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Mugen Honda tops first day of Okayama Super GT test - Motorsport.com, Edition: Global

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Oyu, who replaces Hideki Mutoh in the Mugen line-up for his first season in SUPER GT's top class, set his best time of 1m18.121s at the end of the afternoon session, during the 10 minutes of running reserved for the GT500 cars.

That put the carbon-liveried Mugen car, now running on Dunlop tyres, 0.148s up on the best of the Toyota GR Supras, the #37 TOM'S car driven by Sena Sakaguchi - who is replacing the absent Sacha Fenestraz for the weekend.

Reigning champion Naoki Yamamoto put the rebranded Team Kunimitsu Honda third-fastest, 0.183s off the pace, ahead of the #36 TOM'S GR Supra of Yuhi Sekiguchi.

ARTA driver Tomoki Nojiri made it three Hondas in the top five, despite causing the second of two red flags in the afternoon with a late off at the hairpin corner, followed by Bertrand Baguette in the Real Racing NSX-GT.

Best of the Nissan GT-R contingent was the Impul GT-R in the hands of new recruit Nobuharu Matsushita, whose best lap was 0.517s off the pace.

Completing the top 10 were the Dunlop-shod Nakajima Racing Honda (Hiroki Otsu), the SARD Toyota (Yuichi Nakayama) and the best Yokohama runner, the Kondo Racing Nissan (Daiki Sasaki).

Rookie Racing, now independent from fellow Toyota outfit Cerumo, was 12th-fastest in the hands of returning 2019 champion Kenta Yamashita.

Nissan's flagship NISMO GT-R propped up the timesheets in 15th, as one of only two cars not to improve on their morning times.

TOM'S driver Sho Tsuboi set the pace in the morning on a 1m18.352s, leading the Hondas of Baguette and Team Kunimitsu super-sub Mutoh, who is standing in for Tadasuke Makino at Okayama.

#52 Saitama Toyopet GB GR Supra GT300

#52 Saitama Toyopet GB GR Supra GT300

Photo by: Masahide Kamio

In the GT300 class, the Saitama Toyopet Green Brave squad topped both sessions, with Hiroki Yoshida going fastest in the afternoon on a 1m26.185s - fractionally quicker than teammate Kohta Kawaai had managed in the morning session.

The team's nearest competitor was the #31 apr Toyota Prius PHV of Koki Saga, while Tatsuya Kataoka put the Goodsmile Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 third in the 10 minutes of afternoon running reserved for the GT300 class.

Subaru was fourth-fastest with its brand-new BRZ contender, followed by the LEON Racing Mercedes and the #30 apr Toyota Prius.

A problem for the LM Corsa Supra was responsible for the first of the afternoon's two stoppages, while the morning session was free of interruptions.

GT500 test results:

Pos. No. Car Team Drivers Tyre am time pm time
1 16 Honda Mugen

Japan Ukyo Sasahara

Japan Toshiki Oyu

D 1'19.639 1'18.121
2 37 Toyota TOM'S

Japan Ryo Hirakawa

Japan Sena Sakaguchi

B 1'18.885 1'18.269
3 1 Honda Kunimitsu

Japan Naoki Yamamoto

Japan Hideki Mutoh

B 1'18.691 1'18.304
4 36 Toyota TOM'S

Japan Yuhi Sekiguchi

Japan Sho Tsuboi

B 1'18.352 1'18.307
5 8 Honda ARTA

Japan Tomoki Nojiri

Japan Nirei Fukuzumi

B

1'18.826 1'18.398
6 17 Honda Real Racing

Belgium Bertrand Baguette

Japan Koudai Tsukakoshi

B

1'18.637 1'18.512
7 12 Nissan Impul

Japan Kazuki Hiramine

Japan Nobuharu Matsushita

B

1'19.083 1'18.638
8 64 Honda Nakajima Racing

Japan Takuya Izawa

Japan Hiroki Otsu

D

1'19.155 1'18.711
9 39 Toyota SARD

Finland Heikki Kovalainen

Japan Yuichi Nakayama

B

1'19.341 1'18.979
10 24 Nissan Kondo Racing

Japan Daiki Sasaki

Japan Mitsunori Takaboshi

Y

1'19.777 1'19.047
11 38 Toyota Cerumo

Japan Hiroaki Ishiura

Japan Yuji Tachikawa

B

1'19.052 1'20.525
12 14 Toyota Rookie Racing

Japan Kazuya Oshima

Japan Kenta Yamashita

B

1'19.334 1'19.160
13 3 Nissan NDDP/B-Max Racing

Japan Kohei Hirate

Japan Katsumasa Chiyo

M

1'20.202 1'19.184
14 19 Toyota Racing Project Bandoh

Japan Yuji Kunimoto

Japan Ritomo Miyata

Y

1'19.286 1'19.222
15 23 Nissan NISMO

Italy Ronnie Quintarelli

Japan Tsugio Matsuda

M

1'19.300 1'19.302

Tyre key: B = Bridgestone, D = Dunlop, M = Michelin, Y = Yokohama

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