Shinji Nakano

Shinji Nakano

Nation:	Japan
Formula 1 world championship
First start:	1997 Australian Grand Prix
Last start:	1998 Japanese Grand Prix
Constructors
1997  Prost  · 1998  Minardi
statistics
World Cup balance:	WM-18. ( 1997 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 33 - - -
World Cup points :	2
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Shinji Nakano ( Japanese 中 野 信 治 , Nakano Shinji ; born April 1, 1971 in Osaka Prefecture , Japan ) is a former Japanese Formula 1 racing driver.

Career

formula 1

Shinji Nakano in the Minardi M198 at the 1998 Spanish Grand Prix

In the 1997 season, Nakano drove for the now defunct Prost Grand Prix team and scored two championship points with two sixth places at the Canadian Grand Prix and the Hungarian Grand Prix . The following year he drove for Minardi - Cosworth , but scored no points in the season and ended his Formula 1 career after 33 races at the Japanese Grand Prix . In 1999 he tested new Mugen Honda engines for the Jordan team , but did not drive any further races.

CART and IRL

In 2000, Nakano moved to the Champ Car World Series for the Walker Racing team . He finished six of seventeen championship runs and scored a total of twelve points. The following year he was signed to Fernández Racing and finished the 2001 season with eleven points in 26th place. In his last and most successful champ car season in 2002 , he finished 17th overall, with a fourth place best result at Molson Indy Montreal . Since Fernández only used one vehicle in the Champ Car World Series in 2003, Nakano lost his cockpit. In 2003 he drove at the Indy Japan 300 on the Twin Ring Motegi and at the Indianapolis 500 two races for the American team Beck Motorsports and finished both races in midfield.

Le Mans Series

Nakano in the Epsilon Euscadi at the 2008 Silverstone 1000 km race

In 2005 and 2006 Nakano competed for Courage Compétition at the 24-hour race of Le Mans , but retired early in both years. In 2006 he also drove in the Le Mans Series , his best result was a fifth place in the 1000 km race at the Circuito del Jarama . In the 2007 LMS season , Shinji Nakano switched to Creation Autosportif and, in addition to the two races in the series, also contested the Le Mans 24-hour race for the third time. While he retired prematurely at Le Mans, he was taken out of the classification at the 1000 km race in Spa and finished the 1000 km race at the Nürburgring in fifth place overall, together with Jamie Campbell-Walter and Felipe Ortiz . The following year he drove again three races for Epsilon Euskadi . Both in Le Mans and in the 1000 km race on the Nürburgring, the team dropped out prematurely due to technical defects. At Silverstone they lost several laps in repairs to the pits.

After Epsilon Euskadi's withdrawal, Nakano did not have a permanent driver's seat in the Le Mans Series in 2009. At the 1000 km race in Spa-Francorchamps , Nakano was to drive a Pescarolo 01 alongside Jacques Nicolet and Richard Hein . However, the vehicle did not take part in the race after qualifying. At the end of the year, Nakano was again registered on a Pescarolo, now with the Sora Racing team, which was supervised by Henri Pescarolo . Together with Christophe Tinseau , he won one of the two 500 km races of the Asian Le Mans Series , the duo finished the second race on the podium and thus won the championship, which comprised only two races.

He is not to be confused and is not related to the Japanese motorcycle racer Shin'ya Nakano .

statistics

Statistics in the Formula 1 World Championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1997	Cheers Gauloises Blondes	Cheers JS45	Mugen-Honda 3.0 V10	17th	-	-	-	-	-	2	18th
1998	Fondmetal Minardi team	Minardi M198	Ford Zetec-R / 97 3.0 V10	16	-	-	-	-	-	-	18th
total				33	-	-	-	-	-	2

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th
1997
	7th	14th	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	6th	DNF	11 *	7th	6th	DNF	11	DNF	DNF	DNF	10
1998
	DNF	DNF	13	DNF	14th	9	7th	17 *	8th	11	DNF	15th	8th	DNF	15th	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

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2005	Courage Compétition	Courage C65	Jonathan Cochet	Bruce Jouanny	failure	accident
2006	Courage Compétition	Courage LC70	Jean-Marc Gounon	Haruki Kurosawa	failure	accident
2007	Creation Autosportif Ltd.	Creation CA07	Jamie Campbell-Walter	Felipe Ortiz	failure	Cylinder overheated
2008	Epsilon Euskadi	Epsilon Euskadi ee1	Jean-Marc Gounon	Stefan Johansson	failure	Power transmission
2011	OAK Racing	Pescarolo 01	Nicolas De Crem	Jan Charouz	Rank 14
2012	Boutsen Ginion Racing	Oreca 03	Bastien Brière	Jens Petersen	Rank 24
2013	ADR delta	Oreca 03	Gate Graves	Archie Hamilton	failure
2014	Team Taisan	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Pierre Ehret	Martin Rich	Rank 26
2016	Race performance	Oreca 03R	Nicolas Leutwiler	James Winslow	Rank 44

Web links

Commons : Shinji Nakano  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Shinji Nakano at Motorsport Magazine
• Shinji Nakano at Stats F1