Taro Sekiguchi

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]

Career statistic

Grand Prix motorcycle racings^[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 2 "ライダープロフィール #44 関口太郎". superbike.jp (in Japanese). MFJ. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
↑ "Brno MotoGP: Taro Sekiguchi breaks pelvis in 250 horror crash". motorcyclenews.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 19 August 2007. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
↑ Taro Sekiguchi career statistics at MotoGP.com

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

250 cc Motorcycle European Champions

1924 Maurice van Geert
1925–1926 Jock Porter
1927–1928 Cecil Ashby
1929 Frank Longman
1930 Syd Crabtree
1931 Graham Walker
1932 Riccardo Brusi
1933 Charlie Dodson
1934 Walfried Winkler
1935 Arthur Geiss
1936 Henry Tyrell-Smith
1937 Omobono Tenni
1938–1939 Ewald Kluge
1947 Bruno Francisci
1948 Maurice Cann
1981 Herbert Hauf
1982 Reinhold Roth
1983 Carlos Cardús
1984 Gary Noel
1985 Massimo Matteoni
1986 Hans Lindner
1987 Xavier Cardelús
1988 Fausto Ricci
1989 Andrea Borgonovo
1990 Leon van der Heijen
1991 Max Biaggi
1992 Luis Carlos Maurel
1993 Giuseppe Fiorillo
1994 Régis Laconi
1995 Luca Boscoscuro
1996 Sebastián Porto
1997 Davide Bulega
1998 Alex Hofmann
1999 Ivan Clementi
2000 Riccardo Chiarello
2001 David García
2002 Álvaro Molina
2003 Taro Sekiguchi
2004–2007 Álvaro Molina

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