On the face of it, the #16 ARTA Honda NSX-GT enjoyed a straightforward run to the team\u2019s first SUPER GT victory of the season at Suzuka last weekend. But in reality, the team was fortunate that another pit error didn\u2019t end up costing it dearly.
The first half of the 2023 campaign turned out to be a major disappointment for the two-car ARTA squad, which is in the first season of a new alliance with Team Mugen, with each of its cars having just a single third-place finish each to show for their efforts in the opening four races.
“We had a lot of margin when we left the pits, but we didn’t put as much fuel in the car as we had planned,” Otsu revealed in the post-race press conference. “I had to save two laps’ worth of fuel over my stint, otherwise we risked not making the finish.” “At Fuji, the problem with the fuel [on car #8] was something fundamental with the car, there was an issue that meant the amount of fuel we planned wasn’t entering the car. We solved that, and this time, we just put in the wrong amount of fuel.”While Quintarelli was closing in during the second stint, by as much as two seconds per lap at certain points, the Italian driver was also having to manage issues of his own.
Quintarelli handed over to his team-mate in the #23 Nissan, Tsugio Matsuda, having cut the deficit to around 15 seconds, but Matsuda was only able to close to within 10 seconds of Fukuzumi in the ARTA Honda. Regardless, their efforts were rendered moot as the pair were stripped of second in the final results due to an overly worn skid block.ARTA’s #8 car title hopes recede after pick-up woes
This move should have put Nojiri in a position to move inside the top three, but instead the two-time Super Formula champion endured a woeful stint that left he and Oyu on the fringes of the top 10 heading into the final stint.
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