Kohei Hirate

There's something quietly compelling about a guy who grew up in Komaki, Aichi — right in the heart of Japan's automotive industry — and ended up making his living behind a wheel at race speed. Car racing doesn't get nearly enough respect as a discipline — the physical conditioning, the split-second spatial reasoning, the sheer nerve it takes to hold your line when everything is happening faster than conscious thought. At 171 cm he's built for a cockpit, and I like to imagine there's something almost meditative about the way guys like him live inside those fractions of a second. Two Super GT GT500 titles, in 2013 and 2016, say plenty — for a racer, the track is the autobiography.

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Kohei Hirate is a Japanese racing driver born on March 24, 1986, in Komaki, Aichi Prefecture. He stands 171 cm tall. He won the Super GT GT500 championship in 2013 and 2016.

Name (English)

Kohei Hirate

Name (Japanese)

平手晃平

Reading

ひらて こうへい

Born

March 24, 1986 (age 40)

Origin

Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Height

171cm

Occupation

Racing Driver

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Tiger

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B9%B3%E6%89%8B%E6%99%83%E5%B9%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q704985

Tags

• From Aichi Prefecture
• Racing Driver

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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