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Akira Iida

*anese racing driver

Akira Iida (Shinjitai: 飯田 章, Iida Akira, born 18 December 1969 in Sagamihara, Kanagawa) is a *anese racing driver currently competing in the Super GT series in GT300 cl* with LM corsa:, one of the teams under Toyota Motorsport's GAZOO racing arm. Iida won the 2002 All *an Grand Touring Car Championship GT500 cl* with Esso Toyota Team LeMans, driving with Juichi Wakisaka. He also won 2013 Asian Le Mans Series GTE cl* driving for Team Taisan Ken Endless.

Iida was also a presenter on the *anese Best Motoring TV series.

Contents

  • 1 Career
  • 2 Racing record
    • 2.1 24 Hours of Le Mans
    • 2.2 Complete JTC/JTCC results
    • 2.3 *anese Top Formula Championship results
    • 2.4 International Formula 3000 results
    • 2.5 Complete JGTC/Super GT Results
  • 3 External links

Career

Iida has competed in Super GT since 1994; he has five career wins and also won the driver's *le in 2002.

Iida has also driven in Formula 3000 and Formula Nippon.

Being experienced at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Akira Iida did also participate in the 2008 24 Hours Nürburgring race as well as in VLN endurance races, winning his cl* twice with a Lexus LF-A.

On August 31, 2011, Iida recorded a lap time of 7:14.64 in a fully road-legal Lexus LFA Nürburgring Package around the Nürburgring Nordschleife. This marked a new fastest time for regular production cars, running on standard specification tyres.

Racing record

24 Hours of Le Mans

Complete JTC/JTCC results

*anese Top Formula Championship results

International Formula 3000 results

Complete JGTC/Super GT Results

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

External links

  • Official site
  • SuperGT.net profile
  • Photo and CV (in German)