Yuji Ide

There's something quietly remarkable about Yuji Ide that I keep coming back to. F1 is genuinely one of the most exclusive clubs on the planet — we're talking about a field where maybe a few hundred people in all of human history have ever lined up on a starting grid — and here's a guy from Saitama, a perfectly ordinary part of Greater Tokyo, who somehow clawed his way into that conversation. Racing at the top level is brutally unforgiving: you're not just competing against other drivers, you're wrestling with physics, with machinery, with tenths of a second that most people can't even perceive. That takes a particular kind of focused, relentless mind. I picture Ide as the analytical, composed type who out-thinks a corner rather than just throwing bravado at it. Making the F1 grid with Super Aguri in 2006 makes his place in that list feel genuinely significant. Respect where it's due.

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Yuji Ide is a Japanese racing driver born on January 21, 1975, in Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture. He competed at the highest level of motorsport as a Formula One driver, becoming one of the rare Japanese drivers to earn a place on the Formula One grid. He maintains an official website and social media presence under the handle yuji_ide_official.

Name (English)

Yuji Ide

Name (Japanese)

井出有治

Reading

いで ゆうじ

Born

January 21, 1975 (age 51)

Origin

Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Racing driver / Formula One driver

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rabbit

• Official sitehttps://www.yuji-ide.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/yuji_ide_official/
• Xhttps://x.com/yuji_ide
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%95%E5%87%BA%E6%9C%89%E6%B2%BB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173199

Tags

• From Saitama Prefecture
• Racing driver
• Formula One driver

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.