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racing driver who currently competes in Super Formula Lights and Super GT.

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

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, where he finished 9th overall. In 2020, Kimura was supposed to race again in Japanese F4 with new team

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Formula Dream Project (HFDP), but due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the team has withdrawn from series that year. After one year off 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 & Rin Arakawa. His best season up to date with 4 wins to his name. In 2022, Kimura was promoted to

Super Formula Lights is a national formula racing championship that takes place in Japan. It is a junior-level feeder formula that uses the same single seater chassis as the pan-European Euroformula Open Championship. The series will be the first with the new b ...

, and will also compete in

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GT-300 Class with

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respectively.

Racing Record

Career summary

Complete F4 Japanese Championship results

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) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in ''italics'' indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers)

Complete Super Formula Lights results

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) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

References

External links

* * http://www.iori-kimura.com , Personal Website {{DEFAULTSORT:Kimura, Iori 1999 births Living people Japanese racing drivers Super GT drivers Asian Formula Renault Challenge drivers Japanese people of Russian descent Team Aguri drivers Japanese F4 Championship drivers B-Max Racing drivers Sportspeople from Tokyo