Masataka Yanagida

Masataka Yanagida (born 4 June 1979, in Tokyo) is a Japanese racing driver.

Career

The son of successful racing driver Haruhito Yanagida, a runner-up in the Japanese Touring Car Championship, Masataka began his career in karting in 1993. In 1997 he raced in Formula Renault Campus in France, before stepping up to the main French Formula Renault Championship in 1998. He moved on to Formula Dream in 1999, taking five victories in the 2000 season.[1]

In 2001 he began racing in Japanese F3 and Japanese GT. He finished seventh in the F3 standings and fourth in the GT300 class in Japanese GT, where he raced with Yuji Ide. He improved to finish third in GT300 in 2002, before winning the class in 2003. He returned to F3 in 2004, but could only finish 10th. He moved up to the GT500 class of Super GT in 2005, finishing fifth in the standings, sharing with Michael Krumm.

He made his World Touring Car Championship debut at the 2010 FIA WTCC Race of Japan at Okayama for the Wiechers-Sport team.

Racing record

Complete Super GT results

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	DC	Pts
2001	Hasemi Motorsport	Nissan Silvia	GT300	TAI 6	FUJ 2	SUG 12	FUJ 2	MOT 9	SUZ 2	MIN 12			4th	53
2002	Hasemi Motorsport	Nissan Silvia	GT300	TAI 4	FUJ Ret	SUG 1	SEP 3	FUJ 3	MOT 4	MIN Ret	SUZ Ret		3rd	70
2003	Hasemi Motorsport	Nissan Fairlady Z	GT300	TAI 6	FUJ 2	SUG 17	FUJ 3	FUJ 21	MOT 3	AUT 4	SUZ 2		1st	77
2004	Team Daishin	Nissan Fairlady Z	GT300	TAI 19	SUG 14	SEP 6	TOK 3	MOT 4	AUT 19	SUZ 7			6th	33
2005	NISMO	Nissan Z	GT500	OKA 12	FUJ 2	SEP 6	SUG 7	MOT 4	FUJ 9	AUT 2	SUZ 8		5th	57
2006	Kondo Racing	Nissan Z	GT500	SUZ 10	OKA 10	FUJ 10	SEP 8	SUG 10	SUZ 5	MOT 6	AUT 14	FUJ 3	13th	34
2007	Hasemi Motorsport	Nissan Z	GT500	SUZ 10	OKA 13	FUJ 4	SEP 7	SUG 4	SUZ 8	MOT 11	AUT 7	FUJ 15	12th	30
2008	NISMO	Nissan GT-R	GT500	SUZ 2	OKA 15	FUJ 12	SEP 2	SUG 13	SUZ 4	MOT 7	AUT 5	FUJ 11	7th	57
2009	MOLA	Nissan Fairlady Z	GT300	OKA 7	SUZ 3	FUJ 6	SEP 4	SUG 6	SUZ 1	FUJ 9	AUT 8	MOT 7	7th	62
2010	Hasemi Motorsport	Nissan Fairlady Z	GT300	SUZ 5	OKA 3	FUJ 5	SEP 5	SUG 2	SUZ Ret	FUJ C	MOT 1		1st	64
2011	MOLA	Nissan GT-R	GT500	OKA 6	FUJ 10	SEP 2	SUG 1	SUZ 2	FUJ 7	AUT 2	MOT 2		1st	90
2012	MOLA	Nissan GT-R	GT500	OKA 7	FUJ 8	SEP 14	SUG 3	SUZ 1	FUJ 2	AUT 1	MOT 2		1st	93
2013	NISMO	Nissan GT-R	GT500	OKA 3	FUJ Ret	SEP 9	SUG 3	SUZ 2	FUJ 9	AUT 8	MOT 8		6th	50
2014	MOLA	Nissan GT-R	GT500	OKA 10	FUJ Ret	AUT 2	SUG 7	FUJ 6	SUZ 13	BUR Ret	MOT 5		11th	31
2015	MOLA	Nissan GT-R	GT500	OKA 8	FUJ 10	CHA 1	FUJ 14	SUZ 6	SUG 2	AUT 6	MOT Ret		6th	50
2016	MOLA	Nissan GT-R	GT500	OKA 13	FUJ 9	SUG 1	FUJ Ret	SUZ 12	CHA 13	MOT 1	MOT 10		7th	43
2017	Audi Sport Team Hitotsuyama	Audi R8 LMS	GT300	OKA 14	FUJ 14	AUT 13	SUG 20	FUJ 10	SUZ Ret	CHA 23	MOT 8		20th	5
2018	Runup Rivaux GT-R	Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 (2017)	GT300	OKA	FUJ	SUZ	CHA	FUJ	SUG	AUT	MOT		NC	0
2020	Cars Tokai Dream28	Lotus Evora MC GT300	GT300	FUJ (1) 12	FUJ (2) 1	SUZ (1) 3	MOT (1) 13	FUJ (3)	SUZ (2)	MOT (2)	FUJ (4)		4th*	31*

* Season still in progress

References

1. http://www.teampetronas.com/a_standard.asp?cid=66772578&aid=165807661

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)
• Career statistics at Driver Database