Takashi Kogure | |
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Kogure in 2010.
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Nationality | Japanese |
Born |
Kanagawa, Japan |
August 1, 1980
Formula Nippon career | |
Debut season | 2003 |
Current team | Nakajima Racing |
Car no. | 32 |
Former teams | ARTA |
Starts | 66 |
Wins | 7 |
Poles | 14 |
Fastest laps | 7 |
Best finish | 3rd in 2007 |
Previous series | |
2008 2005–10 2003 2001–02 |
Formula One testing Super GT All-Japan GT Championship All-Japan Formula Three |
Championship titles | |
2002 | All-Japan Formula Three |
Takashi Kogure (小暮卓史 Kogure Takashi?, born August 1, 1980) is a Japanese racing driver.
Kogure made his single-seater début in 2001, driving a Dallara F300 in the All-Japan Formula Three Championship for Now Motorsports. He finished in eleventh place in the championship standings. The following season, Kogure moved to Mugen*Dome Project and claimed the championship by ten points from Paolo Montin. Kogure won eleven of the season's twenty races, finishing on the podium on a further four occasions. In the non-championship international races, Kogure finished second at the Korea Super Prix behind Olivier Pla, and third at the Macau Grand Prix behind Tristan Gommendy and Heikki Kovalainen.
Kogure made his bow into the All-Japan GT Championship with Nakajima Racing. He contested three races en route to 27th in the championship. After concentrating on Formula Nippon only in 2004, Kogure returned to the newly renamed Super GT championship, with Dome Project in 2005; ending up in nineteenth place in the championship standings. Despite only taking one win in 2006, Kogure and team-mate Ryo Michigami were title contenders, eventually losing out to the crews of André Lotterer and Juichi Wakisaka and also Sébastien Philippe and Shinya Hosokawa. All three pairings were split by four points at the conclusion of the season.