Last week we reported that Polyphony Digital’s CEO Kazunori Yamauchi would be returning to the Nürburgring in the lead up to the 2016 ADAC 24 Hours of Nürburgring. Sharing the driving duties of the #101 BMW M6 GT3 with Matias Henkola, George Richardson, and Max Sandritter, Yamauchi was set to participate in the top SP9 class under the Walkenhorst Motorsport banner.
Unfortunately, the qualifying rounds held on April 16th and 17th didn’t produce encouraging results, with Yamauchi’s colleagues ending competition after only 11 laps. While the exact details are unknown at this point in time, you can catch a glimpse of the retired car at the 1:01 mark in the video up top (hat tip to GTP member dogw10). The front splitter shows significant damage, suggesting contact could have put an end to the team’s run.
According to official qualification results issued by the event organizer, car #101 achieved a best lap time of 8:23.308, which would rank the team 12th in the top SP9 class in terms of fastest lap time. A similar destiny befell 2010 GT Academy winner Jordan Tresson – his competition in SP8T, alongside the familiar Schulze brothers in a GT-R, ended after 20 laps.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEPTafoGc-f/?taken-by=junichiro
On the plus side, 2013 GT Academy winner Florian Strauss ranked 6th overall with team Zakspeed at his side. The GT Academy team RJN car (#35 GT-R GT3, operated by Lucas Ordonez, Michael Krumm, Kazuki Hoshino, and Alex Buncombe) scored 10th place overall.
The main event – the ADAC Zurich Nürburgring 24H race proper – kicks off on the 28th of May.
Feature image borrowed from Junichiro Nakata’s Instagram.
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1:27-1:47 to all those that play GT6 online, that is how you pass. Not riding the rear bumper and ramming the person in front.
I reproduce the livery Forza 6
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/show-off-your-paints.334571/page-13#post-11337365
I’m really digging the M6’s livery. Let’s hope it’ll make an appearance in GT Sport!
Kaz should had skipped qualifying and started in last far behind the leader so that he could replicate the GT6 experience in real life.
He thought he was gonna pass all the cars in like two turns like in gt6
He probably forgot that damage was enabled too.
Good one. I wonder if rubberbanding is on or off.
See Kaz! You shoulda stuck with Nissan…
Starting from the back eh?
Is he trolling us? ;)
“which would rank the team 12th overall and 13th in-class in terms of fastest lap time.”
Isn’t it the other way around, 12th in-class and 13th overall?
You’re right! That was my mix-up, I’ve cleaned up that sentence now. Thanks!
That BMW looks fantastic in the PlayStation livery. Love the blue!
The car actually show up at around 0:55, and goes away at 1:01.
I liked the shot about a minute later of cars going around the Carousel! I want more shots like that to get a better feel of the elevation changes! I have yet to see those kinds of shots!
Kaz Yamauchi is Legend