🇯🇵 Teppei Natori

Teppei Natori is an established professional racing driver competing primarily in Super GT, where he races for Kondo Racing in the GT300 class. His Racer Rating of 5,551 places him among established professionals; drivers at this level typically hold full-time seats in top championships and win races in strong fields. Natori's career spans seven seasons from 2019 onwards, with 61 starts across three series. His breakthrough came in 2021 when he won the Super Formula Lights championship with six victories from 17 starts, a dominant display against a field that included future Formula 1 driver Yuki Tsunoda, whom Natori beat once in that season. That same year marked the start of his Super GT tenure with Kondo Racing, where he has remained his primary team.[1]

In Super GT, Natori has recorded one win and one podium from 28 starts through 2026, a modest tally that reflects the step up in machinery and competition. His head-to-head records against the drivers he has faced most frequently tell a clearer story of his level. He has substantially outpaced the professional-level drivers around him, finishing ahead of Shunsuke Kouno in 33 of 42 shared races and Hibiki Taira in 29 of 36. Against stronger competition, he has proven competitive if not dominant; his record against Gold-graded professionals is decidedly mixed, trailing Seita Nonaka 28 to 2 and Giuliano Alesi 26 to 15 in their most frequent matchups. Notable is his ability to occasionally outrace much stronger drivers at the elite level: he has finished ahead of Platinum-graded Liam Lawson four times and Yuki Tsunoda once, and has beaten two-time Super GT champion Sho Tsuboi on three occasions.[2]

Natori remains an active competitor in Super GT as of 2026, where his performance sits toward the middle of the field. His career trajectory has been steady rather than ascending; his single-seater results in 2019 Formula 3 saw him unplaced, his 2021 Super Formula Lights championship proved a peak, and his subsequent Super GT campaign has seen him establish himself as a consistent if not frontrunning presence within a team that has produced drivers of considerably higher calibre.