A report by Racecar Engineering’s Sam Collins about comments made by Super GT’s CEO Masaaki Bandoh at a recent press conference set the internet buzzing today, the Japanese domestic Championship suggesting that they would be ready to field GT500 cars as invitation entries for the FIA WEC race at Fuji International Speedway.

That potential move, perfectly understandably, has been rejected out of hand by the FIA WEC, not least because the current regulations would not permit such entries, invitational or otherwise, and likely partly because the Championship is working (successfully) to build a following in Japan on its own merits.

The stories that have emerged from this snippet though have missed one interesting opportunity.

Supporting the WEC at Fuji is the newly relaunched Asian Le Mans Series and whilst entries are expected in every class at the opening round the overall number, with a short 2 hour race and an unfortunate near clash with the ELMS season finale at Estoril, is expected to be somewhat below 20 cars.

Now there’s an opportunity for the Super GT runners to run, on the same track, at the same meeting and in an endurance format race. Adding spice to the AsLMS as they do so.

Let’s see if that opportunity appeals to the powers that be!

GG