Kunimitsu Takahashi
Nation: | Japan | ||||||||
Automobile world championship | |||||||||
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First start: | 1977 Japanese Grand Prix | ||||||||
Last start: | 1977 Japanese Grand Prix | ||||||||
Constructors | |||||||||
1977 Meritsu Racing Team | |||||||||
statistics | |||||||||
World Cup balance: | no World Cup placement | ||||||||
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World Cup points : | - | ||||||||
Podiums : | - | ||||||||
Leadership laps : | - |
Kunimitsu Takahashi ( Japanese 高橋 国 光 , Takahashi Kunimitsu ; born January 29, 1940 in Koganei , Tokyo Prefecture ) is a former Japanese motorcycle and car racer .
Career
Motorcycling
Takahashi began his career as a motorcycle racing driver and was the first Japanese to win a world championship run in the 250 cc class on a Honda in 1961 . At the age of 21 he won the German Grand Prix . A serious accident at the Tourist Trophy on the Isle of Man in 1962 severely hampered the young Japanese's two-wheeler ambitions. After four motorcycle Grand Prix victories, he switched to four wheels in 1965.
Automobile sport
Takahashi drove in the Japanese Group C championship in the 1960s and in 1977 took over the old Tyrrell 007 from Kazuyoshi Hoshino in order to compete in the Japanese Grand Prix with this old racing car . In Fuji he drove the racing car powered by a Cosworth engine to ninth place.
At the beginning of the 1980s he was a works driver for Kojima in Formula 2 and drove a Toleman TG280 with Yokohama tires in the same monoposto class . He was four times in the decade Japanese sports car champion, his partners were the strong sports car drivers Kenny Acheson , Stanley Dickens and Kenji Takahashi .
In the 1990s he drove in the Japanese Formula 3000 championship and drove a Honda NSX in the Japanese GT championship .
statistics
Statistics in the automobile world championship
general overview
season | team | chassis | engine | run | Victories | Second | Third | Poles | nice Round | Points | WM-Pos. |
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1977 | Meritsu Racing Team | Tyrrell 007 | Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | NC |
Single results
season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14th | 15th | 16 | 17th |
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1977 | |||||||||||||||||
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Legend | ||
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colour | abbreviation | meaning |
gold | - | victory |
silver | - | 2nd place |
bronze | - | 3rd place |
green | - | Placement in the points |
blue | - | Classified outside the point ranks |
violet | DNF | Race not finished (did not finish) |
NC | not classified | |
red | DNQ | did not qualify |
DNPQ | failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify) | |
black | DSQ | disqualified |
White | DNS | not at the start (did not start) |
WD | withdrawn | |
Light Blue | PO | only participated in the training (practiced only) |
TD | Friday test driver | |
without | DNP | did not participate in the training (did not practice) |
INJ | injured or sick | |
EX | excluded | |
DNA | did not arrive | |
C. | Race canceled | |
no participation in the World Cup | ||
other | P / bold | Pole position |
SR / italic | Fastest race lap | |
* | not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered |
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() | Streak results | |
underlined | Leader in the overall standings |
Le Mans results
year | team | vehicle | Teammate | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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1986 | Porsche Kremer Racing | Porsche 962C | Sarel van der Merwe | Jo Gartner | failure | fatal accident by Gartner |
1987 | Porsche Kremer Racing | Porsche 962C | Kris Nissen | Volker Weidler | failure | Engine failure |
1988 | Kenwood Kremer Racing | Porsche 962C | Bruno Giacomelli | Hideki Okada | Rank 9 | |
1989 | Porsche Kremer Racing | Porsche 962C | Bruno Giacomelli | Giovanni Lavaggi | failure | Fire |
1990 | Porsche Kremer Racing | Porsche 962CK6 | Sarel van der Merwe | Hideki Okada | Rank 24 | |
1994 | Kremer Honda Racing | Honda NSX | Keiichi Tsuchiya | Akira Iida | Rank 18 | |
1995 | Team Kunimitsu Honda | Honda NSX | Keiichi Tsuchiya | Akira Iida | Rank 8 and class win | |
1996 | Team Kunimitsu Honda | Honda NSX | Keiichi Tsuchiya | Akira Iida | Rank 16 |
literature
- Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who. 3rd edition. Travel Publishing, Reading 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .
Web links
- Kunimitsu Takahashi on the official website of the Motorcycle World Championship (English).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Takahashi, Kunimitsu |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese racing driver |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1940 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Koganei , Tokyo Prefecture , Japan |