Saitama Toyopet’s Kawaai to omit Suzuka SUPER GT spherical

Kawaai’s jam aboard the team’s GT300 class #52 Toyota GR Supra GT300 alongside Hiroki Yoshida will be taken by series frail Taku Bamba, who will to find his first SUPER GT open since 2018.

An announcement from the team acknowledged Kawaai is currently recovering at home and that the the relaxation of the team members’ PCR tests came inspire adversarial.

Japanese System 4 graduate Kawaai made his SUPER GT debut remaining yr for the Saitama Toyopet squad, scoring two wins alongside Yoshida to to find second within the GT300 drivers’ standings within the inspire of Kondo Racing Nissan pair Joao Paulo de Oliveira and Kiyoto Fujinami.

The duo currently lie third on this yr’s standings after three races with two third-jam finishes at Okayama and Motegi.

Bamba, 39, meanwhile returns to the team he raced for beefy-time in 2017 and ’18 earlier than being replaced for 2019 by Yoshida. Ahead of that, he turn into a GT300 champion in 2011 with the Goodsmile Racing team.

As a consequence of his day out of the series, Bamba must traipse SUPER GT’s ‘rookie take a look at’ in Saturday’s free note session, which in actual fact manner winding up 10 consecutive laps at a particular velocity.

Yoshida and Bamba traipse into this weekend’s chase carrying 66kg of success ballast, courtesy of the 22 aspects scored by the team to date.

The two crews that jointly lead the standings, Naoya Gamou/Togo Suganami (LEON Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3) and Katsuyuki Hiranaka/Hironobu Yasuda (Gainer Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3) every elevate 75kg of extra weight.