Nissan Motor : "MOTORSPORTS" GTNET ADVAN NISSAN GT-R TAKES 2ND SEASON VICTORY

September 8, 2014

NISSAN Motor Co., Ltd.
NISSAN Motorsports International Co., Ltd.

Okayama International Circuit, Okayama-pref. (September 6-7, 2014) -The 6 race Super Taikyu Series headed into its 4th round, heralding in the second half of the season. The round 4 Super Taikyu Race in Okayama was held at Okayama International Circuit where the #81 GTNET ADVAN NISSAN GT-R (Kazuki Hoshino/Takayuki Aoki/Naofumi Omoto), starting from pole position, drove at a pace that blitzed the competition and pulled away from all other competitors to achieve a lights-to-flag victory, their 2nd of the season.

Also, the #24 ThreeBond Nissan Technical College GT-R (Tomonobu Fujii / GAMISAN / Mitsunori Takaboshi) began the race from 2nd place on the grid and in the early stages was maintaining this position. Unfortunately though, they weren't able to achieve the kind of times that they had expected and ultimately one rival managed to get ahead of them to put them in 3rd. After this they held onto their place for the rest of the race and achieve their 2nd podium finish since the opening round.

In the ST-3 class the #35 asset ings Z34 (Shuji Maejima / Masahiro Sasaki / Kazuki Hirokawa) achieved their 4th consecutive lights-to-flag victory since the opening round. Maejima said, This year everything is coming together and we've been able to achieve 4 perfect victories. I also want give the young guys more experience so I think in the next race we'll go with Hirokawa as the main driver. Sasaki also related, I'm really glad that today we could carry out another race where we didn't lose the lead for even a moment. The championship is still not a set thing, though, so I'm going to do my best in the next race as well. The youngster in the group, Hirokawa commented, It would be really sad if our winning streak stopped so I will be going into the next race with all of my focus.

Furthermore, coming 2nd in the ST-3 class was the #34 asset ings Z34 (Takao Onishi / Kiyoto Fujinami / Satoshi Matsubara) and in 3rd, the #14 Okabe Jidosha Cent Trente195 Makers Z33 (Manabu Yamazaki / Isao Ihashi / Mitsunori Atake) making this a Z dominated podium.

Kazuki Hoshino (#81 GTNET ADVAN NISSAN GT-R, Race 1st)
I thought that this round in Okayama was going to be really difficult, so I'm really glad we were able to best our competition. It was a victory achieved through the efforts of the whole team so I'm really happy.

Naofumi Omoto (#81 GTNET ADVAN NISSAN GT-R / Race 1st)
I came into the circuit with the mindset that we could not fail here if we were going to win the championship. This race was relatively short but I'm glad that our team's strategy was carried out without a hitch.

Takayuki Aoki (#81 GTNET ADVAN NISSAN GT-R / Race 1st)
Although by the end of the race we had achieved quite a large lead, there were actually a few issues that we struggled with that the team as a whole managed to cover in order to bring the machine over the finish line. It's not like we won the race with ease. Our team's efforts to overcome obstacles were what won it for us.

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