Just a few months late with this review of the fourth round of the Super GT which was held at the rather interesting Sepang circut in Kuala Lumpur. So I'm not going to do a lengthy review since lets face it you could have ready just about any number of sources already on the race. No instead I think I'll look at the choice bits and pieces that were out there.
The Super GT race at Sepang is the notorious for being the hottest race of the season where the teams have to do more battle with the hot weather than with the other cars. Cooling the drivers and cars down is a huge challenge one in which the Nissan GT-R cars are working to include A/C in the cars. However, this year seemed to be not as hot with rain clouds threatening above.
With one obstacle down the cars headed out to do battle but not all of them made it to the starting line. The pole leading Motul GT-R developed transmission problems and had to start from pit lane and dead last. Those on the race didn't exactly get a good start either. With everyone bunching up into the first corner it gave the GT500 winner the advantage that he needed to get out ahead and stay there the entire race. The Hasemi Motorsport GT-R won the GT500 class easily. While the Odd ball prototype APPLE Shiden thing fought his way through the pack to take the GT300 win.
While the race was pretty mundane and just uneventful for the most part it was the Honda NSX cars that did the most battling. At the beginning of the race the Rockstar NSX showed some great talent fighting it's way up to 2nd place until it was punted off course by the Motul GTR sending the NSX way back to 12th place a sad end for a good day of racing. The NSXs wouldn't be denied this race though as three of them were battling for 2nd and 3rd positions with the Keihin NSX making the most of the race and some rather well done passing in the corners. Fighting hard to finish in 2nd place with the Arta NSX just behind it for 3rd place.
The GT300 race was a bit more interesting but not by much. The pole winning S Road Z started the race looking good and holding on to the lead for some time before it was eventually overtaken by the Weds Sport IS350 who was overtaken by the Shiden. More interesting than that was that there as a Lamborghini running in the top 5 positions. Amazing since most of the time the end up out of the race or way at the back of pack. I wish they would get a little more coverage than they do but that means they need to step up their game and get higher up the leader board. Another interesting thing was a new car in the GT300 series racing only in this race was a new Mosler MT900R from Thunder Asia which was doing great up until I believe some issue developed with car allowing it to lose several positions rather easily and then sending it to the garage to be looked at. Several other cars also went to the garage with issues one of them was the Eneos SC430 was headed in there early on losing several laps.
With that another round of the 2009 Super GT season is over and I'll hopefully get to the 5th round tomorrow.
Check out the spin of the Rockstar NSX:
The Super GT race at Sepang is the notorious for being the hottest race of the season where the teams have to do more battle with the hot weather than with the other cars. Cooling the drivers and cars down is a huge challenge one in which the Nissan GT-R cars are working to include A/C in the cars. However, this year seemed to be not as hot with rain clouds threatening above.
With one obstacle down the cars headed out to do battle but not all of them made it to the starting line. The pole leading Motul GT-R developed transmission problems and had to start from pit lane and dead last. Those on the race didn't exactly get a good start either. With everyone bunching up into the first corner it gave the GT500 winner the advantage that he needed to get out ahead and stay there the entire race. The Hasemi Motorsport GT-R won the GT500 class easily. While the Odd ball prototype APPLE Shiden thing fought his way through the pack to take the GT300 win.
While the race was pretty mundane and just uneventful for the most part it was the Honda NSX cars that did the most battling. At the beginning of the race the Rockstar NSX showed some great talent fighting it's way up to 2nd place until it was punted off course by the Motul GTR sending the NSX way back to 12th place a sad end for a good day of racing. The NSXs wouldn't be denied this race though as three of them were battling for 2nd and 3rd positions with the Keihin NSX making the most of the race and some rather well done passing in the corners. Fighting hard to finish in 2nd place with the Arta NSX just behind it for 3rd place.
The GT300 race was a bit more interesting but not by much. The pole winning S Road Z started the race looking good and holding on to the lead for some time before it was eventually overtaken by the Weds Sport IS350 who was overtaken by the Shiden. More interesting than that was that there as a Lamborghini running in the top 5 positions. Amazing since most of the time the end up out of the race or way at the back of pack. I wish they would get a little more coverage than they do but that means they need to step up their game and get higher up the leader board. Another interesting thing was a new car in the GT300 series racing only in this race was a new Mosler MT900R from Thunder Asia which was doing great up until I believe some issue developed with car allowing it to lose several positions rather easily and then sending it to the garage to be looked at. Several other cars also went to the garage with issues one of them was the Eneos SC430 was headed in there early on losing several laps.
With that another round of the 2009 Super GT season is over and I'll hopefully get to the 5th round tomorrow.
Check out the spin of the Rockstar NSX:
