Nirei Fukuzumi

Nirei Fukuzumi
Nirei Fukuzumi
Nationality	Japanese
Born	24 January 1997; Tokushima, Japan
FIA Formula 2 Championship career
Debut season	2018
Current team	BWT Arden
Car number	15
Starts	23
Wins	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	17th in 2018
Previous series
2018; 2016-17; 2015; 2015,2019	FIA Formula 2 Championship; GP3 Series; All-Japan Formula Three; Super GT

Nirei Fukuzumi (福住仁嶺, Fukuzumi Nirei, born 24 January 1997) is a Japanese racing driver currently competing in Super Formula for Dandelion Racing.

Career

In 2010, Fukuzumi began karting, starting his racing career. He remained in karting until 2013. In 2014, he began to compete in open-wheel racing, moving up to Japanese F3 the next year. In 2016, Nirei débuted in the GP3 Series with ART Grand Prix, scoring three podium finishes and finishing seventh in the championship.

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2014	JAF Formula 4 (FC class) East	HFDP Racing	5	1	–**	–**	4	72	1st
	JAF Formula 4 (FC class) West		6	3	–**	–**	5	100	1st
	JAF Formula 4 (FC class) Overall		–	–	–	–	–	172	1st
2015	Japanese Formula 3 Championship		17	2	3	3	6	72	4th
2015	Super GT - GT300	Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
2016	GP3 Series	ART Grand Prix	18	0	0	0	3	91	7th
2017	GP3 Series	ART Grand Prix	14	2	2	0	6	134	3rd
2018	FIA Formula 2 Championship	BWT Arden	23	0	0	0	0	17	17th
2018	Super Formula	Team Mugen	4	0	0	1	0	0	20th
2019	Super GT - GT300	Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	8	1	1	0	3	69.5	1st
2019	Super Formula	DoCoMo Team Dandelion Racing	7	0	0	0	1	18	7th
2020	Super GT	Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	2	0	1	1	0	4	11th*

^† As Fukuzumi was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score championship points.
^* Season still in progress.

**The FC class was a class using modified Formula Challenge Japan'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.[1]

Complete GP3 Series results

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

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Pos	Points
2016	ART Grand Prix	CAT FEA 3	CAT SPR 13	RBR FEA 7	RBR SPR Ret	SIL FEA 11	SIL SPR 7	HUN FEA 4	HUN SPR 4	HOC FEA Ret	HOC SPR 11	SPA FEA Ret	SPA SPR 15	MNZ FEA 5	MNZ SPR Ret	SEP FEA 7	SEP SPR 2	YMC FEA 5	YMC SPR 3	7th	91
2017	ART Grand Prix	CAT FEA 1	CAT SPR 6	RBR FEA 3	RBR SPR 3	SIL FEA Ret	SIL SPR 16	HUN FEA 2	HUN SPR Ret	SPA FEA 3	SPA SPR 4	MNZ FEA DNS	MNZ SPR C	JER FEA 1	JER SPR 5	YMC FEA 15	YMC SPR 14			3rd	134

Complete FIA Formula 2 Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	DC	Points
2018	BWT Arden	BHR FEA 18	BHR SPR 8	BAK FEA 13	BAK SPR 12	CAT FEA 11	CAT SPR Ret	MON FEA 10	MON SPR 11†	LEC FEA 9	LEC SPR 12	RBR FEA 9	RBR SPR 9	SIL FEA Ret	SIL SPR DNS	HUN FEA 10	HUN SPR 6	SPA FEA Ret	SPA SPR 17	MNZ FEA 14	MNZ SPR 13	SOC FEA 8	SOC SPR 7	YMC FEA Ret	YMC SPR 12	17th	17

^† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

Complete Super Formula Results

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

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	DC	Points
2018	Team Mugen	SUZ Ret	AUT	SUG	FUJ	MOT 17	OKA 18	SUZ 12	20th	0
2019	DoCoMo Team Dandelion Racing	SUZ 11	AUT 5	SUG 5	FUJ 9	MOT 5	OKA Ret	SUZ 3	7th	18

Complete Super GT results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	DC	Points
2015	Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	Honda CR-Z	GT300	OKA	FUJ	CHA	FUJ	SUZ 12	SUG	AUT	MOT	NC†	0†
2019	Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	Honda NSX GT3 Evo	GT300	OKA 2‡	FUJ 2	SUZ 6	CHA 9	FUJ 6	AUT 6	SUG 1	MOT 4	1st	69.5
2020	Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	Honda NSX-GT GT500	GT500	FUJ 8	FUJ 14	SUZ	MOT	FUJ	SUZ	MOT	FUJ	11th*	4*

^† 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. ^* Season still in progress.

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References

"Result". 日本フォーミュラー・フォー協会 (Japan Formula 4 Forum). Retrieved 28 November 2016.

External links

Nirei Fukuzumi career summary at DriverDB.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Haruki Kurosawa Naoya Gamou	Super GT GT300 Champion 2019 With: Shinichi Takagi	Succeeded by Incumbent

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[1] "Result". 日本フォーミュラー・フォー協会 (Japan Formula 4 Forum). Retrieved 28 November 2016.