🇯🇵 Nobuharu Matsushita

Nobuharu Matsushita is an elite professional single-seater and sportscar driver with a Racer Rating of 6,673, placing him among the top tier of active drivers worldwide. This rating reflects sustained competition in strong fields across multiple championships over a decade. Matsushita has spent the majority of his career in Formula 2, where he accumulated five wins and ten podiums across 62 starts between 2017 and 2020, primarily driving for MP Motorsport. He has also competed in GP2 Series, taking two wins in 33 starts for ART Grand Prix between 2015 and 2016. His record against contemporaries in these single-seater categories shows competitive strength; he finished ahead of Nicholas Latifi, a Platinum-graded professional driver, in 31 of 58 shared races, and held a positive record against Artem Markelov and Jordan King, both Gold-graded professionals, across extended head-to-head campaigns.[1]

Since 2020, Matsushita has been a regular in Super GT for ARTA, accumulating three wins and ten podiums in 39 starts through 2025. His transition to sportscar racing reflects a typical career path for drivers at his level who do not progress to Formula 1. He has faced stiff competition in the GT field; his record against Giuliano Alesi, a Gold-graded professional and 2021 Super Formula Lights champion, ran 40 finishes behind to 18 ahead across 58 shared races. In 2024, Matsushita made three starts in Super Formula for TGM Grand Prix, though he did not score. Most recently, in the 2025 Super GT season through seven rounds, he finished seventeenth overall with one podium finish, indicating continued competition at a high professional level despite a less productive campaign than his earlier seasons in the series.[2]