Hideo Hiraoka (racing driver)

Hideo Hiraoka
Hideo Hiraoka
Nationality	Japan
Born	April 30, 1971; Tochigi, Japan
D1 Grand Prix career
Debut season	2001
Current team	Team Orange
Wins	1
Best finish	11th in 2006
Previous series
	(previous series with line breaks)
Championship titles
	(championship titles)

Hideo Hiraoka (平岡英郎, Hiraoka Hideo, 30 April 1971, Tochigi) is a Japanese professional drifting driver, currently competing in the D1 Grand Prix series for Team Orange and Yuke’s.

Like many of the drivers in the D1GP he is the owner of his own tuning shop called Proshop Rapid, and so has worked on many of his cars himself.

He began competing in the D1 Grand Prix in the first round in 2000, earning second place in round 4 of that year and so showing that he had what it takes. Over the years he has competed in many different cars from a Toyota Corolla Levin AE85 for Team Droo-P, which was converted to a Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86 and later used by his teammate Toshiki Yoshioka in 2005, Toyota Chaser and Nissan Silvia S15 for Greddy and even a year in a Nissan 350Z once again for Team Droo-P. In 2006, he went back to the Nissan Silvia S15, sponsored by Wisesquare (previously driven by Makoto Sezaki) with which he had much success, getting his first win with that machine, and again, driving Team M.O.V.E.'s second S15 (which Kazama used for D1GP 2006 Silverstone and D1GP 2006 Las Vegas) while his friend and teammate at the time, Katsuhiro Ueo drove the first S15, which was Kazama's 2005 championship car, and to become the fourth member of Team Orange, driving Nobushige Kumakubo's 2006 championship winning Subaru Impreza. So far he has been doing well adapting to the new car, as he has done so often before, though he had a large accident at the Tokyo Drift exhibition match in early 2008.

Complete Drifting Results

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D1 Grand Prix

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Position	Points
2001		Nissan 180SX RPS13	EBS DNQ	NIK	BHH		NIK TAN				13	18
2001		Nissan Silvia PS13				EBS 2					13	18
2002	Trust/GReddy Works	Toyota Chaser JZX100	BHH 10	EBS TAN	SGO 8	TKB DNQ	EBS 10	SEK 9	NIK 3		11	30
2003	Trust/GReddy Works	Nissan Silvia S15	TKB DNQ	BHH DNQ	SGO 16	FUJ TAN	EBS TAN	SEK 16	TKB		-	0
2004	DROO-P w/ Espelier	Toyota Corolla Levin AE85	IRW TAN	SGO 9	EBS 16	APS 10	ODB 16	EBS TAN	TKB 4		11	20
2005	DROO-P w/ Espelier	Toyota Corolla Levin AE85	IRW 11								27	3
2005	DROO-P w/ Espelier	Nissan Fairlady Z Z33		ODB TAN	SGO 16	APS TAN	EBS 16	FUJ DNQ	TKB DNQ		27	3
2006	Wisesquare	Nissan Silvia S15	IRW TAN	SGO DNQ	FUJ 16	APS 10	EBS 3	SUZ 1	FUJ TAN	IRW TAN	11	41
2007	Team M.O.V.E	Nissan Silvia S15	EBS TAN	FUJ 10	SUZ TAN	SGO 3	EBS 16	APS TAN	FUJ TAN		16	20
2008	Team Orange	Subaru Impreza GDB	EBS TAN	FUJ TAN	SUZ 11	OKY DNQ	APS 15	EBS	FUJ		21	8

Sources

D1 Grand Prix

External links

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