Nobuteru Taniguchi
Nobuteru Taniguchi ( Japanese 谷口 信 輝 , Taniguchi Nobuteru ; born May 8, 1971 in Hiroshima Prefecture ) is a Japanese racing car driver .
Career
Drift racing
Nobuteru Taniguchi began his racing career on minibikes and switched to drifting, which is very popular in Japan, in the late 1990s . His first racing car was a used Toyota AE86 , followed by a Celica . The founding of the drift series D1 Grand Prix 2001 was largely due to the racing driver Keiichi Tsuchiya . Taniguchi was the first overall winner of this racing series in 2001. In 2002, behind Katsuhiro Ueo , and in 2004, this time behind Ryuji Miki , he came second in the final ranking.
GT and sports car races
From 2002 he started in the Super GT , the Japanese GT Championship and in endurance races in his home country. A first success was the third overall place in the 1000 km race in Suzuka in 2002 , which he drove together with Jérémie Dufour and Manabu Orido in the Toyota Supra JZA80 . In the Super GT, he drove in the GT 300 class, which he finished as the overall winner after finishing second overall in 2009, 2011 and 2014.
In 2017 he came to Europe for the first time as a driver to take part in the 24-hour race at Spa-Francorchamps . With his partners Tatsuya Kataoka and Kamui Kobayashi , he drove a Mercedes-AMG GT3 that broke down after an engine failure. The second participation in 2019 ended again with a defect in the emergency vehicle.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Taniguchi, Nobuteru |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese racing car driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hiroshima Prefecture |