| Shinichi Takagi | |
| Nationality: | Japanese |
| Birth Date: | 1970 5, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Yanai, Yamaguchi, Japan |
| Current Series: | Super GT |
| First Year: | 1998 |
| Current Team: | K-tunes racing |
| Racing Licence: | FIA Silver |
| Car Number: | 96 |
| Former Teams: | INGING, Momo Corse Racing Team with Tsuchiya, Super Autobacs Racing with A'PEX, Autobacs Racing Team Aguri, apr |
| Starts: | 188 |
| Wins: | 20 |
| Poles: | 18 |
| Podiums: | 57 |
| Fastest Laps: | 13 |
| Best Finish: | 1st |
| Year: | 2002, 2019 |
| Titles: | Super GT |
| Title Years: | 2002, 2019 |
is a Japanese professional racing driver.[1] [2] He won the GT300 class Super GT championship in 2002 and 2019.
Takagi made his debut in the All-Japan GT Championship (JGTC) in 1998, driving for INGING in the GT500 class. For the 1999 season, he switched to the GT300 class, finishing third in the championship that year. He won his maiden title in 2002 with Autobacs Racing Team Aguri (ARTA), driving an -prepared Toyota MR-S alongside Morio Nitta.[3] In the following years, with the series renamed as Super GT in 2005, Takagi won numerous races and finished runner-up in the standings in 2004, 2008, 2010 and 2018. In 2019, he won his second GT300 championship seventeen years after his first, driving the Honda NSX GT3 Evo of ARTA, with Takagi and his co-driver Nirei Fukuzumi finishing over ten points clear of the second place finishers.[4] [5]
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)