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. Born in 1986 under Aries, which already tells you something about temperament, Kohei Hirate feels like the kind of person who was always going to push until the limits pushed back. 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. Most of what he keeps private, but honestly? For a racer, the track is the autobiography.

Kohei Hirate is a Japanese racing driver born on March 24, 1986, in Komaki, Aichi Prefecture. He stands 171 cm tall. Most details of his career and personal life remain private or unconfirmed as of the available record.

Name (English)

Kohei Hirate

Name (Japanese)

平手晃平

Reading

ひらて こうへい

Born

March 24, 1986 (age 40)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Tiger (寅)

Origin

Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Height

171cm

Occupation

Racing Driver

Motto

Private

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

Tags

• From Aichi Prefecture
• Racing Driver

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.