Akio Sobue dominates Speed King Tour Rd5

The fifth round of this year’s Speed King Tour was held at the RC stadium Sodegaura outdoor tarmac track. The track layout was updated a few days before the event to better suit the high-speed modified touring cars. The event saw the running of a total of four classes including Touring Car Modified and Stock as well as two oval classes. Current standings leader and reigning Japanese Modified Touring Car Champion Akio Sobue (Tamiya) made a clean sweep this weekend by dominating from the first practice on. Akio would then take the TQ and also the A-final win in front of round four winner Jin Sawada (Yokomo) and local star Kyoichi Matsumoto. With his fourth win this season Akio is now in a strong position to take the overall title in the Modified class.

In the Stock class Shoh Yahiro took the TQ and win while in Stock Oval Naito came out successful and Mamoru Ishikawa grabbed the Open Oval class. The next stop of the series is at Crest Speedway on the 1st of November with again four classes on the schedule.

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