Sho Tsuboi


Sho Tsuboi is a Japanese racing driver. He won the 2018 Japanese Formula 3 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.
In 2015, he joined the F4 Japanese Championship racing team TOM'S and won the title.
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.
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.
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. He entered the GT500 class in 2018 for Lexus Team SARD in a race with a Lexus LC500 and finished second.

Racing record

Complete Super GT results

YearTeamCarClass12345678DCPoints
2017LM CorsaLexus RC F GT3GT300OKA
8		FUJ
1		AUT
6		SUG
13		FUJ
9		SUZ
6		CHA
1		MOT
6		3rd61
2018Tsuchiya EngineeringToyota 86 MCGT300OKA
3		SUZ
2		CHA
19		FUJ
5		SUG
24		AUT
24		MOT
8		7th39
2018Lexus Team SARDLexus LC 500GT500FUJ
2		16th15
2019Lexus Team WedsSport BandohLexus LC 500GT500OKA
6‡		FUJ
13		SUZ
7		CHA
3		FUJ
9		AUT
8		SUG
13		MOT
7		11th27.5
2020Toyota Gazoo Racing Team Wako's RookieToyota GR Supra GT500GT500FUJ
3		FUJ
SUZ
MOT
FUJ
SUZ
MOT
FUJ
3rd*11*

‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.
* Season still in progress.

Complete Super Formula Results

YearEntrant1234567DCPoints
2019JMS P.mu/cerumo・INGINGSUZ
5		AUT
12		SUG
Ret		FUJ
2		MOT
17		OKA
11		SUZ
10		11th12