Fuji Super GT: ARTA leads Honda front row lockout - Yahoo Sports

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After qualifying second to the best of the Toyota GR Supras three weeks ago during the opening round, Nojiri went one better this time around at the wheel of the #8 Honda NSX-GT with a 1m27.300s laptime at the end of the 10-minute pole shootout.

That was enough to beat Koudai Tsukakoshi in the #17 Real Racing Honda by 0.159s.

However, ARTA only barely qualified for Q2 as Nojiri's teammate Nirei Fukuzumi just scraped through Q1 in eighth place after a Turn 1 lock-up.

Both the #8 and #17 Hondas are benefitting from the weight handicaps this weekend, with ARTA carrying only 6kg of ballast after finishing eighth in the season opener and the Real car carrying none at all after failing to score last time out.

By contrast, all five of the Bridgestone-shod Toyotas are carrying ballast this time around following their lockout of the top-five in the opener.

The lightest of those, the #39 SARD machine, was third-fastest and best of the non-Hondas in the hands of GT500 rookie Sena Sakaguchi, 0.429s off the pace.

Sakaguchi, who is standing in for the absent Heikki Kovalainen at SARD, narrowly outpaced the best of the Nissan GT-Rs, the #12 Impul car of Daiki Sasaki in fourth.

Nissan's flagship Michelin-shod NISMO car was fifth-fastest with Ronnie Quintarelli at the wheel, best of the non-Bridgestone cars and within half a second of pole.

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Super Formula driver Toshiki Oyu fell only 0.108s short in the #55 ARTA Honda NSX GT3 to take second, while Hiroki Katoh made it two 'mother chassis'-based cars in the top three in the #2 Cars Tokai Dream28 Lotus Evora MC, which had topped its Q1 group earlier.

The works R&D Sport Subaru BRZ also topped its Q1 segment but had to settle to fourth ahead of the LEON Mercedes-AMG GT3 that took pole for the Fuji opener three weeks ago.

Carrying 60kg of ballast a result of its victory last time, Saitama Toyopet's all-new GR Supra GT300 qualified a respectable ninth in the 30-car field in the hands of Kohta Kawaai.

GT500 qualifying results:

1	8	ARTA Honda	Japan  Tomoki Nojiri Japan  Nirei Fukuzumi	1m27.991s	1m27.300s
2	17	Real Racing Honda	Japan  Koudai Tsukakoshi Belgium  Bertrand Baguette	1m27.952s	1m27.459s
3	39	SARD Toyota	Japan  Yuichi Nakayama Japan  Sena Sakaguchi	1m27.602s	1m27.729s
4	12	Impul Nissan	Japan  Daiki Sasaki Japan  Kazuki Hiramine	1m27.634s	1m27.795s
5	23	NISMO Nissan	Italy  Ronnie Quintarelli Japan  Tsugio Matsuda	1m27.971s	1m27.799s
6	36	TOM'S Toyota	Japan  Yuhi Sekiguchi France  Sacha Fenestraz	1m27.887s	1m27.863s
7	100	Kunimitsu Honda	Japan  Naoki Yamamoto Japan  Tadasuke Makino	1m27.328s	1m27.987s
8	14	Cerumo Toyota	Japan  Kazuya Oshima Japan  Sho Tsuboi	1m27.959s	1m28.049s
9	16	Mugen Honda	Japan  Hideki Mutoh Japan  Ukyo Sasahara	1m28.089s
10	37	TOM'S Toyota	New Zealand  Nick Cassidy Japan  Ryo Hirakawa	1m28.094s
11	38	Cerumo Toyota	Japan  Hiroaki Ishiura Japan  Yuji Tachikawa	1m28.101s
12	19	NDDP/B-Max Nissan	Japan  Kohei Hirate Japan  Katsumasa Chiyo	1m28.168s
13	64	Nakajima Honda	Japan  Takuya Izawa Japan  Hiroki Otsu	1m28.197s
14	12	Impul Nissan	Japan  Yuji Kunimoto Japan  Ritomo Miyata	1m28.236s
15	24	Kondo Nissan	United Kingdom  Jann Mardenborough Japan  Mitsunori Takaboshi	1m29.073s

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Fuji Super GT: ARTA leads Honda front row lockout - Yahoo Sports

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