KCMG entered the Japanese Formula Nippon series in 2010 as a Toyota customer team, fielding Katsuyuki Hiranaka, who finished 12th in the standings. The team continued through the series' subsequent rebranding as Super Formula, running Alexandre Imperatori (12th, 2011), Ryo Orime (19th, 2012), Richard Bradley (21st, 2013), and Yuichi Nakayama across three further campaigns — finishing 20th in 2014, 16th in 2015, and 18th in 2016. Results were consistently mid-to-lower field, but the programme established KCMG as an organised team capable of sustaining a multi-year single-seater effort far from its Hong Kong base.
The team's international profile grew sharply from 2013, when it made a one-off entry at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. That appearance served as a gateway to a full FIA World Endurance Championship programme the following year. In 2014 KCMG won three races in the LMP2 class, announcing itself as a serious competitor in prototype racing.
The 2015 season brought the team its defining result. KCMG won the LMP2 category at the 24 Hours of Le Mans — the world's most prestigious endurance race — and followed that with a second-place finish in the 2015 WEC LMP2 standings. Drivers associated with the 2015 programme included Nicolas Lapierre and Nick Tandy alongside regulars from the team's established roster.
In 2016 KCMG scaled back its LMP2 involvement to a single Le Mans entry and instead contested the full WEC season in the GTE Am category, finishing fourth — a solid result in a fiercely contested class. That season proved to be KCMG's last in the World Endurance Championship.
From 2017 KCMG diversified into American motorsport through a sponsorship partnership with Richard Childress Racing in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. KCMG backed a succession of drivers including Brandon Jones (2017), Matt Tifft (2018), Tyler Reddick (2019), and Earl Bamber (2020). The partnership produced a race victory when Tyler Reddick won the 2019 LTi Printing 250 carrying KCMG livery.
KCMG has worked with a wide international pool of drivers across its programmes. Notable names include Alexandre Imperatori, Matthew Howson, Ho-Pin Tung, Richard Bradley, Tsugio Matsuda, Nick Tandy, Nicolas Lapierre, Christian Ried, Wolf Henzler, Joel Camathias, Yuichi Nakayama, Katsuyuki Hiranaka, Ryo Orime, Kamui Kobayashi, Katsumasa Chiyo, Oliver Jarvis, Attila Tassi, Tiago Monteiro, and Josh Burdon.
In April 2021 KCMG announced the KCMG Driver Development Project, a formal young driver programme whose first signing was Irish racer Alex Dunne. The programme offers members dedicated coaching staff at race weekends alongside physiotherapists, managers, and academic tutors to support physical development, media skills, and continuing education — a structure designed to develop drivers holistically rather than purely on track.
KCMG stands as one of the most successful Asian-based teams in international endurance racing. Its Le Mans LMP2 victory in 2015 remains a landmark result for Hong Kong motorsport, and the team's consistent participation across multiple series and continents over more than a decade has made it one of the most recognisable names to emerge from the Asia-Pacific racing scene.
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