Hideo Kanaya

Hideo Kanaya (Japanese金谷秀 夫, Hideo Kanaya; born February 3, 1945, † December 19, 2013 ) was a Japanese motorcycle racer.

  • 3.1 External links
  • 3.2 Notes and references

Career

Hideo Kanaya began his career in his Japanese homeland. His debut in the motorcycle world championship he gave in 1967 at his home Grand Prix at Fuji Speedway on a Suzuki. Kanaya competed in the 125cc class and was behind the British Bill Ivy (Yamaha) and Stuart Graham ( Suzuki) right off the bat of third parties.

1969 Kanaya Japanese champion in the 250 cc class in 1971, he won the title in the 90 cc category, the class 250 cc of the Japanese national championship.

1972 denied Hideo Kanaya regular World Championship Grands Prix, and stood in for Yamaha. At the first race of the season, the 36th Grand Prix of Germany at the applicable dangerous Nürburgring - Nordschleife, he won the race on Yamaha the quarter-liter class in front of the top drivers Dieter Braun ( SMZ- Maico ) and Jarno Saarinen (Yamaha ). In the 350cc race of the Japanese behind Giacomo Agostini and Saarinen (MV Agusta ) was third. Already after the Belgian Grand Prix in early July Kanaya Europe left again and returned to Japan in order to devote himself to the development of the new four- cylinder two-stroke TZ- 500. The Ratings of engine sizes, he finished in eleventh place respectively eighth. In the 500cc class, the premier class of motorcycle racing, Kanaya also starred opposite Saarinen was at WM- 22nd

In the season 1973 Hideo Kanaya came alongside Jarno Saarinen at the first inscribed Yamaha factory team and reached in all of the five races in which he competed, podiums. Among them were a total of four double victories behind Saarinen, one of them in half-liter class at the Grand Prix of Austria in the Salzburg ring. After the death of the Finns in the Nations Grand Prix at Monza in May 1973, the TC -500 project was canceled and the Japanese only went in the 250cc class at the start.

After a year break Kanaya World Cup season came in 1975 in the Yamaha factory team, along with the then 14- time World Champion Giacomo Agostini from Italy in the categories to 350 and to 500 cc to. The Japanese won in Austria the runs of both classes and learned in a total of six races five podiums. The victory in the half-liter class introduced the first Grand Prix win a Japanese in the premier class at all represents the Appreciation of the 500 cc category he finished behind teammate Agostini and the Briton Phil Read (MV Agusta ) in third on what best the World Cup result of his career showed. In addition, Kanaya won in the fall also the prestigious Macau Grand Prix on the Guia Circuit.

After that Kanaya withdrew from the World Cup and only played a few races. For Yamaha, he worked as a test driver and 1982 in the development of plant machinery and production racer with. He died on December 19, 2013 unexpectedly at the age of 68 years.

Statistics

Title

In the World Motorcycle Championship

References

391079
de