# Iori Kimura

Iori Kimura (木村偉織, Kimura Iori, born 22 June 1999) is a Russian Japanese racing driver who is the current Super Formula Lights champion and competed in Super GT.

## Career
### Early career

Kimura started professional racing in 2016, competed in Asian Le Mans Sprint Cup. Then in 2017, Kimura raced in Asian Formula Renault Series Class B with PS Racing, however for one round only. He raced again in 2019 to compete in F4 Japanese Championship, where he finished 9th overall. In 2020, Kimura was supposed to race again in Japanese F4 with new team Honda Formula Dream Project (HFDP), but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the team withdrew from that year of competition. After one year not racing, Kimura returned to compete in 2021 F4 Japanese Championship with HFDP. In that season, he managed to clinch 3rd place, losing out to the champion Seita Nonaka & runner-up Rin Arakawa.

### Super Formula Lights

In 2022, Kimura was promoted to Super Formula Lights race with B-Max Racing Kimura managed to get 3 wins that season, and 6 podiums. With that he managed to reach 3rd in the season behind Kakunoshin Ohta. Kimura raced with the same team for 2023. He won the title over Hibiki Taira after taking his 6th win of the season at the final round at Motegi.

### Super GT

Kimura also competed in the GT300 class of Super GT for ARTA alongside Hideki Mutoh. Both of them managed to win the last race of the season at Motegi, and that win was the last for the team as ARTA focused on GT500 for 2023. Kimura initially did not race in Super GT in 2023, but became a third driver for ARTA at the second Fuji round, making his GT500 debut after an injured Toshiki Oyu was still recovering from a broken collarbone. Kimura also raced in GT500 with Team Kunimitsu after Naoki Yamamoto suffered a massive crash at Sportsland SUGO, and was unable to compete in the final 2 races of the season. Kimura finished 17th in the standings, with 3 points, all achieved with Team Kunimitsu.

### Super Formula

Kimura then step up to Super Formula with B-Max Racing Team's single car.

## Racing record
### Career summary

| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Poles | FLaps | Podiums | Points | Position |
| 2016 | Asian Le Mans Sprint Cup | PS Racing | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | N/A | NC |
| 2017 | Asian Formula Renault Series Class B | PS Racing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 31 | 10th |
| 2019 | F4 Japanese Championship | Silver Star Racing | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 69 | 9th |
| 2021 | F4 Japanese Championship | Honda Formula Dream Project | 14 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 191 | 3rd |
| 2022 | Super Formula Lights | B-Max Racing Team | 18 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 85 | 3rd |
| 2022 | Super GT - GT300 | ARTA | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 12th |
| 2022 | Super Taikyu - ST-Z | Team 5Zigen | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 131.5‡ | 1st‡ |
| 2023 | Super Formula Lights | B-Max Racing Team | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 113 | 1st |
| 2023 | Super GT - GT500 | ARTA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 17th |
| 2023 | Super GT - GT500 | Team Kunimitsu | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 17th |
| 2024 | Super Formula | San-Ei Gen with B-Max | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 16th |
| 2025 | Super GT - GT300 | Team Mach | | | | | | | |
| 2025 | Super Taikyu - ST-X | Team HandWork Challenge | | | | | | | |
‡ Team standings

### Complete F4 Japanese Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers)
| Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | DC | Points |
| 2019 | Silver Star Racing | OKA 1 7 | OKA 2 4 | FUJ1 1 13 | FUJ1 2 12 | SUZ 1 13 | SUZ 2 9 | FUJ2 1 Ret | FUJ2 2 7 | AUT 1 6 | AUT 2 5 | SUG 1 Ret | SUG 2 23 | MOT 1 3 | MOT 2 5 | 9th | 69 |
| 2021 | Honda Formula Dream Project | FUJ1 1 1 | FUJ1 2 25 | SUZ 1 1 | SUZ 2 5 | MOT1 1 5 | MOT1 2 2 | MOT1 3 7 | SUG 1 2 | SUG 2 1 | SUG 3 26 | MOT2 1 1 | MOT2 2 9 | FUJ2 1 4 | FUJ2 2 3 | 3rd | 191 |

### Complete Super Formula Lights 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 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Pos | Points |
| 2022 | B-Max Racing Team | FUJ 1 2 | FUJ 2 6 | FUJ 3 2 | SUZ 1 5 | SUZ 2 5 | SUZ 3 7 | AUT 1 1 | AUT 2 8 | AUT 3 1 | SUG 1 Ret | SUG 2 5 | SUG 3 6 | MOT 1 3 | MOT 2 Ret | MOT 3 1 | OKA 1 2 | OKA 2 2 | OKA 3 2 | 3rd | 86 |
| 2023 | B-Max Racing Team | AUT 1 1 | AUT 2 1 | AUT 3 1 | SUG 1 3 | SUG 2 2 | SUG 3 8 | SUZ 1 11 | SUZ 2 1 | SUZ 3 5 | FUJ 1 6 | FUJ 2 2 | FUJ 3 3 | OKA 1 11 | OKA 2 3 | OKA 3 6 | MOT 1 1 | MOT 2 1 | MOT 3 2 | 1st | 113 |

### Complete Super GT results

| Year | Team | Car | Class | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | DC | Points |
| 2022 | ARTA | Honda NSX GT3 Evo2 | GT300 | OKA 15 | FUJ Ret | SUZ 10 | FUJ Ret | SUZ 24 | SUG 7 | AUT 18 | MOT 1 | 12th | 26 |
| 2023 | ARTA | Honda NSX-GT | GT500 | OKA | FUJ | SUZ | FUJ 14 | SUZ | SUG | | | 17th | 3 |
| 2023 | Team Kunimitsu | Honda NSX-GT | GT500 | | | | | | | AUT 9 | MOT 10 | 17th | 3 |
| 2025 | Team Mach | Toyota 86 MC | GT300 | OKA | FUJ | SEP | FUJ | SUZ | SUG | AUT | MOT | | |

### Complete Super Formula results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Team | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | DC | Points |
| 2024 | San-Ei Gen with B-Max | Honda | SUZ 12 | AUT 14 | SUG 9 | FUJ 15 | MOT 17 | FUJ Ret | FUJ 9 | SUZ 11 | SUZ 11 | 16th | 3 |