Date of birth: 7th May 1974
Place of birth: Yokohama
Residence: Yokohama and Liège
Marital status: Married to Kyomi, with two daughters – Sakura and Nana
Height: 1.68m
Weight: 67kg
Hobbies: golf, go-karting
Website: http://www.kagayama.com/
Bike 2009: Suzuki GSX-R 1000 K9
Yukio Kagayama wins in Brno
Yukio Kagayama wins in Lausitz
from: http://www.alstare.net/index.php/eng/Riders/Yukio-Kagayama
- 2008
11th - World Superbike Championship - 2007
13th - World Superbike Championship - 2006
7th - World Superbike Championship (3 wins) - 2005
5th - World Superbike Championship (1 win) - 2004
3rd - British Superbike Championship (3 wins) // Ran two races in MotoGP for the Suzuki squad - 2003
British Superbike Championship (3 wins) - 2002
3 wins in the All Japan Superbike Championship with a prototype Suzuki GSV-R - 2001
4th - All Japan Superbike Championship - 2000
7th - All Japan Superbike Championship - 1999
7th - All Japan Superbike Championship - 1998
6th - Japanese 250 GP // 6th - Malaysian 500 GP - 1997
3rd - All Japan Championship // 6th - Japanese 250 GP // 7th - Australian 500 GP - 1996
11th - All Japan 250cc Championship - 1995
11th - All Japan Championship - 1993
Suzuki test rider (500 GP) - 1990
First race
Yukio was born on the 7th of May in Yokohama, Japan and it is still his hometown today - apart from his European base in Belgium during the race season. His family live there and Yukio is happy to spend his life there when he’s not racing.
His passion for motorcycle racing started when he was in elementary school and he watched GPs on TV. His passion soon turned into an addiction and, at about eight years old, he ‘stole’ his mother’s scooter and went out for a ride! As he grew up, he spent more and more time with his older brother because he found his peers a bit immature. It was his older brother who got Yukio more and more involved with motorcyles, and it wasn’t too long before Yukio went on the track for the first time - age 15 - on a 50 cc roadbike.
That was the start of a life in racing and although Yukio experienced the usual financial problems, he showed his skill and determination right from the start. After progressing through the ranks of national racing, Yukio decided that his future lay outside of his homeland and so he moved to England to race in the highly-competitive and well regarded British Superbike Championship with Suzuki. In 2003, a crash at Cadwell Park nearly took his life, but Yukio returned to action in less than a year and finished third in the series - despite being very much injured. The highlight of the year was winning at Cadwell and doing a burn-out in front of the crash barrier where he had suffered his near-fatal crash!
Yukio joined the Alstare team in 2005 and tasted WSBK success in the first round in Qatar, before going on to finish fifth in his debut year. Off the track, Yukio is one of the most light-hearted and popular guys in the paddock and has built up a huge fan-base worldwide. For him racing is not just a job, it is a passion!
No comments:
Post a Comment