finally comes in and gets a quick to some rubber and committed fuel as well and a good gaggle of gt300 cars now between ronique in tireli lead in the field and Heikki Kovalainen in plead to a couple of seconds back so a little bit of time for kin to rally to try and stretch that gap to thee who knows it's not gonna be like that forever the car was disappoint me a little bit in terms of their strategy is the Lotus Evora they were very competitive early on but I think they left the slower driver out a little bit too long though he is the guy who pays the bills the Toyota market still struggling for performance disappointing news bite site muscle car first time it's wonderfully ugly but wonderfully called s Hatsune Miku with looking very excited and there she's thinking no one better nob Taniguchi fantastic article on his career as a racing driver if you haven't heard of no chemical cheek he started his career as an illegal drifter a year after you've googled Alan Partridge as about 15 minutes like Anna came on the air on the Internet do the same for knob Taniguchi and when you say racing driver yeah he's just been a driver he's driven everything and yeah an amazing CV and an amazing story behind his career fantastic our larger icon actually did a very good after about ncptt world's worth checking that out I think last year but partly I'll probably placed a link in the chat but I could not kill tweets in any way they go I'll Jack it make you work for it the wet sportcar they'll be anonymous this race has been so strong and is going very slowly because after 8400 is there is another path yeah it's on the left side of the car that's do you know what these left area punctures where where does your left rear go on a regular basis at your circle off the track on to where the astroturf once was exactly and I think that's causing problems there because those tires are beginning to get it's the little lip on the inside of the on the inside or the other on the outside of the curve from the race track if you like when they come back on it also tire doesn't the rear and we've seen what this is it's off third or fourth left rear yeah there's a there is a pattern appearing a manufacturer either it's been across the board the lift the lift area is quite loaded huger Speedway anyway is a nature of the track said a master of understatement quite alone yes particularly in that final corner effector in the condition it's in could that be the crucial factor in this race the wets book team making the most of it and they've lost a little bit of pace on the end lap using this slightly unexpected pitstop to do that final full service soak drivers and tires and of course we didn't talk about it's been very straight there's a pit crew in the way they kind of wonder where he was going at that moment he said opening it do it still do a pit stop from this car what has most popular cars amongst this my TV viewers is the Hatsune Miku Mercedes Hatsune Miku is a Vocaloid there goes the race leader 2 2 2 leaders leaders of both classes there to go at any week who is a vote place and that style of paint job is called etosha we painfully embarrassing car particularly its particular trend in a key Akihabara Akiba as it's sometimes called and you see these cars going around for these sort of paint jobs full of cuddly toys yeah very just super super traditionally couldn't I remember seeing one in downtown Tokyo for the first time it's amazing just gobsmacked but there were used to be a few more testicles in zipper Treaty moment Hatsune Miku is the only etosha guard like to see a Natasha gt500 can you imagine fans support as well for that so formula e is the newness time for Mariko if that had a tush delivery day ago in his mo management its astra formulary please you just can't imagine that that would bring legendary fan support to a burgeoning championship that would just bring huge support the formulary program if they did that as an amazing idea I remember the Mooncraft livery liveried Evangelion car I got remember the full names there was a collection of numbers and digits but it was converted Riley Daytona Prototype yeah the moon crafts Eden which is I still never got to the bottom if a Japanese speaker it Ashida violent as in the color or violent lightning I'm not sure if the translation it made one of those two things there's racing miku you know we've got a lot of hurt she's on camera a lot there is but when our Mick is right on the tail of the 39 and I think they just passed him you know just awful celery following in the hope of making a pit stop on yeah and of course the it's the gt300 leader but when they do make the change takagi here will be inheriting that that lead well what miko is desperately trying to do is keep open up the gap to this car using its light beep basic running lights right on fuel and then it can run lighter on fuel in the second the final static detection yeah wizard rates less tire work and they're not going to take a whole tank fuel for the remaining kind of 20 laps fueling the car so they're not going to have the fuel hose in for the full duration it will be a quick stop for the Miku so yeah strategy coming in you can flag almost all the Seabury boys have cheered up clearly assignment for that car at fuji speedway sort of a home race for super as well as lets us see who has a and here finally is the miku it's heading in a full set of boots fuel and a new driver what will be very interesting to see is if the fuel man gets a tap on the shoulder it's normally the fuel man and push in his hose and he'll wait for fuel to come out of the overflow but because he's only fueling many two-thirds and a tank or just over half a tank you will get a tap on the shoulder a particular time point to pull the hose out early that would make a great Nismo TVB video actually how to do a fuel stop I'd really like to make that just as perfect so I don't actually know how much how you know I'd like to do for me a new uniform stuff on a GT 500 yellow but they wouldn't let us do it in the race but we could do a practice if they have the personnel I reckon the fuel man will have a man over his shoulder to give them a look attack they don't the fuel might all be looking too if it's where three Dow is that the feel wait on the brick or is it on the actual it's the flow rate from yoke now let's watch him what's he looking at [Music] what's the feel man on the rear of Danny's looking up looking around that ward [Music] we don't see him [Music] quite a long way you by the other times that it gives him a quicker pitstop nice to start with collapse let's see where Miku beats back in thirty four point one the gap was 38 seconds so they should feed in a bowel both I think cold tires yeah they're not going to be a millionaire's to Prius BMW would have gone there goes the Prius in fingers in second now whereas if that Clark ID card there's the there's the Mercedes we were looking for no that's that's not the Mercedes it's the wrong Mercedes a Mercedes with someone and there's to gain a car coming up behind it so I think Nick who may have fed back into position the game in tonight's cars going to be on her case straightaway on hot tires I don't think she's going to be able to resist and it sounds GTR after we can yeah yeah they're on the outside of turn-turn easy figuring well I was gonna say easier hironaka but just around the outside andreas my friend first left well it used to be a la wth often but I think he's grown up and become a employed person now rather the student we're saying on the if I really just do it by time where you can do because you know the fuel rate you know the fuel flow rate it could be a liter per second it could be a litre and a half per second whatever it might be but yet the the fuel flow rate varies from championship the championship so Miku didn't do all four times [Music] so they changed yes very clever strategy must mean weird handling lifts only as a bit indica isn't it now here's the race leader takagi in the 55 BMW any I'm not sure what the gap is like any professional squad they've made something really really difficult look really really easy this year and they've just been conspicuous by their absence and have kept their nose clean and to any other cliche that you want to come out with they've really done the job well I'm sure that we delighted he looks at that's his happy face being on assured they get there is the car I've believed to be in second position another 31 Toyota Prius that can't can still throw a surprise as a race guys I don't go here here arty very competent driver indeed the car is quick as you can all tell looks like a mini GT 360 500 if the old-school back when GT 500 was not the carbon monocoque series it is today there's one of the current GT 500 the thing that I like about the Prius and the BRZ to a certain extent is you can still see their Road car routes yeah they still look like the road car there's the man who designs the Prius kanessa and also the mr2 before it's a DMR - and the Axio Corolla and actually the AXA corolla shared its chassis with this Toyota Prius it's interesting getting the shots the gas coming through that final sector they're coming through the clipping point of sort of turn 1450 the sun shining directly into their eyes before the Sun is now over their left shoulder as it sets down behind the active volcano 24 seconds in it in Super Duty it's never in the bag but the art of BMW looks like it's got it in the bag the question will be who is going to be third I think and it is Miku who will be coming up to will be up to speed by now but will she be able to get back on terms with the gain at an x GT R that was a fantastic light battle that we've just because it's been saying much better than going on through the field we didn't really keep up without no no no I found myself looking on the front straight therefore the visual gap between our overall race leader and Heikki Kovalainen in second and yeah that gap has still gone out to a little bit more and kinter le has got the s craft GTR in the mix in between him as well which will certainly aid his course perhaps well here we go Al Jarreau Connells just I don't know where he just finds these records plucks them out of the record book it literally if Takagi holds on and gets the win here in 2300 he'll be the 19th of his gt300 career and it will be the all-time career record breaking the record he shares currently with mori Anita I like RJ a lot but it does need to get out lightly no because he keeps on sending us the deep tail so it's great thank you RJ information thank you very much and great to know the importance of the emotion with the work probably going to see on the podium perhaps you know when you see a driver looking absolutely delighted you'll you'll know why now there's Miku and she has dropped back a long way now from the gain of tonight's car and here is the battle for wharf it's the way Cosell c500 James Rossiter back in the behind the wheel and he's closed up significantly I think he wants forth and we've seen him do this before get forth mince disappear from the road and get further as well yeah he's he has got the body language of a man on the move it's closing down that way Cusco he asked a mountain close enough for a toe we will be in the dirty air which will be helping his straight-line speed but equally the way Coast car will have picked up a big toe from the gainer tan X GTR there Michael C was asking about the construction of the wishbones I think in the right on the Prius and the Jeff gt300 cars it's bespoke racing suspension in fact all of these cars are pretty much his boat racing Spencer don't think there's very much Road car suspension left in a gt3 either I mean that's all the cars that I was looking back in looking at and my father back the other day were just bespoke - bone simon Heintzman is asking it's the Prius gt3 homologated no because it's not a gt3 car it's a GT 300 dole so it can race only in a series that runs the gt300 regulations gt3 t3 is part of gt300 but not all of it's a shame because I think the particularly the the BRZ and the gt86 s would complement a grid of T for example really nicely mid-engine lmp1 engine rear-wheel drive prius versus well great gt2 spielen I mean everybody income people come from all over the world just to see that racing in England all in Japanese as well but it's the boss so doesn't it I know Rob insanity Matsubara scattered all that's how we might booted up there I didn't get off one thing he will be talking about is the fact that if you go Matsuda wins this race he still will be his 20th career gt500 win which is another record thank you all my thought is seconded amok he said he dodged O'Connell told him that glory you know and he needs to get you money myself they are very looking quite good and confident down it with no violence they don't want to don't wanna jinx it oh yeah but they don't want to be a puncture hazard kerb on the exit of turn 16 that for certain you know a few laps ago I said oh there's two leaders in both classes together well there are again two leaders in both classes gt300 leader alongside gt500 I've cut the debris side of the circuit now I'll go once you know point so everything is working well everyone is working well on the gt-r 5500 yeah you back in your box as well never say things like that with 14 laps to go yet this is still quite a long way when the cars have done and the gap is still not huge I mean it's a pump it's comfortable here and they're still coming through these groups of traffic yeah all it takes is for you to be pushed once we saw and you're in big trouble we still went to the epsilon remit so you could talk about the race so they go ten second gap it's slowly epic out but we know that Michelin tires got off it was in this thin so whoever may be cooling temperatures maybe keep it going so you get that so there is a master of this track though I'm just really really looking forward to this is almost payback for the last price you know Pinta rally in the car pushing hard driving away in the front which is what we should but it does show you that the updates 20:18 issun GTR gt500 have been very effective because the cars the cars play super quick yes there was a deficit certainly last season to the Lexus LC 500 and this Bo's engineers in Yokohama and clearly caught up to that and they are really on the pace now and actually if it hadn't been for that rocks still thing wrong penalty in Okayama I think this car will be leading which bullet should be leading the championship already if not by the end of today we were talking about the can of ongoing development session by session lap by lap of these cars almost even in pre-season testing era Fuji on the 25th of March Lexus was still first second and third so Lexus still held an advantage up to six weeks ago terrible driving from the Mercedes have been Koval idea completely could completely uncited they're wiped out from the race from second let's see that again no what I want to replay about is the directors [Music] yeah that could have been huge in that one that was a case of the gt300 cars focusing on where the gt500 car had gone but not where they were both going but a lovely lovely example of case of how it could all go wrong in a in a blink of an eye exactly well I think we have to think back to to go with that last lap wheels if you haven't watched the Sugo race on this my TV from last year make sure you do tune into it I'll have a look at it it's still there available live on and is my Colton is messy but we've got another we've got another bit of debris hanging on those in Surrey regards this seems to be a new thing Super Duty bits of stuff sticking just gt500 but quite see what it is it's not quite as dramatic as last last though a few weeks ago ours raising a relatively small and most of all it's not covering any cooling business yet Felix Rosenquist reading a needle there number six wake up Scott but yeah if you look at the Sugo race which you can find elsewhere on this my TV from the last year the final few laps I think it was so good it was yeah with the battle for the lead final laugh his wheels wheel off track in the mud banging doors yeah and they just start to rains yeah or topless it was a topless yeah you're right that is really really a great race and this race has been first through 500k race bonkers has you know a bit of a breather no there's been literally one or two moments to breathe and this has been won and again I find myself looking and it's like 12 laps to go 12 laps yeah 500k race have flown by there is is our son in the number eight white to where we're watching it but they go why are we watching the series sponsor in this little loan between the action that's a very good point mr. orange jacket purposes can be watched a bit more my car please the Ray brig NSX their strategy I don't think he's gonna pay off 30 seconds go find his hour here two seconds isn't a lot in Super GT but again if telexes as I'm going left to the Honda wanted to go left as well you work out between but I'm gonna get a dishonest pause at the moment have podiums in both glasses yeah and you back in your box don't say things like that curse of the commentator and running eight position very definitely for the sponsors attention she talked a little bit about mr. orange jacket an auto budget violin I think I'm looking forward to saying it I find myself missing him in between rounds of Super GT he's one of the things that I look forward to and I find myself thinking I'm one of what they yeah there is always a special present when it would be very interesting to see what I switch between golden week a question came in are they blown diffusers in gt500 answer is no they if you look at where the exhausts on particularly they miss an exit the vehicle half wave the driver's door I suppose on the do it Lotus though yep trophy toast Jennsen buttons teammates yamamoto circulating around in night as we were talking about a moment ago and perhaps their thirty kilos of success ballast or white handicap from the hill to one of them no who's that the gt500 nsx first another sixty muted girl whose Kovalainen for a second risk glimpse that wine and rattle he's prompted from sakura so he managed that let it up Sherazi just know that seats of anybody around there left career it looks like left rear again let's have a look comes around Hideki Mutoh at the wheel former IndyCar driver nothing to see he's certainly struggling with something sober look I still can't quite stop right really loose Oh 1:55 hope something's gone round there as we watched it I heard it ahead pal spinning doesn't see it and it's that trouble for well controller as he just is not no assurance insurance really pictured as a garage as his teammate dr. slaw yeah he did look to be going slow right and we did here a spin and I mentioned different sounds come to start at tri-c another gt300 car to giveth relative speed on him select uber very very consistent lap times but seems to be well too cocky there just conducts himself yeah no no great difference that Lamborghini is them it's just that moment is is that worries it simply GT just has this thing in the last few laps something you know we're with what we're all now listening for things listening for misfires looking for punctures it's the inevitable what if what if what if ten laps to go in this 500 kilometer race here at fuji speedway you're live on and miss my TV don't forget to hit like and subscribe super GT is of course live and exclusive on news my TV we love it and right rich scenes they're good look left things left changeable for so 2004 tires 1116 he's out of contention never really found out what happened get a replay of that so the 16 car hadn't sunk to appointment was it driver induced arrival ingest would simply won't find out and the 23 car motel or tech GTR [Music] it's ticking the laps off and his last lap black 100 the lap time previous book you know the e just has to be super careful going past the gt300 traffic I see don't know use it as much as they exit kerb they're up to sixteen as he dares as we hand the lap counter has gone to tend to go it's just going to click down to nine laps to go and it is going to be interesting finale we haven't seen that lap time degradation we sort of expected on those Michelin tires on the boat'll or tech GTR know maybe they've changed and we will slightly softer coming pound for this final stint well I wonder if they have because the gaps getting bigger not smaller it's kind of this point I expected the gaps is kind of compressed occurs between the dent so far and as we've seen every of us thin James Rossiter as expected is still chasing down before position I've seen the gap between Hatsune Miku in the gain of tonight's GTR but they are still like no third and fourth they were literally door handle - door handle few laps ago you have to expect James Russell to put to push particularly hard as a part-time driver to the series to get on the podium would be a terrific result there is he's on the flash button that they on the Lexus to the Bentley trying to just make the driver aware that he's coming through and he's in a hurry andreas arcanist just asked me what my opinion on ty competition is particularly treaty from 300 I think also to tender the competition are essential in motor racing that's what this point is yep and it is it's one of the ingredients that makes Super GT it brings er it brings huge performance to two cars it then it might be a it might be a question for Ronnie Kinser le at the end sort of what gave you the advantage in the last days well we changed herself to compound the tire II would simply be the cunning tire change that is giving him this potentially potentially touchwood race winning performance we normally get that in the post race loads from each his mother gets sent out usually I wouldn't Tuesday wouldn't stay and find out that hailing that easily appears and one of the Japanese magazines and have a stint and sector analysis for every single racing huge detail for these races and watching only compost in Japanese which is something of a shame but we still get that information eventually James Rossiter bleep blitzing Shima under some real pressure here for fourth position he's seen him coming he's really at the radio call saying yeah that's Rossiter in the car as that here hironaka but in a very good job on therefore the number eleven it would be the first podium before the new Nissan GTR gt3 in at Super GT by certainly not another series and si Connor asked it watched it have reached fine yeah you'll get this to other times the left there then averaged left a gap between gt500 and gt300 work that one out for now it's significant it's about eight or nine seconds so imagine the gt3 this gt3 Cup remember it's a direwolf formula so it makes these gt3 cars very very fast and it's about eight seconds eight seconds difference between them so that gives you an idea how much faster 2500 car is and a gt3 gt3 cars park quickly yeah and this is a this is your standard can a three mile four and a half kilometer Grand Prix circuit so eight seconds over a four and a half five kilometre lap here when we had WEC racing on this track beep GTE Pro cars looking current specific previous generation all and that was a big mistake from Ashima Rossiter is gonna get the tone now right he won't be able to they won't need two invitations but yeah the WEC GT Pro cars the works cars was almost exactly the same pace as the gt300 since then WEC throws got more exciting regulations with the GT some of the new models coming into that series but it does to show you how fast the GT 500 are how good they sound over that's the one here the off throttle popping and banging this sounds amazing so here we go into the left-hander here at coca-cola Rossiter looking really aggressive he'll be looking to keep it nice and tight not running to that dirty debris on the outside of the 100 our corner here that's nice and neat into the hairpin it turns six Rossiter just runs a little bit whiny ran onto the exit big time last lap just uses a more manageable chunk now so rising up through turn eight coming into the super tight right-hander it turned ten Henrik jack-jack means Jacquie's jackie-o Henrik has just observe that the way Koster is moving all over the track under braking what would school start Rob let me know is he struggling is that the tires or is it is it just the driver thing there was there's a little bit of sort of tire movement so the car moves on the face of the rubber in the braking area I remember talking about the amount of dust coming off the Latsis as well at this time last year and then yeah the cars will always move just just a little bit but they obviously it now yeah you have to think that Oshima he will be just having an awareness of where James Rossiter isn't looking to close him off a bit big puff of smoke in the middle of the street from the a you Tom Scavo yeah not have lot to wail because he's in the middle of his raid he locked the villa was it the wake it was it was the wake up car had the massive Locker / Z last year's final stinking station Porsches well now yeah these faithfully they've had some good results in other series recently Bert's Mishima trying to get away from Rossiter basically and that's gonna help round the outside of turn 10 there and Rossiter having to be a hell of a player really aggressive down the inside of the hairpin James Ross is an aggressive member hoods [Music] in vain we trust is asked what the vet weight difference is between a gt500 and gt300 are pathetic RJ O'Connell tha's I have another dental Rick you put regulations in front of me but it's not huge actually the difference in weight I don't think I think gt3 cars are about twelve of kilos or nothing 5500 are about 1,100 yeah is that it's the difference in power in an aerodynamic grip that makes the difference and the gt500 cars 600 plus and the gt300 canna for 5,500 was another questions come in I didn't see who it was asked me can you play you gt300 gt500 in computer games yes you can older versions of Gran Turismo F gt500 and gt300 cars in and there is a dedicated Super GT game I think on a Sega console not being up to speed on the latest computer games almost afraid I can't advise you I'm sure many of you in the chat cannot talk about that I think that you can't get the new Nissan GTR gt3 and anything can you I think any games now the latest has finally given up the ghosts there's only made one stop I thing no this cartoon okay it's nothing if anybody was I wonder if he's just run out feel he's coming in he's posting in and there's nothing clearly wrong with a cup let's see do they just whack some fuel in it and send it or are they going to take it a bit more serious I think he's coasting he doesn't get his pick Gary chuckles run out field yes parked up yeah he's out I guess is he damaged on a lacy we certainly didn't see them making their second stop if we know four laps to go Nissan leads GT 500 BMW leads gt300 it's the motor or tech GTR the Nismo car designed built and run of yokohama sands Technical Center his base Technical Centre other brilliant performance this afternoon from the motel or tech car we we saw them showing potentially race winning form well there was a moment there for Ron akin to really going possible in the gain italics GTRs that's not the car that is in the 11 car that is in third position in gt300 that's the second car for that team but that was i jeff layman wasn't it just stalled for a moment that was a wiggle of a steering wheel from a racing driver he thought perhaps there was something wrong yeah or was there a little bit of well this gt300 driver really isn't looking in his mirrors is he in that Lexus okay so I think the Mitchell ins might just be about past their best now yeah for to go through L circle laps to go yeah I'm not panicking yet [Music] Romantica mercedes-amg battle gambler together because to be fighting for full race pretty much yeah there was a bit of peace and quiet during sort of a pit stop overlaps but yeah they they have been competing who nose to tail for a good conclusion maybe gummies just a really big fan of passing Yumiko just likes blowing their nose I think it was the battle was the other way around only one thing healing from behind and the bigger the height as as we suspected resistance absolutely command of that last pit stop cycle into p4 which is they came out in p3 but got the the gain italics car was on hot tires and yeah late well I was go so easy work of her but didn't well there was a quite a lot door handling we didn't get a replay of it was a really quiet long a overtaking maneuver in the end yeah there's Jade Rossiter hunting down the way Coast Guard the Leon card hunting down the attorney Mike who is he gonna get it done round the outside that was deep and I've hundreds in the wrong Fanny moved from the black Leon livery Mercedes just to tuck in behind Rossiter they are gonna beat that banging doors quite yes cutting into the left-hander at coca-cola here the way cos castor leads Rossiter in the living Yates got to move done by them I think Micah's tires have faded they pushed a bit to that I think that too that's ty strategy doesn't worked out for the me cooker no now fortunately it is going away I'm Noddin for a little bit concert it was a bit tire up a little bit I rememeber they sneak in there past the Mika car as well pumping down oh there you go he's move his he hasn't they think Matt will contract Nick Cassidy because while they do love battling there's a fantastic battle if you love watching good motor racing good fair battles the Thai Super GT race from last year if in the slightly the trying the Welsh conditions let's create a yes the battle team Nick Cassidy and Yan Martin were at the start of the race was absolutely epic fortunately refueling problem lost their Boston spoiled the battle but it was a fantastic battle to me that was yeah strongest performance in gt500 all and a mistake from Oshima's let Rossiter through only lock to right front wheel as he was breaking for the final corner turned 16 just ran a little bit a little bit wide and he's gifted Rossi to that position and the tries to break the toe fails [Music] thus we wage they break the toy when you've got there's an aerodynamic effect sometimes called it drafting in NASCAR but you see the drought you saw the rusted moving around he was trying to get the get the air off the front of the way course got to stop him having a run back into the first girl main digger then again the way cust car out of the hole in the air be a human we saw such a lot of brake dust there from 300 kilometers an hour two laps to go it's got me super quickly this races to be a brilliant 500 kilometers of Fuji Speedway hey it's been great to have James Rossiter back as well don't forget to give us likes plus all of the things you love Nismo on because we could bring you so much more wonderful in this move action there's so much to learn and Marlboros made lives over yeah he's got but that's that's gonna be bragging rights back in ago when he gets home tonight [Music] yeah and getting ahead of Hiroko Hiroko is not having it I thought yeah and I left the door just open just a fraction error and hirokawa keeping him honest from a really not very good starting position on the grid after see if is fantastic for the blue car very good really good and good for you and confidence as well kin Torelli then starts his final lap Sam yeah and it looks like it is you never quite know don't want to curse the commentator but they're over there once again the two class leaders running side by side it's been a ferry for the number 23 apart from losing the leads in the opening stink due to traffic but the news mate even general it's been a completely in Toyotas backyard I know that tastes good doesn't it I know right really good suger mansueta looking pensive but I think he's gonna look very happy in a minute there you go the Mishler engineer closing his clipboard just writing up his final couple of lines of notes as Ken Torelli comes through behind that Bentley and yeah I think a really really good tire strategy is well given kin Torelli but we hope will be a famous and welcome victory for the car that was so unfairly yeah and I think this will fit us it's gonna have a big effect on the championship points I haven't calculated those out yet because there's a graphic we'll do that at the end of the race but coming round to win the 500 kilometer race in golden week here at fuji speedway is ronique in tireli and CEO Matsuda in the motel or Tech Nissan gt-r Nismo takes the victory Matsuda takes the record brilliant coming across the line takes the gt300 laurels the part of BMW m6 and there we see the gap two cars back from the party car Heikki Kovalainen in the den so Lexus LC 500 takes the runner-up position pushed hard but didn't manage to close the gap down to ronique in tireli who for me I think so I know he spent yeah he hasn't been at the forefront of every battle but I think he deserves a II he tried so hard at the opening round I think he's edged their head of changed us at Buffy yeah Mon Umbra must be put on it absolutely sterling performance to get that and also Thank You Sasaki to drag that yar up from basically the back of the grid to see gain at an axe taking the final podium position as well in their Nissan GTR of the gt3 variety to bring home the the laurels in gt300 first podium in Japan for the new specific in super juicy rubber for the new specification Nissan and GTR gt3 is obviously had wins in super tight coupe the other insurance racing series in Japan going on very good really good and well that's gonna be some happy and there's my people I think this does go some way to making up for the unfairness I think if that start penalty in round one I know Ronnie can turelli's accepted I've looked at Mike didn't think that if you penalized the 23 you have to penalize and I clean as well I think so you know and they didn't takagi and walking short takagi also breaking records the most gt300 wins ever Maberley he'll be delighted absolutely delighted and great for Shaun really good for a young British professional racing driver to be cutting his teeth out there and you'd expect Shaun to be looking at the drive perhaps in GT 500 next year so he'll be posting his CBS off to the manufacturers in GT 500 there's an oversubscribed there's a list of drivers waiting to get into GT 500 there's really good drivers out there I mean the black people Dirani if he drives the Nissan car in employed races great success I mean I know he's I've seen him in the GT super GT paddock talking to various people whether he's gonna have a drive out there I don't know but he's certainly interested in Japanese racing there'd be great to see drivers like him I think even drives like mix Schumacher have been evaluating he drives out in Japan as well you've got to look previous generations of drivers of including Michael Schumacher went to Japan cut their teeth and [Music] yet developed their skills then returned successfully to European racing or to North American Racing now we've seen it with stuffing van Doorn and Pierre gastly now I mean a stint out in Japan is going to be is very good for a driver's career and in GT racing you're seeing drivers from Japan now you know coming to the serious like that WC and LeMond we can get some bonus I'm a little burnout which is unusual for super GT Oh wrong direction of the pit road that's right yeah people remember Eddie Irvine's arrival in Formula One from Japanese formula 3000 as it was back then you know when he was just came into form along with such impact and confidence now what happens now if you've not watched Super Duty before what happened is the the the winning cars will all go to their winning car positions just like in Formula One but rather than the drivers all going up to the podiums for interviews the interviews happen as soon as they get out of the cars all of the interviews me in Japanese apart from some walking show who will do it in English so we'll try and get you the best information than the Japanese they're Suki a Matsuda looking very happy understandably and we will try and get you as much information from those guys as possible then the guys will go up onto the podium which is different it's special yeah it's a different experience to any other race series I think the podium to Super GT it just as good as the world in terms of comparing number racing as good as the racing there you go first position Nissan Motel or tech GTR and victory in the 500 kilometers of Fuji Speedway Golden Week golden day there's gonna be a hell of a celebration tonight in Yokohama Ronnie Clinton really gets out waits for Zucco Matsuda he is happy with that car there you go that says it already doesn't it particularly that final stint was brilliant yeah a part of the side wall of the race winning Michelin he's delighted and relieved and yeah and smiles all around the extremely orange BMW can't really definitely how orange that car is you can't really doesn't really come across on screen but the fact it's sort of pixelating some of the digital broadcasts we receive a shows you how orange it is yeah it boosts the orange to the maximum it's like one of those old if you're in England it was like one of the evening standards of diner of ban orange if you're in America I don't know what an equivalent or interval an orange highlighter pen perhaps well yet very happy so ambient sounds throughout the drivers have a chat we've enthusiastic girl and super GT official pit lane reporters will sharp for the English comments and probably try and glean something from the Japanese comments great I took corner we still get your comments and we still talking to you in chats thanks so much for the coverage guys you guys made a trace trace our interest first time watching for Chris O'Connor super GT it's 4:40 a.m. and we kept you up that so worth it thank you very much Chris oka on a 4:40 a.m. where are you then it's mid-atlantic Ascension Island yeah it must be North Carolina something like that East Coast so early and thank you Chris it's great to know that you're out there stay tuned in the chat we are we are looking we do get all your comments here in the studios and Sarah Sarah is just keeping you all talking to all happy Star Wars day she says may the fourth the fourth one with you I think it's half a happy golden week and it's a very happy golden week for these two Veronica in Torelli from Italy to go Matsuda not disappointingly from Matsuda which is just up the road from Fuji Speedway there you go that's where you finished first that's right Ronny you're right - terrific performance from those guys and yeah well deserved - flag strategy there Gary Suzuki Dumas finger up should walk in show looking happy about it and they got the facts here so we'll have some interviews in a minute waiting for the broadcast team to get down there I can see their magic wonderful victim here we go is how these interviews will be in javanese to give a super strong speaker to minimize that so stay Michael Drayton chief victory motility code ETA in 300 who's your say so myself all of us run is first I think thank you yeah creation of this day release - iquitos so the cyclist in tow more north is Patricia my Samadhi is live in Japan speaks Japanese fluently another man hits more telling everyone we got them all it's more academia and I just [Music] trotting discuss oh oh no sank Yuto Nagatomo kiddy push stay my session of sympathy especially somebody on the way around a nucleus foot push the only way for such day a so no man not gonna stink taught kimochi much tackler more also know being off the question even no English at that and I was pretty impressive much I was gay no nickname I know total sam dekker no I also equally ma Nikki had he ones where he went about their motto my cappuccinos like that one he was like Kristin and you mean ie what's minibar very good Jacqueline Dicky Thomas you tonight do not done Davis never does talk about they it was and I get about two running I got about to go down there well so they got submitted and he did the job I sucked into this policy so Lisa a little better stop thank you he's our this thank you oh and here comes the gt300 in to use the gt300 another record-breaking victory how does that feel I saw this up don't you discover this Oh diggity they could using the pictures made by I see myself he must be right it's true it was a record right oh hey that was is Thank You Sean so it's amazing I it seems like you guys came to cruise here yeah I got a car and everything really well and yeah we were a gory Suzuki yeah could you not put iodine you're skating around Sumatra so you can kill your tyres much studio rates money you don't know such cool circuit is one thing buddy huh motorcycle - that one was killed hi thank you she says thank you thank you bye bye 1 P 1 there you go in a time and there is Mount Fuji let's have a look at the results of the 500 kilometers of Fuji Speedway motel or tech gt-r Nismo take the victory after 2 hours and 52 minutes of racing ahead of the denying Toyota there's in sumo in third position that a you Tom's LC 500 in fourth another toy are in fifth and it's the way cos car at the blue car been sick right by dicing sake now mr deburr the keeper Tom's LC 507 the author NSX first of wanders down in eighth not very good for them nine position the Rehberg NSX Jenson Button knife from nowhere near the podium this time out tenth position the white cross bought two motile at GTR SATs not able to Yama it gets too messy Geo in 10th 11th occasion NSX GT the 12th position is the word sport advant LC 500 forum engineering Miss Anna GTR in 13th not a great race with JP Oliveira in takahashi there and rounding that field was that non finishing Honda in gt300 of the BMW II took victory ahead of the Toyota Prius number 31 Cokie saga her he herati third position first was his first podium finish for the new specification Nissan GTR gt3 the Gannet annex GTR trimmed by hironaka and Yasuda son Leon Mercedes in fourth patina Miko down in fifth got to be disappointed with that decision Porsche in at 6:00 position and then the Lexus NSX Lamborghini rounding out the top ten the other Prius was down in a 38 to 18th position the number 30 car the next of the the 11th position they very good finish for the number 10 at gain histrionics triple a GTR hoshino and Yoshida getting a VAT to the finish that's a good result for that team really good round all-round 19th position was the mark Toyota markets best result ever for that car Wow a head off the Lotus which never came back out of the pits with six laps down now for the championship points so you go Matt suger Matsuda and Ronnie kin Torelli now top the championship for Nismo with the number 17 car in second Jenson Button third position it with Yamamoto in the gt500 drivers trapped at full position kovalainen and Tsuboi hero right here Okawa Nick Cassidy in fifth Sikh physician is Tachikawa seventh Ashima and Rosenquist 8 sec you cheat and general I think they've got these points wrong because range Rossiter didn't get any points in round 1 they've got these graphics wrong because they haven't got the right drivers there guys the Epson car tells a story on its own takagi and Walkinshaw lead the gt300 championship ahead of Nakayama and Kobayashi with tomorrow's Fuji and it's min Willa in third position hironaka and Yasuda in 11th Nina in part 11 that's the GTR in fourth and there's some people walking around on the track this is the official track walk sessions and nice banners and the fans gets go and watch the podium ceremony but we'll be talking about that presently we should have the information on the next is the next race will be coming up and like I remember where it is now is it because a strange encounter is it Thailand oh here we go here's a little highlights reel of the race from today the Zen sumo car leads off the starting grid of the way coast car in a close pursuit but there is the motor or tech GTR making very quick work of the first of the Lexus cars and then it wouldn't take long before those in some other way really excited in an is McGarry to their round the outside job done for many kids ready next stop is the new race at Suzuka the short distance race we've just directed but we'll find out more about that in a moment but look at this will two-wheeled battling of the Toyotas that was really one of the stories of this race and in the sensory room a car was probably the most like tea lift the cars ronique in Torelli took it was still leading at this point but lost the lead due to gt300 traffic handing over high kick over line and he lost so much time kovalainen took the lead and for a while it looked like the 39 car was going to control the race from the front didn't work out [Applause] the third position but also Sekiguchi driving fantastically and very aggressively making his temporary teammate James Rossiter looking at this aggressive which is a turn up for the books yeah Barbara thank you Sasaki making great progress through the field with a fantastic rate and we just didn't really see much of this political sonic blue car working through it yeah unfortunately the battle sort of slightly further ahead in GT 500 took the attention of directors but yeah they've done a great job just whimpering their car at a relatively low Lee qualifying position well it's a slightly random highlights reelection so the end of the race but there you go I think we're ready for the for the podium and we will find out who comes out first on the podium it could be anyone we're not quite sure the girls are ready to deliver the sparkling soccer what prize I'll get on the podium it's definitely friends at first he just announced it chill walking show and a record breaking the record breaking victory for that that driver line up oh you should decimal you don't go up straight to the top so you walk your way up otherwise although how did once well there you go that will be this later that makes the publication's weren't it they don't look too happy oh they are happy now the a PR team lovely little team of independent garage but technically support from Toyota and two others really impaired drivers as well yeah the engineered car funny little Chris but here we go the gain of 10x team double flagging it yes those days we've only got one new we got in this place Logan here it's gone good showers lost on this most work you've got the news mulching studio come here we have the Nismo flag going will get that again in a minute so yellow caps have dunlop red caps of Bridgestone and who's this man with yellow shirt presenting the trophy nice trophy is a proper trophy you see I like this trophy with the etched Mount Fuji that's a proper that's what trophy should look like like modern trophies are not proper but that's a proper trophy and the etching is really nothing yes [Music] yeah so Kofi is there for the Prius team and they're happy with bows and third position sodium today I'm Chris might inferred the special prize I'm waiting for special prizes well it literally could be anything because sometimes in the past has been a bit of wood or a basket of rice for golf clubs who knows teas made so the next prize coming up it's gonna be the girls were holding it we can't quite see what it is it's a good with your toe back strophe ah here he is ah here's our master of ceremony yes in his orange jacket he's delighted of course yes presenting his trophy to his drivers in his car exactly he's his huge fan he comes to every Super GT race it's great to see him I mean it just you feel at home in gbgt when you see him there and again what a super looking trophy really good now big fan of bits of perspex no I like the etching you got an X perspective well it doesn't work so no no no see what they get next I think it's more of the same isn't it coming up for these special prize what will it be Bobby it's a bit of wood what are you gonna get they were discussing on the podium what we came here to see from this angle it's only about 40 centimeters high I think she's got worse I think she's gonna bring out that bit of wood and deliver it says both pensive they're worried we don't we don't play golf we don't like I'm no good at gotta be a tennis racket who knows it could be a single tennis racket it's a share yeah or to just play against the wall no balls either together that's cheaper balls oh yeah here's the chap with the pink salmon kind of toy it is a bit of words it's the traditional bit of wood for Speedway there is a significance to the piece of wood but I don't know what it is it's quite a nice prize yeah lovely it's something to do the wp kopi watered something and a nice bit of etching as well I know you're a big fan but it's carved if it's worth it Oh what's going on mr. official has come take the wood away no can't keep that Oh photo time photo time put will collect all your bits and pieces up why couldn't they keep the bit would maybe they're worried about sparkling sake spray damage to the wood nobody hasn't quite time to lacquer it yet it could be yes it just needs a coat of creosote that's it Korea so creosote diesel I was talking about creosote the other day you don't smell creosote in the summer anymore Sikkim and you don't know what creosote is your urine you younger than me there you go yes I must have to curiously the bit of wood I'm a bit confused why they couldn't keep the bit of wood and honestly I'm disappointed in the lack of random sportswear you know we by this time last last race we'd had a set of golf clubs out of the blue a canoe my thought was gonna be a canoe are two main kayak yeah two main kya they'll be perfect if one golf club between two which I thought the long sit golf clubs between two which was unfair so they go trophy are doing the post photo they have done a single finger photo with the trophies the game the gaming team have got Gaynor flags and Nismo flakes that's that so yeah just had it confirmed es Korea so it has been bad yes I know curious let's move out I've rethought the cultural week and the art a team we've got our today BMW flexi BMW z4 flag down here just our two flags what are the Prius boys of God answer certain air of expectancy have you noticed it yeah are we expecting we're expecting more but yeah they are i think they've lost the bottles of sparkling sake they're looking around is are they up there we're gonna get them let me silly not doing that okay could be oh here it comes oh it's check it for like bottled really it's gonna be up to noon so they've got that so that's a different brand different brand Takayama yeah don't go too early don't do it yeah don't they're too early don't do custody and this my boys go first does that podium really gonna stink when the gt500 boys get on it yeah Oh pop to school hi Malika Neelix what a peas he should know what he thinks he's done that quite a few times before I mean being a record-breaking driver No some software see that it's all a dream it's gonna really stink on the romantic car back to Tokyo tonight I guess it is called the romance car the timber to Shinjuku but if you miss the last one which I think they probably will destroy late then have to take the really slow train and change oh I forget where it is then you can get the Shinkansen back to Tokyo I'm relieved Sam yes but me it's really slow traits one of those little one carriage tops yeah yeah I'll baby like potty-trained writer well it is a little bit after a race yeah there's a little bit so they'll be sitting there on this little party train [Applause] we still got another whole podium telling me to go guys so stay with us will yell watching the chat all are the block good name for this comment as well carving history right there that's another victory in their log Oh boom absolutely fantastic so lots of racing action coming up on that Nismo TV before the gt500 boys get on the podium we have the supercars there in action at bog bar bar bar but Gallo I've never been able to pronounce that track in Australia they are in action last round out Phillip Island Rick Kelly got a couple of podiums setting in first imps are in action at mid-ohio on Sunday I think that is ESM took victory of seeing us even 12 hours so that should be a great race to watch the racing and it was really good at the moment anyway face and Daytona Prototype I just work in Miller hires back on the calendar it replaces Circuit of the Americas so no Texan session for those cars in WEC by collars car lmp1 is in action for the first time in the super season that's on it's Saturday I believe and then we have confirmation on the screen our next round is at Suzuka here for super GT so that's on the May 19th and 20th so back to a regular weekend slot for our next round he indeed and actually be very very good meanwhile the a lot of an endurance it's sprint to is at brand touch at the moment now they're probably going on truck at the moment whereas in the endurance not planning current series is in action at Silverstone next weekend as ronique into early and CEO Matsuda get shouted out by some enthusiastic fans and they look very happy to be up on top of the podium they've got their Nismo flags out and people taking photos of them you saw there's my cue Kovalainen that's ooh boy Oh they've got their synchronised Sheltie girls nice to see the nice to see them back on the podium they struggled for pace the first round so backed with a bang for round 2 2 game at suitors was gonna have to head off to Thailand quite see where he's racing with KCMG yeah man Asia series I think that is live on it is my TV yeah racing with Florian Strauss of course in Blanc pan-asian floor in another previous GT Academy winner also next week is the European LAN series in a non cup which and this iron will definitely miss a ninja car will definitely never be free anything going around Monza sounds good yep there's any p3 cars to sound good anyways from a Formula One car sounds rubbish go on sir there we go old ones that sound good what 60s one hey go hear those very nice edge two trophies these all go into the trophy cabinet at the factory in Yokohama as you can imagine it's really rather cool yeah very funny little really happy with that yeah yeah you know he should have been stood there at the first race of the year yeah was Rob to a certain extent but now alright Mike is gonna take that home to Catherine's I reckon it's going to head to the trophy cabinet not far from this podium yeah I think so too there doesn't look overly excited about reach the podium after having a busy afternoon they were in the thick of the action wherever we turned Yoshinoya was a suggestion for dinner tonight on the way back from Kitumba do you like a bit - oi oi actually it just seems very good food I have really great meal on side of in a mate with Jojo our producer was producers with us in the Yoshinoya on the way back from Fuji Speedway after Nippon a festival that was a very good II remember the random food they didn't know what it was but it tasted good which is most of Japanese food to us but all very tasty on the side of the expressway back into Tokyo wasn't much of an Express though because there was a massive traffic jam and then Golden Week you can get stuck in huge traffic jams coming out here if we do speed or I got stuck for six hours coming out of here one there he is master of ceremonies in the orange jackets with his very alert he looks pleased positively happy with his own trophy there yet very polite about that look at this one yes during the trophy cabinet just behind a lovely etched one they should be like a record breakers trophies have been broken in both classes by the winners mostly sound sort of certificate yeah it could be like a honour honorary jacket but they hand-in-hand on no scratch cards you only get one scratch scratch card between the two okay so you might get a scratch part now or indeed a tennis racket who knows and the beauty of super GT podium or some more words that you're not allowed to keep certain cuts a man take take it away oh hello hello Oh scratch cards they gave 500 fouls in the end which is probably enough to rack up on the beers for everybody in the team not enough to buy beer for everybody in the Nismo supporters club here in the grandstand opposite right now because there's a lot of empty obviously that's 3384 British pounds were they they don't still use them we're not do it in euros or dollars we use pounds in Cornwall well a few people still do I thought you just uses rocks groats shekels that is 3832 euros for a more relevant yeah four thousand bucks isn't it yeah bobbies about 3,800 bucks four thousand five hundred and eighty four bucks there you go they get their bit of woods now are they gave you out to keep this piece of wood as a whole did they get the wood up high and a lots of the heads it is free he hit million six hundred and ninety five is 36 million 30 six million and some whose becky stalley some very strong currency yeah so they are now is becky millionaires each and I think 10 million Vietnamese of the Vietnamese government currency thanks to that our producers discovered a website to current deputy County conversions well we look at the photos being taken [Applause] well result for Nismo here Fuji Speedway in Golden Week payoff for the whole team in Toyotas back garden I know that's the reason it tastes so good not only were we robbed of the victory last time out and we've done it in Toyotas back garden and moving on to Suzuka back to our more regular 300 kilometer race distance next time out and it's not a very long train right to shin-yokohama it's not short taxi ride them to Nismo HQ so they'll be back depending on the traffic traffic will be terrible to its Golden League Friday's golden weave cup it's gonna be awful but it's it's you know it's quite possible for them to get get back and have a few of a few celebratory snackies yes well that's coming up I'm still living in hope the sportswear be a nice nice golfing jumper all sewing Oh cricket jumpers the super GT prize at Silverstone wouldn't it cricket bat a cricket in fact that would be Silverstone Brens Hatcher says one of those really expensive books in London Freud I think that's something that you've I mean circuit safari because of Nismo and is my TV circuit spire it's now going global I think we need to now podium ceremonies like this she looks very pleased to be handing out those balls these girls have their own Twitter feed I've discovered because they work at Fuji Fuji Speedway for every race so you'll see them at a WEC and everything comet of a major event so I think they appear in fact they appear at Nismo festival as well oh and Ronnie hasn't opened his pot the quick enough but he's going now great victory there spraying the sparkling sake first victory for Nissan in Super GT in 2018 it won't be the last this is the start of a real championship assault this motel or Tech GT are leading the championship winning the race still quite a lot of season to go six races left Suzuka from 19th and 20th of May Thailand Fuji again for the 500-mile race then a non-championship race asuka the gt300 zonie then Sugo the really crazy race in September or topless October and the season comes to end as usual now at the take e in November we'll have the dates flex races and stuff coming up and speeding a little bit but first we'll have the Moody highlights real [Applause] but before leaving the Moody highlights reel we do some flagging there go there flagging he looks happy disappears the guys on top great result I'd like to do looking at the cars oh it's going around there you go the next race Sunday 20th of May the GT round free from Suzuka there's the fans moody highlight-reel coming up very quickly two out of 52 over eight minutes of racing and I didn't feel like that it's gone at all feels like the podium ceremony is it longer than that bake the flakes down there as well here we go the hero musics playing which means we're gonna get the highlights reel in a minute so it's the same tune this isn't it but we're not getting monetary we just get the highlights easy [Music] no sportswear and no highlights real EFI roughing the first world problems wait a minute we'll just see we might get the highlights we're gonna stay with you and here we go the highlights real note moody MIDI shot at Mount Fuji [Music] we're not getting on moving my lights real I'm enjoying it shouting that's what's be new caldera on the side that lump rear yeah oh here we go media knows there is the pinion inner six there was fog there was a nice armor it was more fog and more fog and then the Sun came out and track action started everyone got down to it and we went out of focus the girl had amazing earrings and some wings I have no idea about Fuji Raonic in Torelli and some other drivers thumbs up the Sun came out and the race got underway it was a scrap between Toyota and Nissan the Nissan came out on top the battle continued throughout the race Toyota came back at Nissan Jenson Button had his second race James Rossiter shrugged Subaru expired a driver got angry a man changed some wheels another man winked another man just had a painting in himself on the wall doing the same expression ronique in tireli looks uncertain the sensory Ray driver just stood in the pit like a legend pointed a new legend won it win moved way up the battle continued between two a janitor so you go Matsuda look tired the good smiles wiped off the faces BMW won and then Nissan Motor lore tech GTR took a fantastic victory in the 500 kilometers of Fuji Speedway I've been Sam Collins I've been robbed off thank you very much and join us again in to zucca you

Channel: THE RACE

Views: 667,823

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Id: sSd9MXLM4jw

Length: 239min 6sec (14346 seconds)

Published: Fri May 04 2018

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[u/ETL4nubs]

Absolutely great commentating.

"If you have never seen super GT before...." I have not, and appreciate great explanations on what is going on haha.