Formula Three Kogure made his professional single-seater début in 2001, driving a
Dallara F300 in the
All-Japan Formula Three Championship for Now Motorsports. He finished in eleventh place in the championship standings. The following season, Kogure moved to
Mugen×
Dome Project and claimed the championship by ten points from
Paolo Montin. Kogure won eleven of the season's twenty races, finishing on the podium on a further four occasions. In the non-championship international races, Kogure finished second at the
Korea Super Prix behind
Olivier Pla, and third at the
Macau Grand Prix behind
Tristan Gommendy and
Heikki Kovalainen.
Super GT during the
2011 Super GT season. Kogure made his bow into the
All-Japan GT Championship with
Nakajima Racing. He contested three races en route to 27th in the championship. After concentrating on
Formula Nippon only in 2004, Kogure returned to the newly renamed
Super GT championship, with Dome Project in
2005; ending up in nineteenth place in the championship standings. Despite only taking one win in
2006, Kogure and team-mate
Ryō Michigami were title contenders, eventually losing out to the crews of
André Lotterer and
Juichi Wakisaka and also
Sébastien Philippe and Shinya Hosokawa. All three pairings were split by four points at the conclusion of the season. Four pole positions in eight races helped Kogure and Michigami again finish in the top five in the standings in
2007; finishing fourth ahead of
Michael Krumm and
Tsugio Matsuda on a tie-break as both pairings finished level on 63 points. Sixth place championship placings followed in
2008 and
2009. In debut season of
Honda HSV-010 GT in
2010 Super GT season, Kogure got title of Drivers' Championship with
Loïc Duval, and contributed to get Team's Championship by
Weider Honda Racing.
Formula Nippon As well as his JGTC campaign, Kogure took part in the
Formula Nippon series with Nakajima. He finished tenth in the championship, taking a best result of second at the closing race of the season at
Suzuka. He took his first series victory during the
2004 season, finishing out front at the season-opening round, again at Suzuka. He made a further visit to the podium at
Sugo en route to seventh in the standings. He improved to fifth place in
2005, despite not winning any races. Kogure moved to
Aguri Suzuki's ARTA team for the
2006 campaign, and again failed to win any races during the season. He only amassed three points towards the championship, but also amassed five pole positions. Despite this, he returned to Nakajima Racing in
2007, taking three victories on the way to his highest championship placing in Formula Nippon; third position behind
Team Impul team-mates Matsuda and
Benoît Tréluyer. He finished fifth again in
2008, and fourth in
2009 as well as
2010. Formula One As a member of
Honda's Formula Dream Project, Kogure had the opportunity to test a
Honda RA107 Formula One car at
Circuit Ricardo Tormo in January 2008. == Racing record ==