Japanese racing driver (born 1955)
NASCAR driver
Toshio Suzuki The Toyota GT-One driven by Suzuki at the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Born (1955-03-10 ) 10 March 1955 (age 69) Nationality JapaneseActive years 1993 Teams Larrousse Entries 2 Championships 0 Wins 0 Podiums 0 Career points 0 Pole positions 0 Fastest laps 0 First entry 1993 Japanese Grand Prix Last entry 1993 Australian Grand Prix Years 1985 –1986 , 1988 –1990 , 1993 , 1995 –1996 , 1998 –2000 , 2008 Teams Dome , Team LeMans, Tom's , NISMO , TV Asahi Team Dragon, Tōkai University YGKBest finish 2nd (1999 ) Class wins 1 (1999 )
1 race run over 1 year Best finish 96th (1996 ) First race 1996 Meridian Advantage 200 (Nazareth Speedway )
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Toshio Suzuki (鈴木 利男 , Suzuki Toshio , born 10 March 1955) 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, he 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 1993 , he participated in two Formula One Grands Prix, standing in for Philippe Alliot at the Larrousse team. Though he scored no championship points, Suzuki finished both races.
Suzuki competed mainly in national championships, including the Japanese Formula 3000 Championship (later Formula Nippon), Japanese Touring Car Championship (JTCC) and All-Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC). 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.[1]
In 2006, he became director of the R&D SPORT in Super GT to continue the team that Direxiv abandoned.
GT-R
Most recently,[when? ] he worked for Nissan as a test driver to help in the development of the R35 Nissan GT-R .
Motorsports career results
24 Hours of Le Mans results
(key ) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Complete Japanese Touring Car Championship results
(key ) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Complete JGTC results
(key ) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
*The race at Fuji Speedway was cancelled due to a large crash on the first lap and heavy fog afterwards.
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NASCAR
(key ) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led. )
Busch Series
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run as the Daytona 3 Hour Continental (1962–63)
Daytona 2000 (1964–65)
6 Hours of Daytona (1972)
24 Hours of Daytona (1966–71 / 1973 / 1975–present)
Five-time Four-time Three-time Two-time One-time