Toshio Suzuki (driver)

nihongo|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 the first All-Japan Formula Three Championship.

In 1992, he won the 24 Hours of Daytona with Kazuyoshi Hoshino and Masahiro Hasemi.

Formula One

In f1|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 competed 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 develop the Nissan GT-R.

Complete Formula One results

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