Noritake Takahara

Noritake Takahara

Nation:	Japan
Automobile world championship
First start:	1976 Japanese Grand Prix
Last start:	1977 Japanese Grand Prix
Constructors
1976  Team Surtees  1977  Kojima Engineering
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 2 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Noritake Takahara ( Japanese 高原 敬 武 , Takahara Noritake ; born June 6, 1951 in Tokyo ) is a former Japanese racing car driver .

Career

Takahara began his career in 1969 with a Honda S800 in the Japanese Touring Car Championship. In the early 1970s he drove various makes of March in the Japanese Formula 2 championship. In 1973 he came to Europe and competed for GRD in the European Formula 2 championship.

In 1974 Takahara returned to Japan and entered the Japanese sports car championship. Then in 1976 the climax of the Japanese career. For the third time in a row he was the overall winner in the sports car championship and faced tough competition from Masahiro Hasemi and Kazuyoshi Hoshino , the top drivers in Japan in 1976, he also won the overall standings in the Formula 2 championship. The crowning glory was the first appearance at a Formula 1 Grand Prix . In Fuji he made his debut at the Japanese Grand Prix in a factory Surtees TS19 . The race, which was marked by the duel for the title between James Hunt and Niki Lauda , Takahara finished in ninth place, three laps behind the winner Mario Andretti in the Lotus 77 .

In 1977, to Hasemi's annoyance, he took over his cockpit at the Kojima plant . He started again at his home Grand Prix in Fuji. During the race he had a collision with Mario Andretti which damaged the car so badly that he had to give up the race.

Takahara remained active as a racing driver until the 1980s, with formula racing remaining his priority.

statistics

These statistics include all participations of the driver in the Formula 1 World Championship , which until 1980 was known as the Automobile World Championship.

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Round	Points	WM-Pos.
1976	Surtees	Surtees TS19	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1977	Kojima engineering	Kojima KE007	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
1976
																9
1977
																	DNF

Legend
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
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

literature

• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who . Travel Publishing, London 1999, ISBN 1-902007-46-8

Web links

• Noritake Takahara at Stats F1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ About Noritake Takahara