Sho Tsuboi set the pace in the closing moments of the morning session that was disrupted by no fewer than five red flags at the wheel of Cerumo’s #14 car, setting a best time of 1m18.123s and leading a Toyota 1-2 ahead of TOM’S driver Yuhi Sekiguchi.
That turned out to be the day’s quickest time, as Hiroaki Ishiura’s best effort in the afternoon session of 1m18.193s in the sister #38 machine fell just 0.070s short.
However, Bertrand Baguette’s Saturday benchmark of 1m17.850s, set at the wheel of the Real Racing Honda NSX-GT, was not bettered.
Sekiguchi’s time in the #36 TOM’S Supra in the morning session was good enough for third overall behind the two Cerumo-run cars, with Baguette once again finishing up as top Honda driver in the #17 machine, just a further 0.007s back.
Nissan’s Ronnie Quintarelli was second-quickest in the afternoon, his early effort of 1m18.409s standing until Ishiura went quicker a little over an hour into the session. The time was good enough for fifth overall in the Michelin-shod #23 GT-R.
The ARTA squad failed to improve on its best time from Saturday, Tomoki Nojiri setting the day’s sixth-fastest time ahead of Honda stablemate Naoki Yamamoto in the Team Kunimitsu NSX-GT and the Impul Nissan of Daiki Sasaki.
Completing the top 10 overall were the SARD Toyota, driven by ex-Formula 1 driver Heikki Kovalainen, and the Yokohama-shod Kondo Nissan of Mitsunori Takaboshi.
The #37 TOM’S car had another low-key day as the combined efforts of Nick Cassidy and Ryo Hirakawa left the pair down in 13th, second-slowest of the Toyota contingent.
A crash for Yuji Kunimoto in the morning at the Moss S at the wheel of the Bandoh Supra meant the day was a write-off for the team, which failed to do any representative running as it was unable to repair the #19 car in time for the afternoon session.

#19 WedsSport ADVAN GR Supra with crash damage
Photo by: Masahide Kamio
Kunimoto was taken to the medical centre as a precaution but escaped injury.
In GT300, the Cars Dream Tokai28 Lotus Evora MC of Hiroki Katoh set the pace overall with a best effort of 1m25.595s in the morning session.
Second overall was the quickest car in the afternoon, the works-entered Subaru BRZ R&D Sport on a 1m25.773s, followed by the #31 apr Toyota Prius PHV GR Sport, the Team Hitotsuyama Audi R8 LMS and the Tomei Sports Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3.
GT500 test results:
Pos. | No. | Team/Car | Drivers | Tyre | am time | pm time |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 14 | Cerumo Toyota |
|
B |
1’18.123 | 1’18.699 |
2 | 38 | Cerumo Toyota |
|
B |
1’18.595 | 1’18.193 |
3 | 36 | TOM’S Toyota |
|
B |
1’18.351 | 1’18.634 |
4 | 17 | Real Honda |
|
B |
1’18.358 | 1’19.237 |
5 | 23 | NISMO Nissan |
|
M |
1’18.725 | 1’18.409 |
6 | 8 | ARTA Honda |
|
B |
1’18.485 | 1’19.718 |
7 | 100 | Kunimitsu Honda |
|
B |
1’19.405 | 1’18.663 |
8 | 12 | Impul Nissan |
|
B |
1’18.849 | 1’19.314 |
9 | 39 | SARD Toyota |
|
B |
1’19.378 | 1’18.939 |
10 | 24 | Kondo Nissan |
|
Y |
1’18.969 | 1’20.020 |
11 | 3 | B-Max Nissan |
|
M |
1’19.065 | 1’19.734 |
12 | 64 | Nakajima Honda |
|
D |
1’20.213 | 1’19.073 |
13 | 37 | TOM’S Toyota |
|
B |
1’19.108 | 1’19.296 |
14 | 230 | Nissan test car | – | Y | 1’22.144 | 1’19.746 |
15 | 16 | Mugen Honda |
|
Y |
1’20.038 | 1’19.796 |
16 | 19 | Bandoh Toyota |
|
Y |
1’31.346 | no time |
Tyre key: B = Bridgestone, D = Dunlop, M = Michelin, Y = Yokohama