Shou Tsuboi

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Shou Tsuboi ( Japanese 坪井 翔 , born May 21, 1995 ) is a Japanese racing driver . He won the Japanese Formula 3 Championship in 2018 .

Career

Shou Tsuboi got into formula racing in 2012 and drove two years in the Japanese Formula Challenge . In 2013 he finished the season in fifth place and his best result in this racing series.

In 2015 he switched to the Japanese Formula 4 championship for the TOM's racing team and won the championship title on a Dome F110 .

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

Tsuboi has competed in the FIA ​​Formula 3 World Cup of the Macau Grand Prix since 2016 . In the race on November 18, 2018, he and the German racing driver Sophia Flörsch were involved in a serious accident and injured.

Shou Tsuboi drove in the GT300 class of the Japanese Super GT Championship in 2017 and 2018 . There he finished third in 2017 with a Lexus RC F GT3 . The following year he achieved seventh place with a Toyota 86 MC . He started in 2018 for Lexus Team SARD in a race with a Lexus LC500 in the GT500 class and finished second.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e DriverDB - Internet site: Shou Tsuboi. From: www.driverdb.com , accessed February 7, 2019 .
  2. ^ Welt - website: Why the driver stepped on the brakes in front of Sophia Flörsch. From: www.welt.de , November 19, 2019, accessed on February 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ DriverDB - website: Autobacs Super GT Series - GT500 2018 standings. From: www.driverdb.com , accessed February 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Tsuboi, Shou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese automobile racer
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1995