Akira Iida
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Nationality | Japanese |
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24 Hours of Le Mans career | |
Years | 1994-1996, 2000 |
Teams | Team Kunimitsu Honda, TV Asahi Team Dragon |
Best finish | 8th (1995, 2000) |
Class wins | 1 (1995) |
Akira Iida (Shinjitai: 飯田 章, Iida Akira, born 18 December 1969 in Sagamihara, Kanagawa) is a Japanese racing driver currently competing in the Super GT series in GT300 class with LM corsa, one of the teams under Toyota Motorsport's GAZOO racing arm. Iida won the 2002 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship GT500 class with Esso Toyota Team LeMans, driving with Juichi Wakisaka. He also won 2013 Asian Le Mans Series GTE class driving for Team Taisan Ken Endless.
Iida was also a presenter on the Japanese Best Motoring TV series.
Career
[edit]Iida has competed in Super GT since 1994; he has five career wins and also won the driver's title in 2002.
Iida have 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 class 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
[edit]24 Hours of Le Mans
[edit]Year | Team | Co-Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
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1994 | Honda NSX | GT2 | 222 | 18th | 9th | ||
1995 | Honda NSX | GT2 | 275 | 8th | 1st | ||
1996 | Honda NSX | GT2 | 305 | 16th | 3rd | ||
2000 | Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S-Élan | LMP900 | 330 | 8th | 7th | ||
2002 | Porsche 911 GT3-RS | GT | 316 | 21st | 3rd | ||
2003 | Porsche 911 GT3-RS | GT | 304 | 19th | 4th |
Complete JTC/JTCC results
[edit]Year | Team | Car | Class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | DC | Pts |
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1993 | NISMO | Nissan Skyline GT-R | JTC-1 | MIN 14 |
AUT 5 |
SUG 3 |
SUZ 5 |
AID 2 |
TSU 1 |
TOK 2 |
SEN 18 |
FUJ 3 |
4th | 119 | |||||||||
1994 | NISMO | Nissan Sunny | AUT 1 |
AUT 2 |
SUG 1 |
SUG 2 |
TOK 1 |
TOK 2 |
SUZ 1 |
SUZ 2 |
MIN 1 |
MIN 2 |
AID 1 14 |
AID 2 13 |
TSU 1 4 |
TSU 2 2 |
SEN 1 8 |
SEN 2 Ret |
FUJ 1 12 |
FUJ 2 10 |
13th | 24 | |
1995 | NISMO | Nissan Sunny | FUJ 1 |
FUJ 2 |
SUG 1 Ret |
SUG 2 DNS |
TOK 1 10 |
TOK 2 7 |
SUZ 1 6 |
SUZ 2 Ret |
MIN 1 1 |
MIN 2 7 |
AID 1 6 |
AID 2 4 |
SEN 1 2 |
SEN 2 3 |
FUJ 1 Ret |
FUJ 2 6 |
6th | 67 | |||
1997 | HKS Opel Team Japan | Opel Vectra | FUJ 1 C |
FUJ 2 C |
AID 1 10 |
AID 2 Ret |
SUG 1 4 |
SUG 2 5 |
SUZ 1 6 |
SUZ 2 Ret |
MIN 1 Ret |
MIN 2 DNS |
SEN 1 3 |
SEN 2 1 |
TOK 1 12 |
TOK 2 DNS |
FUJ 1 13 |
FUJ 2 Ret |
8th | 43 |
Japanese Top Formula Championship results
[edit]Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | DC | Points |
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1995 | Shionogi Team Nova | SUZ Ret |
FUJ C |
MIN Ret |
SUZ | SUG 8 |
FUJ 11 |
TOK Ret |
FUJ 11 |
SUZ 11 |
NC | 0 | |
1997 | Shionogi Team Nova | SUZ 6 |
MIN 3 |
FUJ Ret |
SUZ 7 |
SUG Ret |
FUJ 5 |
MIN 10 |
MOT 11 |
FUJ Ret |
SUZ 13 |
10th | 7 |
1998 | Cosmo Oil Racing Team Cerumo | SUZ | MIN | FUJ 8 |
MOT Ret |
SUZ Ret |
SUG 9 |
FUJ C |
MIN Ret |
FUJ 5 |
SUZ 12 |
14th | 2 |
1999 | Cosmo Oil Racing Team Cerumo | SUZ 7 |
MOT Ret |
MIN Ret |
FUJ 16 |
SUZ Ret |
SUG 10 |
FUJ Ret |
MIN Ret |
MOT 13 |
SUZ 12 |
NC | 0 |
International Formula 3000 results
[edit]Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | DC | Pts |
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1996 | Nordic Racing | NÜR 14 |
PAU 8 |
PER 11 |
HOC 12 |
SIL 13 |
SPA Ret |
MAG 14 |
EST 12 |
MUG 18 |
HOC 9 |
NC | 0 |
Complete JGTC/Super GT Results
[edit](key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
External links
[edit]- Official site
- SuperGT.net profile
- Photo and CV (in German)
- Japanese racing drivers
- Japanese Formula 3000 Championship drivers
- Formula Nippon drivers
- Super GT drivers
- Japanese Touring Car Championship drivers
- 24 Hours of Le Mans drivers
- 1969 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Sagamihara
- International Formula 3000 drivers
- Blancpain Endurance Series drivers
- Asian Le Mans Series drivers
- Toyota Gazoo Racing drivers
- Nismo drivers
- Team LeMans drivers
- Nürburgring 24 Hours drivers
- Team Kunimitsu drivers
- Nordic Racing drivers