The third round of the Super Taikyu was the 4 hours race at Suzuka, where the Adenau Golf team joined the TCR class running a Volkswagen Golf GTI, which raised the entries to five.
For the third time, pole position was won by the Audi Team DreamDrive Audi RS3 LMS driven by Shozo Tagahara, Takuya Shirasaka and Naoto Takeda. While Phillippe Devesa and Shogo Mitsuyama qualified the Golf in second position.
The race saw the five cars having a close fight for all the four hours. The Audi Team DreamDrive car was leading with twenty minutes left on the clock, when had to pit with a flat tyre, handing victory to the Motul Dome Racing Project Honda Civic shared by Takuya Kurosawa, Keishi Ishikawa and Hiroki Kato. This was their second win for them out of the three races held so far, and the third for Honda.
The Audi Team DreamDrive finished in second position, with the BRP Audi of Koichi Okumura, Kei Akiyoshi and Daisuke Yamawaki third.
The Motul Dome Racing Project Honda Civic leads the standing with 57 points, ten more than the Modulo Racing Project Honda Civic and 15 more than the Audi Team DreamDrive Audi RS3 LMS.
The next round will be the 3-hour race at Autopolis on July 14-16.