With Motoyama back at the wheel of the GT-R after the second pit stop, he maintained the lead until a tense moment on the last lap when the PETRONAS TOM'S SC430 driven by Lotterer was closing in on his tail. But Motoyama managed to hold off Lotterer's charge and take the checkered first.

It was an exciting day for all of the 50,000 visitors enjoying the national ?Golden Week" holidays at the Fuji Speedway near the Tokyo metropolitan area, and most of them were surely gratified to see the winners podium shared by a Nissan GT-R team, a Lexus SC430 team and a Honda NSX team.

In the previous round at Suzuka, the MOTUL AUTECH GT-R team had led the race most of the way and appeared to have a sure victory in hand when trouble struck with just seven laps remaining and victory slipped through their fingers. But, true to form as defending champions, the MOTUL AUTECH GT-R team wasted no time in recovering from that defeat with a well-orchestrated race campaign here at Fuji.

This victory gave Motoyama his 11th GT career win and put him back in the tie for most career wins that Yuji Tachikawa (ZENT CERUMO SC430) had just broken with his victory in the last round at Suzuka. For the GT-R, this was its second win of the 2009 series following the season opener.

In the GT300 class, the pole-starting No. 43 ARTA Garaiya (Shinichi Takagi) was passed shortly after the start by the No. 81 DAISHIN ADVAN Ferrari (Takayuki Aoki) moving up from 2nd position on the class grid. Using his Ferrari's speed on the straights, Aoki in No. 81 tried to pull away and open up a lead, but Takagi in No. 43 was able to catch up during the sequence of turns in the third sector of each lap. And finally, on the Dunlop Corner of lap 15, Takagi managed to take the lead back. Behind them, the 5th-position starter, Nobuteru Taniguchi in the No. 7 M7 MUTIARA MOTORS AMEMIYA SGC 7 had moved up into 3rd position.