(Nov.17.2012)

The day-3 of the 59th Macau Grand Prix started with wet condition.
It did not rain again, but stayed cloudy through the day, almost all cars would use dry tires.


･Nov.17.2012
　Weather : Cloudy
　Track : Half Wet → Dry
　Temperature : 74ﾟF
　Road surface temperature : 81ﾟF

The first race of the day was The Hotel Fortuna MAC / HKG inter-port race, held between Hong Kong and Macau drivers.

Almost of all cars started on dry tires in slightly wet condition. Safety cars lead the race cars in the first 2 laps because of the wet surface.

Macau driver, Chou keng kuan (Honda Integra) kept top position from pole, he successfully won in the difficult conditions.

Top runners were running with YOKOHAMA tires, and all the podium was captured by them.

A lot of high power tuning cars were competing in the Suncity Group Macau Road Sport Challenge, with 22 cars running on YOKOHAMA tires.

The race also started with the safety car leading.

A Chnese driver Han HAN (Subaru Impreza) kept second position until the middle of the race but unfortunately, he lost time because of another car's accident, and dropped to 4th position.

Thailands driver Nattavude CHAROENSUKHA WATANA (Mitsubishi Lancer EVO9) leapt up from 6th position to 2nd.
CHAROENSUK kept charging to aim for the top, and he went inside of the top at the final corner on the final lap. However, he lost by a hair, and finished 2nd.

Lucas Di GRASSI, on YOKOHAMA, in his Ferrari 458 GT3 got 2nd position with 2:21.512 in qualifying-2 for the CITY OF DREAMS MACAU GT CUP.

The series leader of the GT ASIA, MOK Weng Sun (Ferrari 458 GT3) was the best-performing of that series held on YOKOHAMA tires, recording 7th overall.

CTM Macau Touring Car Cup saw 30 cars on track, 29 running on YOKOHAMA.

Paul POON (Chevrolet Lacetti) achieved pole to win in this race.

This is one of the tire competition races, but all top rankers were choosing YOKOHAMA tires, and they swept the podium.