How to make a hash of Suzuka: Goin' up & down at the Japanese GP
Drivers, fans and viewers were overjoyed to return to Suzuka for the first time in three years, so what went wrong? There's one overriding factor...
The annual pre-Daytona test day, the ‘Roar before’, took place at the International Speedway over the weekend, with the LMP2s leading the way from the new DPis on the timing screens.
Porsche LMP1 racer Neel Jani set the early benchmark, moonlighting with Rebellion Racing alongside Seb Buemi, heading four of the five sessions. But it was resurgent Briton Ben Hanley who set the weekend’s fastest lap in DragonSpeed’s Oreca. Mazda was the quickest of the new-for-2017 Daytona Protoypes, 0.2s shy of Hanley’s weekend best. Just 1.3s covered the entire premier prototype field.
Ryan Briscoe and Tony Kanaan were quickest in GTLM, both in Ford GTs, Porsche’s Sven Muller topped GT Daytona, with James French fastest of the five Prototype Challenge cars.
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The DragonSpeed Oreca topped the timesheets in the hands of Ben Hanley, who partners Henrik Hedman and Nicolas Lapierre
AX Racing opted for a Cadillac chassis, reigning champions Dane Cameron and Eric Curran finished sixth fastest
Lexus moves into the GT Daytona ranks in 2017
The new Porsche RSR made its competitive debut, clocking almost 3,000 kilometres
Mercedes too moves into GTD, with 24 Hours Nürburgring winner Adam Christodoulou
Rebellion Racing switches from LMP1 privateers to LMP2, and has recruited Stephane Sarrazin, Sebastien Buemi and Neel Jani for the Daytona 24
Drivers, fans and viewers were overjoyed to return to Suzuka for the first time in three years, so what went wrong? There's one overriding factor...
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