Cassidy finishes fifth overall in Super GT

A podium and a fourth place in the Super GT double header in Japan has seen Kiwi Nick Cassidy’s TOM’S RC F Lexus RC F team finish fifth overall in the 2016 championship.

“It was an awesome final race of the year,” commented Cassidy. “We finished fourth today (round 8) and fifth overall in this year’s Championship, so super happy with that in my rookie season with Lexus and TOM’S Racing! Thank you to everyone for their support through out the year.”

Saturday saw the penultimate round of the series take place at the Twin Motegi Ring in Japan. Round three, originally set for the Autopolis track in May was post-phoned due to the Kumamoto earthquake damage in the region and re-scheduled for a double-header at Motegi Twin Ring. This was followed up with round eight, the finale on Sunday.

In the final race, GT500 class race winner was the No. 39 DENSO KOBELCO SARD RC F (Heikki Kovalainen/ Kohei Hirate) in a stunning victory run from pole position that also brought the team the season Driver championship title. In the GT300 class, the No. 25 VivaC 86 MC (Takeshi Tsuchiya/Takamitsu Matsui) won the race and in doing so also won the GT300 class Drivers Championship title.

Benjamin Carrell is a freelance motorsport writer and currently edits talkmotorsport.co.nz. He writes for a number of Kiwi drivers and motorsport clubs. That's when he's not working in his horticultural day-job or training for the next road or mtb cycle race!

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