Hiroki Yoshida
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Japanese| Hiroki Yoshida | |
|---|---|
 Yoshida at the 2025 Super GT Malaysia Festival | |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Born | December 21, 1983 Kumamoto, Japan |
| Super GT GT300 career | |
| Debut season | 2011 |
| Current team | Saitama Green Brave |
| Car number | 52 |
| Former teams |
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| Starts | 92 |
| Wins | 6 |
| Podiums | 15 |
| Poles | 2 |
| Fastest laps | 4 |
| Best finish | 1st in 2023 |
| Championship titles | |
| 2005 2008 2023 2023 | FJ1600 Super Taikyu (ST-1) Super GT (GT300) Super Taikyu (ST-Z) |
Hiroki Yoshida (吉田広樹, Yoshida Hiroki; born December 21, 1983) is a Japanese racing driver. He currently competes in Super GT in the GT300 category and the Super Taikyu Series in the ST-Z category, both for Saitama Green Brave.
Yoshida won the 2023 Super GT Championship in the GT300 class and the 2023 Super Taikyu Championship in the ST-Z class.
Early career
Yoshida began his with racing career in 2004 competing in the J1600 Series, where he won the championship the following year. He then move to Formula Challenge Japan in 2006.[1] In 2007, Yoshida began competing in the Super Taikyu Series[1] and the following year, he took part with the Petronas Syntium Team where his team won the ST-1 championship.[2][3] In 2010, he competed in the Japanese Formula 3 Championship, where he was signed to Hanashima Racing.[4]
Super GT
In 2011, Yoshida began racing in the Super GT racing series in the GT300 class, driving for ThunderAsia Racing. He later moved to Team A Speed in 2012.
In 2014, Yoshida returned to Super GT, competing for Tomei Sports where he would race for them the following season.[5][6] For the 2016 season, he signed with Gulf Racing with Pacific.[7] In 2017, he signed with Gainer, remaining with the team the following season.[8][9] In 2019, Yoshida transferred from Gainer to Green Brave, partnering with Shigekazu Wakisaka.[10] The following season his team switched to a Toyota GR Supra GT300 and Kohta Kawaai would become his new teammate.[11] Yoshida and Kawaai won two races and they finished second in the standings behind Kondo Racing of Kiyoto Fujinami and João Paulo de Oliveira.[12] In 2022, they managed to clinch a win at Autopolis as well as another podium, and Yoshida himself finished 5th in the standings.[13]
In 2023, Saitama Toyopet Green Brave retained both Yoshida and Kawaai[14] and both of them claimed 2 wins and 3 podiums en route to their GT300 championship, which they clinched in the season finale.[15]