Koudai Tsukakoshi


Koudai Tsukakoshi is a Japanese racing driver for Honda Racing Corporation who competes in Super GT for Astemo Real Racing since 2008.

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. Tsukakoshi moved to Manor Motorsport and the Formula Three Euroseries for the 2008 season. 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. Real Racing announced it has withdrawn from the 2020 season thus left Tsukakoshi without a seat. He then moves to new team Drago Corse to cover for Tatiana Calderon who unable to enter Japan due to visa issues. Calderon missed Autopolis, Sugo, and the fifth round at Motegi and Tsukakoshi was her replacement.
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.

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.

Racing record

Career summary

Complete Japanese Formula 3 results

YearTeamEngine1234567891011121314151617181920DCPts
2005Honda Team M-TECMugenMOT
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
14th19
2006Honda Team M-TECMugenFUJ
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
5th153
2007Honda Team RealMugenFUJ
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
5th182

Complete Super GT results

YearTeamCarClass123456789DCPoints
2008Real RacingHonda NSXGT500SUZOKAFUJSEPSUGSUZ
Ret
MOTAUTFUJ25th1
2009Real RacingHonda NSXGT500OKA
5
SUZ
6
FUJ
12
SEP
2
SUG
6
SUZ
10
FUJ
4
AUT
Ret
MOT
3
5th51
2010Real RacingHonda HSV-010 GTGT500SUZ
7
OKA
7
FUJ
5
SEP
12
SUG
1
SUZ
4
FUJ
C
MOT
3
3rd53
2011Real RacingHonda HSV-010 GTGT500OKA
3
FUJ
8
SEP
3
SUG
6
SUZ
12
FUJ
3
AUT
6
MOT
7
4th50
2012Real RacingHonda HSV-010 GTGT500OKA
3
FUJ
6
SEP
7
SUG
9
SUZ
10
FUJ
5
AUT
14
MOT
Ret
12th30
2013Real RacingHonda HSV-010 GTGT500OKA
2
FUJ
Ret
SEP
5
SUG
Ret
SUZ
7
FUJ
2
AUT
3
MOT
2
2nd67
2014Real RacingHonda NSX Concept-GTGT500OKA
6
FUJ
Ret
AUT
Ret
SUG
3
FUJ
4
SUZ
Ret
BUR
12
MOT
15
12th24
2015Real RacingHonda NSX Concept-GTGT500OKA
12
FUJ
4
CHA
3
FUJ
8
SUZ
Ret
SUG
8
AUT
3
MOT
8
8th39
2016Keihin Real RacingHonda NSX Concept-GTGT500OKA
11
FUJ
12
SUG
6
FUJ
2
SUZ
10
CHA
6
MOT
Ret
MOT
11
11th27
2017Keihin Real RacingHonda NSX Concept-GTGT500OKA
11
FUJ
8
AUT
2
SUG
Ret
FUJ
Ret
SUZ
15
CHA
3
MOT
4
10th37
2018Keihin Real RacingHonda NSX-GTGT500OKA
1
FUJ
11
SUZ
11
CHA
7
FUJ
3
SUG
9
AUT
6
MOT
15
7th45
2019Keihin Real RacingHonda NSX-GTGT500OKA
14
FUJ
5
SUZ
Ret
CHA
13
FUJ
8
AUT
2
SUG
5
MOT
5
6th39
2020Keihin Real RacingHonda NSX-GTGT500FUJ
Ret
FUJ
1
SUZ
8
MOT
1
FUJ
10
SUZ
10
MOT
5
FUJ
4
3rd59
2021Astemo Real RacingHonda NSX-GTGT500OKA
5
FUJ
1
SUZ
14
MOT
7
SUG
3
AUT
8
MOT
4
FUJ
Ret
6th52
2022Astemo Real RacingHonda NSX-GTGT500OKA
9
FUJ
9
SUZ
2
FUJ
10
SUZ
2
SUG
12
AUT
1
MOT
5
4th60
2023Astemo Real RacingHonda NSX-GTGT500OKA
7
FUJ
3
SUZ
9
FUJ
7
SUZ
4
Sportsland Sugo|
DSQ
AUT
6
MOT
3
6th45
2024Astemo Real RacingHonda Civic Type R-GT GT500GT500OKA
Ret
FUJ
31
SUZ
6
FUJ
8
SUZ
7
SUG
Ret
AUT
14†
MOT
22
10th43
2025Astemo Real RacingHonda Civic Type R-GT GT500GT500OKA
8
FUJ
12
SEP
4
FS1
FS2
13
SUZ
Ret
SUG
3
AUT
8
MOT
13
11th26
2026Astemo Real RacingHonda Prelude-GTGT500OKA
FUJ
SEP
FUJ
SUZ
SUG
AUT
MOT

Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.
Driver did not take part in this sprint race, points are still awarded for the teammate's result.
* Season still in progress.