Hiroki Kato

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the Japanese soccer player, see Hiroki Katō (soccer player) .

Hiroki Katō ( Japanese 加藤 寛 規 , Katō Hiroki ; born February 23, 1968 in Isehara ) is a Japanese racing car driver .

Career

Katō began his racing career in 1994 in the Japanese Formula 3 Championship on a Dallara F393 . He drove in this championship for four years and in 1998 he was second overall in the championship. In 1999 he switched to Formula Nippon and came to Europe for the first time to take part in the Le Mans 24-hour race . The race ended prematurely with a defect in the BMW V12 LM .

In the early 2000s, he switched to sports cars and finished second overall in the Japanese Super GT Championship in 2006 and 2007 .

His best place at the 24 Hours of Le Mans was fifth in 2000 on a Panoz LMP-1 .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1999	Team Goh	BMW V12 LM	Hiro Matsushita	Akihiko Nakaya	failure	malfunction
2000	Panoz Motorsports	Panoz LMP-1 Roadster S.	Johnny O'Connell	Pierre-Henri Raphanel	Rank 5
2001	Team Den Blå Avis	Dome S101	John Nielsen	Casper Elgaard	failure	malfunction
2002	Audi Sport Japan Team Goh	Audi R8	Seiji Ara	Yannick Dalmas	Rank 7
2004	Kondō Racing	Dome S101	Ryō Fukuda	Ryō Michigami	failure	malfunction
2008	Terramos	Courage LC70	Yōjirō Terada	Kazuho Takahashi	not classified
2017	Clearwater Racing	Ferrari 488 GTE	Richard Wee	Álvaro Parente	Rank 40

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2000	Panoz Motor Sports	Panoz LMP-1 Roadster S.	Johnny O'Connell	failure	accelerator

Web links

• Hiroki Katoh net: official site (Japanese)