2017 Japanese Super GT

[Japanese Samurai]

Saitama Toyopet Green Brave's Team Policy

We are the team which does fan service most at paddock.
Have a fan feel the atmosphere of the team = company.

[Definition of fan service]
If you have a thankful heart, you should tell it by words.
"Hello!", "Thank you for coming!", "Thank you for cheering!"

Gratitude should be expressed by all the team staffs.
All the team staffs should carry a sticker and distribute it.

Pit practice is also one of the fan service
You should do pit practice as much as possible, and have fans see.

Fans are future customer, mechanic and driver.
We'll have all fans enjoy our work, engine sound and smell of the oil.

[hvr777]

Originally Posted by Japanese Samurai

Saitama Toyopet Green Brave's Team Policy

We are the team which does fan service most at paddock.
Have a fan feel the atmosphere of the team = company.

[Definition of fan service]
If you have a thankful heart, you should tell it by words.
"Hello!", "Thank you for coming!", "Thank you for cheering!"

Gratitude should be expressed by all the team staffs.
All the team staffs should carry a sticker and distribute it.

Pit practice is also one of the fan service
You should do pit practice as much as possible, and have fans see.

Fans are future customer, mechanic and driver.
We'll have all fans enjoy our work, engine sound and smell of the oil.

Well that's kind of new style for a racing team, I guess. I hope that kind of new style brings more encouragement for the team & not mess the team's activity while on paddock.

[Japanese Samurai]

Autosport web GT300 silly season report
http://www.as-web.jp/supergt/84659?all

#2 Cars Tokai/Evora MC/YH/Takahashi, Katoh
#3 B-MAX/GT-R GT3/YH/Hoshino?, Takaboshi?
#4 GSR&Ukyo/AMG GT3/YH/Taniguchi, Kataoka
#5 MACH/86MC/YH/Yamashita?, Kageyama?
#7 Studie/M6GT3/ Muller, Ara
#9 Gulf with Pacific/911GT3R/YH/Lester ,Mineo
#10 Gainer/GT-R GT3/DL/Tomita, Hiroki Yoshida?
#11 Gainer/AMG GT3/DL/Hiranaka, Wirdheim
#18 Upgarage/86MC/YH/Y.Nakayama, Yamada
#21 Hitotsuyama/R8LMS/DL/ Lyons, Yanagida?
#22 R'Qs/AMG GT3/YH/ Wada, Jounai
#25 Tsuchiya/86MC/YH/T.Matsui, K.Yamashita
#26 TaisanSARD/R8LMS/YH/ Motojima?, ?
#30 apr/PriusGT/YH/Nagai, Sasaki
#31 apr/PriusGT/BS/Saga, Rintaro Kubo?, ?
#33 KTR?/911GT3R/YH/Tomonobu Fujii, Foreign driver?
#35 Toyota Team Thailand/86MC/YH/Charoensukhawatana, Bhirombhakdi
#48 DIJON?/GT-R GT3/YH/ Katsuki Tanaka?, Dr.Takamori?
#50 Arnage?/488GT3?/YH/Tsuzuki? Nitta?
#51 LMCorsa/RC F GT3/BS?/Yuichi Nakayama, Sho Tsuboi
#52 Green Brave/Mark-X MC/YH/Bamba, Hiranuma
#55 ARTA/M6GT3/BS/Takagi, ARTA driver?
#60 LMCorsa/RC F GT3/YH/Iida, Yoshimoto
#61 R&D Sport/BRZ GT300/DL/Iguchi, Yamauchi
#63 Direction/Huracan GT3/YH/Andre Couto?, Yokomizo?
#65 K2 R&D LEON/AMG GT3/BS/Kurosawa, Gamou
#87 JLOC?/Huracan GT3/YH/Kimiya Sato?, Hosokawa?
#88 JLOC/Huracan GT3/YH/Orido, Hiramine
#111 Rn-Sports/AMG GT3/YH/Ueda?, Ryosei Yamashita?
#360 Tomei/GT-R GT3/YH/Yusaku Shibata, Tanaka
#? Teramoto Techinical Office/ Continental GT3/YH/Ryohei Sakaguchi?, Yuji Ide?

[AkioAsakura95]

Originally Posted by Japanese Samurai

Autosport web GT300 silly season report
http://www.as-web.jp/supergt/84659?all

#2 Cars Tokai/Evora MC/YH/Takahashi, Katoh
#3 B-MAX/GT-R GT3/YH/Hoshino?, Takaboshi?
#4 GSR&Ukyo/AMG GT3/YH/Taniguchi, Kataoka
#5 MACH/86MC/YH/Yamashita?, Kageyama?
#7 Studie/M6GT3/ Muller, Ara
#9 Gulf with Pacific/911GT3R/YH/Lester ,Mineo
#10 Gainer/GT-R GT3/DL/Tomita, Hiroki Yoshida?
#11 Gainer/AMG GT3/DL/Hiranaka, Wirdheim
#18 Upgarage/86MC/YH/Y.Nakayama, Yamada
#21 Hitotsuyama/R8LMS/DL/ Lyons, Yanagida?
#22 R'Qs/AMG GT3/YH/ Wada, Jounai
#25 Tsuchiya/86MC/YH/T.Matsui, K.Yamashita
#26 TaisanSARD/R8LMS/YH/ Motojima?, ?
#30 apr/PriusGT/YH/Nagai, Sasaki
#31 apr/PriusGT/BS/Saga, Rintaro Kubo?, ?
#33 KTR?/911GT3R/YH/Tomonobu Fujii, Foreign driver?
#35 Toyota Team Thailand/86MC/YH/Charoensukhawatana, Bhirombhakdi
#48 DIJON?/GT-R GT3/YH/ Katsuki Tanaka?, Dr.Takamori?
#50 Arnage?/488GT3?/YH/Tsuzuki? Nitta?
#51 LMCorsa/RC F GT3/BS?/Yuichi Nakayama, Sho Tsuboi
#52 Green Brave/Mark-X MC/YH/Bamba, Hiranuma
#55 ARTA/M6GT3/BS/Takagi, ARTA driver?
#60 LMCorsa/RC F GT3/YH/Iida, Yoshimoto
#61 R&D Sport/BRZ GT300/DL/Iguchi, Yamauchi
#63 Direction/Huracan GT3/YH/Andre Couto?, Yokomizo?
#65 K2 R&D LEON/AMG GT3/BS/Kurosawa, Gamou
#87 JLOC?/Huracan GT3/YH/Kimiya Sato?, Hosokawa?
#88 JLOC/Huracan GT3/YH/Orido, Hiramine
#111 Rn-Sports/AMG GT3/YH/Ueda?, Ryosei Yamashita?
#360 Tomei/GT-R GT3/YH/Yusaku Shibata, Tanaka
#? Teramoto Techinical Office/ Continental GT3/YH/Ryohei Sakaguchi?, Yuji Ide?

I think Yanagida will partner with Hoshino with (#3) car , because Takaboshi is participating Blancpain GT Series for this season and there is the clashing date between Blancpain GT Series and SUPER GT series. As for (#33) KTR , Tsubasa Kondo (2016 PCCJ Champion) should join Team KTR seat rather than Tomonobu Fujii because Fujii has a relationship between Audi.

Speaking about ARTA GT300 driver

They mentioned about this article:

気になるところでは、小林崇志がGT500に移った後のARTA BMW M6 GT3のシート。高木真一はもちろん有力だが、もうひとりは「スーパーGTには乗っていなかったけど有名」という噂しか得られなかった。

@Japanese Samurai (Sorry i m not urging you)
Can you please translate this paragraph as shown as above .
For ARTA GT300 driver , the description is not only ARTA driver but ARTA有力ドライバー？ this words display . Can you translate this words as shown
the bold words as well

Hoped you not hesitate to reply

[Japanese Samurai]

Takagi's partner will be "unexperienced in Super GT, but potential driver".

"ARTA potential driver"

[AkioAsakura95]

Originally Posted by Japanese Samurai

Takagi's partner will be "inexperienced in Super GT, but potential driver".

"ARTA potential driver"

I think Yoshiaki Katayama or Ryo Ogawa will take the seat for ARTA BMW but Yoshiaki Katayama lack of experience for the GT race car despite having the sponsorship with ARTA .

Or there are many possibility for the ARTA GT300 2nd driver seats they are ARTA supported driver , Formula 4 race car driver or BMW factory driver or BMW Junior driver like Nico Menzel (2016 PCCA champion)

[rjoconnell]

I don't know how many people know this (and I only sorta knew it until researching), but the Yanagida family has deep, deep ties to Nissan. Masataka has raced for Nissan his entire Super GT career, and his father Haruhiro was one of the company's best drivers in the 70's - he was essentially nicknamed "Mr. Fairlady Z" in his career.

If Ma switches to Audi, that's pretty significant.

[AkioAsakura95]

Originally Posted by rjoconnell

I don't know how many people know this (and I only sorta knew it until researching), but the Yanagida family has deep, deep ties to Nissan. Masataka has raced for Nissan his entire Super GT career, and his father Haruhiro was one of the company's best drivers in the 70's - he was essentially nicknamed "Mr. Fairlady Z" in his career.

If Ma switches to Audi, that's pretty significant.

@rjoconnell
I think Ma will be in Nissan GT300 team partnering with Hoshino with Fujii remain Audi Team Hitotsuyama seat . For Porsche Team KTR, they can let last season PCCJ champion (Tsubasa Kondo) to get the KTR seat .

By the way, can you give the opinion for this post as shown as below???

Takagi's partner will be "unexperienced in Super GT, but potential driver".

ARTA BMW lineup : Shinichi Takagi , "ARTA potential driver"

My answer:
I think Yoshiaki Katayama or Ryo Ogawa will take the seat for ARTA BMW but Yoshiaki Katayama lack of experience for the GT race car despite having the sponsorship with ARTA .

Or there are many possibility for the ARTA GT300 2nd driver seats they are ARTA supported driver , Formula 4 race car driver or BMW factory driver or BMW Junior driver like Nico Menzel (2016 PCCA champion)

But they translate to Unnamed ARTA supported driver

[rjoconnell]

ASweb specifically mentions that the other #55 ARTA BMW driver is likely to be an ARTA supported driver.

Katayama would be a good choice, I've had him on the radar of a GT300 drive since he won the F3-N title.

Ryo Ogawa is long, long overdue for a Super GT opportunity. His father, Hitoshi, was one of the best drivers of his generation that, tragically, died before he could race in the JGTC. And Ryo is very, very accomplished in his own right. I think he'd be a bit better of a fit at KTR in a Porsche, however, and he has no ties to ARTA/Autobacs.

Nico Menzel would be a good option from out of left field (as would any 18-year-old Porsche Cup champion), but again, nothing linking him to ARTA/Autobacs.

[AkioAsakura95]

Originally Posted by rjoconnell

ASweb specifically mentions that the other #55 ARTA BMW driver is likely to be an ARTA supported driver.

Katayama would be a good choice, I've had him on the radar of a GT300 drive since he won the F3-N title.

Ryo Ogawa is long, long overdue for a Super GT opportunity. His father, Hitoshi, was one of the best drivers of his generation that, tragically, died before he could race in the JGTC. And Ryo is very, very accomplished in his own right. I think he'd be a bit better of a fit at KTR in a Porsche, however, and he has no ties to ARTA/Autobacs.

Nico Menzel would be a good option from out of left field (as would any 18-year-old Porsche Cup champion), but again, nothing linking him to ARTA/Autobacs.

Maybe they need to reconsidered the driver lineup . If they can't get the suitable driver lineup for ARTA BMW or they criticized Yoshiaki Katayama was lack of experience or he is not "famous" enough for the experience driver for taking the champion for this season .

For my opinion, they say 高木真一はもちろん有力だが、もうひとりは「スーパーGTには乗っていなかったけど有名」という噂しか得られなかった。 I direct translate as "Shinichi Takagi is certainly powerful driver, but the other one got only the rumor that it was "famous driver although it was not on the Super GT". Originally I choose Ritomo Miyata 宮田莉朋 as the candidate for the ARTA BMW driver as he hasties to ARTA/Autobacs but he is invloved in Toyota Racing program so I dropped his name to this candidate unless he leave Toyota Racing program like Seiji Ara who had previously join Team Bandoh since 2013 and he join BMW team since 2014. By the way, I hoped ARTA GT300 team will be the official BMW team like Studie.

http://www.autobacs.com/motorsports/index.html

@rjoconnell
How about your opinion (as shown as above)??? Do you agree this statement????
Hoped you not hesitate to reply

By the way , you can take the look for Yoshiaki Katayama F3 testing car (same team as Petit LeMans Racing , obviously this team is in relationship with Team Le Mans not ARTA you can refer this website as shown as below) for this year . See his year does not have Autobacs livery yet

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83...C%81%E6%A5%AD)





http://www.j-formula3.com/news/2016/161215.html

If Yoshiaki Katayama gain the seat for ARTA BMW , I hoped Katayama will get the BMW junior "works" driver licences like Nico Menzel

[Japanese Samurai]

K-Design (Racing garage) is looking for mechanic and racing support staff for GT300 and Inter-Proto activity for 2017 seasons.
New team (or new maintenance garage)?
http://www.as-web.jp/supergt/84896?all

[AkioAsakura95]

Originally Posted by Japanese Samurai

K-Design (Racing garage) is looking for mechanic and racing support staff for GT300 and Inter-Proto activity for 2017 seasons.
New team (or new maintenance garage)?
http://www.as-web.jp/supergt/84896?all

I think K-Design is the new team for Team Bentley based on the rumor and the maintainence garage will be Teramoto Techinical Office based on the picture as the website shown

[Japanese Samurai]

Team Gainer will announce 2017 SGT participation plan on Jan.21
http://www.gainer.asia/teamblog/1200

[AkioAsakura95]

This article is about At the Suzuka Fan Appreciation Day Aguri Suzuki and Keiichi Tsuchiya will battle head-to-head with the ARTA CR-Z GT & BMW M6 GT3. And I hoped they can fixed ARTA BMW M6 GT3 before this event for the last season crash and they already announced the driver lineup before this event.

@Japanese Samurai
Is this translation correct???

http://www.as-web.jp/supergt/84946?all

[hvr777]

Originally Posted by Japanese Samurai

Team Gainer will announce 2017 SGT participation plan on Jan.21
http://www.gainer.asia/teamblog/1200

The team has already announced it, and the 2017 lineup is :

#10 GAINER TANAX GT-R : Hiroki Yoshida & Ryuichiro Tomita
#11 GAINER TANAX AMG GT3 : Katsuyuki Hiranaka & Bjorn Wirdheim.

Andre Couto leaves the team as well.

[rjoconnell]

Easily the biggest opportunity Yoshida has had in his still brief career, and with his recent experience in LMP3 and winning his sub-class in the Sepang 12H, he could be due for a huge breakout year.

He was horrifically undervalued at Gulf Racing last year, but his speed was evident.

[Japanese Samurai]

Originally Posted by AkioAsakura95

This article is about At the Suzuka Fan Appreciation Day Aguri Suzuki and Keiichi Tsuchiya will battle head-to-head with the ARTA CR-Z GT & BMW M6 GT3. And I hoped they can fixed ARTA BMW M6 GT3 before this event for the last season crash and they already announced the driver lineup before this event.

@Japanese Samurai
Is this translation correct???

http://www.as-web.jp/supergt/84946?all

Yes.
Aguri Suzuki will drive CR-Z GT300.
Keiichi Tsuchiya will drive M6 GT3.

[rjoconnell]

Arnage Racing have now sold their 2015-16 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 for a cool ¥16,801,000 JPY. That's around $147,000 USD, for those playing at home.

Now the question remains, will they be back for 2017? And with what car and drivers?

[TF110]

Originally Posted by rjoconnell

Arnage Racing have now sold their 2015-16 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 for a cool ¥16,801,000 JPY. That's around $147,000 USD, for those playing at home.

Now the question remains, will they be back for 2017? And with what car and drivers?

That's a bargain compared to the original cost. Maybe they'll step up to the AMG GT3?

[Monkey Head]

Originally Posted by rjoconnell

Arnage Racing have now sold their 2015-16 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 for a cool ¥16,801,000 JPY. That's around $147,000 USD, for those playing at home.

Now the question remains, will they be back for 2017? And with what car and drivers?

It meaning nothing as SLS GT3 will be axed for GT300 while only MY16 and MY17 models homologated due to announced

[rjoconnell]

Another car is on sale: This time, it's one of Direction Racing's Lamborghini Huracan GT3s.

https://racecarsdirect.com/Advert/De...ni-huracan-gt3

Starting at a cool 275,000 EUR.

[AkioAsakura95]

It's confirm , Bridgestone tires supply to 4 GT300 car they are LEON AMG , ARTA M6, apr Prius GT (#31) and LM Corsa ！！！

And the second car of LM Corsa will use (#51) car and INGING Motorsport continue as the maintenance garage for this BS RC F GT3
Yuichi Nakayama will test this car and Sho Tsuboi watching the shakedown of RC F GT3.

In my opinion, JMS might sponsor the BS RC F GT3 car and Morio Nitta (due to the numerous sponsor for this car are contributed by him like JMS (maybe) , Total , NATEC and Toyota) or Sho Tsuboi might join BS RC F GT3

@Japanese Samurai or @rjoconnell (Sorry I m not urging you all , just share the opinion)
By the way, Do you know when Toyota Gazoo Racing’s annual motorsports activity show started??? I demand this activity because the driver lineup for Lexus GT500 and GT300 will be powerful and competitive.

http://www.as-web.jp/supergt/85752?all

[Japanese Samurai]

No information yet.

Autosport web TRD manufacturer's test report
http://www.as-web.jp/supergt/85734?all
http://www.as-web.jp/supergt/85752?all
http://www.as-web.jp/supergt/85803?all

GT500
#6 LeMans (1'28.???): Oshima, Cardarelli
#19 Bandoh (No Time): Sekiguchi
#38 Cerumo (1'28.588): Tachikawa

GT300
#10 Gainer GT-R GT3 (1'37.434): Tomita, Yoshida
#11 Gainer AMG GT3 (1'37.104): Wirdheim
#30 apr Prius GT (1'37.962): Nagai, Sasaki Attendant: Saga, Rintarou Kubo
#51 INGING? RC F GT3 (1'37.104): Yuichi Nakayama, Sho Tsuboi

[rjoconnell]

These are good signs for the RC F GT3. Put two of Toyota's best young drivers in that car together and I feel like they're going to be bonafide title contenders in GT300.

[TF110]

You got that right! Testing times are looking really good for the RC F GT3. The young drivers must be new to the car so if one of them set that time it is a great sign.