Kohei Hirate
Kohei Hirate is a Japanese race car driver.Career
Hirate began karting in 1999 when he was 13. After winning the All Japan Junior Kart Championship, coming third and fifth in the All Japan Kart Championship and coming third in the FIA Oceania Championship, he moved on to Formula Toyota, where he raced for the Tom's Spirit team and came second with four wins to his name.
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In 2003, he moved to Formula Renault, at the Prema Power team. In his two-year spell here he won 7 races and came second in the 2004 season. In 2004 he also raced for Prema Power's Formula Three Euroseries team twice, and in 2005 made the decision to race here. After coming twelfth for Team Rosberg, he was made a Toyota F1 test driver in 2006 and came third in the Formula Three Euroseries. In 2007 he continued as a Toyota test driver and also drove for GP2 team Trident Racing.
Hirate returned to Japan in 2008, where he competed in both Formula Nippon and Super GT. He finished fourth in the 2008 Formula Nippon season and fifth in 2009, both times driving for Team Impul.Career summary
| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | DC | Points |
| 2007 | Trident Racing | BHR
FEA
18 | BHR
SPR
Ret | CAT
FEA
13 | CAT
SPR
10 | MON
FEA
12 | MAG
FEA
Ret | MAG
SPR
11 | SIL
FEA
18 | SIL
SPR
Ret | NÜR
FEA
5 | NÜR
SPR
2 | HUN
FEA
11 | HUN
SPR
10 | IST
FEA
Ret | IST
SPR
Ret | MNZ
FEA
Ret | MNZ
SPR
10 | SPA
FEA
Ret | SPA
SPR
13 | VAL
FEA
Ret | VAL
SPR
16 | 19th | 9 |
Complete Formula Nippon/Super Formula results
| Year | Entrant | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | DC | Points |
| 2008 | Team Impul | FUJ
Ret | SUZ
2 | MOT
6 | OKA
3 | SUZ1
5 | SUZ2
1 | MOT1
Ret | MOT2
DNS | FUJ1 | FUJ2 | SUG
5 | 4th | 42 |
| 2009 | Team Impul | FUJ
3 | SUZ
4 | MOT
Ret | FUJ
5 | SUZ
5 | MOT
8 | AUT
4 | SUG
3 | | | | 5th | 32 |
| 2010 | Team Impul | SUZ
4 | MOT
7 | FUJ
1 | MOT
3 | SUG
12 | AUT
8 | SUZ1
9 | SUZ2
6 | | | | 5th | 25.5 |
| 2011 | Team Impul | SUZ
9 | AUT
8 | FUJ
2 | MOT
5 | SUZ
C | SUG
8 | MOT1
7 | MOT2
Ret | | | | 8th | 15 |
| 2012 | Project μ/cerumo・INGING | SUZ
10 | MOT
NC | AUT
7 | FUJ
7 | MOT
8 | SUG
8 | SUZ1
9 | SUZ2
5 | | | | 9th | 8 |
| 2013 | P.mu/cerumo・INGING | SUZ
12 | AUT
Ret | FUJ
2 | MOT
15 | SUG
Ret | SUZ1
5 | SUZ2
7 | | | | | 9th | 11 |
Complete Super GT results
‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.
* Season still in progress.
