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Kamui Kobayashi
Kamui Kobayashi | |
|---|---|
小林可夢偉 | |
 Kobayashi at the 2024 6 Hours of Fuji | |
| Born | 13 September 1986 |
| Employers | |
| Title | Team Principal |
| FIA World Endurance Championship career | |
| Debut season | 2013 |
| Current team | Toyota |
| Racing licence |  FIA Platinum |
| Former teams | AF Corse |
| Starts | 69 |
| Championships | 2 (2019–20, 2021) |
| Wins | 17 |
| Podiums | 46 |
| Poles | 20 |
| Fastest laps | 14 |
| Best finish | 1st in 2019–20 (LMP1), 2021 (LMH) |
| Formula One World Championship career | |
| Nationality |  Japanese |
| Active years | 2009–2012, 2014 |
| Teams | Toyota, BMW Sauber, Sauber, Caterham |
| Car number | 10 |
| Entries | 76 (75 starts) |
| Championships | 0 |
| Wins | 0 |
| Podiums | 1 |
| Career points | 125 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 1 |
| First entry | 2009 Brazilian Grand Prix |
| Last entry | 2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix |
| Super Formula career | |
| Debut season | 2011 |
| Current team | KCMG |
| Car number | 7 |
| Former teams | Le Mans |
| Starts | 70 |
| Wins | 0 |
| Podiums | 7 |
| Poles | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 5 |
| Best finish | 6th in 2015, 2019 |
| 24 Hours of Le Mans career | |
| Years | 2013, 2016–2024 |
| Teams | AF Corse, Toyota |
| Best finish | 1st (2021) |
| Class wins | 1 (2021) |
| Previous series | |
| Championship titles | |
Kamui Kobayashi (Japanese: 小林可夢偉, Hepburn: Kobayashi Kamui, born 13 September 1986) is a Japanese racing driver and motorsport executive, who competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship for Toyota and in Super Formula for KCMG. Kobayashi competed in Formula One from 2009 to 2014. In endurance racing, Kobayashi has won two FIA World Endurance Championship titles, and won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2021, all with Toyota; he is also a two-time winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2019 and 2020 with WTR. Since 2022, Kobayashi has served as team principal of Toyota in WEC, winning three consecutive World Manufacturers' Championship titles from 2022 to 2024.
He also serves as team principal for Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe for their FIA World Endurance Championship team. Kobayashi previously competed in Formula One, Formula E, the GP2 Series, and the GP2 Asia Series. He became champion of the FIA World Endurance Championship alongside co-drivers Mike Conway and José María López in the 2019–20 season and in 2021, where he also won the 2021 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Kobayashi is the third FIA world champion from Japan after Toshi Arai and Kazuki Nakajima, and became the third Asian-born driver after countrymen Aguri Suzuki and Takuma Satō to score a Formula One podium finish at the 2012 Japanese Grand Prix.
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