Kazuki Hiramine is a Japanese racing driver, currently racing in the Super GT Series as a Nissan factory driver with Team Impul.
21 Facts About Kazuki Hiramine
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Kazuki Hiramine won the Super GT GT500 Championship in 2022, alongside co-driver Bertrand Baguette.
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Kazuki Hiramine debuted in the 2008 Formula Renault BARC FR2000 Series finale at Silverstone with Eurotek Motorsport, then returned to the same team for the Formula Renault 2.0 UK Winter Cup.
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Kazuki Hiramine finished 13th in the Winter Cup standings with a best finish of eighth at Rockingham Motor Speedway.
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Kazuki Hiramine returned to Japan in 2009, graduated from the Suzuka Racing School Formula, and received a scholarship to compete in Formula Challenge Japan the following season with the backing of Honda.
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Kazuki Hiramine won four consecutive races at Twin Ring Motegi and Fuji, and eventually finished second in the championship to Nissan prospect Daiki Sasaki.
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Kazuki Hiramine spent most of 2013 working part-time jobs posting flyers in letterboxes, and as a cook.
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Kazuki Hiramine's only professional race was a one-off cameo in the Super Taikyu Series finale at Autopolis, where he won the ST-4 class in a Honda S2000 entered by Tracy Sports.
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Kazuki Hiramine later returned to All-Japan F3 in a one-off appearance for B-Max Racing at Sugo in May 2018.
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Kazuki Hiramine became a full-time GT300 driver beginning in 2015, partnering two-time series champion Manabu Orido in JLOC's flagship number 88 team.
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In six races, Kazuki Hiramine recorded two fourth-place finishes at the Suzuka 1000km and at Sportsland Sugo.
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Kazuki Hiramine recorded his first GT300 podium at Motegi, when he and Orido finished third in the first race of a double-header weekend.
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Kazuki Hiramine recorded a career-best finish of second in the final Suzuka 1000km.
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Mapelli won the pole for the opening round at Okayama, and Kazuki Hiramine won his first pole at the season finale at Motegi.
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Kazuki Hiramine recorded six straight top-ten finishes to open the season, and finished tenth in the drivers' championship.
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Kazuki Hiramine helped Kondo Racing win the 2016 championship with four wins in six races, and finished runner-up in 2017 and 2018.
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In 2019, Kondo Racing's ST-X team moved up to the GT300 class of Super GT, and Kazuki Hiramine left JLOC to continue with Kondo Racing, with former Renault Sport Academy member Sacha Fenestraz as his team mate.
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Kazuki Hiramine was meant to take part in the 2020 Nurburgring 24 Hour Race with Kondo Racing, but their entry was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Kazuki Hiramine was invited to take part in a post-season GT500 test for Nissan at Fuji, following the conclusion of the 2019 season.
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At the penultimate round at Motegi, Kazuki Hiramine was leading on the final lap, but ran out of fuel and dropped to third place.
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At the Suzuka 450km race, the C nic Z qualified 15th and last in class, but came back to win the race as Kazuki Hiramine took the lead with three laps to go.