19 Facts About Tadasuke Makino

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.

Tadasuke Makino started karting in 2004 at the Kansai Kartland circuit in Sakai and made his race debut the following year.

Tadasuke Makino 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, Tadasuke 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.

Tadasuke Makino 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 Yuki Nemoto and Shunsuke Kohno.

In 2015, Tadasuke Makino made the move to Japan's new official Formula 4 Championship, and raced for the Rn-sports team.

Tadasuke Makino won four of the championship's first five races at the Okayama International Circuit and Fuji Speedway straight away, but then had to wait until the final race weekend at Twin Ring Motegi to add two more wins to his name.

In 2016, Tadasuke Makino made his Formula 3 debut in the Japanese Formula 3 Championship as a driver from Honda's training program.

Tadasuke Makino took four podiums and was fifth in the championship with 41 points.

Tadasuke Makino drove for Toda Racing in the Grand Prix of Macau, in which he finished fourteenth.

In 2017 Tadasuke Makino continued to drive in Formula 3, but made the switch to the European Formula 3 Championship as a driver for Hitech GP.

Tadasuke Makino 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.

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

Tadasuke Makino scored points regularly until he surprisingly won the feature race at the Monza in the second half of the season thanks to good strategy.

Tadasuke Makino finished thirteenth in the standings with 48 points.

In 2019 Tadasuke Makino returned to Japan to participate in the Super Formula for the team Nakajima Racing.

Tadasuke Makino then stayed with the same team till now and he grabbed couple of podiums every year.

In 2019, Tadasuke Makino stepped up to Super GT GT500 along with his Super Formula program.

Tadasuke 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.