Toshio Suzuki (racing driver)

Toshio Suzuki is a former racing driver from Saitama Prefecture, Japan.

Racing career

As a youth, Suzuki won the All-Japan Kart Championships in 1975 and 1976. In 1979, he took the title of the first All-Japan Formula Three Championship.
In 1992, Suzuki won the 24 Hours of Daytona with Kazuyoshi Hoshino and Masahiro Hasemi. In the same year, he was runner-up in the Japanese F3000 championship.

In, Suzuki participated in two Formula One Grands Prix, standing in for Philippe Alliot at the Larrousse team. Though he scored no championship points, he finished both races.

Suzuki competed mainly in national championships, including the Japanese Formula 3000 Championship, Japanese Touring Car Championship and All-Japan Grand Touring Car Championship. He also participated into the 24 Hours of Le Mans. In 1996, he made a single start in the NASCAR Busch Series, driving for Joe Bessey at Nazareth Speedway; an accident during the race left him with a concussion.
In 2006, Suzuki became the director of the R&D SPORT in Super GT to continue the team that Direxiv abandoned.

Most recently, he worked for Nissan as a test driver to help in the development of the R35 Nissan GT-R.

*The race at Fuji Speedway was cancelled due to a large crash on the first lap and heavy fog afterwards.

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
1993	Larrousse F1	Larrousse LH93	Lamborghini V12	RSA	BRA	EUR	SMR	ESP	MON	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	JPN 12	AUS 14	NC	0