The saga surrounding which team won the red-flagged race, curtailed by a huge crash involving NISMO Nissan driver Tsugio Matsuda on lap 59 of 77, rumbled on for a week until the release of the official results last Monday.
Toyota squad Racing Project Bandoh and drivers Yuji Kunimoto and Sena Sakaguchi were finally confirmed as the winners as a 60-second penalty for the NDDP Nissan crew of Katsumasa Chiyo and Mitsunori Takaboshi, who led the race at the time of the stoppage, was upheld.
