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🇯🇵 Daisuke Nakajima

Racing driver from Japan. Super GT, Team Mugen.
Driver facts
Full name
Daisuke Nakajima
Born
29 January 1989(b. 1989)
Nationality
Japan
Current team
Team Mugen
Series
Super GT
Status
Retired
Career wins
0
Career podiums
2
Career starts
60
Career DNFs
8
Racer Rating
4,487
Daisuke Nakajima
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Racer Rating
4,487
Rank 2001 of 38,983 indexed, +0 this season
FIA Categorisation
Gold
FIA driver categorisation
Source: fia.com
Synthesized from 1 source, updated 0h ago

Daisuke Nakajima is a racing driver from Japan who last raced in Super GT for Team Mugen. Nakajima has recorded 0 wins and 2 podiums from 60 starts.[1]

A Racer Rating of 4,487 ranks Nakajima 2001th of 38,983 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications
2019 form
Last 20 races, finish position (higher is better)
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Recent results
Tap a row for the full race
2019-11-02Motegi GT500Super GTP9+38
2019-09-21Sugo GT500Super GTP9+55
2019-09-07Autopolis GT500Super GTP14−55
2019-08-03Fuji GT500Super GTP6+123
2019-06-29Buriram GT500Super GTDNF−51
Career-best drives
Ranked by rating won, which prices the opposition
Rating wonRaceSeriesFinish
+157Fuji 2014Super GTP3
+155Sugo 2018Super GTP4
+149Fuji 2012Super GTP3
+139Buriram 2018Super GTP5
+133Buriram 2016Super GTP5
Circuits
Rating per start against their own form that season
Raises their game
Sugo8 starts+16
Buriram6 starts+10
Fuji15 starts+3
Struggles
Motegi8 starts-13
Suzuka8 starts-8
TI Aida7 starts-8
Autopolis7 starts-1
Season by season
SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPodiumsDNFsPolesPointsPosGain/LossRating
2019▸Super GTTeam Mugen800100P14+2074,487
2018▸Super GTTeam Mugen800110P13+174,326
2017▸Super GTTeam Mugen800100P19−874,314
2016▸Super GTNakajima Racing700000P15+554,397
2015▸Super GTEpson Nakajima Racing800200P14−1744,265
2014▸Super GTNakajima Racing801200P17−2674,355
2013▸Super GTNakajima Racing800100P14↑939−4644,736
2012▸Super GTTeam Mugen501000P15+2,9114,261
Recent coverage
No recent coverage found.
Head-to-head
Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times Nakajima finished ahead vs behind
RivalRatingRacedAheadBehindRecord
🇯🇵 Yuhi SekiguchiFIA Gold5,71559134622%
🇯🇵 Naoki YamamotoFIA Platinum6,24455124322%
🇯🇵 Kazuya OshimaFIA Platinum5,5195594616%
🇯🇵 Hiroaki IshiuraFIA Platinum5,50555114420%
🇯🇵 Ronnie Quintarelli5,4585574813%
🇯🇵 Koudai Tsukakoshi5,39755213438%
🇯🇵 Yuji Tachikawa5,16055134224%
🇯🇵 Tsugio MatsudaFIA Platinum4,8585594616%
🇯🇵 Yuji KunimotoFIA Platinum4,81054114320%
🇯🇵 Kosuke MatsuuraFIA Gold4,50452242846%
🇯🇵 Tadasuke MakinoFIA Gold, 2× champion6,639103730%
🇯🇵 Sho TsuboiFIA Platinum, 5× champion6,57693633%
🇯🇵 Felix RosenqvistFIA Gold, 1× champion6,54171614%
Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates
On the leaderboard
Global rank, 38,983 drivers indexed
#DriverSeriesRating
1,991🇬🇧 James NashBTCC4,491
1,992🇩🇪 David Ortmann MikeNürburgring 24 Hours4,490
1,993🇬🇧 Kelvin BurtFIA GT Championship4,490
1,994🇫🇷 Maceo CapiettoEuropean Le Mans Series4,490
1,995🇯🇵 Satoshi MotoyamaSuper GT4,490
1,996🇨🇦 Chris GreenIMSA Pilot Challenge4,489
1,997🇮🇱 Roy NissanyEuropean Le Mans Series4,489
1,998🏳️ G. TonicNürburgring Langstrecken-Serie4,488
1,999🇩🇪 Marc GassnerNürburgring Langstrecken-Serie4,488
2,000🇺🇸 Austin GreenNASCAR Xfinity4,487
2,001🇯🇵 Daisuke NakajimaSuper GT4,487
2,002🇫🇷 Florian LatorreWEC4,487
2,003🇩🇪 Andreas GüldenNürburgring Langstrecken-Serie4,486
2,004🇺🇸 Michai StephensGT World Challenge America4,485
2,005🇩🇪 Pascal KochemFormula Renault Eurocup4,485
2,006🇬🇧 Ethan Jeff-HallBritish F44,484
2,007🇨🇭 Gary HirschWEC4,483
2,008🇳🇿 Chris van der DriftLamborghini Super Trofeo Asia4,482
2,009🇿🇦 Jackie PretoriusFormula 14,482
2,010🇮🇹 Lorenzo CaséWEC4,482
2,011🏳️ Petru UmbrärescuWEC4,481
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Daisuke Nakajima is a Japanese airline pilot and retired racing driver with a Racer Rating of 6,084, placing him among established professionals; drivers at this level hold full-time seats in top championships or factory sportscar programmes and win regularly in the strongest fields. Nakajima held FIA Gold status, the top professional grading in sportscar and endurance racing. His competitive career ran from 2012 to 2019, spanning 57 starts across Super GT and a brief spell in Super Formula. He accumulated a single podium across all starts, finishing on average at P13.6, and won no races in either series.[1]

Nakajima spent the bulk of his career in Super GT with Team Mugen across eight seasons, recording 52 starts without a race win. His head-to-head record against the regular grid reveals a consistent pattern of outpaced performance. Against multiple Platinum-graded drivers, he finished ahead in fewer than one in five races; against Kazuya Oshima, a Platinum driver and former champion, he finished ahead only 8 times in 54 shared races. He did establish wins over notable drivers including Alex Palou, whom he beat 6 times, and Sho Tsuboi, beaten 14 times, though these figures span entire careers and are not comparable to the near-total losses against his most frequent rivals. His one Super Formula campaign in 2017 with TCS Nakajima Racing yielded no points across five starts.[2]

Nakajima announced his retirement from racing in November 2019 at the conclusion of the Super GT season. The son of Formula 1 driver Satoru Nakajima and brother of Kazuki Nakajima, also an F1 driver, he pursued sportscar racing rather than single-seat progression, building a professional career at Gold standard within the endurance grid but without advancing to race wins at that level.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications[2] Wikipedia
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