Real Co., Ltd.

Founded	2007
Base	Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, Japan
Team principal(s)	Katsutomo Kaneishi
Current series	Super GT
Former series	Super Formula Japanese Formula 3 Championship
Current drivers	Koudai Tsukakoshi Kakunoshin Ohta
Teams' Championships	Japanese F3: 2 (N-Class: 2009, 2010)
Drivers' Championships	Japanese F3: 3 (C-Class: 2014; N-Class: 2009, 2010)
Website	www.real-racing.jp

Real Co., Ltd., better known as Real Racing, is a Japanese company headed by former racing driver Katsutomo Kaneishi.

In 2007 Katsutomo Kaneishi had a tie-up with the Japanese version of Rolling Stone to launch Real Racing. The team name originates from their policy of "delivering real motorsports activities and fun to as many people as possible." Hiroshi Tanaka, former representative of Heroes Racing, was invited to be the manager. In its debut season in 2007, the team participated in the Japanese Formula 3 Championship and Super GT's GT500 class. In 2009, the Japanese F3 team began racing under the team name HFDP Racing as part of the Honda Formula Dream Project, Honda's young driver development project, and the team also started participating in Formula Nippon with the same name (Real Racing Team was launched in 2011). From that season onwards, Katsutomo Kaneishi has devoted himself to being the manager

Real Racing competed in Formula Nippon under the HFDP Racing banner in 2009 and 2010 with Koudai Tsukakoshi as the driver. In 2011, the team made their debut as Real Racing, fielding cars for Takashi Kobayashi and Hideki Mutoh. For the following season their drivers were Yuhki Nakayama and Toshihiro Kaneishi, the cousin of Katsutomo Kaneishi. Tsukakoshi returned to the team in 2013 in place of Kaneishi, and in 2014 former Italian Formula One driver Vitantonio Liuzzi took over Nakayama's seat and raced with the team for a single season. Takuya Izawa replaced Liuzzi for the 2015 and 2016 seasons, with Tsukakoshi maintaining the other seat. The team opted to race with one car from 2017 to 2019.^[1] They only fielded Tsukakoshi during these seasons, except in 2019 when Tristan Charpentier was supposed to race the full season, but got axed after the first round, with Tsukakoshi returning to the team to complete the remaining rounds of the season.^[2][3] In 2020, Real Racing announced it was withdrawing from the 2020 season.^[4]

In 2007, Real Racing competed in the GT500 with Honda as their choice of car manufacturer. Kaneishi himself took the wheel as an owner-driver along with his cousin Toshihiro Kaneishi. The F3 engine and Super GT vehicle were both manufactured by Honda, while the tyres came from Bridgestone. The team maintained its F3 cars in-house, although Super GT maintenance was outsourced from ARTA. In 2009, Keihin became the title sponsor of the team in Super GT, a role which it held until the end of the 2020 season. Keihin merged with a number of other companies to form Hitachi Astemo, a joint venture between Hitachi and Honda, and Astemo replaced Keihin as the title sponsor for Real Racing in 2021.^[5] Nobuharu Matsushita rejoined Honda as a factory driver for 2022 and signed with Astemo Real Racing.^[6] He replaced Bertrand Baguette, who left Honda at the end of 2021.^[7] For 2024, Real Racing would have Kakunoshin Ohta as the replacement for Matsushita.^[8]

Sources:^[9][10]

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

Year	Car	Tyres	Class	No.	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Pos	Points
2007	Honda NSX	B	GT500	17	Katsutomo Kaneishi Toshihiro Kaneishi Takuya Izawa	SUZ 6	OKA 10	FUJ Ret	SEP 12	SUG Ret	SUZ 5	MOT 7	AUT Ret	FUJ 3		13th	41
2008	Honda NSX	B	GT500	17	Katsutomo Kaneishi Toshihiro Kaneishi Koudai Tsukakoshi	SUZ 8	OKA 16	FUJ 10	SEP 6	SUG 9	SUZ Ret	MOT 15	AUT 11	FUJ 10		15th	30
2009	Honda NSX	B	GT500	17	Toshihiro Kaneishi Koudai Tsukakoshi Katsutomo Kaneishi	OKA 5	SUZ 6	FUJ 12	SEP 2	SUG 6	SUZ 10	FUJ 4	AUT Ret	MOT 4		5th	72
2010	Honda HSV-010 GT	B	GT500	17	Toshihiro Kaneishi Koudai Tsukakoshi	SUZ 7	OKA 7	FUJ 5	SEP 12	SUG 1	SUZ 4	FUJ C	MOT 3	NC1 2	NC2 12	3rd	72
2011	Honda HSV-010 GT	B	GT500	17	Toshihiro Kaneishi Koudai Tsukakoshi	OKA 3	FUJ 8	SEP 3	SUG 6	SUZ 12	FUJ 3	AUT 6	MOT 7	NC1 11	NC2 3	4th	71
2012	Honda HSV-010 GT	B	GT500	17	Toshihiro Kaneishi Koudai Tsukakoshi	OKA 3	FUJ 6	SEP 7	SUG 9	SUZ 10	FUJ 5	AUT 14	MOT Ret	NC1 2	NC2 15	11th	47
2013	Honda HSV-010 GT	B	GT500	17	Toshihiro Kaneishi Koudai Tsukakoshi	OKA 2	FUJ Ret	SEP 5	SUG Ret	SUZ 7	FUJ 2	AUT 3	MOT 2	NC1 1	NC2 6	2nd	85
2014	Honda NSX-GT	B	GT500	17	Toshihiro Kaneishi Koudai Tsukakoshi	OKA 6	FUJ Ret	AUT Ret	SUG 3	FUJ 4	SUZ Ret	BUR 12	MOT 15			12th	34
2015	Honda NSX-GT	B	GT500	17	Koudai Tsukakoshi Hideki Mutoh	OKA 12	FUJ 4	CHA 3	FUJ 8	SUZ Ret	SUG 8	AUT 3	MOT 8			8th	58
2016	Honda NSX-GT	B	GT500	17	Koudai Tsukakoshi Takashi Kogure	OKA 11	FUJ 12	SUG 6	FUJ 2	SUZ 10	CHA 6	MOT Ret	MOT 11			11th	43
2017	Honda NSX-GT	B	GT500	17	Koudai Tsukakoshi Takashi Kogure	OKA 11	FUJ 8	AUT 2	SUG Ret	FUJ Ret	SUZ 15	CHA 3	MOT 4			8th	51
2018	Honda NSX-GT	B	GT500	17	Koudai Tsukakoshi Takashi Kogure	OKA 1	FUJ 11	SUZ 11	CHA 7	FUJ 3	SUG 9	AUT 6	MOT 15			6th	66
2019	Honda NSX-GT	B	GT500	17	Koudai Tsukakoshi Bertrand Baguette	OKA 14	FUJ 5	SUZ Ret	BUR 13	FUJ Ret	AUT 2	SUG 5	MOT 5	NC1 2	NC2 21	7th	54
2020	Honda NSX-GT	B	GT500	17	Koudai Tsukakoshi Bertrand Baguette	FUJ Ret	FUJ 1	SUZ 8	MOT 1	FUJ 10	SUZ 10	MOT 5	FUJ 4			3rd	80
2021	Honda NSX-GT	B	GT500	17	Koudai Tsukakoshi Bertrand Baguette	OKA 5	FUJ 1	MOT 14	SUZ 7	SUG 3	AUT 8	MOT 4	FUJ Ret			5th	71
2022	Honda NSX-GT	B	GT500	17	Koudai Tsukakoshi Nobuharu Matsushita	OKA 9	FUJ 9	SUZ 2	FUJ 10	SUZ 2	SUG 12	AUT 1	MOT 5			4th	79.5
2023	Honda NSX-GT	B	GT500	17	Koudai Tsukakoshi Nobuharu Matsushita	OKA 7	FUJ 3	SUZ 9	FUJ 7	SUZ 4	SUG DSQ	AUT 6	MOT 3			7th	65
2024	Honda Civic Type R-GT	B	GT500	17	Koudai Tsukakoshi Kakunoshin Ohta	OKA Ret	FUJ 3	SUZ 6	FUJ 8	SUG 7	AUT	MOT	SUZ			9th*	35*

^‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed. * Season still in progress.

Note: Non-championship races (NC1, NC2) are major races that do not count towards the championship.

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