1. Kamui Kobayashi (1986)

Japanese Racing Driver

Raced in multiple different series and won back to back championships in the GP2 Asia Series in 2008 and 2009.

2. Hideo Fukuyama (1955)

Japanese Racing Driver

Race car driver who was the first Japanese driver to compete in NASCAR's top series.

3. Hideki Mutoh (1982)

Japanese Racing Driver

Super GT driver who was a Formula Dream Champion in 2002 and the IndyCar Series Rookie of the Year in 2008.

4. Daigo Saito (1980)

Japanese Racing Driver

Japanese drift racer who gained fame competing in series like D1 Grand Prix and D1 Street Legal. He got his first win in D1 in 2008 and went on to...

5. Takuma Sato (1977)

Japanese Racing Driver

Japanese race car driver who became a British Formula Three, Formula Three Masters and Macau Grand Prix champion. He was named National Racing Driver of the Year in 2001.

6. Tetsuya Hibino (1974)

Japanese Racing Driver

Tetsuya Hibino 10 April 1974 Aichi is a Japanese professional drifting driver currently competing in the D1 Grand Prix series for SunRise and Aion. Like many of the drivers in...

7. Yuji Ide (1975)

Japanese Racing Driver

Yuji Ide is a Japanese racing driver who graduated from 2005 Formula Nippon to Formula One with the Super Aguri team in 2006 but lost his FIA Super Licence...

8. Tsuyoshi Tezuka (1975)

Japanese Racing Driver

Tsuyoshi Tezuka is a Japanese professional drifting driver currently competing in the D1 Grand Prix series for Bee*Racing. He developed a love for cars from an early age his first...

9. Akihiro Asai (Unknow)

Japanese Racing Driver

Akihiro Asai is a Japanese race car driver. He started racing karts in 1991 and moved up to open-wheel racing in 1994 at the age of 18. He won two...

10. Ryuji Miki (1975)

Japanese Racing Driver

Ryuji Miki is a racing and drifting driver from Tottori Prefecture Japan. Miki was the 2004 D1 Grand Prix champion driving the Top Secret Silvia S15. Miki also competed in...

11. Yuji Tachikawa (1975)

Japanese Racing Driver

Yuji Tachikawa is a Japanese racing driver. He was SuperGT series champion in 2001 2005 and 2013.

12. Hideki Okada (1958)

Japanese Racing Driver

Hideki Okada is a Japanese former racing driver.

13. Yuji Kunimoto (1990)

Japanese Racing Driver

Yuji Kunimoto is a Japanese auto racing driver. He is the younger brother of 2008 Macau Grand Prix winner Keisuke Kunimoto. As of 2011 he is racing for Cerumo in...

14. Takashi Kobayashi (racing driver) (1987)

Japanese Racing Driver

Takashi Kobayashi is a Japanese racing driver. He currently drives in the Formula Nippon and the Super GT series in the GT500 category. He is not related to fellow Japanese...

15. Kazuya Oshima (1987)

Japanese Racing Driver

Kazuya Oshima is a Japanese racing driver. He has competed in such series as Formula Nippon the Formula Three Euroseries and Super GT. He won the All-Japan Formula Three Championship...

16. Yuhi Sekiguchi (1987)

Japanese Racing Driver

Yuhi Sekiguchi is a Japanese racing driver.

17. Motoharu Kurosawa (1940)

Japanese Racing Driver

Motoharu Kurosawa ) is a retired professional Japanese racing driver who was a factory driver for Nissan. After his retirement from racing he became motor journalist and also worked as...

18. Takuto Iguchi (1988)

Japanese Racing Driver

Takuto Iguchi is a Japanese racing driver. He has competed in such series as Super GT and the All-Japan Formula Three Championship.

19. Satoru Nakajima (1953)

Japanese Racing Driver

Satoru Nakajima is a former racing driver from Japan. Nakajima who was known as one of the nicest and most personable drivers in Formula One in a sport where large...

20. Takao Wada (1953)

Japanese Racing Driver

Takao Wada is a Japanese former racing driver.

21. Naoki Nagasaka (1953)

Japanese Racing Driver

Naoki Nagasaka is a Japanese former racing driver. He has competed professionally in several Japan championships from the 1970s to the 1990s. He won the Japanese Touring Car Championship in...

22. Hideshi Matsuda (1954)

Japanese Racing Driver

Hideshi Matsuda is a racecar driver and Japanese TV reporter. He has raced in several 24-hour races including Daytona and LeMans. He also raced 4 times in the Indianapolis 500...

23. Youichi Imamura (1976)

Japanese Racing Driver

Youichi Imamura is a Japanese professional drifting driver currently competing in the D1 Grand Prix series for team Auto Produce Boss with Bridgestone Potenza. He has always enjoyed driving so...

24. Takashi Yorino (1950)

Japanese Racing Driver

Takashi Yorino is a Japanese former racing driver.

25. Masami Kuwashima (1950)

Japanese Racing Driver

Masami Kuwashima is a former racing driver from Japan. After some experience in the Japanese lower formulae he made an attempt at Formula One. A deal to drive in the...

26. Tetsuya Ota (1959)

Japanese Racing Driver

Tetsuya Ota is a racecar driver from Maebashi in the Gunma Prefecture Japan. He is notable for surviving a fiery multi-car pileup he was involved in during a JGTC race...

27. Noritake Takahara (1951)

Japanese Racing Driver

Noritake Takahara is a former racing driver from Japan. He participated in 2 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix debuting on October 24 1976. He scored no championship points. Takahara...

28. Shunji Kasuya (1962)

Japanese Racing Driver

Shunji Kasuya is a Japanese former racing driver.

29. Kenji Momota (1962)

Japanese Racing Driver

Kenji Momota is a Japanese former racing driver. Momota drove in the All Japan Touring Car Championship in the mid to late 1980s. In 1990 he competed in the...

30. Takuya Kurosawa (1962)

Japanese Racing Driver

Takuya Kurosawa is a Japanese race car driver. He raced in All-Japan Formula Three from 1988 to 1989 Japanese Formula 3000 from 1990 to 1995 and the JGTC series from...

31. Hironori Takeuchi (1964)

Japanese Racing Driver

Hironori Takeuchi is a Japanese auto racing driver.

32. Koji Ushikubo (1955)

Japanese Racing Driver

Koji Ushikubo is a professional racecar driver. Ushikobo competed in Japanese GT Series' B-Class in 2001 competing for the full season in a Porsche 911 GT3-R.

33. Tetsuya Tanaka (racing driver) (1965)

Japanese Racing Driver

Tetsuya Tanaka is a Japanese racing driver. Since 1996 he has competed in the Japanese Grand Touring Championship for a variety of teams and has won the Tokachi 24 Hours...

34. Toshio Suzuki (racing driver) (1955)

Japanese Racing Driver

Toshio Suzuki is a former racing driver from Saitama Prefecture Japan.

35. Hitoshi Ogawa (Unknow)

Japanese Racing Driver

Hitoshi Ogawa was a Japanese racing car driver.

36. Keiichi Tsuchiya (1956)

Japanese Racing Driver

Keiichi Tsuchiya Japan) is a professional race car driver. He is also known as the Drift King ) for his nontraditional use of drifting in non-drifting racing events and his...

37. Manabu Orido (1968)

Japanese Racing Driver

Manabu MAX Orido is a Japanese racing driver who currently competes in the Super GT series for Toyota Team Tsuchiya in a Lexus SC 430 sponsored by Eclipse and AdvanOrido...

38. Katsutomo Kaneishi (1968)

Japanese Racing Driver

Katsutomo Kaneishi is a Japanese racing driver. He has competed in such series as the Japanese Touring Car Championship Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters and Formula Nippon.

39. Takayuki Kinoshita (1972)

Japanese Racing Driver

Takayuki Kinoshita is a Japanese racing car driver and author.

40. Hiro Matsushita (1961)

Japanese Racing Driver

Hiroyuki Hiro Matsushita is a former driver in the Champ Car series. He is the grandson of Konosuke Matsushita founder of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.. The family relationship has...

41. Hisashi Yokoshima (1957)

Japanese Racing Driver

Hisashi Yokoshima is a Japanese former racing driver.

42. Hideki Noda (1969)

Japanese Racing Driver

Hideki Noda is a racing driver from Japan. He participated in three Formula One Grands Prix debuting in the 1994 European Grand Prix but did not score any championship points....

43. Yoshinori Koguchi (1969)

Japanese Racing Driver

Yoshinori Koguchi is a Japanese professional drifting driver who competes in the D1 Grand Prix series for Dunlop Tyres and Koguchi Power. Like many of the other D1 drivers he...

44. Akira Iida (1969)

Japanese Racing Driver

Akira Iida is a Japanese racing driver in the Super GT series since 2002 affiliated with Toyota and Lexus.

45. Hidetoshi Mitsusada (1970)

Japanese Racing Driver

Hidetoshi Mitsusada is a former Formula 3000 driver from Japan. He competed in his first F3000 race at Spa in 1998. His best race result was at Germany in 1998....

46. Masato Kawabata (1977)

Japanese Racing Driver

Masato Kawabata is a Japanese professional drifting driver currently competing in the D1 Grand Prix series for Team Toyo.

47. Shingo Tachi (1977)

Japanese Racing Driver

Shingo Tachi was a Japanese racing driver the son of Nobuhide Tachi founder and head of TOM's the motorsport side of Toyota. Tachi raced in British Formula Vauxhall with Rowan...

48. Kazuhiro Tanaka (1970)

Japanese Racing Driver

Kazuhiro Tanaka is a Japanese professional drifting driver currently competing in the D1 Grand Prix series for Team Orange and Yuke’s. He first discovered drifting when riding in a friends...

49. Takashi Kogure (1980)

Japanese Racing Driver

Takashi Kogure is a Japanese racing driver.

50. Yasuyuki Kazama (1970)

Japanese Racing Driver

Yasuyuki Kazama is a drifting driver from Japan. Kazama was first introduced to drifting at age 17 when he watched Gengo-San who later became his spotter and mentor drifting on...