Akira Iida

Akira Iida

Iida at Super GT Malaysia Round in 2025
Nationality	Japanese
Born	(1969-12-18) December 18, 1969 (age 55) Sagamihara, Kanagawa
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	1994-1996, 2000
Teams	Team Kunimitsu Honda, TV Asahi Team Dragon
Best finish	8th (1995, 2000)
Class wins	1 (1995)

Akira Iida (Shinjitai: 飯田 章, Iida Akira; born 18 December 1969 in Sagamihara, Kanagawa) is a Japanese racing driver currently competing in the Super GT series. He won the 2002 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship GT500 title with Esso Toyota Team LeMans, co-driving with Juichi Wakisaka.^[1][2] He also won the 2013 Asian Le Mans Series GTE class title for Team Taisan Ken Endless.^[3][4][5]

Iida was also a presenter on the Japanese performance-car program Best Motoring.^[6][7][8]

Career

Iida has competed in Super GT (formerly JGTC) since 1994; he has multiple race wins and captured the drivers’ title in 2002 with Wakisaka for Esso Team LeMans.^[9] He has also raced in International Formula 3000 and Formula Nippon.^[10]

Being experienced at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Iida also participated in the 24 Hours of Nürburgring and VLN endurance races, including class wins in a Lexus LFA.^[11] On 31 August 2011, Iida recorded a lap time of 7:14.64 in a fully road-legal Lexus LFA Nürburgring Package around the Nürburgring Nordschleife, then a production-car benchmark on standard specification tyres, confirmed by Lexus.^[12][13]

Racing record

24 Hours of Le Mans

The following results are summarized from RacingSportsCars and event archives.^[14][15]

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1994	Kremer Honda Racing Team Kunimitsu	Kunimitsu Takahashi Keiichi Tsuchiya	Honda NSX	GT2	222	18th	9th
1995	Team Kunimitsu Honda	Kunimitsu Takahashi Keiichi Tsuchiya	Honda NSX	GT2	275	8th	1st[16]
1996	Team Kunimitsu Honda	Kunimitsu Takahashi Keiichi Tsuchiya	Honda NSX	GT2	305	16th	3rd
2000	TV Asahi Team Dragon	Keiichi Tsuchiya Masahiko Kondō	Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S-Élan	LMP900	330	8th	7th
2002	Team Taisan Advan	Atsushi Yogo Kazuyuki Nishizawa	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	GT	316	21st	3rd
2003	Team Taisan Advan	Atsushi Yogo Kazuyuki Nishizawa	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	GT	304	19th	4th

Complete JTC/JTCC results

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	DC	Pts
1993	NISMO	Nissan Skyline GT-R	JTC-1	MIN 14	AUT 5	SUG 3	SUZ 5	AID 2	TSU 1	TOK 2	SEN 18	FUJ 3										4th	119
1994	NISMO	Nissan Sunny		AUT 1	AUT 2	SUG 1	SUG 2	TOK 1	TOK 2	SUZ 1	SUZ 2	MIN 1	MIN 2	AID 1 14	AID 2 13	TSU 1 4	TSU 2 2	SEN 1 8	SEN 2 Ret	FUJ 1 12	FUJ 2 10	13th	24
1995	NISMO	Nissan Sunny		FUJ 1	FUJ 2	SUG 1 Ret	SUG 2 DNS	TOK 1 10	TOK 2 7	SUZ 1 6	SUZ 2 Ret	MIN 1 1	MIN 2 7	AID 1 6	AID 2 4	SEN 1 2	SEN 2 3	FUJ 1 Ret	FUJ 2 6			6th	67
1997	HKS Opel Team Japan	Opel Vectra		FUJ 1 C	FUJ 2 C	AID 1 10	AID 2 Ret	SUG 1 4	SUG 2 5	SUZ 1 6	SUZ 2 Ret	MIN 1 Ret	MIN 2 DNS	SEN 1 3	SEN 2 1	TOK 1 12	TOK 2 DNS	FUJ 1 13	FUJ 2 Ret			8th	43

Japanese Top Formula Championship results

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	DC	Points
1995	Shionogi Team Nova	SUZ Ret	FUJ C	MIN Ret	SUZ	SUG 8	FUJ 11	TOK Ret	FUJ 11	SUZ 11		NC	0
1997	Shionogi Team Nova	SUZ 6	MIN 3	FUJ Ret	SUZ 7	SUG Ret	FUJ 5	MIN 10	MOT 11	FUJ Ret	SUZ 13	10th	7
1998	Cosmo Oil Racing Team Cerumo	SUZ	MIN	FUJ 8	MOT Ret	SUZ Ret	SUG 9	FUJ C	MIN Ret	FUJ 5	SUZ 12	14th	2
1999	Cosmo Oil Racing Team Cerumo	SUZ 7	MOT Ret	MIN Ret	FUJ 16	SUZ Ret	SUG 10	FUJ Ret	MIN Ret	MOT 13	SUZ 12	NC	0

International Formula 3000 results

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	DC	Pts
1996	Nordic Racing	NÜR 14	PAU 8	PER 11	HOC 12	SIL 13	SPA Ret	MAG 14	EST 12	MUG 18	HOC 9	NC	0

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
1994	Johnson Nismo	Nissan Skyline GT-R	GT1	FUJ Ret	SEN 5	FUJ 8	SUG 6	MIN 9					13th	19
1995	Nismo	Nissan Skyline GT-R	GT1	SUZ 2	FUJ 4	SEN 6	FUJ 3	SUG 9	MIN Ret				9th	30
1997	Raybrig Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft	Honda NSX	GT500	SUZ	FUJ Ret	SEN 16	FUJ 11	MIN 2	SUG 2				9th	30
1998	Raybrig Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft	Honda NSX	GT500	SUZ 10	FUJ C	SEN 12	FUJ Ret	MOT 7	MIN 1	SUG Ret			10th	25
1999	Raybrig Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft	Honda NSX	GT500	SUZ Ret	FUJ 1	SUG 13	MIN 15	FUJ 7	TAI 5	MOT 9			11th	34
2000	Raybrig Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft	Honda NSX	GT500	MOT Ret	FUJ 14	SUG 10	FUJ 7	TAI 5	MIN Ret	SUZ DSQ			15th	13
2001	Raybrig Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft	Honda NSX	GT500	TAI 6	FUJ 5	SUG Ret	FUJ 9	MOT 4	SUZ 13	MIN 8			10th	29
2002	Esso Toyota Team LeMans	Toyota Supra	GT500	TAI 10	FUJ 2	SUG 1	SEP 11	FUJ 7	MOT 4	MIN 4	SUZ 3		1st	75
2003	Esso Toyota Team LeMans	Toyota Supra	GT500	TAI 1	FUJ 12	SUG 1	FUJ 6	FUJ 4	MOT 4	AUT 4	SUZ 7		2nd	83
2004	Esso Toyota Team LeMans	Toyota Supra	GT500	TAI 2	SUG 11	SEP 14	TOK 2	MOT 2	AUT 4	SUZ Ret			3rd	57
2005	Esso Toyota Team LeMans	Toyota Supra	GT500	TAI 11	FUJ 5	SEP 4	SUG 4	MOT 9	FUJ 3	AUT 10	SUZ 3		6th	51
2006	Mobile 1 Toyota Team Lemans	Lexus SC430	GT500	SUZ 6	TAI 11	FUJ 2	SEP 14	SUG 9	SUZ Ret	MOT 4	AUT 13	FUJ 5	12th	41
2007	Racing Project Bandoh	Toyota Celica	GT300	SUZ 14	TAI 19	FUJ Ret	SEP 9	SUG 1	SUZ 12	MOT 18	AUT 4	FUJ 16	10th	32
2008	Eneos Toyota Team LeMans	Lexus SC430	GT500	SUZ	TAI	FUJ	SEP	SUG 7	SUZ 6	MOT 4	AUT 14	FUJ	17th	20
2014	LM corsa	BMW Z4 GT3	GT300	TAI 22	FUJ 21	AUT 7	SUG 10	FUJ 5	SUZ 1	CHA 4	MOT		7th	44
2015	LM corsa	Lexus RC F GT3	GT300	TAI 10	FUJ Ret	CHA Ret	FUJ 15	SUZ 19	SUG 22	AUT 10	MOT 17		33rd	2
2016	LM corsa	Lexus RC F GT3	GT300	TAI 25	FUJ 21	SUG Ret	FUJ 17	SUZ 18	CHA 21	MOT 20	MOT Ret		NC	0
2017	LM corsa	Lexus RC F GT3	GT300	TAI 22	FUJ 8	AUT 12	SUG 5	FUJ 27	SUZ 4	CHA 6	MOT 18		12th	24

References

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2. "JGTC リザルト&ランキング 1994–2004（2002 シリーズポイント）". SUPER GT（公式アーカイブ／Wayback） (in Japanese). Retrieved 25 September 2025.
3. "Asian Le Mans Series: Fuji, Race Report". DailySportsCar. 23 September 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
4. "Asian Le Mans Series: Zhuhai, Race Report". DailySportsCar. 14 October 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
5. "GTE Year By Year Gallery: 2013". DailySportsCar. 19 December 2023. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
6. "ホットバージョン Vol.69". Hot-Version.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 25 September 2025. 出演：…飯田 章…
7. "ホットバージョン Vol.73". Hot-Version.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 25 September 2025. 出演：…飯田 章…
8. "Best MOTORing 8 2006 駆け抜けるヨロコビRANKING2006". Netoff (in Japanese). 講談社. 1 June 2006. Retrieved 25 September 2025. キャスト：…飯田章【出演】…
9. "〖JGTC第8戦〗トヨタ/ホンダでタイトルを分け合う……最終戦". Response.jp (in Japanese). 18 November 2002. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
10. "Akira Iida – Motorsport Magazine Database". Motorsport Magazine. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
11. "Akira Iida – Racing Sports Cars profile". RacingSportsCars.com. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
12. "Lexus Conducts Final-phase Test of 'LFA Nürburgring Package' at Nürburgring" (Press release). Toyota Motor Corporation (Global). 7 September 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
13. "Nürburgring by Name and by Nature – Lexus LFA Nürburgring Package posts fastest time" (Press release). Lexus Media (UK). 7 September 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
14. "All Results of Akira Iida". RacingSportsCars.com. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
15. "Driver of 24 Heures du Mans: Akira Iida". 24h-en-piste.com. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
16. "Le Mans 24 Hours 1995 – Race Results". RacingSportsCars.com. Retrieved 25 September 2025.

External links

• Official site
• SuperGT.net profile
• Photo and CV (in German)

Sporting positions
Preceded by Hironori Takeuchi Yuji Tachikawa	All-Japan Grand Touring Car Champion (GT500) 2002 with: Juichi Wakisaka	Succeeded by Satoshi Motoyama Michael Krumm