Taro Sekiguchi
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Nationality | Japanese | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1975-12-05) December 5, 1975 (age 48) Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current team | SANMEI Team TARO PLUSONE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bike number | 44 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Taro Sekiguchi (関口 太郎, Sekiguchi Tarō, born December 5, 1975 in Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese motorcycle road racer. He was the MFJ All Japan Road Race GP250 champion in 2001 and the European 250cc champion in 2003.[1]
Career
Sekiguchi began his Grand Prix career competing in the 1999 250cc Japanese Grand Prix. He suffered a serious accident during the 2007 Czech Republic Grand Prix warm-up at Brno, where he struck Marco Simoncelli's crashed Gilera bike at full speed; he was airlifted to a hospital in Brno, where doctors confirmed he had a broken pelvis and two fractured ribs.[2] After losing his Grand Prix ride, Sekiguchi returned to Japan, to the MFJ All Japan Road Race GP250 Championship. He moved into the MFJ All Japan Road Race ST600 Championship in 2009, before switching to the MFJ All Japan Road Race J-GP2 Championship, where he finished as runner-up in 2011, 8th in 2012, 12th in 2013, 6th in 2014 and 3rd in 2015.[1] In 2016 Sekiguchi appeared again in a Grand Prix as a wild card in the Moto2 class in his home race. In 2016, 2017 and 2018 he was again the J-GP2 runner-up and in 2019 he moved to the JSB1000 class, finishing 14th.[1]
Career statistic
Grand Prix motorcycle racing[3]
Races by year
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
References
External links
- Official website
- Taro Sekiguchi at MotoGP.com
- Taro Sekiguchi at AS.com (in Spanish)
Sporting positions | ||
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Preceded by Álvaro Molina | 250 cc motorcycle European Champion 2003 | Succeeded by Álvaro Molina |
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- 1924 Maurice van Geert
- 1925–1926 Jock Porter
- 1927–1928 Cecil Ashby
- 1929 Frank Longman
- 1930 Syd Crabtree
- 1931 Graham Walker
- 1932 Riccardo Brusi
- 1933 Charlie Dodson
- 1934 Walfried Winkler
- 1935 Arthur Geiss
- 1936 Henry Tyrell-Smith
- 1937 Omobono Tenni
- 1938–1939 Ewald Kluge
- 1947 Bruno Francisci
- 1948 Maurice Cann
- 1981 Herbert Hauf
- 1982 Reinhold Roth
- 1983 Carlos Cardús
- 1984 Gary Noel
- 1985 Massimo Matteoni
- 1986 Hans Lindner
- 1987 Xavier Cardelús
- 1988 Fausto Ricci
- 1989 Andrea Borgonovo
- 1990 Leon van der Heijen
- 1991 Max Biaggi
- 1992 Luis Carlos Maurel
- 1993 Giuseppe Fiorillo
- 1994 Régis Laconi
- 1995 Luca Boscoscuro
- 1996 Sebastián Porto
- 1997 Davide Bulega
- 1998 Alex Hofmann
- 1999 Ivan Clementi
- 2000 Riccardo Chiarello
- 2001 David García
- 2002 Álvaro Molina
- 2003 Taro Sekiguchi
- 2004–2007 Álvaro Molina