Toshi Arai | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | 25 December 1966 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Related to | Hiroki Arai (son) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Toshihiro 'Toshi' Arai (新井敏弘, Arai Toshihiro, born December 25, 1966) is a Japanese rally driver and team owner. He is the first Japanese FIA world champion. [1]
Arai was born in Isesaki, Gunma. He made his debut in 1987 and drove for the Subaru World Rally Team in the Group N World Rally Championship from 1997 to 2000 and 2002–2003, and in the Group A Championship in 2000–2001.
In 2004 he established his own team, Subaru Team Arai, and won the FIA Production Car World Rally Championship for Drivers in 2005 and 2007 driving a Subaru Impreza WRX STI, which made him the first Japanese FIA world champion. [2] He scored class victories in Turkey, Japan and Australia on his way to the title.
He was also the winner of the short-lived FIA Teams' Cup in 2000.
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Pos. | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2002 | Toshihiro Arai | Subaru Impreza 555 |
SWE 2 |
FRA | 4th | 22 | |||||||
Spike Subaru Team | Subaru Impreza WRX |
CYP Ret |
ARG 2 |
KEN Ret |
FIN |
NZL Ret |
AUS 1 |
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2003 | Subaru Production Rally Team | Subaru Impreza WRX |
SWE Ret |
NZL 1 |
ARG 1 |
CYP 1 |
GER |
AUS Ret |
FRA 2 |
2nd | 38 | ||
2004 | Subaru Team Arai | Subaru Impreza WRX STi |
SWE 6 |
MEX 2 |
NZL 5 |
ARG Ret |
GER 4 |
FRA |
AUS 2 |
2nd | 30 | ||
2005 | Subaru Team Arai | Subaru Impreza WRX STi |
SWE 1 |
NZL 2 |
CYP 7 |
TUR 1 |
ARG | GBR |
JPN 1 |
AUS 1 |
1st | 50 | |
2006 | Subaru Team Arai | Subaru Impreza WRX STi | MON |
MEX 1 |
ARG 8 |
GRE 5 |
JPN |
CYP 6 |
AUS Ret |
NZL 9 |
6th | 18 | |
2007 | Subaru Team Arai | Subaru Impreza WRX STi |
SWE 6 |
MEX 2 |
ARG 2 |
GRE 1 |
NZL 1 |
JPN 10 |
IRE | GBR | 1st | 39 | |
2008 | Subaru Team Arai | Subaru Impreza STi N14 |
SWE 6 |
ARG Ret |
GRE Ret |
TUR Ret |
FIN |
NZL Ret |
JPN 3 |
GBR | 12th | 9 | |
2009 | Subaru Team Arai | Subaru Impreza STi N14 |
NOR Ret |
CYP 4 |
POR |
ARG 3 |
ITA |
GRE 3 |
AUS Ret |
GBR 2 |
5th | 25 | |
2010 | Subaru Team Arai | Subaru Impreza STi N15 | SWE |
MEX 2 |
JOR |
NZL 4 |
FIN |
GER 6 |
JPN Ret |
FRA 3 |
GBR 9 |
5th | 55 |
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Pos. | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2010 | Subaru Team Arai | Subaru Impreza STi N15 | MON | BRA | ARG | CAN | ITA |
YPR Ret |
AZO | MAD | ZLI | ITA | SCO | CYP | NC | 0 | |
2011 | Stohl Racing [3] [4] | Subaru Impreza STi R4 | MON | CAN |
COR 13 |
UKR | YPR |
AZO Ret |
ZLI |
MEC 18 |
SAN |
SCO 9 |
CYP 7 |
17th | 15 | ||
2012 | Subaru Team Arai | Subaru Impreza STi R4 | AZO | CAN | IRL |
COR 14 |
ITA | YPR |
SMR Ret |
ROM |
ZLI 11 |
YAL | SLI | SAN | 10th | 30 | |
Subaru Impreza TMR R4 |
CYP 3 |
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Pos. | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2013 | Stohl Racing | Subaru Impreza STi R4 | JÄN | LIE | CAN | AZO | COR | YPR |
ROM 38 |
ZLÍ Ret |
POL 13 |
CRO |
SAN 19 |
VAL | 21st | 23 |
( 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 | 23 | 24 | DC | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2011 | Chevrolet RML | Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T |
BRA 1 |
BRA 2 |
BEL 1 |
BEL 2 |
ITA 1 |
ITA 2 |
HUN 1 |
HUN 2 |
CZE 1 |
CZE 2 |
POR 1 |
POR 2 |
GBR 1 |
GBR 2 |
GER 1 |
GER 2 |
ESP 1 |
ESP 2 |
JPN 1 13 |
JPN 2 15 |
CHN 1 |
CHN 2 |
MAC 1 |
MAC 2 |
NC | 0 |
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | GRC | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2016 | Subaru Rally Team USA | Subaru Impreza WRX STi | PHO1 |
PHO2 |
DAL |
DAY1 |
DAY2 |
MCAS1 |
MCAS2† | DC |
AC |
SEA |
LA1 13 |
LA2 13 |
19th | 4 |
†Race cancelled.
Toshi Arai | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | 25 December 1966 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Related to | Hiroki Arai (son) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Toshihiro 'Toshi' Arai (新井敏弘, Arai Toshihiro, born December 25, 1966) is a Japanese rally driver and team owner. He is the first Japanese FIA world champion. [1]
Arai was born in Isesaki, Gunma. He made his debut in 1987 and drove for the Subaru World Rally Team in the Group N World Rally Championship from 1997 to 2000 and 2002–2003, and in the Group A Championship in 2000–2001.
In 2004 he established his own team, Subaru Team Arai, and won the FIA Production Car World Rally Championship for Drivers in 2005 and 2007 driving a Subaru Impreza WRX STI, which made him the first Japanese FIA world champion. [2] He scored class victories in Turkey, Japan and Australia on his way to the title.
He was also the winner of the short-lived FIA Teams' Cup in 2000.
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Pos. | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2002 | Toshihiro Arai | Subaru Impreza 555 |
SWE 2 |
FRA | 4th | 22 | |||||||
Spike Subaru Team | Subaru Impreza WRX |
CYP Ret |
ARG 2 |
KEN Ret |
FIN |
NZL Ret |
AUS 1 |
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2003 | Subaru Production Rally Team | Subaru Impreza WRX |
SWE Ret |
NZL 1 |
ARG 1 |
CYP 1 |
GER |
AUS Ret |
FRA 2 |
2nd | 38 | ||
2004 | Subaru Team Arai | Subaru Impreza WRX STi |
SWE 6 |
MEX 2 |
NZL 5 |
ARG Ret |
GER 4 |
FRA |
AUS 2 |
2nd | 30 | ||
2005 | Subaru Team Arai | Subaru Impreza WRX STi |
SWE 1 |
NZL 2 |
CYP 7 |
TUR 1 |
ARG | GBR |
JPN 1 |
AUS 1 |
1st | 50 | |
2006 | Subaru Team Arai | Subaru Impreza WRX STi | MON |
MEX 1 |
ARG 8 |
GRE 5 |
JPN |
CYP 6 |
AUS Ret |
NZL 9 |
6th | 18 | |
2007 | Subaru Team Arai | Subaru Impreza WRX STi |
SWE 6 |
MEX 2 |
ARG 2 |
GRE 1 |
NZL 1 |
JPN 10 |
IRE | GBR | 1st | 39 | |
2008 | Subaru Team Arai | Subaru Impreza STi N14 |
SWE 6 |
ARG Ret |
GRE Ret |
TUR Ret |
FIN |
NZL Ret |
JPN 3 |
GBR | 12th | 9 | |
2009 | Subaru Team Arai | Subaru Impreza STi N14 |
NOR Ret |
CYP 4 |
POR |
ARG 3 |
ITA |
GRE 3 |
AUS Ret |
GBR 2 |
5th | 25 | |
2010 | Subaru Team Arai | Subaru Impreza STi N15 | SWE |
MEX 2 |
JOR |
NZL 4 |
FIN |
GER 6 |
JPN Ret |
FRA 3 |
GBR 9 |
5th | 55 |
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Pos. | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2010 | Subaru Team Arai | Subaru Impreza STi N15 | MON | BRA | ARG | CAN | ITA |
YPR Ret |
AZO | MAD | ZLI | ITA | SCO | CYP | NC | 0 | |
2011 | Stohl Racing [3] [4] | Subaru Impreza STi R4 | MON | CAN |
COR 13 |
UKR | YPR |
AZO Ret |
ZLI |
MEC 18 |
SAN |
SCO 9 |
CYP 7 |
17th | 15 | ||
2012 | Subaru Team Arai | Subaru Impreza STi R4 | AZO | CAN | IRL |
COR 14 |
ITA | YPR |
SMR Ret |
ROM |
ZLI 11 |
YAL | SLI | SAN | 10th | 30 | |
Subaru Impreza TMR R4 |
CYP 3 |
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Pos. | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2013 | Stohl Racing | Subaru Impreza STi R4 | JÄN | LIE | CAN | AZO | COR | YPR |
ROM 38 |
ZLÍ Ret |
POL 13 |
CRO |
SAN 19 |
VAL | 21st | 23 |
( 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 | 23 | 24 | DC | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2011 | Chevrolet RML | Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T |
BRA 1 |
BRA 2 |
BEL 1 |
BEL 2 |
ITA 1 |
ITA 2 |
HUN 1 |
HUN 2 |
CZE 1 |
CZE 2 |
POR 1 |
POR 2 |
GBR 1 |
GBR 2 |
GER 1 |
GER 2 |
ESP 1 |
ESP 2 |
JPN 1 13 |
JPN 2 15 |
CHN 1 |
CHN 2 |
MAC 1 |
MAC 2 |
NC | 0 |
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | GRC | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2016 | Subaru Rally Team USA | Subaru Impreza WRX STi | PHO1 |
PHO2 |
DAL |
DAY1 |
DAY2 |
MCAS1 |
MCAS2† | DC |
AC |
SEA |
LA1 13 |
LA2 13 |
19th | 4 |
†Race cancelled.