🇯🇵 Kakunoshin Ohta

Kakunoshin Ohta is an established professional racing driver competing at the peak of Japanese motorsport, with a Racer Rating of 5,923. He holds FIA Gold status in sportscar and endurance racing, where he competes alongside world-class professionals. This is the level of a factory driver in top-tier GT and prototype racing; a driver who wins consistently in the strongest fields, holds a full-time or regular seat at the very top level of the sport, and regularly beats professional-graded rivals.[1]

Ohta has built his career primarily in Super GT since 2022 for Team HRC ARTA Mugen, alongside competitive campaigns in single-seater racing and North American endurance competition. His breakthrough came in Super Formula Lights in 2022, where he won four races and took 12 podiums across 16 starts for Toda Racing; a dominant performance in a junior formula that established him as a prospect. His progression into senior machinery has been measured. In Super GT, he has taken three podiums from 22 starts but has not yet won, running consistently in a field of elite professionals; in Super Formula proper, seven starts across 2024 and 2025 have yielded no points. His transition to IMSA WeatherTech in 2025 and 2026 has yielded one podium from seven starts. The head-to-head record against his rivals tells a revealing story. Ohta consistently outpaces Silver and Gold-graded professionals: he finished ahead of Hibiki Taira 29 times in 34 shared races, and ahead of Kazuto Kotaka 25 times in 38 races. Against the highest-rated opponents, Platinum-graded, multiple-time champions such as Sho Tsuboi, Kenta Yamashita, and Naoki Yamamoto, his record is heavily negative, suggesting a ceiling where the very best drivers begin to separate from the rest. Recent headlines from July 2026 indicate a breakthrough result at the Fuji Super Formula round, where Ohta dominated from a 13th grid position to prevent Zak O'Sullivan's maiden victory.[2]