Keisuke Kunimoto | |
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Nationality |
Japanese South Korean |
Born | January 9, 1989 |
Related to | Yoshihiro Ri/Lee Ho-Gwang (李好廣/이호광) (father) Yuji Kunimoto (brother) |
Formula Renault 3.5 Series career | |
Debut season | 2009 |
Current team | Epsilon Euskadi |
Car no. | 16 |
Starts | 4 |
Wins | 0 |
Poles | 0 |
Fastest laps | 0 |
Best finish | 32nd in 2009 |
Previous series | |
2009 2008 2008 2006–07 2005 |
Formula Nippon All-Japan Formula Three Super GT Formula Challenge Japan Formula Toyota |
Championship titles | |
2007 | Formula Challenge Japan |
24 Hours of Le Mans career | |
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Participating years | 2009 |
Teams | NAVI Team Goh |
Best finish | DNF |
Class wins | 0 |
Keisuke Kunimoto (国本 京佑 Kunimoto Keisuke?, born January 9, 1989 in Yokohama), birth name: Lee Gyeong-Woo (Korean: 이경우, Hanja: 李京佑), is a Japanese/Zainichi Korean race car driver who races with Japanese racing license.
His father, Yoshihiro Ri, also known as Yoshihiro Kunimoto, is the 1983 All Japan Karting Champion, and his uncle, Yoshihiko Ri, won same karting championship twice in 1980 and 1981. His mother is Japanese. His younger brother, Yuji, is also a race car driver.
Kunimoto began karting in 2001 when he was 12. After winning the All Japan Karting Championship FA Class in 2004, he entered Formula Toyota Racing School and took scholarship of Toyota. He began his car racing career in the 2005 Formula Toyota season, at the seventh round of the season in Tsukuba.
He competed in Formula Toyota and Formula Challenge Japan in 2006 and 2007, and won the championship of Formula Challenge Japan with three wins and ended runner-up in Formula Toyota in 2007.
In 2008, he raced in the All-Japan Formula Three for TOM'S and in the Super GT for apr, as a Toyota young Drivers Program (TDP) driver. He finished runner-up in the first Formula Three season.
At the end of the season, Kunimoto went to Macau with TOM'S and won the Macau F3 Grand Prix, becoming the second Japanese driver to win the race after Takuma Sato.