Akira Iida

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Akira Iida (Shinjitai: 飯田 章, Iida Akira, born 18 December 1969 in Sagamihara, Kanagawa) is a Japanese racing driver currently competing in the Super GT series in GT300 class with LM corsa, one of the teams under Toyota Motorsport's GAZOO racing arm. Iida won the 2002 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship GT500 class with Esso Toyota Team LeMans, driving with Juichi Wakisaka. He also won 2013 Asian Le Mans Series GTE class driving for Team Taisan Ken Endless.^{[citation needed]}

Iida was also a presenter on the Japanese Best Motoring TV series.^{[citation needed]}

Iida has competed in Super GT since 1994; he has five career wins and also won the driver's title in 2002.

Iida have also driven in Formula 3000 and Formula Nippon.

Being experienced at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Akira Iida did also participate in the 2008 24 Hours Nürburgring race as well as in VLN endurance races, winning his class twice with a Lexus LF-A.

On August 31, 2011, Iida recorded a lap time of 7:14.64 in a fully road-legal Lexus LFA Nürburgring Package around the Nürburgring Nordschleife. This marked a new fastest time for regular production cars, running on standard specification tyres.

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1994	Kremer Honda Racing Team Kunimitsu	Kunimitsu Takahashi Keiichi Tsuchiya	Honda NSX	GT2	222	18th	9th
1995	Team Kunimitsu Honda	Kunimitsu Takahashi Keiichi Tsuchiya	Honda NSX	GT2	275	8th	1st
1996	Team Kunimitsu Honda	Kunimitsu Takahashi Keiichi Tsuchiya	Honda NSX	GT2	305	16th	3rd
2000	TV Asahi Team Dragon	Keiichi Tsuchiya Masahiko Kondō	Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S-Élan	LMP900	330	8th	7th
2002	Team Taisan Advan	Atsushi Yogo Kazuyuki Nishizawa	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	GT	316	21st	3rd
2003	Team Taisan Advan	Atsushi Yogo Kazuyuki Nishizawa	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	GT	304	19th	4th

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

• Official site
• SuperGT.net profile
• Photo and CV (in German)