Daiki Sasaki

Daiki Sasaki
Daiki Sasaki
Nationality	Japanese
Born	15 October 1991 (age 33); Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan
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

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

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	FLaps	Podiums	Points	Position
2008	Formula Challenge Japan	NDDP FCJ	14	0	0	0	0	29	15th
2009	Formula Challenge Japan	NDDP Autobacs FCJ	14	3	3	3	6	70	2nd
2010	Japanese Formula 3 Championship - National Class	Team Nova	16	0	0	1	2	29	7th
2011	Japanese Formula 3 Championship - National Class	NDDP Racing	14	1	0	0	6	58	4th
2012	Japanese Formula 3 Championship - National Class	NDDP Racing	15	9	11	13	13	146	1st
2012	Super GT - GT300	NDDP Racing	2	0	0	0	1	2	24th
2013	Super GT - GT300	NDDP Racing	8	0	1	0	0	14	17th
2014	Super GT	Kondō Racing	8	0	0	1	1	35	10th
2014	Japanese Formula 3 Championship	B-Max Racing Team with NDDP	15	2	2	3	6	63	5th
2015	Super GT	Kondō Racing	8	1	0	0	2	31	10th
2015	Japanese Formula 3 Championship	B-Max Racing Team with NDDP	2	0	0	0	0	5	9th
2016	Super GT	Kondō Racing	8	2	0	2	2	43	7th
	Japanese Formula 3 Championship	B-Max Racing Team with NDDP	4	2	1	3	2	29	7th
	Macau Grand Prix	B-Max Racing	1	0	0	0	0	0	22nd
2017	Super GT	Kondō Racing	8	0	0	0	0	12	16th
2017	FRD LMP3 Series	B-Max Racing Team
2018	Super GT	Team Impul	8	0	0	0	1	29	12th
2019	Super GT	Team Impul	8	0	0	0	1	17.5	113th
2020	Super GT	Team Impul	8	0	0	0	1	24	15th
2021	Super GT	Kondō Racing	8	0	0	0	1	20	15th
2022	Super GT	Kondō Racing	7	0	0	0	2	30.5	9th
2022	Super Taikyū - ST-Q	NISMO	1	0	0	0	1	N/A	NC
2023	Super GT	Kondō Racing	8	0	1	0	0	11	16th
2023	Super Taikyū - ST-Q	NISMO	2	2	2	2	2	N/A	NC
2024	Super GT - GT300	Kondo Racing
	Super Taikyu - ST-Q	NISMO
	Super Taikyu - ST-X	Team Handwork Challenge

Complete Super GT results

(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
2012	NDDP Racing	Nissan GT-R	GT300	OKA	FUJ	SEP	SUG	SUZ 2	FUJ 9	AUT	MOT		24th	2
2013	NDDP Racing	Nissan GT-R	GT300	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		Nissan Z GT500		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

^ "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

Official website
Daiki Sasaki career summary at DriverDB.com

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[Nissan2023-1] "Nissan/NISMO announces teams for 2023 Super GT and GT4 programs". NISMO. 17 February 2023. Retrieved 17 February 2023.

[Nissan19-2] "Nissan Announces Super GT Programme From Yokohama". dailysportscar.com. 7 February 2019. Retrieved 7 February 2019.

[Nissan20-3] "Rossiter loses Super GT seat as Nissan reveals 2020 drivers". motorsport.com. 10 January 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2020.

[NissanGT50021-4] "Nissan Confirms 2021 GT500 Driver Lineups". dailysportscar.com. 13 January 2021. Retrieved 13 January 2021.

[Nissan2022-5] "Nissan and NISMO announce 2022 Super GT GT500 class driver lineup". NISMO. 25 January 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

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