*anese racing driver

Masataka Yanagida (born 4 June 1979, in Tokyo) is a *anese racing driver.

Contents

• 1 Career
• 2 Racing record
  • 2.1 Complete Super GT results
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Career

The son of successful racing driver Haruhito Yanagida, a runner-up in the *anese Touring Car Championship, Masataka began his career in karting in 1993. In 1997 he raced in Formula Renault Campus in France, before stepping up to the main French Formula Renault Championship in 1998. He moved on to Formula Dream in 1999, taking five victories in the 2000 season.

In 2001 he began racing in *anese F3 and *anese GT. He finished seventh in the F3 standings and fourth in the GT300 cl* in *anese GT, where he raced with Yuji Ide. He improved to finish third in GT300 in 2002, before winning the cl* in 2003. He returned to F3 in 2004, but could only finish 10th. He moved up to the GT500 cl* of Super GT in 2005, finishing fifth in the standings, sharing with Michael Krumm.

He made his World Touring Car Championship debut at the 2010 FIA WTCC Race of *an at Okayama for the Wiechers-Sport team.

Racing record

Complete Super GT results

* Season still in progress

References

External links

• Official website (in *anese)
• Career statistics at Driver Database