Kazuki Nakajima

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Kazuki Nakajima
2007 GP2 Series driver
Nationality	Japanese
Current team	DAMS
Car No.	23 (TBC)
Starts	0
Wins	0
Podium finishes	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Debut season	2007
Best season	N/A
2006 position	N/A

Kazuki Nakajima (Japanese name: 中嶋一貴) (born January 11, 1985 in Aichi, Japan) is a professional Japanese racing driver and test driver for the Williams-Toyota Formula One team. Kazuki is the son of Japanese ex-Formula One driver, Satoru Nakajima.

1 Racing career
- 1.1 Pre-Formula One
2 Statistics
- 2.1 Complete Formula One World Championship Participations
- 2.2 GP2 Series record
3 External links
4 Footnotes

[edit] Racing career

[edit] Pre-Formula One

Nakajima started his career in racing in 1996, when he started Karting. Three years later, Kazuki won crowned the Suzuka Formula ICA karting champion. After some impressive performances, Nakajima was picked up by Japanese car manufacturer Toyota as part of the corporation's Young Drivers Program. In 2002, Nakajimi won a scholarship in Formula Toyota, which he became champion in a year later. He progressed onto Japanese Formula Three in 2004, winning two races of a maximum of twenty and finished fifth in the Drivers' Championship. Nakajimi stayed in Japanese Formula Three for 2005, this time the Japanese driver finished in second place.

Nakajima moved to Formula Three Euroseries in 2006 and competed against the likes of Sebastian Vettel and Paul di Resta. Nakajima finished seventh in the championship with 36 points, 50 points behind champion, Paul di Resta. In November 2006, Nakajima was named a Williams test driver for the 2007 season, alongside fellow test driver Narain Karthikeyan and race drivers Nico Rosberg and Alexander Wurz, targeting a race seat in 2008.^[1] Nakajima's debut in a Formula One car came at Fuji Speedway during November 2006, where he completed four laps in raining conditions.^[2]

As well as a testing role at Williams, Nakajima will be racing in the GP2 series for 2007, racing for the DAMS alongside French 2005-06 A1 Grand Prix winner Nicolas Lapierre.