Takaaki Nakagami

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Takaaki Nakagami ( Japanese 中 上 貴 晶 , Nakagami Takaaki ; born February 9, 1992 in Chiba , Chiba Prefecture ) is a Japanese motorcycle racer .

Career

Nakagami started riding pocket bikes at an early age . He won the Japanese Poket Bike Championship three times. He started training on a minibike at the age of nine .

In 2006 he became the youngest 125cc champion in the Japanese championship. In 2007 he moved to the Spanish championship of the 125 cc class. At the end of the year he was twelfth overall. In the same year he contested his first world championship run in the 125 cc class of the motorcycle world championship .

In 2008 , Nakagami drove his first full season in the 125cc class on an IC Aprilia. In the final ranking he finished 24th overall with 17 points. His best finish was eighth in the British Grand Prix . In 2009 Nakagami improved his performance in this class. He finished fifth in both the French Grand Prix and the Great Britain Grand Prix. At the end of 2009 he left the motorcycle world championship and went back to Japan. There won Nakagami 2010 along with Ryūichi Kiyonari and Takumi Takahashi , the Suzuka 8 Hours . In 2011 he won the Japanese Moto2 championship. At the Japanese Grand Prix he represented Claudio Corti for the Italtrans team and made his debut in the Moto2 class.

In the 2012 season he played the entire world championship for this team. His best finish that year was a fifth place in the Spanish Grand Prix . Overall, Nakagami was 15th in the final with 56 points.

In 2013 Nakagami started his second full Moto2 season. In the opening race of the Grand Prix of Qatar , he was third. In qualifying for the French Grand Prix , Nakagami took his first pole position. During the warm-up for the Dutch TT at the TT Circuit Assen , he fell badly and broke his left collarbone. During his best season in the Moto2 class in 2016 , he finished 6th.

For the 2018 season, after six years in Moto2, he switched to the MotoGP class at Honda . Nakagami achieved some solid results, his best result being sixth at the Valencia Grand Prix .

statistics

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In the motorcycle world championship

(Status: GP of Andalusia 2020)

season class motorcycle run Victories Podiums Poles Points Result
2007 125 cc Kalex 1 - - - - -
2008 125 cc Kalex 17th - - - 12 24.
2009 125 cc Aprilia 16 - - - 43 16.
2012 Moto2 Kalex 17th - - - 56 15th
2013 Moto2 Kalex 16 - 5 3 148 8th.
2014 Moto2 Kalex 18th - - - 34 22nd
2015 Moto2 Kalex 18th - 1 - 100 8th.
2016 Moto2 Kalex 18th 1 4th 1 169 6th
2017 Moto2 Kalex 18th 1 4th - 137 7th
2018 MotoGP Honda 18th - - - 33 20th
2019 MotoGP Honda 16 - - - 74 13.
2020 MotoGP Honda 3 - - - 27 8th.
total 176 2 14th 4th 821

References

Web links

Commons : Takaaki Nakagami  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Profile of Takaaki Nakagami". (No longer available online.) Taka-nakagami.com, archived from the original on February 21, 2014 ; Retrieved July 4, 2013 .
  2. ^ "8h Suzuka: vittoria per HARC-PRO Honda, che errori per Rea e Yoshimura". (No longer available online.) Bikeracing.it, July 25, 2010, archived from the original on June 15, 2015 ; Retrieved July 2, 2013 .
  3. ↑ "Nakagami successfully operated". motogp.com, July 1, 2010, accessed July 2, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Nakagami, Takaaki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 中 上 貴 晶 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese motorcycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Chiba , Chiba Prefecture