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Akira Iida

Japanese racing driver

Summary

Japanese racing driver

Field	Value
name	Akira Iida
image	File:Iida Sepang 25.png
caption	Iida at Super GT Malaysia Round in 2025
nationality	JPN Japanese
birth_date
birth_place	Sagamihara, Kanagawa
years	-,
teams	Team Kunimitsu Honda, TV Asahi Team Dragon
best_finish	8th (, )
class_wins	1 ()

Akira Iida is a Japanese racing driver currently competing in the Super GT series. He won the 2002 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship GT500 title with Esso Toyota Team LeMans, co-driving with Juichi Wakisaka. He also won the 2013 Asian Le Mans Series GTE class title for Team Taisan Ken Endless.

Iida was also a presenter on the Japanese performance-car program Best Motoring.

Career

Iida has competed in Super GT (formerly JGTC) since 1994; he has multiple race wins and captured the drivers’ title in 2002 with Wakisaka for Esso Team LeMans. He has also raced in International Formula 3000 and Formula Nippon.

Being experienced at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Iida also participated in the 24 Hours of Nürburgring and VLN endurance races, including class wins in a Lexus LFA. On 31 August 2011, Iida recorded a lap time of 7:14.64 in a fully road-legal Lexus LFA Nürburgring Package around the Nürburgring Nordschleife, then a production-car benchmark on standard specification tyres, confirmed by Lexus.

Racing record

24 Hours of Le Mans

The following results are summarized from RacingSportsCars and event archives.

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.
Pos.	1994	1995	1996	2000	2002	2003
DEU Kremer Honda Racing
JPN Team Kunimitsu	JPN Kunimitsu Takahashi
JPN Keiichi Tsuchiya	Honda NSX	GT2	222	18th	9th
JPN Team Kunimitsu Honda	JPN Kunimitsu Takahashi
JPN Keiichi Tsuchiya	Honda NSX	GT2	275	8th	1st
JPN Team Kunimitsu Honda	JPN Kunimitsu Takahashi
JPN Keiichi Tsuchiya	Honda NSX	GT2	305	16th	3rd
JPN TV Asahi Team Dragon	JPN Keiichi Tsuchiya
JPN Masahiko Kondō	Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S-Élan	LMP900	330	8th	7th
JPN Team Taisan Advan	JPN Atsushi Yogo
JPN Kazuyuki Nishizawa	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	GT	316	21st	3rd
JPN Team Taisan Advan	JPN Atsushi Yogo
JPN Kazuyuki Nishizawa	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	GT	304	19th	4th

Complete JTC/JTCC results

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	DC	Pts	NISMO	Nissan Skyline GT-R	JTC-1	4th	119	NISMO	Nissan Sunny	13th	24	NISMO	Nissan Sunny	6th	67	HKS Opel Team Japan	Opel Vectra	8th	43
1993	MIN
14	AUT
5	SUG
3	SUZ
5	AID
2	TSU
1	TOK
2	SEN
18	FUJ
3
1994	AUT
1	AUT
2	SUG
1	SUG
2	TOK
1	TOK
2	SUZ
1	SUZ
2	MIN
1	MIN
2	AID
1
14	AID
2
13	TSU
1
4	TSU
2
2	SEN
1
8	SEN
2
Ret	FUJ
1
12	FUJ
2
10
1995	FUJ
1	FUJ
2	SUG
1
Ret	SUG
2
DNS	TOK
1
10	TOK
2
7	SUZ
1
6	SUZ
2
Ret	MIN
1
1	MIN
2
7	AID
1
6	AID
2
4	SEN
1
2	SEN
2
3	FUJ
1
Ret	FUJ
2
6
1997	FUJ
1
C	FUJ
2
C	AID
1
10	AID
2
Ret	SUG
1
4	SUG
2
5	SUZ
1
6	SUZ
2
Ret	MIN
1
Ret	MIN
2
DNS	SEN
1
3	SEN
2
1	TOK
1
12	TOK
2
DNS	FUJ
1
13	FUJ
2
Ret

Japanese Top Formula Championship results

Year	Entrant	1	2
1995	SUZ
Ret	FUJ
C	MIN
Ret	SUZ	SUG
8	FUJ
11	TOK
Ret	FUJ
11	SUZ
11
1997	SUZ
6	MIN
3	FUJ
Ret	SUZ
7	SUG
Ret	FUJ
5	MIN
10	MOT
11	FUJ
Ret	SUZ
13
1998	SUZ	MIN	FUJ
8	MOT
Ret	SUZ
Ret	SUG
9	FUJ
C	MIN
Ret	FUJ
5	SUZ
12
1999	SUZ
7	MOT
Ret	MIN
Ret	FUJ
16	SUZ
Ret	SUG
10	FUJ
Ret	MIN
Ret	MOT
13	SUZ
12

International Formula 3000 results

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	DC	Pts	Nordic Racing	NC	0
1996	NÜR
14	PAU
8	PER
11	HOC
12	SIL
13	SPA
Ret	MAG
14	EST
12	MUG
18	HOC
9

Complete JGTC/Super GT Results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2
1994	FUJ
Ret	SEN
5	FUJ
8	SUG
6	MIN
9
1995	SUZ
2	FUJ
4	SEN
6	FUJ
3	SUG
9	MIN
Ret
1997	SUZ	FUJ
Ret	SEN
16	FUJ
11	MIN
2	SUG
2
1998	SUZ
10	FUJ
C	SEN
12	FUJ
Ret	MOT
7	MIN
1	SUG
Ret
1999	SUZ
Ret	FUJ
1	SUG
13	MIN
15	FUJ
7	TAI
5	MOT
9
2000	MOT
Ret	FUJ
14	SUG
10	FUJ
7	TAI
5	MIN
Ret	[](suzuka-international-racing-course)
DSQ
2001	TAI
6	FUJ
5	SUG
Ret	FUJ
9	MOT
4	SUZ
13	MIN
8
2002	TAI
10	FUJ
2	SUG
1	SEP
11	FUJ
7	MOT
4	MIN
4	SUZ
3
2003	TAI
1	FUJ
12	SUG
1	FUJ
6	FUJ
4	MOT
4	AUT
4	SUZ
7		83
2004	TAI
2	SUG
11	SEP
14	TOK
2	MOT
2	AUT
4	SUZ
Ret
2005	TAI
11	FUJ
5	SEP
4	SUG
4	MOT
9	FUJ
3	AUT
10	SUZ
3
2006	SUZ
6	TAI
11	FUJ
2	SEP
14	SUG
9	SUZ
Ret	MOT
4	AUT
13	FUJ
5
2007	SUZ
14	TAI
19	FUJ
Ret	SEP
9	SUG
1	SUZ
12	MOT
18	AUT
4	FUJ
16
2008	SUZ	TAI	FUJ	SEP	SUG
7	SUZ
6	MOT
4	AUT
14	FUJ
2014	TAI
22	FUJ
21	AUT
7	SUG
10	FUJ
5	SUZ
1	CHA
4	MOT
2015	TAI
10	FUJ
Ret	CHA
Ret	FUJ
15	SUZ
19	SUG
22	AUT
10	MOT
17
2016	TAI
25	FUJ
21	SUG
Ret	FUJ
17	SUZ
18	CHA
21	MOT
20	MOT
Ret
2017	TAI
22	FUJ
8	AUT
12	SUG
5	FUJ
27	SUZ
4	CHA
6	MOT
18

References

(2002-11-18). "〖JGTC第8戦〗トヨタ/ホンダでタイトルを分け合う……最終戦".
"JGTC リザルト&ランキング 1994–2004（2002 シリーズポイント）".
(2013-09-23). "Asian Le Mans Series: Fuji, Race Report".
(2013-10-14). "Asian Le Mans Series: Zhuhai, Race Report".
(2023-12-19). "GTE Year By Year Gallery: 2013".
"ホットバージョン Vol.69".
"ホットバージョン Vol.73".
(2006-06-01). "Best MOTORing 8 2006 駆け抜けるヨロコビRANKING2006". 講談社.
(2002-11-18). "〖JGTC第8戦〗トヨタ/ホンダでタイトルを分け合う……最終戦".
"Akira Iida – Motorsport Magazine Database".
"Akira Iida – Racing Sports Cars profile".
(2011-09-07). "Lexus Conducts Final-phase Test of ‘LFA Nürburgring Package’ at Nürburgring". Toyota Motor Corporation (Global).
(2011-09-07). "Nürburgring by Name and by Nature – Lexus LFA Nürburgring Package posts fastest time". Lexus Media (UK).
"All Results of Akira Iida".
"Driver of 24 Heures du Mans: Akira Iida".
"Le Mans 24 Hours 1995 – Race Results".

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