Haruki Kurosawa

Huraki Kurosawa in a Vemac RD320R during a Super GT race in Fuji 2011

Haruki Kurosawa ( Japanese 黒 澤 治 樹 , Kurosawa Haruki ; born September 26, 1977 in Shizuoka Prefecture ) is a Japanese racing car driver .

Racing career

Haruki Kurosawa began his international career in 1996 in the Japanese Formula 3 Championship , where he achieved his best overall ranking in 1999 when he finished ninth (Master Darren Manning ahead of Toshihiro Kaneishi and Tsugio Matsuda ). After two years in the Korean Formula 3 Championship , he switched to sports car racing in 2002 .

From 2002 Kurosawa became a regular starter in the Japanese Super GT and Formula Nippon . For several years he competed in both racing series in parallel. In the Super GT, he was mainly active in the GT300 class from 2002 to 2016. In 2005 he was second overall and in 2007 third overall. Outside of Japan, he drove in the American Le Mans Series and FIA World Endurance Championship . He took part in the Le Mans 24-hour race six times , with the best result in 2004 when he was 12th in the final classification.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2004	ChoroQ Racing Team	Porsche 911 GT3 RSR	Kazuyuki Nishizawa	Manabu Orido	Rank 12
2005	Team iota	Zytek 04S	Sam Hignett	John Stack	not classified
2006	Courage Compétition	Courage LC70	Jean-Marc Gounon	Shinji Nakano	failure	accident
2007	Barazi Epsilon	Zytek 07S / 2	Adrián Fernández	Robbie Kerr	Rank 27
2008	Tokai University	Courage-Oreca LC70	Masami Kageyama	Toshio Suzuki	failure	Gearbox damage
2012	Iota	Zytek Z11SN	Sam Hancock	Simon Dolan	failure	malfunction

Web links

Commons : Haruki Kurosawa  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Haruki Kurosawa at the Driver Database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Japanese Formula 3 Championship 1999
2. ↑ Super GT GT300 class 2005
3. ↑ Super GT GT300 class 2007