Quick Facts
Biography
Iori Kimura (木村偉織, Kimura Iori, born 22 June 1999) is a Russian Japanese racing driver who is the current Super Formula Lights champion and competed in Super GT.
Career
Early Career
Kimura started professional racing in 2016, competed in Asian Le Mans Sprint Cup. Then in 2017, Kimura raced in Asian Formula Renault Series Class B with PS Racing, however for one round only. He raced again in 2019 to compete in F4 Japanese Championship, where he finished 9th overall. In 2020, Kimura was supposed to race again in Japanese F4 with new team Honda Formula Dream Project (HFDP), but due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the team has withdrawn from series that year. After one year off racing, Kimura returned to compete in 2021 F4 Japanese Championship with HFDP. In that season, he managed to clinch 3rd place, losing out to the champion Seita Nonaka & Rin Arakawa. His best season up to date with 4 wins to his name.
Super Formula Lights
In 2022, Kimura was promoted to Super Formula Lights race with B-Max Racing Kimura managed to get 3 wins that season, and 6 podiums. With that he managed to reach 3rd in the season behind Kakunoshin Ohta. Kimura continues to race with the same team for 2023. He wins 4 races, and has 9 podiums.
Super GT
Kimura also compete in Super GT GT-300 Class ARTA alongside Hideki Mutoh. Both of them managed to win the last race of the season at Motegi, and that win was the last for the team as ARTA focuses on GT500 the next season. Kimura did not race in Super GT, but he was part of ARTA once again as the third driver to cover for Toshiki Oyu. But Kimura made his GT500 debut with Team Kunimitsu after Naoki Yamamoto suffered a massive crash at Sportsland SUGO, and unable to compete till the end of the season.
Racing record
Career summary
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Poles | FLaps | Podiums | Points | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Asian Le Mans Sprint Cup | PS Racing | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | N/A | NC |
| 2017 | Asian Formula Renault Series Class B | PS Racing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 31 | 10th |
| 2019 | F4 Japanese Championship | Silver Star Racing | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 69 | 9th |
| 2021 | F4 Japanese Championship | Honda Formula Dream Project | 14 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 191 | 3rd |
| 2022 | Super Formula Lights | B-Max Racing Team | 18 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 85 | 3rd |
| Super GT - GT300 | ARTA | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 12th | |
| 2023 | Super Formula Lights | B-Max Racing Team | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 113 | 1st |
| Super GT - GT500 | ARTA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 17th | |
| Team Kunimitsu | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 2024 | Super Formula | B-Max Racing Team |
Complete F4 Japanese Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers)
| Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | DC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Silver Star Racing | OKA1 7 | OKA2 4 | FUJ11 13 | FUJ12 12 | SUZ1 13 | SUZ2 9 | FUJ21 Ret | FUJ22 7 | AUT1 6 | AUT2 5 | SUG1 Ret | SUG2 23 | MOT1 3 | MOT2 5 | 9th | 69 |
| 2021 | Honda Formula Dream Project | FUJ11 1 | FUJ12 25 | SUZ1 1 | SUZ2 5 | MOT11 5 | MOT12 2 | MOT13 7 | SUG1 2 | SUG2 1 | SUG3 26 | MOT21 1 | MOT22 9 | FUJ21 4 | FUJ22 3 | 3rd | 191 |
Complete Super Formula Lights results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Pos | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | B-Max Racing Team | FUJ1 2 | FUJ2 6 | FUJ3 2 | SUZ1 5 | SUZ2 5 | SUZ3 7 | AUT1 1 | AUT2 8 | AUT3 1 | SUG1 Ret | SUG2 5 | SUG3 6 | MOT1 3 | MOT2 Ret | MOT3 1 | OKA1 2 | OKA2 2 | OKA3 2 | 3rd | 86 |
| 2023 | B-Max Racing Team | AUT1 1 | AUT2 1 | AUT3 1 | SUG1 3 | SUG2 2 | SUG3 8 | SUZ1 11 | SUZ2 1 | SUZ3 5 | FUJ1 6 | FUJ2 2 | FUJ3 3 | OKA1 11 | OKA2 3 | OKA3 6 | MOT1 1 | MOT2 1 | MOT3 2 | 1st | 113 |
Complete Super GT results
| Year | Team | Car | Class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | DC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | ARTA | Honda NSX GT3 Evo22 | GT300 | OKA 15 | FUJ Ret | SUZ 10 | FUJ Ret | SUZ 24 | SUG 7 | AUT 18 | MOT 1 | 12th | 26 |
| 2023 | ARTA | Honda NSX-GT | GT500 | OKA | FUJ | SUZ | FUJ 14 | SUZ | SUG | 17th | 3 | ||
| Team Kunimitsu | AUT 9 | MOT 10 |
