Tomoki Nojiri was declared the winner of a shortened Sugo Tremendous Components race that featured simply two laps of green-flag working in treacherous circumstances.
The beginning of the race was delayed following a crash in warm-up for Naoki Yamamoto on the last nook, with the Nakajima Racing driver falling foul of the standing water that had constructed up on account of persistent rain because the begin of the day.
After barrier repairs and an prolonged reconnaissance lap interval to evaluate the circumstances, the race started round an hour delayed.
With Yamamoto unable to start out, poleman Nojiri led the depleted 20-car subject underneath the protection automotive forward of Group Mugen stablemate Ayumu Iwasa and TOM’S driver Sho Tsuboi.
Following 5 laps underneath warning, the sphere was launched on the sixth lap of a scheduled 51, just for the protection automotive to be known as once more nearly instantly following a crash for Rookie Racing’s Kazuya Oshima, once more on the last nook.
A second try at restarting the race was made on lap 13, however once more it was short-lived as Sena Sakaguchi suffered a crash on the identical level of the monitor.
This time, the race was red-flagged with the leaders having accomplished 14 laps, and the harm to the limitations on the final nook meant the race was lastly deserted.
Ayumu Iwasa, TEAM MUGEN
Picture by: Masahide Kamio
Nojiri was due to this fact declared the winner, giving the two-time champion his thirteenth profession win, forward of Purple Bull junior Iwasa and Tsuboi.
The positions of the highest six didn’t change all through, that means Autopolis winner Tadasuke Makino (Dandelion Racing) was fourth, Toshiki Oyu (Inging) was fifth and Kenta Yamashita (Kondo Racing) was sixth.
Kakunoshin Ota suffered an off within the second of the Dandelion automobiles on the last nook on the second restart, albeit avoiding a crash, dropping from seventh to 14th within the course of.
That promoted Yuji Kunimoto (Impul) to seventh forward of Kazuto Kotaka (Kondo), Iori Kimura (B-Max Racing) and Kamui Kobayashi (KCMG).
Kobayashi was one of many few drivers to realize locations through the little green-flag working that happened, climbing as excessive as eighth on the time of the pink flags earlier than the outcomes have been rolled again to the tip of lap 12.
Half-points have been awarded because the race didn’t attain 75% distance, however 10 factors for victory plus the three earned on Saturday for scoring pole put Nojiri within the lead of the championship, 6.5 factors away from Iwasa.