🇯🇵 Syun Koide

Syun Koide is an established professional competing in Super Formula for ThreeBond Racing, racing a Honda-powered M-TEC HR-417E in a single-class national championship that fields drivers from amateur level through graded professionals. He stepped up to the series in 2025 after two seasons in single-seater racing at lower levels. Across 75 career starts, he has taken 14 wins and 23 podiums in a portfolio spanning Super Formula Lights, Super GT, and Super Formula.[1]

Koide won the 2024 Super Formula Lights championship with B-MAX Racing Team, taking 12 wins from 36 starts that season and establishing himself as the class's leading driver. His transition to Super GT in 2023 saw him share a GT300 car with Astemo Real Racing over two seasons, notching 2 wins and 4 podiums from 23 starts in that multiclass endurance series. He has now completed seven rounds of his first Super Formula season and sits ninth in the championship standings, still searching for his first podium at this level. His record across the three series shows a driver who has dominated the junior single-seater tier and now contends with the full range of established professionals and champions that Super Formula brings.[2]

Koide's field includes multiple elite professionals with substantial credentials: Sho Tsuboi, the reigning Super Formula champion and a four-time Super GT winner; and Tadasuke Makino, a dual Super GT GT500 champion. Koide has beaten both Tsuboi and Makino on circuit, though not in a pattern that suggests mastery. His regular opponents are Seita Nonaka, an established professional he runs closely with, and Yuga Furutani, whom he typically outpaces. He remains a developing presence in a championship that houses champions; his immediate task is to close the gap from ninth to contention as the season continues.