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It will be an exciting couple of months ahead, starting with the Nurburgring 24h race next weekend. I will be racing the Nismo GT-R GT3 car with the Schulze Motorsport Team this year. As we raced a road car Nissan GTR version last year, it will be the first time for me in a GT3 car at the Ring. We are looking very much forward to challenge and finish the race, as the car is not 24h tested yet and it will be a big challenge. My teammates are the Schulze brothers and Yamauchi san. They already successfully drove the car at a VLN race at the Ring.

A tough weekend for us in Fuji as we only managed to finish in P12. Temperatures were higher than we anticipated hence we struggled a bit more than expected. The result doesn't represent our performance really as in QF my teammate Yasuda managed a 1:32'70 which is the best time our car has ever achieved. But even by being only 0.8 seconds off from the fastest time, it was only good enough for P13. This shows how competitive the Japanese Super GT Championship really is.

The weekend started perfect on Saturday with rain falling and us being able to qualify in P3. Our shot at Pole in Q2 was thwarted by the cancellation due to heavy rain. So starting third was perfect for Okayama but when I took the start in dry conditions on Sunday, things didn't exactly go as planned.
That we would struggle more in dry conditions is no secret to us, but after the start I was dropping back to P10 pretty quickly, as the warm up of the tires turned out to be quite slower than the competition.

Today was the official launch of Nissan's race activities for 2013. There has been lots of exciting news indeed. With the biggest news being the Le Mans project for 2014 in Garage 56. For myself, I will join the Kondo Racing team, the #24 Nissan GTR equipped with Yokohama tires for the Japanese Super GT Championship. My teammate will be Hironobu Yasuda who has already 3 years experience in this car.

It has been a busy year already with flying to Japan and Spain for the launch of the Juke Nismo. The car has really come out not only cool, but it's great fun to drive. I was involved in some evaluation testing of the Juke Nismo last year and was surprised by its well defined balance that allows you to push the car around at the limit like a Nissan GTR! I hope it will be well received in Europe.

That was fun work for me and not the only thing this year that already started positive. Kimiko's start of the season at the Australian Open by reaching the 3rd Round was much more than we expected.