Yuji Ide

Yuji Ide
Formula One World Championship career
In 2010, as a Super GT driver
Born	(1975-01-21) 21 January 1975
Nationality	Japanese
Active years	2006
Teams	Super Aguri
Entries	4
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Career points	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First entry	2006 Bahrain Grand Prix
Last entry	2006 San Marino Grand Prix

Yuji Ide (井出有治, Ide Yūji) (born 21 January 1975) is a Japanese professional racing driver who graduated from 2005 Formula Nippon to Formula One with the Super Aguri team in 2006, but lost his FIA Super Licence during the season due to erratic driving.^[1]

Ide returned to the Formula Nippon series after his four-race F1 stint and now races with the Autobacs Racing Team Aguri team.^[2]^[3]

Early career

Ide's 2005 Formula Nippon Lola.

Born in Saitama, Saitama, Ide started his racing career in 1990 with kart racing. In 1991, he won the Kantou National Cup Kart Championship. In 1992 he was second in the Regional Kart Championship East Kantou series A1 Class and also won the Japan Kart Grand Prix SS stock class National GP.^[4] The following year he joined the All- Japan Kart Championship Series Formula A Class before progressing to the All-Japan Formula Three Championship.^[4]

In 1999 he came second in the All Japan GT Championship GT300 Class Series.^[4] He was also the Formula Dream series champion in Japan.^[4] In 2002 Ide joined the French Formula Three Championship series and finished in seventh place. The following year, 2003, he joined the All Japan Championship Formula Nippon Series and also finished seventh.^[4] In 2004, he claimed third spot before going on to win the Super Endurance Race Class 3 Series. He finished his first stint in Formula Nippon finishing second in the 2005 championship.^[4]

Formula One

Ide driving the Super Aguri SA05 at the 2006 Australian Grand Prix.

At age 31, Ide became one of Formula One's older rookies when he landed a seat at Super Aguri for the 2006 season, in part due to Super Aguri's aspiration of fielding an all-Japanese team.^[5] Ide had known Aguri Suzuki for a long time, according to a press release,^[6] however Ide's meshing with the team had some issues with his lack of proficient English.^[7]

In his debut race in Bahrain, Ide was significantly behind his more experienced teammate Takuma Sato and failed to finish. At the next race in Malaysia, he retired after 33 laps.

The third race of the 2006 season went poorly for Ide: He was blamed for blocking Rubens Barrichello during his qualifying lap, causing the Brazilian to be stuck in the first round of qualifying and start 16th on the grid.^[8] Ide finished in Australia, two laps down. His weekend in Melbourne was notable for a number of spins, and team principal Aguri Suzuki subsequently suggested Ide's seat was not safe if his performances did not improve.

At Imola, Ide caused a first lap crash with Christijan Albers that put the Dutchman into a series of rolls which ended with Albers's car upside down.^[9] Ide was reprimanded by the stewards and warned over future conduct. Aguri Suzuki said "He didn't have enough testing because he doesn't understand how to use the car".^[10]

On May 4, 2006, Super Aguri announced that following advice from the FIA, Ide would be dropped from the upcoming European Grand Prix at the Nürburgring, being replaced by former Renault test driver Franck Montagny. Ide was demoted to Montagny's seat as test driver.^[11]

On May 10, 2006, the FIA revoked Ide's FIA Super Licence meaning he could no longer compete in F1 during the 2006 season.^[12] Super Aguri remained committed to getting Ide back into F1 until their withdrawal from Formula One.^[1]

Summary

Overall during Ide's four-race F1 career, he finished once — a 13th place at the 2006 Australian Grand Prix.^[13] His best qualifying effort was 21st of 22 cars at his debut at Bahrain,^[13] where the 22nd starter, Kimi Räikkönen, did not complete a qualifying attempt.

In the November 2009 issue of F1 Racing Magazine, Ide was named as one of the five worst F1 drivers in history.

Return to lower-level racing

In July 2006 it was announced that Ide would be racing for Team Dandelion Racing in the final six rounds of the Formula Nippon championship, with the aim of increasing his racing experience.^[3]

In 2007, he has remained in Formula Nippon with the Autobacs Racing Team Aguri team,^[2] which is owned by Aguri Suzuki.^[14] His best finish of the season is a third place, scored in round five at Suzuka.^[15]

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team Name	Races	Poles	Wins	Points	Final Placing
1994	All-Japan Formula Three	Active	6	0	0	0	NC
1994	All-Japan Formula Three	Asada Racing	6	0	0	0	NC
1997	All-Japan Formula Three	Asada Racing	2	0	0	0	NC
1998	All-Japan Formula Three	Now Motorsports	7	0	0	0	NC
2000	All-Japan Formula Three	Mugen Dome Project	10	1	2	35	2nd
	Macau Grand Prix	Skill Speed	1	0	0	N/A	24th
	Korea Super Prix	Skill Speed	1	0	0	N/A	13th
2001	All-Japan Formula Three	Three Bond Racing	18	0	0	100	5th
	Macau Grand Prix	Signature Compétition	1	0	0	N/A	5th
	Korea Super Prix	Signature Compétition	1	0	0	N/A	12th
2002	French Formula Three	Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	14	0	1	84	7th
	European Formula Three Cup		1	0	0	N/A	6th
	Macau Grand Prix		1	0	0	N/A	NC
	Masters of Formula Three		1	0	0	N/A	25th
	Korea Super Prix		1	0	0	N/A	10th
2003	Formula Nippon	Racing Team Cerumo	10	0	0	19	7th
2003	All-Japan GT Championship	Team Impul	8	0	2	64	7th
2004	Formula Nippon	Team Impul	9	1	1	32	3rd
2005	Formula Nippon	Team Impul	9	1	2	39	2nd
2005	Super GT	Team Impul (GT500)	8	1	0	35	21st
2006	Formula One	Super Aguri	4	0	0	0	25th
	Formula Nippon	Team Dandelion Racing	6	0	0	0	NC
	Super GT	NISMO	1	0	0	0	NC
2007	Formula Nippon	Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	9	0	0	6	13th
2007	Super GT	Autobacs Racing Team Aguri (GT500)	1	0	0	15	18th
2008	Formula Nippon	Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	11	0	0	2	19th
2008	Super GT	Team Kunimitsu (GT500)	9	0	0	41	11th
2009	Super GT	Team Kunimitsu (GT500)	9	0	0	29	13th
2010	Formula Nippon	Motul Team	8	0	0	1	14th
2010	Super GT	Autobacs Racing Team Aguri (GT500)	7	0	1	29	11th
2013	Super GT	Bonds Racing (GT300)	1	0	0	6	22nd
2015	Super GT	Team Up Garage with Bandoh (GT300)	6	0	0	2	25th

Complete Formula Nippon results

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

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	DC	Points
2003	Team Cerumo	SUZ 4	FUJ 7	MIN 3	MOT 2	SUZ 7	SUG 10	FUJ Ret	MIN 3	MOT 12	SUZ 5		7th	19
2004	Team Impul	SUZ 12	SUG 2	MOT 2	SUZ 3	SUG 7	MIN 7	SEP 10	MOT 1	SUZ 2			3rd	32
2005	Team Impul	MOT 2	SUZ 1	SUG 5	FUJ 7	SUZ 8	MIN 1	FUJ 3	MOT 4	SUZ 3			2nd	39
2006	Dandelion Racing	FUJ	SUZ	MOT	SUZ 12	AUT 12	FUJ 11	SUG Ret	MOT Ret	SUZ 10			21st	0
2007	Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	FUJ 14	SUZ 10	MOT 16	OKA Ret	SUZ 3	FUJ 16	SUG Ret	MOT Ret	SUZ 9			13th	6
2008	Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	FUJ 9	SUZ 18	MOT 15	OKA Ret	SUZ1 15	SUZ2 Ret	MOT1 12	MOT2 Ret	FUJ1 Ret	FUJ2 19	SUG 17	19th	2
2010	Motul Team	SUZ 9	MOT 9	FUJ 10	MOT 9	SUG 9	AUT DNS	SUZ1 8	SUZ2 8				14th	1

Complete Super GT results

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	DC	Pts
1999	ARTA-NISMO	Nissan Silvia	GT300	SUZ 9	FUJ Ret	SUG 1	MIN 1	FUJ Ret	TAI 1	MOT 4			2nd	72
2000	NISMO	Nissan Skyline GT-R	GT500	MOT 6	FUJ	SUG	FUJ	TAI	MIN	SUZ			22nd	6
2001	Hasemi Motorsport	Nissan Silvia	GT300	TAI 6	FUJ 2	SUG 12	FUJ 2	MOT 9	SUZ 2	MIN 12			4th	53
2003	Impul	Nissan Skyline GT-R	GT500	TAI 12	FUJ 2	SUG Ret	FUJ 1	FUJ 16	MOT 6	AUT 11	SUZ 1		4th	64
2004	Impul	Nissan Z	GT500	TAI 8	SUG 10	SEP Ret	TOK 11	MOT Ret	AUT 5	SUZ 1			11th	35
2005	Impul	Nissan Z	GT500	OKA Ret	FUJ 15	SEP 8	SUG 5	MOT 3	FUJ 13	AUT 4	SUZ 9		11th	35
2006	NISMO	Nissan Z	GT500	SUZ	OKA	FUJ	SEP	SUG	SUZ DSQ	MOT	AUT	FUJ	NC	0
2007	Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	Honda NSX	GT500	SUZ	OKA	FUJ	SEP	SUG	SUZ 2	MOT	AUT	FUJ	18th	15
2008	Team Kunimitsu	Honda NSX	GT500	SUZ 13	OKA 9	FUJ 4	SEP 5	SUG 5	SUZ 2	MOT 16	AUT 9	FUJ Ret	11th	41
2009	Team Kunimitsu	Honda NSX	GT500	OKA 8	SUZ 12	FUJ 11	SEP 4	SUG 4	SUZ 9	FUJ 12	AUT 6	MOT 8	13th	29
2010	Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	Honda HSV-010 GT	GT500	SUZ Ret	OKA 6	FUJ 11	SEP 11	SUG 12	SUZ 1	FUJ C	MOT 7		11th	29
2013	Bonds Racing	Nissan GT-R GT3	GT300	OKA	FUJ 5	SEP	SUG	SUZ	FUJ	FUJ	AUT	MOT	22nd	6
2015	Team Up Garage with Bandoh	Toyota 86	GT300	OKA 19	FUJ Ret	CHA Ret	FUJ Ret	SUZ	SUG	AUT 9	MOT Ret		25th	2

Complete Formula One results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	WDC	Points
2006	Super Aguri F1 Team	Super Aguri SA05	Honda RA806E 2.4 V8	BHR Ret	MAL Ret	AUS 13	SMR Ret	EUR	ESP	MON	GBR	CAN	USA	FRA	GER	HUN	TUR	ITA	CHN	JPN	BRA	25th	0

References

1 2 "Ide loses super license". motorsport.com. 2006-05-10. Retrieved 2007-05-13.
1 2 Super Aguri Company
1 2 "Ide makes racing return". F1 ITV. 2006-07-06. Retrieved 2007-05-13.
1 2 3 4 5 6 "Super Aguri F1 team driver profiles". Super Aguri F1 team driver profiles. 2006. Retrieved 2007-05-18.
↑ "Sato to become Aguri's first driver". GPUpdate.net. 2006-01-27. Retrieved 2011-02-01.
↑ "Ide hoping for good season". GPUpdate.net. 2006-02-27. Retrieved 2011-02-01.
↑ "Q & A with Aguri Suzuki". GPUpdate.net. 2006-04-26. Retrieved 2011-02-01.
↑ "Australian GP — Saturday — Qualifying Session 1 Report". GrandPrix.com. 2006. Retrieved 2007-05-19.
↑ "San Marino 2006: Schumacher's Imola role reversal". Autocourse. 2006-04-23. Retrieved 2007-05-19.
↑ "Yuji Ide not out (yet)". GPUpdate.net. 2006-04-24. Retrieved 2011-02-01.
↑ "Rookie Ide axed for European GP". news.bbc.co.uk. 2006-05-04. Retrieved 2007-05-13.
↑ "Ide's Superlicence revoked". pitpass.com. 2006-05-10. Retrieved 2007-05-13.
1 2 All race entries, by Yuji Ide.
↑ "Key Personnel Info". Super Aguri F1 Team. Retrieved 2008-11-19.
↑ "Yuji Ide Point Standing". Formula Nippon. Archived from the original on June 23, 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-19.

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Founder Aguri Suzuki Personnel Mark Preston Daniele Audetto Drivers Takuma Sato Anthony Davidson Yuji Ide Franck Montagny Sakon Yamamoto Formula One cars SA05 SA06 SA07 SA08

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