Daiki Sasaki
Daiki Sasaki | |
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Nationality | Japanese |
Born | Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan | 15 October 1991
Super GT career | |
Debut season | 2012 |
Current team | Kondo Racing |
Car number | 56 (GT300) |
Former teams | Team Impul, NDDP Racing |
Starts | 82 |
Wins | 3 |
Poles | 3 (1 in GT300) |
Fastest laps | 0 |
Best finish | 7th in 2016 |
Previous series | |
2012–13 2010–13 2008–09 | Super GT - GT300 All-Japan Formula Three Championship Formula Challenge Japan |
Championship titles | |
2012 | Japanese Formula 3 Championship - National Class |
Daiki Sasaki (佐々木大樹, Sasaki Daiki, born 15 October 1991) is a Japanese racing driver who last competed in Super GT for Kondo Racing.[1] He was champion of the National Class of the Japanese Formula 3 Championship in 2012.
Career
[edit]Sasaki has raced in Japanese Formula 3 Championship for 2 seasons in National class and one of the season in 2012 he won the title. He is a Nissan Driver Development Program (NDDP) Since 2011. He competed in Super GT in the GT300 Class in 2012 for 2 rounds, and competed full time in 2013 with NDDP Racing. Then promoted to the GT500 Class. He also competed back to Japanese Formula 3 for 2 seasons, in 2014 he competed full time with B-Max Racing Team with NDDP with Mitsunori Takaboshi. He continued compete in Japanese Formula 3 in 2015 & 2016, but only a few cameos. He also attended his first Macau Grand Prix. And most of his career competes in Super GT 500 racing with Kondo Racing from 2014 to 2017 and Team Impul from 2018 towards 2020. He returns to his old team, Kondo Racing in 2021 alongside his old teammate Takaboshi and in 2022 with Kohei Hirate.[2][3][4][5]
Racing record
[edit]This section includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. (October 2024) |
Career summary
[edit]Complete Super GT results
[edit](key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | Team | Car | Class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | DC | Points |
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2012 | NDDP Racing | Nissan GT-R | GT300 | OKA |
FUJ |
SEP |
SUG |
SUZ 2 |
FUJ 9 |
AUT |
MOT |
24th | 2 | |
2013 | OKA Ret |
FUJ Ret |
SEP 10 |
SUG 9 |
SUZ 9 |
FUJ 5 |
FUJ | AUT Ret |
MOT 9 |
17th | 14 | |||
2014 | Kondō Racing | Nissan GT-R | GT500 | OKA 12 |
FUJ 4 |
AUT 13 |
SUG 10 |
FUJ 15 |
SUZ 9 |
BUR 2 |
MOT 4 |
10th | 35 | |
2015 | OKA 11 |
FUJ 11 |
BUR Ret |
FUJ 1 |
SUZ 13 |
SUG 3 |
AUT 15 |
MOT 12 |
10th | 31 | ||||
2016 | OKA 13 |
FUJ 9 |
SUG 1 |
FUJ Ret |
SUZ 12 |
CHA 13 |
MOT 1 |
MOT 10 |
7th | 43 | ||||
2017 | OKA 10 |
FUJ 12 |
AUT 9 |
SUG Ret |
FUJ 13 |
SUZ 5 |
CHA Ret |
MOT 12 |
16th | 12 | ||||
2018 | Team Impul | OKA 14 |
FUJ 6 |
SUZ 4 |
CHA 6 |
FUJ 12 |
SUG 3 |
AUT 11 |
MOT 11 |
12th | 29 | |||
2019 | OKA 3‡ |
FUJ 12 |
SUZ 10 |
BUR 8 |
FUJ 5 |
AUT 12 |
SUG 14 |
MOT Ret |
13th | 17.5 | ||||
2020 | FSW Ret |
FSW 11 |
SUZ 12 |
MOT 12 |
FSW 8 |
SUZ 2 |
MOT 9 |
FSW 7 |
15th | 24 | ||||
2021 | Kondō Racing | FUJ 14 |
FUJ 12 |
SUZ 12 |
MOT 3 |
FUJ 6 |
SUZ 14 |
MOT 7 |
FUJ 11 |
15th | 20 | |||
2022 | Nissan Z GT500 | OKA 14 |
FUJ 8 |
SUZ 6 |
FUJ 3 |
SUZ 10 |
SUG 14 |
AUT 3 |
MOT Ret |
9th | 30.5 | |||
2023 | OKA 14 |
FUJ 15 |
SUZ 8 |
FUJ 10 |
SUZ 13 |
SUG 5 |
AUT 12 |
MOT 14 |
16th | 11 | ||||
2024 | Nissan GT-R | GT300 | OKA |
FUJ |
SUZ |
FUJ |
SUZ |
SUG |
AUT |
MOT |
References
[edit]- ^ "Nissan/NISMO announces teams for 2023 Super GT and GT4 programs". NISMO. 17 February 2023. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
- ^ "Nissan Announces Super GT Programme From Yokohama". dailysportscar.com. 7 February 2019. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
- ^ "Rossiter loses Super GT seat as Nissan reveals 2020 drivers". motorsport.com. 10 January 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
- ^ "Nissan Confirms 2021 GT500 Driver Lineups". dailysportscar.com. 13 January 2021. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
- ^ "Nissan and NISMO announce 2022 Super GT GT500 class driver lineup". NISMO. 25 January 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Daiki Sasaki career summary at DriverDB.com
- 1991 births
- Living people
- Japanese racing drivers
- People from Kawaguchi, Saitama
- Sportspeople from Saitama Prefecture
- Japanese Formula 3 Championship drivers
- Super GT drivers
- Japanese auto racing biography stubs
- Karting World Championship drivers
- Nismo drivers
- Kondō Racing drivers
- B-Max Racing drivers
- Keio University alumni