The D’Station Racing Aston Martin Racing claimed enough points at the end of their second round to the Japanese Super GT Series earlier today to retain (an albeit slender) lead within their GT300 class.
Racing today at their ‘home’ circuit of Fujii Speedway, the #777 crew of Tomonobu Fujii and Charlie Fagg were facing the prospect of running this weekend’s three-hour race (as opposed to a more traditional 300km race) with maximum success ballast after their lights to flag class win at the end of the opening round from Okayama.
Reporting back during Free Practice and Qualifying issues of tyre degradation and a lowered level of performance (with the BoP ballast weight having its desired effect), the crew were having to find compromises to make up for that.
Having Qualified in eleventh within their class set of twenty-eight other entries, it was a warm start to the day as Fujii again did the opening stint to the race before handing over to Fagg in P9th before he too elevated their track position in class up to seventh at the end of his run.
With the success ballast and a new fuel flow restrictor being imposed onto their stops, the #777 crew still managed to come home In seventh for nine more valuable championship points to secure their class lead as the series now has an elongated wait through the period of the now postponed visit to Sepang before its next round of the season, again from Fuji Speedway in early August.
Photo credits – D’Station Racing