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Round4 [Autopolis]
‘April 27 , Round4 :Autopolis Participation cars: 9 all-Japan class, 7 National class.Weather:sunny(dry)
Keisuke Kunimoto does a rocket start, and had championship win the first time in this season!

hAfter Fuji, the performance is considerably improved.I think that I can get a double pole if it does not rain for the last qualifying, but I am glad to take first Pole in japan hsaid Carlo Van dam ; pole in qualifying of the day before .
Takuto Iguchi was 2nd position who was prevented a consecutive pole by Van dam.
Keisuke Kunimoto, Kei Cozzolino, Yuki Nakayama, Koki Saga followed them, and on for Grid of the fourth round, only the two on front row were in a different position from Round3.
@Weather was improving and became clear in Autopolis on Sunday.The 20 laps of the fourth round from 1:00 p.m. started with 16 degrees ambient , and track surface rose to 34 degrees,but start of pole-sitter Van dam was not good enough.Van dam told that hwe changed first gear because wheel spin in yesterday's Round3, but the resulting acceleration was slowhIt seemed that Iguchi would take the lead instead of him, but Kunimoto took 1st at 1st corner with a better start.Van dam dropped to 3rd place, and Cozzolino, Yuki Nakayama, Naoki Yamamoto, Hironobu Yasuda followed him, but Daisuke Nakajima had a course out at 3 corner and dropped to the last.
@ Kunimoto said hI heard that this track hasn't an overtaking point ,and targeted first place at the starth , and led as planned, but behind, Iguchi and Van dam did not allow for his runaway, and three of them had a triangular fight.
Behind them, Nakayama, Yamamoto, Yasuda had a similar fight, and then Yamamoto pulled ahead, however, the gap with the fourth place Cozzolino stayed the same.
The fight of three leaders showed a psychological warfare that grew tense until the checkered flag,but the order did not change.
Kunimoto won the championship for the first time in this season hI up to now I hadn't had a satisfactory race, but here it was possible for etiquette to staffs by championship h he said and pleased.
@Iguchi and Van dam were 2nd and 3rd place, Cozzolino was 4th place.
Yasuda placed 5th, Yamamoto won the fight with Nakayama into 6th position.

@On National class, the pole-sitter Hideki Yamanouchi missed the start as Round3 of the day before.
Hideto Yasuoka, Imperatori, Takashi Nagase moved up into top 3, but Yamauchi was like a surging wave, and overtook Nagase on the fourth lap to 3rd place.
Nagase who dropped a position mixed Masaki Matsushita on the fifth lap, and lost positions together.
Zaher Ali goes up into the third place instead.
The fierce Triangular fight of Yasuoka and Imperatori,Yamauchi ended with Yamauchi moving up in 2nd place at the seventh lap and approaches in Yasuoka
Approaching fight continued to the end game without bending Yasuoka hI dropped the race with my mistake yesterday that should have been able to win, therefore I was sure not to be overtake even if caught up with todayh
Yamauchi challenged Yasuoka at 19th lap at 1st corner , but did spinning out tragically and stopped in gravel.Yasuoka won the championship after a long absence since the Fomula ToyotaThe third place was Ali.
As a result, Imperatori stands in the ranking first place in National class.


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œ Round3/4uAutopolisvResult
BRIDGESTONE
Honda
TOYOTA
ThreeBond
J SPORTS
AUTOSPORT
TOYOTA TECHNOCRAFT
Dallara