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Blancpain GT4 Asia - Team Studie make the most of GruppeM's retirement
23.09.2018: Blancpain GT Series Asia
Shanghai International Circuit
Sunday, September 23rd, 2018
Sunako Jukuchou and Takayuki Kinoshita put themselves squarely in this season’s GT4 title fight by claiming theirs and BMW Team Studie’s fourth win of the sea
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Blancpain GT Series Asia
Shanghai International Circuit
Sunday, September 23rd, 2018
Sunako Jukuchou and Takayuki Kinoshita put themselves squarely in this season’s GT4 title fight by claiming theirs and BMW Team Studie’s fourth win of the season at Shanghai earlier today.
It means the Japanese pairing head to Ningbo’s season finale 11 points behind Reinhold Renger whose GruppeM Racing Mercedes-AMG retired with a battery issue just after the pitstops.
The two title protagonists enjoyed a fierce battle during the opening stint when pole-sitter Jukuchou resisted intense pressure from the German behind. Time and again Renger looked for a way past but couldn’t find one before the window opened after 25 minutes.
The scrap looked set to continue after the stops but was cut short by the Mercedes-AMG’s retirement. Instead, Kinoshita cruised to a 35s victory over team-mates Max Chen and Ken Urata despite serving a 10s success penalty for finishing runner-up yesterday.
Third place once again went to TTR Team SARD’s Porsche, which claimed its third podium in four races. Tony Fong and Brian Lee finished 1.8s behind the #82 BMW and comfortably clear of Dean Koutsoumidis and Justin McMillan who debuted M Motorsport’s KTM.
However, Ringo Chong’s title hopes were dealt a setback when his co-driver, Alex Au, was hit by another GT4 car early in the first stint. Team iRace.Win worked hard to repair the Mercedes-AMG, which at least salvaged some points for finishing seventh in class and fifth of the full-season entries.
DRIVER QUOTES
Sunako Jukuchou, #81 BMW Team Studie M4 GT4: “The match up with Reinhold Renger was really fun. I think we really enjoyed each other’s company.
He is a very clean driver, and even when we got really close to each other, he and I would both give each other enough racing room. So I really enjoyed the race and tried hard to keep #666 at bay.”
Ningbo hosts the final round of this year’s Blancpain GT Series Asia campaign on October 13/14.
- Benjamin Franassovici, photo SRO
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