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🇯🇵 Syun Koide

Racing driver from Japan. Super Formula, ThreeBond Racing. One-time champion.
Driver facts
Full name
Syun Koide
Nationality
Japan
Current team
ThreeBond Racing
Series
Super Formula
Status
Active
Championships
12024
Career wins
14
Career podiums
23
Career starts
72
Career DNFs
4
Racer Rating
5,249
Syun Koide
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Racer Rating
5,249
Rank 856 of 38,983 indexed, +76 this season
FIA Categorisation
Not on file
Not yet indexed
Source: fia.com
Synthesized from 1 source, updated 0h ago

Syun Koide is a racing driver from Japan who competes in Super Formula for ThreeBond Racing. Koide is a one-time champion (2024), with 14 wins and 23 podiums from 72 starts.[1]

A Racer Rating of 5,249 ranks Koide 856th 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)
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Recent results
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2026-04-03MotegiSuper FormulaP9+77
Career-best drives
Ranked by rating won, which prices the opposition
Rating wonRaceSeriesFinish
+191Okayama 2023Super GTP1
+140Suzuka 2023Super GTP1
+134Fuji 2023Super Formula LightsP1
+128Autopolis 2023Super Formula LightsP2
+127Sportsland SUGO 2025Super GTP3
Circuits
Rating per start against their own form that season
Raises their game
Okayama9 starts+40
Sugo7 starts+18
Struggles
Suzuka16 starts-16
Fuji14 starts-15
Autopolis10 starts-10
Motegi9 starts-3
Season by season
SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPodiumsDNFsPolesPointsPosGain/LossRating
2026▸Super FormulaThreeBond Racing100000—+765,249
2025▸Super FormulaSan-Ei Gen with B-Max1200000P15↑761−3655,173
▸Super GTAstemo Real Racing701100P9−87
2024▸Super Formula LightsB-MAX Racing Team188110100P1+3944,864
▸Super GTTeam UpGarage801000P14−142
2023▸Super Formula LightsToda Racing1848020P3↑103+9154,612
▸Super GTTeam UpGarage822300P7+3,262
Recent coverage
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Head-to-head
Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times Koide finished ahead vs behind
RivalRatingRacedAheadBehindRecord
🇯🇵 Seita NonakaFIA Gold5,05158352360%
🇧🇷 Yuga Furutani4,27050361472%
🇯🇵 Igor FragaFIA Gold5,04045252056%
🇯🇵 Hibiki TairaFIA Silver4,87339152438%
🇯🇵 Dragon2,38236360100%
🇯🇵 Kazuto KotakaFIA Gold4,30330131743%
🇯🇵 Rikuto KobayashiFIA Gold5,5162819968%
🇯🇵 Yuui TsutsumiFIA Silver5,16028151354%
🇯🇵 Nobuhiro ImadaFIA Bronze2,75927270100%
🇯🇵 Jin Nakamura4,77825121348%
🇯🇵 Tadasuke MakinoFIA Gold, 2× champion6,6392031715%
🇯🇵 Sho TsuboiFIA Platinum, 5× champion6,5762051525%
🇯🇵 Ayumu IwasaHigher-rated6,3541331023%
Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates
On the leaderboard
Global rank, 38,983 drivers indexed
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854🇪🇸 Adrian CamposFormula 15,250
855🇮🇹 Alessandro SantinInternational Formula 30005,250
856🇯🇵 Syun KoideSuper Formula5,249
857🇧🇪 Jeff van HooydonkFIA GT Championship5,248
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Syun Koide is an established professional single-seater driver competing in the top tier of Japanese motorsport. His Racer Rating of 5,498 places him among established professionals; he holds a full-time seat at the top level and wins in strong fields. Koide won the 2024 Super Formula Lights championship, the feeder series to Japan's premier single-seater category, with 12 victories from 36 starts across the 2023 and 2024 seasons. He contested the championship as part of Honda's Formula Dream Project and demonstrated clear command of the series, with 19 podium finishes indicating consistent front-running pace.[1]

Koide's record against rivals shows the complexity of his standing. In Super Formula Lights he repeatedly outpaced Yuga Furutani, finishing ahead in 34 of 45 shared races, and dominated lower-rated competitor Dragon in all 36 encounters. However, he finished behind Seita Nonaka, an FIA Gold-graded professional, in 18 of 48 races, and behind Hibiki Taira in 21 of 37, suggesting he is competitive with but not dominant over peers at his own level. His transition to elite company has been mixed. In Super GT, he recorded a single podium from 19 starts across 2023 and 2024, racing against multiple former and current national champions including Naoki Yamamoto, Sho Tsuboi, and Tadasuke Makino. He finished ahead of these elite drivers on isolated occasions, twice beating Makino and Yamamoto, three times Kenta Yamashita, and four times Tsuboi, but these successes are against endurance fields where shared driving duties and operational factors shape outcomes. His Super Formula debut came in 2025 with two starts yielding no points.[2]

Koide remains a works-supported driver at an active phase of his career. His recent move into Super Formula represents the step that separates feeder-series champions from those who establish themselves among Japan's top single-seater regulars. The early results from that campaign and his ongoing Super GT programme will clarify whether his championship credentials translate to sustained competitiveness at the highest national level.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications[2] Wikipedia
Syun Koide: Honda’s bright new hope in Japanese motorsport[1]
honda.racing
22 Apr 2025
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Honda Announces 2025 SUPER GT Line-Ups[2]
dailysportscar.com
11 Dec 2024
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Koide seals Super Formula Lights title in convincing fashion[3]
Formula Scout
2 Dec 2024
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