🇯🇵 Yuichi Nakayama

Yuichi Nakayama is a professional endurance and circuit racer competing at the FIA Gold level, the higher of the two full-professional grades in GT and sportscar racing. He drives for TGR Team Sard in Super GT, Japan's premier domestic GT championship, where he has spent the majority of his career since 2012. He also races in international endurance series including the World Endurance Championship, competing for Akkodis ASP Team in 2025.[1]

Across 15 seasons and 116 starts, Nakayama has taken ten wins and nineteen podiums, with the bulk of his record built in Super GT, where he has forty-two starts, ten wins and seventeen podiums for TGR Team Sard. He contested Super Formula, single-seater racing, for three seasons from 2019 to 2021, taking nine starts for Kondo Racing without a podium finish. He has also raced in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, where he finished on the podium twice, and made his first starts in international GT World Challenge competition in 2025, in both Europe and Asia. His 2025 WEC campaign saw him finish seventeenth in the championship standings across two rounds with Akkodis ASP Team.[2]

Nakayama regularly races against established professionals including two-time Super GT race winners; he runs closely matched against Kazuki Hiramine, the 2022 Super GT GT500 champion, and against Mitsunori Takaboshi, a graded professional with both Super GT and Super Formula experience. His record includes a finish ahead of Max Verstappen in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, where the four-time Formula 1 world champion made a limited campaign, and one finish ahead of Alex Palou, an elite professional and five-time IndyCar champion.