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]

Taro Sekiguchi
Sekiguchi in 2016
NationalityJapanese
Born (1975-12-05) December 5, 1975
Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan
Current teamSANMEI Team TARO PLUSONE
Bike number44
Motorcycle racing career statistics
Moto2 World Championship
Active years2016
ManufacturersTSR
2016 championship positionNC (0 pts)
Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points
1 0 0 0 0 0
250cc World Championship
Active years1999–2002, 2004–2007
ManufacturersYamaha, Aprilia
2007 championship position23rd (13 pts)
Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points
62 0 0 0 0 62

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

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