The 2011 Pokka GT Summer Special was the fifth round of the 2011 Super GT season and despite the race being shortened to 500km following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, this was the 40th running of the 1000 km Suzuka event. It took place on August 21, 2011.
Race results Results are as follows: Pos Class No Team Drivers Chassis Tyre Laps 1 GT500 1 Weider Honda Racing Takashi Kogure Loïc Duval Honda HSV-010 GT 86 2 GT500 46 S-Road MOLA Masataka Yanagida Ronnie Quintarelli Nissan GT-R 86 3 GT500 12 Calsonic Team Impul Tsugio Matsuda João Paulo de Oliveira Nissan GT-R 86 4 GT500 23 Motul NISMO Satoshi Motoyama Benoît Tréluyer Nissan GT-R 86 5 GT500 39 Denso Team SARD Hiroaki Ishiura Takuto Iguchi Lexus SC430 86 6 GT500 36 Petronas Team TOM'S Kazuki Nakajima André Lotterer Lexus SC430 86 7 GT500 35 D'Station Team KRAFT Juichi Wakisaka Andre Couto Lexus SC430 86 8 GT500 36 ENEOS Team LeMans Daisuke Ito Kazuya Oshima Lexus SC430 86 9 GT500 8 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Hideki Mutoh Takashi Kobayashi Honda HSV-010 GT 86 10 GT500 24 Advan Kondo Racing Hironobu Yasuda Björn Wirdheim Nissan GT-R 84 11 GT500 19 WedsSport Team Bandoh Seiji Ara Tatsuya Kataoka Lexus SC430 83 12 GT500 17 Keihin Real Racing Koudai Tsukakoshi Toshihiro Kaneishi Honda HSV-010 GT 83 13 GT500 32 EPSON Nakajima Racing Ryo Michigami Yuhki Nakayama Honda HSV-010 GT 81 14 GT500 38 ZENT Team Cerumo Yuji Tachikawa Kohei Hirate Lexus SC430 81 15 GT300 62 R&D Sport Kota Sasaki Tetsuya Yamano Subaru Legacy B4 79 16 GT300 33 Hankook KTR Masami Kageyama Tomonobu Fujii Porsche 911 GT3 R 79 17 GT300 87 RIRE Racing JLOC Manabu Orido Atsushi Yogo Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3 79 18 GT300 11 JIM Gainer Racing Tetsuya Tanaka Katsuyuki Hiranaka Ferrari 458 GTC 78 19 GT300 4 Hatsune Miku Goodsmile Racing Nobuteru Taniguchi Taku Bamba BMW Z4 GT3 78 20 GT300 2 Evangelion-01 Cars Tokai Dream28 Kazuho Takahashi Hiroki Kato Mooncraft Shiden 78 21 GT300 74 apr Yuji Kunimoto Morio Nitta Toyota Corolla Axio 78 22 GT300 14 Team SG Changi Ryo Orime Alexandre Imperatori Lexus IS350 78 23 GT300 25 ZENT Team Tsuchiya Takeshi Tsuchiya Akihiro Tsuzuki Porsche 997 GT3-RSR 78 24 GT300 86 JLOC Yuya Sakamoto Takayuki Aoki Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3 77 25 GT300 27 NAC Ika Musume LMP Motorsport Yutaka Yamagishi Hideki Yamauchi Ferrari F430 GT2 77 26 GT300 66 A speed Kazuki Hoshino Hiroki Yoshimoto Aston Martin Vantage GT2 77 27 GT300 21 Hasepro apr Koki Saga Yuki Iwasaki Toyota Corolla Axio 76 28 GT300 26 Verity Team Taisan Kyosuke Mineo Shogo Mitsuyama Junichiro Yamashita Porsche 996 GT3 76 29 GT300 88 JLOC Hiroyuki Iiri Yuhi Sekiguchi Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3 76 30 GT300 33 Team Art Taste Yasuhiro Shimizu Tim Bergmeister Porsche 911 GT3 R 76 31 GT300 41 NetMove Team Taisan Shinichi Yamaji Hiroshi Koizumi Ferrari F430 GT2 76 32 GT300 69 ThunderAsia Racing Melvin Choo Hiroki Yoshida Naoki Yokomizo Mosler MT900M 75 33 GT300 22 R'Qs Motorsports Masaki Jyonai Hisashi Wada Vemac RD350R 73 34 GT300 43 Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Shinichi Takagi Kosuke Matsuura ASL Garaiya 60 DNF GT300 2 Evangelion-02 Direction Racing Akira Mizutani Carlo van Dam You Yokomaku Porsche 911 GT3 R 53 DNF GT300 34 Haruhi Racing Hankook KTR Hiroshi Takamori Michael Kim Naoya Gamou Porsche 997 GT3 RS 51 DNF GT300 5 Team Mach Tetsuji Tamanaka Haruki Kurosawa Vemac RD320R 42 DNF GT500 100 Raybrig Team Kunimitsu Takuya Izawa Naoki Yamamoto Honda HSV-010 GT 41 Note: The race ended after 86 of the scheduled 87 laps due to reaching the time limit of 6:30pm. Full points were awarded in Super GT rankings.
Statistics GT500 Pole Position – #46 MOLA GT-R – 2:08.206 GT300 Pole Position – #43 ARTA Garaiya – 2:20.696 GT500 Fastest Lap – #46 MOLA GT-R – 1:59.923 GT300 Fastest Lap – #62 R&D Sport Subaru – 2:09.877 Winner's Race Time – 3:16:09.255
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