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Taro Sekiguchi
Sekiguchi in 2016
NationalityJapanese
Born (1975-12-05) December 5, 1975 (age 48)
Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan
Current teamSANMEI Team TARO PLUSONE
Bike number44
Motorcycle racing career statistics
Moto2 World Championship
Active years 2016
Manufacturers TSR
2016 championship positionNC (0 pts)
Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points
1 0 0 0 0 0
250cc World Championship
Active years 1999– 2002, 2004– 2007
Manufacturers Yamaha, Aprilia
2007 championship position23rd (13 pts)
Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points
62 0 0 0 0 62

Taro Sekiguchi (関口 太郎, Sekiguchi Tarō, born December 5, 1975 in Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese motorcycle road racer. He was the MFJ All Japan Road Race GP250 champion in 2001 and the European 250cc champion in 2003. [1]

Career

Sekiguchi began his Grand Prix career competing in the 1999 250cc Japanese Grand Prix. He suffered a serious accident during the 2007 Czech Republic Grand Prix warm-up at Brno, where he struck Marco Simoncelli's crashed Gilera bike at full speed; he was airlifted to a hospital in Brno, where doctors confirmed he had a broken pelvis and two fractured ribs. [2] After losing his Grand Prix ride, Sekiguchi returned to Japan, to the MFJ All Japan Road Race GP250 Championship. He moved into the MFJ All Japan Road Race ST600 Championship in 2009, before switching to the MFJ All Japan Road Race J-GP2 Championship, where he finished as runner-up in 2011, 8th in 2012, 12th in 2013, 6th in 2014 and 3rd in 2015. [1] In 2016 Sekiguchi appeared again in a Grand Prix as a wild card in the Moto2 class in his home race. In 2016, 2017 and 2018 he was again the J-GP2 runner-up and in 2019 he moved to the JSB1000 class, finishing 14th. [1]

Career statistic

Grand Prix motorcycle racing [3]

Races by year

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Class Bike 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Pos Pts
1999 250cc Yamaha MAL JPN
Ret 		ESP FRA ITA CAT NED GBR GER CZE IMO VAL AUS RSA BRA ARG NC 0
2000 250cc Yamaha RSA MAL JPN
14 		ESP FRA ITA CAT NED GBR GER CZE POR VAL BRA PAC AUS 35th 2
2001 250cc Yamaha JPN
10 		RSA ESP FRA ITA CAT
13 		NED GBR GER CZE
16 		POR
Ret 		VAL
17 		PAC
9 		AUS
12 		MAL BRA 22nd 20
2002 250cc Yamaha JPN
Ret 		RSA
Ret 		ESP
15 		FRA
12 		ITA
Ret 		CAT
16 		NED
17 		GBR
14 		GER
16 		CZE POR BRA PAC MAL AUS VAL 29th 7
2004 250cc Yamaha RSA
22 		ESP
15 		FRA
21 		ITA
21 		CAT
18 		NED
19 		BRA
20 		GER
17 		GBR
19 		CZE
Ret 		POR
17 		JPN
18 		QAT
13 		MAL
Ret 		AUS
Ret 		VAL
Ret 		31st 4
2005 250cc Aprilia ESP POR CHN FRA ITA CAT NED GBR
Ret 		GER
18 		CZE
Ret 		JPN
22 		MAL
10 		QAT
10 		AUS
Ret 		TUR
Ret 		VAL
15 		21st 13
2006 250cc Aprilia ESP
DNS 		QAT TUR CHN FRA ITA CAT NED GBR GER CZE
17 		MAL
13 		AUS
19 		JPN
18 		POR
18 		VAL
16 		31st 3
2007 250cc Aprilia QAT
Ret 		ESP
17 		TUR
Ret 		CHN
14 		FRA
14 		ITA
15 		CAT
15 		GBR
13 		NED
12 		GER
16 		CZE
DNS 		RSM POR JPN AUS
18 		MAL
18 		VAL
19 		23rd 13
2016 Moto2 TSR QAT ARG AME SPA FRA ITA CAT NED GER AUT CZE GBR RSM ARA JPN
22 		AUS MAL VAL NC 0

References

  1. ^ a b c "JSB1000 #44 関口 太郎". superbike.jp (in Japanese). MFJ. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Brno MotoGP: Taro Sekiguchi breaks pelvis in 250 horror crash". motorcyclenews.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 19 August 2007. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  3. ^ Taro Sekiguchi career statistics at MotoGP.com

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Sporting positions
Preceded by 250 cc motorcycle European Champion
2003 		Succeeded by
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