Kovalainen explains SARD’s first-to-last qualifying drop

Kovalainen ended up eighth and slowest of the cars that made it through to the Q2 pole shootout on Saturday at the wheel of the #39 Toyota GR Supra, more than seven tenths away from the pole time set by Nirei Fukuzumi in the #8 ARTA Honda NSX-GT.
That was despite Yuichi Nakayama topping the opening segment on a 1m10.275s, a time that would have put the SARD machine fourth on the grid had it …Keep reading