Hiroshi Hasegawa

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Hiroshi Hasegawa ( Japanese 長谷川 弘 , Hasegawa Hiroshi ; born January 25, 1934 in Shizuoka Prefecture ) is a former Japanese motorcycle racer .

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An RD56 like the one Hiroshi Hasegawa drove

Hasegawa joined Yamaha as a driver around 1963 . In the same year as the first Japanese Grand Prix was held. After the company had not shown any involvement in races in Europe for a year and a half, he came back in the same year together with Fumio Ito and Yoshikazu Sunako to take part in the legendary Isle of Man TT with the two-stroke engines of the RD series. The Japanese manufacturers Suzuki (for the first time in 1962 ) and Honda (for the first time in 1961 ) had already been successful at the TT. Yamaha did not achieve this goal until 1965 with the victory of Phil Read , but Hasegawa was able to achieve a highly regarded fourth place for his employer in the lightweight class up to 250 cm³. Hasegawa's greatest success was the Macau Grand Prix at the Guia Circuit . Here he triumphed twice in a row with his RD56 at an average speed of 96 km / h (60  mph ). In 1966 he ended his active career as a factory driver and opened a motorcycle shop in his home country.

Victory statistics

year class machine run
1966 250 cc Yamaha Japanese Grand Prix
1967 Solo motorcycle Yamaha Macau Grand Prix
1968 Solo motorcycle Yamaha Macau Grand Prix

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personal data
SURNAME Hasegawa, Hiroshi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 長谷川 宏 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese motorcycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Shizuoka Prefecture