Toshio Suzuki (driver)

Toshio Suzuki Nationality  Japanese Formula One World Championship career Active years 1993 Teams Larrousse Races 2 Championships 0 Wins 0 Podium finishes    0 Career points 0 Pole positions 0 Fastest laps 0 First race 1993 Japanese Grand Prix Last race 1993 Australian Grand Prix

24 Hours of Le Mans career Participating years 1985, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999 Teams Dome, Team LeMans, Tom's, NISMO, TV Asahi Team Dragon Best finish 2nd (1999) Class wins 1 (1999)

Toshio Suzuki (鈴木 利男, Suzuki Toshio^?, born March 10, 1955) is a former racing driver from Saitama Prefecture, Japan.

Racing career

In youth, he won the All-Japan Kart Championships two times in 1975 and 1976. In 1979, he took the title of fist All-Japan Formula Three Championship. In 1992, he won the 24 Hours of Daytona with Kazuyoshi Hoshino and Masahiro Hasemi.

Formula One

In 1993, He participated in 2 Formula One grands prix, standing in for Philippe Alliot at the Larrousse team. Though he scored no championship points, Suzuki finished two races.

After Formula One

He competeted mainly in tha national championships like 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. After the retirement as a racing driver, he became team director. In 2006, he became the director of the R&D SPORT in Super GT to continue the team that Direxiv abandoned.

GT-R

Most recently, he worked for Nissan as test driver to develope the Nissan GT-R.

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