Overview

• Nirei Fukuzumi converted pole into victory in Sunday’s GT500-only sprint at Fuji Speedway by 0.728 seconds, marking Rookie Racing’s first win since 2022 and his maiden triumph with Toyota.
• Sho Tsuboi and Kenta Yamashita stretched their championship lead to 19 points over their TOM’S teammates after Toyota claimed a record-extending eighth consecutive GT500 victory.
• Tomonobu Fujii held off challengers from pole to win the standalone GT300 race, completing a weekend double for D’station Racing and moving himself and co-driver Charlie Fagg to second in the GT300 standings, five points off the lead.
• The weekend’s short-format sprints placed a premium on qualifying performance and tire strategy, with no success ballast applied, a combination that Toyota’s OEM-backed teams leveraged to dominate both classes.
• Honda labeled its Civic Type R-GT’s outing at Fuji its worst in recent years after only one Civic scored GT500 points, prompting its GT500 project leaders to call for thorough technical and tire performance reviews.