- Earlier today, Astemo Real Racing's Bertrand Baguette and Koudai Tsukakoshi took the lead during a late pit stop sequence and held on to win Round No. 2 of the Autobacs Super GT Championship at Fuji Speedway. The margin of victory was five-sixths of a second over TGR Team Eneos Rookie's Kazuya Oshima and Kenta Yamashita. Tom's No. 37 of Ryo Hirakawa and Sena Sakaguchi was
third.
In the GT300 class, LM Corsa's Shunsuke Kohno and Hiroki Yoshimoto claimed the victory in their Toyota GR Supra GT300 over the R&D Sport Subaru of Takuto Iguchi and Hideki Yamauchi. Autobacs Racing Team Aguri's Honda NSX GT3 of Ren Sato and Shinichi Takagi were third.
You're probably wondering why there would be a major race on a Tuesday afternoon? Japan is currently in what's known as the Golden Week, which is a series of public holidays. Today is Constitution Memorial Day, which celebrates the current constitution of Japan, which was enacted in 1947. Most major businesses are closed, while the National Diet (the Japanese equivalent to the U.S. Capitol) is open to the public for
tours.
