Toshio Suzuki (driver)
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Toshio Suzuki (鈴木 利男 Suzuki Toshio?, born March 10, 1955) is a former racing driver from Saitama Prefecture, Japan.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] GT-R
Most recently, he worked for Nissan as test driver to develop the Nissan GT-R.
[edit] Complete Formula One results
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| 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 |
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| Sporting positions | ||
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| Preceded by none |
All-Japan Formula Three Champion 1979 |
Succeeded by Shuroko Sasaki |
| Preceded by Marco Apicella |
Japanese Formula 3000 Champion 1995 |
Succeeded by Ralf Schumacher (Formula Nippon) |
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