Naoki Nagasaka
Naoki Nagasaka ( Japanese 長坂 尚 樹 , Nagasaka Naoki ; born April 24, 1953 in Aichi ) is a former Japanese car racing driver .
Career
Naoki Nagasaka began his career in the early 1970s, the Japanese Monopostosport . He contested races in the Japanese Formula 2000 Championship and in the Japanese Formula Pacific; however, without being able to achieve significant successes. At the beginning of the 1980s, he switched to sports and touring car racing , where the success he had hoped for quickly set in. He celebrated his first major victory in 1980 at the Suzuka 1000 km race , which he won together with Hironobu Tatsumi on a March 75S. In 1982 he secured the overall ranking of the Fuji Long Distance Series with four individual victories on a BMW M1 . In 1984 he won the overall ranking of the Japanese sports car championship . A year later and in 1987 he won the title of Japanese touring car champion.
The Japanese also came to Europe as a works driver for Toyota in the 1990s and competed three times in the Le Mans 24-hour race . He achieved the best placement in the overall ranking in 1993 as a partner of Roland Ratzenberger and Mauro Martini with fifth place.
After a few years in the Japanese GT Championship - he finished fourth in the overall standings in 1996 - he ended his racing career at the end of the 1997 season.
statistics
Le Mans results
year | team | vehicle | Teammate | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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1990 | Toyota Team SARD | Toyota 90C-V | Roland Ratzenberger | Pierre-Henri Raphanel | failure | Engine failure |
1991 | Euro Racing | Toyota 91C-V | Kiyoshi Misaki | Hisashi Yokoshima | Rank 12 | |
1993 | Y's Racing Team | Toyota 93C-V | Roland Ratzenberger | Mauro Martini | 5th place and class win |
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Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Nagasaka, Naoki |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 長坂 尚 樹 (Japanese) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese racing car driver |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1953 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Aichi , Japan |