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Ferrari maintains SUPER GT presence with Pacific CarGuy
Ferrari's presence on the 2022 SUPER GT grid has been firmed up with Pacific CarGuy Racing using the 488 GT3 Evo for another season in the Japanese series.
Jamie Klein
Edited: Mar 1, 2022, 9:38 AM
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An extension of the joint venture between long-time GT300 entrant Pacific and Takeshi Kimura's CarGuy outfit had already been announced ahead of SUPER GT's entry list reveal earlier this month, but the car type and driver line-up were not officially revealed.
Now it has been confirmed that gentleman racer Kimura and regular partner Kei Cozzolino will once again team up at the wheel of the Yokohama-shod #9 Pacific CarGuy Ferrari, keeping the Italian marque on the grid.
It means that 10 different makes will be represented in a 28-strong GT300 field in 2022, with Ferrari joining Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Subaru, Lexus, Mercedes, Audi, BMW and Lamborghini. Porsche and Lotus have dropped off the grid.
Kimura and Cozzolino drove together in five out of eight races in SUPER GT last year, with Kimura missing three events that clashed with his FIA World Endurance Championship GTE Am programme.
Naoki Yokomizo deputised for Kimura for the three races he missed, and it was with Cozzolino and Yokomizo that the team achieved its best result of the year at fourth at Suzuka. However, an opportunity for a podium was lost with a puncture in Yokomizo's final outing of the season at Motegi.
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Kimura is set for a double programme in 2022 as he combines SUPER GT with an attack on the four-race Japan Cup portion of the GT World Challenge Asia series at the wheel of a CarGuy Ferrari.
Yokomizo meanwhile is set for a full season in GTWC Asia, sharing a Ferrari with Kiyoto Fujinami for new entrant Yogibo Racing.
Entry for Okayama test announced
Team Mach will participate in the Okayama pre-season test on March 12-13 with its Toyota 86 Mother Chassis with three new drivers: Yusuke Tomibayashi, Masaya Kono and Super Taikyu regular Kazuya Oshima (not to be confused with the Toyota factory driver).
The move suggests that the team will not retain its 2021 line-up comprising brothers Yuya and Reiji Hiraki.
All but one of the 28 registered GT300 cars will be in action at Okayama, with only the new Inging Toyota GR86 absent.
Tsuchiya Engineering is set to debut its new self-built version of the Toyota GR Supra, with team boss Takeshi Tsuchiya listed as a third driver.
BMW works driver Augusto Farfus is set to miss the test as expected, with Tsubasa Kondo filling in for the Brazilian in the Team Studie M4 GT3.
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GT300 class entry list:
No. Team Car Tyre Drivers 2 Inging/Cars Tokai Dream28* Toyota GR86 GT Bridgestone
Hiroki Katoh
Yuui Tsutsumi
4 Goodsmile Racing with Team Ukyo Mercedes-AMG GT3 Yokohama
Nobuteru Taniguchi
Tatsuya Kataoka
5 Team Mach Toyota 86 MC Yokohama
TBA
6 Team LeMans with Motoyama Racing Audi R8 LMS Yokohama
Satoshi Motoyama
Yoshiaki Katayama
7 Team Studie BMW M4 GT3 Michelin
Seiji Ara
Augusto Farfus*
9 Pacific CarGuy Racing Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo Yokohama
Takeshi Kimura
Kei Cozzolino
10 Gainer Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 Dunlop
Ryuichiro Tomita
Riki Okusa
11 Gainer Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 Dunlop
Hironobu Yasuda
Keishi Ishikawa
18 Team UpGarage Honda NSX GT3 Yokohama
Takashi Kobayashi
Kakunoshin Ota
20 Shade Racing Toyota GR86 GT Dunlop
Katsuyuki Hiranaka
Eijiro Shimizu
22 R'Qs Motor Sports Mercedes-AMG GT3 Yokohama
Hisashi Wada
Masaki Jyonai
25 Team Tsuchiya Toyota GR Supra GT300 Yokohama
Takamitsu Matsui
Seita Nonaka
30 apr Toyota GR86 GT Yokohama
Hiroaki Nagai
Manabu Orido
31 apr Toyota Prius PHV GR Sport Bridgestone
Yuhki Nakayama
Koki Saga
34 Busou Drago Corse Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 Dunlop
Masataka Yanagida
Yuji Ide
48 NILZZ Racing Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 Yokohama
Taiyou Iida
TBA
50 Arnage Racing Toyota 86 MC Yokohama
Masaki Kano
Ryohei Sakaguchi
52 Saitama Toyopet Green Brave Toyota GR Supra GT300 Bridgestone
Hiroki Yoshida
Kohta Kawaai
55 ARTA Honda NSX GT3 Bridgestone
Hideki Mutoh
Iori Kimura
56 Kondo Racing Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 Yokohama
Kiyoto Fujinami
JP de Oliveira
60 LM Corsa Toyota GR Supra GT300 Dunlop
Hiroki Yoshimoto
Shunsuke Kohno
61 R&D Sport Subaru BRZ Dunlop
Takuto Iguchi
Hideki Yamauchi
65 LEON Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 Bridgestone
Naoya Gamou
Takuro Shinohara
87 JLOC Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Yokohama
Kosuke Matsuura
Natsu Sakaguchi
88 JLOC Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Yokohama
Takashi Kogure
Yuya Motojima
96 K-Tunes Racing Lexus RC F GT3 Dunlop
Morio Nitta
Shinichi Takagi
244 Max Racing Toyota GR Supra GT300 Yokohama
Kimiya Sato
Atsushi Miyake
360 Tomei Sports Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 Yokohama
Takayuki Aoki
Atsushi Tanaka
* skipping Okayama test
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