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Hiroki Yoshida
Nationality	Japanese
Born	(1983-12-21) December 21, 1983 (age 40) Kumamoto, Japan
Super GT GT300 career
Debut season	2011
Current team	Saitama Green Brave
Car number	52
Former teams	ThunderAsia Racing A speed Tomei Sports Gulf Racing with Pacific Gainer
Starts	84
Wins	6
Podiums	14
Poles	2
Fastest laps	4
Best finish	1st in 2023
Championship titles
2005 2008 2023 2023	FJ1600 Super Taikyu (ST-1) Super GT (GT300) Super Taikyu (ST-Z)

Hiroki Yoshida (吉田広樹, Yoshida Hiroki, born December 21, 1983) is a Japanese racing driver. He currently competes in Super GT in the GT300 category and the Super Taikyu Series in the ST-Z category, both for Saitama Green Brave.

Yoshida won the 2023 Super GT Championship in the GT300 class and the 2023 Super Taikyu Championship in the ST-Z class.

Career

Early career

Yoshida began his with racing career in 2004 competing in the J1600 Series, where he won the championship the following year. He then move to Formula Challenge Japan in 2006. In 2007, Yoshida began competing in the Super Taikyu Series and the following year, he took part with the Petronas Syntium Team where his team won the ST-1 championship. In 2010, he competed in the Japanese Formula 3 Championship, where he was signed to Hanashima Racing.

Super GT

In 2011, Yoshida began racing in the Super GT racing series in the GT300 class, driving for ThunderAsia Racing. He later moved to Team A Speed in 2012.

In 2014, Yoshida returned to Super GT, competing for Tomei Sports where he would race for them the following season. For the 2016 season, he signed with Gulf Racing with Pacific. In 2017, he signed with Gainer, remaining with the team the following season. In 2019, Yoshida transferred from Gainer to Green Brave, partnering with Shigekazu Wakisaka. The following season his team switched to a Toyota GR Supra GT300 and Kohta Kawaai would become his new teammate. Yoshida and Kawaai won two races and they finished second in the standings behind Kondo Racing of Kiyoto Fujinami and João Paulo de Oliveira. In 2022, they managed to clinch a win at Autopolis as well as another podium, and Yoshida himself finished 5th in the standings.

In 2023, Saitama Toyopet Green Brave retained both Yoshida and Kawaai and both of them claimed 2 wins and 3 podiums en route to their GT300 championship, which they clinched in the season finale.

Racing record

Complete Super GT results

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

Season still in progress.

References

1. ^ "Hiroki Yoshida". www.teampetronas.com. Archived from the original on 26 January 2009.
2. "Team Petronas Motorsport website". www.teampetronas.com. Archived from the original on 2 March 2009.
3. "Profile". www.teampetronas.com. Archived from the original on 10 December 2011.
4. "2010 Achievement Japanese Formula 3 Entry List (tentative)". Japanese Formula 3 Championship. Japanese Formula 3 Association. 2010-03-10. Archived from the original on 18 April 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
5. "2014年　参戦カテゴリー＆体制発表". RYU-blog. February 3, 2014. Retrieved February 4, 2014.
6. "Run Up が今季 GT300 参戦体制発表。Does とコラボ" [Run Up are announced for GT300 this season by race organisation. In collaboration with DOES.] (in Japanese). as-web.jp. February 21, 2015. Retrieved February 22, 2015.
7. "2016 Teams and Drivers". Super GT Teams and Drivers. Super GT. March 3, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
8. "2017 年 SGT 参戦概要｜ニュース｜Super GT300に参戦するレーシングチーム「Gainer」を運営する株式会社ゲイナーオフィシャルWEBサイト". www.gainer.asia (in Japanese). Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved 2017-01-21.
9. "Nissan & Nismo Announce 2018 Super GT Programmes". dailysportscar.com. 12 February 2018. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
10. "スーパーGT：2019年のシリーズエントリーリスト発表。両クラス合計44台が揃う". www.as-web.jp (in Japanese). 25 February 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
11. "Toyota GR Supra GT300 In Development – Set For 2020 Launch". dailysportscar.com. 26 December 2019. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
12. "Yokohama-equipped car won the GT300 class series championships". Yokohama. Archived from the original on August 20, 2023. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
13. "Super GT announces 43-car entry list for 2022". motorsport.com. 18 February 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
14. "How Super GT's 2023 GT300 field is shaping up". motorsport.com. 4 February 2023. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
15. "TGR Team au TOM'S Clinches GT500 Championship With Dramatic Motegi Victory". 5 November 2023. Retrieved 2023-11-05.

External links

• Hiroki Yoshida career summary at DriverDB.com

• 1983 births
• Living people
• Sportspeople from Kumamoto Prefecture
• Japanese racing drivers
• Formula Challenge Japan drivers
• Japanese Formula 3 Championship drivers
• Super GT drivers
• Craft-Bamboo Racing drivers