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Tadasuke Makino
Makino in 2024
NationalityJapan Japanese
Born (1997-06-28) 28 June 1997 (age 27)
Osaka, Japan
Super GT career
Debut season2016
Current teamTeam Kunimitsu
Racing licence FIA Gold
Car number100
Former teamsDrago Corse, Nakajima Racing
Starts51
Wins3
Podiums13
Poles3
Fastest laps2
Best finish1st in 2020
Super Formula career
Debut season2019
Current teamDocomo Team Dandelion Racing
Car number5
Former teamsNakajima Racing
Starts46
Wins2
Podiums10
Poles2
Fastest laps0
Previous series
2018
2017
2016
2015		FIA Formula 2 Championship
FIA European F3
All-Japan F3 Championship
F4 Japanese Championship
Championship titles
2020Super GT

Tadasuke Makino (牧野任祐, Makino Tadasuke, born 28 June 1997) is a Japanese racing driver for Honda Motor Company who currently competes in Super GT for Team Kunimitsu and in the Super Formula Championship for Dandelion Racing. A feature race winner in the FIA Formula 2 Championship during his time abroad in junior categories, Makino has competed in the top level of Japan's domestic racing scene since 2019. Alongside teammate Naoki Yamamoto, he won the GT500 class championship in Super GT in 2020.[1]

Career

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Early career

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Makino started karting in 2004 at the Kansai Kartland circuit in Sakai and made his race debut the following year. He remained in karting until 2013, winning the All-Japan Karting Championship's FS-125 class in 2011 and making his international karting debut during the same year.

In 2014, Makino stepped up to formula racing, entering the Okayama series of the entry-level Super FJ category as well as select races in JAF Formula 4. He would go on to dominate Super FJ and JAF F4 for the next two years, winning all but one race he competed in against the likes of Yūki Nemoto and Shunsuke Kohno.

Formula 4

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In 2015, Makino made the move to Japan's new official Formula 4 Championship, and raced for the Rn-sports team. He won four of the championship's first five races at the Okayama International Circuit and Fuji Speedway (both two wins) straight away, but then had to wait until the final race weekend at Twin Ring Motegi to add two more wins to his name. At the end of the season, he finished second with 192 points, just three points fewer than eventual champion Sho Tsuboi.[citation needed]

Formula 3

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In 2016, Makino made his Formula 3 debut in the Japanese Formula 3 Championship as a driver from Honda's training program. In this he raced for the TODA Racing team. He took four podiums and was fifth in the championship with 41 points. At the end of the season, he competed in three races of the Super GT for Drago Modulo Honda Racing GT500, taking one podium finish alongside Hideki Mutoh at the Chang International Circuit. He also drove for Toda Racing in the Grand Prix of Macau, in which he finished fourteenth.[citation needed]

In 2017 Makino continued to drive in Formula 3, but made the switch to the European Formula 3 Championship as a driver for Hitech GP. He had a difficult start to the season, scoring only twice in the first half of the year before breaking his wrist and finger in an accident with Harrison Newey at the Norisring. Despite his injury, he only missed the race weekend at Spa-Francorchamps. After his return, he regularly finished in the top 10 with a podium finish at the Red Bull Ring as the highlight. In the end, he finished fifteenth in the final standings with 57 points.[citation needed]`

Formula 2

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Makino at the 2018 Monza Formula 2 round

In 2018 Makino made his Formula 2 debut with the Russian Time team.[2] He scored points regularly until he surprisingly won the feature race at the Monza in the second half of the season thanks to good strategy. He finished thirteenth in the standings with 48 points.

Super Formula

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In 2019 Makino returned to Japan to participate in the Super Formula for the team Nakajima Racing. In the end of 2020, Makino suffered from meningitis and thus skipped the Super Formula finale, where he was replaced by Hiroki Otsu.[3] For the 2021 season, Makino moved from Nakajima Racing to Dandelion Racing. But he did not enter the first two rounds, due to still being in healing phase, which meant Ukyo Sasahara covered for him in those races. Makino returned at the third round in Autopolis. Makino then stayed with the same team till now and he grabbed couple of podiums every year.

Super GT

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In 2019, Makino stepped up to Super GT GT500 along with his Super Formula program. He competed with Nakajima Racing alongside Narain Karthikeyan. The next season he replaced Jenson Button as he competed with Team Kunimitsu alongside former GT500 title winner Naoki Yamamoto. Both Yamamoto and Makino won the Super GT title, beating Ryo Hirakawa in the last race. Makino continued racing with the team for the next couple of seasons, but had to skip one round due to illness in 2021 and was covered by Hideki Mutoh.

Karting record

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Karting career summary

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Season Series Team Position
2006 SL Osaka Series - Comer 2nd
M4 All-Japan Championship - Cadets 1st
2007 SL Biwako Series - Yamaha Junior 1st
SL Osaka Series - Yamaha Junior 1st
M4 WEST Series - Cadets 1st
2008 SL All-Japan Kart Meeting - TIA Junior 1st
2010 JAF Junior Karting Championship - FP-Jr Akiland R 5th
2011 All-Japan Karting Championship - FS-125 Akiland Racing 1st
Rotax Max Euro Challenge — Junior Intrepid Force Rotax 31st
Rotax Max Challenge Grand Finals — Junior EIKO Japan 29th
WSK Final Cup — KF3 Tony Kart Racing Team 14th
2012 All-Japan Karting Championship - KF1 TOYOTA/YAMAHA RT 4th
Rotax International Open — Senior 33rd
IAME International Final — X30 Senior 18th
Rotax Max Euro Challenge — Senior 19th
CIK-FIA Asia Pacific Championship — KF2 25th
2013 All-Japan Karting Championship - KF1 TOYOTA/YAMAHA RT 6th
Florida Winter Tour — Rotax Senior 5th
CIK-FIA Asia Pacific Championship — KF TAKAGI PLANNING 19th
2014 All-Japan Karting Championship - KF ADVAN HIROTEX RACING 26th

Racing record

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Career summary

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Season Series Team Races Wins Poles FLaps Podiums Points Position
2014 Super FJ Okayama Series Rn-sports 5 5 5 5 5 100 1st
Super FJ - All-Japan Masters Race 1 1 1 1 1 N/A 1st
JAF Formula 4 - West Series Marusan MYST [ja]/Rn-sports 2 1 2 2 1 22 9th
2015 F4 Japanese Championship Rn-sports 14 6 4 3 11 192 2nd
JAF Formula 4 - East Series Rn-sports/MYST [ja] 4 4 4 3 4 80 1st
JAF Formula 4 - West Series 5 5 5 5 5 100 1st
2016 Japanese Formula 3 Championship Toda Racing 17 0 1 0 4 41 5th
Macau Grand Prix 1 0 0 0 0 N/A 14th
Super GT - GT500 Drago Modulo Honda Racing 3 0 0 0 1 15 16th
Super GT - GT300 Cars Tokai Dream28 1 0 0 0 0 0 NC
2017 FIA Formula 3 European Championship Hitech GP 27 0 0 0 1 57 15th
Macau Grand Prix Motopark 1 0 0 0 0 N/A 9th
2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship Russian Time 24 1 0 0 1 48 13th
2019 Super GT - GT500 Modulo Nakajima Racing 8 0 0 0 1 23.5 12th
Super Formula TCS Nakajima Racing 7 0 1 0 0 6 16th
Intercontinental GT Challenge Honda Team Motul 1 0 0 0 0 0 NC
2020 Super GT - GT500 Team Kunimitsu 8 1 0 0 3 69 1st
Super Formula TCS Nakajima Racing 6 0 0 0 1 20 12th
2021 Super GT - GT500 Team Kunimitsu 7 1 1 0 2 57 4th
Super Formula docomo Team Dandelion Racing 5 0 0 0 1 24 9th
2022 Super GT - GT500 Team Kunimitsu 8 1 1 1 3 62 3rd
Super Formula docomo Team Dandelion Racing 10 0 0 0 2 61 5th
2023 Super GT - GT500 Team Kunimitsu 8 0 1 1 1 34 10th
Super Formula docomo Team Dandelion Racing 9 0 1 0 2 43 6th
Super Taikyu - ST-Z Techno First 2 0 0 0 0 99‡ 3rd‡
2024 Super GT - GT500 Stanley Team Kunimitsu 8 0 0 0 2 64 2nd
Super Formula docomo Team Dandelion Racing 9 2 0 0 4 86 3rd
2025 Super GT - GT500 Stanley Team Kunimitsu
Super Formula docomo Team Dandelion Racing

* Season still in progress.

‡ Team standings

Complete F4 Japanese Championship results

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

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 DC Pts
2015 Honda Formula Dream Project OKA
1
1 		OKA
2
1 		FUJ1
1
2 		FUJ1
2
1 		FUJ2
1
1 		FUJ2
2
26 		SUZ
1
2 		SUZ
2
2 		SUG
1
2 		SUG
2
3 		AUT
1
9 		AUT
2
5 		MOT
1
1 		MOT
2
1 		2nd 192

Complete Japanese Formula 3 Championship results

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

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Pos Points
2016 Toda Racing SUZ1
1
8 		SUZ1
2
6 		FUJ1
1
6 		FUJ1
2
6 		OKA1
1
Ret 		OKA1
1
2 		SUZ2
1
4 		SUZ2
2
6 		FUJ2
1
3 		FUJ2
2
5 		MOT
1
2 		MOT
2
5 		OKA2
1
5 		OKA2
2
3 		SUG
1
4 		SUG
2
9 		SUG
3
7 		5th 41

Complete Super GT results

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(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
2016 Cars Tokai Dream28 Lotus Evora MC GT300 OKA FUJ SUG FUJ SUZ
Ret 		NC 0
Drago Modulo Honda Racing Honda NSX Concept-GT GT500 CHA
2 		MOT
12 		MOT
15 		16th 15
2019 Modulo Nakajima Racing Honda NSX-GT GT500 OKA
10 		FUJ
10 		SUZ
11 		CHA
10 		FUJ
10 		AUT
7 		SUG
2 		MOT
12 		12th 23.5
2020 Team Kunimitsu Honda NSX-GT GT500 FUJ
6 		FUJ
5 		SUZ
2 		MOT
5 		FUJ
5 		SUZ
Ret 		MOT
3 		FUJ
1 		1st 69
2021 Team Kunimitsu Honda NSX-GT GT500 OKA FUJ
4 		MOT
1 		SUZ
4 		SUG
2 		AUT
6 		MOT
12 		FUJ
14 		4th 57
2022 Team Kunimitsu Honda NSX-GT GT500 OKA
2 		FUJ
5‡ 		SUZ
9 		FUJ
8 		SUZ
11 		SUG
8 		AUT
2 		MOT
1 		3rd 62
2023 Team Kunimitsu Honda NSX-GT GT500 OKA
12 		FUJ
2 		SUZ
5 		FUJ
6 		SUZ
7 		SUG
Ret 		AUT
9 		MOT
10 		10th 34
2024 Stanley Team Kunimitsu Honda Civic Type R-GT GT500 GT500 OKA
3 		FUJ
7 		SUZ
7 		FUJ
2 		SUG
5 		AUT
4 		MOT
6 		SUZ
4 		2nd 64
2025 Stanley Team Kunimitsu Honda Civic Type R-GT GT500 GT500 OKA
 FUJ
 SEP
 FUJ
 SUZ
 SUG
 AUT
 MOT

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

Complete Macau Grand Prix results

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Year Team Car Qualifying Quali Race Main race
2016 Japan Toda Racing Dallara F312 22nd 19th 14th
2017 Germany Motopark Dallara F317 12th 17th 9th

Complete FIA Formula 3 European Championship results

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

Year Entrant Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 DC Points
2017 Hitech GP Mercedes SIL
1
11 		SIL
2
19 		SIL
3
15 		MNZ
1
12 		MNZ
2
14 		MNZ
3
13 		PAU
1
13 		PAU
2
12 		PAU
3
7 		HUN
1
13 		HUN
2
17 		HUN
3
17 		NOR
1
8 		NOR
2
14 		NOR
3
Ret 		SPA
1 		SPA
2 		SPA
3 		ZAN
1
Ret 		ZAN
2
15 		ZAN
3
16 		NÜR
1
7 		NÜR
2
4 		NÜR
3
19 		RBR
1
5 		RBR
2
17 		RBR
3
3 		HOC
1
9 		HOC
2
9 		HOC
3
11 		15th 57

Complete FIA Formula 2 Championship results

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(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers)

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 DC Points
2018 Russian Time BHR
FEA
19 		BHR
SPR
17 		BAK
FEA
9 		BAK
SPR
9 		CAT
FEA
9 		CAT
SPR
Ret 		MON
FEA
14† 		MON
SPR
Ret 		LEC
FEA
8 		LEC
SPR
Ret 		RBR
FEA
7 		RBR
SPR
6 		SIL
FEA
12 		SIL
SPR
11 		HUN
FEA
9 		HUN
SPR
12 		SPA
FEA
12 		SPA
SPR
11 		MNZ
FEA
1 		MNZ
SPR
14 		SOC
FEA
10 		SOC
SPR
11 		YMC
FEA
9 		YMC
SPR
Ret 		13th 48

† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

Complete Super Formula results

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

Year Team Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 DC Points
2019 TCS Nakajima Racing Honda SUZ
Ret 		AUT
4 		SUG
14 		FUJ
10 		MOT
Ret 		OKA
17 		SUZ
13 		16th 6
2020 TCS Nakajima Racing Honda MOT
9 		OKA
Ret 		SUG
7 		AUT
3 		SUZ
Ret 		SUZ
8 		FUJ 12th 20
2021 docomo Team Dandelion Racing Honda FUJ SUZ AUT
14 		SUG
5 		MOT
7 		MOT
3 		SUZ
10 		9th 24
2022 docomo Team Dandelion Racing Honda FUJ
6 		FUJ
Ret 		SUZ
3 		AUT
6 		SUG
4 		FUJ
5 		MOT
4 		MOT
3 		SUZ
7 		SUZ
9 		5th 61
2023 docomo Team Dandelion Racing Honda FUJ
14 		FUJ
8 		SUZ
15 		AUT
6 		SUG
3 		FUJ
21 		MOT
Ret 		SUZ
43‡ 		SUZ
10 		6th 43
2024 docomo Team Dandelion Racing Honda SUZ
10 		AUT
12 		SUG
4‡ 		FUJ
5 		MOT
1 		FUJ
4 		FUJ
3 		SUZ
3 		SUZ
8 		3rd 86
2025 docomo Team Dandelion Racing Honda SUZ
 SUZ
 MOT
 MOT
 AUT
 FUJ
 FUJ
 SUG
 FUJ
 FUJ
 SUZ
 SUZ

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

References

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  1. ^ "Tadasuke Makino". DriverDB. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  2. ^ Allen, Peter (9 February 2018). "Honda protege Tadasuke Makino steps up to F2 with Russian Time". formulascout.com. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  3. ^ "Tadasuke Makino discharged from hospital after one month". www.motorsport.com. 16 January 2021. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
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Sporting positions
Preceded by Super GT
GT500 Champion
2020
With: Naoki Yamamoto 		Succeeded by
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