Iori Kimura
Kimura in 2022
NationalityJapan Japanese
Born (1999-06-22) 22 June 1999
Tokyo, Japan
Super GT career
Debut season2022
Current teamTeam Kunimitsu
Car number100
Former teamsARTA
Starts12 (8 in GT300)
Wins1 (1 in GT300)
Podiums1 (1 in GT300)
Poles1 (1 in GT300)
Fastest laps0
Best finish17th in 2023
Super Formula Lights career
Debut season2022
Current teamB-Max Racing
Car number50
Starts36
Wins9
Podiums21
Poles5
Fastest laps15
Previous series
2022
2019, 2021
2017		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

Early Career

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again in Japanese F4 with new team Honda Formula Dream Project (HFDP), but due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the team has withdrawn from series that year. After one year off 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 & Rin Arakawa.[1] His best season up to date with 4 wins to his name.

Super Formula Lights

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 continues to race with the same team for 2023.[3] He wins 4 races, and has 9 podiums.

Super GT

Kimura also compete in Super GT GT-300 Class 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 focuses on GT500 the next season. Kimura did not race in Super GT, but he was part of ARTA once again as the third driver to cover for Toshiki Oyu.[4] But Kimura made his GT500 debut with Team Kunimitsu after Naoki Yamamoto suffered a massive crash at Sportsland SUGO, and unable to compete till the end of the season.[5]

Racing record

Career summary

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 B-Max Racing Team

‡ Team standings

Complete F4 Japanese Championship results

(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

(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 B-Max Racing Team 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

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 ARTA Honda NSX-GT GT500 OKA
 FUJ
 SUZ
 FUJ
14		 SUZ
 SUG
 17th 3
Team Kunimitsu AUT
9		 MOT
10

Complete Super Formula results

(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 B-Max Racing Team SUZ
 AUT
 SUG
 FUJ
 MOT
 FUJ
 FUJ
 SUZ
 SUZ
 - -

References

  1. ↑ "The Formula 4 title battles you might have missed in 2021". formulascout.com.
  2. 1 2 "Honda 2022 Motorsports Program Overview". Honda Motorsports.
  3. ↑ "Honda 2023 Motorsports Program Overview". Honda Racing. 12 December 2022. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  4. ↑ "Honda places Kimura on standby for injured Oyu at Fuji". motorsport.com. 24 July 2023. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
  5. ↑ "Yamamoto to miss remaining Super Formula, SUPER GT races after Sugo crash". motorsport.com. 26 September 2023. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
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