Kohei Hirate (平手晃平 Hirate Kouhei, born 24th March 1986) is a Japanese Super GT driver who competed in the sport from 2008 until present.
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Super GT Career History[]
Pre-Super GT career[]
Formula One[]
In 2006 and 2007, Hirate was a test driver for the Parasonic Toyota Racing team.
2008: Début[]
In 2008, he debuted in Super GT with the APR Racing Team, with Keisuke Kunimoto. His first win was in the 2008 Fuji GT 500 km. However, he missed the sixth round at Suzuka and the seventh round held at Motegi, being replaced by Kazuya Oshima and Yuya Sakamoto for the sixth round and Hideki Yamauchi for the seventh round due to an injury at the Formula Nippon race at Motegi. He came back at the eighth round held at Autopolis until the end of the season.
2009-2010: Team SARD[]
2009[]
2010[]
2011-2014: Team CERUMO[]
2011[]
2012[]
2013[]
2014[]
2015[]
Hirate is currently without a drive as Yuji Kunimoto joins Team CERUMO.
Complete Super GT Results[]
Coming soon!
Notes[]
| V T E | List of JGTC/Super GT champions (GT500) | |||
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1993:  Masahiko Kageyama 1994: Masahiko Kageyama 1995: Masahiko Kageyama 1996: [DEN] Nielsen /  Brabham 1997:  Krumm / de la Rosa 1998:  Comas / Kageyama 1999: Érik Comas 2000: Ryo Michigami 2001: Takeuchi / Tachikawa 2002: Wakisaka / Iida 2003: Motoyama / Krumm 2004: Motoyama /  Lyons
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2005: Tachikawa / Takagi 2006: Wakisaka / Lotterer 2007: Ito / [IRL] Firman 2008: Motoyama / Tréluyer 2009: Wakisaka / Lotterer 2010: Kogure / Duval 2011: Yanagida /  Quintarelli 2012: Yanagida / Quintarelli 2013: Tachikawa / Hirate 2014: Matsuda / Quintarelli
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| V T E | Team CERUMO | |
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| Founder Masayuki Sato
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| Notable Personnel Toranosuke Takagi
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| Former Notable Personnel ? | ||
| 2014 Drivers Yuji Tachikawa • Kohei Hirate
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| Former Drivers Richard Lyons (2008-2010) • Toranosuke Takagi (2005-2007) • Seiji Ara (2004) • Hironori Takeuchi (1996-2003) • Hayanari Shimoda (2002) • Masahiko Kondo (1999-2002) • Ukyo Katayama (2001-2002) • Takayuki Kinoshita (1999-2000) • Hideki Noda (1998) • Katsutomo Kaneishi (1997) • Érik Comas (1995-1996)
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| Champions Takeuchi / Tachikawa (2001) • Tachikawa / Hirate (2013) | ||
| Season Reports 2007 • 2012 • 2013 | ||
| Full results | ||
| V T E | 2013 Lexus Teams (GT500) | |
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| Teams #6: Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS ( Oshima / Kunimoto) (B)#19: Lexus Team WedsSport Bandoh ( Ara /  Couto）(Y)#36: Lexus Team Petronas TOM'S ( Nakajima / Rossiter) (B)#37: Lexus Team KeePer TOM'S ( Ito / Caldarelli) (B)#38: Lexus Team ZENT CERUMO ( Tachikawa / Hirate) (B)#39: Lexus Team SARD ( Wakisaka / Ishiura) (B)
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