Entry list confirmed for Fuji Dream Race
A field of 22 cars has been confirmed for the Dream Race event at Fuji Speedway next weekend, with 15 cars from SUPER GT set to do battle against the seven DTM machines that have made the trip to Asia.
Lexus, the marque that secured the 2019 SUPER GT title, will be represented by six cars, with five Hondas and four Nissans going up against the four Audis and three BMWs that were previously announced.
A number of drivers with F1 experience will swell the grid, with Heikki Kovalainen, Narain Karthikeyan and Kazuki Nakajima added to a line-up that already included Kamui Kobayashi and Alessandro Zanardi.
Several of the SUPER GT cars will run with two drivers, with one driver competing in the opening race on Saturday and the other running in the Sunday race.
The schedule will see a morning qualifying session followed by a 55-minute-plus-one-lap race on both Saturday and Sunday, with each race featuring a mandatory pit stop for a change of tyres.
Both races will get underway with a rolling start, with the DTM cars unable to use either DRS or Push-to-Pass.
Fuji Dream Race – Entry:
00 – Kamui Kobayashi – BMW Team RBM – BMW M4 DTM
1 – Naoki Yamamoto – Team Kunimitsu – Honda NSX-GT
3 – Fred Makowiecki/Kohei Hirate – NDDP Racing with B-Max – Nissan GT-R Nismo GT500
4 – Alessandro Zanardi – BMW Team RBM – BMW M4 DTM
6 – Kenta Yamashita/Kazuya Oshima – Lexus Team Lemans Wako’s – Lexus LC500
8 – Takuya Izawa/Tomoki Nojiri – ARTA – Honda NSX-GT
11 – Marco Wittmann – BMW Team RBM – BMW M4 DTM
12 – Daiki Sasaki/James Rossiter – Team Impul – Nissan GT-R Nismo GT500
16 – Hideki Mutoh/Daisuke Nakajima – Team Mugen – Honda NSX-GT
17 – Koudai Tsukakoshi – Keihin Real Racing – Honda NSX-GT
19 – Sho Tsuboi/Yuji Kunimoto – Lexus Team WedsSport Bandoh – Lexus LC500
21 – Benoit Treluyer – WRT Hitotsuyama Team Audi Sport – Audi RS 5 DTM
23 – Ronnie Quintarelli/Tsugio Matsuda – Nismo – Nissan GT-R Nismo Gt500
24 – Jann Mardenborough/Mitsunori Takaboshi – Konda Racing – Nissan GT-R Nismo GT500
28 – Loic Duval – Audi Sport Team Phoenix – Audi RS 5 DTM
33 – Rene Rast – Audi Sport Team Rosberg – Audi RS 5 DTM
36 – Yuhi Sekiguchi/Kazuki Nakajima – Lexus Team Au Tom’s – Lexus LC500
37 – Nick Cassidy/Ryo Hirakawa – Lexus Team KeePer Tom’s – Lexus LC500
38 – Yuji Tachikawa/Hiroaki Ishiura – Lexus Team Zent Cerumo – Lexus LC500
39 – Yuichi Nakayama/Heikki Kovalainen – Lexus Team Sard – Lexus LC500
64 – Tadasuke Makino/Narain Karthikeyan – Modulo Nakajima Racing – Honda NSX-GT
99 – Mike Rockenfeller – Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline – Audi RS 5 DTM
