Suzuka might be widely considered as Japan's motorsport home - but a four-time SUPERGT_JP champion prefers the 'other' big-name venue 🇯🇵 📝 JamieKlein_ finds out why R_Quintarelli loves the Fuji Speedway 🗻
Of all the circuits on the current Super GT calendar, Fuji Speedway is certainly the most ‘Tilke-like’, owing mostly to the Toyota-owned venue’s 2005 renovation that enabled it to snatch away the Japanese Grand Prix from Suzuka for 2007-08.
Since the demise of the Suzuka 1000km race in 2017, this mid-week event is now unchallenged in terms of the number of spectators that flock there every year. In 2019, the last year before the COVID-19 pandemic, 56,000 fans showed up on race day - more than double the crowd that attended the WEC 6 Hours of Fuji the same year.
Quintarelli made his Fuji Super GT debut in 2005, just after the track was renovated, but he would have to wait until a decade later to score a first win there, dominating alongside Tsugio Matsuda in the works NISMO GT-R in 2015. The following year, he and Matsuda won out when the Impul Nissan lost a certain win with a tyre failure just a few laps from home.
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