Quick Facts
Biography
Sho Tsuboi (坪井 翔, Tsuboi Shō, born 21 May 1995) 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
(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 | SUG | MOT | 8th* | 20.5* |
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 | SUZ | 5th* | 12* |
Season still in progress.