Tadasuke Makino

Honestly, Tadasuke Makino is the kind of driver who makes you sit up and pay attention. A kid from Osaka who started karting in 2004 as a small child, worked his way through European Formula 3, won the Formula 2 feature race at Monza as the first Japanese driver to win an F2 feature race — that's a real résumé, not a highlight reel. Then in 2020 he slots in alongside Naoki Yamamoto at Team Kunimitsu, filling a seat that Jenson Button had warmed, and promptly wins the Super GT GT500 championship. He was 23. There's something quietly relentless about the way he's built his career, race by race, no viral moment, just results. Osaka born and bred, Cancer sign with that stubborn streak — it all tracks. I'm genuinely curious where the ceiling is, because from where I'm standing, it doesn't look like he's found it yet.

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Tadasuke Makino is a Japanese racing driver born on June 28, 1997, in Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. He competes professionally in motorsport and maintains an official team website at team-tadasuke.com. He won the Super GT GT500 title with Team Kunimitsu in 2020 and, in 2018, became the first Japanese driver to win a Formula 2 feature race, at Monza.

Name (English)

Tadasuke Makino

Name (Japanese)

牧野任祐

Reading

まきの ただすけ

Born

June 28, 1997 (age 29)

Origin

Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Racing Driver

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Ox

• Official sitehttp://team-tadasuke.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/tadasukemakino/
• Xhttps://x.com/tadasuke0628
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%89%A7%E9%87%8E%E4%BB%BB%E7%A5%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27979055

Tags

• From Osaka Prefecture
• Racing Driver

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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