🇯🇵 Takayuki Kinoshita

Takayuki Kinoshita is an entry-level professional racing in national multiclass endurance championships at the Nürburgring, where he shares GT4 and modified production-based cars with multiple co-drivers across seasons of the Langstrecken-Serie and the 24-hour race. He holds an FIA Bronze grading, the amateur grade in sportscar racing. His primary team is TOYO TIRES with Ring Racing.[1]

Kinoshita's indexed record spans fifteen seasons from 2010 to the present, though his starts on file total twenty-five across the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie and Nürburgring 24 Hours. In the Langstrecken-Serie he has taken two wins and eleven podiums from twenty-two starts in the SP 10 and SP 3 classes. He has made three starts in the 24-hour race, most recently in 2025. His career outside this index, documented by other sources, included earlier wins in the Nürburgring 24 Hours and a background in motorsport journalism and automotive writing.[2]

He typically finishes ahead of Stephan Brodmerkel, a fellow Bronze-graded semi-professional regular on the same circuits. Against Andreas Gülden, the two-time defending SP 10 class champion and a professional-level competitor with extensive experience across multiple series, Kinoshita is closely matched. He has occasionally finished ahead of stronger professionals: he beat Alexander Mattschull, an established professional and Le Mans Cup LMP3 champion, once, and Kamui Kobayashi, a Platinum-graded driver with a career spanning Formula 1, WEC, and the 2021 Hypercar championship, twice.