RACING DRIVER

Kamui Kobayashi

1986 - Today

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Kamui Kobayashi (Japanese: 小林可夢偉, Hepburn: Kobayashi Kamui, born 13 September 1986) is a Japanese racing driver and motorsport executive, who competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship for Toyota and in Super Formula for KCMG. Kobayashi competed in Formula One from 2009 to 2014. In endurance racing, Kobayashi has won two FIA World Endurance Championship titles, and won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2021, all with Toyota; he is also a two-time winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2019 and 2020 with WTR. Since 2022, Kobayashi has served as team principal of Toyota in WEC, winning three consecutive World Manufacturers' Championship titles from 2022 to 2024. He also serves as team principal for Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe for their FIA World Endurance Championship team. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kamui Kobayashi has received more than 1,119,381 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Kamui Kobayashi is the 553rd most popular racing driver (down from 475th in 2019), the 1,514th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,293rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Japanese Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Kamui Kobayashi ranks 553 out of 1,080. Before him are Vitantonio Liuzzi, Doug Serrurier, Luca Cadalora, Daniil Kvyat, Kevin Magnussen, and Gino Munaron. After him are Jean Lucas, Tiago Monteiro, Armin Schwarz, Gilles Panizzi, Danny Sullivan, and Enrico Bertaggia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1986, Kamui Kobayashi ranks 123. Before him are Emily VanCamp, Bree Olson, Kim Seon-ho, Franco Armani, Lea Michele, and Miguel Veloso. After him are Yang Mi, Marie Avgeropoulos, Alfie Allen, Balázs Dzsudzsák, James Deen, and Manuel Fernandes.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kamui Kobayashi ranks 1,514 out of 6,245. Before him are Takeshi Kawaharazuka (1975), Gen Urobuchi (1972), Shohei Ohtani (1994), Kiyohiko Azuma (1968), Masako Yoshida (1957), and Soichi Noguchi (1965). After him are Hiroki Sakai (1990), Akihiko Hoshide (1968), Tomoko Ohara (1957), Hiro Matsushita (1961), Kim Eui-tae (1941), and Takashi Shimizu (1972).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In Japan

Among racing drivers born in Japan, Kamui Kobayashi ranks 14. Before him are Hiroshi Fushida (1946), Masahiro Hasemi (1945), Ukyo Katayama (1963), Daijiro Kato (1976), Yuji Ide (1975), and Norifumi Abe (1975). After him are Noritake Takahara (1951), Kazuki Nakajima (1985), Masami Kuwashima (1950), Sakon Yamamoto (1982), Shinji Nakano (1971), and Yuki Tsunoda (2000).

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