SUPER GT: The calls behind Gainer's irresistible Fuji charge

Yasuda was still struggling, lapping in the 1m52s, when Gainer made the call to bring in the #11 car from second place on lap 81, but the UpGarage car of Shun Koide was in the 1m47s, matching Taniguchi’s pace. In any case, Fukuda suggests the team was willing to take a risk: “Dunlop has better tyre warm-up than the other manufacturers, so we had to bet on that.”

As the other leading cars made their stops, two opted to stay out until the end on wets: the Subaru of Hideki Yamauchi and the LM Corsa Toyota GR Supra of Hiroki Yoshimoto. As early as lap 84 however, Tomita was lapping three seconds quicker than Yamauchi, and over the next four laps he was between five and eight seconds faster than the Subaru.

“The fact Ishikawa was able to go that far meant we had two sets of dry tyres left on which we could push,” said Fukuda. “If Ishikawa hadn’t gone that far, we would have had no tyres left to push at the end. So I don’t think we would have won. In the end, such was the poor pace of the Subaru and the LM Corsa Toyota that both were caught in the final sector of the final lap by both the Team Studie BMW M4 GT3 of Masataka Yanagida and the Team LeMans Audi R8 LMS GT3 of Roberto Merhi.

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