1-2 finish for Dome Racing Honda in Motegi 5 hours

The DOME Racing Honda Civic #98 claimed his second consecutive win the in TCR class of the Super Taikyu series. Two months after winning the Autopolis 5-hour race, Taiyo Iida and Hiroki Kato were victorious in the 5 hours of Motegi; this time they shared their Civic FK8 car with Keishi Ishikawa who replaced Kazuho Takahashi.
The team’s success was completed by the Modulo Racing sister car #97 of Tadao Uematsu, Shinji Nakano, Hiroki Otsu and Takashi Kobayashi that recovered to second after starting from the back of the grid.
These results also meant that DOME Racing has clinched the TCR title for the second year in a row, as the gap between the #97 car that leads the standings and the BRP Audi RS3 LMS #19 has reached the 58 points when only 21 will be awarded in the final round of the season at Okayama. The #98 Civic has rounded off the team’s triumph having mathematically clinched the second place, as it stands 27 points behind the sister car.
In the Motegi race, Iida, Kato and Ishikawa qualified second behind the Team Mars Audi #65, but then led from the early stages and beat the Civic #97 by one lap; the BRP Audi driven by ‘Hirobon’, Takuro Shinohara, Daisuke Yamawaki and Koichi Okumura claimed the third spot of the podium one further lap down and was followed by the Team Mars Audi #65 of Daisuke Imamura, Masanobu Kato and Hiroki Kokuzawa that has started from the pole position.
The final round of the series will be the Okayama 3-hour race on November 3 and 4.