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| Founded | 2017 |
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| Base | Oyama,Shizuoka Prefecture |
| Teamprincipal(s) | Akio Toyoda |
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| Teams' Championships | 2023 Super Taikyu Series |
| Website | www |
Rookie Racing Co., Ltd. (stylized asROOKIE Racing) is a Japanese racing team that competes inSuper Formula,Super GT &Super Taikyu. Rookie Racing is a sister team ofToyota Gazoo Racing and based close toFuji Speedway.
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In 2017,Tatsuya Kataoka launched a private team "T's Concept" for the purpose of training young and gentleman drivers. T's Concept participated in the Super Taikyu ST-4 class with twoToyota 86's sponsored by Ogura Clutch. Drivers such as Ogura Clutch's President Yasuhiro Ogura andMiki Koyama competed with T's Concept on the team's inaugural season onSuper Taikyu. T's Concept continued to field two cars for the 2018 season and signed Masahiro Sasaki to compete alongside Ogura in the #29 team while Tohjiro Azuma and Daisuke Matsunaga competed in the #28 team.[1] One of the T's Concept cars was later rebranded into "ROOKIE Racing" in 2019 with Daisuke Toyota, son of Toyota president Akio, and former GT500 championAkira Iida joining the team as Rookie's lead drivers in the 2019 Super Taikyu season.[2]
In 2020,Akio Toyoda purchased the team in its entirety and entered bothSuper Formula andSuper GT afterTeam LeMans left from both series at the end of the 2019 season.[3][4] While the team had previously entered rookie drivers that was part of the Toyota Young Driver Programme, Rookie's name was taken from Akio's pet dog "Rookie". In the team's first year onSuper GT, Rookie's entry was run as part ofTeam Cerumo.Kazuya Oshima drove in both theSuper Formula andSuper GT championship withSho Tsuboi acting as Oshima's teammate in Super GT. In 2021, Rookie took full charge of the team from Cerumo. Oshima stayed with the team, competing in both series and was paired up withKenta Yamashita for2021 Super GT season.[5] For 2022, the team set up a new factory base close toFuji Speedway.[6]
(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Car | Tyres | Class | No. | Drivers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Pos | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Toyota GR Supra GT500 | B | GT500 | 14 |  Kazuya OshimaSho Tsuboi | FUJ 3 | FUJ 3 | SUZ 9 | MOT 4 | FUJ 2 | SUZ 12 | MOT 12 | FUJ Ret | 7th | 47 | |
| 2021 | Toyota GR Supra GT500 | B | GT500 | 14 | Kazuya OshimaKenta Yamashita | OKA 1 | FUJ 2 | MOT 13 | SUZ 12 | SUG 12† | AUT 11 | MOT 6 | FUJ 3 | 5th | 52 | |
| 2022 | Toyota GR Supra GT500 | B | GT500 | 14 | Kazuya OshimaKenta Yamashita | OKA 1 | FUJ 7‡ | SUZ 8 | FUJ 7 | SUZ 14 | SUG 11 | AUT 4 | MOT 3 | 5th | 49 | |
| 2023 | Toyota GR Supra GT500 | B | GT500 | 14 | Kazuya OshimaKenta Yamashita | OKA 4 | FUJ 4 | SUZ 6 | FUJ 11 | SUZ 3 | SUG 6 | AUT 8 | MOT 6 | 7th | 45 | |
| 2024 | Toyota GR Supra GT500 | B | GT500 | 14 | Kazuya OshimaNirei Fukuzumi | OKA NC | FUJ 8 | SUZ 2 | FUJ 4 | SUZ 92 | SUG 93 | AUT 13† | MOT 63 | 11th | 38 | |
| 2025 | Toyota GR Supra GT500 | B | GT500 | 14 | Kazuya OshimaNirei Fukuzumi | OKA 2 | FUJ 6 | SEP 9 | FUJ Ret | FUJ 1 | SUZ 2 | SUG 7 | AUT 9 | MOT | 2nd* | 54.5* |
‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.
* Season still in progress.
| Year | Driver | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12[a] | 13 | DC | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Kazuya Oshima | MOT 10 | OKA 16 | SUG 9 | AUT 17 | SUZ 12 | SUZ 9 | FUJ 14 | 19th | 5 | ||||||
| 2021 | Kazuya Oshima | FUJ 10 | SUZ1 15 | AUT 8 | SUG 18 | MOT1 Ret | MOT2 11 | SUZ2 17 | 19th | 2.5 | ||||||
| 2022 | Kazuya Oshima | FUJ 15 | FUJ 18 | SUZ 19 | AUT 15 | SUG 14 | FUJ 13 | MOT 17 | MOT 18 | SUZ 19 | SUZ 15 | 21st | 0 | |||
| 2023 | Kazuya Oshima | FUJ 9 | FUJ 11 | SUZ 13 | AUT 12 | SUG 4 | FUJ 12 | MOT 8 | SUZ 19 | SUZ 14 | 14th | 13 | ||||
| 2024 | Kazuya Oshima | SUZ 13 | AUT 11 | SUG Ret | FUJ 16 | MOT 14 | FUJ 15 | FUJ Ret | SUZ Ret | SUZ 15 | 19th | 0 | ||||
| 2025 | Kazuya Oshima | SUZ 13 | SUZ 10 | MOT 10 | MOT 6 | AUT 15 | FUJ 6 | FUJ 10 | SUG 18 | FUJ 16 | FUJ C | SUZ | SUZ | SUZ | 14th* | 13* |
* Season still in progress.
