🇯🇵 Morio Nitta

Morio Nitta is a professional racing driver competing in the Super GT GT300 class, a multiclass endurance championship contested by shared-cockpit cars mixing FIA GT3 machinery with Japanese-built GT300 specials. He drives for K-Tunes Racing, an established outfit that has fielded six drivers across the index. Graded FIA Silver, Nitta sits in the category reserved for professional endurance drivers, below the two full-professional Platinum and Gold tiers.[1]

Nitta's indexed career runs from 2008 through the current 2026 season, with 144 starts across Super GT. He won the GT300 championship three times, in 1996, 1999 and 2002, and holds eight race wins and 24 podiums in this database's records. He has finished ahead of Alex Palou, a four-time IndyCar champion competing at elite professional level, on four occasions, and has beaten Sho Tsuboi, a two-time Super GT GT500 champion and two-time Super Formula champion at Platinum grade, five times.[2]

In the regular field Nitta encounters, he typically finishes behind Nobuteru Taniguchi, a three-time GT300 champion and established professional, but runs closely matched against Hiroki Yoshimoto, a Gold-graded driver with experience in Super GT, GP2 and the Nürburgring series. K-Tunes Racing announced in February 2026 that it would debut a Corvette Z06 GT3.R in the Japan Cup, signalling a shift in the team's machinery for the ongoing season.