Tremendous Formulation was pressured to cancel Sunday’s second race at Fuji Speedway owing to dense fog.
The choice was made to desert the tenth spherical of the season at round 3:35pm native time amid a scarcity of visibility, with circumstances on the Toyota-owned venue taking a flip for the more serious simply earlier than the reconnaissance laps had been resulting from begin.
It follows a Saturday race that was minimize brief resulting from rain with none inexperienced flag working happening.
JRP President Yoshihisa Ueno said in a press convention after the race was cancelled that the collection is contemplating whether or not a substitute spherical may very well be held at both Fuji or Suzuka, the place the ultimate double-header is because of be held on November 22-23.
Qualifying happened as regular within the morning on a principally dry observe, albeit with some damp spots remaining, as Tadasuke Makino claimed his second pole of the season.
Dandelion Racing driver Makino, who had been quickest within the dry throughout follow on Friday, beat Nakajima Racing’s Igor Fraga to the highest spot by simply 0.076 seconds.
Sho Tsuboi, VANTELIN TEAM TOM’SS
Photograph by: Masahide Kamio
Kakunoshin Ohta certified third within the second Dandelion automotive, with the only bonus level shifting him stage on factors with Ayumu Iwasa, and forward on countback owing to his three wins thus far this season versus the Workforce Mugen driver’s one.
Championship chief Sho Tsuboi (TOM’S) solely certified seventh, however maintains a 14.5-point benefit over Ohta and Iwasa.
Makino’s three bonus factors for pole means he faces a 23.5-point deficit to Tsuboi.
Tomoki Nojiri (Mugen), who certified fourth and scored no bonus factors, is the one driver nonetheless in mathematical competition for the championship if no substitute race is held.
Saturday race winner Sacha Fenestraz (TOM’S) was resulting from take the beginning from down in 18th after a lock-up at Flip 1 – a potential consequence of an off-track second on the earlier lap – meant he was eradicated in his Q1 group with solely the ninth-fastest time.
Zak O’Sullivan in the meantime would have taken the beginning from final resulting from a difficulty together with his Kondo Racing machine that prevented him from leaving the storage in Q1.
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