Hiroki Otsu had topped Q1 at the wheel of Nakajima's Dunlop-shod #64 Honda NSX-GT with a time of 1m36.368s, and teammate Izawa narrowly bettered that with a 1m36.140s - enough for the top spot by a margin of nearly half a second.
#100 RAYBRIG NSX-GT
Masahide Kamio
Behind the leading trio, Ronnie Quintarelli qualified the championship-contending NISMO Nissan GT-R (carrying 45kg) fourth, and was the last driver to get within a second of Izawa.
#61 SUBARU BRZ R&D SPORT
Masahide Kamio
Despite carrying 51kg of success ballast, Iguchi topped his Q1 group and Yamauchi followed that up with a 1m46.200s effort in Q2 to take Subaru's first pole of the season and narrowing the gap to the head of the standings to 16 points.
Hironobu Yasuda had gone even faster than that in the second Q1 group, setting a 1m46.157s at the wheel of the #11 Gainer Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 (62kg). But teammate Katsuyuki Hiranaka couldn't match that pace, setting a 1m46.433s to slot in third behind the ballast-free #244 Max Racing Lexus RC F of Rintaro Kubo.
In his first SUPER GT qualifying session, ex-Formula 2 racer Nobuharu Matsushita put the #55 ARTA Honda NSX GT3 (57kg) 12th on the grid, 1.4s off the pace.
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The points-leading LEON Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 (77kg) was knocked out in Q1 and will start Sunday's race down in 20th on the grid, one place ahead of the race winner last time out, the Team Hitotsuyama Audi R8 LMS (44kg).
GT500 qualifying results:
| 1 | 64 | Nakajima Honda |
|
1m36.368s | 1m36.140s |
| 2 | 8 |
ARTA Honda |
|
1m36.861s | 1m36.593s |
| 3 | 100 | Kunimitsu Honda |
|
1m36.825s | 1m36.779s |
| 4 | 23 | NISMO Nissan |
|
1m37.233s | 1m36.885s |
| 5 | 19 | Bandoh Toyota |
|
1m36.714s |
1m37.151s |
| 6 | 38 | Cerumo Toyota |
|
1m37.226s |
1m37.173s |
| 7 | 36 | TOM'S Toyota |
|
1m37.271s |
1m37.500s |
| 8 | 3 | NDDP/B-Max Nissan |
|
1m37.078s | 1m46.060s |
| 9 | 14 | Cerumo Toyota |
|
1m37.304s | |
| 10 | 17 | Real Racing Honda |
|
1m37.328s | |
| 11 | 16 | Mugen Honda |
|
1m37.463s | |
| 12 | 39 | SARD Toyota |
|
1m37.564s | |
| 13 | 37 | TOM'S Toyota |
|
1m37.572s | |
| 14 | 12 | Impul Nissan |
|
1m37.615s | |
| 15 | 24 | Kondo Nissan |
|
1m37.860s |
Takuya Izawa
Ronnie Quintarelli
Sacha Fenestraz
Bertrand Baguette
Heikki Kovalainen
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