Sho Tsuboi

Sho Tsuboi (坪井 翔, Tsuboi Shō, born 21 May 1995) is a Japanese racing driver. He won the 2018 Japanese Formula 3 Championship.[1]

Sho Tsuboi
Nationality Japanese
Born (1995-05-21) 21 May 1995
Japan
Super Formula career
Debut season2019
Current teamJMS P.mu/cerumo・INGING
Car number39
Starts14
Wins2
Poles0
Fastest laps0
Previous series
2016-18
2015
2012-13
Japanese Formula Three
F4 Japanese Championship
Formula Challenge Japan
Championship titles
2018
2015
All-Japan Formula Three
F4 Japanese Championship

Career

Tsuboi entered formula racing in 2012 and drove for two years in Formula Challenge Japan. In 2013 he finished the season with fifth place and his best result in this series.[1]

In 2015, he joined the F4 Japanese Championship racing team TOM'S and won the title.[1]

In 2016 he entered the Japanese Formula 3 Championship with TOM'S and drove a Dallara F314 with whom he finished third at the end of the season. The following year he improved with a Dallara F317 to second place in the championship and in 2018 he won with 17 victories in 19 races confidently the Japanese Formula 3 Championship.[1]

In 2016, Tsuboi started at the Macau Grand Prix FIA Formula 3 World Cup. In the race on 18 November 2018, he and the German racing driver Sophia Flörsch were involved in a serious accident and injured.[2]

Tsuboi drove in the GT300 class of the Japanese Super GT Championship in 2017 and 2018. There he was able to place in 2017 with a Lexus RC F GT3 in third place. In the following year he reached seventh place with a Toyota 86 MC.[1] He entered the GT500 class in 2018 for Lexus Team SARD in a race with a Lexus LC500 and finished second.[3]

Racing record

Complete 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 DC Points
2017 LM Corsa Lexus RC F GT3 GT300 OKA
8
FUJ
1
AUT
6
SUG
13
FUJ
9
SUZ
6
CHA
1
MOT
6
3rd 61
2018 Tsuchiya Engineering Toyota 86 MC GT300 OKA
3
SUZ
2
CHA
19
FUJ
5
SUG
24
AUT
24
MOT
8
7th 39
Lexus Team SARD Lexus LC 500 GT500 FUJ
2
16th 15
2019 Lexus Team WedsSport Bandoh Lexus LC 500 GT500 OKA
6‡
FUJ
13
SUZ
7
CHA
3
FUJ
9
AUT
8
SUG
13
MOT
7
11th 27.5
2020 Toyota Gazoo Racing Team Wako's Rookie Toyota GR Supra GT500 GT500 FUJ
3
FUJ
3
SUZ
9
MOT
4
FUJ
2
SUZ
12
MOT
12
FUJ
Ret
7th 47

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

Complete Super Formula Results

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

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 DC Points
2019 JMS P.mu/cerumo・INGING SUZ
5
AUT
12
SUG
Ret
FUJ
2
MOT
17
OKA
11
SUZ
10
11th 12
2020 JMS P.mu/cerumo・INGING MOT
Ret
OKA
1
SUG
13
AUT
Ret
SUZ
Ret
SUZ
4
FUJ
1
3rd 50

References

  1. DriverDB Internetseite: "Shou Tsuboi". Auf: www.driverdb.com. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
  2. Welt Internetseite: "Warum der Fahrer vor Sophia Flörsch auf die Bremse trat". Auf: www.welt.de. 2019-11-19. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
  3. DriverDB Internetseite: "Autobacs Super GT Series - GT500 2018 standings". Auf: www.driverdb.com. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Mitsunori Takaboshi
Japanese Formula 3 Championship
Champion

2018
Succeeded by
Sacha Fenestraz
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