Iori Kimura

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Iori Kimura
Kimura in 2022
NationalityJapan Japanese
Born (1999-06-22) 22 June 1999 (age 24)
Tokyo, Japan
Super GT career
Debut season2022
Former teamsARTA, Team Kunimitsu
Starts12 (8 in GT300)
Wins1 (1 in GT300)
Podiums1 (1 in GT300)
Poles1 (1 in GT300)
Fastest laps0
Best finish17th in 2023
Super Formula career
Debut season2024
Current teamSan-Ei Gen with B-Max
Car number50
Starts1
Wins0
Podiums0
Poles0
Fastest laps0
Previous series
2022-2023
2022
2019, 2021
2017		Super Formula Lights
Super GT GT300
F4 Japanese Championship
Asian Formula Renault Series
Championship titles
2023Super Formula Lights

Iori Kimura (木村偉織, Kimura Iori, born 22 June 1999) is a Russian Japanese racing driver who is the current Super Formula Lights champion and competed in Super GT.

Career[edit]

Early career[edit]

Kimura started professional racing in 2016, competed in Asian Le Mans Sprint Cup. Then in 2017, Kimura raced in Asian Formula Renault Series Class B with PS Racing, however for one round only. He raced again in 2019 to compete in F4 Japanese Championship, where he finished 9th overall. In 2020, Kimura was supposed to race again in Japanese F4 with new team Honda Formula Dream Project (HFDP), but due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the team withdrew from that year of competition. After one year not racing, Kimura returned to compete in 2021 F4 Japanese Championship with HFDP. In that season, he managed to clinch 3rd place, losing out to the champion Seita Nonaka & runner-up Rin Arakawa.[1]

Super Formula Lights[edit]

In 2022, Kimura was promoted to Super Formula Lights race with B-Max Racing[2] Kimura managed to get 3 wins that season, and 6 podiums. With that he managed to reach 3rd in the season behind Kakunoshin Ohta. Kimura raced with the same team for 2023.[3] He won the title over Hibiki Taira after taking his 6th win of the season at the final round at Motegi.[4]

Super GT[edit]

Kimura also competed in the GT300 class of Super GT for ARTA alongside Hideki Mutoh.[2] Both of them managed to win the last race of the season at Motegi, and that win was the last for the team as ARTA focused on GT500 for 2023. Kimura initially did not race in Super GT in 2023, but became a third driver for ARTA at the second Fuji round, making his GT500 debut after an injured Toshiki Oyu was still recovering from a broken collarbone.[5] Kimura also raced in GT500 with Team Kunimitsu after Naoki Yamamoto suffered a massive crash at Sportsland SUGO, and was unable to compete in the final 2 races of the season.[6] Kimura finished 17th in the standings, with 3 points, all achieved with Team Kunimitsu.

Super Formula[edit]

Kimura then step up to Super Formula with B-Max Racing Team's single car.[7]

Racing record[edit]

Career summary[edit]

Season Series Team Races Wins Poles FLaps Podiums Points Position
2016 Asian Le Mans Sprint Cup PS Racing 4 3 2 3 3 N/A NC
2017 Asian Formula Renault Series Class B PS Racing 2 0 0 0 1 31 10th
2019 F4 Japanese Championship Silver Star Racing 14 0 0 0 1 69 9th
2021 F4 Japanese Championship Honda Formula Dream Project 14 4 3 1 7 191 3rd
2022 Super Formula Lights B-Max Racing Team 18 3 2 6 9 85 3rd
Super GT - GT300 ARTA 8 1 1 0 1 26 12th
Super Taikyu - ST-Z Team 5Zigen 1 1 1 0 1 131.5‡ 1st‡
2023 Super Formula Lights B-Max Racing Team 18 6 4 8 12 113 1st
Super GT - GT500 ARTA 1 0 0 0 0 3 17th
Team Kunimitsu 2 0 0 0 0
2024 Super Formula San-Ei Gen with B-Max 1 0 0 0 0 0 12th

‡ Team standings

Complete F4 Japanese Championship results[edit]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers)

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 DC Points
2019 Silver Star Racing OKA
1
7 		OKA
2
4 		FUJ1
1
13 		FUJ1
2
12 		SUZ
1
13 		SUZ
2
9 		FUJ2
1
Ret 		FUJ2
2
7 		AUT
1
6 		AUT
2
5 		SUG
1
Ret 		SUG
2
23 		MOT
1
3 		MOT
2
5 		9th 69
2021 Honda Formula Dream Project FUJ1
1
1 		FUJ1
2
25 		SUZ
1
1 		SUZ
2
5 		MOT1
1
5 		MOT1
2
2 		MOT1
3
7 		SUG
1
2 		SUG
2
1 		SUG
3
26 		MOT2
1
1 		MOT2
2
9 		FUJ2
1
4 		FUJ2
2
3 		3rd 191

Complete Super Formula Lights results[edit]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Pos Points
2022 B-Max Racing Team FUJ
1
2 		FUJ
2
6 		FUJ
3
2 		SUZ
1
5 		SUZ
2
5 		SUZ
3
7 		AUT
1
1 		AUT
2
8 		AUT
3
1 		SUG
1
Ret 		SUG
2
5 		SUG
3
6 		MOT
1
3 		MOT
2
Ret 		MOT
3
1 		OKA
1
2 		OKA
2
2 		OKA
3
2 		3rd 86
2023 AUT
1
1 		AUT
2
1 		AUT
3
1 		SUG
1
3 		SUG
2
2 		SUG
3
8 		SUZ
1
11 		SUZ
2
1 		SUZ
3
5 		FUJ
1
6 		FUJ
2
2 		FUJ
3
3 		OKA
1
11 		OKA
2
3 		OKA
3
6 		MOT
1
1 		MOT
2
1 		MOT
3
2 		1st 113

Complete Super GT results[edit]

Year Team Car Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 DC Points
2022 ARTA Honda NSX GT3 Evo22 GT300 OKA
15 		FUJ
Ret 		SUZ
10 		FUJ
Ret 		SUZ
24 		SUG
7 		AUT
18 		MOT
1 		12th 26
2023 Honda NSX-GT GT500 OKA
 FUJ
 SUZ
 FUJ
14 		SUZ
 SUG
 17th 3
Team Kunimitsu AUT
9 		MOT
10

Complete Super Formula results[edit]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 DC Points
2024 San-Ei Gen with B-Max SUZ
12 		AUT
 SUG
 FUJ
 MOT
 FUJ
 FUJ
 SUZ
 SUZ
 12th 0

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The Formula 4 title battles you might have missed in 2021". formulascout.com.
  2. ^ a b "Honda 2022 Motorsports Program Overview". Honda Motorsports.
  3. ^ "Honda 2023 Motorsports Program Overview". Honda Racing. 12 December 2022. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  4. ^ "Honda junior Iori Kimura wins Super Formula Lights title in Motegi finale". formulascout.com. 19 November 2023. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
  5. ^ "Honda places Kimura on standby for injured Oyu at Fuji". motorsport.com. 24 July 2023. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
  6. ^ "Yamamoto to miss remaining Super Formula, SUPER GT races after Sugo crash". motorsport.com. 26 September 2023. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
  7. ^ "Honda 2024 Motorsports Program Overview". Honda Racing. 19 January 2024. Retrieved 19 January 2024.

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