Takeshi Tsuchiya is a racing driver from Japan who last raced in Super GT for Tsuchiya Engineering. Tsuchiya is a one-time champion (2016), with 2 wins and 7 podiums from 58 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 4,560 ranks Tsuchiya 1823th of 40,349 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, decayed for time since their last race.
| 2019-08-03 | Fuji GT300 | P26 | −141 |
| 2019-05-03 | Fuji GT300 | P18 | −56 |
| Rating won | Race | Series | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| +136 | Sugo 2015 | Super GT | P1 |
| +129 | Buriram 2016 | Super GT | P1 |
| +116 | Suzuka 2013 | Super GT | P2 |
| +110 | Sugo 2016 | Super GT | P2 |
| +109 | TI Aida 2013 | Super GT | P4 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | ▸Super GT | Tsuchiya Engineering | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P25 | −197 | 4,560 |
| 2018 | ▸Super GT | Tsuchiya Engineering | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P19 | −188 | 4,700 |
| 2016 | ▸Super GT | VivaC Team Tsuchiya | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P1 | +345 | 4,944 |
| 2015 | ▸Super GT | VivaC Team Tsuchiya | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | P8 | −34 | 4,785 |
| 2014 | ▸Super GT | Toyota Team Thailand | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P27 | −274 | 4,638 |
| 2013 | ▸Super GT | Okinawa-Imp Racing with Shift | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P5 | +506 | 4,907 |
| 2012 | ▸Super GT | Green Tec & Leon with Shift | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | P17 | −179 | 4,401 |
| 2011 | ▸Super GT | Samurai Team Tsuchiya | 8 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | P7 | −84 | 4,580 |
| 2010 | ▸Super GT | Samurai Team Tsuchiya | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P10 | +64 | 4,664 |
| 2009 | ▸Super GT | Team Nova | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P18 | −306 | 4,600 |
| 2008 | ▸Super GT | Toyota Team Tsuchiya | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P12 | +3,556 | 4,906 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇯🇵 Katsuyuki HiranakaFIA Gold | 3,820 | 55 | 16 | 39 | 29% |
| 🇯🇵 Naoki YokomizoFIA Silver | 4,305 | 47 | 27 | 20 | 57% |
| 🇯🇵 Nobuteru TaniguchiFIA Silver | 5,252 | 46 | 16 | 30 | 35% |
| 🇯🇵 Tatsuya KataokaFIA Gold | 5,151 | 46 | 14 | 32 | 30% |
| 🇯🇵 Kazuki Hoshino | 4,795 | 46 | 20 | 26 | 43% |
| 🇯🇵 Shinichi TakagiFIA Silver | 4,632 | 46 | 21 | 25 | 46% |
| 🇯🇵 Kouki Saga | 4,460 | 46 | 27 | 19 | 59% |
| 🇯🇵 Haruki KurosawaFIA Gold | 5,373 | 45 | 22 | 23 | 49% |
| 🇯🇵 Hiroki KatohFIA Bronze | 4,684 | 45 | 26 | 19 | 58% |
| 🇯🇵 Hiroki YoshimotoFIA Gold | 4,452 | 45 | 29 | 16 | 64% |
| 🇪🇸 Alex PalouFIA Platinum, 5× champion | 7,220 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50% |
| 🇯🇵 Tadasuke MakinoFIA Gold, 1× champion | 6,741 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100% |
| 🇯🇵 Kenta YamashitaFIA Platinum, 3× champion | 6,403 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 63% |
| # | Driver | Series | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,813 | 🇫🇷 Rino Mastronardi | European Le Mans Series | 4,564 |
| 1,814 | 🇮🇹 Giulio Cabianca | Formula 1 | 4,563 |
| 1,815 | 🇬🇧 Rob Collard | British GT Championship | 4,563 |
| 1,816 | 🇺🇸 Byron Defoor | IMSA WeatherTech | 4,562 |
| 1,817 | 🇺🇸 Jim Pace | IMSA WeatherTech | 4,562 |
| 1,818 | 🇲🇽 Michel Jourdain Jr. | TCR World Tour | 4,562 |
| 1,819 | 🇩🇪 Nico Menzel | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | 4,562 |
| 1,820 | 🇩🇪 Colin Thompson | IMSA Prototype Challenge | 4,561 |
| 1,821 | 🇨🇭 Ottorino Volonterio | Formula 1 | 4,561 |
| 1,822 | 🇯🇵 Kazuhisa Urabe | Super Formula Lights | 4,560 |
| 1,823 | 🇯🇵 Takeshi Tsuchiya | Super GT | 4,560 |
| 1,825 | 🇬🇧 Oliver Jarvis | IMSA WeatherTech | 4,559 |
| 1,826 | 🇺🇸 Sean Hingorani | ARCA Menards West | 4,559 |
| 1,824 | 🇰🇬 . "Selv" | Nürburgring 24 Hours | 4,559 |
| 1,827 | 🇦🇺 Nicholas McBride | FIA Formula 3 European | 4,558 |
| 1,828 | 🇫🇷 Pierre-Louis Chovet | GT World Challenge Europe | 4,558 |
| 1,829 | 🇦🇹 Simon Reicher | GT World Challenge Europe | 4,558 |
| 1,830 | 🇬🇧 Struan Moore | GT World Challenge Europe | 4,557 |
| 1,831 | 🇫🇷 Eugène Chaboud | Formula 1 | 4,556 |
| 1,832 | 🇧🇷 Ingo Hoffmann | Formula 1 | 4,556 |
| 1,833 | 🇺🇸 Seth Neiman | IMSA WeatherTech | 4,556 |
Takeshi Tsuchiya is a professional-level endurance racing driver who competed in Super GT, Japan's national multiclass sportscar championship, where cars are shared between two or more drivers per race. Over eleven seasons from 2008 to 2019 he started 58 times, primarily for Tsuchiya Engineering, winning twice and taking seven podiums across a field that mixed amateurs, semi-professionals and graded professionals in the same races.[1]
Tsuchiya's record places him in the mid-field of Super GT competition. He was a regular fixture in the series and typically finished behind entry-level professionals such as Katsuyuki Hiranaka, though he ran closely matched with 2012 Super GT GT300 champion Naoki Yokomizo. His strongest single-race result came against established professionals: he beat Kenta Yamashita, who would go on to win the GT500 championship three times, in four meetings across their shared racing. His last season was 2019, when he took two starts and finished twenty-fifth in the championship standings.[2]