is a Japanese professional racing driver. He won the GT300 class

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 ...

championship in

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

and

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

Career

Takagi made his debut in the

All-Japan GT Championship 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 ...

(JGTC) in

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

, driving for INGING in the GT500 class. For the 1999 season, he switched to the GT300 class, finishing third in the championship that year. He won his maiden title in

with

Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Autobacs Racing Team Aguri (ARTA) is a joint racing project formed between former F1 driver Aguri Suzuki and Autobacs in 1997. The team's original name was "ARTA F1 Project," but due to trademark claims based on the usage of the word "F1", the n ...

(ARTA), driving an -prepared

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alongside

Morio Nitta is a Japanese racing driver currently competing in the Super GT Series for K-tunes Racing. He is a three-time champion of the GT300 class, winning the championship in 1996 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship, 1996, 1999 All Japan Grand Tour ...

. In the following years, with the series renamed as

in 2005, Takagi won numerous races and finished runner-up in the standings in

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

and

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

. In

, he won his second GT300 championship seventeen years after his first, driving the Honda NSX GT3 Evo of ARTA, with Takagi and his co-driver

Nirei Fukuzumi is a Japanese racing driver affiliated with Toyota Gazoo Racing who currently competes in Super GT for Rookie Racing, ROOKIE Racing and in Super Formula Championship, Super Formula for KC Motorgroup, KCMG. He won the GT300 class championship in S ...

finishing over ten points clear of the second place finishers.

Complete JGTC/Super GT Results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) Season still in progress.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Takagi, Shinichi 1970 births Living people Sportspeople from Yamaguchi Prefecture Japanese racing drivers Japanese Formula 3 Championship drivers Super GT drivers Team Aguri drivers Porsche Carrera Cup Japan drivers