🇯🇵 Nirei Fukuzumi

Nirei Fukuzumi is an established professional, FIA Gold graded, competing in Japan's top two single-seater and sportscar series. He races in Super GT for TGR Team Eneos Rookie and in Super Formula for NTT docomo Business ROOKIE TOYOTA, driving turbocharged prototype and production-based race cars in multiclass endurance and solo sprint championships. He has also contested the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie and the Nürburgring 24 Hours in GT3 machinery for KCMG.[1]

His career spans twelve seasons from 2015 onward across four continents. In Super GT, where he has made his home, Fukuzumi has 60 starts, 6 wins and 17 podiums across eleven campaigns; he won the GT300 class championship in 2019 driving for Autobacs Racing Team Aguri. Super Formula has occupied him since 2019, yielding 3 wins and 11 podiums from 70 starts. He contested GP3 Series in 2016 and 2017, taking 2 wins and 9 podiums for ART Grand Prix, and raced Formula 2's multiclass grid in 2018; this junior category work also saw him measure himself against future Formula 1 drivers including George Russell and Lando Norris, both of whom he has finished ahead of in single-seater racing. His recent appearances in the Nürburgring endurance rounds represent the first indexed entries into those championships.[2]

In Super Formula Fukuzumi remains closely matched with Tadasuke Makino, an elite professional and two-time GT500 champion, though he habitually finishes behind Sho Tsuboi, who has won Super Formula in 2024 and 2025 and holds three GT500 titles. The 2026 Super GT season, still in progress, has yielded two podiums from four rounds run.