Iori Kimura

Iori Kimura is a Russian Japanese racing driver who won the Super Formula Lights and 2025 Porsche Carrera Cup Japan.

Career

Early career

Kimura started professional racing in 2016, competed in Asian Le Mans Sprint Cup. Then in 2017, Kimura raced in Asian Formula Renault Series Class B with PS Racing, however for one round only. He raced again in 2019 to compete in Japanese Championship, where he finished 9th overall.
In 2020, Kimura was supposed to race again in Japanese F4 with new team Honda Formula Dream Project, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the team withdrew from that year of competition. After one year not racing, Kimura returned to compete in 2021 F4 Japanese Championship with HFDP. In that season, he managed to clinch 3rd place, losing out to the champion Seita Nonaka & runner-up Rin Arakawa.

Super Formula Lights

In 2022, Kimura was promoted to Super Formula Lights race with B-Max Racing Kimura managed to get 3 wins that season, and 6 podiums. With that he managed to reach 3rd in the season behind Kakunoshin Ohta. Kimura raced with the same team for 2023. He won the title over Hibiki Taira after taking his 6th win of the season at the final round at Motegi.

Super GT

Kimura also competed in the GT300 class of Super GT for ARTA alongside Hideki Mutoh. Both of them managed to win the last race of the season at Motegi, and that win was the last for the team as ARTA focused on GT500 for 2023. Kimura initially did not race in Super GT in 2023, but became a third driver for ARTA at the second Fuji round, making his GT500 debut after an injured Toshiki Oyu was still recovering from a broken collarbone. Kimura also raced in GT500 with Team Kunimitsu after Naoki Yamamoto suffered a massive crash at Sportsland SUGO, and was unable to compete in the final 2 races of the season. Kimura finished 17th in the standings, with 3 points, all achieved with Team Kunimitsu.