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, FIA World Endurance Championship LMGT3,

GT World Challenge Asia The GT World Challenge Asia (formerly Blancpain GT Series Asia and Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia) is a Grand tourer, GT series motor racing competition promoted by the Stéphane Ratel Organisation and organized by Team Asia One GT Management. ...

Super Taikyu Super Taikyu (スーパー耐久, ''Super Endurance''), formerly known as the Super N1 Taikyu Series prior to 2005 and N1 Endurance Series prior to 1995, and currently named the Eneos Super Taikyu Series Empowered by Bridgestone for sponsorship ...

, and

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History

Japan & Asia

D'station Racing was founded in 2013 by (no relation to

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). Hoshino is the President & CEO of where the company runs

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halls in Japan as well as fitness clubs, restaurants, convenience stores, onsen and child daycare centers. Before the inception of the team, D'station sponsored

Kondo Racing Kondo Racing is an automobile racing team founded, owned and headed by Masahiko Kondo. The operating body is MK Company Co., Ltd. MK is an abbreviation for Masahiko Kondo. The team competes in Super Formula as well as in Super GT in both the GT ...

. D'station Racing competed first time in

Porsche Carrera Cup Japan Porsche Carrera Cup (sometimes abbreviated PCC) is a number of One-Design, one-make racing by Porsche premier series competed with, initially Porsche 911 Carrera Cup, then later Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars. The cars are specifically built by Porsc ...

. Then expanded into

in 2016. D'station Racing made their debut in

in 2017 with Tomonobu Fujii who is the current Team Managing Director of the team till now alongside Sven Müller, and some rounds replacing Müller are

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. They run Porsche 911 GT3-R on their maiden Super GT GT300 race, and first season both claimed couple of podiums in 2 seasons. The team also competed in Blancpain GT Series Asia, racing with Porsche 911 GT3 R alongside Team President Hoshino &

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For 2019, D'station Racing change their manufacturer from

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. Fujii raced with Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 alongside

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who just got dropped from

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For 2020, the team competed with Pacific Racing together alongside originally

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but scrapped due to COVID-19 Pandemic. Kei Cozzolino &

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raced on some rounds alongside Fujii. The team leaves the series after 2020 where they focus main on FIA World Endurance Championship. In 2022, D'station returns racing in

for Japan Cup only with Fujii Hoshino pairing. D'station Racing returns to

for 2024, with Fujii and Sørensen as the drivers.

FIA World Endurance Championship & Le Mans

D'station made their first appearance in FIA World Endurance Championship on 2018. They raced under LMGTE Am Class, the team run under Dempsey-Proton Racing name with Hoshino,

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& Giorgio Roda where they only competed in Fuji 6 Hours. The pair made first debut in

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in 2019 where they claimed pole. Hoshino paired with Adrien De Leener &

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for one round only at Fuji round again. D'station Racing made their full season debut in

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

, where the team run by

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, with Tomonobu Fujii & Satoshi Hoshino as the main driver for many years to come, and also Andrew Watson. For 2022, Fujii, Hoshino paired with Charlie Fagg. For 2023, with Casper Stevenson. After change in regulations & TF Sports change manufacturer to

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, 2024 D'station Racing continues to run under Aston Martin banner with Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Evo as the new car. Marco Sorensen is the new driver for the team alongside Erwan Bastard and Clement Mateu. D'station stopped their participation for WEC 2025.

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://dstation-racing.jp Japanese auto racing teams FIA World Endurance Championship teams Super GT teams Auto racing teams established in 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans teams Super Taikyu teams