{"id":12730,"date":"2012-05-30T09:57:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T16:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/?p=12730"},"modified":"2012-05-30T09:57:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T16:57:07","slug":"super-gran-turismo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/2012\/05\/30\/super-gran-turismo\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Gran Turismo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flashback, California Motor Speedway 2004. JGTC (All-Japan Grand Touring Car Championship) currently known as Super GT held it&#8217;s first\u00a0inaugural\u00a0race in the United States reaching a domestic audience of about 60,000 spectators. From Dec. 18th-19th the race was held as an exhibition All-Star Race set aside from the actual\u00a0series\u00a0schedule and championship. The G&#8217;Zox SSR Hasemi Fairlady Z driven by Toshihiro Kaneishi \/ Erik Comas finished 8th in the qualifying session. By the first lap of a 200 lap main event, the #3 car gained 7th place, and by the 31st lap it gained 2nd. \u00a0The #3 car ran a\u00a0consistent\u00a0race with minimal pit stop errors and finished 1st overall in the GT500 class. Although the #3 car placed 5th in the series standings for the season, drivers Kaneishi and Comas were very pleased with the winning results.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/2012\/05\/30\/super-gran-turismo\/ssrhesemi350z_00\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12740\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12740\" src=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ssrhesemi350z_00-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ssrhesemi350z_00-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ssrhesemi350z_00-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ssrhesemi350z_00-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ssrhesemi350z_00.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/2012\/05\/30\/super-gran-turismo\/gzox-ssr-hasemi-z-passes\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12739\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12739\" src=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ssrhesemi350z02-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ssrhesemi350z02-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ssrhesemi350z02-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ssrhesemi350z02-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ssrhesemi350z02.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/2012\/05\/30\/super-gran-turismo\/gzox-ssr-hasemi-z-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12738\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12738\" src=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ssrhesemi350z01-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ssrhesemi350z01-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ssrhesemi350z01-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ssrhesemi350z01-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ssrhesemi350z01.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/2012\/05\/30\/super-gran-turismo\/gzox-ssr-hasemi-z\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12737\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12737\" src=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ssrhesemi350z00-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ssrhesemi350z00-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ssrhesemi350z00-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ssrhesemi350z00-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ssrhesemi350z00.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photos by: akira3d.com<\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flashback, California Motor Speedway 2004. JGTC (All-Japan Grand Touring Car Championship) currently known as Super GT held it&#8217;s first\u00a0inaugural\u00a0race in the United States reaching a domestic audience of about 60,000 spectators. From Dec. 18th-19th the race was held as an exhibition All-Star Race set aside from the actual\u00a0series\u00a0schedule and championship. The G&#8217;Zox SSR Hasemi Fairlady &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/2012\/05\/30\/super-gran-turismo\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[180,2551,328,108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12730"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12792,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12730\/revisions\/12792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}