Shōya Tomizawa

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Shōya Tomizawa after winning the 2010 Qatar Grand Prix

Shōya Tomizawa ( Japanese 富 沢 祥 也 , Tomizawa Shōya ; born December 10, 1990 in Asahi , Japan , † September 5, 2010 in Riccione , Italy ) was a Japanese motorcycle racer .

Career

Shōya Tomizawa started riding minibikes when she was three years old . In 2006 he started in the Japanese motorcycle championship in the class up to 125 cm³ and was runner-up behind Takaaki Nakagami . In 2007 he drove the Japanese championship in the classes up to 125 and 250 cm³. In 2008 he was runner-up in the quarter-liter class.

Motorcycle world championship

2006 to 2008

Tomizawa started from 2006 to 2008 with a wildcard at the Japanese Grand Prix in Motegi . He improved both in the starting position and in the finish from year to year. In 2006 he started in the 125cc class as 35th from the penultimate row. Because he caused a jump start, he was punished with a pit run; on the ninth lap he gave up the race. 2007 started from position 30, but crashed on the first lap. After an eight-minute repair, he finished the race four laps behind in 22nd and last. In 2008 he started the race in the 250 cm³ class from 13th place on the grid and finished in 14th place.

Shōya Tomizawa 2009 on Honda

2009

In 2009 Tomizawa had his first full season in the motorcycle world championship . His race number has since the 48th He drove for the French Team CIP Moto - gp250 on the side of Valentin Debise on Honda . With tenth place in the second race, the Japanese Grand Prix, he achieved his best race result to date. After four runs without points, Tomizawa scored a further eleven points at the Grands Prix at the Sachsenring , Donington Park , Brno and Misano . After he was eliminated in Portugal by a fall, Tomizawa achieved 15th place in Australia and thus another World Cup point. At the season finale in Valencia he was tenth and finished the season in 17th place overall with a total of 32 points.

Tomizawa 2010 on Suter MMX

2010

In the 2010 season Shōya Tomizawa started together with the Swiss Dominique Aegerter for Technomag-CIP on Suter in the newly created Moto2 class. At the first race of the season, the Grand Prix of Qatar in Losail , the Japanese celebrated the first Grand Prix victory of his career and was the first race winner in the history of the Moto2 class. At the following race, the Spanish Grand Prix in Jerez , he finished second behind Toni Elías again on the podium and thus defended his lead in the overall standings. In the third race of the season, the French Grand Prix at Le Mans , he retired prematurely after a fall on the eighth lap. He was pushed to second place in the overall standings by the renewed race winner Toni Elías, which he was able to defend by finishing sixth in the next race, the Italian Grand Prix in Mugello . Due to poorer results of the table neighbors in the race in Great Britain , Tomizawa should consolidate his position in the overall standings in sixth place so that he could just defend it at the Dutch TT despite a fifth place. By the second failure of the season and then an 18th place in the following races, he fell back to fifth place overall. After his second pole position of the season at the Czech Grand Prix in Brno, he finished the race in tenth place. Due to a crash through no fault of his own and thus zero points at the Indianapolis Grand Prix , he lost another world championship position to Simone Corsi .

Deadly accident

At the San Marino Grand Prix on September 5, 2010 Shōya Tomizawa fell in a fast right turn. Scott Redding and Alex De Angelis , who drove directly behind him, could no longer evade and rolled over him. The Japanese suffered upper body fractures and a fractured skull and internal bleeding occurred. After being resuscitated on the route, he died about an hour after the accident in the Riccione hospital . While the critically injured Tomizawa was being transported away, one of the paramedics stumbled and dropped the stretcher.

Statistics in the motorcycle world championship

season class motorcycle run Victories Podiums Poles Points Result
2006 125 cc Honda 1 - - - - -
2007 125 cc Honda 1 - - - - -
2008 250 cc Honda 1 - - - 2 26th
2009 250 cc Honda 15th - - - 32 17th
2010 Moto2 Suter 11 1 2 2 82 13.
total 29 1 2 2 116

Web links

Commons : Shōya Tomizawa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roman Wittemeier: Moto2: Tomizawa writes history. www.motorsport-total.com, April 11, 2010, accessed April 26, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Lennart Schmid: Elias wins Jerez thriller. www.motorsport-total.com, May 2, 2010, accessed on May 14, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Fatal accident: Moto 2 rider Tomizawa had an accident. In: Sport1. September 5, 2010, accessed September 5, 2010 .
  4. ↑ South German: Moto2 driver Shoya Tomizawa dies after an accident. www.sueddeutsche.de, September 5, 2010, archived from the original on September 8, 2010 ; Retrieved September 5, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Tomizawa's accident from the perspective of the race management. In: motorsport-total.com. September 6, 2010, accessed September 6, 2010 .
  6. ↑ blick.ch: Tragic mishap after the accident - paramedics dropped Tomizawa , accessed on July 12, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Tomizawa, Shōya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 富 沢 祥 也 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese motorcycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Asahi , Chiba Prefecture
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 2010
Place of death Riccione , Italy