Nobushige Fukuda
Nobushige Fukuda is a racing driver from Hokkaidō Prefecture, Japan. He currently drives for Parma Corse in the Rejects of LFS. He is known for his smooth and consistent driving style.
History
Fukuda started his single-seater career in the All-Japan Formula 3 Championship in 2008. He competed there for three years, winning the championship in his final season. In 2009 and 2010 he complimented his F3 programme as a co-driver in Super GT. After starting his first year at Endless Nissan in the GT300 class, he moved up to GT500 with ENEOS Toyota Team LeMans.
In 2011, he progressed to Formula Nippon with Petronas Team TOM'S, and managed a highest championship finish of 3rd in 2012.
In 2014, he switched to F1 Rejects Big Car Championship team Scuderia Alitalia with backing from Toyota. When the series collapsed, he went became a tester for Parma Corse, Alitalia's B-team, at the revived Rejects of LFS. Soon he replaced Stefan Kuntz at rival team Grands Travaux Inutiles while the German driver was on suspension for causing multiple incidents at the 2014 South City sprint race. GTI were impressed with his driving and decided to drop Kuntz permanently in favour of Fukuda.
With Parma Corse electing to run former F2RWRS driver Marco Bizzarri along with promising rookie Marcel Agyemang-Badu, he instead remained at Grands Travaux Inutiles for another year.
Results
Rejects of LFS
| Year | Team | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | DC | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Grands Travaux Inutiles | Scaven S11B | Judd 3.0 V8 | BLA FEA |
BLA SPR |
SOU FEA |
SOU SPR |
FER FEA 15 |
FER SPR 3 |
KYO FEA 11 |
KYO SPR 17 |
WES FEA 7 |
WES SPR 10 |
AST FEA 15 |
AST SPR 4 |
19th | 3 | |
| 2015 | Grands Travaux Inutiles | Scaven S15 | Trabant-Zytek 3.0 V8 | BLA HEA |
BLA FEA |
WES HEA |
WES FEA |
FER HEA |
FER FEA |
SOU HEA |
SOU FEA |
AST HEA |
AST FEA |
KYO HEA |
KYO FEA |
KYO 300 |
N/A* | N/A* |
F1 Rejects Big Car Championship
| Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | DC | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Virgin Inter Corse | CLY 2 |
3rd | 16 | ||||||||||
| Scuderia Alitalia | SOM Ret |
ELB C |
VAT C |
AUL C |
GER C |
ENG C |
SCO C |
USA C |
AUS C |
VAN C |
- * Season in progress
