For the first ten minutes the qualifying on Saturday for the tenth round went by without accidents, but with less than five minutes remaining Robert Streit, who had led the timesheet, brought about a red flag after sliding off the track at the S-shaped bend. Streit, Kodai Tsukakoshi, Kazuya Oshima, Oliver Jarvis, Hiroaki Ishiura and Marko Asmer had completed top six. In the resumed session with 4.51s remaining many drivers improved their times due to the road surface rapidly dried by wind during the red flag intervention, while Oshima stalled the engine as he went into track. It took him so long to restart it that he could do just one lap and dropped back to forth. 　Tsukakoshi took pole. Streit was lucky enough to go back to pit himself to secure another front row. Jarvis, Oshima, Takuya Izawa and Asmer would follow them.

　Unlike the semi-wet conditions in qualifying Sunday’s race saw completely dried conditions with road temperature of 42 degrees C. The squads worked hard on rear wings or rear roll bars to cope with oversteer before the getaway at 0:59 pm.
　The pole-sitter Tsukakoshi made a good start to lead into the first turn. Managing to shake off Jarvis Streit followed Tsukakoshi. Oshima had a contact with Jarvis dropping back to sixth and allowing Izawa and Yuhi Sekiguchi to move into forth and fifth respectively.
　Tsukakoshi built a 1.5s lead over Streit on the first lap, who was struggling with slow speed on the straights before being hunted down by Jarvis in the first turn on lap two. Izawa also ceded the spot to Sekiguchi, and then was passed by Oshima on lap three. Jarvis closed in from second place but ended up going no further than whittling Tsukakoshi’s lead to 0.7s on lap five. “I had too much understeer, maybe because of the setting change before start,” said the Brit. Tsukakoshi eventually led home by a margin of about 2 seconds. “I felt pressure from Jarvis in the early stages, but I kept calm to push ahead. The harder I pushed, the better time I got. I am happy about the job the team did on the car”.

● Round9/10「Suzuka」Result