🇯🇵 Hiroshi Hamaguchi

Hiroshi Hamaguchi is a professional endurance racing driver rated 4,176, competing in multiclass GT and prototype racing across Europe. He holds FIA Bronze grading and races primarily for Iron Lynx and Tsunami RT. In endurance events, he shares a GT3 car with co-drivers across multiple rounds of European championships.[1]

Hamaguchi's record spans 11 seasons and 45 starts, with five wins and 11 podiums. He took the 2024 European Le Mans Series LMGT3 championship with Iron Lynx, scoring four podiums from six starts in that campaign; the same year he added a podium from one World Championship Endurance entry with United Autosports. Before that, he won the 2023 Le Mans Cup with Iron Lynx and took two wins in the Road to Le Mans series between 2020 and 2023, also with the same team. In Super GT, where he competed for a decade from 2010, he scored one win and three podiums across 12 starts.[2]

The fields he races contain graded professionals and semi-professionals at regular intervals. He typically finishes ahead of David Perel, a professional Silver-graded driver with 31 European Le Mans Series starts, though he usually finishes behind Maro Engel, the 2024 GT World Challenge Europe champion and a Platinum-graded established professional with 89 starts in that series. He has beaten Kenta Yamashita, a three-time Super GT GT500 champion and an established professional, once across their meetings, and Matt Campbell, winner of two WEC LMGTE Am titles and a Platinum-graded driver, once in their careers.