Sho Tsuboi

Sho Tsuboi
Sho Tsuboi
Nationality	Japanese
Born	21 May 1995 (age 26); Japan
Super Formula career
Debut season	2019
Current team	P.mu/cerumo・INGING
Car number	39
Starts	19
Wins	2
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
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

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]

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
2018	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	FUJ 3	FUJ 3	SUZ 9	MOT 4	FUJ 2	SUZ 12	MOT 12	FUJ Ret	7th	47
2021	Toyota Gazoo Racing Team au TOM'S	Toyota GR Supra	GT500	OKA 2	FUJ 13	MOT 3	SUZ 5	SUG 4	AUT	MOT	FUJ	4th*	40*

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

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
2021	P.mu/cerumo・INGING	FUJ Ret	SUZ 7	AUT Ret	SUG 15	MOT 9	MOT	SUZ	14th*	6*

^* Season still in progress.

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e DriverDB Internetseite: "Shou Tsuboi". Auf: www.driverdb.com. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
^ Welt Internetseite: "Warum der Fahrer vor Sophia Flörsch auf die Bremse trat". Auf: www.welt.de. 2019-11-19. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
^ 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

[driverdb-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e 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.

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