Kyosuke Mineo is a racing driver from Japan who last raced in Super GT for Pacific Racing with Good Speed. Mineo is a one-time champion (2012), with 1 win and 8 podiums from 75 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 4,130 ranks Mineo 3054th of 40,349 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, decayed for time since their last race.
| 2019-11-02 | Motegi GT300 | P15 | โ4 |
| 2019-09-21 | Sugo GT300 | P9 | +60 |
| 2019-09-07 | Autopolis GT300 | P22 | โ84 |
| 2019-08-03 | Fuji GT300 | P19 | โ45 |
| 2019-06-29 | Buriram GT300 | P16 | โ50 |
| Rating won | Race | Series | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| +155 | TI Aida 2012 | Super GT | P2 |
| +141 | Sepang International Circuit 2012 | Super GT | P2 |
| +138 | Suzuka 2010 | Super GT | P2 |
| +133 | Motegi 2012 | Super GT | P1 |
| +129 | TI Aida 2017 | Super GT | P3 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | โธSuper GT | Pacific Racing with Good Speed | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P23 | โ299 | 4,436 |
| 2018 | โธSuper GT | Pacific With Gulf Racing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P19 | โ30 | 4,509 |
| 2017 | โธSuper GT | Pacific With Gulf Racing | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P7 | +399 | 4,765 |
| 2016 | โธSuper GT | Lamborghini Team Direction Shift | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P20 | โ268 | 4,549 |
| 2015 | โธSuper GT | Direction Racing | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P15 | +176 | 4,561 |
| 2014 | โธSuper GT | Porsche Team KTR | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P17 | โ308 | 4,399 |
| 2013 | โธSuper GT | Team Taisan Ken Endless | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P10 | โ45 | 4,767 |
| 2012 | โธSuper GT | Team Taisan Endless | 8 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P1 | +751 | 4,811 |
| 2011 | โธSuper GT | Team Taisan Cinecitta | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P19 | โ387 | 4,060 |
| 2010 | โธSuper GT | Autobacs Racing Team Aguri | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P11 | +138 | 4,447 |
| 2009 | โธSuper GT | APR | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P13 | +19 | 4,308 |
| 2008 | โธSuper GT | APR | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P9 | +2,939 | 4,289 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ๐ฏ๐ต Hiroki KatohFIA Bronze | 4,684 | 75 | 45 | 30 | 60% |
| ๐ฏ๐ต Nobuteru TaniguchiFIA Silver | 5,252 | 74 | 23 | 51 | 31% |
| ๐ฏ๐ต Kazuki Hoshino | 4,795 | 74 | 28 | 46 | 38% |
| ๐ฏ๐ต Tomonobu FujiiFIA Gold | 4,667 | 74 | 36 | 38 | 49% |
| ๐ฏ๐ต Shinichi TakagiFIA Silver | 4,632 | 74 | 29 | 45 | 39% |
| ๐ฏ๐ต Manabu OridoFIA Silver | 3,709 | 74 | 39 | 35 | 53% |
| ๐ฏ๐ต Morio NittaFIA Silver | 4,618 | 71 | 28 | 43 | 39% |
| ๐ฏ๐ต Kazuho TakahashiFIA Bronze | 3,529 | 70 | 43 | 27 | 61% |
| ๐ฏ๐ต Takayuki AokiFIA Silver | 3,990 | 67 | 37 | 30 | 55% |
| ๐ฏ๐ต Katsuyuki HiranakaFIA Gold | 3,820 | 67 | 21 | 46 | 31% |
| ๐ช๐ธ Alex PalouFIA Platinum, 5ร champion | 7,220 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 43% |
| ๐ฏ๐ต Sho TsuboiFIA Platinum, 5ร champion | 6,799 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 44% |
| ๐ฏ๐ต Tadasuke MakinoFIA Gold, 1ร champion | 6,741 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100% |
| # | Driver | Series | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3,044 | ๐ฌ๐ง Robert Nimkoff | American Endurance Racing | 4,133 |
| 3,045 | ๐ฏ๐ต Shinichi Yamaji | Super GT | 4,133 |
| 3,046 | ๐จ๐ฆ Larry Pollard | NASCAR Xfinity | 4,132 |
| 3,047 | ๐ฉ๐ช Ben Dรถrr | DTM | 4,131 |
| 3,048 | ๐บ๐ธ Davey Allison | NASCAR Xfinity | 4,131 |
| 3,049 | ๐ฌ๐ง Ibrahim Badawy | Asian Le Mans Series | 4,131 |
| 3,050 | ๐ฒ๐ฝ Jorge Goeters | NASCAR Xfinity | 4,131 |
| 3,051 | ๐ฉ๐ช Marc Walz | Formula Renault Eurocup | 4,131 |
| 3,052 | ๐ซ๐ท Fabien Barthez | GT World Challenge Europe | 4,130 |
| 3,053 | ๐ฉ๐ช Gerd Ruch | FIA GT Championship | 4,130 |
| 3,054 | ๐ฏ๐ต Kyosuke Mineo | Super GT | 4,130 |
| 3,055 | ๐ฏ๐ต Yukihiro Hane | FIA GT Championship | 4,130 |
| 3,056 | ๐ต๐น Bernardo Pinheiro | European Le Mans Series | 4,129 |
| 3,057 | ๐ฎ๐น Fabio Villa | FIA GT Championship | 4,129 |
| 3,058 | ๐บ๐ธ Kelly Kovski | ARCA Menards Series | 4,129 |
| 3,059 | ๐บ๐ธ Logan Seavey | ARCA Menards Series | 4,129 |
| 3,060 | ๐บ๐ธ Tony Warren | NASCAR Xfinity | 4,129 |
| 3,061 | ๐บ๐ธ Andy Santerre | NASCAR Xfinity | 4,128 |
| 3,062 | ๐ช๐ธ Belen Garcia | European Le Mans Series | 4,128 |
| 3,063 | ๐ช๐ธ Bruno Mรฉndez | Formula V8 3.5 | 4,128 |
| 3,064 | ๐ฉ๐ช Felipe Fernรกndez Laser | Asian Le Mans Series | 4,127 |
Kyosuke Mineo is a professional racing driver and FIA Silver-graded entrant in Super GT's GT300 class, where he raced shared cars in a multiclass endurance championship. He competed for Pacific Racing with Good Speed across twelve seasons from 2008 to 2019, accumulating 75 starts in that series alone.[1]
Mineo took one victory and eight podium finishes across his Super GT career, winning the 2012 GT300 championship with Team Taisan Endless. His final season came in 2019, when he finished 23rd in the championship standings after competing in eight rounds.[2]
His regular opponents in GT300 included Hiroki Katoh, a Bronze-graded professional he matched closely, and Nobuteru Taniguchi, a three-time GT300 champion against whom Mineo typically finished behind. Mineo nonetheless finished ahead of drivers of considerably higher standing; he beat the elite professional and Platinum-graded Sho Tsuboi on four occasions, and finished ahead of Alex Palou, the five-time IndyCar champion, twice in shared-car racing.