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Sasaki double at Aston Martin Asia Cup

SEPANG: Super GT driver Kota Sasaki completed a double victory in the Aston Martin Asia Cup, a support race for the Super GT International Series Malaysia, when he scored another comfortable win at the Sepang Circuit yesterday.

Unmatched in Round 3 on Saturday, Sasaki, who drives for Team Cusco Racing in the GT300 category, again led from start to finish to win Round 4 of the 12- ound series, which is making its debut this year.

Sasaki took 23 minutes 50.896 seconds to complete the 15-lap race, with Australian Dean Grant, who finished fourth on Saturday, coming in second with 23:55.373s.

Another Australian, Mark Eddy, completes the podium, emulating his third place finish Saturday with a time of 23:56.529s.

Winner of the opening two rounds at Shanghai International Circuit, Sri Lankan Dilantha Malagamuwa, completed a miserable weekend at Sepang by finishing sixth in yesterday’s race. The two-time Malaysian Super Series champion was second on Saturday.

Dilantha, however, would have an opportunity to take his revenge at the Sepang Circuit when Round 5 and 6 resumed from July 11 to 13 around the North Track, which Dilantha would be very familiar with.

— Bernama