Kazuki Nakajima

Kazuki Nakajima

Nation:	Japan
Formula 1 world championship
First start:	2007 Brazilian Grand Prix
Last start:	Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2009
Constructors
2007-2009  Williams
statistics
World Cup balance:	WM-15. ( 2008 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 36 - - -
World Cup points :	9
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Kazuki Nakajima ( Japanese中 嶋 一 貴, Nakajima Kazuki ; born January 11, 1985 in Okazaki ) is a Japanese automobile racing driver . He started for Williams in Formula 1 from 2007 to 2009 . From 2011 to 2016 he competed in the Super Formula (formerly Formula Nippon). He won the drivers' championship in 2012 and 2014. He also took part in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) from 2012 to 2016 . In 2018 and 2019 he won the Le Mans 24-hour race .

Career

Nakajima began his motorsport career in karting in 1996 , where he remained active until 2002. Unlike his father Satoru , a former racing driver who was closely associated with Honda , Kazuki Nakajima attached himself to Toyota at an early age . He wanted to prevent people from saying that he would only be promoted because of his father's connections in motorsport.

In 2003 he moved into the single-seater racing and immediately won the Formula Toyota . In 2004 Nakajima received a cockpit at TOM’S in the Japanese Formula 3 championship . He won two races and was fifth in the championship. With 138 to 161 points he was internally defeated by Richard Antinucci . He also took part in two Formula 3 individual races. In 2005 Nakajima completed his second Japanese Formula 3 championship for TOM'S. With two victories, he improved to second place in the championship. He lost to his teammate João Paulo de Oliveira with 209 to 272 points. He finished fifth at the Macau Grand Prix . Nakajima also drove in the Super GT for apr . He took part in the GT300 class with Minoru Tanaka . The two achieved a class win and finished eighth in the GT300 classification.

Nakajima in free practice before his first Formula 1 race in Brazil in 2007

In 2006 Nakajima moved to Europe to Manor Motorsport in the Formula 3 Euro Series . He already achieved second place in the first race at Hockenheim . He won a race on the EuroSpeedway Lausitz . He finished the season in seventh place and was thus internally defeated by his teammates Kōhei Hirate and Esteban Guerrieri , who had been driving in this championship for some time. He also completed Formula 1 test drives for Williams . In 2007 Nakajima competed for DAMS in the GP2 series . He achieved six podium finishes and finished the season as the best driver without a win in sixth place overall. Internally, he prevailed against Nicolas Lapierre with 42 to 23 points . In addition, Nakajima was a 2007 Formula 1 test driver at Williams, who used Toyota engines. In this role he took part in a free Formula 1 training session. After Alexander Wurz resigned, Nakajima made his debut as a Formula 1 driver at the last race of the season, the Brazilian Grand Prix . He finished tenth and reached 22nd place overall.

Nakajima at the 2009 Chinese Grand Prix

The Formula 1 World Championship 2008 denied Nakajima Williams as root driver alongside Nico Rosberg . In the first race of the season in Australia , Nakajima scored points for the first time in sixth place. It was also his best result in Formula 1. In the further course of the season, Nakajima finished four times in the points. Nakajima finished the season in 15th place in the drivers' world championship and was thus internally subject to Rosberg, who reached 13th place. In 2009 , Nakajima and Rosberg stayed with Williams. While Rosberg regularly scored points and finished seventh with 34.5 points at the end of the season, Nakajima failed to score points. Two ninth places in Hungary and Singapore were his best results. Nakajima was at the end of the season with no points in 20th place overall. After Toyota withdrew from Formula 1 at the end of the season, Nakajima's Formula 1 involvement with Williams also ended.

Nakajima in the Super GT 2011

After Nakajima had not participated in any racing series in 2010, he switched to Petronas Team TOM’S in Formula Nippon in 2011 . His teammate was André Lotterer . While Lotterer failed to start one race and won five out of seven races, Nakajima won the race in Kamitsue and finished every race on the podium. He finished the season with 42 to 56 points in second place behind Lotterer. In addition, Nakajima and Lotterer drove together for the Lexus Team Petronas TOM’S in the Super GT and achieved eighth place overall.

In 2012 Nakajima stayed with Petronas Team TOM'S in Formula Nippon. He won two races in Suzuka and was champion at the end of the season. He prevailed with 46 to 43 points against Kōdai Tsukakoshi . In addition, Nakajima competed again for in the Super GT. His regular teammate was Loïc Duval , who was represented in one race by Richard Lyons . With a second place as the best result, Nakajima finished the season in seventh place. In addition, Nakajima was selected by Toyota Motorsport in 2012 for the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). He made his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans . His teammates were Lapierre and Wurz. Nakajima completed three races. The trio won the race in Fuji . At the end of the season he was in 13th place in the drivers' world championship.

In 2013 , Nakajima was defending champion of Petronas Team TOM'S in Formula Nippon, which was renamed Super Formula . He won the race at Motegi and the third race at Suzuka. He finished fourth in the drivers' championship. He lost to his team-mate Lotterer with 24 to 37 points. In the Super GT, James Rossiter became Nakajima's new team-mate. The two won two races and finished third in the championship. In the 2013 FIA World Endurance Championship , Nakajima completed four races for Toyota with Lapierre and Wurz. The trio won again in Fuji . Nakajima finished the season in twelfth place.

Nakajima in the Super Formula 2014

In 2014 Nakajima drove for the Petronas Team TOM'S in the Super Formula. He won the third race in Fuji and the third race in Suzuka. With 46 to 39.5 points, he prevailed against de Oliveira at the end of the season and won the championship. In the Super GT, Nakajima no longer completed every race for TOM'S. He won two races with Rossiter and was fifth in the drivers' standings at the end of the season. Nakajima withdrew from the Super GT after the season. In the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship , Nakajima competed in five races for Toyota. He drove with Stéphane Sarrazin and Wurz. Nakajima finished second three times and was eighth at the end of the season.

In 2015 Nakajima stayed with Petronas Team TOM'S in the Super Formula. In one race he was represented by Kazuya Ōshima due to injury . In Kamitsue he won and he finished in the top four in every race. With 45.5 to 51.5 points he was second overall behind Hiroaki Ishiura . In 2015 , Toyota changed the vehicle classifications in the FIA ​​World Endurance Championship . Nakajima joined Sébastien Buemi and Anthony Davidson , who had won the World Cup the previous year. At the 6-hour race in Spa-Francorchamps , Nakajima had a serious accident during training and suffered a fractured vertebra. He was out for several weeks. With a podium finish, Nakajima was seventh overall at the end of the season.

The Super-Formula season 2016 denied Nakajima again for TOM'S. He finished second twice and came in sixth overall. He also completed the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship again with Buemi and Davidson for Toyota. With a third place as the best result, the trio reached eighth place overall.

Personal

Nakajima is the son of the Japanese car racer and team boss Satoru Nakajima . His younger brother Daisuke is also a racing car driver.

statistics

Career stations

1996-2002: karting 2003: Formula Toyota (champion) 2004: Japanese Formula 3 (5th place) 2005: Japanese Formula 3 (2nd place) 2005: Super GT , GT300 (8th place) 2006 : Formula 3 Euro Series (7th place) 2006 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2007 : GP2 series (6th place) 2007 : Formula 1 (22nd place)

2008 : Formula 1 (15th place) 2009 : Formula 1 (20th place) 2011 : Formula Nippon (2nd place) 2011: Super GT (8th place) 2012 : Formula Nippon (champion) 2012: Super GT (7th place) 2012 : WEC (13th place) 2013 : Super Formula (4th place) 2013: Super GT (3rd place)

2013 : WEC (12th place) 2014 : Super Formula (champion) 2014: Super GT (5th place) 2014 : WEC (8th place) 2015 : Super Formula (2nd place) 2015 : WEC (7th place) 2016 : Super Formula (6th place) 2016 : WEC (8th place)

Statistics in the Formula 1 World Championship

These statistics include all the driver's participations in the Formula 1 World Championship .

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Round	Points	WM-Pos.
2007	AT&T Williams	Williams FW29	Toyota 2.4 V8	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	22nd
2008	AT&T Williams	Williams FW30	Toyota 2.4 V8	18th	-	-	-	-	-	9	15th
2009	AT&T Williams	Williams FW31	Toyota 2.4 V8	17th	-	-	-	-	-	-	20th
total				36	-	-	-	-	-	9

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th
2007
																	10
2008
	6th	17th	14th	7th	DNF	7th	DNF	15th	8th	14th	13	15th	14th	12	8th	15th	12	17th
2009
	DNF	12	DNF	DNF	13	15 *	12	11	12	9	18 *	13	10	9	15th	DNF	13

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

Individual results in the Nippon / Super Formula formula

year	team	engine	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	Points	rank
2011	Petronas Team TOM'S	Toyota	SU1	AUT	FU1	MO1	SU2	SUG	MO2		FU2			42	2.
			3	1	3	3	C.	3	2	2	3
2012	Petronas Team TOM'S	Toyota	SU1	MO1	AUT	FU1	MO2	SUG	SU2		FU2			46	1.
			1	3	5	2	4th	5	12	1	7th
2013	Petronas Team TOM'S	Toyota	SU1	AUT	FU1	MOT	INJ	SUG	SU2		FU2			24	4th
			5	12	8th	1	C.	DNF	DNF	1	4th
2014	Petronas Team TOM'S	Toyota	SU1	FUJ			MOT	AUT	SUG	SU2				46	1.
			6th	2	3	1	7th	6th	2	2	1
2015	Petronas Team TOM'S	Toyota	SU1	OKA	FUJ	MOT	AUT	SUG	SU2					45.5	2.
			2	INJ	2	2	1	4th	4th	2
2016	Vantelin Team TOM'S	Toyota	SU1	OK1	FUJ	MOT	OK2		SUG	SU2				22nd	6th
			12	17th	2	7th	DNF	2	4th	5	10

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b c} No points were awarded for the Fuji Sprint Cup.

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2012	Toyota Racing	Toyota TS030	Alexander Wurz	Nicolas Lapierre	failure	Engine failure
2013	Toyota Racing	Toyota TS030	Alexander Wurz	Nicolas Lapierre	Rank 4
2014	Toyota Racing	Toyota TS040 Hybrid	Alexander Wurz	Stéphane Sarrazin	failure	Electrics
2015	Toyota Racing	Toyota TS040 Hybrid	Anthony Davidson	Sébastien Buemi	Rank 8
2016	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	Anthony Davidson	Sébastien Buemi	not classified
2017	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	Anthony Davidson	Sébastien Buemi	Rank 8
2018	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	Fernando Alonso	Sébastien Buemi	Overall victory
2019	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	Fernando Alonso	Sébastien Buemi	Overall victory

Individual results in the FIA ​​World Endurance Championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
2012	Toyota	Toyota TS030 Hybrid	SEB	SPA	LEM	SIL	SAO	BAH	FUJ	SHA
					DNF	2			1
2013	Toyota	Toyota TS030 Hybrid	SIL	SPA	LEM	SAO	OUT	FUJ	SHA	BAH
				DNF	4th			1
2014	Toyota	Toyota TS040 Hybrid	SIL	SPA	LEM	OUT	FUJ	SHA	BAH	SAO
			2	3	DNF		2	2
2015	Toyota	Toyota TS040 Hybrid	SIL	SPA	LEM	ONLY	OUT	FUJ	SHA	BAH
			3	DNF	8th	5	4th	5	6th	4th
2016	Toyota	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	SIL	SPA	LEM	ONLY	MEX	OUT	FUJ	SHA	BAH
			16	27	DNF	5	DNF	5	4th	3	4th
2017	Toyota	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	SIL	SPA	LEM	ONLY	MEX	OUT	FUJ	SHA	BAH
			1	1	6th	4th	3	3	1	1	1
2018/19	Toyota	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	SPA	LEM	SIL	FUJ	SHA	SEB	SPA	LEM
			1	1	DNF	2	2	1	1	1
2019/20	Toyota	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	SIL	FUJ	SHA	BAH	OUT	SEB	SPA	LEM
			2	1	2	2

Web links

Commons : Kazuki Nakajima  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of Kazuki Nakajima
• Career statistics of Kazuki Nakajima (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Keith Collantine: One to watch: Kazuki Nakajima. f1fanatic.co.uk, September 5, 2007, accessed August 9, 2015 . 
2. ↑ "Toyota with Wurz, Lapierre and Nakajima to Le Mans" (Motorsport-Total.com on November 7, 2011)
3. ↑ Mario Fritzsche: Toyota: Kazuki Nakajima fails with a fractured vertebra. Motorsport-Total.com, April 30, 2015, accessed August 9, 2015 .