He had the victory in his hands, he celebrated in advance and a few meters from the finish he lost the race and the championship

He’s relaxed too much. During the race of GT World Challenge Asia which was played in Japan this Sunday, an unusual situation was seen. Takeshi Kimurawho pilots a ferrariwas leading the race with a big difference of 22 seconds to keep him calm. Given the advantage, the Japanese driver he took his foot off the gas, started partying ahead of time with signs of lights and meters missing for the finish they passed it and lost the race.

The abundant advantage ended up playing a bad joke on him. Having achieved an excellent performance throughout the race and gained a 22 second lead, Kimura made one of the worst decisions at hand: taking your foot off the accelerator and party ahead.

All the fans assumed that he was the winner of the race without any discussion, but in the last two laps he managed to lose the huge difference obtained, which is not common. Coming out of the corner that allowed him to enter the final stretch where he was marked as the new winner of the date, the driver felt like a winner and began to celebrate with an intermittent beacon of lights. But the celebrations turned into regrets.

The drop in speed brought his pursuers closer to him and overtook him in the final sprint, leaving him on the podium but in third position. After the defeat, the Japanese and his co-pilot Kei Cozzolino they have lost an unbeatable opportunity since if they had achieved victory they had the chance to be crowned champions Fanatec Japan Cup GT3 with one more day.

One of the reasons given by the team for the lost seconds in the last two laps of the race was the broken tire which led the driver to make that decision. But in the end, the Japanese admitted the error: he stopped accelerating to celebrate soon … and he lost the race.