Toshio Suzuki (racing driver) explained

Toshio Suzuki
Nationality: Japanese
Birth Date:10 March 1955
Races:2
Championships:0
Wins:0
Podiums:0
Points:0
Poles:0
Fastest Laps:0
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Years:–, –,, –, –,
Team(S):Dome, Team LeMans, Tom's, NISMO, TV Asahi Team Dragon, Tōkai University YGK
Best Finish:2nd
Class Wins:1
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Total Busch Races:1
Years In Busch:1
Best Busch Pos:96th (1996)
First Busch Race:1996 Meridian Advantage 200 (Nazareth Speedway)
Busch Wins:0
Busch Top Tens:0
Busch Poles:0

is a former racing driver from Saitama Prefecture, Japan.

Racing career

As a youth, Suzuki won the All-Japan Kart Championships in 1975 and 1976. In 1979, he took the title of the first All-Japan Formula Three Championship.

In 1992, he won the 24 Hours of Daytona with Kazuyoshi Hoshino and Masahiro Hasemi. In the same year, he was runner-up in the Japanese F3000 championship.

Formula One

In, he participated in two Formula One Grands Prix, standing in for Philippe Alliot at the Larrousse team. Though he scored no championship points, Suzuki finished both races.

After Formula One

Suzuki competed mainly in national championships, including the Japanese Formula 3000 Championship (later Formula Nippon), Japanese Touring Car Championship (JTCC) and All-Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC). He also participated into the 24 Hours of Le Mans. In 1996, he made a single start in the NASCAR Busch Series, driving for Joe Bessey at Nazareth Speedway; an accident during the race left him with a concussion.[1]

In 2006, he became director of the R&D SPORT in Super GT to continue the team that Direxiv abandoned.

GT-R

Most recently, he worked for Nissan as a test driver to help in the development of the R35 Nissan GT-R.

Motorsports career results

24 Hours of Le Mans results

YearTeamCo-DriversCarClassLaps
1985 Dome Team Eje Elgh
Geoff Lees
Dome 85C-L-ToyotaC1141DNFDNF
1986 Dome Co. Ltd. Eje Elgh
Beppe Gabbiani
Dome 86C-L-ToyotaC1296DNFDNF
1988 Italiya Sport
Team Le Mans
Michel Trollé
Danny Ongais
March 88S-NissanC174DNFDNF
1989 Nissan Motorsports Masahiro Hasemi
Kazuyoshi Hoshino
Nissan R89CC1167DNFDNF
1990 Nissan Motorsports International Masahiro Hasemi
Kazuyoshi Hoshino
Nissan R90CPC13485th5th
1993 Toyota Team Tom's Eddie Irvine
Masanori Sekiya
Toyota TS010C13644th4th
1995 NISMO Kazuyoshi Hoshino
Masahiko Kageyama
Nissan Skyline GT-R LMGT1157DNFDNF
1996 NISMO Kazuyoshi Hoshino
Masahiro Hasemi
Nissan Skyline GT-R LMGT130715th10th
1998 Toyota Motorsport
Toyota Team Europe
Ukyo Katayama
Keiichi Tsuchiya
Toyota GT-OneGT13269th8th
1999 Toyota Motorsport
Toyota Team Europe
Ukyo Katayama
Keiichi Tsuchiya
Toyota GT-OneLMGTP3642nd1st
2000 TV Asahi Team Dragon Masami Kageyama
Masahiko Kageyama
Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S-ÉlanLMP9003406th6th
2008 Tōkai University
YGK Power
Haruki Kurosawa
Masami Kageyama
Courage-Oreca LC70-YGKLMP1185DNFDNF

Japanese Formula Two/Formula 3000/Formula Nippon results

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

YearEntrant1234567891011DCPoints
1980Heroes Racing CorporationSUZMINSUZSUZSUZ
SUZNC0
1982Heroes Racing CorporationSUZFUJSUZSUZSUZ
SUZ
21st2
1983Kondou RacingSUZFUJMINSUZ
SUZ
FUJ
SUZ
SUZ
14th9
1984Team Le MansSUZ
FUJ
MIN
SUZ
SUZ
FUJ
SUZ
SUZ
8th30
1987Heroes Racing CorporationSUZ
FUJ
MIN
SUZ
SUZ
SUG
FUJ
SUZ
SUZ
5th72
1989Cabin Racing HeroesSUZ
FUJ
MIN
SUZ
SUG
FUJ
SUZ
SUZ
19th1
1990Super Evolution RacingSUZ
FUJMIN
SUZ
SUG
FUJ
FUJ
SUZ
FUJ
SUZ
NC0
1991Universal RacingSUZ
AUT
FUJ
MIN
SUZ
SUG
FUJ
SUZ
FUJ
SUZ
FUJ
15th4
1992Universal RacingSUZ
FUJ
MIN
SUZ
AUT
SUG
FUJ
FUJ
SUZ
FUJ
SUZ
2nd30
1993Universal RacingSUZ
FUJ
MIN
SUZ
AUT
SUG
FUJ
FUJ
SUZ
FUJ
SUZ
5th22
1994Mirai CorporationSUZ
FUJ
MINSUZSUGFUJSUZFUJFUJSUZ16th1
1995Hoshino RacingSUZ
FUJ
MIN
SUZ
SUG
FUJ
TOK
FUJ
SUZ
1st34
1996Team ImpulSUZ
MIN
FUJ
TOK
SUZ
SUG
FUJ
MIN
SUZ
FUJ
12th7
1997MiraiSUZ
MIN
FUJ
SUZ
SUG
FUJ
MIN
MOT
FUJ
SUZ
13th5

Complete Japanese Touring Car Championship results

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

YearTeamCarClass12345678910111213141516DCPts
1990ImpulNissan Skyline GT-RJTC-1NIS
SUG
SUZ
TSU
SEN
FUJ
1st230
1991ImpulNissan Skyline GT-RJTC-1SUG
SUZ
TSU
SEN
AUT
FUJ
3rd174
1993NismoNissan Skyline GT-RJTC-1MIN
AUT
SUG
SUZ
AID
TSU
TOK
SEN
FUJ
3rd106
1995NismoNissan SunnyFUJ
1
FUJ
2
SUG
1

SUG
2

TOK
1

TOK
2

SUZ
1

SUZ
2

MIN
1

MIN
2

AID
1

AID
2

SEN
1

SEN
2

FUJ
1

FUJ
2

17th16

Complete JGTC results

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

YearTeamCarClass1234567DCPts
1994Team ZexelNissan Skyline GT-RGT1FUJ
SEN
FUJ
SUG
MIN
10th27
1995NismoNissan Skyline GT-RGT1SUZ
FUJ
SEN
FUJ
SUG
MIN
3th58
1996NismoNissan Skyline GT-RGT500SUZ
FUJ
SEN
FUJ
SUG
MIN
11th27
1997TOYOTA Castrol TEAMToyota SupraGT500SUZ
FUJ
SEN
FUJ
MIN
SUG
3th64
1998Toyota Castrol Team TOM'SToyota SupraGT500SUZ
FUJ

SEN
FUJ
MOT
MIN
SUG
9th26
1999Toyota Castrol Team TOM'SToyota SupraGT500SUZ
FUJ
SUG
MIN
FUJ
TAI
MOT
9th38
2000Toyota Castrol Team TOM'SToyota SupraGT500MOT
FUJ
SUG
FUJ
TAI
MIN
SUZ
21st7
*The race at Fuji Speedway was cancelled due to a large crash on the first lap and heavy fog afterwards.

Complete Formula One results

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NASCAR

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Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Busch Series

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Veteran Trickle earns fourth-place finish. Erzar. John. 20 March 1996. Times Leader. 28 September 2013. Wikes-Barre, PA. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140812203642/http://archives.timesleader.com/1996/1996_8/1996_05_20_VETERAN_TRICKLE_EARNS_FOURTH_PLACE_FINISH.html. 12 August 2014.
  2. Web site: Toshio Suzuki – 1996 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results. Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. 8 August 2023.