Shinichi Takagi

Shinichi Takagi
Nationality	Japanese
Born	(1970-05-06) 6 May 1970 Yanai, Yamaguchi, Japan
Super GT career
Debut season	1998
Current team	K-tunes racing
Racing licence	FIA Silver
Car number	96
Former teams	INGING, Momo Corse Racing Team with Tsuchiya, Super Autobacs Racing with A'PEX, Autobacs Racing Team Aguri, apr
Starts	188
Wins	20
Podiums	57
Poles	18
Fastest laps	13
Best finish	1st in 2002, 2019
Championship titles
2002, 2019	Super GT

Shinichi Takagi (高木真一, Takagi Shin'ichi, born 6 May 1970) is a Japanese professional racing driver. He won the GT300 class Super GT championship in 2002 and 2019.

Career

Takagi won the 2019 GT300 championship driving a Honda NSX GT3 Evo for ARTA.

Takagi made his debut in the All-Japan GT Championship (JGTC) in 1998, 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 2002 with Autobacs Racing Team Aguri (ARTA), driving an apr Racing-prepared Toyota MR-S alongside Morio Nitta. In the following years, with the series renamed as Super GT in 2005, Takagi won numerous races and finished runner-up in the standings in 2004, 2008, 2010 and 2018. In 2019, 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 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)

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	DC	Pts
1998	Inging	Toyota Supra	GT500	SUZ Ret	FUJ C	SEN Ret	FUJ 13	MOT Ret	MIN 6	SUG DNQ			18th	6
1999	MOMOCORSE Racing Team with Tsuchiya	Toyota MR2	GT300	SUZ	FUJ 1	SUG 2	MIN 2	FUJ 5	TAI Ret	MOT 3			3rd	70
2000	Super AUTOBACS Racing with A’PEX	Toyota MR-S	GT300	MOT	FUJ	SUG	FUJ 6	TAI Ret	MIN 14	SUZ 1			12th	26
2001	ARTA with A’PEX		GT300	TAI 1	FUJ 3	SUG Ret	FUJ 5	MOT Ret	SUZ Ret	MIN Ret			7th	40
2002			GT300	TAI 1	FUJ Ret	SUG 17	SEP 2	FUJ 4	MOT 5	MIN 5	SUZ 4		1st	75
2003	Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	ASL ARTA Garaiya	GT300	TAI 19	FUJ 3	SUG 4	FUJ 10	FUJ 6	MOT 2	AUT 5	SUZ NC		7th	55
2004			GT300	TAI 2	SUG 5	SEP 21	TOK 1	MOT 1	AUT 2	SUZ 2			2nd	92
2005			GT300	OKA 10	FUJ 2	SEP 1	SUG 18	MOT 3	FUJ Ret	AUT 2	SUZ 8		3rd	74
2006	apr	Toyota MR-S	GT300	SUZ Ret	OKA 9	FUJ 2	SEP Ret	SUG 5	SUZ 3	MOT 10	AUT Ret	FUJ 1	5th	60
2007	Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	ASL ARTA Garaiya	GT300	SUZ 18	OKA 17	FUJ 1	SEP Ret	SUG Ret	SUZ 2	MOT 3	AUT 5	FUJ 7	4th	66
2008			GT300	SUZ 5	OKA 1	FUJ 7	SEP 12	SUG 1	SUZ Ret	MOT 9	AUT 2	FUJ 9	2nd	77
2009			GT300	OKA 2	SUZ 5	FUJ 1	SEP 10	SUG 9	SUZ 2	FUJ 7	AUT 4	MOT 14	5th	71
2010			GT300	SUZ Ret	OKA 6	FUJ 2	SEP 2	SUG 6	SUZ 2	FUJ C	MOT 12		2nd	55
2011			GT300	OKA 20	FUJ 6	SEP 5	SUG 3	SUZ 20	FUJ 12	AUT 13	MOT 7		12th	26
2012			GT300	OKA 8	FUJ 4	SEP 9	SUG 9	SUZ 4	FUJ 5	AUT 17	MOT 21		9th	33
2013		Honda CR-Z GT	GT300	OKA 12	FUJ 19	SEP 1	SUG 1	SUZ Ret	FUJ 16	FUJ Ret	AUT 16	MOT 15	7th	40
2014			GT300	OKA 6	FUJ 18	AUT 1	SUG 16	FUJ 22	SUZ 16	CHA 13	MOT 12		11th	25
2015			GT300	OKA 2	FUJ 17	CHA 10	FUJ 1	SUZ 12	SUG 12	AUT 6	MOT 4		6th	49
2016		BMW M6 GT3	GT300	OKA 11	FUJ 2	SUG Ret	FUJ 1	SUZ 14	CHA 3	MOT Ret	MOT DNS		5th	48
2017			GT300	OKA 5	FUJ 17	AUT 3	SUG Ret	FUJ 1	SUZ Ret	CHA 4	MOT 2		4th	61
2018			GT300	OKA 6	FUJ 1	SUZ 20	CHA 11	FUJ 1	SUG 10	AUT 4	MOT 9		2nd	62
2019	ARTA	Honda NSX GT3	GT300	OKA 2‡	FUJ 2	SUZ 6	CHA 9	FUJ 6	AUT 6	SUG 1	MOT 4		1st	69.5
2020			GT300	FUJ 7	FUJ 3	SUZ 26	MOT 7	FUJ 2	FUJ 7	MOT	FUJ		7th	38
2021			GT300	OKA 26	FUJ 3	MOT 23	SUZ 7	SUG 2	AUT 20	MOT 2	FUJ 24		4th	45
2022	K-tunes Racing	Lexus RC F GT3	GT300	OKA 27	FUJ 6	SUZ 7	FUJ 5	SUZ 25	SUG 9	AUT 8	MOT 6		16th	22.5
2023			GT300	OKA 14	FUJ 9	SUZ 22	FUJ 23	SUZ 8	SUG 8	AUT Ret	MOT 5		18th	15

* Season still in progress.