Taro Sekiguchi


Taro Sekiguchi 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.

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. 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. 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.

Career statistic

Grand Prix motorcycle racinghttp://www.motogp.com/en/riders/Taro+Sekiguchi Taro Sekiguchi career statistics at MotoGP.com

Races by year

YearClassBike123456789101112131415161718PosPts
1999250ccYamahaMALJPN
Ret		ESPFRAITACATNEDGBRGERCZEIMOVALAUSRSABRAARGNC0
2000250ccYamahaRSAMALJPN
14		ESPFRAITACATNEDGBRGERCZEPORVALBRAPACAUS35th2
2001250ccYamahaJPN
10		RSAESPFRAITACAT
13		NEDGBRGERCZE
16		POR
Ret		VAL
17		PAC
9		AUS
12		MALBRA22nd20
2002250ccYamahaJPN
Ret		RSA
Ret		ESP
15		FRA
12		ITA
Ret		CAT
16		NED
17		GBR
14		GER
16		CZEPORBRAPACMALAUSVAL29th7
2004250ccYamahaRSA
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		31st4
2005250ccApriliaESPPORCHNFRAITACATNEDGBR
Ret		GER
18		CZE
Ret		JPN
22		MAL
10		QAT
10		AUS
Ret		TUR
Ret		VAL
15		21st13
2006250ccApriliaESP
DNS		QATTURCHNFRAITACATNEDGBRGERCZE
17		MAL
13		AUS
19		JPN
18		POR
18		VAL
16		31st3
2007250ccApriliaQAT
Ret		ESP
17		TUR
Ret		CHN
14		FRA
14		ITA
15		CAT
15		GBR
13		NED
12		GER
16		CZE
DNS		RSMPORJPNAUS
18		MAL
18		VAL
19		23rd13
2016Moto2TSRQATARGAMESPAFRAITACATNEDGERAUTCZEGBRRSMARAJPN
22		AUSMALVALNC0