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Why Porsche hasn't given up on the WEC titles despite its Bahrain longshot

Porsche is confident it can fight for both World Endurance Championship titles at the Bahrain finale despite a significant points deficit to overhaul and an unfavourable Balance of Performance. Here's how the championship picture is framed going into this weekend

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Super Formula, Super GT to expand outside of Japan in 2025

Both Super Formula and Super GT will expand beyond Japan in 2025, adding one international stop each on their respective calendars.

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Super Formula, SUPER GT to expand outside of Japan in 2025

Both Super Formula and SUPER GT will expand beyond Japan in 2025, adding one international stop each on their respective calendars.

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Crowd Control At Japan's Mount Fuji As Hiking Season Begins

Mount Fuji's summer climbing season begins on Monday with new crowd control measures on the Japanese volcano's most popular hiking trail to combat overtourism.

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JLOC win heightens expectations for Lamborghini Huracan Evo2

In Sunday's season finale at Motegi, Motojima and Takashi Kogure delivered JLOC's first victory since 2019 and a first since it introduced the Evo2 version of the Huracan for Round 4 at Fuji in August.

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Toyota hits out at "unprofessional" driving after Bahrain WEC start crash

Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Jose Maria Lopez went into Saturday’s decider with a 16-point deficit in the championship standings, but any hope they had of beating the sister Toyota to the title was wrecked when Bamber locked up and hit the right-rear section of the #7 GR010 Hybrid at Turn…

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Toyota has shown it was right to stay in WEC in lean years - Kobayashi

The driver/team principal made the remarks following Toyota’s latest success at Fuji last month, as it sealed the manufacturers’ title with a round to spare thanks to a 1-2 finish with its pair of GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercars on home soil.

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Merhi feels first SUPER GT victory now within reach

Ex-Formula 1 racer Merhi and his team-mate in the #6 Audi R8 LMS GT3, Yoshiaki Katayama, finished third earlier this month at Sugo, equalling the finish they achieved together in the fourth round of the season at Fuji in August.

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Vandoorne gets Peugeot WEC drive for 2024 season after Fuji cameo

The Belgian joined Peugeot as a reserve driver for 2023 alongside a Formula E programme with fellow Stellantis-affiliated squad DS Penske, and was called up to sub for Nico Muller in Fuji when the Swiss injured his collarbone.

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JLOC to keep Lamborghini GT3s in different specs until 2024

For last month’s fourth round of the season at Fuji Speedway, JLOC brought one of its two GT300 contenders, the #88 entry, in Evo2 spec for the first time, having made the upgrade during the two-month break that followed the previous race at Suzuka.

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“Freak” belts issue denied Proton shot at beating Ferrari in Fuji WEC

In only its second outing in the WEC’s top Hypercar class with the Porsche 963, Proton proved competitive as the car shared by Jani and team-mates Harry Tincknell and Gianmaria Bruni ran in the top five just shy of the two-hour mark.

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Muller likely to return to Peugeot WEC line-up for Bahrain

The Swiss driver’s recovery from the injuries that led to his replacement for this weekend’s Fuji round by reserve driver Stoffel Vandoorne is on schedule and Peugeot is currently planning for him to retake his place in the #94 9X8 alongside Loic Duval and Gustavo Menezes at the eight-hour race…

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Toyota's Miyata to make WEC debut at Fuji in Ferrari GTE car

Miyata, a race winner in both Super Formula and SUPER GT, will partner Takeshi Kimura and Scott Huffaker at the wheel of the CarGuy Racing-branded Kessel Ferrari 488 GTE for Sunday's six-hour race.

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Too early to rule out #7 Toyota from WEC title fight - Hirakawa

Heading into this weekend's penultimate round of the WEC season at Fuji, Hirakawa and his team-mates in the #8 GR010 HYBRID, Sebastien Buemi and Brendon Hartley, lead the drivers' standings on 115 points.

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Nissan's Takaboshi lands Super Formula development role

Takaboshi takes over driving duties for the Toyota-powered 'Akatora' (Red tiger) SF23 development car from Ukyo Sasahara, who returned to a race seat with TOM'S in last month's Fuji round.

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Baguette fuming after ending up 14th in Fuji qualifying

Baguette ended up second-to-last in Q1 on Saturday afternoon at the wheel of the #1 Nissan Z, only managing to outpace the TOM'S Toyota that is carrying the highest success handicap in the GT500 field.

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Super GT reveals eight-round 2024 calendar

Announced on Thursday, the schedule has a similar look to this year's version, with two visits each to Fuji and Suzuka and single fixtures for Okayama, Sugo, Autopolis and Motegi.

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SUPER GT reveals eight-round calendar for 2024

Announced on Thursday, the schedule has a similar look to this year's version, with two visits each to Fuji and Suzuka and single fixtures for Okayama, Sugo, Autopolis and Motegi.

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Fuji 450km SUPER GT – schedule, how to watch, entry list

A total of 42 cars, 15 in GT500 and 27 in GT300, are entered for Sunday's 450km (100 lap) race.

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Glickenhaus to skip Fuji, WEC future in doubt

Team founder Jim Glickenhaus has stuck to his vow not to continue in the series this year with his Pipo-engined 007 Le Mans Hypercar without sponsorship.

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Glickenhaus yet to make a call on entering Fuji, Bahrain WEC races

The US entrant has revealed that a decision is still pending on its participation in the Fuji and Bahrain races in September and November respectively with its solo full-season Glickenhaus-Pipo 007 Le Mans Hypercar.

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Glickenhaus uncertain on entering Fuji, Bahrain WEC races

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Why Toyota’s top SUPER GT team is looking difficult to stop

After winning the second round of the season at Fuji, TOM’S duo Sho Tsuboi and Ritomo Miyata talked down their prospects of doing the same in the following race at Suzuka. That’s to be expected; cars rarely win races carrying 40kg of success ballast, after all.

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Pacesetter Yamamoto confused by speed in Fuji test

Nakajima Racing driver Yamamoto set the quickest time of the two-day test on the afternoon session of the opening day, posting a 1m21.897s to outpace nearest rival Tadasuke Makino by 0.112s, also topping the second day.

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Mardenborough ‘at home’ ahead of Fuji 24 Hours racing return

The ex-SUPER GT racer is sharing a Helm Motorsport-run Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 with brothers Yuya and Reiji Hiraki, Shaun Thong and gentleman racer Yutaka Toriba for this weekend’s blue riband round of the Super Taikyu series.

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