Kunimitsu Takahashi
Kunimitsu Takahashi (Japanese高桥 国 光, Kunimitsu Takahashi, born January 29, 1940 in Koganei, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan) is a former Japanese motorcycle and car racers.
Takahashi began his career as a motorcycle racer and won the first Japanese in 1961 a World Championship race of the 250 cc class on a Honda. At the age of 21, he won the Grand Prix of Germany. A serious accident at the Tourist Trophy on the Isle of Man in 1962 hindered the two-wheeled ambitions of the young Japanese term. After four motorcycle Grand Prix wins he moved in 1965 to four wheels.
Takahashi drove in the 1960s in the Japanese Group C Championships and in 1977 took over the old Tyrrell 007 by Kazuyoshi Hoshino deal with this already aged race car at the Grand Prix of Japan to go to the start. In Fuji he drove the from a Cosworth engine driven cars to ninth.
At the beginning of the 1980s he was a factory driver at Kojima in Formula 2 and drove in the same single-seater class Toleman TG280 one with Yokohama tires. Four times he was in the decade of Japanese sports car champion, his partners were the powerful sports car driver Kenny Acheson, Stanley Dickens and Kenji Takahashi.
In the 1990s, he drove in the Japanese Formula 3000 Championship and drove a Honda NSX in the Japanese GT Championship.