🇯🇵 Tomoki Nojiri

Tomoki Nojiri is an elite professional driver with a rating of 7,059, placing him in the top tier of competitive single-seater racing. This level describes a race winner at the very top; drivers who beat champions and stand among the world's strongest. Nojiri won the 2024 Super Formula championship, Japan's premier single-seater series, and has spent a career splitting his time between that series and Super GT, the country's highest-level sportscar class. He races for Honda as a factory driver and holds 12 wins across his 101 starts.[1]

In Super GT, Nojiri's primary series over 13 seasons, he has recorded 10 wins and 16 podiums in 86 races for ARTA Mugen. His record in that field reveals a driver consistently competitive against the strongest touring-car talent in Japan. He has faced multiple Super GT champions repeatedly: Naoki Yamamoto (2020 and 2025 champion, rated 7,230) finished ahead of him 58 times in 90 shared races, while Yuhi Sekiguchi (2021 champion, rated 6,805) led him 57 to 33 over 90 meetings. Against Yuji Kunimoto, another elite professional rated 6,260, Nojiri holds a winning head-to-head record of 55 finishes ahead to 37 behind across 92 races. His Super Formula record is thinner: 15 starts across nine seasons yielded 2 wins and 5 podiums. His championship success came in 2024, cementing his status as a top-line single-seater driver in Japan's motorsport hierarchy.[2]

Nojiri remains active in both series in 2026, continuing as a Honda factory driver. Early in the season he has added a podium finish in Super GT, though results remain sparse through two rounds. His career reflects the depth of Japanese motorsport; he has recorded single victories against drivers of international standing such as Alex Palou (four-time IndyCar champion, rated 7,775) and Pierre Gasly (Formula Renault Eurocup champion and international racer, rated 7,911), though neither represents a sustained pattern against those peers.