Team Kunimitsu

[1] It was driven by team founder Kunimitsu Takahashi alongside Keiichi Tsuchiya, and the pair took four podiums in the JTC-1 class during the 1992 season, before taking an overall victory at Autopolis the following year.

Between 1994 and 1996, the team competed in several endurance races – including the 24 Hours of Le Mans – with a Honda NSX GT2 driven by Takahashi, Tsuchiya and Akira Iida.

[7] The Raybrig NSX, driven by Takahashi and Iida, scored the first two podiums for Honda in the JGTC in the last two races of the season, also taking pole position in the final round.

[14] After limited success across 2003 and 2004, the team returned to the top step of the podium in 2005 as French duo Jérémie Dufour and Sébastien Philippe won at Motegi in the first year of the series being renamed as Super GT.

[15] With Dufour replaced by Shinya Hosokawa for 2006, the team was victorious at Motegi for the second consecutive year, and with two other podiums, finished runner-up in the drivers' championship.

For the 2010 season, Honda introduced the new front-engined HSV-010 GT, and Team Kunimitsu had an all-new driver line-up consisting of rookie Naoki Yamamoto and Takuya Izawa.

In 2014, the team struggled in the debut season of the new mid-engined Honda NSX Concept-GT car, but a reunification of the Yamamoto-Izawa driver pairing for 2015 saw them finish third in the championship that year with a victory from Sugo.

The 2018 season saw 2009 Formula One World Champion Jenson Button make his full-season series debut at Team Kunimitsu alongside Yamamoto.

Driving the new front-engined NSX-GT car, the duo finished in the top-six in six of the first seven races, scoring podiums at Suzuka and Motegi, to enter the final round at Fuji two points off the lead of the championship.

[27] They were in position to win the titles again at the final race, but Yamamoto was taken out in an incident caused by GT300 class driver Ren Sato with 15 laps remaining, and they ended up third in the standings.

The Team Kunimitsu Honda NSX-GT at the Fuji Speedway for the 2019 Super GT Series test
Team Kunimitsu won the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans in the GT2 class.
2004 Raybrig NSX-GT of Team Kunimitsu on display
Team Kunimitsu won their first Super GT titles in 2018 with Naoki Yamamoto and Jenson Button .