Shin’ya Nakano
Shin'ya Nakano (Japanese中 野 真 矢, Nakano Shin'ya; born October 10, 1977 in Tokyo, Japan) is a former Japanese motorcycle racer.
He is not related to the former Japanese Formula 1 racer Shinji Nakano.
- 2.1 Title
- 2.2 In the World Motorcycle Championship
- 2.3 In the Superbike World Championship
- 3.1 External links
- 3.2 Notes and references
Career
Nakano began his career in the Japanese motorcycle championship. In 1998, he was on Yamaha Japanese champion in the 250 cc class.
His first Grand Prix in the MotoGP World Championship, he played on Yamaha as a wildcard rider in the 250 cc class at the Japanese Grand Prix in the 1998 season, where he took second place straight away. For the 1999 season, Nakano then moved permanently to the 250cc World Championship and competed for the Chesterfield Yamaha Tech 3 team. He won the Grand Prix of Japan and was a total of five podium finishes and 207 points in fourth place overall.
In the 2000 season Shin'ya Nakano fought with his teammate, Frenchman Olivier Jacque, and his compatriot Daijiro Katō for the World Championship in the 250 cc class. The title decision was very close. Nakano turned into the final round of last season's run at Phillip Iceland as the leader on the final straight a, in his slipstream followed Olivier Jacque. Just before the finish line swerved from the Frenchman, managed to overtake Nakano yet, and won the race 0.014 seconds ahead. Nakano Thus had with 272 to 279 points defeated and became vice world champion.
For the 2001 season, the Tech 3 team moved to the 500cc class of the Motorcycle World Championship and started again on Yamaha. The highlight this year was a third place at the Grand Prix of Germany at Sachsenring. With 155 points Nakano finished fifth in the overall classification.
MotoGP class
The following season was the half-liter to MotoGP class, were allowed to compete in the now also four-stroke. Initially, Nakano started yet on a 500 - cc two-stroke engine, later he then got a 990 cc four-stroke Yamaha, which was, however, inferior to the competition from Honda. Nakano could not win a podium place, finishing at the end of the season with 68 points only ranked eleventh overall.
The 2003 season played the Japanese turn to Yamaha D' Antin MotoGP team in by Luis d'Antin. Again, without a podium place went to Nakano with 101 points in tenth place of the World Cup overall standings.
For the 2004 season Shin'ya Nakano decided to switch to Kawasaki, the urgently needed new drivers after a disastrous debut year with Garry McCoy and Andrew Pitt. At the Grand Prix of Japan at Motegi he could enter with a third place, the first podium finish for Kawasaki. With 83 points Nakano finished tenth in the overall standings this year.
In the following two years, however, Kawasaki did not show the hoped-for development, 2005, the Japanese were in the World Cup again Tenth, in 2006, he managed to do only the 14th place overall. Therefore Shin'ya Nakano decided to accept the offer for the 2007 season of the Konica Minolta team, where he drove a Honda, which was at least equivalent to the beginning of the season of the world champion Nicky Hayden. Nevertheless he reached in 18 races only 47 points, which earned him the 17th World Cup ranking and was there never better than tenth place.
In the 2008 season Shin'ya Nakano drove in a team of ex- World Champion Fausto Gresini turn a Honda, but this time on Bridgestone tires. His teammate, Alex De Angelis of San Marino, who had risen from the 250 cc class. Nakano took constant placement in midfield and only once did not reach the points. His best result of the season was the fourth place in the Grand Prix of Czech Republic in Brno. With 126 points, the Japanese ninth position overall was.
Superbike World Championship
For the 2009 season Shin'ya Nakano signed a contract as Aprilia factory rider in the Superbike World Championship. His teammate when returning from Noale was four times the 250 cc World Champion Max Biaggi. For the third race ever with the all-new Aprilia RSV4, the first race at Losail (Qatar ), the Japanese succeeded in fourth place. After the season, however, was affected only by midfield places and frequent injuries. In the overall standings Nakano finished with 86 points to 14th place, lagging far behind the performance of Biaggi, the World Cup was fourth and almost four times as many counter import.
On 28 October 2009 Shin'ya Nakono announced his retirement from active racing. He cited problems with the ligaments in the neck area, with whom he had been struggling for an accident at the Nurburgring.
Statistics
Title
- Japanese 250 cc champion: 1998
- 250 cc World Championship runner: 2000
- 6 Grand Prix wins