🇯🇵 Mitsunori Takaboshi

Mitsunori Takaboshi is a full-time professional sportscar driver rated 6,780, placing him among the established elite of endurance racing. An FIA Gold-graded driver, he operates at the level of a factory driver competing for wins in the world's strongest GT fields. His career centres on Super GT, where he has raced for NISMO since 2015 and recorded five wins and twelve podiums across 79 starts through 2026. He also holds a Japanese Formula 3 Championship from 2017, and made brief appearances in Super Formula in 2025 and Formula 3 Macau in 2014, neither yielding results.[1]

Within Super GT, Takaboshi has established himself as a mid-field professional rather than a front-runner. His average finish sits at P11.8 across all racing, and his head-to-head records against the series' strongest drivers tell a clear story: he loses decisively to the elite tier. Against Yuhi Sekiguchi, a Gold-graded Super GT champion, he finished ahead 30 times and behind 47 times across 77 shared races. Against Sho Tsuboi and Naoki Yamamoto, both Platinum-graded three-time Super GT champions, Takaboshi finished ahead in 25 and 18 races respectively but was lapped far more often. His strongest competitive ground lies against drivers of lower calibre; he has a commanding record against semi-professionals such as Naoya Gamou, Nobuteru Taniguchi and Tatsuya Kataoka, beating each of them in roughly 80 per cent of their shared races. Notably, he has occasionally outpaced much stronger drivers in isolation, including IndyCar champion Alex Palou five times, though these represent isolated results rather than a pattern of competitiveness at that level.[2]

Takaboshi remains active in Super GT in 2026, with one podium from two races at the time of latest update. His career reflects the profile of a solid professional endurance driver operating consistently in a factory-backed programme; he beats the depth of the field regularly but struggles to match the pace of the championship's elite tier.