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05/22/2010

Tatsuya Yamaguchi got 2nd at ST600 qualifying and 1st at J-GP2 at All Japan Championship Auto Polis round!!

Yamaguchi, a MORIWAKI club rider is making his double entry at the meeting, ST600 and J-GP2.  His teammate, Shota Fujishima is also taking his part in ST600 as a spot entry.

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ST600 Qualify session started at 10:30 Saturday morning under the cloud covered sky.  Just 10min after the session started, a crash brought oil spill on the track and several crashes followed.  The session was red-flagged and later restarted with remaining 30min.  Yamaguchi ran superbly, marked then the recorded lap of 1min55.560sec, settled in second position.

Another MORIWAKI Club rider in ST600 was Fujishima who marked 1min58,877sec, the 34th position.

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JSB/J-GP2 combined class qualifying session underwent in the afternoon in rain.  The Knockout system was introduced and Yamaguchi marked the fastest in J-GP2 class, 1min55.931sec (record time), starting tomorrow race from 13th grid.

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JSB/J-GP2 race will start from 14:40 and ST600 from 15:55.

Thank you for your support to our MORIWAKI Club riders.


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