Lexus's last representative on the SuperGT grid, K-tunes Racing, plans to race the next-gen Toyota GT3 car based on the GR GT3 Concept when it is ready for competition:
The Okayama Toyopet-owned team is the only one left in SUPER GT’s GT300 class running Lexus machinery following theIt recruited veteran Shinichi Takagi from ARTA to join Morio Nitta at the wheel of the Dunlop-shod #96 RC F, and while the pair have shown speed at times they have only managed a best finish of fifth place so far in Round 4 at Fuji.
Team boss Masahiko Kageyama said that the qualifying performance at Sugo stands as proof that the RC F can still be competitive in GT300, and that the intention is for K-tunes to continue using it until its successor is ready. “Our team belongs to Okayama Toyopet, and the basic premise of the team is to use Toyota/Lexus products, not a Supra or another JAF GT300 car.
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