Sho Tsuboi

is a Japanese racing driver for Toyota Gazoo Racing and TOM'S Racing, who currently competes in the Super GT Series GT500 class and Super Formula Championship.

Tsuboi is a four-time Super GT GT500 champion in 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025, sharing the all-time GT500 championships record with Ronnie Quintarelli. Despite not winning a race, he finished third in the championship with 15 podiums in 17 races.

In 2017, Tsuboi won his first race, and won eight of the last ten races to finish second in the championship.

Tsuboi won the championship title in 2018, his third season. Tsuboi set a Japanese F3 record with 17 victories in 19 races, finishing second in the other two races that he did not win.

Tsuboi made three starts in the Macau Grand Prix FIA Formula 3 World Cup between 2016 and 2018. He finished 16th in 2016, and 14th in 2017.

In the 2018 race, Tsuboi and German racing driver Sophia Flörsch were involved in a serious accident. Tsuboi escaped serious injury after Flörsch's car became airborne from contact with Jehan Daruvala. Tsuboi and Flörsch were hospitalized.

Super GT GT300 (2017-2018) Tsuboi drove in the GT300 class of the Japanese Super GT Series from 2017 to 2018. He made his debut for JMS P.mu LM Corsa, driving a Lexus RC F GT3. He finished third in the 2017 GT300 standings, winning the Fuji 500 km and the overseas race at Chang International Circuit. In 2018, he drove for Tsuchiya Engineering in their Toyota 86 MC, and finished seventh in the championship with two podiums.

GT500 (2018-) Tsuboi made a one-off GT500 debut for Lexus Team SARD in the 2018 Fuji 500 km, finishing second in his first race aboard the Lexus LC 500. In 2019, Tsuboi secured his full-time GT500 debut with Lexus Team WedsSport Bandoh. Tsuboi and Yuji Kunimoto finished eleventh in the championship, scoring a third place podium finish at Chang International Circuit.

In 2020, Tsuboi moved to the brand new ROOKIE Racing team (TGR Team Wako's ROOKIE), driving the new Toyota GR Supra GT500. Alongside reigning GT500 champion Kazuya Oshima, Tsuboi scored back to back podium finishes to open the 2020 season. They finished the year seventh in the championship, recording a best finish of second at the fifth round at Fuji Speedway.

Tsuboi changed teams once again in 2021, joining TGR Team au TOM'S, alongside Yuhi Sekiguchi. Tsuboi finished second in the opening round at Okayama International Circuit, battling Kenta Yamashita for the lead for several laps. Heading into the final round at Fuji Speedway, Tsuboi and Sekiguchi trailed championship leader Naoki Yamamoto by 16 points. Tsuboi went on to win the race for his first career GT500 class victory. Yamamoto was taken out from a championship-clinching position after GT300 driver Ren Sato crashed into his car with 15 laps remaining, which ultimately secured the championship for Tsuboi and Sekiguchi.

For 2022, Sekiguchi was replaced by GT500 newcomer Giuliano Alesi, but the new combination of Tsuboi and Alesi only recorded one podium finish. In 2023, Ritomo Miyata transferred from the number 37 TOM'S team to join Tsuboi. The pair won the Golden Week Fuji 450 km race, finished second in the spring race at Suzuka, then reeled off back-to-back wins at Autopolis and Mobility Resort Motegi to clinch the championship by a whopping 29-point final margin.

Tsuboi raced with his sixth different co-driver in as many seasons in 2024 after Kenta Yamashita replaced Miyata for 2024. He won again the GT500 title along with Super Formula title would make him the sixth driver to win both series. Both Tsuboi and Yamashita stayed as both raced with the no. 1 car.

In 2025, with his record-tying fourth Super GT championship win and second place Super Formula win, Tsuboi was ranked #19 in Autosport Magazine's Top 50 drivers of 2025.

Super Formula

After his record-setting 2018 Japanese F3 campaign, Tsuboi made the step up to the Super Formula Championship in 2019, joining JMS P.mu/Cerumo-INGING. He recorded a best finish of second in a wet race at Fuji Speedway. Tsuboi finished 12th in the championship, and was third in the Rookie of the Year cup behind Álex Palou.

Tsuboi improved to third in the championship in 2020. He won his first race in the second round at Okayama, and then went on to win the final race of the season at Fuji. He finished the season with 50 points, just twelve points behind eventual series champion Naoki Yamamoto.

However, Tsuboi slumped to 15th in the standings in 2021, only managing to score six points with a best finish of seventh at Suzuka.

leftAfter five seasons at Cerumo-INGING, Tsuboi moved to Vantelin Team TOM'S in 2024 to replace his former Super GT co-driver Ritomo Miyata. Tsuboi won his first Super Formula driver's championship, with three race wins and seven podiums to his name as he beat both Tadasuke Makino and former champion Tomoki Nojiri.

Tsuboi stayed with TOM'S for 2025 and raced under the No. 1 car as the defending champion. He finished as the championship runner-up with two race wins and three podium finishes.

Formula One In August 2025, Tsuboi would drive a Formula One car for the first time at the Fuji Speedway with the Haas F1 Team, driving the Haas VF-23 as part of the Testing of Previous Cars (TPC) programme.

Personal life Tsuboi is the husband of 2024 Kyojo Cup champion Aimi Saito.

Racing record

Career summary Season still in progress. ‡ Team standings.

Complete Formula Challenge Japan results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete F4 Japanese Championship results (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 TOM'S Spirit OKA1 OKA2 FUJ11 FUJ12 FUJ21 FUJ22 SUZ1 SUZ2 SUG1 SUG2 AUT1 AUT2 MOT1 MOT2 1st

Complete Japanese Formula 3 Championship results (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 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 DC Pts 2016 Team TOM'S Toyota SUZ1 SUZ2 FUJ1 FUJ2 OKA1 OKA2 SUZ1 SUZ2 FUJ1 FUJ2 MOT1 MOT2 OKA1 OKA2 SUG1 SUG2 SUG3 3rd 87 2017 Team TOM'S Toyota OKA1 OKA2 OKA3 SUZ1 SUZ2 FUJ1 FUJ2 OKA1 OKA2 SUZ1 SUZ2 FUJ1 FUJ2 MOT1 MOT2 MOT3 AUT1 AUT2 SUG1 SUG2 2nd 140 2018 Team TOM'S Toyota SUZ1 SUZ2 SUG1 SUG2 FUJ1 FUJ2 OKA1 OKA2 OKA3 MOT1 MOT2 MOT3 OKA1 OKA2 OKA3 SUG1 SUG2 SUG3 SUG4 FUJ1 FUJ2 1st 214

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 9 DC Points 2017 LM corsa Lexus RC F GT3 GT300 OKA FUJ AUT SUG FUJ SUZ CHA MOT 3rd 61 2018 Tsuchiya Engineering Toyota 86 MC GT300 OKA SUZ CHA FUJ SUG AUT MOT 7th 39 Lexus Team SARD Lexus LC 500 GT500 FUJ 16th 15 2019 Lexus Team WedsSport Bandoh Lexus LC 500 GT500 OKA FUJ SUZ CHA FUJ AUT SUG MOT 11th 27.5 2020 TGR Team Wako's ROOKIE Toyota GR Supra GT500 FUJ FUJ SUZ MOT FUJ SUZ MOT FUJ 7th 47 2021 TGR Team au TOM'S Toyota GR Supra GT500 OKA FUJ MOT SUZ SUG AUT MOT FUJ 1st 64 2022 TGR Team au TOM'S Toyota GR Supra GT500 OKA FUJ SUZ FUJ SUZ SUG AUT MOT 10th 29.5 2023 TGR Team au TOM'S Toyota GR Supra GT500 OKA FUJ SUZ FUJ SUZ SUG AUT MOT 1st 89 2024 TGR Team au TOM'S Toyota GR Supra GT500 OKA FUJ SUZ FUJ SUG AUT MOT SUZ 1st 97 2025 TGR Team au TOM'S Toyota GR Supra GT500 GT500 OKA FUJ SEP FS1 FS2 SUZ SUG AUT MOT 1st 80.5 2026 TGR Team au TOM'S Toyota GR Supra GT500 GT500 OKA FUJ FUJ SUZ SUG AUT MOT 1st* 50* ‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed. (Number) Driver did not take part in this sprint race, points are still awarded for the teammate's result. † Driver did not finish, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance. Season still in progress.

Complete Super Formula results (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 JMS P.mu/cerumo・INGING Toyota SUZ AUT SUG FUJ MOT OKA SUZ 11th 12 2020 JMS P.mu/cerumo・INGING Toyota MOT OKA SUG AUT SUZ SUZ FUJ 3rd 50 2021 P.mu/cerumo・INGING Toyota FUJ SUZ AUT SUG MOT MOT SUZ 15th 6 2022 P.mu/cerumo・INGING Toyota FUJ FUJ SUZ AUT SUG FUJ MOT MOT SUZ SUZ 11th 30 2023 P.mu/cerumo・INGING Toyota FUJ FUJ SUZ AUT SUG FUJ MOT SUZ SUZ 4th 59 2024 Vantelin Team TOM'S Toyota SUZ AUT SUG FUJ MOT FUJ FUJ SUZ SUZ 1st 117.5 2025 Vantelin Team TOM'S Toyota SUZ SUZ MOT MOT AUT FUJ FUJ SUG FUJ SUZ SUZ SUZ 2nd 119.5 2026 Vantelin Team TOM'S Toyota MOT MOT SUZ SUZ FUJ FUJ FUJ SUG FUJ FUJ SUZ SUZ 6th* 37* ‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed. Season still in progress.