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🇯🇵 Naoki Yamamoto

Racing driver from Japan. Super GT, Stanley Team Kunimitsu. Four-time champion.
Driver facts
Full name
Naoki Yamamoto
Born
11 July 1988(b. 1988)
Nationality
Japan
Current team
Stanley Team Kunimitsu
Series
Super GT
Status
Active
Championships
42018, 2020, 2020, 2025
Career wins
11
Career podiums
43
Career starts
171
Career DNFs
12
Racer Rating
6,244
Naoki Yamamoto
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Racer Rating
6,244
Rank 107 of 38,983 indexed, -100 this season
FIA Categorisation
Platinum
FIA driver categorisation
Source: fia.com
Synthesized from 1 source, updated 0h ago

Naoki Yamamoto is a racing driver from Japan who competes in Super GT for Stanley Team Kunimitsu. Yamamoto is a four-time champion (2018, 2020, 2020, 2025), with 11 wins and 43 podiums from 171 starts.[1]

A Racer Rating of 6,244 ranks Yamamoto 107th of 38,983 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.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications
2026 form
Last 20 races, finish position (higher is better)
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Recent results
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2026-05-03Fuji GT500Super GTP8−60
2026-04-11Okayama GT500Super GTP7−40
Career-best drives
Ranked by rating won, which prices the opposition
Rating wonRaceSeriesFinish
+146Suzuka 2013Super GTP1
+138Motegi 2022Super FormulaP1
+135Fuji 2014Super GTP1
+129Sugo 2019Super FormulaP1
+126Sugo 2015Super GTP1
Circuits
Rating per start against their own form that season
Raises their game
Sepang5 starts+10
Suzuka32 starts+8
Okayama7 starts+7
TI Aida11 starts+6
Struggles
Buriram6 starts-44
Sportsland SUGO5 starts-9
Fuji44 starts-5
Sugo15 starts-1
Season by season
SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPodiumsDNFsPolesPointsPosGain/LossRating
2026▸Super GTStanley Team Kunimitsu200000—−1006,244
2025â–¸Super GTStanley Team Kunimitsu713000P1+1396,344
2024â–¸Super FormulaPONOS Nakajima Racing801100P8+1516,205
â–¸Super GTStanley Team Kunimitsu802000P2+272
2023▸Super FormulaTCS Nakajima Racing700100P12−1215,782
▸Super GTTeam Kunimitsu601110P11−141
2022▸Super FormulaTCS Nakajima Racing1011010P10−1126,043
â–¸Super GTTeam Kunimitsu813010P3+209
2021▸Super GTTeam Kunimitsu812010P2−995,947
▸Super FormulaTCS Nakajima Racing700100P13−365
2020â–¸Super GTTeam Kunimitsu813100P1+1216,384
â–¸Super FormulaDoCoMo Team Dandelion Racing713110P1+98
2019▸Super GTTeam Kunimitsu802100P9−5646,211
▸Super FormulaDoCoMo Team Dandelion Racing713010P2↑383+445
2018â–¸Super GTTeam Kunimitsu814010P1+3536,222
2017â–¸Super GTTeam Kunimitsu802110P7+985,654
2016▸Super GTTeam Kunimitsu701100P10−3325,428
2015▸Super GTTeam Kunimitsu813200P3−335,556
2014â–¸Super GTWeider Modulo Dome Racing813000P3+3005,610
2013â–¸Super GTWeider Modulo Dome Racing811000P4+2095,542
2012▸Super GTTeam Kunimitsu802000P7−135,333
2011▸Super GTTeam Kunimitsu801100P9−1175,346
2010â–¸Super GTTeam Kunimitsu702000P7+4,1135,463
Recent coverage
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Head-to-head
Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times Yamamoto finished ahead vs behind
RivalRatingRacedAheadBehindRecord
🇯🇵 Kazuya OshimaFIA Platinum5,5191731066761%
🇯🇵 Yuji KunimotoFIA Platinum4,8101571094869%
🇯🇵 Yuhi SekiguchiFIA Gold5,715140776355%
🇯🇵 Hiroaki IshiuraFIA Platinum5,505139756454%
🇯🇵 Koudai Tsukakoshi5,397138865262%
🇯🇵 Tomoki Nojiri6,152132676551%
🇯🇵 Tsugio MatsudaFIA Platinum4,858122715158%
🇯🇵 Ronnie Quintarelli5,458116605652%
🇯🇵 Yuji Tachikawa5,160108515747%
🇯🇵 Kenta YamashitaFIA Platinum6,267106555152%
🇯🇵 Alex PalouFIA Platinum, 4× champion7,65974357%
🇲🇽 Pato O'WardFIA Gold, 2× champion7,02432167%
🇯🇵 Tadasuke MakinoFIA Gold, 2× champion6,63953242945%
Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates
On the leaderboard
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Naoki Yamamoto is a professional sportscar racing driver whose career has centred on Super GT, where he has won three championships (2018, 2020, 2025) and recorded eight wins from 117 starts across 16 seasons with Stanley Team Kunimitsu. He holds the FIA Platinum grading for sportscar and endurance racing, denoting a driver at the full professional level in that discipline. His rating of 7,230 places him among the top 100 active drivers in the world and reflects an established professional capable of winning at the very top level of his chosen series.[1]

Yamamoto's competitive record reveals a sustained rivalry with several championship-calibre professionals. He holds a winning head-to-head record against Sho Tsuboi, a four-time Super GT champion, with 41 victories to Tsuboi's 57 across 98 shared races; against Yuhi Sekiguchi, the 2021 Super GT champion, Yamamoto leads 73 to 44 over 117 races. He has also competed frequently against Kazuya Oshima, the 2016 Super GT champion, finishing ahead in 69 of 121 shared races. Notably, he has beaten drivers of considerably higher rating from other disciplines on occasion, including Alex Palou, a four-time IndyCar champion rated 7,766, though this record reflects isolated results rather than a sustained pattern. His average finishing position across all 130 starts stands at seventh.[2]

A parallel career in Super Formula from 2017 to 2024 yielded two podium finishes from 13 starts, a field where he raced against multiple champions and higher-rated specialists without finding victory. Yamamoto announced his retirement from Super Formula at the end of 2024 and remains active in Super GT as of the 2026 season, where his three-championship record and consistency with Team Kunimitsu have established him as a cornerstone figure in the series.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications[2] Wikipedia
Kunimitsu Honda Prelude Wins Red-Flagged Fuji 300km[1]
Sportscar365
2 Aug 2026
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19 Oct 2025
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[Guest post] How Naoki Yamamoto became the face of Super Formula[3]
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21 Nov 2024
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