 @On Sunday, a rain forecast came off; it was heat more than Saturday in Okayama international circuit on Sunday. In temperature 26 degrees, track surface 45 degrees,
32 Grid kids line up before a start. Grid unusually became a lively atmosphere before the 25 laps of finals.
@As a result of qualifying of Saturday, Carlo Van Dam got a pole, Keisuke Kunimoto got 2nd, and Takuto Iguchi got 3rd. the TOM'S group monopolized high-ranking Grid for the tenth round. Naoki Yamamoto and Yuki Nakayama of Honda  Team Real followed them same as the ninth round, and the sixth Grid was Hironobu Yasuda of Three Bond.
@Koki Saga, Daisuke Nakajima followed after them Kei Cozzolino which suffered went off the track in qualifying was put in National class and started from the tenth Grid.
@All cars started when the red lights went out at 0:33 p.m. Kunimoto, Iguchi, Yamamoto followed to Van dam, Yasuda who did good start passed Nakayama and moved up to the fifth position.
"Because I had just narrow margin in qualifying, the race was expected tough fight, but ..." Van dam told. He widened a gap with Kunimoto and Iguchi gradually. However, a pace of three top exceeded the fourth place Yamamoto and followers machine, the winners' podium monopolize by the TOM'S team became certain step by step.
 @In the compete race, Yamamoto and Yasuda always did the fourth place fight that grew tense, after all Yasuda got inside of Yamamoto at the 20th lap in hairpin curve, but he lost his footing on inside dirty track surface and locked the brake, than they came into contact. Yamamoto continued a race sequentially, but Yasuda spun and was got ahead by Nakayama, Koki Saga, and Kei Cozzolino. Then he has dropped down to the eighth.
@Van dam marked the third win in this season after all. He told "I got winners' podium 10 continued for me since first race. The point lead could spread, and I might have been able to greet a second half in good situation." 2nd place was Kunimoto, third was Iguchi successively, and Yamamoto, Nakayama, Saga filled up 6th position.
 @On the other hand, Alexandre Imperatori succeeded in revenge of round ninth in National class. He made an exquisite start from a class pole consecutive and stood on the top, not only separated a rival of National class promptly also showed force to chase around Daisuke Nakajima of a championship class.
@Imperatori told "I pushed to go about Nakajima for a time but thought that there are not many meanings, and kept my pace continued." and "I have run this course experimentally before, and this layout is my favorite type. I was able to clear myself from the yesterday's vexation." At the last, He put 11 seconds a wide margin and got the third win.
@On the contrary, Hideki Yamauchi was forced to a hard fight of each two races. He did the start without a mistake, but came into contact in 1st corner and was damaged in a front wing. Beginning the race approached Takashi Nagase and the Masaki Matsushita which passed through his side, but difference was opened at the end of race.
@It was getting the second winners' podium for Nagase got the goal as the 2nd place.
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