It was quite cold, ambient temperature 11 degrees, track surface 14 degrees for the qualifying session Saturday morning, with a strong wind blowing, and a light drizzle.
Takuto Iguchi of TOM'S said”although I crashed Friday afternoon, it didn't slow me much, but it is annoying that Van dam had top time”
However, he overtook Van dam for pole position for Round 3, in hometown Autopolis, and expected another consecutive Pole to win.
Following Iguchi, Van dam, Keisuke Kunimoto put TOM'S group high up the grid with Kei Cozzolino of NOW Motorsports in fourth position.
Yuki Nakayama of Honda Team Real and Hiroki Saga of Le Beausset Motorsports, completed the top 6.
The final started at 1:00 p.m. with condition of temperature 13 degrees track surface 19 degrees, Van dam on the front low was slow off the line , and said I aimed getting the lead at the start, but had wheelspin At the 1st corner, Iguchi on inside and Kunimoto on the outside after a good start were side by side, but touched.Kunimoto spun off and lost many places, fortunately Iguchi came trough 1st corner as the race leader.
Behind them,Cozzolino was 2nd, and Saga overtook Van dam into 3rd place.
　The third place fight of Saga vs Van dam was the high point of the race's early stages.
Saga who lost an accel pedal stopper before start was in the defending situation, but defended 3rd place desperately to the fifth lap without giving Van dam a slip.
By the sixth lap 1st corner, Van dam finally passed Saga into third place , but already had lost four seconds to the two top cars .He remained in third place afterward without catching up.Iguchi looked back and said that it ”was disappointed that there was contact, but it might have been possible for my run even if I caught the damage to wheels”. He ran alone till the end without being pressured , about 3 seconds ahead of Cozzolino , taking a great third consecutive pole to win .
Cozzolino was vexed”I was glad to into 2nd, but lost time to Iguchi at sector 3. We have many points that both setup and driving that can be improved still more.”
Iguchi, Cozzolino, Van dam were on podium.Fourth place was Saga.Naoki Yamamoto closed on Saga in the final laps and was fifth, Hironobu Yasuda was 6th.
Daisuke Nakajima damaged his front wings in the fight with Yuki Nakayama and regrettably retired.

　In qualifying of National class, Hideki Yamauchi got pole position by more than one second.
Hideto Yasuoka, Zaher Ali, Alexandre Imperatori followed him, but Yamauchi deeply regreted making mistake at start ” ”the engine rotation has fall off”
Yasuoka, Imperatori and Masaki Matsushita passed Ali and move up to 3rd place.
Yamauchi had lost some time, but joined the first place fight of Yasuoka and Imperatori to the sixth lap, the top 3 covered by a few tenths in the three-cornered fight.
　However, the ninth lap, Yasuoka made a braking mistake at the hairpin corner and went off the track.Imperatori raced with Yamauchi, but fighting to the end, got his first championship win this season.”Car condition was difficult ,but was able to protect my place somehow”Yamauchi was 2nd, Matsushita 3rd.