After parting ways with Team Mugen over the winter, Dunlop returned to supplying just one car in SUPER GT’s top class this season, the Nakajima Racing Honda NSX-GT. The #64 car shared by Takuya Izawa and rookie Kakunoshin Ota scored second in a rain-affected Fuji round in August, but has otherwise struggled for competitiveness.
“We will have double the testing time during the season , but if they have 12 cars, it doesn’t matter. It’s not about the testing time. We just need more cars to at least try our tyres, but that’s the hard part. “The GTA is trying to do as much as possible and we appreciate that, but it’s mainly extra testing time . That’s not the main issue. “We just need a second car, but you can’t force someone to run a particular tyre.