The Nissan GT-R of Satoshi Motoyama and Benoit Treluyer, won Kyushu 300, Round 8 of the Autobacs SUPER GT series at the Autopolis in Japan. 

Starting from pole position lead driver Benoit Treluyer, made a great start to open up a significant lead. Co-driver Motoyama took over for the second half of the race and from then on was never threatened. The win was the team’s third of the season but their first since way back in round two. They now lead the series outright with one round remaining.

Second and third place went to the Honda NSXs of Loic Duval and Katsuyuki Hiranaka with Ralph Firman and Takuya Izawa in third.

Another win for Nissan in the GT300 class

 In the GT300 class the DAISHIN ADVAN 350Z driven by Takayuki Aoki and Tomonobu Fujii came from second position on the starting grid to score their first win of the season. 

The final round of the series will be held at Fuji Speedway on November 8 and 9.

:with Super GT media release