Toranosuke Takagi

Toranosuke Takagi

Nation:	Japan
Formula 1 world championship
First start:	1998 Australian Grand Prix
Last start:	1999 Japanese Grand Prix
Constructors
1998  Tyrrell  1999  Arrows
statistics
World Cup balance:	WM-20. ( 1999 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 32 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Toranosuke "Tora" Takagi ( Japanese 高木 虎 之 介 Takagi Toranosuke ; born February 12, 1974 in Shizuoka ) is a Japanese racing driver.

Junior years

Takagi came to racing through his father, a touring car driver. He started kart racing in the early 1980s. After several race wins and two Japanese championship titles (A2 National Kart Series), he switched to Formula Toyota in 1992. Via the Japanese Formula 3 , Takagi finally reached the Japanese Formula 3000 , later Formula Nippon . In 1997 he was first a test driver for the Tyrrell Formula 1 team before becoming a regular driver in 1998 .

Formula 1 career

Takaki at the 1998 Spanish Grand Prix

Takagi was the sixth Japanese in Formula 1 when he first competed for Tyrrell at the 1998 Australian Grand Prix . However, he did not achieve any top results, also because his team was one of the laggards of Formula 1. So he remained without World Championship points, but managed at least two places in the top ten (ninth in each case) at Silverstone and Monza . He had his team-mate Ricardo Rosset under control throughout the season.

After the sale of the Tyrrell team, Takagi moved to Arrows in 1999 , who were also a backcountry team. The season started promisingly with a 7th place in Australia and 8th place in Brazil . In contrast to the current regulation, there were no championship points for this. The rest of the season was very disappointing for him with starting positions mostly at the end of the field and series failures. Since he did not get a Formula 1 cockpit after the 1999 season, Takagi's Formula 1 career ended and he went back to Japan for the time being.

American racing series

After his less than happy Formula 1 time, Takagi drove back to Formula Nippon for the time being, where he immediately became a superior champion in 2000 . Then he made the leap into the American CART series. He drove for Walker Racing from 2001 and finished 21st in the championship. His best result of the season was fourth in Houston . The 2002 CART season went better with a total of seven placements in the top ten and a final 15th place in the championship. His best result was also fourth.

For 2004, Takagi got a cockpit in the second major American formula racing series, the IndyCar Series in Mo Nunn's team . The 2003 IndyCar Series season was quite successful with championship rank 10. The highlights of the season were rank five as the best rookie at the Indianapolis 500 and a podium finish with rank three at Texas Motor Speedway . However, Takagi only managed two seasons in the IRL. After the somewhat disappointing 15th place in the 2004 IndyCar Series season , he went back to Japan to start again in Formula Nippon.

In addition to formula series, Takagi also drove sports car races. In the 1990s he competed in the Porsche Supercup , in 2005 he won the Japanese Super GT Championship together with Yūji Tachikawa in a Toyota Supra .

statistics

Statistics in the Formula 1 World Championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Round	Points	WM-Pos.
1998	Tyrrell	Tyrrell 026	Ford Zetec-R / 97 3.0 V10	16	-	-	-	-	-	-	21st
1999	Arrows	Arrows A20	Arrows 3.0 V10	16	-	-	-	-	-	-	20th
total				32	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16
1998
	DNF	DNF	12	DNF	13	11	DNF	DNF	9	DNF	13	14th	DNF	9	16	DNF
1999
	7th	8th	DNF	DNF	12	DNF	DNF	16	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	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

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