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Round5 [Suzuka]
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| ‘May 10 , Round5 :Suzuka Circuit Participation cars: 9 all-Japan class, 7 National class.Weather:rain(wet)
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| Yasuda of ThreeBond got the first pole to win at rainy Suzuka! |
 @The fifth round finals in Suzuka where It rained with large drop steadily on May 10. Hironobu Yasuda and Takuto Iguchi stand in line front low at the start 4:00 p.m.
Above all, Yasuda recorded good time consecutive at rainy qualifying, and took the first pole position for him. Keisuke Kunimoto and Hiroki Saga on the second line, Kei Cozzolino and Carlo Van dam on the third line, Each team was mixed on high-ranking Grid, and felt running a close race.
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All cars wore the wet tire, Yasuda, Saga and Cozzolino chose the new tire and other chose the used tire. After red signal fades away, Yasuda showed passable starting movement and took into the lead to the 1st corner. Iguchi, Kunimoto, Saga followed him, but Naoki Yamamoto comes trough out in a spray at 1st corner. Moreover Iguchi went out to outside at the approach of degnar, and two of them have fallen off a higher fight.
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Yasuda kept a leader had 2.8 second margins at the first lap. Behind them, Saga was pushing Kunimoto who told "Our strategy to make a gap step by step with quick warmable new tire in the early stage was going well" and Yasuda runaway to victory.
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The close fighting of Kunimoto and Saga continued with about 1 second gap, but a gap spreads cause of delayed cars affects the end of the race. Perhaps Saga got impatient to cut this gap down, he made mistake of breaking in the eleventh lap at chicane and had jumped out to green. The fourth place Van dam passed Saga who became slow of start acceleration at the home straight. "The view was bad, and there was not the chance cause of Saga was fast, but his mistake brought a big present for me" Van dam was into 3rd place.
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Yasuda told it with pleasure "It was hard till now, but at last I was able to win"
He brought championship for ThreeBond racing after two years since 2006 with own first championship. Kunimoto was 2nd place, he said "It was a good race that I had continue pushing to the last" and 3rd was Van dam.4th Saga, 5th Daisuke Nakajima, and 6th was Cozzolino.
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In National class attracting attention, Hideki Yamanouchi who gat the pole said "I did the best start of me heretofore", but Masaki Matsushita did a sharp dash than him. He placed on sixth at qualifying cause of went off the track, but "nobody seemed to be in front of me", he overtook five sides in his front smoothly and move up on the top.But Yamauchi followed Matsushita too, and waited for an opportunity of turned the position.
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And he overtook Matsushita in the chicane at the sixth lap "I thought that it was only at there could overtaking from a beginning." Both of first & second best time of qualifying separated from others more than one second, and the speed was overpowering after he rose on the top .On the contrary, Matsushita stalled for a trouble of an electric system in a last lap.
And he has been overtaken tragically by Hideto Yasuoka and Takashi Nagase who competed for 3rd place till then. Yamauchi who succeeded in escaping with a wide margin got the second win to continue for the opening game and put a period to the winner bristling circumstances that continued to here.
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