Tadasuke Makino

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.

Career

Early career 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 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.

Formula 3 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.

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-ten 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.`

Formula 2

In 2018, Makino made his Formula 2 debut with the Russian Time team. 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 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. 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 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

Karting career summary

Racing record

Racing career summary Season still in progress.

‡ Team standings

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 Points 2015 Honda Formula Dream Project OKA1 OKA2 FUJ11 FUJ12 FUJ21 FUJ22 SUZ1 SUZ2 SUG1 SUG2 AUT1 AUT2 MOT1 MOT2 2nd

Complete Japanese Formula 3 Championship results (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 SUZ11 SUZ12 FUJ11 FUJ12 OKA11 OKA11 SUZ21 SUZ22 FUJ21 FUJ22 MOT1 MOT2 OKA21 OKA22 SUG1 SUG2 SUG3 5th 41

Complete Super GT results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) ‡ 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. Season still in progress.

Complete Macau Grand Prix results Year Team Car Qualifying Quali Race Main race 2016 Toda Racing Dallara F312 22nd 19th 14th 2017 Motopark Dallara F317 12th 17th 9th

Complete FIA Formula 3 European Championship results (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 SIL1 SIL2 SIL3 MNZ1 MNZ2 MNZ3 PAU1 PAU2 PAU3 HUN1 HUN2 HUN3 NOR1 NOR2 NOR3 SPA1 SPA2 SPA3 ZAN1 ZAN2 ZAN3 NÜR1 NÜR2 NÜR3 RBR1 RBR2 RBR3 HOC1 HOC2 HOC3 15th 57

Complete FIA Formula 2 Championship results (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 Russian Time BHRFEA BHRSPR BAKFEA BAKSPR CATFEA CATSPR MONFEA MONSPR LECFEA LECSPR RBRFEA RBRSPR SILFEA SILSPR HUNFEA HUNSPR SPAFEA SPASPR MNZFEA MNZSPR SOCFEA SOCSPR YMCFEA YMCSPR 13th 48 † Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

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 TCS Nakajima Racing Honda SUZ AUT SUG FUJ MOT OKA SUZ 16th 6 2020 TCS Nakajima Racing Honda MOT OKA SUG AUT SUZ SUZ FUJ 12th 20 2021 docomo Team Dandelion Racing Honda FUJ SUZ AUT SUG MOT MOT SUZ 9th 24 2022 docomo Team Dandelion Racing Honda FUJ FUJ SUZ AUT SUG FUJ MOT MOT SUZ SUZ 5th 61 2023 docomo Team Dandelion Racing Honda FUJ FUJ SUZ AUT SUG FUJ MOT SUZ SUZ 6th 43 2024 docomo Team Dandelion Racing Honda SUZ AUT SUG FUJ MOT FUJ FUJ SUZ SUZ 3rd 86 2025 docomo Team Dandelion Racing Honda SUZ SUZ MOT MOT AUT FUJ FUJ SUG FUJ SUZ SUZ SUZ 4th 113 2026 docomo Team Dandelion Racing Honda MOT MOT SUZ SUZ FUJ FUJ FUJ SUG FUJ FUJ SUZ SUZ 5th* 41* ‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed. Season still in progress.