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Tadasuke Makino
Makino in 2024
Nationality	Japanese
Born	(1997-06-28) 28 June 1997 (age 27) Osaka, Japan
Super GT career
Debut season	2016
Current team	Team Kunimitsu
Racing licence	FIA Gold
Car number	100
Former teams	Drago Corse, Nakajima Racing
Starts	51
Wins	3
Podiums	13
Poles	3
Fastest laps	2
Best finish	1st in 2020
Super Formula career
Debut season	2019
Current team	Docomo Team Dandelion Racing
Car number	5
Former teams	Nakajima Racing
Starts	46
Wins	2
Podiums	10
Poles	2
Fastest laps	0
Previous series
2018 2017 2016 2015	FIA Formula 2 Championship FIA European F3 All-Japan F3 Championship F4 Japanese Championship
Championship titles
2020	Super 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.

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 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.`

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

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)

Complete Japanese Formula 3 Championship results

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

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.

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)

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)

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)

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

References

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.

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)
• Tadasuke Makino career summary at DriverDB.com

• 1997 births
• Living people
• Sportspeople from Osaka
• Japanese racing drivers
• Japanese Formula 3 Championship drivers
• FIA Formula 3 European Championship drivers
• Super GT drivers
• FIA Formula 2 Championship drivers
• Super Formula drivers
• Hitech Grand Prix drivers
• Motopark Academy drivers
• Russian Time drivers
• Nakajima Racing drivers
• Dandelion Racing drivers
• Team Kunimitsu drivers
• Virtuosi Racing drivers
• Japanese F4 Championship drivers