Mugen driver Nojiri set a lap of 1m37.292s to seize the highest spot within the ultimate three minutes of the second section of qualifying, which was red-flagged and restarted after a crash for Ren Sato at Degner.
Nojiri’s time was sufficient to beat championship chief Ritomo Miyata to pole by simply over three tenths of a second, giving him three bonus factors whereas Miyata scored two.
It means Nojiri now goes into Saturday’s race 9 factors behind Miyata, with Lawson now 10 factors adrift after failing to attain.
Not like Nojiri and Miyata, Lawson opted to not equip a recent set of tyres for the ultimate a part of qualifying after the session resumed, and ended up nearly six tenths of a second off his team-mate.
That adopted scenes of the 2 Mugen drivers vying for monitor place on the warm-up lap, with Nojiri expressing his displeasure with Lawson over staff radio and in his parc ferme interview.
Dandelion Racing pair Tadasuke Makino and Kakunoshin Ota will share the second row of the grid, with Sho Tsuboi (Inging) and Ryo Hirakawa (Impul) lining up fifth and sixth.
Behind Lawson, Kenta Yamashita was eighth-fastest for Kondo Racing, adopted by Kamui Kobayashi (KCMG) and Nobuharu Matsushita, who scored his greatest grid place for a number of races in tenth for B-Max Racing.
In addition to Nakajima Racing’s Sato, Nirei Fukuzumi (Drago Corse) additionally suffered an off at Degner after Q2 was restarted, leaving him down in eleventh on the grid.
Cem Bolukbasi scored his season-best grid slot of 14th for TGM Grand Prix after going seventh-fastest in his group.
Workforce-mate Riki Okusa, making his Tremendous Method debut rather than Toshiki Oyu, was tenth quickest in his group however promoted to seventeenth on the grid after Hiroki Otsu (Nakajima) misplaced his greatest lap for exceeding monitor limits.
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