Fireball Racing

Fireball Racing is a Japanese racing team based in Oyama, Japan near Fuji Speedway and founded by former Japanese car dealers Kazaki Takeda and Daigo Nishikawa. They are scheduled to make their debut as a racing team in the 2005 Alternate Super GT season.

Creation
Having spent more than a decade as a car dealer for Honda in Oyama, Japan, Kazaki Takeda decided that he wanted to do something different. He looked into the possibility of becoming a part of the Honda Super GT team, but as this failed he decided to make his own team. Originally started as TakedaSPEED Engineering he hired good friend from the car dealer industry, Daigo Nishikawa, as Technical Director. Daigo who dealed with Nissan cars back then, was part of the reason behind the team changing its name to Fireball Racing. TakedaSPEED Engineering is now the name of the company that owns and runs Fireball Racing.

Alternate Super GT
Fireball Racing's first year in racing is the 2005 Alternate Super GT season in which they enter two cars, one for the GT500 and one for the GT300. Their line-up is Japanese based with 3 of the 4 drivers being from Japan. The only one who isn't Japanese is Loic Duval. The frenchman has a great reputation in Japan, and he is supposed to be the team's lead driver. The 3 Japanese drivers are Hideki Mutoh who is driving together with Loic Duval in GT500, and Yuji Kunimoto and Seiji Ara who are sharing the GT300 car. The team will enter a Honda NSX and a Nissan 350Z in GT500 and GT300 respectively.