Hideo Hiraoka (racing driver)
# Hideo Hiraoka (racing driver)

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

| Colour | Result |
| - | - |
| Gold | Winner |
| Silver | 2nd place |
| Bronze | 3rd place |
| Green | Last 4 [Semi-final] |
| Blue | Last 8 [Quarter-final] |
| Purple | Last 16 (16) [1st Tsuiou Round OR Tandem Battle] (Numbers are given to indicate Top 10 finish) |
| Black | Disqualified (DSQ) (Given to indicate that the driver has been stripped of their position through disqualification) |
| White | First Round (TAN) [Tansou OR Qualifying Single Runs] |
| Red | Did not qualify (DNQ) |

* When driver's position are highlighted in blue, this indicates either the driver earned 100pt or 100pt tansou (solo run) bonus has been awarded, with the latter being in use for Pre-2005.

### 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
