The Impul Nissan team took a 'big risk' in Sunday's Sugo SuperGT race that helped keep the squad's title hopes alive. BerBaguette explains all:
Off the back of their win at Suzuka in August, Baguette and teammate Kazuki Hiramine arrived at Sugo in the lead of the championship and were expected to struggle as the only car in the GT500 field saddled with the power-sapping stage three fuel flow restrictor.
At the time, Impul was the only car to have made two stops, and the timing of the second stop was just before the lap 28 one-third distance mark, at which point Hiramine would have been able to take over and go to the end of the race. “We used the wrong compound of wet tyre, so I had to pit for the right wet tyre,” Baguette told Motorsport.com. “I was losing so much time so we decided to make the extra stop.
“When you’re in our position, you have to take a risk, and it was a big risk [to stop again] because we could have waited one more lap and changed to Kazuki.