Hiroki Yoshimoto

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Hiroki Yoshimoto (吉本大樹) is a race car driver born in Japan on September 2, 1980. He raced in the 2005 GP2 Series for the BCN Competicion team, alongside the Venezuelan Ernesto Jose Viso. For 2006 he was initially teamed with the more experienced Timo Glock of Germany.

Yoshimoto is the only driver in GP2 Series to have driven the bulk of his pre-GP2 career in Asia, the rest of the series mainly moving up the ranks in South America or Europe. Yoshimoto started out in 1999, competing in Japanese Formula Junior 1600. He moved for Japanese Formula Toyota in 2000, racing in Korean F1800 later in the year. A move to Japanese Formula Three for 2001 was his reward for hard work, although his stint with the Yellow Hat team resulted in only two races.

He got his first taste of a full Japanese F3 season in 2002, though, with the Now team. He achieved 1 win, 1 pole position and two other podium finishes, finnishing 8th in the championship. He also finnished respectively 5th in the prestigious Macau Grand Prix. He stayed with the team for 2003 finnishing 10th in the championship before moving on in 2004 for the Japanese GT Series. He also drove two races of the World Series by Nissan of the same year, for the Gabord team.