People

Akira Iida

Lexus LFA test driver and 2002 JGTC GT500 champion

Born
Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, 1969
Nationality
Japanese

The record

Japanese racing driver who tested the Lexus LFA and recorded 7:14.64 on the Nordschleife in a Nürburgring Package car on standard Bridgestone tyres.

Akira Iida was born on 18 December 1969 and is from Sagamihara in Kanagawa Prefecture. Toyota GAZOO Racing records a four-wheel debut at nineteen in the Fuji Speedway Freshman Race in 1989. He reached the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1994 in a Honda NSX entered by Kremer Honda Racing. In 1995, sharing a Honda NSX with Keiichi Tsuchiya and Kunimitsu Takahashi for Team Kunimitsu, he finished eighth overall and first in GT2.

He returned to single-seaters in Formula Nippon from 1997 to 1999, after a 1994 All Japan Formula 3000 cameo. In 2002 he moved to Toyota and, paired with Juichi Wakisaka, won the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship GT500 title after a first win in the third round. Lexus later listed that championship among his credentials when it entered the LFA at the Nürburgring.

From 2008 he raced the Lexus LFA for GAZOO Racing in the 24 Hours of Nürburgring. Toyota records class wins in SP8 in 2010 and 2012, and in SP-PRO with the LFA Code X in 2014. On 31 August 2011, named by Toyota as LFA test driver, he lapped the Nordschleife in 7:14.64 in a Nürburgring Package car on standard Bridgestone Potenza RE070 tyres.

Road-legal Nordschleife time

Toyota timed him at 7:14.64 on the 20.6 km Nordschleife in a Nürburgring Package LFA on the car's standard Bridgestone Potenza RE070 tyres, during a final-phase test on 31 August 2011.

Near-production endurance racing

From 2008 he raced the LFA for GAZOO Racing at the 24 Hours of Nürburgring. Toyota records SP8 class wins in 2010 and 2012 and an SP-PRO win with the LFA Code X in 2014.

The stations

  1. 1994Kremer Honda RacingLe Mans driver, Honda NSX
  2. 1995–1996Team KunimitsuLe Mans driver, Honda NSX
  3. 2002–2006ToyotaJGTC and Super GT GT500 driver
  4. 2008ToyotaSuper GT GT500 driver
  5. 2008–2014Lexus / GAZOO RacingLFA test and endurance driver

The house

Lexus

Credited through Lexus.

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In their words

“The momentum of our team is very good. Our target for the 24 Hours Nürburgring race is to maintain a steady pace, in line with the way we have chosen to set up the vehicles.”

Akira Iida · Toyota UK media, 16 May 2012