(1985-01-11) 11 January 1985 (age 39) Okazaki, Japan
Racing licence
FIA Platinum
Formula One World Championship career
Active years
2007–2009
Teams
Williams
Engines
Toyota
Entries
36 (36 starts)
Championships
0
Wins
0
Podiums
0
Career points
9
Pole positions
0
Fastest laps
0
First entry
2007 Brazilian Grand Prix
Last entry
2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
Kazuki Nakajima (中嶋 一貴, Nakajima Kazuki, born 11 January 1985[1]) is a retired Japanese professional racing driver who drove in Formula One for the Williams-Toyota team from 2007 to 2009. In 2012 and 2014, he won the Super Formula Championship driving for TOM'S. Racing for Toyota Gazoo Racing, he won the 2018, 2019 and 2020 24 Hours of Le Mans, as well as the 2018–19 World Endurance Championship along with team-mates Fernando Alonso and Sébastien Buemi. He is the second FIA world champion from Japan after Toshi Arai.[2]
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^CORPORATION, TOYOTA MOTOR. "THE HISTORY OF WRC -Toyota has challenged to a great many roads in the world- | 2018 | SPECIAL | WRC". TOYOTA GAZOO Racing. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
KazukiNakajima (中嶋 一貴, NakajimaKazuki, born 11 January 1985) is a retired Japanese professional racing driver who drove in Formula One for the Williams-Toyota...
Korean Grand Prix. At the 2007 Brazilian Grand Prix, KazukiNakajima, the son of Satoru Nakajima, became the first second-generation Japanese F1 driver...
2018–19 FIA World Endurance Championship. He joined Sébastien Buemi and KazukiNakajima in Toyota's No. 8 TS050 Hybrid. Alonso drove a 2018 TS050 Hybrid in...
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Championship. Consistent performances from Alexander Wurz, Stéphane Sarrazin, KazukiNakajima and reserve driver Mike Conway won Toyota the World Endurance Manufacturers'...
Kobayashi, Mike Conway and José María López in car #7 and Sébastien Buemi, KazukiNakajima, and Brendon Hartley in car #8. Nyck de Vries remained as test driver...
Takahashi, Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Masahiro Hasemi, Keiji Matsumoto, and Satoru Nakajima, who would go on to become the first Japanese driver to compete full-time...
1:14, with both cars on the lead lap. Delayed radio transmissions by KazukiNakajima revealed at about this time that the #5 was experiencing a severe loss...
two rounds, Christian Klien for Honda at the British Grand Prix and KazukiNakajima for Williams at five Grands Prix. The 2005 and 2006 World Champion...
July 2009 KazukiNakajima during Spanish Grand Prix Qualifying, 9 May 2009 Nico Rosberg at the 2009 Turkish Grand Prix, June 2009 KazukiNakajima in the...
and Bernhard, the 2020 24 Hours of Le Mans with Sébastien Buemi and KazukiNakajima, and the 2022 24 Hours of Le Mans with Buemi and Ryō Hirakawa. He formerly...
364 2nd 1st 2012 Toyota Racing 7 Toyota TS030 Hybrid Alexander Wurz KazukiNakajima Nicolas Lapierre LMP1 134 DNF DNF 8 Toyota TS030 Hybrid Anthony Davidson...
WECTooltip 2018–19 FIA World Endurance Championship Sébastien Buemi (SUI) KazukiNakajima (JPN) 2019 Fernando Alonso (ESP) LMP1Tooltip Le Mans Prototype Toyota...
reason for his departure. He was replaced by Williams test driver KazukiNakajima for the final race of the 2007 season in Brazil. Wurz was the Honda...
Hybrid car shared by Sébastien Buemi, KazukiNakajima and Fernando Alonso began from pole position after Nakajima recorded the fastest lap time in the...
retired due to a brake failure. This was the last Formula One race for KazukiNakajima and Giancarlo Fisichella and the Brawn GP, BMW Sauber and Toyota teams...
out at the Swimming Pool, spinning and colliding with the barriers. KazukiNakajima also crashed out on the last lap of the race at Mirabeau. Robert Kubica...
teams but Super Aguri were in action. The first day of testing saw KazukiNakajima crash his FW30. It also saw racist abuse directed at Lewis Hamilton...
retire from F1 before the final race of the season, with test driver KazukiNakajima drafted in as his replacement. The team were classified in 4th place...
seconds off Barrichello, while team-mate KazukiNakajima fared better, coming 7th. However both Rosberg and Nakajima got into the top five in the second session...
David Coulthard finished 7th, scoring the final points of his career. KazukiNakajima also scored his final points. The result saw Hamilton extend his lead...
spinning twice during the second session. Trulli, along with Timo Glock, KazukiNakajima, David Coulthard and Nelson Piquet Jr., was unable to progress to the...
Massa. Massa's best lap of 1:22.513 only made him fifth fastest, with KazukiNakajima in a Williams splitting the Ferraris in fourth. On the third and final...
similar tyre problems to his teammate and managed 13th; Williams driver KazukiNakajima and Honda driver Rubens Barrichello took the next two places ahead...
champion Ritomo Miyata, who race for two races in 2020 in relief of KazukiNakajima. Two-time series champion Hiroaki Ishiura has retired from the series...
Kobayashi is the third FIA world champion from Japan after Toshi Arai and KazukiNakajima, and became the third Asian-born driver after countrymen Aguri Suzuki...
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