Ryo Michigami

Ryō Michigami
Michigami in 2017
Nationality	Japanese
Born	(1973-03-01) March 1, 1973 (age 51) Nara, Japan
Super GT career
Debut season	1995
Current team	Yogibo Drago Corse
Car number	34
Former teams	Nakajima Racing
Starts	125
Wins	8
Best finish	1st in 2000
Previous series
1995-1994 2006, 2004-1998	All-Japan Formula Three Formula Nippon
Championship titles
2000	Japan GT Championship

Ryō Michigami (道上龍, Michigami Ryō, born March 1, 1973 in Nara) is a Japanese racing driver. He last drove a Honda NSX GT3 Evo for Yogibo Drago Corse in Super GT in the 2021 Super GT Season. He won the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship in 2000.

He competed in the GT500 category of the Super GT series in 1995 and then from 1998 to 2013. He drove for Mugen from 1998 to 2002, for Dome from 2003 to 2009, and for Nakajima Racing from 2010 to 2013. Apart from 1995, he always drove for Honda teams, and became Honda's first champion in the series in 2000. He also won the Suzuka 1000 km three times; in 1999, 2003 and 2004.

After his initial retirement, he formed the Drago Corse team, which competed in Super GT's GT500 class in 2015 and 2016 before withdrawing from the series. Michigami and the Drago Corse team would return to Super GT in 2018, albeit competing in the GT300 class with the NSX GT3. This marked Michigami's return as a full-time competitor, and his first season as a driver-owner in the series. Drago Corse also competed in All-Japan Formula Three Championship as the ThreeBond Racing team.

In 2017, Michigami drove a factory Honda Civic in the World Touring Car Championship. He became the first Japanese driver in the series to finish on the podium at the Race of Macau.^[1]

Michigami driving the Honda HSV-010 GT for Nakajima Racing in 2011.

Racing record

Complete Japanese Formula 3 results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	DC	Pts
1994	Daiichi Now Motor Sports	Toyota	SUZ 1	FUJ 7	TSU 9	SUZ 3	SEN Ret	TOK 5	MIN 7	TAI 9	SUG 9	SUZ 3	5th	19
1995	Daiichi Now Motor Sports	Toyota	SUZ 3	FUJ C	TSU 3	MIN 4	SUZ Ret	TAI 3	SUG 3	FUJ 5	SUZ 4	SEN 4	4th	25

Complete Japanese Touring Car Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	DC	Pts
1996	Team Mugen	Honda Accord	FUJ 1	FUJ 2	SUG 1	SUG 2	SUZ 1	SUZ 2	MIN 1	MIN 2	SEN 1	SEN 2	TOK 1	TOK 2	FUJ 1 Ret	FUJ 2 DNS			NC	0
1997	Mooncraft	Honda Accord	FUJ 1 C	FUJ 2 C	TAI 1 3	TAI 2 3	SUG 1 Ret	SUG 2 Ret	SUZ 1 5	SUZ 2 4	MIN 1 2	MIN 2 2	SEN 1 13	SEN 2 2	TOK 1 5	TOK 2 3	FUJ 1 5	FUJ 2 12	5th	88

Complete JGTC/Super GT results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	DC	Pts
1995	Team Kunimitsu	Porsche 964	GT500	SUZ	FUJ	SEN	FUJ 14	SUG 12	MIN 8				25th	3
1998	Mugen	Honda NSX	GT500	SUZ Ret	FUJ C	SEN Ret	FUJ 5	MOT 1	MIN 11	SUG 1			4th	48
1999	Mugen	Honda NSX	GT500	SUZ 14	FUJ 12	SUG 3	MIN 3	FUJ 9	TAI 16	MOT 4			10th	36
2000	Mugen	Honda NSX	GT500	MOT 2	FUJ 8	SUG 2	FUJ 10	TAI 2	MIN 4	SUZ 2			1st	74
2001	Mugen	Honda NSX	GT500	TAI 1	FUJ 8	SUG 4	FUJ 5	MOT 12	SUZ 2	MIN 12			3rd	56
2002	Mugen	Honda NSX	GT500	TAI	FUJ	SUG	SEP	FUJ 11	MOT 16	MIN 1	SUZ 10		18th	24
2003	Dome Racing Team	Honda NSX	GT500	TAI 3	FUJ Ret	SUG 7	FUJ 8	FUJ 1	MOT 14	AUT Ret	SUZ 2		7th	55
2004	Dome Racing Team	Honda NSX	GT500	TAI 12	SUG 12	SEP 8	TOK 8	MOT 15	AUT 14	SUZ 12			14th	6
2005	Dome	Honda NSX	GT500	OKA 7	FUJ 13	SEP 7	SUG Ret	MOT 2	FUJ 11	AUT 5	SUZ 6		10th	37
2006	Dome	Honda NSX	GT500	SUZ 4	OKA 1	FUJ Ret	SEP 6	SUG Ret	SUZ Ret	MOT 5	AUT 2	FUJ 7	3rd	76
2007	Dome Racing Team	Honda NSX	GT500	SUZ 13	OKA 7	FUJ 11	SEP Ret	SUG 2	SUZ 12	MOT 1	AUT 5	FUJ 10	4th	63
2008	Dome Racing Team	Honda NSX	GT500	SUZ 7	OKA 12	FUJ 3	SEP 3	SUG 1	SUZ 12	MOT 8	AUT 7	FUJ 14	6th	60
2009	Dome Project	Honda NSX	GT500	OKA 2	SUZ 5	FUJ 13	SEP 12	SUG 3	SUZ 4	FUJ 8	AUT 5	MOT 10	6th	50
2010	Nakajima Racing	Honda HSV-010 GT	GT500	SUZ 10	OKA 11	FUJ 9	SEP Ret	SUG 11	SUZ 7	FUJ C	MOT 9		14th	9
2011	Nakajima Racing	Honda HSV-010 GT	GT500	OKA 10	FUJ 15	SEP 12	SUG 3	SUZ 13	FUJ 12	AUT 8	MOT 5		12th	21
2012	Nakajima Racing	Honda HSV-010 GT	GT500	OKA Ret	FUJ 11	SEP 11	SUG 11	SUZ Ret	FUJ 14	AUT 2	MOT 3		14th	26
2013	Nakajima Racing	Honda HSV-010 GT	GT500	OKA 11	FUJ 13	SEP 12	SUG 8	SUZ 13	FUJ Ret	AUT 10	MOT 11		15th	4
2014	Team Mugen	Honda CR-Z	GT300	OKA	FUJ	AUT	SUG	FUJ	SUZ 8	BUR	MOT		NC	0
2018	Modulo Drago Corse	Honda NSX GT3	GT300	OKA Ret	FUJ 8	SUZ 26	CHA 9	FUJ DNS	SUG 4	AUT 3	MOT 14		14th	24
2019	Modulo Drago Corse	Honda NSX GT3 Evo	GT300	OKA 9‡	FUJ 26	SUZ 7	CHA 10	FUJ 3	AUT 11	SUG 13	MOT 24		17th	19
2020	Modulo Drago Corse	Honda NSX GT3 Evo	GT300	FUJ 8	FUJ 7	SUZ 19	MOT 10	FUJ 13	SUZ 27	MOT 14	FUJ 17		22nd	8
2021	Yogibo Drago Corse	Honda NSX GT3 Evo	GT300	OKA 16	FUJ 19	MOT 17	SUZ 13	SUG 6	AUT 22	MOT 12	FUJ 11		23rd	5

^‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.

Complete Formula Nippon results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	DC	Pts
1997	Funai Super Aguri	SUZ	MIN	FUJ	SUZ	SUG	FUJ	MIN	MOT	FUJ	SUZ Ret	NC	0
1998	Jaccs Mooncraft M.S.P	SUZ 7	MIN 3	FUJ 4	MOT 9	SUZ Ret	SUG Ret	FUJ	MIN Ret	FUJ Ret	SUZ 3	9th	11
1999	Speedmaster Mooncraft	SUZ 6	MOT 8	MIN 7	FUJ 8	SUZ Ret	SUG Ret	FUJ 7	MIN Ret	MOT 2	SUZ 5	10th	9
2000	NTT Docomo Dandelion Racing	SUZ Ret	MOT 13	MIN Ret	FUJ Ret	SUZ 10	SUG Ret	MOT 8	FUJ 7	MIN 9	SUZ Ret	NC	0
2001	Mooncraft	SUZ	MOT Ret	MIN 10	FUJ 3	SUZ 2	SUG 3	FUJ Ret	MIN Ret	MOT 3	SUZ 3	6th	22
2002	Team 5ZIGEN	SUZ 4	FUJ DNS	MIN	SUZ	MOT 4	SUG 3	FUJ 4	MIN 3	MOT 12	SUZ 11	6th	11
2003	Team 5ZIGEN	SUZ 16	FUJ 3	MIN 4	MOT 5	SUZ 4	SUG Ret	FUJ Ret	MIN Ret	MOT 13	SUZ 6	9th	13
2004	Yellow Hat Kondo Racing Team	SUZ 3	SUG 5	MOT 6	SUZ Ret	SUG Ret	MIN 11	SEP 8	MOT 10	SUZ 13		10th	7
2006	Team 5ZIGEN	FUJ 20	SUZ 18	MOT 7	SUZ Ret	AUT 11	FUJ 15	SUG 12	MOT Ret	SUZ 11		NC	0

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2004	Kondo Racing	Hiroki Katoh Ryo Fukuda	Dome S101-Mugen	LMP1	206	DNF	DNF
2005	Jim Gainer International	Seiji Ara Katsutomo Kaneishi	Dome S101hb-Mugen	LMP1	193	DNF	DNF

Complete World Touring Car Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	DC	Points
2016	Honda Racing Team JAS	Honda Civic WTCC	FRA 1	FRA 2	SVK 1	SVK 2	HUN 1	HUN 2	MAR 1	MAR 2	GER 1	GER 2	RUS 1	RUS 2	POR 1	POR 2	ARG 1	ARG 2	JPN 1 11	JPN 2 17	CHN 1	CHN 2	QAT 1	QAT 2	NC	0
2017	Honda Racing Team JAS	Honda Civic WTCC	MAR 1 Ret	MAR 2 10	ITA 1 Ret	ITA 2 Ret	HUN 1 11	HUN 2 13	GER 1 11	GER 2 Ret	POR 1 Ret	POR 2 13	ARG 1 10	ARG 2 11	CHN 1 DSQ	CHN 2 DSQ	JPN 1 10	JPN 2 Ret	MAC 1 3	MAC 2 15	QAT 1 14	QAT 2 10			14th	20

References

1. "Michigami makes WTCC history with Macau podium".

External links

• Official website
• Ryo Michigami career summary at DriverDB.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Érik Comas	All-Japan Grand Touring Car Champion (GT500) 2000	Succeeded by Hironori Takeuchi Yuji Tachikawa