Why Honda’s ‘back-up’ car was powerless to stop Toyota

When the Team Kunimitsu Honda NSX-GT of pre-race points leader Naoki Yamamoto was wiped out in an accident with ARTA’s GT300 car at Turn 1 on lap 51, the #8 machine of Tomoki Nojiri and Nirei Fukuzumi would have ideally been there to pick up the slack.
With TOM’S Toyota pair Yuhi Sekiguchi and Sho Tsuboi winning the race, Nojiri and Fukuzumi had to finish at least third to stop the …Keep reading