On Oct. 18, the SUPER GT IN KYUSHU 300KM, Round 8 of the 2009 AUTOBACS SUPER GT, was held at the Autopolis .

Driving the PETRONAS TOM'S SC430 from the 4rth position on the grid, Lotterer got a great start and moved up on the tail of the pole position starter, Richard Lyons in the ZENT CERUMO SC430. These two machines continued to run that way with never a gap of more than one second until they both pulled into the pit at the same time at the end of lap 30. Of the two teams it was the PETRONAS TOM'S that had the faster pit work, enabling it to return to the track two seconds ahead of the ZENT CERUMO, effectively in the lead.

Back in the race with the positions now reversed, with Yuji Tachikawa in the ZENT CERUMO SC430 chasing Juichi Wakisaka in the PETRONAS TOM'S SC430. These two drivers are also the SC430 development drivers and their battle remained close and fierce, but the ZENT CERUMO would soon be penalized for a violation during the pit stop in which the engine was started before the car was completely lowered from the jack after the tire change. After that, Wakisaka continued to run clean in the lead to the checkered and the win.

In the GT300 class, the JIMGAINER ADVAN F430 driven by Tetsuya Tanaka and Katsuyuki Hiranaka came from 3rd position on the starting grid to win the race. This was the second consecutive with for the Ferrari camp, with the other Ferrari F430 having won the last round.
With this, the GT300 class title race will also come down to the final round at Twin Ring and here six teams still have a chance for the title.

In the GT500 class the PETRONAS TOM'S SC430 driven by Juichi Wakisaka and Andre Lotterer won its first victory of the season. 

In the GT300 class the No.11 JIMGAINER ADVAN F430 driver by Tetsuya Tanaka and Katsuyuki Hiranaka

PETRONAS TOM'S SC430 driver and 11 JIMGAINER ADVAN F430 driver after attends press conference take a group photo

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SHENZHEN, China – Sunday, October 18th – Sami Selio showed off his speed and his cool driving talents as he was pushed to the limit by defending World Champion Jay Price of the Qatar Team who did everything he could to win for the first time in five races, but, it was the Helsinki, Finland driver who came away with the 20 points and moved closer to the top of the drivers championship table with his second victory in the last four starts here at the 11th Grand Prix of China.

The lead driver of the Mad Croc sponsored boat who now has 83 points on the season sitting third in the championship, switched hulls and drove teammates Massimo Roggierio's boat instead of his own damaged hull for the first time. Sami took his fourth straight pole position and lead every tour of the 52 lap event in front of tens of thousands of fans along the edge of the South China Sea on the short 1.6 kilometer (.99 mile) five turn race circuit.

“It was a great victory for us and Massimo's boat fit like a glove,” said Sami. “Jay pushed me very hard at the end as did Guido Cappellini early on, but we had just enough top end to hold off all comers this afternoon. Now we look forward to the rest of the season and we definitely have momentum on our side.”

The Winner Sami Sailo of Mad Croc Woodstock Team (No 11 ) of the race of the UIM F- Poweroboat Grand Prix for China, at the Shenzhen Bay Inner Lake.

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