Kohei Hirate

Kohei Hirate is a Japanese race car driver. Hirate has won the Super GT series twice.

Career

Hirate began karting in 1999 when he was 13. After winning the All Japan Junior Kart Championship, coming third and fifth in the All Japan Kart Championship and coming third in the FIA Oceania Championship, he moved on to Formula Toyota, where he raced for the Tom's Spirit team and came second with four wins to his name.
File:Kohei Hirate 2010 Formula Nippon Motegi FP2.jpg|thumb|left|Hirate during free practice for the first Motegi round of the 2010 [Formula Nippon season]
In 2003, he moved to Formula Renault, at the Prema Power team. In his two-year spell here he won 7 races and came second in the 2004 season. In 2004 he also raced for Prema Power's Formula Three Euroseries team twice, and in 2005 made the decision to race here. After coming twelfth for Team Rosberg, he was made a Toyota F1 test driver in 2006 and came third in the Formula Three Euroseries. In 2007 he continued as a Toyota test driver and also drove for GP2 team Trident Racing.
Hirate returned to Japan in 2008, where he competed in both Formula Nippon and Super GT. He finished fourth in the 2008 Formula Nippon season and fifth in 2009, both times driving for Team Impul.
file:Kohei Hirate 2010 Super GT Fuji 400km.jpg|thumb|left|220px|Hirate at the 2010 Fuji 400km Super GT race

Racing record

Career summary

* Season still in progress.

Complete Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup results

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	DC	Points
2003	Prema Powerteam	BRN 1 8	BRN 2 10	ASS 1 17	ASS 2 17	OSC 1 16	OSC 2 27	DON 1 27	DON 2 13	21st	8

Complete Formula 3 Euro Series results

Year

Entrant

Chassis

Engine

Pts

2004 [Formula 3 Euro Series|2004]

Adria [International Raceway|ADR
1]

Circuit [de Nevers Magny-Cours|MAG
1]

MAG
2

NÜR
1

NÜR
2

ZAN
1
16

ZAN
2
Ret

BRN
1

BRN
2

HOC2
1
13

HOC2
2
14

28th

HOC
1
12

HOC
2
11

PAU
1
10

PAU
2
16

SPA
1
5

SPA
2
4

MON
1
16

MON
2
Ret

OSC
1
Ret

OSC
2
9

NOR
1
Ret

NOR
2
Ret

NÜR
1
3

NÜR
2
7

ZAN
1
Ret

[Circuit Zandvoort|]
DSQ

LAU
1
17

LAU
2
8

HOC
1
12

HOC
2
10

12th

HOC
1
1

HOC
2
4

LAU
1
18

LAU
2
11

OSC
1
4

OSC
2
2

BRH
1
DNS

BRH
2
17

NOR
1
4

NOR
2
Ret

NÜR
1
5

NÜR
2
Ret

ZAN
1
3

ZAN
2
13

CAT
1
2

CAT
2
4

LMS
1
5

LMS
2
3

HOC
1
5

HOC
2
7

3rd

Complete GP2 Series results

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	DC	Points
GP2 Series season\|2007]	Trident Racing	BHR FEA 18	BHR SPR Ret	CAT FEA 13	CAT SPR 10	MON FEA 12	MAG FEA Ret	MAG SPR 11	SIL FEA 18	SIL SPR Ret	NÜR FEA 5	NÜR SPR 2	HUN FEA 11	HUN SPR 10	2007 [Istanbul Park GP2 Series round\|IST FEA] Ret	IST SPR Ret	MNZ FEA Ret	MNZ SPR 10	2007 [Spa-Francorchamps GP2 Series round\|SPA FEA] Ret	SPA SPR 13	VAL FEA Ret	VAL SPR 16	19th	9

Complete Super GT results

^‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.
Driver did not take part in this sprint race, points are still awarded for the teammate's result.
^* Season still in progress.