🇯🇵 Kazuki Hiramine

Kazuki Hiramine is an elite professional racing driver, FIA Gold-graded, competing in Super GT's multiclass endurance championship for Team Impul. He races Nissan factory GT500 cars shared with co-drivers across the season. His current rating of 5,852 places him among the strongest active competitors in this field.[1]

Hiramine has completed thirteen seasons in Super GT since 2014, taking two wins and sixteen podiums across 89 starts. He won the Super GT GT500 Championship in 2022 alongside Bertrand Baguette. The 2026 season remains in progress; he has already secured two podiums from the four rounds raced so far, including a third-place finish in the season opener at Suzuka.[2]

His regular opponents in Super GT are fellow Gold-graded professionals: Yuichi Nakayama and Mitsunori Takaboshi, both with extensive experience across multiple series, with whom he remains closely matched. He has finished ahead of Sho Tsuboi, an elite Platinum-graded driver with five Super GT championships and a Super Formula title, on twenty-six occasions across their careers. Hiramine has also beaten Alex Palou, a four-time IndyCar champion, in head-to-head meetings.