Yanagisawa crowned new All-Japan National Touring Car Champion

RC Xpress team driver Yoshiyasu Yanagisawa is the new JMRCA All-Japan National Touring Car Champion after going one better than a year earlier at the same track.  Racing at Tsukuba RC Park in Yatabe, Yanagisawa TQ’d 2 of the three qualifiers to secure the Top Qualifier honours ahead of the Axon of defending back to back Champion Akio Sobue with Infinity’s Ryosuke Yamamoto completing the Top 3.  In the triple finals, Yanagisawa secured the title in A2 wining again from Sobue just as he done in the opening final.  While Sobue won A3 ahead of Yamamoto, it was the later who completed the podium.  Qualifying 5th, Yanagisawa’s RC Xpress team-mate Yugo Nagashima would make up a position in the finals to finish 4th.

Image: Yoshiyasu Yanagisawa [Facebook]