ARTA is one of SuperGT's top teams in GT300, but an all new Honda 'master and apprentice' driver line-up has struggled so far in 2022:
Since switching to the NSX GT3 in 2019, ARTA had struck upon a solid formula by pairing veteran Shinichi Takagi with the next bright young thing from the Honda junior stable - winning the title that year with Nirei Fukuzumi before he was promoted to the GT500 ranks.
“Now it’s my turn to be the ‘teacher’!” jokes Mutoh, who turns 40 later this year. “I’ve a contract with Honda to develop the young drivers, so it’s a new phase of my career. “I wish I could have driven Bridgestone for one more year” reflects Mutoh, whose one and only GT500 victory came in 2006 for Nakajima Racing. “In 2016 I was with Drago Corse [on Bridgestones] and we were competitive, but then I switched to Yokohama tyres and maybe that was the wrong decision. But that’s life, now I have a different project.
“The Lights car has much more downforce, whereas in SUPER GT, the cornering performance is quite similar to Formula 4, but you have around double the weight, so it’s harder to control when you have understeer or oversteer. By contrast, the only other GT300 team running the NSX GT3, Team UpGarage , is riding high in fourth in the standings following a second place at Okayama.
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