Driver · Japan
Kamui Kobayashi
A podium at Suzuka in 2012 in front of his home crowd; later won Le Mans with Toyota.
GreenGold · YellowThe colour Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14) raced in 2014, as its sources describe it - the last team on this record.
- Seasons
- 2009–20145 with an entry
- Entries
- 76
- Starts
- 751 did not start
- Wins
- 0
- Podiums
- 1
- Poles
- 0
- Fastest laps
- 1
- Best finish
- P3
Where each championship finished
Final championship position by season, ringed for a title. No dot: not in the final standings, or excluded. Dots are coloured for each season’s final team: the team’s own livery. A hollow dot has no colour on record.
Season by season
The same on all 5 rows: Wins — 0; Poles — 0.
| Season | Constructor | Entries | Podiums | FL | Best | Championship | Points scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14) | 16 | 0 | 0 | P13 | 22 | 0 |
| 2012 | Sauber | 20 | 1 | 1 | P3 | 12 | 60 |
| 2011 | Sauber | 19 | 0 | 0 | P5 | 12 | 30 |
| 2010 | Sauber | 19 | 0 | 0 | P6 | 12 | 32 |
| 2009 | Toyota | 2 | 0 | 0 | P6 | 18 | 3 |
Team-mates
| Season | Team-mate | Constructor | Races | Qualifying | Race | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Marcus Ericsson | Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14) | 15 | 10–3 | 5–2 | 0–0 |
| 2014 | Will Stevens | Caterham / Team Lotus (2010-14) | 1 | 1–0 | none | 0–0 |
| 2012 | Sergio Perez | Sauber | 20 | 8–11 | 4–6 | 60–66 |
| 2011 | Sergio Perez | Sauber | 18 | 7–11 | 7–4 | 24–14 |
| 2011 | Pedro de la Rosa | Sauber | 1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 6–0 |
| 2010 | Pedro de la Rosa | Sauber | 14 | 7–7 | 4–1 | 21–6 |
| 2010 | Nick Heidfeld | Sauber | 5 | 4–1 | 3–1 | 11–6 |
| 2009 | Jarno Trulli | Toyota | 2 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 3–2 |
Every entry 76 entries
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Where this comes from
- Born
- —
- Died
- —
- Nationality
- Japan
- Status
- —
- Provenance
- Added to the register from the pole position and fastest lap harvest. Never won a World Championship Grand Prix. Pole and fastest-lap counts are derived from the race records; other career figures are not held.
- Wins
- 0 derived · 0 published
- Poles
- 0 derived
- Fastest laps
- 1 derived
- External source
- F1DB career totals, v2026.18.0
- Confidence
- medium
- Source
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Formula_One_polesitters
Entries is counted here from the race records, one for every race a driver was entered for, and wins, podiums and poles are counted the same way and checked against the published totals on every build. Starts is counted from those records too: an entry is a start unless the result the source printed says it never was - did not qualify, pre-qualify, start or practise, or excluded before the start - so a pit-lane start counts and so does a retirement on the first lap. The published entry and start figures are a separate count kept for the few drivers who have one, reached by rules this database does not hold. Where a published figure and the counted one disagree, both are shown and neither is corrected.