The 24-hour Race at Fuji Speedway, third round of the Super Taikyu has attracted some important guest stars who have joined the TCR teams.
The most distinguished among them is two-time Le Mans winner Seiji Ara who will share the RFC Racing Honda Civic with former F3000 Japan champion and Le Mans class winner Toshio Suzuki; they join the team’s regulars Jun Fuji and Takahisa Oono.
KCMG has invited WTCR racer Attila Tassi and 2018 Asia Le Mans LMP3 runner-up Josh Burdon to drive its Civic, sharing driving duties with TCR Japan points leader Matthew Howson, team principal Paul Ip and Jim Ka To.
The defending champions of Modulo Racing with Dome have added Super GT race winner Tomoki Nojiri to the usual quartet of Shinji Nakano, Tadao Uematsu, Hiroki Otsu and Mitsuhiro Endo.
On the Audi side, the three teams that lead the Super Taikyu standings will all fight for victory in the Fuji race: Birth Racing Project (‘Hirobon’-Shinohara-Matsumoto-T. Okumura-Oota), Team Mars (Okajima-Kato-Shimoyama-Imamura-Matsui) and Team DreamDrive (Takeda-Shirasaka-Tagahara-Y. Okumura).