🇯🇵 Hiroaki Ishiura

Hiroaki Ishiura is an elite professional racing driver competing in Super GT for Team ENEOS Rookie, where he races GT300 and GT500 machinery in a two-class national endurance series shared with amateur and semi-professional entrants. He holds an FIA Platinum grade, the full-professional classification in endurance racing. His career spans 19 seasons from 2008 to the present, with 168 starts across four series; he remains active in the 2026 Super GT season with four rounds completed so far.[1]

Super GT is the centre of his record. Across 147 starts there since 2008, Ishiura has taken seven wins and 23 podiums, the bulk of his career results. He competed in Super Formula for two seasons from 2019 to 2020, adding a single podium from 14 starts in that single-seater series. He has also raced in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, a multiclass endurance championship, where he won twice in six starts, and made a one-off appearance in the 2026 Nürburgring 24 Hours for TOYOTA GAZOO ROOKIE Racing.[2]

His regular rivals in Super GT include Koudai Tsukakoshi, an established professional, and Tsugio Matsuda, the 2015 Super GT GT500 champion; Ishiura is closely matched with both. The field also includes drivers of elite professional standing such as Alex Palou, a five-time IndyCar champion, and Pato O'Ward, who won the 2017 IMSA WeatherTech Prototype Challenge and the 2018 Indy NXT championship; Ishiura has finished ahead of both on two occasions each. Lexus Team Zent Cerumo, which has fielded him for 39 starts, remains the strongest operation at that team across the index.