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🇯🇵 Sho Tsuboi

Racing driver from Japan. Super GT, TGR Team au Tom's. Five-time champion.
Driver facts
Full name
Sho Tsuboi
Born
21 May 1995(b. 1995)
Nationality
Japan
Current team
TGR Team au Tom's
Series
Super GT
Status
Active
Championships
52021, 2023, 2024, 2024, 2025
Career wins
20
Career podiums
44
Career starts
143
Career DNFs
10
Racer Rating
6,576
Sho Tsuboi
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Racer Rating
6,576
Rank 46 of 38,983 indexed, +13 this season
FIA Categorisation
Platinum
FIA driver categorisation
Source: fia.com
Synthesized from 1 source, updated 0h ago

Sho Tsuboi is a racing driver from Japan who competes in Super GT for TGR Team au Tom's. Tsuboi is a five-time champion (2021, 2023, 2024, 2024, 2025), with 20 wins and 44 podiums from 143 starts.[1]

A Racer Rating of 6,576 ranks Tsuboi 46th of 38,983 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications
2026 form
Last 20 races, finish position (higher is better)
P1P5P10P20DNFJPNJPNJPNJPNJPNJPNJPNGERGERJPNJPNJPNJPNJPNJPNJPNGERJPNJPNJPN
Recent results
Tap a row for the full race
2026-05-03Fuji GT500Super GTP1+92
2026-04-11Okayama GT500Super GTP1+98
2026-04-03MotegiSuper FormulaP14−70
2026-03-21Nürburgring Nordschleife SP 9 ProNürburgring Langstrecken-SerieP9−107
Career-best drives
Ranked by rating won, which prices the opposition
Rating wonRaceSeriesFinish
+168Fuji 2020Super FormulaP1
+156Fuji 2021Super GTP1
+148Okayama 2020Super FormulaP1
+143Fuji 2019Super FormulaP2
+137Fuji 2023Super GTP1
Circuits
Rating per start against their own form that season
Raises their game
Twin Ring Motegi5 starts+39
Fuji34 starts+37
Okayama7 starts+32
TI Aida4 starts+26
Struggles
Sugo10 starts-35
Motegi16 starts-30
Macau5 starts-26
Autopolis14 starts-23
Season by season
SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPodiumsDNFsPolesPointsPosGain/LossRating
2026▸Super GTTGR Team au Tom's222000—+1916,576
▸Nürburgring Langstrecken-SerieKCMG100000—−107
▸Super FormulaVantelin Team TOM'S100000—−70
2025▸Super FormulaVantelin Team TOM'S1225110P1+1936,563
▸Super GTTGR Team au Tom's723000P2−267
▸Nürburgring Langstrecken-SerieKCMG200000P18−334
2024▸Super FormulaVantelin Team TOM'S937010P1+4976,971
▸Super GTTGR Team au Tom's833020P1+204
2023▸Super FormulaP.mu/cerumo-INGING903210P5+2566,270
▸Super GTTGR Team au Tom's834010P1+261
2022▸Super FormulaP.mu/cerumo-INGING1001000P10+805,753
▸Super GTTGR Team au Tom's801000P8+30
2021▸Super GTTGR Team au Tom's813000P1+3925,643
▸Super FormulaP.mu/cerumo-INGING700200P15−448
2020▸Super GTTGR Team Wako's Rookie803100P8−815,538
▸Super FormulaJMS P.mu/cerumo-INGING722300P3+58
2019▸Super GTLexus Team Wedssport Bandoh801000P10−1465,897
▸Super FormulaJMS P.mu/cerumo-INGING701100P10↑725+31
2018▸Super GTTsuchiya Engineering803000P7↑241−1645,971
▸Formula 3 MacauTOM'S100000—−46
2017▸Super GTLM Corsa822000P3+4095,430
▸Formula 3 MacauTOM'S200000—−160
2016▸Formula 3 MacauTOM'S200000—+3,6645,014
Recent coverage
No recent coverage found.
Head-to-head
Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times Tsuboi finished ahead vs behind
RivalRatingRacedAheadBehindRecord
🇯🇵 Tadasuke MakinoFIA Gold6,639121635852%
🇯🇵 Tomoki Nojiri6,152121635852%
🇯🇵 Kazuya OshimaFIA Platinum5,519113753866%
🇯🇵 Nirei FukuzumiFIA Gold5,448113743965%
🇯🇵 Kenta YamashitaFIA Platinum6,267107584954%
🇯🇵 Naoki YamamotoFIA Platinum6,244104584656%
🇯🇵 Yuji KunimotoFIA Platinum4,810101722971%
🇯🇵 Toshiki OyuFIA Gold5,68396633366%
🇯🇵 Yuhi SekiguchiFIA Gold5,71592504254%
🇯🇵 Sena SakaguchiFIA Silver5,44289632671%
🇳🇱 Max VerstappenFIA Platinum, 4× champion8,724110100%
🇯🇵 Alex PalouFIA Platinum, 4× champion7,659103730%
🇳🇿 Liam LawsonFIA Platinum7,30093633%
Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates
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Global rank, 38,983 drivers indexed
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Sho Tsuboi is an elite professional, rated 7,109, racing in Japanese national championships for Toyota Gazoo Racing and TOM'S Racing. He competes in Super GT, a national endurance series where he drives for TGR Team au Tom's, and Super Formula, a national single-seater championship for Vantelin Team TOM'S. He holds Platinum grading from the FIA, the highest professional categorisation in endurance and sportscar racing.[1]

Tsuboi has won five championships: Super GT titles in 2021, 2023 and 2024, and Super Formula championships in 2024 and 2025. Across 72 Super GT starts he has taken 11 wins and 21 podiums; in 62 Super Formula rounds he has 7 wins and 19 podiums. His record spans a decade from 2016, including five starts in Formula 3 Macau and three in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie endurance series. In the 2026 season, still in progress, he has won both Super GT rounds run so far.[2]

He races regularly against elite professionals including Tomoki Nojiri, a two-time Super Formula champion, with whom he is closely matched. Tadasuke Makino, Gold-graded and champion of Super GT in 2020 and 2025, finished ahead of Tsuboi only 53 times across their careers despite Makino's stronger peak rating. Alex Palou, a four-time IndyCar champion and Platinum-graded professional who raced 110 IndyCar rounds, met Tsuboi only eight times in their careers and finished ahead in that small sample; such limited head-to-head racing against drivers of that calibre leaves their relative standing unclear from the index alone.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications[2] Wikipedia
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