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Two-time Nurburgring 24 Hours winner Mies was signed by the Hitotsuyama squad to share its Yokohama-shod Audi R8 LMS Evo with Shintaro Kawabata.
The German driver set the pace in the GT300 class on the first day at Okayama, a track he had never previously driven at, with a time of 1m25.649s - which proved to be the second-quickest time of the test, beaten only by the Cars Dream Tokai28 Lotus ...Keep reading
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