Shinnosuke Yamada
Shinnosuke Yamada is a Japanese racing driver currently racing for SHADE Racing in the ST-4 class of Super Taikyu.
Early career
In late 2010, Yamada won the Honda SRS-F scholarship to compete in the 2011 Formula Challenge Japan.In 2015, Yamada joined B-Max Racing Team to compete in the inaugural season of the F4 Japanese Championship. Yamada won race two at Autopolis and concluded the season fourth in points.
Super GT
Stepping up to GT300 for 2016, Yamada joined Team UpGarage with Bandoh alongside Yuhki Nakayama. In 2017, Yamada switched to Team Taisan SARD, partnering Jake Parsons, scoring a best result of 14th twice across the eight-round season. Yamada stayed with Team Taisan for the 2018 season. At the season-opener in Okayama, Yamada scored his only points of the season, finishing ninth and scoring two points. With Team Taisan exiting Super GT following the 2018 season, Yamada returned to Team UpGarage as their third driver for the 2019 season, taking a best result of 12th at Fuji.In early 2020, it was announced that Yamada would join JLOC alongside Tsubasa Takahashi. At the sixth round of the season at Suzuka, Yamada scored his only points-paying position of the season by taking sixth after benefitting from an earlier safety car intervention. During 2022, Yamada returned to GT300, racing as SHADE Racing's third driver for the fifth round of the season at Suzuka. However, Yamada didn't run the race and thus wasn't credited with the team's seventh-place finish. In 2023, Yamada returned to SHADE Racing's GT300 operations as a third driver for five out of eight races. Despite being entered for five races, Yamada didn't run in those and thus wasn't credited with points when Shade Racing finished tenth at Suzuka.
Yamada remained with SHADE Racing for 2024, racing in the ST-4 class of Super Taikyu, scoring class wins at both Fuji races to help the team end the year runner-up in points. Returning to the team and class for the following year, Yamada won both races at Okayama as well as winning the Fuji 24 Hours in class en route to the ST-4 at the end of the year.
Racing record
Racing career summary
‡ Team standingsComplete Formula Challenge Japan results
| Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | DC | Pts |
| 2011 | HFDP/SRS-F/Kotira R | FUJ1 1 8 | FUJ1 2 8 | SUZ1 1 9 | SUZ1 2 10 | FUJ2 1 10 | FUJ2 2 8 | FUJ2 3 8 | SUZ2 C | SUZ3 1 2 | SUZ3 2 3 | MOT 1 10 | MOT 2 7 | MOT 3 8 | MOT 4 7 | 8th | 12 |
Complete F4 Japanese Championship results
| Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | DC | Pts |
| 2015 | B-Max Racing Team | OKA 1 Ret | OKA 2 Ret | FUJ1 1 3 | FUJ1 2 3 | FUJ2 1 7 | FUJ2 2 6 | SUZ 1 7 | SUZ 2 7 | SUG 1 10 | SUG 2 Ret | AUT 1 3 | AUT 2 1 | MOT 1 6 | MOT 2 8 | 4th | 84 |