🇯🇵 Tatsuya Kataoka

Tatsuya Kataoka is an established professional racing driver, FIA Gold graded, who competes primarily in Super GT for Goodsmile Racing & Team Ukyo. He has spent the bulk of his career in that series, where he drives GT300-class machinery alongside occasional entries in German endurance racing and a handful of one-off appearances in other championships. His current activity spans two decades; he raced Formula 3 Macau in 2002 and 2003 before moving into sportscar and endurance competition.[1]

Kataoka has won three Super GT championships across his time with Goodsmile Racing & Team Ukyo, in 2009, 2014 and 2017. He has taken 8 wins and 31 podiums across 146 Super GT starts, establishing himself as a consistent front-runner in the GT300 class over nearly two decades. His record in German endurance racing is minimal; three starts in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, one in the Nürburgring 24 Hours and a single outing in GT World Challenge Europe account for the remainder of his career on record. In 2026 he continues in Super GT, where he sits active through the opening four rounds of the season.[2]

Kataoka typically runs ahead of his regular Super GT competitors. He usually finishes ahead of Hiroki Yoshimoto, a professional Gold-graded driver with 137 Super GT starts and experience in both GP2 and Formula 3; he is closely matched with Katsuyuki Hiranaka, another Gold-graded entry-level professional with a similar career shape. He has finished ahead of Sho Tsuboi, a Platinum-graded elite professional and four-time Super GT GT500 champion, on ten occasions across their meetings in that series.