Igor Omura Fraga was born on September 26,1998 and is a Japanese-born Brazilian racing driver and esports player.
43 Facts About Igor Fraga
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Igor Fraga currently competes for Nakajima Racing in the 2025 Super Formula Championship and for Anest Iwata Racing in the 2025 Super GT Series.
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Igor Fraga was the 2020 Toyota Racing Series champion, winning the title by six points ahead of Liam Lawson.
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Igor Fraga was formerly a member of the Red Bull Junior Team.
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Igor Fraga has achieved success in esports as well, winning the inaugural FIA Gran Turismo Nations Cup and McLaren Shadow Project racing series in 2018.
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Igor Fraga holds four total championships in the Gran Turismo World Series across three disciplines.
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Igor Fraga competed in the 2017 Formula One eSports Series but with limited success.
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Igor Fraga began his career through karting in 2004 at the Biwako SL Series.
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Igor Fraga won the Kids Karting class championship during consecutive years in 2004 and 2005, and continued to win the Mini ROK class championships in 2006 and 2007.
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Igor Fraga raced in Formula 3 Brasil for three years, all with Prop Car Racing.
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Igor Fraga would earn a total of two pole positions, four fastest laps, nine podiums, and four class wins in the season and would finish third in Class B with 117 points.
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In 2016, Igor Fraga was promoted to Class A, but only raced in four races, those being the first event at the Velopark and the last event at Interlagos.
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Igor Fraga won the class, finishing the season with 190 points, with seven pole positions, seven fastest laps, 13 podiums, and 10 class wins.
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Simultaneously with Formula 3 Brasil, Igor Fraga raced in NACAM Formula 4 Championship in 2017.
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In 2018, Igor Fraga participated in the US F2000 National Championship.
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Igor Fraga ended the season in fourth overall, with three podiums and 213 points.
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In 2019, Igor Fraga made his European debut in the inaugural Formula Regional European Championship with RP Motorsport, winning four races and finishing 3rd and therefore best of the non-Prema drivers, behind Frederik Vesti and Enzo Fittipaldi.
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In March of that year, Igor Fraga was named as a new signing to the Red Bull Junior Team, after winning the Toyota Racing Series title in 2020, beating out fellow Red Bull Junior Liam Lawson.
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Igor Fraga had signed a contract to compete with Hitech for 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Igor Fraga's funding from his sponsors was greatly reduced, which caused the team to cancel the contract.
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Igor Fraga completed the season in 4th overall, taking home seven podiums in total, including the race win.
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Igor Fraga participated in the 2023 Super GT Series that same year in the GT300 class, competing with Anest Iwata Racing with Arnage in the Lexus RC F GT3 alongside Yuga Furutani and Miki Koyama, the latter joining the lineup in five of the eight rounds.
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Igor Fraga returned for a second season with the team for 2024, but would be scoreless throughout the season with a best finish of 14th.
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Igor Fraga would continue to compete with Anest Iwata for 2025 alongside former GT300 champion Hironobu Yasuda.
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Igor Fraga achieved his first career podium in Super GT at Okayama International Circuit, finishing 2nd after he and Yasuda started in 21st.
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In February 2024, Igor Fraga was announced as a reserve driver for Nakajima Racing in Super Formula, securing a full-time seat a year later in 2025, when he was confirmed to compete with the team for the 2025 Super Formula Championship, replacing a retiring Naoki Yamamoto to partner alongside Ren Sato.
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On his debut at the season opener, Igor Fraga fell a lap down in 18th after getting caught in an incident between Nirei Fukuzumi and Hibiki Taira.
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In Race 2, Igor Fraga had a much cleaner outing, finishing the race behind the safety car in 5th ahead of teammate Sato after starting in 14th.
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Igor Fraga has participated in the FIA-Certified Gran Turismo Championships, and made his first appearance in the series in the inaugural 2018 season, participating in the Nations Cup.
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Igor Fraga would take the inaugural Nations Cup championship in the World Final in Monaco with 54 points.
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Igor Fraga returned to the series in 2019 for both Nations Cup and Manufacturer Series championships.
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Igor Fraga later won that year's Manufacturer Series championship for Toyota with teammates Rayan Derrouiche and Tomoaki Yamanaka.
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Igor Fraga returned for the rebooted 2020 season in both competitive series.
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Igor Fraga did not qualify for the World Finals for the Nations Cup, but did finish 4th overall in the World Finals for the Manufacturer Series alongside Shohei Sugimori and Valerio Gallo.
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Igor Fraga competed in the inaugural McLaren Shadow Project in 2018 and won the series, beating runners-up Nuno Pinto and Miguel Ballester in the grand final.
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In 2021, Igor Fraga would compete in the inaugural Olympic Virtual Series, participating in the 'Motor Sport' event in the Gran Turismo Sport game.
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Igor Fraga scored a 2nd-place finish in the first race, but would not be able to complete the following two races due to a network problem, which he later clarified on his Twitter.
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In 2022, Igor Fraga won the Toyota GR GT Cup championship in the Gran Turismo World Series.
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Igor Fraga was appointed as the esports ambassador for the Super Formula Championship later that year.
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In 2023, Igor Fraga was champion in the Honda Racing eMS competition in the Challenge Class.
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Igor Fraga was born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan to Brazilian parents.
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Igor Fraga previously resided in Ipatinga, Brazil, but later moved back to Japan in 2022, which he had announced on his Twitter account.
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Igor Fraga is a multilinguist, capable of speaking Portuguese, English, Japanese, and Spanish.
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On January 4,2025, Igor Fraga married his long-time girlfriend, Lorena.