Hideki Okada

The Honda NSX by Hideki Okada, Kazuo Shimizu and Philippe Favre at the 1994 24 Hours of Le Mans

Hideki Okada ( Japanese 岡田 秀 樹 , Okada Hideki ; born November 28, 1958 in Okayama ) is a former Japanese racing driver .

Career in motorsport

Hideki Okada celebrated its greatest successes in sports car racing. In 1988 he and Stanley Dickens secured the overall ranking of the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship . In 1987 he was runner-up in the Japanese touring car championship and finished this racing series in 1993 in third place. The Japanese celebrated a total of seven overall victories in sports car races and made it onto the top three podium 15 times. When 24-hour race at Le Mans he was six times at the start. His best placement was 9th overall in 1988 .

In the single-seater had his most successful season in 1986 when he fifth in the Japanese Formula 3 Championship was.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1987	Kouros Sauber Mercedes	Clean C9	Henri Pescarolo	Mike Thackwell	failure	accident
1988	Kenwood Kremer Racing	Porsche 962C	Kunimitsu Takahashi	Bruno Giacomelli	Rank 9
1989	Porsche Kremer Racing	Porsche 962CK6	George Fouché	Masanori Sekiya	failure	Engine failure
1990	Porsche Kremer Racing	Porsche 962CK6	Kunimitsu Takahashi	Sarel van der Merwe	Rank 24
1994	Honda Kremer Racing	Honda NSX	Philippe Favre	Kazuo Shimizu	Rank 16
1995	Honda Motor Co.	Honda NSX GT1	Philippe Favre	Naoki Hattori	not classified

literature

• Thomas Nehlert: Group C. The sports car races 1982–1992. Petrolpics, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-940306-14-2 .

Web links

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

• Hideki Okada at the Driver Database
• Hideki Okada at Racing Sports Cars