Yōjirō Terada
Yōjirō Terada ( Japanese 寺 田 陽 次郎 , Terada Yōjirō ; born March 26, 1947 in Kobe ) is a former Japanese automobile racing driver .
Career
Terada was a works driver at Mazda from the late 1970s and stayed with the racing department of the Japanese brand as long as it ran its sports car program until 1992. He drove in the World Sports Car Championship , the Japanese Sports Prototype Championship and in many major international sports car races. He achieved several class wins, such as 1979 and 1982 on a Mazda RX-7 at the Daytona 24-hour race .
In the late 2000s, the bald Japanese racing driver was one of the most sought-after interviewees at the Le Mans 24-hour race . In 2008 Terada contested his 29th Le Mans race. To this day, however, he has not achieved his big goal of overtaking and overtaking Henri Pescarolo - who holds the record at Le Mans starts with 33 participations. Terada never made it to the top three podium in the overall standings at Le Mans, but achieved a total of four class wins in 1983 , 1988 , 1990 and 1996 .
Terada runs an Autoexe tuning company in Tokyo that specializes in upgrading Mazda vehicles.
statistics
Le Mans results
year | team | vehicle | Teammate | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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1974 | Mazda Automotive | Sigma MC74 | Yasuhiro Okamoto | Harakuni Takahashi | not classified | |
1981 | Mazdaspeed | Mazda RX-7 | Hiroshi Fushida | Win Percy | failure | drive shaft |
1982 | Mazdaspeed | Mazda RX-7 | Takashi Yorino | Allan Moffat | Rank 14 | |
1983 | Mazdaspeed | Mazda 717C | Takashi Yorino | Yoshimi Katayama | Rank 12 and class win | |
1984 | Mazdaspeed | Mazda 727C | Takashi Yorino | Pierre Dieudonné | Rank 20 | |
1985 | Mazdaspeed | Mazda 737C | Takashi Yorino | Yoshimi Katayama | Rank 24 | |
1986 | Mazdaspeed | Mazda 757 | Takashi Yorino | Yoshimi Katayama | failure | Power transmission |
1987 | Mazdaspeed | Mazda 757 | Takashi Yorino | Yoshimi Katayama | failure | Engine failure |
1988 | Mazdaspeed | Mazda 757 | Dave Kennedy | Pierre Dieudonné | 15th place and class win | |
1989 | Mazdaspeed | Mazda 767 | Marc Duez | Volker Weidler | Rank 12 | |
1990 | Mazdaspeed | Mazda 767B | Takashi Yorino | Yoshimi Katayama | Rank 20 and class win | |
1991 | Mazdaspeed | Mazda 787 | Takashi Yorino | Pierre Dieudonné | Rank 8 | |
1992 | Mazdaspeed | Mazda MXR-01 | Takashi Yorino | Maurizio Sandro Sala | failure | accident |
1993 | Lotus sport | Lotus Esprit S300 | Peter Hardman | Thorkild Thyrring | failure | Cylinder overheated |
1994 | Team Artnature | Mazda RX-7 GTO | Franck Fréon | Pierre de Thoisy | Rank 15 | |
1995 | DTR with Mazdaspeed | Kudzu DG-3 | Franck Fréon | Jim Downing | Rank 7 | |
1996 | Mazdaspeed | Kudzu DLM | Franck Fréon | Jim Downing | Rank 25 and class win | |
1997 | DTR with Mazdaspeed | Kudzu DLM4 | Franck Fréon | Jim Downing | Rank 17 | |
1998 | Courage Compétition | Courage C41 | Franck Fréon | Olivier Thévenin | Rank 16 | |
1999 | Autoexe Motorsport | Autoexe LMP99 | Franck Fréon | Robin Donovan | failure | Engine failure |
2000 | Rachel Welter | WR LMP | Richard Balandras | Sylvain Boulay | Rank 26 | |
2001 | Gérard Welter | WR LMP01 | Stéphane Daoudi | Jean-René de Fournoux | Rank 19 | |
2002 | Autoexe Motorsport | Autoexe LMP-02 | John Fergus | Jim Downing | failure | Gearbox damage |
2003 | Rachel Welter | WR LMP01 | Oliver Porta | Gavin Pickering | not classified | |
2004 | Rachel Welter | WR LM2001 | Oliver Porta | Patrice Roussel | Rank 26 | |
2005 | Rachel Welter | WR LMP04 | William Binnie | Patrice Roussel | not classified | Fire |
2006 | Binnie Motorsports | Lola B05 / 42 | William Binnie | Allen Timpany | Rank 13 | |
2007 | T2M motorsport | Dome S101.5 | Robin Longechal | Yutaka Yamagishi | failure | Motor overheated |
2008 | Terramos | Courage LC70 | Hiroki Kato | Kazuho Takashi | not classified |
Sebring results
year | team | vehicle | Teammate | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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1998 | Downing Atlanta | Kudzu DLM | Jim Pace | Jim Downing | failure | Engine failure |
1999 | Autoexe Motorsports | Autoexe LMP99 | Franck Fréon | Rank 26 | ||
2002 | Autoexe Motorsport | Autoexe LMP-02 | John Fergus | Jim Downing | Rank 25 |
Web links
- Official Homepage (Japanese)
- Information on racingsportscars.com (English)
- Information on driverdb.com (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Terada, Yōjirō |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 寺 田 陽 次郎 (Japanese) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese automobile racer |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1947 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kobe , Japan |