Kobayashi hopes to open NASCAR doors for Japanese drivers

Ex-Formula 1 racer Kobayashi included his name to the expanding listing of worldwide racers to attempt their hand at NASCAR in current times when he signed up with Toyota team 23XI Racing for the Verizon 200 at the Brickyard in August, completing in 33rd area.

In doing so, the present Toyota World Endurance Championship as well as Super Formula racer came to be the initial Japanese motorist to competition a Cup race considering that Hideo Fukuyama in 2003.

Kobayashi claimed upon the news of his Indianapolis outing back in June that auto racing in NASCAR had actually been something he had actually desired for as a kid, regardless of the classification’s loved one absence of direct exposure in his indigenous Japan contrasted to various other worldwide collection.

Now he hopes to show to his fellow compatriots that NASCAR can be a probable path for their occupations, having actually welcomed his more youthful Super Formula competitors Toshiki Oyu as well as Kazuto Kotaka …