With one car having taken four poles in six SuperGT races, we ask - are the series' in-season testing rules unfairly favouring Yokohama?
It also means that Yokohama gets to do its eight days of running with two cars, one Toyota and one Nissan , while Dunlop is stuck with a single NSX-GT, which in practice means the #64 Nakajima Racing car.
“Yokohama is always testing and improving the tyre, so I am not surprised [that they have scored four poles this year],” Miyata told Motorsport.com. “Now they’ve accumulated a lot of data, and they are able to improve everything. I want to do more testing, and of course if we did the same amount of testing, we could get many pole positions, and so could the Michelin cars. But Yokohama gets to test too much.”Asked for his thoughts on the situation, Kunimoto admitted that Yokohama’s testing privileges do give it a significant advantage for qualifying.
Michelin and Dunlop are in the same boat on this front, but Michelin suffers the logistical hurdles of having to fly in tyres from its Clermont-Ferrand factory in France, which can sometimes result in its two Nissan teams not having optimal rubber for the conditions.
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