Takuya Kurosawa

Takuya Kurosawa (Shinjitai: 黒澤琢弥, Kurosawa Takuya, born Ibaraki, June 7, 1962) is a Japanese race car driver.

Kurosawa raced in All-Japan Formula Three from 1988 to 1989, Japanese Formula 3000 from 1990 to 1995 and the JGTC series from 1994 to 1999, also driving in the 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans, finishing 10th.

Kurosawa then obtained sponsorship to drive in the American CART series for Dale Coyne Racing in 2000. He made eight starts with a best finish of 12th at the Detroit Grand Prix. He became the first Japanese driver to lead a Champ Car race when he led seven laps at the Long Beach Grand Prix.^[1]

Kurosawa then returned to JGTC for the next three seasons, drove in the Super Taikyu series in 2004. He currently competes in the Super GT series, driving a Porsche Boxster for Arktech Motorsports.

Takuya is son of Best Motoring presenter, Motoharu Kurosawa and is elder brother of Haruki and Tsubasa, who all are racing drivers.

Racing record

Complete Japanese Formula 3000 Championship/Formula Nippon results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	DC	Points
1990	taka-Q Racing w/ Team Le Mans	SUZ Ret	FUJ 9	MIN Ret	SUZ Ret	SUG 18	FUJ Ret	FUJ Ret	SUZ 19	FUJ 4	SUZ Ret		16th	3
1991	Nakajima Racing	SUZ Ret	AUT 8	FUJ 6	MIN 7	SUZ Ret	SUG 15	FUJ 11	SUZ	FUJ C	SUZ 17	FUJ Ret	22nd	1
1992	Cabin Racing Team w/ Heroes	SUZ 5	FUJ Ret	MIN Ret	SUZ Ret	AUT Ret	SUG 18	FUJ 4	FUJ 3	SUZ Ret	FUJ 2	SUZ 2	6th	21
1993	Cabin Racing Team w/ Heroes	SUZ 4	SUZ Ret	MIN Ret	SUZ 15	AUT C	SUG 5	FUJ C	FUJ Ret	SUZ Ret	FUJ	SUZ	13th	5
1994	Cosmo Oil Racing Team Cerumo	SUZ 10	FUJ 10	MIN 3	SUZ 4	SUG 1	FUJ 6	SUZ 4	FUJ 2	FUJ 6	SUZ 2		4th	32 (33)
1995	Nakajima Racing	SUZ 2	FUJ C	MIN Ret	SUZ 4	SUG Ret	FUJ 9	TOK Ret	FUJ 7	SUZ 2			6th	15
1996	PIAA Nakajima Racing	SUZ Ret	MIN 8	FUJ 15	TOK 7	SUZ 2	SUG 5	FUJ 8	MIN 5	SUZ 8	FUJ Ret		9th	10
1997	Team Impul	SUZ 2	MIN 2	FUJ 1	SUZ Ret	SUG Ret	FUJ Ret	MIN Ret	MOT Ret	FUJ Ret	SUZ 2		2nd	28
1998	Maziora Team Impul	SUZ Ret	MIN Ret	FUJ 3	MOT Ret	SUZ Ret	SUG Ret	FUJ C	MIN Ret	FUJ Ret	SUZ 5		12th	6
1999	Team TMS	SUZ Ret	MOT Ret	MIN 12	FUJ 5	SUZ 3	SUG 3	FUJ	MIN	MOT	SUZ		9th	10

Complete Japanese Touring Car Championship (1994-) results

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	DC	pts
1994	Toyota Team Cerumo	Toyota Corona	AUT 1 8	AUT 2 DNS	SUG 1 Ret	SUG 2 DNS	TOK 1 DNS	TOK 2 Ret	SUZ 1 9	SUZ 2 Ret	MIN 1 8	MIN 2 Ret	AID 1 Ret	AID 2 Ret	TSU 1 Ret	TSU 2 6	SEN 1 Ret	SEN 2 10	FUJ 1 9	FUJ 2 9	18th	18
1995	Nakajima Racing	Honda Civic Ferio	FUJ 1	FUJ 2	SUG 1	SUG 2	TOK 1	TOK 2	SUZ 1 Ret	SUZ 2 Ret	MIN 1 5	MIN 2 8	AID 1 14	AID 2 Ret	SEN 1 23	SEN 2 15	FUJ 1 9	FUJ 2 11			18th	11
1996	Nakajima Racing	Honda Accord	FUJ 1 3	FUJ 2 4	SUG 1 10	SUG 2 7	SUZ 1 5	SUZ 2 2	MIN 1	MIN 2	SEN 1 Ret	SEN 2 1	TOK 1 2	TOK 2 3	FUJ 1 Ret	FUJ 2 DNS					4th	72
1997	Nakajima Racing	Honda Accord	FUJ 1 C	FUJ 2 C	AID 1 1	AID 2 4	SUG 1 5	SUG 2 6	SUZ 1 1	SUZ 2 2	MIN 1 Ret	MIN 2 6	SEN 1 7	SEN 2 6	TOK 1 1	TOK 2 1	FUJ 1 10	FUJ 2 4			2nd	102

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
1997	Mugen/Dome	Honda NSX	GT500	SUZ	FUJ Ret	SEN Ret	FUJ Ret	MIN 8	SUG 5				16th	11
1998	Team Impul	Nissan Skyline GT-R	GT500	SUZ 11	FUJ C	SEN 5	FUJ 3	MOT 2	MIN 7	SUG 4			3rd	49
1999	Toyota Castrol Team Tom's	Toyota Supra	GT500	SUZ 4	FUJ 9	SUG 1	MIN 10	FUJ 4	TAI 4	MOT 1			2nd	73
2001	Toyota Team Tom's	Toyota Supra	GT500	TAI 11	FUJ 10	SUG 8	FUJ 8	MOT	SUZ 5	MIN 7			15th	19
2002	Toyota Team Tom's	Toyota Supra	GT500	TAI Ret	FUJ 12	SUG 5	SEP 3	FUJ 3	MOT 7	MIN Ret	SUZ 16		11th	38
2003	Toyota Team Tom's	Toyota Supra	GT500	TAI Ret	FUJ 8	SUG 13	FUJ 15	FUJ 6	MOT 10	AUT 13	SUZ 14		18th	15
2005	Hitotsuyama Racing	Ferrari 550 Maranello	GT500	TAI Ret	FUJ Ret	SEP Ret	SUG 12	MOT Ret	FUJ 15	AUT 13	SUZ 15		NC	0
2006	Ebbro Team Nova	Vemac RD350R	GT300	SUZ 8	TAI 21	FUJ 15	SEP DNS	SUG 10	SUZ Ret	MOT 12	AUT 15	FUJ 10	22nd	12
2007	Arktech Motorsports	Porsche Boxster	GT300	SUZ 6	TAI 5	FUJ Ret	SEP Ret	SUG 13	SUZ Ret	MOT 5	AUT 7	FUJ 10	15th	22
2008	Team Takeuchi	Lexus IS350	GT300	SUZ	TAI	FUJ Ret	SEP 13	SUG 17	SUZ 18	MOT 8	AUT 12	FUJ 13	32nd	3

Complete CART results

(key)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Rank	Points	Ref
2000	Dale Coyne Racing	MIA 24	LBH 13	RIO 19	MOT 20	NZR DNS	MIL Wth	DET 12	POR 22	CLE 25	TOR 23	MIS DNS	CHI	MDO	ROA	VAN	LS	STL	HOU	SRF	FON	29th	1	^[2]

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1998	Nissan Motorsports   TWR	Satoshi Motoyama   Masami Kageyama	Nissan R390 GT1	GT1	319	10th	9th

References

1. Cipolloni, Mark. Paul Tracy keeps his Kool, wins Long Beach GP for the 2nd time 2019-05-07 at the Wayback Machine, AutoRacing1.com, April 16, 2000
2. "Takuya Kurosawa – 2000 CART Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved August 15, 2023.

External links

• Official page
• Super GT/JGTC Series bio 2007-03-27 at the Wayback Machine
• CART statistics at ChampCarStats.com