is a Japanese racing driver currently competing in

Super Formula The Japanese Super Formula Championship is a formula racing series. It is considered as being the top level of single-seater racing in Japan and regional motorsports in Asia. The series is sanctioned by the Japan Automobile Federation (JAF) an ...

for

Dandelion Racing Dandelion Racing is a Japanese racing team, mainly running in Super Formula. The team was founded by Kiyoshi Muraoka in 1989 as "Dandelion Racing Project". Early years (1993-1998) The team made a small sponsor contract with NTT Docomo in 1993 ...

Career

Karting

In 2010, Fukuzumi began karting, starting his racing career. He remained in karting until 2013, with his best achievement being second place in the ROK Cup International Final in the Super ROK category

Lower formulae

In 2014, he began to compete in

open-wheel racing Formula racing (known as open-wheel racing in North America) is any of several forms of open-wheeled single-seater motorsport. The origin of the term lies in the nomenclature that was adopted by the FIA for all of its post-World War II single-s ...

, moving up to Japanese F3 the next year. He won four races and finished fourth in the standings.

GP3 Series

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, Nirei débuted in the

GP3 Series The GP3 Series, or GP3 for short, was a single-seater motor racing series launched in 2010 as a feeder series for the GP2 Series, introduced by GP2 organiser Bruno Michel. GP3 followed the entire European leg of the Formula One series and the ...

with

ART Grand Prix ART Grand Prix is a French motor racing team that competes in formula single-seaters in Europe. In 2012, it competed in the GP2 Series and GP3 Series as Lotus GP to reflect sponsorship from British sports and racing car manufacturer Lotus. The ...

, scoring three podium finishes and finishing seventh in the championship. Fukuzumi stayed on for another season of GP3 in 2017. He racked up two victories, both coming at feature races, and ended up third in the standings, only behind teammates George Russell and

Jack Aitken Jack Aitken (Korean: 한세용, ''Han Se-yong''; born 23 September 1995 in London) is a British- South Korean racing driver who currently competes for Racing Team Turkey in the European Le Mans Series and for Emil Frey Racing in the ADAC GT ...

. In 2017, he was part of McLaren Young Driver Programme as he's part of Honda Junior Program.

FIA Formula 2 Championship

The Japanese driver made his

Formula 2 Formula Two (F2 or Formula 2) is a type of open-wheel formula racing category first codified in 1948. It was replaced in 1985 by Formula 3000, but revived by the FIA from 2009–2012 in the form of the FIA Formula Two Championship. The name return ...

debut in

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with BWT Arden, partnering

Maximilian Günther Maximilian Günther (born 2 July 1997) is a German racing driver currently competing in Formula E for Maserati MSG Racing. Günther has previously driven in Formula 2 with Arden and for Dragon Racing, BMW i Andretti and Nissan e.dams in Formul ...

. In that season, he managed to joined

Red Bull Junior Team The Red Bull Junior Team is a driver development program run by the energy drink company Red Bull GmbH in an attempt to identify potential future racing stars in open wheel racing. The similar Red Bull Driver Search, now ended, was an American ...

. Fukuzumi scored a total of 17 points, finishing 17th, three positions behind Günther in the championship. After this unfortunate season, Red Bull dropped him from the Academy.

Super Formula & Super GT

While the main focus was to race in Formula 2 for 2018, Fukuzumi competed in

with Team Mugen for 4 rounds. After 3 seasons in Europe, Fukuzumi returned to Japan, and compete in

with

Super GT Super GT (stylized as SUPER GT) is a grand touring car racing series that began in 1993. Launched as the , generally referred to as either the JGTC or the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship, the series was renamed to Super GT in 2005. It is ...

GT300 with ARTA as

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's teammate. In that season, he managed to claimed the Super GT GT300 Title, while in Super Formula full debut managed to get 7th place in the standings. In 2020, he stayed with the same team in both series but promoted to GT500 class in

with

Tomoki Nojiri is a Japanese racing driver for the Honda Motor Company. He currently drives in the GT500 class of the Autobacs Super GT Series, and the Super Formula Championship, where he is the 2021 and 2022 series champion. Racing career Early career ...

as his teammate. For 2021, He stays with the same team in both series. Fukuzumi had his best season by far, managed to claimed runners up in the standings for

with 2 wins & 1 pole to his name in that season, and

with 1 win. For 2022, Fukuzumi moves from Front runner Dandelion Racing to Drago Corse for Super Formula, while for Super GT stays with ARTA.

Karting record

Karting career summary

Racing record

Career summary

^† As Fukuzumi was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score championship points.
** The FC class was a class using modified

Formula Challenge Japan Formula Challenge Japan was an open wheel racing series based in Japan. The first season was in 2006 and carried on from the defunct Formula Dream series. It is promoted as a young driver development project jointly by Honda, Toyota and Nissan a ...

's FC106 chassis and running with the JAF Formula 4's "C" class, an upper grade class. So, there were neither pole position nor fastest lap.

Complete Japanese Formula 3 Championship results

(

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) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

Complete GP3 Series results

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) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

Complete FIA Formula 2 Championship results

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) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers) ^† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

Complete Super GT results

(

) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) ^† As Fukuzumi was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score championship points.
^‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.

Complete Super Formula results

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) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fukuzumi, Nirei 1997 births Living people Sportspeople from Tokushima Prefecture Japanese racing drivers Japanese Formula 3 Championship drivers GP3 Series drivers FIA Formula 2 Championship drivers Super Formula drivers ART Grand Prix drivers Super GT drivers Arden International drivers Mugen Motorsports drivers Dandelion Racing drivers Karting World Championship drivers Team Aguri drivers