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KAZUKI
NAKAJIMA
Japanese racing driver (born 1985)
Career Note
Kazuki Nakajima is a Japanese motorsport executive and former racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 2007 to 2009. In Japanese motorsport, Nakajima won the Super Formula Championship in 2012 and 2014 with TOM'S. In endurance racing, Nakajima won the 2018–19 FIA World Endurance Championship, and is a three-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which he won consecutively from 2018 to 2020, all with Toyota. Since 2022, Nakajima has served as vice-chairman of Toyota in WEC, winning three consecutive World Manufacturers' Championship titles from 2022 to 2024.
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Each season is a star: sized by overall wins, positioned by championship rank, coloured by primary class. Gold ring marks championship-winning campaigns; silver ring marks top-three finishes.
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Questions about this driver
Drivers · 4 min read
Who is Sebastien Buemi?
[Sébastien Buemi](/drivers/sebastien-buemi) is a Swiss racing driver who has raced for Toyota in the WEC since 2012 and won the Formula E title in 2015-16. He has 29 overall WEC race wins and 4 24 Hours of Le Mans wins, three of them in a row from 2018 to 2020. He won WEC drivers' world titles in 2014, 2018-19, 2022 and 2023, and in 2026 he still races the No. 8 Toyota.
Drivers · 5 min read
Who is Kamui Kobayashi?
[Kamui Kobayashi](/drivers/kamui-kobayashi) is a Japanese racing driver who has raced for Toyota in the WEC since 2016 and has also been the team principal of its WEC team since 2022. He has 19 overall WEC wins, 18 poles and 2 24 Hours of Le Mans wins, the first in 2021. In 2017 he set a 3:14.791 in Le Mans qualifying, the fastest qualifying lap in the race's history. In 2026 he still drives the No. 7 Toyota, the car he has raced since 2017.
Drivers · 4 min read
Which driver has the most WEC overall race wins?
Sébastien Buemi has the most overall WEC race wins, with 29 victories. [Buemi](/drivers/sebastien-buemi) has 29, his long-time Toyota team-mate [Brendon Hartley](/drivers/brendon-hartley) 26, [Mike Conway](/drivers/mike-conway) 20 and [Kamui Kobayashi](/drivers/kamui-kobayashi) 19. Buemi, Hartley, Conway, Kobayashi and the retired [Kazuki Nakajima](/drivers/kazuki-nakajima), who has 17, all drove for Toyota in the LMP1-Hybrid era.
Manufacturers · 4 min read
What was the Toyota TS050 Hybrid era like?
The [Toyota TS050 Hybrid](/cars/toyota-ts050-hybrid) raced in the WEC's LMP1 class from 2016 to 2020. It won 19 WEC races, including three consecutive 24 Hours of Le Mans (2018, 2019 and 2020), and its crews won the drivers' world titles in 2018-19 and 2019-20. It is also the car of one of Le Mans' best-known late losses: in 2016 the leading TS050 stopped in the final minutes and [Porsche](/manufacturers/porsche) won.
Events · 4 min read
What is the longest WEC race that isn't Le Mans?
The longest WEC race outside the [24 Hours of Le Mans](/answers/who-has-won-le-mans-hypercar-era) was the championship's first race, the [12 Hours of Sebring in March 2012](/events/2012-r01-sebring), where the winning No. 2 Audi covered 325 laps. Since then the longest format has been the [Qatar 1812km](/circuits/losail), which opened the 2024 and 2025 seasons and took the winners about ten hours each time. Next come the eight-hour races: the 8 Hours of Bahrain, the 2021 8 Hours of Portimão and the 1000 Miles of Sebring. Almost every other WEC race has lasted six hours or less.
Events · 5 min read
What happened at the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans?
The 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans produced one of motorsport's most-replayed late-race losses. The leading No. 5 [Toyota TS050 Hybrid](/cars/toyota-ts050-hybrid) of [Anthony Davidson](/drivers/anthony-davidson), [Sebastien Buemi](/answers/who-is-sebastien-buemi) and [Kazuki Nakajima](/drivers/kazuki-nakajima) suffered a power-system failure on the Mulsanne straight with three minutes to run, while leading by more than a lap. The car rolled to a stop at the pit-lane entry. The No. 2 [Porsche 919 Hybrid](/answers/what-was-the-porsche-919-hybrid-era), which had been more than a lap down, took the win. Nakajima rolled the dead Toyota across the finish line but the car was not classified.