🇯🇵 Takashi Kogure

Takashi Kogure is an established professional racing driver rated 5,006 and holding an FIA Gold grading, the full-professional classification for endurance racing. He competes in Super GT, a multiclass endurance championship run in Japan where drivers share cars across a season spanning both the GT500 and GT300 classes. He currently drives the No. 88 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 2 for JLOC in the GT300 class, which he won as reigning champion in 2024 alongside teammate Yuya Motojima.[1]

Kogure has accumulated 147 starts across 19 seasons in Super GT, with 12 wins and 29 podiums. He won the GT500 championship in 2010 alongside Loïc Duval, making him one of only three drivers in the series to claim titles in both classes. He has maintained a presence in the grid's upper reaches for over two decades, also competing in Formula 3 Macau early in his career in 2002, where he took two podium finishes. In 2026, his current season, he has competed in four rounds so far.[2]

Among the grid's established professionals, Kogure holds his own against comparable peers. He runs closely matched against João Paulo de Oliveira, a two-time GT300 champion and Platinum-graded driver who remains a regular opponent, and against Hironobu Yasuda, a Gold-graded professional and 2008 GT300 champion. He has also finished ahead of Kenta Yamashita five times, a Platinum-graded driver who has claimed the GT500 championship three times in 2019, 2024 and 2025. His record across two decades places him among the grid's dependable frontrunners.