Takuya Kurosawa is a racing driver from Japan who last raced in Super GT for Team Takeuchi with Shift. Kurosawa has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 7 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 4,231 ranks Kurosawa 2668th of 40,308 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.
| 2008-11-07 | Fuji GT300 | P13 | +9 |
| 2008-10-17 | Autopolis GT300 | P12 | +6 |
| 2008-09-12 | Motegi GT300 | P8 | +72 |
| 2008-08-22 | Suzuka | P33 | −113 |
| 2008-07-25 | Sugo GT300 | P17 | −48 |
| Rating won | Race | Series | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| +72 | Motegi 2008 | Super GT | P8 |
| +12 | Sepang International Circuit 2008 | Super GT | P13 |
| +9 | Fuji 2008 | Super GT | P13 |
| +6 | Autopolis 2008 | Super GT | P12 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | ▸Super GT | Team Takeuchi with Shift | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P20 | ↑675+2,881 | 4,231 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇯🇵 Haruki KurosawaFIA Gold | 5,373 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 29% |
| 🇯🇵 Nobuteru TaniguchiFIA Silver | 5,252 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 43% |
| 🇯🇵 Kazuki Hoshino | 4,795 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0% |
| 🇯🇵 Tomonobu FujiiFIA Gold | 4,667 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 14% |
| 🇯🇵 Tetsuya TanakaFIA Bronze | 4,639 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 29% |
| 🇯🇵 Tetsuya YamanoFIA Bronze | 4,586 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 14% |
| 🇺🇦 Ryo Orime | 4,447 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 43% |
| 🇯🇵 Sakamoto Yuya | 4,394 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 14% |
| 🇯🇵 Hironobu YasudaFIA Gold | 4,368 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0% |
| 🇯🇵 Tsubasa Abe | 4,347 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 29% |
| 🇯🇵 Yuhi SekiguchiFIA Gold, 1× champion | 5,879 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100% |
| 🇧🇷 Kohei HirateFIA Platinum, 2× champion | 5,175 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% |
| # | Driver | Series | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,658 | 🇺🇸 Ronald Cooper | NASCAR Xfinity | 4,234 |
| 2,659 | 🇦🇪 Theo Palmer | British F4 | 4,234 |
| 2,660 | 🇦🇺 Anthony Martin | Pro Mazda Championship | 4,233 |
| 2,661 | 🇩🇴 Efrin Castro | Porsche Carrera Cup NA | 4,233 |
| 2,662 | 🇺🇸 Isaac Kitzmiller | ARCA Menards Series | 4,233 |
| 2,663 | 🇺🇸 Scott Huffaker | Lamborghini Super Trofeo NA | 4,232 |
| 2,664 | 🇺🇸 Brett Sandberg | IMSA Pilot Challenge | 4,231 |
| 2,665 | 🇩🇪 Florian Spengler | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | 4,231 |
| 2,666 | 🇺🇸 Justin Boston | NASCAR Truck | 4,231 |
| 2,667 | 🇨🇭 Lorenzo Rocco | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | 4,231 |
| 2,668 | 🇯🇵 Takuya Kurosawa | Super GT | 4,231 |
| 2,669 | 🇯🇵 Kotaro Sakurai | GP3 Series | 4,230 |
| 2,670 | 🇦🇹 Torger Christian Toto Wolff | FIA GT Championship | 4,230 |
| 2,671 | 🇴🇲 Al Faisal Al Zubair | 24H Series | 4,229 |
| 2,672 | 🇸🇪 Arthur Dorison | GT World Challenge Europe | 4,229 |
| 2,673 | 🇩🇪 Bernhard Henzel | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | 4,229 |
| 2,674 | 🇦🇺 Richard Muscat | 24H Series | 4,229 |
| 2,675 | 🇯🇵 Rin Arakawa | Super GT | 4,229 |
| 2,676 | 🇯🇵 Yuya Sakamoto | Super GT | 4,229 |
| 2,677 | 🇵🇹 Gonçalo Gomes | Asian Le Mans Series | 4,228 |
| 2,678 | 🇩🇪 Jens Richter | 24H Series | 4,228 |
Takuya Kurosawa is a professional endurance driver who raced in Japan's Super GT championship, the country's premier multiclass sportscar series. Competing in the GT300 class for Team Takeuchi with Shift, he held an FIA Bronze grade; Bronze sits below Silver and the two full-professional Gold and Platinum grades, marking him as an amateur driver racing among professionals. His racing career on record spans a single season in 2008.[1]
Kurosawa started seven rounds in the Super GT GT300 class that year, finishing twentieth in the championship standings. He raced a mix of FIA GT3 machinery and Japanese-built GT300 specials alongside established professionals. He finished ahead of Yuhi Sekiguchi, a Gold-graded driver who would go on to win the Super GT GT500 championship in 2021, on one occasion, and beat Haruki Kurosawa, the 2018 GT300 champion, twice across the season.[2]
The field Kurosawa competed in included multiple established professionals and multiple champions. Haruki Kurosawa, the 2018 GT300 champion, was a regular opponent who typically finished ahead of him. Nobuteru Taniguchi, a three-time GT300 champion with 146 Super GT starts, was closely matched with him across their encounters.