is a Japanese racing driver currently competing in the

Super GT Super GT (stylized as SUPER GT) is a sports car racing series that began in 1993. Launched as the , generally referred to as the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC), the series was renamed to Super GT in 2005. It is the top level of ...

series in GT300 class with

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, one of the teams under Toyota Motorsport's GAZOO racing arm. Iida won the 2002 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship GT500 class with

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Toyota Team LeMans, driving with

Juichi Wakisaka is a former Japanese racing driver who was a 2002, 2006 and 2009 champion in Japan's Super GT series in the Super GT#GT500, GT500 category. Prior to the 1998 Formula One World Championship , 1998 Formula One season he tested for the Jordan Grand ...

. He also won 2013 Asian Le Mans Series GTE class driving for Team Taisan Ken Endless. Iida was also a presenter on the Japanese

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TV series.

Career

Iida has competed in Super GT since 1994; he has five career wins and also won the driver's title in 2002. Iida have also driven in

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and Formula Nippon. Being experienced at the

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, Akira Iida did also participate in the 2008

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race as well as in VLN endurance races, winning his class twice with a Lexus LF-A. On August 31, 2011, Iida recorded a lap time of 7:14.64 in a fully road-legal Lexus LFA Nürburgring Package around the Nürburgring Nordschleife. This marked a new fastest time for regular production cars, running on standard specification tyres.

Racing record

24 Hours of Le Mans

Complete JTC/JTCC results

Japanese Top Formula Championship results

International Formula 3000 results

Complete JGTC/Super GT Results

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

External links

Official site

SuperGT.net profile

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