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6/24/2025, 7:38:42 PM
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GTA Boss Bandoh Opens Up on GT500 Garage 56 Dream
>SUPER GT supremo Masaaki Bandoh has laid out his vision for a GT500 car to be given the right to participate in the 24 Hours of Le Mans as a Garage 56 entry, something he says he has been pressing the ACO to make happen for some time.
>During his regular press conference ahead of last month’s Fuji Golden Week round, GTA chairman Bandoh revealed that he had been in touch with the ACO as he floated the idea of the title-winning GT500 team being handed an automatic Le Mans entry.
>“For a long time it has been my wish that a GT500 car would be able to run at Le Mans, and that the champion team in GT500 would earn the right to compete at Le Mans.
>“To a certain extent, what we are doing in Japan [with SUPER GT] is imitating what goes on here in Europe.
>The Japanese press communicates to Japanese people the way things are at Le Mans, in European racing, but I think it’s only the press, the people who have come here and the people who compete here who understand it.
>“That’s why I have been stubbornly asking the ACO to open up Garage 56 for us.”
>“The same way we have been in communication with the SRO about working together on GT3 racing, even if we can work together with the ACO and the WEC just a little, it will help to make motorsport in Japan more well-known.”
Holy fuck yes please. If anything, the ACO would definitely nerf it to lap slower than the Hypercars if they do allow it to enter
GTA Boss Bandoh Opens Up on GT500 Garage 56 Dream
>SUPER GT supremo Masaaki Bandoh has laid out his vision for a GT500 car to be given the right to participate in the 24 Hours of Le Mans as a Garage 56 entry, something he says he has been pressing the ACO to make happen for some time.
>During his regular press conference ahead of last month’s Fuji Golden Week round, GTA chairman Bandoh revealed that he had been in touch with the ACO as he floated the idea of the title-winning GT500 team being handed an automatic Le Mans entry.
>“For a long time it has been my wish that a GT500 car would be able to run at Le Mans, and that the champion team in GT500 would earn the right to compete at Le Mans.
>“To a certain extent, what we are doing in Japan [with SUPER GT] is imitating what goes on here in Europe.
>The Japanese press communicates to Japanese people the way things are at Le Mans, in European racing, but I think it’s only the press, the people who have come here and the people who compete here who understand it.
>“That’s why I have been stubbornly asking the ACO to open up Garage 56 for us.”
>“The same way we have been in communication with the SRO about working together on GT3 racing, even if we can work together with the ACO and the WEC just a little, it will help to make motorsport in Japan more well-known.”
Holy fuck yes please. If anything, the ACO would definitely nerf it to lap slower than the Hypercars if they do allow it to enter
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