Japanese
Tadasuke Makino is a Japanese racing driver who spent a single season in the FIA Formula 2 Championship before building a successful career in Japanese top-tier motorsport. He came up through Honda's young-driver programme, the Honda Formula Dream Project (HFDP).
Formula 2
Makino stepped up to FIA Formula 2 for the full 2018 season with RUSSIAN TIME, partnering Artem Markelov. After a difficult debut weekend in Bahrain, he scored his maiden points in Baku and went on to take a feature-race victory at Monza — becoming the first Japanese driver to win an F2 feature race.
After F2
With Honda backing, Makino returned to Japan and stepped up to Super Formula and Super GT's GT500 class. He raced in Super GT with Nakajima Racing alongside Narain Karthikeyan, then joined Team Kunimitsu (replacing Jenson Button) alongside Naoki Yamamoto, with whom he won the Super GT GT500 title. He has since remained a fixture of Japan's premier single-seater and GT championships.