Nissan have won again at the Sepang Super GT Round 4 International Series. But it was the not the pole sitter’s, Satoshi Motoyama and Benoit Treluyer of NISMO but instead it was the second position qualifier, Ronnie Quintarelli and Hironobu Yasuda of HASEMI MOTORSPORT who took the GT500 title in the Sepang Round Four of the Super GT International Series.


The GT500 Super lap pole sitters, Satoshi Motoyama and Benoit Treluyer of NISMO were struck with a bad luck at the start of the race. The NISMO AUTECH GTR suffered a transmission failure right before the start of the race and had to begin at the end of the grid for a rolling start. Ronnie Quintarelli and Hironobu Yasuda of HASEMI MOTORSPORT were never been happier to take the lead due to the mishap of NISMO TEAM. This is Hironobu Yasuda first victory in his debut season in the Super GT after graduating at Nissan driver development programme.

The start of the race was very intense and nerve wrecking as the cars were closely packed together at the 1st corner and they are moving flat out in order to overtake the leaders ahead. The HASEMI MOTORSPORT Team has a clean road ahead of them and slowly they pulled out of the threat of the two feisty Honda NSX of Team KEIHIN and Team ARTA. ARTA NSX of Ralph Firman and Takuya Izawa, and the Raybrig NSX of Yuji Ide and Shinya Hosokawa were in a battle of their own to take the 3rd position.

The race went on without any incident since the start of the race. NISMO AUTECH GTR started the race at the end of the grid behind the GT300 class. NISMO ace driver Satoshi Motoyama and Benoit Treluyer drove the car hard and fast. Amazingly they managed to finished 8th position. That’s quite an achievement since the team started at the end of the grid.

Inside the winning circle, second position goes to Toshihiro Kaneishi and Koudai Tsukakoshi of Team KEIHIN NSX followed by Ralph Firman and Takuya Izawa of TEAM ARTA NSX in third position.


The GT300 race is exciting as the GT500 class. At the start of the race, there was an accident on lap 1 which causes alot of GT300 cars out of the race. Meanwhile the no. 2 car driven by Hiroki Katoh & Hiroki Yoshimoto saw the crash as an opportunity to gain its position from the end of the grid to 10th position.

The no.2 car, LM JIHAN APPLE SHIDEN were supposed to be on the pole position at the start of the race, due to Handicapped weight infraction they were force to start at the end of the grid on the race day.

After that they managed to gain 3rd position by lap 9. The S ROAD MOLA Z slowly drops down the grid while the Wedsport IS350 took 1st position and the No. 2 LM JIHAN APPLE SHIDEN on the pursue of the Wedsport IS350.

The Wedsport IS350 make a pit stop mistake by lap 25 causing the team to drop down by second position. The mistake has led the LM JIHAN APPLE SHIDEN on 1st place. Since then the gap of the two cars gain margin by 9 seconds. Third runner up goes to the No.7 Mutiara Motors Amemiya SGC 7 driven by Nobuteru Taniguchi and Ryo Orime.





The Super GT International Series Round 4 Race Results: