Fuji-meister Tachikawa powers to 22nd career pole

If the modern-day master of Mount Panorama Circuit in Australia is the great Craig Lowndes, then the same could be said about Yuji Tachikawa, the master of Fuji International Speedway, at the foot of Mount Fuji in Japan.

The eighteen-year ace driver of the #38 ZENT Cerumo LC500 of Lexus Team ZENT Cerumo continued to etch his name into the history books of the fabled circuit, and the Golden Week classic that is the Fuji GT 500km Race, by taking his 22nd career pole position on Wednesday for tomorrow’s Fuji 500km.

With the bonus point for pole position, 41-year-old Tachikawa is now the third driver in Super GT history to score 1,000 career championship points, joining Morio Nitta and Satoshi Motoyama in the exclusive club.

Taniguchi takes GT300 pole position for Goodsmile Racing

Not even a field-high 40 kilogram Success Ballast penalty was going to stop Goodsmile Racing with Team UKYO from continuing their torrid start to the 2017 Autobacs Super GT Series, as they took GT300 pole position for the 2017 Fuji GT 500km Race thanks to a pole-winning lap in Q2 from ace driver Nobuteru Taniguchi.

The pole position for the Golden Week classic ends a run of over six years since the last time Goodsmile Racing and Taniguchi sat on pole position, dating back to the 2011 Motegi GT 250km Race.