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Kohei Hirate

Kohei Hirate
Kohei Hirate 2010 Super GT Fuji 400km.jpg
Hirate at the 2010 Fuji 400km Super GT race.
Nationality Japanese
Born (1986-03-24) 24 March 1986 (age 30)
Super GT career
Debut season 2008
Current team Lexus Team SARD
Car no. 39
Former teams Lexus Team Cerumo, apr
Starts 60
Wins 6
Fastest laps 1
Best finish 1st in 2013
Previous series
200813
2007
200406
2004
2003–04
2003–04
2003
2003
2002
Super Formula
GP2 Series
Formula 3 Euro Series
Asian Formula Renault
FR2000 Germany
FR2000 Italia
FR2000 Netherlands
FR2000 Masters
Formula Toyota

Kohei Hirate (平手晃平 Hirate Kohei?, born 24 March 1986 in Komaki, Aichi) is a Japanese race car driver.

Hirate began karting in 1999 when he was 13. After winning the All Japan Junior Kart Championship, coming third and fifth in the All Japan Kart Championship and coming third in the FIA Oceania Championship, he moved on to Formula Toyota, where he raced for the Tom's Spirit team and came second with four wins to his name.

In 2003, he moved to Formula Renault, at the Prema Power team. In his two-year spell here he won 7 races and came second in the 2004 season. In 2004 he also raced for Prema Power's Formula Three Euroseries team twice, and in 2005 made the decision to race here. After coming twelfth for Team Rosberg, he was made a Toyota F1 test driver in 2006 and came third in the Formula Three Euroseries. In 2007 he continued as a Toyota test driver and also drove for GP2 team Trident Racing.

Hirate returned to Japan in 2008, where he competed in both Formula Nippon and Super GT. He finished fourth in the 2008 Formula Nippon season and fifth in 2009, both times driving for Team Impul.

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

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


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