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Blancpain GT Asia GT4- No stopping BMW Team Studie in Fuji race 2
22.07.2018: BLANCPAIN GT ASIA SERIES
Mont Fuji, Japan
Sunday, July 22nd 2018
BMW Team Studie’s Sunako Jukuchou and Takayuki Kinoshita completed their perfect weekend at Fuji by overturning a 15s pitstop success penalty
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BLANCPAIN GT ASIA SERIES
Mont Fuji, Japan
Sunday, July 22nd 2018
BMW Team Studie’s Sunako Jukuchou and Takayuki Kinoshita completed their perfect weekend at Fuji by overturning a 15s pitstop success penalty en route to victory number two.
In truth the Japanese pair were helped by separate incidents involving three of their main rivals. Nevertheless, another perfectly executed race was enough to put them squarely in championship contention after a tough start to the year.
While Kinoshita and then Jukuchou led throughout, GruppeM Racing and Team iRace.Win’s efforts were thwarted by separate incidents. Gilles Vannelet picked a drive-through penalty for tapping the other BMW driven by Max Chen into a spin, while a puncture for championship leader Reinhold Renger’s Mercedes-AMG consigned the German and Hwang Doyun to seventh, five laps behind the winner.
Instead it was TTR Team SARD’s Porsche that finished second after Brian Lee and Tony Fong went one better than yesterday’s result, while the recovering Chen and Max Urata secured a one-three finish for Team Studie.
Behind, George Chou claimed fourth by just 0.2s from Ringo Chong, while Clearwater Racing’s McLaren finished sixth.
Blancpain GT Series Asia now takes a two-month break before reconvening for its penultimate rounds at Shanghai on September 22/23.
DRIVER QUOTES
Sunako Jukuchou, #81 BMW Team Studie M4 GT4: “My co-driver and I agreed that today, with the 15-second success penalty, we would really prove the strength of the car and the team.
With two pole positions and two wins I believe we were strong, but our goal from the start of this season has always been to win the championship.
We really regret the mistake we made in Buriram, but from now onwards we will aim to win all the remaining races in Shanghai and Ningbo.”
- Benjamin Franassovici, photo SRO
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