Marco Apicella in the Woodone Tom's Supra and Dufour in Denso Sard Supra were running the one-two Toyota gauntlet. That was until Apicella did the do-si-do on lap 45 and Dufour drove around him for the lead and eventually the win 10 laps later. Toshihiro Kaneishi, driving the number 3 G'ZOX Z, tried valiantly to keep ahead of Richard Lyons in the Xanavi Z, but on lap 42 Lyons ran into Kaneishi, resulting in a position switch. Lyons stole the last spot on the podium, leaving the G'ZOX machine to come in for Fourth place 15 seconds later. A close Second place went to Naoki Hattori in the Yellow Hat Supra who worked his way up from Sixth to two seconds off the leader's pace after the pit stops. The two Lambos didn't do nearly as well, with the number 15 car garnering 12th place and the number 88 car suffering from a broken suspension and having to drop out of the race completely. Winner Dufour stated, "Toward the end of my stint, there was a situation with a yellow flag. I didn't see the green flag after that so I had to wait for the next [flag] post to make sure. It wasn't worth risking a pass so late in the race where I might have been penalized. It was a bit dark and I couldn't see if they had shown the flag or not, so I decided to play it safe. It was no problem really. I knew I had enough time over the number 35 car to make it to the end first."
GT300
The weather and position changes affected the qualifying order in the GT300 class in the same manner as the GT500 class. Kazuki Hoshino, who was driving the Endless Daishin Advan Z, started out in Ninth after the morning qualifier and ended up sitting on the pole by the afternoon. Shinichi Yamaji, driving the Amemiya Aspara Drink RX-7, had to settle for the Second spot with a 1/10 of a second slower qualifying time. Kota Sasaki in the M-TEC NSX, who had fallen from pole, followed close behind in the Third spot on the starting grid. The Leyjun Dunlop 320R, with Osamu behind the wheel, lined up Fourth in front of Masataka Yanagida in the C-West Daishin Advan Z. The Reckless MR-S fell four grid spots to Sixth from the morning run yet was still the top Toyota on the grid while the Project Taiyo Sekiyu Celica took Eighth, the Weds Sport Celica took 10th, and the A'PEXi MR-S sat in 12th.
Once the race started, Hoshino's pole status didn't last very long at all. By lap three Osamu and his 320R came through and charged ahead for the lead, and by lap eight Tetsuya Yamano in the M-TEC car passed Hoshino as well, dropping the Advan Z to Third. Osamu led the race until the lap 20 mandatory driver switch when Yamaji took the advantage and snatched the lead before he pitted as well on lap 27. The RX-7 driver never looked back until he took the checkered flag while his competitors trailed far behind. Hoshino could no longer handle the intense Malaysian heat and dropped to Second place before he passed out at the wheel from heat exhaustion and ran into the gravel pit on the last lap. Hiroyuki Yagi in the number 16 M-TEC NSX took the Second place podium spot, with Go Mifune in the Project B-1 Mach-Go GT320R coming up from Seventh to take the last podium step. Winner Yamaji told interviewers, "We started from Second position and I was hoping we'd be able to keep this place-and our pace-throughout the race. I noticed at the start that the cars running on Dunlop tires were very fast; I wasn't holding back. I knew I had to push as hard as I could in order to make any difference. I was also aware that it was a long and hot race, just as difficult for the others as it was for us. By keeping a good rhythm and running a good number of laps, I feel I was able to contribute my part to our success today."