Team Impul Nissan Z Wins 2026 Super GT Motegi Round 3
Team Impul’s No. 12 TRS IMPUL with SDG Z won the rescheduled 2026 SUPER GT Round 3 at Mobility Resort Motegi on November 7. Kazuki Hiramine and Bertrand Baguette completed 53 laps in 1 hour, 38 minutes and 20.070 seconds, according to SUPER GT’s official race review.
SUPER GT’s full report confirmed the result after the initial timing bulletin. Baguette said in the official winners’ press conference that he passed three cars before handing the Nissan to Hiramine, who overtook three more on the way to the victory.
Nissan climbs from sixth to win
The No. 12 Nissan Z NISMO GT500 started sixth after Saturday morning’s single-session qualifying. It finished 20.461 seconds ahead of the No. 14 ENEOS X PRIME GR Supra shared by Nirei Fukuzumi and Kazuya Oshima.
Riki Okusa and Igor Omura Fraga placed third in the No. 64 Modulo HRC PRELUDE-GT, 24.076 seconds behind the leading Nissan. That car had started from pole after Okusa recorded a 1:36.572 lap, as detailed in SUPER GT’s official qualifying report.
| Final GT500 position | Car | Drivers | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No. 12 TRS IMPUL with SDG Z | Kazuki Hiramine / Bertrand Baguette | 1:38:20.070 |
| 2 | No. 14 ENEOS X PRIME GR Supra | Nirei Fukuzumi / Kazuya Oshima | +20.461 sec. |
| 3 | No. 64 Modulo HRC PRELUDE-GT | Riki Okusa / Igor Omura Fraga | +24.076 sec. |
Why the result matters for Nissan
The result gave the Nissan Z NISMO GT500 its first victory of the 2026 season and Team Impul its first SUPER GT win since the 2022 Suzuka round. In the official winners’ press conference, Hiramine also called it the team’s first victory since Kazuki Hoshino became team director.
Hiramine and Baguette were already established as Team Impul’s 2026 pairing in Nissan’s official lineup announcement. The Motegi timing also puts all three manufacturers in the top three: Nissan first, Toyota second and Honda third.
K-tunes Lexus heads the GT300 order
The official classification lists the No. 96 K-tunes RC F GT3 of Morio Nitta and Shinichi Takagi first in GT300. The Lexus completed 50 laps in 1:39:07.421, 11.698 seconds ahead of the No. 26 ANEST IWATA GAINER Z. The No. 666 seven x seven Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo was third, another 0.695 second back.
The GT300 pole-winning No. 11 GAINER TANAX Z finished seventh. K-tunes’ victory was its second in succession after Autopolis and moved Nitta and Takagi to second in the GT300 driver standings, according to SUPER GT’s official GT300 review.
A compressed Motegi finale
This race was the delayed Round 3, folded into the final Motegi weekend after the original Malaysia event was postponed. SUPER GT scheduled Round 3 qualifying and the 250-kilometer race for November 7, followed by the separate Round 8 qualifying and 250-kilometer season finale on November 8. The organizer’s event outline explains the unusual back-to-back format and the reduced success-weight rules used for Saturday’s race.
That structure gives teams very little recovery time before Sunday’s separate Round 8 season finale, where the remaining driver and team championships will be decided.
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Featured image: illustrative archive motorsport photo; it does not show the No. 12 Nissan Z or Mobility Resort Motegi. Photo by BHARAT VISHAWAKARMA on Unsplash.