2011 Pokka GT Summer Special
# 2011 Pokka GT Summer Special

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 | B | 86 |
| 2 | GT500 | 46 | S-Road MOLA | Masataka Yanagida Ronnie Quintarelli | Nissan GT-R | M | 86 |
| 3 | GT500 | 12 | Calsonic Team Impul | Tsugio Matsuda João Paulo de Oliveira | Nissan GT-R | B | 86 |
| 4 | GT500 | 23 | Motul NISMO | Satoshi Motoyama Benoît Tréluyer | Nissan GT-R | B | 86 |
| 5 | GT500 | 39 | Denso Team SARD | Hiroaki Ishiura Takuto Iguchi | Lexus SC430 | M | 86 |
| 6 | GT500 | 36 | Petronas Team TOM'S | Kazuki Nakajima André Lotterer | Lexus SC430 | B | 86 |
| 7 | GT500 | 35 | D'Station Team KRAFT | Juichi Wakisaka Andre Couto | Lexus SC430 | B | 86 |
| 8 | GT500 | 36 | ENEOS Team LeMans | Daisuke Ito Kazuya Oshima | Lexus SC430 | B | 86 |
| 9 | GT500 | 8 | Autobacs Racing Team Aguri | Hideki Mutoh Takashi Kobayashi | Honda HSV-010 GT | B | 86 |
| 10 | GT500 | 24 | Advan Kondo Racing | Hironobu Yasuda Björn Wirdheim | Nissan GT-R | Y | 84 |
| 11 | GT500 | 19 | WedsSport Team Bandoh | Seiji Ara Tatsuya Kataoka | Lexus SC430 | Y | 83 |
| 12 | GT500 | 17 | Keihin Real Racing | Koudai Tsukakoshi Toshihiro Kaneishi | Honda HSV-010 GT | B | 83 |
| 13 | GT500 | 32 | EPSON Nakajima Racing | Ryo Michigami Yuhki Nakayama | Honda HSV-010 GT | D | 81 |
| 14 | GT500 | 38 | ZENT Team Cerumo | Yuji Tachikawa Kohei Hirate | Lexus SC430 | B | 81 |
| 15 | GT300 | 62 | R&D Sport | Kota Sasaki Tetsuya Yamano | Subaru Legacy B4 | Y | 79 |
| 16 | GT300 | 33 | Hankook KTR | Masami Kageyama Tomonobu Fujii | Porsche 911 GT3 R | H | 79 |
| 17 | GT300 | 87 | RIRE Racing JLOC | Manabu Orido Atsushi Yogo | Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3 | Y | 79 |
| 18 | GT300 | 11 | JIM Gainer Racing | Tetsuya Tanaka Katsuyuki Hiranaka | Ferrari 458 GTC | D | 78 |
| 19 | GT300 | 4 | Hatsune Miku Goodsmile Racing | Nobuteru Taniguchi Taku Bamba | BMW Z4 GT3 | Y | 78 |
| 20 | GT300 | 2 | Evangelion-01 Cars Tokai Dream28 | Kazuho Takahashi Hiroki Kato | Mooncraft Shiden | Y | 78 |
| 21 | GT300 | 74 | apr | Yuji Kunimoto Morio Nitta | Toyota Corolla Axio | Y | 78 |
| 22 | GT300 | 14 | Team SG Changi | Ryo Orime Alexandre Imperatori | Lexus IS350 | Y | 78 |
| 23 | GT300 | 25 | ZENT Team Tsuchiya | Takeshi Tsuchiya Akihiro Tsuzuki | Porsche 997 GT3-RSR | Y | 78 |
| 24 | GT300 | 86 | JLOC | Yuya Sakamoto Takayuki Aoki | Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3 | Y | 77 |
| 25 | GT300 | 27 | NAC Ika Musume LMP Motorsport | Yutaka Yamagishi Hideki Yamauchi | Ferrari F430 GT2 | Y | 77 |
| 26 | GT300 | 66 | A speed | Kazuki Hoshino Hiroki Yoshimoto | Aston Martin Vantage GT2 | Y | 77 |
| 27 | GT300 | 21 | Hasepro apr | Koki Saga Yuki Iwasaki | Toyota Corolla Axio | Y | 76 |
| 28 | GT300 | 26 | Verity Team Taisan | Kyosuke Mineo Shogo Mitsuyama Junichiro Yamashita | Porsche 996 GT3 | Y | 76 |
| 29 | GT300 | 88 | JLOC | Hiroyuki Iiri Yuhi Sekiguchi | Lamborghini Gallardo RG-3 | Y | 76 |
| 30 | GT300 | 33 | Team Art Taste | Yasuhiro Shimizu Tim Bergmeister | Porsche 911 GT3 R | Y | 76 |
| 31 | GT300 | 41 | NetMove Team Taisan | Shinichi Yamaji Hiroshi Koizumi | Ferrari F430 GT2 | Y | 76 |
| 32 | GT300 | 69 | ThunderAsia Racing | Melvin Choo Hiroki Yoshida Naoki Yokomizo | Mosler MT900M | Y | 75 |
| 33 | GT300 | 22 | R'Qs Motorsports | Masaki Jyonai Hisashi Wada | Vemac RD350R | Y | 73 |
| 34 | GT300 | 43 | Autobacs Racing Team Aguri | Shinichi Takagi Kosuke Matsuura | ASL Garaiya | B | 60 |
| DNF | GT300 | 2 | Evangelion-02 Direction Racing | Akira Mizutani Carlo van Dam You Yokomaku | Porsche 911 GT3 R | Y | 53 |
| DNF | GT300 | 34 | Haruhi Racing Hankook KTR | Hiroshi Takamori Michael Kim Naoya Gamou | Porsche 997 GT3 RS | H | 51 |
| DNF | GT300 | 5 | Team Mach | Tetsuji Tamanaka Haruki Kurosawa | Vemac RD320R | Y | 42 |
| DNF | GT500 | 100 | Raybrig Team Kunimitsu | Takuya Izawa Naoki Yamamoto | Honda HSV-010 GT | B | 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
