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🇯🇵 Hibiki Taira

Racing driver from Japan. Super GT, APR.
Driver facts
Full name
Hibiki Taira
Born
1 January 1999(b. 1999)
Nationality
Japan
Current team
APR
Series
Super GT
Status
Active
Career wins
6
Career podiums
30
Career starts
91
Career DNFs
4
Racer Rating
4,873
Hibiki Taira
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Racer Rating
4,873
Rank 1322 of 38,983 indexed, -219 this season
FIA Categorisation
Silver
FIA driver categorisation
Source: fia.com
Synthesized from 1 source, updated 0h ago

Hibiki Taira is a racing driver from Japan who competes in Super GT for APR. Taira has recorded 6 wins and 30 podiums from 91 starts.[1]

A Racer Rating of 4,873 ranks Taira 1322th 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.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications
2026 form
Last 20 races, finish position (higher is better)
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Recent results
Tap a row for the full race
2026-05-03Fuji GT300Super GTP21−106
2026-04-11Okayama GT300Super GTP22−112
Career-best drives
Ranked by rating won, which prices the opposition
Rating wonRaceSeriesFinish
+128Okayama 2024Super GTP1
+119Motegi 2022Super Formula LightsP1
+115Fuji 2023Super GTP2
+109Okayama 2021Super GTP6
+104Suzuka 2022Super GTP3
Circuits
Rating per start against their own form that season
Raises their game
Suzuka19 starts+18
Fuji15 starts+17
Autopolis11 starts+15
Sugo10 starts+1
Struggles
Motegi11 starts-24
Okayama11 starts-6
Twin Ring Motegi4 starts-3
Season by season
SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPodiumsDNFsPolesPointsPosGain/LossRating
2026▸Super GTAPR200000—−2184,873
2025▸Super GTHyper Water Racing Inging701100P13−1225,092
▸Super FormulaKDDI TGMGP TGR-DC500100P18−301
2024▸Super GTmuta Racing INGING814000P3+3525,515
▸Super FormulaITOCHU ENEX Team Impul400100P16↑767−295
▸Nürburgring Langstrecken-SerieToyota Gazoo Racing200000P26−373
2023▸Super Formula LightsTOM'S18311050P2+2795,063
▸Super GTmuta Racing INGING803100P3+66
2022▸Super Formula LightsTOM'S1726000P4+654,717
▸Super GTAPR301000P19+1
2021▸Super Formula LightsTOM'S1304000P5+3,3014,651
▸Super GTK-Tunes Racing400000P18+79
Recent coverage
No recent coverage found.
Head-to-head
Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times Taira finished ahead vs behind
RivalRatingRacedAheadBehindRecord
🇯🇵 Seita NonakaFIA Gold5,05173452862%
🇯🇵 Kazuto KotakaFIA Gold4,30354203437%
🇯🇵 Togo Suganami4,79852282454%
🇧🇷 Iori KimuraFIA Gold5,52050212942%
🇧🇷 Yuga Furutani4,27049381178%
🇯🇵 Igor FragaFIA Gold5,04045271860%
🇯🇵 Shunsuke KounoFIA Silver4,43445281762%
🇯🇵 Dragon2,3824442295%
🇯🇵 Nobuhiro ImadaFIA Bronze2,7594341295%
🇯🇵 Syun Koide5,24939241562%
🇯🇵 Ayumu IwasaHigher-rated6,35493633%
🇯🇵 Kenta YamashitaFIA Platinum, 1× champion6,267111109%
🇯🇵 Naoki YamamotoFIA Platinum, 4× champion6,24451420%
Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates
On the leaderboard
Global rank, 38,983 drivers indexed
#DriverSeriesRating
1,312🇧🇪 Marc Goossens24H Series4,882
1,313🇮🇹 Mirko BortolottiDTM4,881
1,314🇺🇸 Sean RayhallRoad to Le Mans4,881
1,315🇬🇧 Matthew HowsonWEC4,879
1,316🇬🇧 Dirk MullerNürburgring Langstrecken-Serie4,878
1,317🇬🇧 Oliver GavinWEC4,877
1,318🇺🇸 William LanghorneNürburgring Langstrecken-Serie4,877
1,319🇺🇸 Conrad GrunewaldGT World Challenge Europe4,876
1,320🇫🇷 Jérôme PolicandRoad to Le Mans4,876
1,321🇮🇹 Giovanni BonannoInternational Formula 30004,874
1,322🇯🇵 Hibiki TairaSuper GT4,873
1,323🇮🇹 Valerio RinicellaEuropean Le Mans Series4,873
1,324🇯🇵 Riki OkusaSuper GT4,872
1,325🇫🇷 Ryo FukudaFormula V8 3.54,872
1,326🇺🇸 Rc EnersonNASCAR Xfinity4,870
1,327🇪🇸 Adrián VallésFormula V8 3.54,869
1,328🇳🇱 Hannes van AsseldonkFIA Formula 3 European4,868
1,329🇨🇭 Neel JaniWEC4,867
1,330🇨🇭 Ricardo FellerGT World Challenge Europe4,867
1,331🇺🇸 Burt FrisselleIMSA WeatherTech4,866
1,332🇮🇹 Gabriele LancieriEuropean Le Mans Series4,865
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Hibiki Taira is an established professional racing driver with a Racer Rating of 5,028, placing him among the top tier of drivers competing in sportscar and endurance racing. His FIA Silver categorisation denotes professional-level status within GT and endurance competition, typically accorded to young or early-career drivers of this calibre. Across six seasons from 2021 to 2026, Taira has accumulated 81 starts with 5 wins and 21 podiums, competing primarily in Super Formula Lights, Super GT, and Super Formula.[1]

Taira's core strength lies in Super Formula Lights, where he recorded 48 starts for TOM'S and secured 5 wins and 21 podiums across the 2021 to 2023 period. This represents a competitive record in a field that included multiple strong rivals; he finished ahead of Iori Kimura, the 2023 Super Formula Lights champion, on 19 occasions while being beaten 27 times across 46 shared races, and outpaced Kazuto Kotaka, the 2022 champion, 15 times whilst trailing him 30 times over 45 starts. His head-to-head against Seita Nonaka, a professional-graded driver, reads 40 ahead to 23 behind across 63 races, showing a clear advantage over a sustained period. By contrast, his Super GT campaign has been considerably less productive; 30 starts for APR from 2021 to 2026 have yielded no wins or podiums, with an average finishing position suggesting mid-field performance in a series where he has occasionally finished ahead of multiple Super GT champions including Sho Tsuboi, Naoki Yamamoto and Kenta Yamashita, each of whom hold Platinum grades and multiple title wins.[2]

Taira's transition to Super Formula in 2024 has been tentative, with three starts across 2024 and 2025 for KDDI TGMGP TGR-DC TOYOTA/TRD 01F yielding no points. His 2026 season has seen him continue Super GT competition with two rounds completed without a top-three finish. The driver remains active in 2026 as part of the TGR Driver Challenge Program, continuing to compete at the professional level whilst establishing a more consistent race-winning record across the sportscar categories in which he has previously shown strength.

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