Modulo Racing Dome score first win of the season
Modulo Racing Dome, the Super Taikyu’s reigning TCR champion team, ended a long drought as they claimed the first victory of the season at Autopolis. Tadao Uematsu, Shinji Nakano, Mitsuhiro Endo and Hiroki Otsu drove their Honda Civic to complete 122 laps of the circuit during the 5-hour race that was red-flagged fifteen minutes before the end due to torrential rain announcing a typhoon that is approaching the Kyushu Island.
The Adenau Racingline Volkswagen Golf GTI driven by Philippe Devesa, Jake Parsons and Shogo Mitsuyama finished in second place, one lap behind, while the podium was completed by the RFC Racing Honda Civic of Jun Fuji and Takahisa Oono, two laps behind the winners. The only other car classified was the Audi RS 3 LMS entered by the Waimarama Kizuna Racing Team and shared by Hori, Chiyo and ‘Kizuna’, that was promoted after the Team DreamDrive Audi (Takeda-Shirasaka-Tagahara) was disqualified because of a fuel tank that exceeded the capacity limits.
All the other cars retired, including the Team Noah Honda (Tsukada-Kiyotaki-Sobu) that started from the pole position, but was eliminated in a racing incident.
The next round of the Super Taikyu will take place at Motegi on September 14th/15th.
Race
1. Modulo Racing, Honda Civic FK8 (Uematsu/Nakano/Endo/Otsu), 122 laps
2. Adenau Racingline, VW Golf GTI (Devesa/Mitsuyama/Parsons), 1 lap
3. RFC Racing, Honda Civic FK8 (Fuji/Oono), 2 laps
Championship points
1. Audi Team DreamDrive 75 pts; 2. Adenau Racingline Performance 65.5; 3. Audi Team Mars 64
