Akira Iida

Akira Iida

Nationality	Japanese
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years	1994-1996, 2000
Teams	Team Kunimitsu Honda, TV Asahi Team Dragon
Best finish	8th (1995, 2000)
Class wins	1 (1995)

Akira Iida (Shinjitai: 飯田 章, Iida Akira, born 18 December 1969 in Sagamihara, Kanagawa) is a Japanese racing driver in the Super GT series, since 2002 affiliated with Toyota and Lexus. First driving in the series since 1994, Iida has won five races altogether and took one driver's title in 2002.

Iida, who also drove Formula 3000 and Formula Nippon, is one of the presenters in the Best Motoring series.

Being experienced at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Akira Iida did also participate in the 2008 24 Hours Nürburgring race as well as in VLN endurance races, winning his class twice with a Lexus LF-A.

On August 31, 2011, Iida recorded a lap time of 7:14.64 in a fully road-legal Lexus LFA Nürburgring Package around the Nürburgring Nordschleife. This marked a new fastest time for regular production cars, running on standard specification tyres.

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1994	Kremer Honda Racing Team Kunimitsu	Kunimitsu Takahashi Keiichi Tsuchiya	Honda NSX	GT2	222	18th	9th
1995	Team Kunimitsu Honda	Kunimitsu Takahashi Keiichi Tsuchiya	Honda NSX	GT2	275	8th	1st
1996	Team Kunimitsu Honda	Kunimitsu Takahashi Keiichi Tsuchiya	Honda NSX	GT2	305	16th	3rd
2000	TV Asahi Team Dragon	Keiichi Tsuchiya Masahiko Kondō	Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S-Élan	LMP900	330	8th	7th
2002	Team Taisan Advan	Atsushi Yogo Kazuyuki Nishizawa	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	GT	316	21st	3rd
2003	Team Taisan Advan	Atsushi Yogo Kazuyuki Nishizawa	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	GT	304	19th	4th

External links

• Official site
• SuperGT.net profile
• Photo and CV (German)

Sporting positions
Preceded by Hironori Takeuchi Yuji Tachikawa	All-Japan Grand Touring Car Champion (GT500) 2002 with: Juichi Wakisaka	Succeeded by Satoshi Motoyama Michael Krumm