Listen to this article On lap 59 of 100, Nissan man Takaboshi suffered an enormous accident along the start/finish straight as he suddenly swerved to avoid the slow-moving Arnage Racing GT300 car, having been tucked in the slipstream of the race-leading SARD Toyota of Yuhi Sekiguchi. After getting out of his wrecked car unaided, Takaboshi was cleared of any major injury but was taken to hospital as a precaution. Read Also: The incident caused the second red flag of the race, as an earlier crash involving the R’Qs Motor Sports Mercedes-AMG GT3 of Hisashi Wada had already brought proceedings to a halt. While the first stoppage proved relatively short, the damage to the guardrail along the main straight as a result of Takaboshi’s crash was significant enough to bring the race to a stop for some 90 minutes. After a lengthy operation to place tyre stacks in front of the section of damaged guardrail, a restart was finally called with just 10 minutes left until the race was due to time out at 6.20pm local time. However, a further delay due to the Team Mach GT300 car failing to get away from its grid slot meant that there was no time for any green-flag laps, with the field taking the chequered flag behind the safety car. Tyre barrier installation Photo by: Masahide Kamio TOM’S Toyota man Sacha Fenestraz, whose teammate Ritomo Miyata finished second on the road but was demoted to 14th in the final classification owing to a penalty, felt the drivers’ wishes after Takaboshi’s crash were not respected. “I don’t really understand,” Fenestraz told Motorsport.c …