Koudai Tsukakoshi

Koudai Tsukakoshi
Tsukakoshi in 2010.
NationalityJapan Japanese
Born (1986-11-20) 20 November 1986 (age 38)
Imaichi (now Nikkō), Tochigi, Japan
Super GT career
Debut season2008
Current teamReal Racing
Car number17
Wins4
Podiums23
Poles6
Fastest laps7
Best finish2nd in 2013
Super Formula career
Debut season2009
TeamsHFDP Racing, Team Dandelion Racing, Real Racing
Wins1
Podiums10
Poles2
Fastest laps3
Best finish2nd in 2012
Previous series
2008
2005–07
2004
Formula 3 Euro Series
All-Japan Formula Three
Formula Dream

Koudai Tsukakoshi (塚越広大, Tsukakoshi Kōdai, born 20 November 1986) is a Japanese racing driver for Honda Racing Corporation who currently competes in Super GT for Astemo Real Racing.

Career

Formula Three

After competing in Formula Dream in 2004 and 2005, winning the championship in his second year, Tsukakoshi moved into the All-Japan Formula Three Championship for the final three rounds of the 2005 season, finishing fourteenth in the standings competing for M-TEC. He remained with the team for the 2006 season, finishing fifth in the standings, taking a victory at Suzuka. Another fifth place championship finish followed in 2007, as Tsukakoshi took two wins for Honda Team Real at Okayama and Suzuka. He also finished in second place at the prestigious Macau Grand Prix for Manor Motorsport; finishing behind Oliver Jarvis.[1] Tsukakoshi moved to Manor Motorsport and the Formula Three Euroseries for the 2008 season.[2] He finished seventh in the championship standings, with a best result of second place on four occasions.

Super Formula

After a season in Europe, Tsukakoshi made his debut in Formula Nippon in 2009 with HFDP Racing which run by Real Racing. He raced with them before move to Dandelion Racing. He competed with the team, and he managed to close to win the title, just lose out to Kazuki Nakajima by three points. In 2013, he returns to Real Racing, and he raced with them for six seasons. Tsukakoshi initially not compete for 2019 season, bu he replaces Tristan Charpentier after the first round because he had qualified two seconds off the pace in the first round and crashed heavily in the race. Tsukakoshi then race for the rest of the season.[3] Real Racing announced it has withdrawn from the 2020 season thus left Tsukakoshi without a seat.[4] He then moves to new team Drago Corse to cover for Tatiana Calderon who unable to enter Japan due to visa issues.[5] Calderon missed Autopolis, Sugo, and the fifth round at Motegi and Tsukakoshi was her replacement.[citation needed]

Tsukakoshi thn picked by the series to develop the new Dallara-built SF23 chassis as the test driver of Honda representative. Also he is part of new Threebond Racing formerly Drago Corse as an advisory.[6]

Super GT

Tsukakoshi made one race debut with Real Racing in 2008. After that he is the main driver for Real Racing from 2009 till now. He won many races in his Super GT career, and managed to get runners up in 2013.[citation needed]

Racing record

Career summary

Season Series Team Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points Position
2005 Japanese Formula 3 Championship Honda Team M-TEC 5 0 0 0 0 19 14th
2006 Japanese Formula 3 Championship Honda Team M-TEC 18 1 5 2 6 153 5th
2007 Japanese Formula 3 Championship Honda Team Real 20 2 2 1 7 182 5th
2008 Formula 3 Euro Series Manor Motorsport 20 0 0 0 4 36 7th
Super GT Real Racing 1 0 0 0 0 0 NC
2009 Super GT Real Racing 9 0 0 0 2 51 5th
Formula Nippon HFDP Racing 8 0 0 1 0 20 7th
2010 Super GT Real Racing 8 1 1 1 2 53 3rd
Formula Nippon HFDP Racing 8 0 0 0 1 9 9th
2011 Super GT Real Racing 8 0 1 0 3 50 4th
Formula Nippon Docomo Team Dandelion Racing 7 0 1 0 2 26.5 4th
2012 Super GT Real Racing 8 0 0 0 1 30 12th
Formula Nippon Docomo Team Dandelion Racing 8 1 1 0 6 43 2nd
2013 Super GT Real Racing 8 0 0 0 4 64 2nd
Super Formula HP Real Racing 7 0 0 0 0 3 15th
2014 Super GT Real Racing 8 0 1 0 1 24 12th
Super Formula HP Real Racing 9 0 0 0 0 8.5 11th
2015 Super GT Real Racing 8 0 0 0 2 30 8th
Super Formula Real Racing 8 0 0 0 0 0 17th
2016 Super GT Keihin Real Racing 8 0 0 1 1 27 11th
Super Formula Real Racing 9 0 0 0 0 11 11th
2017 Super GT Keihin Real Racing 8 0 0 0 2 37 10th
Super Formula Real Racing 7 0 0 0 0 3 15th
2018 Super GT Keihin Real Racing 8 1 1 1 2 45 7th
Super Formula Real Racing 7 0 0 0 0 6 13th
2019 Super GT Keihin Real Racing 8 0 2 2 1 39 6th
Super Formula Real Racing 6 0 0 0 0 2 19th
2020 Super GT Keihin Real Racing 8 2 0 0 2 59 3rd
Super Formula Drago Corse with ThreeBond 2 0 0 0 0 0 24th
2021 Super GT Astemo Real Racing 8 1 0 0 2 52 6th
Super Formula Drago Corse with ThreeBond 3 0 0 0 0 0 22nd
2022 Super GT Astemo Real Racing 8 1 0 0 3 60 4th
2023 Super GT Astemo Real Racing 8 0 0 0 1 45 6th
2024 Super GT Astemo Real Racing

Complete Japanese Formula 3 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 DC Pts
2005 Honda Team M-TEC Mugen MOT
1
MOT
2
SUZ
1
SUZ
2
SUG
1
SUG
2
FUJ
1
FUJ
2
OKA
1
OKA
2
SUZ
1
SUZ
2
MIN
1
MIN
2
FUJ
1

11
FUJ
2

7
MIN
1

7
MIN
2

8
MOT
1

12
MOT
2

5
14th 19
2006 Honda Team M-TEC Mugen FUJ
1

2
FUJ
2

5
SUZ
1

12
SUZ
2

9
MOT
1

7
MOT
2

3
OKA
1

2
OKA
2

4
SUZ
1

1
SUZ
2

2
AUT
1

7
AUT
2

4
FUJ
1

13
FUJ
2

11
SUG
1

5
SUG
2

5
MOT
1

2
MOT
2

11
5th 153
2007 Honda Team Real Mugen FUJ
1

7
FUJ
2

5
SUZ
1

5
SUZ
2

6
MOT
1

3
MOT
2

4
OKA
1

3
OKA
2

1
SUZ
1

3
SUZ
2

1
AUT
1

5
AUT
2

5
AUT
3

Ret
FUJ
1

2
FUJ
2

2
SEN
1

6
SEN
2

8
SEN
3

4
MOT
1

5
MOT
2

8
5th 182

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
2008 Real Racing Honda NSX GT500 SUZ OKA FUJ SEP SUG SUZ
Ret
MOT AUT FUJ 25th 1
2009 OKA
5
SUZ
6
FUJ
12
SEP
2
SUG
6
SUZ
10
FUJ
4
AUT
Ret
MOT
3
5th 51
2010 Honda HSV-010 GT SUZ
7
OKA
7
FUJ
5
SEP
12
SUG
1
SUZ
4
FUJ
C
MOT
3
3rd 53
2011 OKA
3
FUJ
8
SEP
3
SUG
6
SUZ
12
FUJ
3
AUT
6
MOT
7
4th 50
2012 OKA
3
FUJ
6
SEP
7
SUG
9
SUZ
10
FUJ
5
AUT
14
MOT
Ret
12th 30
2013 OKA
2
FUJ
Ret
SEP
5
SUG
Ret
SUZ
7
FUJ
2
AUT
3
MOT
2
2nd 67
2014 Honda NSX Concept-GT OKA
6
FUJ
Ret
AUT
Ret
SUG
3
FUJ
4
SUZ
Ret
BUR
12
MOT
15
12th 24
2015 OKA
12
FUJ
4
CHA
3
FUJ
8
SUZ
Ret
SUG
8
AUT
3
MOT
8
8th 39
2016 Keihin Real Racing OKA
11
FUJ
12
SUG
6
FUJ
2
SUZ
10
CHA
6
MOT
Ret
MOT
11
11th 27
2017 OKA
11
FUJ
8
AUT
2
SUG
Ret
FUJ
Ret
SUZ
15
CHA
3
MOT
4
10th 37
2018 Honda NSX-GT OKA
1
FUJ
11
SUZ
11
CHA
7
FUJ
3
SUG
9
AUT
6
MOT
15
7th 45
2019 OKA
14
FUJ
5
SUZ
Ret
CHA
13
FUJ
8
AUT
2
SUG
5
MOT
5
6th 39
2020 FUJ
Ret
FUJ
1
SUZ
8
MOT
1
FUJ
10
SUZ
10
MOT
5
FUJ
4
3rd 59
2021 Astemo Real Racing OKA
5
FUJ
1
SUZ
14
MOT
7
SUG
3
AUT
8
MOT
4
FUJ
Ret
6th 52
2022 OKA
9
FUJ
9
SUZ
2
FUJ
10
SUZ
2
SUG
12
AUT
1
MOT
5
4th 60
2023 OKA
7
FUJ
3
SUZ
9
FUJ
7
SUZ
4
SUG
DSQ
AUT
6
MOT
3
6th 45
2024 Honda Civic Type R-GT GT500 OKA
Ret
FUJ
SUZ
FUJ
SUZ
SUG
AUT
MOT

Complete Formula Nippon/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 8 9 DC Points
2009 HFDP Racing FUJ
6
SUZ
5
MOT
4
FUJ
6
SUZ
9
MOT
10
AUT
Ret
SUG
4
7th 20
2010 SUZ
8
MOT
2
FUJ
11
MOT
10
SUG
Ret
AUT
Ret
SUZ
10
SUZ
12
9th 9
2011 Docomo Team Dandelion Racing SUZ
7
AUT
3
FUJ
5
MOT
4
SUZ
C
SUG
4
MOT
3
MOT
8
4th 26.5
2012 SUZ
2
MOT
5
AUT
1
FUJ
9
MOT
3
SUG
2
SUZ
3
SUZ
3
2nd 43
2013 HP Real Racing SUZ
9
AUT
6
FUJ
9
MOT
9
SUG
Ret
SUZ
Ret
SUZ
Ret
15th 3
2014 SUZ
14
FUJ
DNS
FUJ
9
FUJ
Ret
MOT
6
AUT
4
SUG
Ret
SUZ
8
SUZ
13
11th 8.5
2015 Real Racing SUZ
DNS
OKA
14
FUJ
13
MOT
Ret
AUT
17
SUG
9
SUZ
9
SUZ
11
17th 0
2016 SUZ
5
OKA
2
FUJ
8
MOT
12
OKA
5
OKA
11
SUG
11
SUZ
11
SUZ
12
11th 11
2017 SUZ
6
OKA
11
OKA
16
FUJ
9
MOT
9
AUT
9
SUG
16
SUZ
C
SUZ
C
15th 3
2018 SUZ
6
AUT
C
SUG
12
FUJ
13
MOT
10
OKA
12
SUZ
6
13th 6
2019 SUZ AUT
15
SUG
9
FUJ
18
MOT
18
OKA
14
SUZ
7
19th 2
2020 Drago Corse with ThreeBond MOT OKA
12
SUG
Ret
AUT SUZ SUZ FUJ 24th 0
2021 FUJ
SUZ
AUT
13
SUG
16
MOT
Ret
MOT
SUZ
22nd 0

References

  1. ^ "Jarvis dominates Polytec Formula Three Macau Grand Prix". Macau Grand Prix. Macau Grand Prix Committee. 18 November 2007. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
  2. ^ "Japanese F3 champion joins Manor Motorsport". gpupdate.net. GPUpdate. 2 January 2008. Archived from the original on 27 December 2009. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
  3. ^ Thukral, Rachit (9 May 2019). "Rookie Charpentier axed after one Super Formula race". Motorsport.com. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
  4. ^ "Real Racing withdraws from 2020 Super Formula season". Motorsport Network. 27 February 2020.
  5. ^ "Tatiana Calderon forced to miss Okayama Super Formula round". www.motorsport.com. 21 September 2020. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  6. ^ "ThreeBond takes over Drago Corse Super Formula entry". motorsports.com. 21 February 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2023.