Blancpain GT Series Asia Fuji: GT4 Team studie's resurgence to continue on home soil

Blancpain GT Series Asia Fuji: GT4 Team studie's resurgence to continue on home soil

17.07.2018: BLANCPAIN GT SERIES ASIA Japan, Mont Fuji July 20-22th, 2018 GruppeM Racing’s Reinhold Renger maintained his stellar start to the season at Suzuka but was pushed all the way by Japanese squad BMW Team Studie whose rivalry with another Mercedes-AMG

BLANCPAIN GT SERIES ASIA
Japan, Mont Fuji
July 20-22th, 2018

 

 

GruppeM Racing’s Reinhold Renger maintained his stellar start to the season at Suzuka but was pushed all the way by Japanese squad BMW Team Studie whose rivalry with another Mercedes-AMG squad – Team iRace.Win – looks set to continue this weekend.



Renger’s 39-point lead at the top of the standings owes as much to a lack of consistency amongst his rivals as it does out and out pace, for no single pairing has been able to mount a sustained challenge against the German.



Ringo Chong and Gilles Vannelet might be Renger’s closest championship rivals but it’s Team Studie’s #81 M4 GT4 which looks most likely to topple GruppeM this weekend after Takayuki Kinoshita and Sunako Jukuchou finally combined speed and luck to win their first Blancpain GT Series Asia race at Suzuka.



 What’s more, the latter’s pole position suggested the BMW is a match for the Mercedes-AMG over one lap as well as a stint, which will again prove vital this weekend.



Meanwhile, TTR Team SARD and Taiwan Top Speed’s Porsches also appeared more competitive at Suzuka, while Clearwater Racing’s McLaren returns to the scene of its double pole, fastest laps and race victories from 12 months ago.



However, the Craft-Bamboo Racing Mercedes-AMG is missing from the entry list due to Frank Yu’s lung infection, which has prevented the reigning GT4 champion from travelling to Fuji.



Two practice sessions take place this Friday ahead of qualifying and the weekend’s first hour-long race on Saturday. Watch both of those and Sunday’s race live on the championship’s Facebook page and website, as well as SRO’s GT World Youtube channel.





- Benjamin Franassovici,  photo SRO

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