🇯🇵 Tadasuke Makino

Tadasuke Makino is an elite professional rated 6,741 and graded FIA Gold, competing in Super GT and Super Formula for Stanley Team Kunimitsu and DOCOMO TEAM DANDELION RACING respectively. He drives a Honda in Super Formula's single-class domestic championship and races in Super GT's top class alongside his national series commitments. Over eleven seasons from 2016 through 2026, Makino has accumulated 181 starts, 11 wins and 35 podiums across five indexed championships.[1]

Makino won the Super GT GT500 championship in 2020 with Team Kunimitsu and claimed the same title again in 2025, partnering Stanley Team Kunimitsu. His main activity lies in Super Formula, where he has contested 67 rounds since 2019 and taken 6 wins and 17 podiums, and in Super GT itself, where 61 starts have yielded 4 wins and 16 podiums. Earlier in his career, between 2016 and 2018, he raced in European junior categories: the FIA Formula 3 European Championship, Formula 2, and Formula 3 Macau, taking a feature race win in Formula 2 with RUSSIAN TIME in 2018. In the current 2026 Super GT season, he has contested four rounds so far.[2]

The regular opponents Makino meets in his domestic campaigns are consistently strong. He races closely matched against Nirei Fukuzumi, an established professional and 2019 Super GT GT300 champion, and against Sho Tsuboi, an elite professional who won both the 2021 and 2023 Super GT GT500 championships, the 2024 Super Formula, and the 2024 Super GT GT500 title. In his junior career abroad, Makino finished ahead of Lando Norris, a generational talent and multiple world champion, three times over 30 races in the FIA Formula 3 European Championship; he also beat George Russell, another generational driver, three times in the same series across 56 races. In 2026, Makino has also taken a Honda HRC Prelude-GT to its first Super GT victory at Fuji while racing outside his regular championships.