🇯🇵 Hiroki Yoshimoto

Hiroki Yoshimoto is a Japanese professional sportscar driver rated 4,038, a professional-level competitor who has built a 22-season career primarily in Super GT endurance racing. He holds FIA Gold status, the grading for established professionals in sportscar and GT competition. Across 156 total starts spanning single-seaters and endurance racing from 2002 to 2026, he has scored two podium finishes, both in the GP2 Series during his 2005 and 2006 campaigns with BCN Competicion, and remains without a race win. His average finishing position across classified starts stands at P21.3.[1]

Yoshimoto's competitive record centres on 122 Super GT starts across 18 seasons with LM Corsa, a team without race wins in the index, where he has competed against a consistently strong field. His head-to-head record against frequent rivals tells the story of a solid mid-field runner outmatched by the strongest in the category. Against Kazuya Oshima, a Platinum-graded professional and 2016 Super GT champion, Yoshimoto finished ahead only twice in 117 shared races. Against Yuhi Sekiguchi, another Platinum-graded driver and 2021 Super GT champion, the record reads 19 ahead and 94 behind across 113 starts. He has finished ahead of several elite-level drivers on isolated occasions, including two results against Lewis Hamilton and two against Nico Rosberg during his brief Formula 1-adjacent single-seater campaigns, though these represent scattered results from a much weaker competitive position in those series. His only documented 24-hour endurance start came at the Nürburgring in 2019 as part of a Bandoh Racing entry.[2]

Yoshimoto has remained active through 2026, contesting recent Super GT rounds. Beyond motorsport, he is known as the vocalist of Japanese rock band doa under the stage name Daiki Yoshimoto.