Hideki Noda (racing driver)

Hideki Noda

Nation:	Japan
Formula 1 world championship
First start:	1994 European Grand Prix
Last start:	1994 Australian Grand Prix
Constructors
1994  Larrousse
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 3 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Hideki Noda ( Japanese 野 田 英 樹 , Noda Hideki ; born March 7, 1969 in Osaka Prefecture ) is a former Japanese car racing driver .

Career

Hideki Noda made a racing career that was atypical for a Japanese car racing driver. In contrast to almost all of his compatriots who found their way into Formula 1 and who went through the junior series in Japan, Noda contested his first races in Europe. In 1989 he drove in the British Vauxhall Championship and in 1990 moved to Ralt in the British Formula 3 Championship . In 1991 he celebrated his first victory in this championship with the success at Silverstone .

Hideki Noda in a Lola B05 / 40 from Kruse Schiller Motorsport at the 1000 km race at Silverstone 2008

Three years in Formula 3000 followed , without Noda being able to achieve many countable results. Once, at the championship run in Enna in 1994, he finished third on the podium. Nevertheless, he got a commitment in Formula 1 at the end of the year when he contested three races for Gérard Larrousse's team . The finish was not possible with the inferior Larrousse LH94 , but Noda, classified as slow by the experts, surprised with an appealing performance.

Remaining in Formula 1 for the 1995 season failed because of the abandonment of Simtek , where Noda had signed a preliminary contract. Noda switched to the Indy Lights series and in 1997 was the first Japanese to win a monoposto race organized by CART . He triumphed in the Portland race.

In 1998 Noda went back to Japan and drove for the team of Kazuyoshi Hoshino in Formula Nippon and in the Japanese GT Championship . After a few races in the Indy Racing League and an engagement in the A-1 Grand Prix series , Noda switched to the Le Mans prototypes . Starting in 2006, he regularly competed for Zytek in the Japan Le Mans Challenge , and also drove in a few selected races in the Le Mans Series . In 2008, Noda made his debut at the 24-hour race at Le Mans in an open-top Lola from Kruse-Schiller-Motorsport.

family

Hideki Noda has two daughters and one son. The younger daughter Juju got into motorsport very early as a racing driver. In April 2017, at the age of 11, she won the opening race of the Japanese Formula U17 championship and has been competing in the Danish Formula 4 championship since 2020.

statistics

Statistics in the Formula 1 World Championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Round	Points	WM-Pos.
1994	Tourtel Larrousse F1	Larrousse LH94	Ford HB 3.5 V8	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
total				3	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16
1994
														DNF	DNF	DNF

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2008	Kruse Schiller Motorsport	Lola B05 / 40	Jean de Pourtales	Allan Simonsen	failure	Gearbox damage
2009	KSM	Lola B07 / 46	Jean de Pourtales	Matthew Marsh	failure	Wagon fire
2010	KSM	Lola B07 / 40	Jean de Pourtales	Jonathan Kennard	Rank 26

literature

• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who. 3rd edition. Travel Publishing, Reading 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .

Web links

Commons : Hideki Noda  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website (archived from the Internet Archive as of 02/2012, Japanese, English)
• Hideki Noda at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Homepage Juju Noda - PROFILES. Retrieved June 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Juju Noda: 14-year-old wins Formula 4 debut in Europe. Retrieved June 23, 2020 .