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