Tremendous Method has introduced that it’ll maintain a 3rd race throughout its season finale at Suzuka as a substitute for the cancelled second race at Fuji Speedway earlier this month.
With the Sunday race at Fuji being referred to as off attributable to fog, the Japanese collection has opted to increase what had been deliberate as a double-header on 22-23 November right into a triple-header, with an additional race slotted into the schedule on Sunday morning.
This can be held as a 19-lap dash race with out pit stops, beginning at 9:50am native time, with the grid set by the finished Sunday qualifying session at Fuji.
It means Tadasuke Makino will begin from pole place, in a major enhance to his hopes of closing the 23.5-point deficit he faces to championship chief Sho Tsuboi.
Igor Fraga certified second for Nakajima Racing, forward of Makino’s Dandelion Racing team-mate Kakunoshin Ohta, who’s equal-second within the factors with Ayumu Iwasa.
Staff Mugen driver Iwasa will begin fourth, whereas Tsuboi will begin seventh in one of the best of the TOM’S automobiles.
The addition of the rescheduled race on Sunday has additionally had a knock-on affect on the schedule for Saturday, with two qualifying periods to set the grid for the 2 full-distance races of the weekend now scheduled for the morning.
Qualifying for Spherical 11, the Saturday race, can be held first at 8am native time, adopted by qualifying for Spherical 12, now the second race on Sunday, at 10:05am.
Friday’s schedule is just not impacted, with a pair of one-hour observe periods set to be held as regular.
Suzuka Tremendous Method schedule (occasions in JST):
Friday 21 November
Free Observe 1 – 1105-1205
Free Observe 2 – 1410-1510
Saturday 22 November
Qualifying for Spherical 11 – 0800
Qualifying for Spherical 12 – 1005
Race 1 (Spherical 11) – 1430 (27 laps or 75 minutes)
Sunday 23 November
Race 2 (Spherical 10 – ‘substitute’ race) – 0950 (19 laps or 50 minutes)
Race 3 (Spherical 12) – 1430 (31 laps or 75 minutes)
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