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🇯🇵 Hiroaki Ishiura

Racing driver from Japan. Super GT, Team ENEOS Rookie.
Driver facts
Full name
Hiroaki Ishiura
Born
23 April 1981(b. 1981)
Nationality
Japan
Current team
Team ENEOS Rookie
Series
Super GT
Status
Active
Career wins
9
Career podiums
27
Career starts
166
Career DNFs
16
Racer Rating
5,505
Hiroaki Ishiura
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Racer Rating
5,505
Rank 608 of 38,983 indexed, -185 this season
FIA Categorisation
Platinum
FIA driver categorisation
Source: fia.com
Synthesized from 1 source, updated 0h ago

Hiroaki Ishiura is a racing driver from Japan who competes in Super GT for Team ENEOS Rookie. Ishiura has recorded 9 wins and 27 podiums from 166 starts.[1]

A Racer Rating of 5,505 ranks Ishiura 608th 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)
P1P5P10P20DNFJPNJPNJPNJPNJPNJPNJPNJPNJPNJPNJPNJPNJPNJPNJPNJPNJPNJPNJPNDEU
Recent results
Tap a row for the full race
2026-05-14Nürburgring Nordschleife SP 2TNürburgring 24 HoursDNF−127
2026-05-03Fuji GT300Super GTP6+25
2026-04-11Okayama GT300Super GTP16−83
Career-best drives
Ranked by rating won, which prices the opposition
Rating wonRaceSeriesFinish
+156Suzuka 2009Super GTP1
+152Fuji 2010Super GTP1
+151Fuji 2025Super GTP1
+148Fuji 2012Super GTP1
+137Fuji 2015Super GTP2
Circuits
Rating per start against their own form that season
Raises their game
Motegi16 starts+31
Okayama7 starts+26
Fuji38 starts+11
Sepang7 starts+4
Struggles
Nürburgring Nordschleife7 starts-49
TI Aida13 starts-14
Buriram6 starts-14
Suzuka27 starts-13
Season by season
SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPodiumsDNFsPolesPointsPosGain/LossRating
2026▸Super GTTeam ENEOS Rookie200000—−595,505
▸Nürburgring 24 HoursTOYOTA GAZOO ROOKIE Racing100100—−127
2025▸Super GTTGR Team KeePer CERUMO711120P5+845,690
2024▸Super GTTGR Team KeePer CERUMO803110P3+3205,606
2023▸Super GTTGR Team Zent Cerumo800100P12+285,286
2022▸Super GTTGR Team Zent Cerumo800200P12−5435,258
2021▸Super GTTGR Team Zent Cerumo801200P10−1445,801
2020▸Super GTTGR Team Zent Cerumo801110P10−1835,791
▸Super FormulaJMS P.mu/cerumo-INGING701000P8+88
2019▸Super GTLexus Team Zent Cerumo811100P4−966,071
▸Super FormulaJMS P.mu/cerumo-INGING700200P9↑482−7
▸Nürburgring Langstrecken-SerieTOYOTA GAZOO Racing100000—−287
2018▸Super GTLexus Team Zent Cerumo802010P4+2546,233
2017▸Super GTLexus Team Zent Cerumo813010P3+1725,789
2016▸Super GTLexus Team Zent Cerumo712000P3−235,514
2015▸Super GTLexus Team Zent Cerumo803220P4+2065,427
2014▸Super GTLexus Team Sard800010P12−1535,203
▸Nürburgring Langstrecken-SerieGazoo Racing100000P19−175
2013▸Super GTLexus Team Sard801000P6+1065,667
▸Nürburgring Langstrecken-SerieGazoo Racing212000P12+1
2012▸Super GTLexus Team Sard811100P3+2995,560
▸Nürburgring Langstrecken-SerieGazoo Racing100000P19−75
2011▸Super GTLexus Team Sard802030P8−375,337
▸Nürburgring Langstrecken-SerieGazoo Racing111000—+47
2010▸Super GTLexus Team Kraft711110P6+855,327
2009▸Super GTLexus Team Kraft911010P9+625,242
2008▸Super GTToyota Team Tsuchiya900000P12+3,8305,180
Recent coverage
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Head-to-head
Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times Ishiura finished ahead vs behind
RivalRatingRacedAheadBehindRecord
🇯🇵 Koudai Tsukakoshi5,397144766853%
🇯🇵 Tsugio MatsudaFIA Platinum4,858141766554%
🇯🇵 Naoki YamamotoFIA Platinum6,244139647546%
🇯🇵 Ronnie Quintarelli5,458136657148%
🇯🇵 Takuya Izawa4,685136835361%
🇯🇵 Kazuya OshimaFIA Platinum5,519135666949%
🇯🇵 Yuji KunimotoFIA Platinum4,810125755060%
🇯🇵 Yuhi SekiguchiFIA Gold5,715117625553%
🇧🇷 Kohei HirateFIA Platinum5,178110634757%
🇯🇵 Tomoki Nojiri6,152101505150%
🇯🇵 Alex PalouFIA Platinum, 4× champion7,65972529%
🇲🇽 Pato O'WardFIA Gold, 2× champion7,02432167%
🇯🇵 Tadasuke MakinoFIA Gold, 2× champion6,63971304142%
Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates
On the leaderboard
Global rank, 38,983 drivers indexed
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605🇮🇹 Alessandro Pier GuidiWEC5,507
606🇬🇧 Brian NaylorFormula 15,506
607🇯🇵 Yuto NomuraSuper GT5,506
608🇯🇵 Hiroaki IshiuraSuper GT5,505
609🇺🇸 Greg BiffleARCA Menards West5,504
610🇧🇷 Raul BoeselIndyCar5,504
611🇳🇱 Arie LuyendykIndyCar5,503
612🇫🇷 Arthur PicGP2 Series5,502
613🇩🇪 Tim TramnitzGT World Challenge Europe5,502
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615🇫🇷 Robert ManzonFormula 15,500
616🇬🇧 Toby SoweryIMSA WeatherTech5,500
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618🇩🇰 John NielsenFIA GT Championship5,498
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Hiroaki Ishiura is an elite professional endurance racing driver with a Racer Rating of 6,693, placing him among the world's strongest sportscar competitors. The FIA Platinum grading reflects his status as a full professional in GT and endurance racing, a level denoting proven excellence at the highest tier of that discipline. Across 19 seasons from 2008 to 2026, Ishiura has established himself as a consistent front-runner in Super GT, the primary series of his career; his 132 starts there produced 7 wins and 23 podiums, with an average finishing position of P7.9 that masks strong underlying form in competitive fields. He contested Super Formula, Japan's premier single-seater championship, for three seasons between 2017 and 2019, recording 8 starts and securing 1 win alongside 1 podium finish.[1]

Ishiura's competitive record bears out his elite standing through sustained success against established professionals. He holds a dominant head-to-head record against multiple Gold-graded drivers; against Tatsuya Kataoka he finished ahead in 111 of 128 shared races, and against Nobuteru Taniguchi 118 of 126. Even against drivers at or above his own level, Ishiura has proven competitive. He finished ahead of Sho Tsuboi, a three-time Super GT champion and Platinum professional, in 35 of 122 encounters, and beat Tadasuke Makino, the 2020 and 2025 Super GT champion, on 24 occasions across their shared starts. His record also includes rare victories over drivers of international stature; he finished ahead of IndyCar champion Alex Palou six times and Formula 1 driver Pierre Gasly twice, results that underline his technical standard even if they do not define a sustained pattern.[2]

Ishiura announced his retirement from Super GT's top class in July 2025 after eighteen seasons with the series, stepping down to GT300 competition in 2026. His entry into Nürburgring 24 Hours that year marked a foray into international endurance racing, while remaining based in domestic Japanese competitions where he has built his career as one of the most reliable and consistent performers of his generation.

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