Hideo Hiraoka (racing driver)
Hideo Hiraoka | |
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Nationality | Japan |
Born |
Tochigi, Japan | April 30, 1971
D1 Grand Prix career | |
Debut season | 2001 |
Current team | Team Orange |
Wins | 1 |
Best finish | 11th in 2006 |
Previous series | |
(previous series with line breaks) | |
Championship titles | |
(championship titles) |
Hideo Hiraoka (平岡英郎 Hiraoka Hideo, 30 April 1971, Tochigi) is a Japanese professional drifting driver, currently competing in the D1 Grand Prix series for Team Orange and Yuke’s.
Like many of the drivers in the D1GP he is the owner of his own tuning shop called Proshop Rapid, and so has worked on many of his cars himself.
He Began competing in the D1 Grand Prix in the first round in 2001, earning second place in round 4 of that year and so showing that he had what it takes. Over the years he has competed in many different cars from a Toyota Sprinter Trueno, Toyota Chaser, Nissan Silvias and even a year in a Nissan 350Z. This year he has moved from the Team M.O.V.E Silvia with which he had much seccess, getting his first win in 2006 with that machine. To become the fourth member of Team Orange, driving Nobushige Kumakubo's 2006 championship winning Subaru Impreza. So far he has been doing well adapting to the new car, as he has done so often before, though he had a large accident at the Tokyo Drift exhibition match in early 2008.
Complete Drifting Results
(key)
D1 Grand Prix
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Position | Points |
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2001 | Nissan 180SX RPS13 | EBS DNQ |
NIK |
BHH |
NIK TAN |
13 | 18 | |||||
Nissan Silvia PS13 | EBS 2 |
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2002 | Toyota Chaser JZX100 | BHH 10 |
EBS TAN |
SGO 8 |
TKB DNQ |
EBS 10 |
SEK 9 |
NIK 3 |
11 | 30 | ||
2003 | Nissan Silvia S15 | TKB DNQ |
BHH DNQ |
SGO 16 |
FUJ TAN |
EBS TAN |
SEK 16 |
TKB |
- | 0 | ||
2004 | Toyota Corolla Levin AE86 | IRW TAN |
11 | 20 | ||||||||
Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86 | SGO 9 |
EBS 16 |
APS 10 |
ODB 16 |
EBS TAN |
TKB 4 |
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2005 | Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86 | IRW 11 |
27 | 3 | ||||||||
Nissan Fairlady Z Z33 | ODB TAN |
SGO 16 |
APS TAN |
EBS 16 |
FUJ DNQ |
TKB DNQ |
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2006 | Wisesquare | Nissan Silvia S15 | IRW TAN |
SGO DNQ |
FUJ 16 |
APS 10 |
EBS 3 |
SUZ 1 |
FUJ TAN |
IRW TAN |
11 | 41 |
2007 | Team M.O.V.E | Nissan Silvia S15 | EBS TAN |
FUJ 10 |
SUZ TAN |
SGO 3 |
EBS 16 |
APS TAN |
FUJ TAN |
16 | 20 | |
2008 | Team Orange | Subaru Impreza GDB | EBS TAN |
FUJ TAN |
SUZ 11 |
OKY DNQ |
APS 15 |
EBS |
FUJ |
21 | 8 |