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 1819th 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, 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 | 3,869 | 55 | 16 | 39 | 29% |
| 🇮🇹 Naoki YokomizoFIA Silver | 4,305 | 47 | 27 | 20 | 57% |
| 🇯🇵 Nobuteru TaniguchiFIA Silver | 5,236 | 46 | 16 | 30 | 35% |
| 🇯🇵 Tatsuya KataokaFIA Gold | 5,122 | 46 | 14 | 32 | 30% |
| 🇯🇵 Kazuki Hoshino | 4,795 | 46 | 20 | 26 | 43% |
| 🇯🇵 Shinichi TakagiFIA Silver | 4,567 | 46 | 21 | 25 | 46% |
| 🇯🇵 Kouki Saga | 4,460 | 46 | 27 | 19 | 59% |
| 🇯🇵 Haruki KurosawaFIA Gold | 5,335 | 45 | 22 | 23 | 49% |
| 🇯🇵 Hiroki KatohFIA Bronze | 4,684 | 45 | 26 | 19 | 58% |
| 🇯🇵 Hiroki YoshimotoFIA Gold | 4,451 | 45 | 29 | 16 | 64% |
| 🇯🇵 Alex PalouFIA Platinum, 4× champion | 7,659 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50% |
| 🇯🇵 Tadasuke MakinoFIA Gold, 2× champion | 6,639 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100% |
| 🇯🇵 Kenta YamashitaFIA Platinum, 1× champion | 6,267 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 63% |
| # | Driver | Series | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,809 | 🇳🇱 Huub van Eijndhoven | Asian Le Mans Series | 4,563 |
| 1,810 | 🇳🇱 Tijmen van der Helm | IMSA WeatherTech | 4,563 |
| 1,811 | 🇺🇸 Byron Defoor | IMSA WeatherTech | 4,562 |
| 1,812 | 🇺🇸 Jim Pace | IMSA WeatherTech | 4,562 |
| 1,813 | 🇺🇸 Michael d'Orlando | Indy NXT | 4,562 |
| 1,814 | 🇲🇽 Michel Jourdain Jr. | TCR World Tour | 4,562 |
| 1,815 | 🇩🇪 Colin Thompson | IMSA Prototype Challenge | 4,561 |
| 1,816 | 🇨🇭 Ottorino Volonterio | Formula 1 | 4,561 |
| 1,817 | 🇮🇪 Ryan Cullen | European Le Mans Series | 4,561 |
| 1,818 | 🇺🇸 Max Taylor | Indy NXT | 4,560 |
| 1,819 | 🇯🇵 Takeshi Tsuchiya | Super GT | 4,560 |
| 1,821 | 🇩🇪 Joseph Loake | GT World Challenge Europe | 4,559 |
| 1,820 | 🇰🇬 . "Selv" | Nürburgring 24 Hours | 4,559 |
| 1,822 | 🇬🇧 Struan Moore | GT World Challenge Europe | 4,559 |
| 1,823 | 🇦🇺 Nicholas McBride | FIA Formula 3 European | 4,558 |
| 1,824 | 🇫🇷 Pierre-Louis Chovet | GT World Challenge Europe | 4,558 |
| 1,825 | 🇨🇦 Andrew Ranger | ARCA Menards Series | 4,556 |
| 1,826 | 🇫🇷 Eugène Chaboud | Formula 1 | 4,556 |
| 1,827 | 🇧🇷 Ingo Hoffmann | Formula 1 | 4,556 |
| 1,828 | 🇺🇸 Seth Neiman | IMSA WeatherTech | 4,556 |
| 1,829 | 🇯🇵 Takeshi Kimura | European Le Mans Series | 4,556 |
Takeshi Tsuchiya was a professional racing driver competing in Super GT, Japan's premier shared-cockpit endurance championship, from 2008 to 2019. He raced for Tsuchiya Engineering and occasionally for VivaC Team Tsuchiya, piloting cars in the series' single class across a field mixing amateur and semi-professional drivers with graded professionals.[1]
Over twelve seasons and fifty starts, Tsuchiya finished fifteenth in the championship standings in 2019, his final year of racing. He beat elite professionals including Naoki Yamamoto, the 2018 and 2020 Super GT champion, on two occasions, and Bertrand Baguette, winner of the 2022 Super GT title, once. His regular opponents were Ronnie Quintarelli, three-time Super GT champion, and Björn Wirdheim, who raced in International Formula 3000 and the World Endurance Championship; he typically finished behind both of them.[2]