Shuhei Aoyama

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Shūhei Aoyama ( Japanese 青山 周 平 , Aoyama Shūhei ; born December 5, 1984 in Ichihara ) is a Japanese motorcycle racer .

In 2008 he competed in the Superbike World Championship on a Honda CBR 1000 RR for the Alto Evolution Honda team . His older brother Hiroshi is also a motorcycle racer and became world champion in the 250 cc class in the 2009 season and thus the last quarter liter world champion in history.

Career

Beginnings

Shūhei Aoyama started riding pocket bikes at the age of three . At 13 he enrolled in the local 80 cc class, at 16 Aoyama took part in the Japanese motorcycle road championship . In 2003 he secured his first Japanese championship title in the 125 cc class, and brother Hiroshi won the 250cc class that same year. In 2005 Shūhei Aoyama was able to celebrate winning the Japanese 250 cc championship.

Motorcycle World Championship

In 2001 Shūhei Aoyama made his debut in the motorcycle world championship at the Pacific Grand Prix . Until 2005 then sporadic WRC rounds followed, mostly as a wildcard rider at Honda respectively at discharged in Japan race. He achieved his best placement here in 2002 with sixth place at the 125 cc Grand Prix of Japan .

For the 2006 season , Shūhei Aoyama started as a regular driver in the 250cc class of the World Cup, where he started in the Repsol Honda team. After a short period of acclimatization, the Japanese achieved his first and so far only podium finish in the world championship with third place at the French Grand Prix in Le Mans . In the second half of the season, Aoyama was regularly among the top six and thus secured eighth place in the overall standings.

The 2007 season was not quite as positive for Shūhei Aoyama as the previous one. He did not achieve a podium place and only the twelfth world championship rank, which was mainly due to the no longer advanced further development of the 250 cc two-stroke by Honda. Only with the pole position at his home Grand Prix in Motegi could he set an exclamation point.

Superbike World Championship

For the 2008 season Shūhei Aoyama switched to the Superbike World Championship , where he rode a Honda CBR 1000 RR for the Alto Evolution Honda team .

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personal data
SURNAME Aoyama, Shuhei
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 青山 周 平 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese motorcycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH 5th December 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Ichihara