"Tiger" Takagi got Pole for PIAA Nakajima Team!
Suzuka Circuit (July 5) -RIJ- Formula One Tyrrell's test driver Toranosuke Takagi took Pole Position for All Japan Formula Nippon Championship Round-4 after he marked 1 minute 45.269 seconds in hot Special Stage at Suzuka Circuit. Takagi drove Reynard 97D Mugen and marked top time 1 minute 45.602 seconds in Qualifying Session and got a right to run in Special Stage, single car qualifying session.
"My car was better in Special Stage than Qualifying," said Takagi who run in Porsche Cup race of Formula One French Grand Prix last Sunday. "I will run deliberately tomorrow to avoid incident," he continued.
Second grid was taken by Masahiko Kageyama in Lola T95/50 Mugen, followed by Hidetoshi Mitsusada in Lola T96/52 Mugen.
Point leader Pedro de la Rosa from Spain couldn't start the Special Stage after spin-off.
Auto Tech Stellar team changed both drivers. Italian Marco Apicella replaced Italian Mauro Martini who got traffic accident before Le Mans 24 Hours Race and Briton Andrew Gilbert-Scott replaced young German Michael Krumm who left team because after luck of communication (Krumm said.)
Team 5-Jigen's Belgian Marc Goossens was replaced by Japanese Eiichi Tajima. Tetsuji Toda drove second car with Dilantha Malagamuwa for Sri Lanka with Team Leyjun.
Starting Grids for Formula Nippon Rd.4 SUZUKA:
Suzuka Circuit -RIJ- Here are the Starting Grids for All Japan Formula Nippon Round-4 at Suzuka Circuit.
Starting Grid:
P No. Driver------------- Car--------------BestLapT/Pos.--SS Time---Lap-
1 64 Toranosuke Takagi (J) Reynard 97D/Mugen 1'45.602(1) 1'45.269 3/ 3
2 20*Masahiko Kageyama (J) Lola T95/Mugen 1'45.781(2) 1'45.742 4/ 4
3 11 Hidetoshi Mitsusada(J) Lola T96/Mugen 1'46.560(4) 1'46.582 4/ 4
4 65 Koji Yamanishi (J) Reynard 97D/Mugen 1'46.550(5) 1'47.225 4/ 4
5 56 Satoshi Motoyama (J) Reynard 97D/Mugen 1'46.638(6) 1'47.489 3/ 3
6 9 Pedro de la Rosa (E) Lola T97/Mugen 1'46.499(3) D.N.S 0
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7 10 Akira Iida (J) Lola R97/Mugen 1'47.192 13/13
8 18 Ralf Firman (GB) Reynard 97D/Mugen 1'47.464 23/23
9 33 Toshio Suzuki (J) Reynard 97D/Mugen 1'47.470 18/19
10 27 Masami Kageyama (J) Reynard 96D/Mugen 1'47.567 11/13
11 55 Katsutomo Kaneishi (J) Reynard 96D/Mugen 1'47.791 11/12
12 8 Juichi Wakisaka (J) Dome F104R/Mugen 1'47.879 17/17
13 1 Norberto Fontana (RA) Reynard 97D/Mugen 1'47.948 9/ 9
14 35 Marco Apicella (I) Reynard 96D/Mugen 1'48.240 15/18
15 34 Andrew Gil.-Scott (GB) Lola T96/Mugen 1'48.431 18/19
16 6 Eiichi Tajima (J) Reynard 96D/Judd 1'48.737 17/20
17 5 Marc Goossens (B) Reynard 96D/Judd 1'48.746 5/ 5
18 2 Esteban Tuero (RA) Reynard 97D/Mugen 1'48.766 21/21
19 3 Atsushi Kawamoto (J) Reynard 96D/Mugen 1'49.657 17/17
20 28 Katsumi Yamamoto (J) Reynard 95D/Mugen 1'49.760 8/11
21 17 Masahiko Kondo (J) Reynard 97D/Mugen 1'50.193 17/19
22 63 Dilantha Malagamuwa(SRI)Reynard96D/Mugen 1'53.952 11/20
23 62 Tetsuji Toda (J) Reynard 94D/Mugen 1'54.096 12/16
24 36 Tetsuji Tamanaka (J) Lola T95/Mugen 1'54.501 9/ 9
25 37 Masao Yamada (J) Lola T94/Mugen 1'56.200 7/22
26 19*Takuya Kurosawa (J) Lola T96/Mugen No Time
Note: Top 6 grids were decided after the Special Stage, total 5 laps
(1 warm-up lap, 3 timed laps and 1 cool-down lap) single car qualifying
session by top 6 qualifiers.
*=Penalty: #19, T.Kurosawa, deleted all qualifying times because of
interference to other car.
#20, Masahiko Kageyama, deleted best qualifying time because
of passing under yellow flag.