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1-2 for Dome Racing Honda
in Super Taikyu at Motegi
The DOME Racing Honda Civic #98
claimed its second consecutive win the
in TCR class of the Super Taikyu series.
Two months after winning the
Autopolis 5-hour race, Taiyo Iida and
Hiroki Kato were victorious in the 5
hours of Motegi; this time they shared
their Civic FK8 car with Keishi
Ishikawa who replaced Kazuho
Takahashi.
The team’s success was completed by
the Modulo Racing sister car #97 of
Tadao Uematsu, Shinji Nakano, Hiroki
Otsu and Takashi Kobayashi that
recovered to second after starting
from the back of the grid.
These results also meant that DOME
Racing has clinched the TCR title for
the second year in a row, as the gap
between the #97 car that leads the
standings and the BRP Audi RS3 LMS
#19 has reached the 58 points when
only 21 will be awarded in the final
round of the season at Okayama. The
#98 Civic has rounded off the team’s
triumph having mathematically
clinched the second place, as it stands
27 points behind the sister car.
In the Motegi race, Iida, Kato and
Ishikawa qualified second behind the
Team Mars Audi #65, but then led
from the early stages and beat the
Civic #97 by one lap; the BRP Audi
driven by ‘Hirobon’, Takuro Shinohara,
Daisuke Yamawaki and Koichi Okumura
claimed the third spot of the podium
one further lap down and was followed
by the Team Mars Audi #65 of Daisuke
Imamura, Masanobu Kato and Hiroki
Kokuzawa that has started from the
pole position. The final round of the
series will be the Okayama 3-hour race
on November 3 and 4.