🇯🇵 Shinnosuke Yamada

Shinnosuke Yamada is a professional endurance racing driver, FIA Silver graded, who raced in the Super GT GT300 class for Shade Racing. His career on record spans seven seasons from 2016 to 2023, competing in a multiclass championship where FIA GT3 and Japanese-built GT300 specials share the track. The field mixed amateur and professional entrants at every round.[1]

Yamada made 38 starts across his indexed career, finishing 25th in the 2023 Super GT championship standings in his final partial season of five rounds. He was a regular in the GT300 class, racing most often against established professionals; he typically finished behind Nobuteru Taniguchi and Tatsuya Kataoka, both three-time Super GT GT300 champions. He spent eight of his starts with JLOC, a team that fielded established professionals and accumulated 13 wins across the index.[2]

Yamada finished ahead of elite professionals on occasion. He beat Sho Tsuboi, a multiple Super GT and Super Formula champion, twice across their meetings, and finished ahead of Alex Palou, a five-time IndyCar champion, once. These results were exceptions within a career spent mid-pack against the professionals who defined the GT300 grid.