Keisuke Kunimoto Biography

Zainichi Korean driver (born 1989)

Keisuke Kunimoto (国本 京佑, Kunimoto Keisuke, born 9 January 1989) , also known as Lee Kyung-woo (Korean::이경우) is a *anese/Zainichi Korean race car driver who raced with a *anese racing license.

His mother is *anese. His father, Yoshihiro Lee (李好廣、이호광 Lee Ho-gwang), also known as Yoshihiro Kunimoto, is the 1983 All *an Karting Champion and his uncle, Yoshihiko Lee (이호언 Lee Ho-eon), won the same karting championship twice in 1980 and 1981. His younger brother, Yuji, is also a race car driver.

Racing career

Kunimoto began karting in 2001 when he was 12. After winning the All *an Karting Championship FA Cl* in 2004, he entered Formula Toyota Racing School and took scholarship of Toyota. He began his car racing career in the 2005 Formula Toyota season, at the seventh round of the season in Tsukuba.

He competed in Formula Toyota and Formula Challenge *an in 2006 and 2007, and won the championship of Formula Challenge *an with three wins and ended runner-up in Formula Toyota in 2007.

In 2008, he raced in the All-*an Formula Three for TOM'S and in the Super GT for apr, as a Toyota young Drivers Program (TDP) driver. He finished runner-up in the first Formula Three season.

2008 Macau Grand Prix

Keisuke Kunimoto driving the Dallara F308 TOM'S Toyota in the 2008 Macau Grand Prix.

At the end of the season, Kunimoto went to Macau with TOM'S and won the Macau F3 Grand Prix, becoming the second *anese driver to win the race after Ta*a Sato.

Formula Nippon

Kunimoto competed in the 2009 Formula Nippon season season for Team LeMans, finishing last in the standings with one point.

A1 Grand Prix

Kunimoto joined A1 Team Korea for the 2008–09 A1 Grand Prix season, and was set to make his debut at the South African round, but political issues regarding a slogan on his car, prevented him from racing on that weekend.

Formula Renault 3.5 Series

Kunimoto joined Epsilon Euskadi for the last two Formula Renault 3.5 Series rounds of the 2009 season. He replaced Spaniard Dani Clos in the team's line-up at the Nürburgring and at the season finale at the new Ciudad del Motor de Aragón circuit.

He returned with the team for the 2010 season, partnering 2009 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 champion Albert Costa.

Racing record

Career summary

‡ Team standings

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

References

    External links

    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Keisuke Kunimoto.
    • Keisuke Kunimoto official website Archived 2010-03-17 at the Wayback Machine (in *anese)
    • Profile:– All-*an Formula Three official website
    • Profile:– Super GT official website
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