Cassidy/Hirakawa fourth at Fuji

Nick Cassidy and Ryo Hirakawa have finished a strong fourth at the latest Super GT Series round at Fuji Speedway in Japan. Having started 14th on the grid and dropped to 12th after the first safety car intervention, the #37 TOM’S Lexus worked its way through to fourth.

It was the #6 WAKO’S 4CR LC500 of Kazuya Oshima/Kenta Yamashita that took the win from the Kunimitsu Honda duo of Naoki Yamamoto and Jenson Button. The Honda pair scored their first podium finish since May’s first Fuji race and now keep their title hopes alive heading into the final three races of the season.

Ronnie Quintarelli and Tsugio Matsuda had to settle for third, having led the majority of the race in the NISMO GT-R.

“A tough one today,” commented Cassidy. “We went a lap down with a little bad luck just before our second pit stop so had to fight back! Had good speed and pulled the lap back and some.”

Cassidy and Hirakawa remain second overall in the championship, 16 points behind Kazuya Oshima/Kenta Yamashita.

GT500 results:

PoNoDriverCarGap
16Kazuya Oshima
Kenta Yamashita
Lexus 
21Naoki Yamamoto
Jenson Button
Honda31.214
323Tsugio Matsuda
Ronnie Quintarelli
Nissan36.658
437Ryo Hirakawa
Nick Cassidy
Lexus55.881
512Daiki Sasaki
James Rossiter
Nissan1’00.276
616Hideki Mutoh
Daisuke Nakajima
Honda1’18.436
78Tomoki Nojiri
Takuya Izawa
Honda1’30.137
817Koudai Tsukakoshi
Bertrand Baguette
Honda1 Lap
919Yuji Kunimoto
Sho Tsuboi
Lexus1 Lap
1064Narain Karthikeyan
Tadasuke Makino
Honda3 Laps
113Kohei Hirate
Frederic Makowiecki
Nissan37 Laps
24Mitsunori Takaboshi
Jann Mardenborough
Nissan71 Laps
36Kazuki Nakajima
Yuhi Sekiguchi
Lexus73 Laps
39Heikki Kovalainen
Yuichi Nakayama
Lexus93 Laps
38Yuji Tachikawa
Hiroaki Ishiura
Lexus106 Laps

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