# Daiki Sasaki

Daiki Sasaki (佐々木大樹, Sasaki Daiki, born 15 October 1991) is a Japanese racing driver who last competed in Super GT for Kondo Racing. He was champion of the National Class of the Japanese Formula 3 Championship in 2012.

## Career

Sasaki has raced in Japanese Formula 3 Championship for 2 seasons in National class and one of the season in 2012 he won the title. He is a Nissan Driver Development Program (NDDP) Since 2011. He competed in Super GT in the GT300 Class in 2012 for 2 rounds, and competed full time in 2013 with NDDP Racing. Then promoted to the GT500 Class. He also competed back to Japanese Formula 3 for 2 seasons, in 2014 he competed full time with B-Max Racing Team with NDDP with Mitsunori Takaboshi. He continued compete in Japanese Formula 3 in 2015 & 2016, but only a few cameos. He also attended his first Macau Grand Prix. And most of his career competes in Super GT 500 racing with Kondo Racing from 2014 to 2017 and Team Impul from 2018 towards 2020. He returns to his old team, Kondo Racing in 2021 alongside his old teammate Takaboshi and in 2022 with Kohei Hirate.

## Racing record
### Career summary

| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Poles | FLaps | Podiums | Points | Position |
| 2008 | Formula Challenge Japan | NDDP FCJ | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 15th |
| 2009 | Formula Challenge Japan | NDDP Autobacs FCJ | 14 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 70 | 2nd |
| 2010 | Japanese Formula 3 Championship - National Class | Team Nova | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 29 | 7th |
| 2011 | Japanese Formula 3 Championship - National Class | NDDP Racing | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 58 | 4th |
| 2012 | Japanese Formula 3 Championship - National Class | NDDP Racing | 15 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 146 | 1st |
| 2012 | Super GT - GT300 | NDDP Racing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 24th |
| 2013 | Super GT - GT300 | NDDP Racing | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 17th |
| 2014 | Super GT - GT500 | Kondō Racing | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 10th |
| 2014 | Japanese Formula 3 Championship | B-Max Racing Team with NDDP | 15 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 63 | 5th |
| 2015 | Super GT - GT500 | Kondō Racing | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 31 | 10th |
| 2015 | Japanese Formula 3 Championship | B-Max Racing Team with NDDP | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 9th |
| 2016 | Super GT - GT500 | Kondō Racing | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 43 | 7th |
| 2016 | Japanese Formula 3 Championship | B-Max Racing Team with NDDP | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 29 | 7th |
| 2016 | Macau Grand Prix | B-Max Racing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22nd |
| 2017 | Super GT - GT500 | Kondō Racing | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 16th |
| 2017 | FRD LMP3 Series | B-Max Racing Team | | | | | | | |
| 2018 | Super GT - GT500 | Team Impul | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 29 | 12th |
| 2019 | Super GT - GT500 | Team Impul | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17.5 | 113th |
| 2020 | Super GT | Team Impul | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 15th |
| 2021 | Super GT - GT500 | Kondō Racing | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 15th |
| 2022 | Super GT | Kondō Racing | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 30.5 | 9th |
| 2022 | Super Taikyū - ST-Q | NISMO | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | N/A‡ | NC‡ |
| 2023 | Super GT - GT500 | Kondō Racing | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 16th |
| 2023 | Super Taikyū - ST-Q | NISMO | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | N/A‡ | NC‡ |
| 2024 | Super GT - GT300 | Kondo Racing | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 32 | 7th |
| 2024 | Super Taikyu - ST-Q | NISMO | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | N/A‡ | NC‡ |
| 2024 | Super Taikyu - ST-X | Team HandWork Challenge | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC‡ |
| 2025 | Super GT - GT500 | NISMO NDDP | | | | | | | |
| 2025 | Super Taikyu - ST-X | Team HandWork Challenge | | | | | | | |

### Complete 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 | Points |
| 2012 | NDDP Racing | Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 | GT300 | OKA | FUJ | SEP | SUG | SUZ 2 | FUJ 9 | AUT | MOT | | 24th | 2 |
| 2013 | NDDP Racing | Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 | GT300 | OKA Ret | FUJ Ret | SEP 10 | SUG 9 | SUZ 9 | FUJ 5 | FUJ | AUT Ret | MOT 9 | 17th | 14 |
| 2014 | Kondō Racing | Nissan GT-R NISMO GT500 | GT500 | OKA 12 | FUJ 4 | AUT 13 | SUG 10 | FUJ 15 | SUZ 9 | BUR 2 | MOT 4 | | 10th | 35 |
| 2015 | Kondō Racing | Nissan GT-R NISMO GT500 | GT500 | OKA 11 | FUJ 11 | BUR Ret | FUJ 1 | SUZ 13 | SUG 3 | AUT 15 | MOT 12 | | 10th | 31 |
| 2016 | Kondō Racing | Nissan GT-R NISMO GT500 | GT500 | OKA 13 | FUJ 9 | SUG 1 | FUJ Ret | SUZ 12 | CHA 13 | MOT 1 | MOT 10 | | 7th | 43 |
| 2017 | Kondō Racing | Nissan GT-R NISMO GT500 | GT500 | OKA 10 | FUJ 12 | AUT 9 | SUG Ret | FUJ 13 | SUZ 5 | CHA Ret | MOT 12 | | 16th | 12 |
| 2018 | Team Impul | Nissan GT-R NISMO GT500 | GT500 | OKA 14 | FUJ 6 | SUZ 4 | CHA 6 | FUJ 12 | SUG 3 | AUT 11 | MOT 11 | | 12th | 29 |
| 2019 | Team Impul | Nissan GT-R NISMO GT500 | GT500 | OKA 3‡ | FUJ 12 | SUZ 10 | BUR 8 | FUJ 5 | AUT 12 | SUG 14 | MOT Ret | | 13th | 17.5 |
| 2020 | Team Impul | Nissan GT-R NISMO GT500 | GT500 | FSW Ret | FSW 11 | SUZ 12 | MOT 12 | FSW 8 | SUZ 2 | MOT 9 | FSW 7 | | 15th | 24 |
| 2021 | Kondō Racing | Nissan GT-R NISMO GT500 | GT500 | FUJ 14 | FUJ 12 | SUZ 12 | MOT 3 | FUJ 6 | SUZ 14 | MOT 7 | FUJ 11 | | 15th | 20 |
| 2022 | Kondō Racing | Nissan Z NISMO GT500 | GT500 | OKA 14 | FUJ 8 | SUZ 6 | FUJ 3 | SUZ 10 | SUG 14 | AUT 3 | MOT Ret | | 9th | 30.5 |
| 2023 | Kondō Racing | Nissan Z NISMO GT500 | GT500 | OKA 14 | FUJ 15 | SUZ 8 | FUJ 10 | SUZ 13 | SUG 5 | AUT 12 | MOT 14 | | 16th | 11 |
| 2024 | Kondō Racing | Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 | GT300 | OKA 15 | FUJ 2 | SUZ 16 | FUJ 3 | SUG 11 | AUT 12 | MOT 8 | SUZ Ret | | 7th | 32 |
| 2025 | NISMO NDDP | Nissan Z NISMO GT500 | GT500 | OKA | FUJ | SEP | FUJ | SUZ | SUG | AUT | MOT | | | |