Koudai Tsukakoshi

Koudai Tsukakoshi
Koudai Tsukakoshi
	Tsukakoshi in 2010.
Nationality	Japanese
Born	20 November 1986 (age 38); Imaichi (now Nikkō), Tochigi, Japan
Super GT career
Debut season	2008
Current team	Real Racing
Car number	17
Wins	4
Podiums	23
Poles	6
Fastest laps	7
Best finish	2nd in 2013
Super Formula career
Debut season	2009
Teams	HFDP Racing, Team Dandelion Racing, Real Racing
Wins	1
Podiums	10
Poles	2
Fastest laps	3
Best finish	2nd in 2012
Previous series
2008; 2005–07; 2004	Formula 3 Euro Series; All-Japan Formula Three; Formula Dream

Koudai Tsukakoshi (塚越広大, Tsukakoshi Kōdai, born 20 November 1986) is a Japanese racing driver for Honda Racing Corporation who currently competes in Super GT for Astemo Real Racing.

Career

Formula Three

After competing in Formula Dream in 2004 and 2005, winning the championship in his second year, Tsukakoshi moved into the All-Japan Formula Three Championship for the final three rounds of the 2005 season, finishing fourteenth in the standings competing for M-TEC. He remained with the team for the 2006 season, finishing fifth in the standings, taking a victory at Suzuka. Another fifth place championship finish followed in 2007, as Tsukakoshi took two wins for Honda Team Real at Okayama and Suzuka. He also finished in second place at the prestigious Macau Grand Prix for Manor Motorsport; finishing behind Oliver Jarvis.^[1] Tsukakoshi moved to Manor Motorsport and the Formula Three Euroseries for the 2008 season.^[2] He finished seventh in the championship standings, with a best result of second place on four occasions.

Super Formula

After a season in Europe, Tsukakoshi made his debut in Formula Nippon in 2009 with HFDP Racing which run by Real Racing. He raced with them before move to Dandelion Racing. He competed with the team, and he managed to close to win the title, just lose out to Kazuki Nakajima by three points. In 2013, he returns to Real Racing, and he raced with them for six seasons. Tsukakoshi initially not compete for 2019 season, bu he replaces Tristan Charpentier after the first round because he had qualified two seconds off the pace in the first round and crashed heavily in the race. Tsukakoshi then race for the rest of the season.^[3] Real Racing announced it has withdrawn from the 2020 season thus left Tsukakoshi without a seat.^[4] He then moves to new team Drago Corse to cover for Tatiana Calderon who unable to enter Japan due to visa issues.^[5] Calderon missed Autopolis, Sugo, and the fifth round at Motegi and Tsukakoshi was her replacement.^{[citation needed]}

Tsukakoshi thn picked by the series to develop the new Dallara-built SF23 chassis as the test driver of Honda representative. Also he is part of new Threebond Racing formerly Drago Corse as an advisory.^[6]

Super GT

Tsukakoshi made one race debut with Real Racing in 2008. After that he is the main driver for Real Racing from 2009 till now. He won many races in his Super GT career, and managed to get runners up in 2013.^{[citation needed]}

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2005	Japanese Formula 3 Championship	Honda Team M-TEC	5	0	0	0	0	19	14th
2006	Japanese Formula 3 Championship	Honda Team M-TEC	18	1	5	2	6	153	5th
2007	Japanese Formula 3 Championship	Honda Team Real	20	2	2	1	7	182	5th
2008	Formula 3 Euro Series	Manor Motorsport	20	0	0	0	4	36	7th
2008	Super GT	Real Racing	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2009	Super GT	Real Racing	9	0	0	0	2	51	5th
2009	Formula Nippon	HFDP Racing	8	0	0	1	0	20	7th
2010	Super GT	Real Racing	8	1	1	1	2	53	3rd
2010	Formula Nippon	HFDP Racing	8	0	0	0	1	9	9th
2011	Super GT	Real Racing	8	0	1	0	3	50	4th
2011	Formula Nippon	Docomo Team Dandelion Racing	7	0	1	0	2	26.5	4th
2012	Super GT	Real Racing	8	0	0	0	1	30	12th
2012	Formula Nippon	Docomo Team Dandelion Racing	8	1	1	0	6	43	2nd
2013	Super GT	Real Racing	8	0	0	0	4	64	2nd
2013	Super Formula	HP Real Racing	7	0	0	0	0	3	15th
2014	Super GT	Real Racing	8	0	1	0	1	24	12th
2014	Super Formula	HP Real Racing	9	0	0	0	0	8.5	11th
2015	Super GT	Real Racing	8	0	0	0	2	30	8th
2015	Super Formula	Real Racing	8	0	0	0	0	0	17th
2016	Super GT	Keihin Real Racing	8	0	0	1	1	27	11th
2016	Super Formula	Real Racing	9	0	0	0	0	11	11th
2017	Super GT	Keihin Real Racing	8	0	0	0	2	37	10th
2017	Super Formula	Real Racing	7	0	0	0	0	3	15th
2018	Super GT	Keihin Real Racing	8	1	1	1	2	45	7th
2018	Super Formula	Real Racing	7	0	0	0	0	6	13th
2019	Super GT	Keihin Real Racing	8	0	2	2	1	39	6th
2019	Super Formula	Real Racing	6	0	0	0	0	2	19th
2020	Super GT	Keihin Real Racing	8	2	0	0	2	59	3rd
2020	Super Formula	Drago Corse with ThreeBond	2	0	0	0	0	0	24th
2021	Super GT	Astemo Real Racing	8	1	0	0	2	52	6th
2021	Super Formula	Drago Corse with ThreeBond	3	0	0	0	0	0	22nd
2022	Super GT	Astemo Real Racing	8	1	0	0	3	60	4th
2023	Super GT	Astemo Real Racing	8	0	0	0	1	45	6th
2024	Super GT	Astemo Real Racing

Complete Japanese Formula 3 results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	DC	Pts
2005	Honda Team M-TEC	Mugen	MOT 1	MOT 2	SUZ 1	SUZ 2	SUG 1	SUG 2	FUJ 1	FUJ 2	OKA 1	OKA 2	SUZ 1	SUZ 2	MIN 1	MIN 2	FUJ 1 11	FUJ 2 7	MIN 1 7	MIN 2 8	MOT 1 12	MOT 2 5	14th	19
2006	Honda Team M-TEC	Mugen	FUJ 1 2	FUJ 2 5	SUZ 1 12	SUZ 2 9	MOT 1 7	MOT 2 3	OKA 1 2	OKA 2 4	SUZ 1 1	SUZ 2 2	AUT 1 7	AUT 2 4	FUJ 1 13	FUJ 2 11	SUG 1 5	SUG 2 5	MOT 1 2	MOT 2 11			5th	153
2007	Honda Team Real	Mugen	FUJ 1 7	FUJ 2 5	SUZ 1 5	SUZ 2 6	MOT 1 3	MOT 2 4	OKA 1 3	OKA 2 1	SUZ 1 3	SUZ 2 1	AUT 1 5	AUT 2 5	AUT 3 Ret	FUJ 1 2	FUJ 2 2	SEN 1 6	SEN 2 8	SEN 3 4	MOT 1 5	MOT 2 8	5th	182

Complete Super GT results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	DC	Points
2008	Real Racing	Honda NSX	GT500	SUZ	OKA	FUJ	SEP	SUG	SUZ Ret	MOT	AUT	FUJ	25th	1
2009		Honda NSX		OKA 5	SUZ 6	FUJ 12	SEP 2	SUG 6	SUZ 10	FUJ 4	AUT Ret	MOT 3	5th	51
2010		Honda HSV-010 GT		SUZ 7	OKA 7	FUJ 5	SEP 12	SUG 1	SUZ 4	FUJ C	MOT 3		3rd	53
2011				OKA 3	FUJ 8	SEP 3	SUG 6	SUZ 12	FUJ 3	AUT 6	MOT 7		4th	50
2012				OKA 3	FUJ 6	SEP 7	SUG 9	SUZ 10	FUJ 5	AUT 14	MOT Ret		12th	30
2013				OKA 2	FUJ Ret	SEP 5	SUG Ret	SUZ 7	FUJ 2	AUT 3	MOT 2		2nd	67
2014		Honda NSX Concept-GT		OKA 6	FUJ Ret	AUT Ret	SUG 3	FUJ 4	SUZ Ret	BUR 12	MOT 15		12th	24
2015				OKA 12	FUJ 4	CHA 3	FUJ 8	SUZ Ret	SUG 8	AUT 3	MOT 8		8th	39
2016	Keihin Real Racing			OKA 11	FUJ 12	SUG 6	FUJ 2	SUZ 10	CHA 6	MOT Ret	MOT 11		11th	27
2017				OKA 11	FUJ 8	AUT 2	SUG Ret	FUJ Ret	SUZ 15	CHA 3	MOT 4		10th	37
2018		Honda NSX-GT		OKA 1	FUJ 11	SUZ 11	CHA 7	FUJ 3	SUG 9	AUT 6	MOT 15		7th	45
2019				OKA 14	FUJ 5	SUZ Ret	CHA 13	FUJ 8	AUT 2	SUG 5	MOT 5		6th	39
2020				FUJ Ret	FUJ 1	SUZ 8	MOT 1	FUJ 10	SUZ 10	MOT 5	FUJ 4		3rd	59
2021	Astemo Real Racing			OKA 5	FUJ 1	SUZ 14	MOT 7	SUG 3	AUT 8	MOT 4	FUJ Ret		6th	52
2022				OKA 9	FUJ 9	SUZ 2	FUJ 10	SUZ 2	SUG 12	AUT 1	MOT 5		4th	60
2023				OKA 7	FUJ 3	SUZ 9	FUJ 7	SUZ 4	SUG DSQ	AUT 6	MOT 3		6th	45
2024		Honda Civic Type R-GT GT500		OKA Ret	FUJ	SUZ	FUJ	SUZ	SUG	AUT	MOT

Complete Formula Nippon/Super Formula results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	DC	Points
2009	HFDP Racing	FUJ 6	SUZ 5	MOT 4	FUJ 6	SUZ 9	MOT 10	AUT Ret	SUG 4		7th	20
2010	HFDP Racing	SUZ 8	MOT 2	FUJ 11	MOT 10	SUG Ret	AUT Ret	SUZ 10	SUZ 12		9th	9
2011	Docomo Team Dandelion Racing	SUZ 7	AUT 3	FUJ 5	MOT 4	SUZ C	SUG 4	MOT 3	MOT 8		4th	26.5
2012	Docomo Team Dandelion Racing	SUZ 2	MOT 5	AUT 1	FUJ 9	MOT 3	SUG 2	SUZ 3	SUZ 3		2nd	43
2013	HP Real Racing	SUZ 9	AUT 6	FUJ 9	MOT 9	SUG Ret	SUZ Ret	SUZ Ret			15th	3
2014	HP Real Racing	SUZ 14	FUJ DNS	FUJ 9	FUJ Ret	MOT 6	AUT 4	SUG Ret	SUZ 8	SUZ 13	11th	8.5
2015	Real Racing	SUZ DNS	OKA 14	FUJ 13	MOT Ret	AUT 17	SUG 9	SUZ 9	SUZ 11		17th	0
2016		SUZ 5	OKA 2	FUJ 8	MOT 12	OKA 5	OKA 11	SUG 11	SUZ 11	SUZ 12	11th	11
2017		SUZ 6	OKA 11	OKA 16	FUJ 9	MOT 9	AUT 9	SUG 16	SUZ C	SUZ C	15th	3
2018		SUZ 6	AUT C	SUG 12	FUJ 13	MOT 10	OKA 12	SUZ 6			13th	6
2019		SUZ	AUT 15	SUG 9	FUJ 18	MOT 18	OKA 14	SUZ 7			19th	2
2020	Drago Corse with ThreeBond	MOT	OKA 12	SUG Ret	AUT	SUZ	SUZ	FUJ			24th	0
2021	Drago Corse with ThreeBond	FUJ	SUZ	AUT 13	SUG 16	MOT Ret	MOT	SUZ			22nd	0

References

^ "Jarvis dominates Polytec Formula Three Macau Grand Prix". Macau Grand Prix. Macau Grand Prix Committee. 18 November 2007. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
^ "Japanese F3 champion joins Manor Motorsport". gpupdate.net. GPUpdate. 2 January 2008. Archived from the original on 27 December 2009. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
^ Thukral, Rachit (9 May 2019). "Rookie Charpentier axed after one Super Formula race". Motorsport.com. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
^ "Real Racing withdraws from 2020 Super Formula season". Motorsport Network. 27 February 2020.
^ "Tatiana Calderon forced to miss Okayama Super Formula round". www.motorsport.com. 21 September 2020. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
^ "ThreeBond takes over Drago Corse Super Formula entry". motorsports.com. 21 February 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2023.

External links

Official website
Koudai Tsukakoshi career summary at DriverDB.com

[1] "Jarvis dominates Polytec Formula Three Macau Grand Prix". Macau Grand Prix. Macau Grand Prix Committee. 18 November 2007. Retrieved 30 April 2010.

[2] "Japanese F3 champion joins Manor Motorsport". gpupdate.net. GPUpdate. 2 January 2008. Archived from the original on 27 December 2009. Retrieved 30 April 2010.

[:1-3] Thukral, Rachit (9 May 2019). "Rookie Charpentier axed after one Super Formula race". Motorsport.com. Retrieved 9 May 2019.

[4] "Real Racing withdraws from 2020 Super Formula season". Motorsport Network. 27 February 2020.

[5] "Tatiana Calderon forced to miss Okayama Super Formula round". www.motorsport.com. 21 September 2020. Retrieved 22 September 2020.

[ThreebondSF-6] "ThreeBond takes over Drago Corse Super Formula entry". motorsports.com. 21 February 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2023.

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