Shuhei Aoyama
Shūhei Aoyama (Japanese青山 周 平, Aoyama Shūhei; born December 5, 1984 in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese motorcycle racer.
In 2008 he starts to Honda CBR 1000 RR in the Alto Evolution Honda team in the Superbike World Championship. His older brother Hiroshi is motorcycle racer and was also in the 2009 world champion in the 250 cc class, and thus the last quarter- liter World Champion in history.
Career
Shūhei Aoyama began at the age of three years in order to drive pocket bikes. At 13, he enrolled for the local 80 - cc class, with 16 years Aoyama took part in the Japanese motorcycle road championship. In 2003, he secured in the 125 cc class his first Japanese championship, brother Hiroshi won in the same year the title in the 250cc class. In 2005 Shūhei Aoyama celebrated winning the Japanese 250 cc Championship.
Motorcycle Championships
In 2001 Shūhei Aoyama was the Pacific Grand Prix debut in the motorcycle world championship. By 2005, then was followed by sporadic WRC rounds, usually as a wildcard rider for Honda respectively at staged in Japan race. His best finish here he reached in 2002 with sixth at 125 cc Grand Prix of Japan.
For the 2006 season Shūhei Aoyama rose as a regular driver in the 250cc class of the World Cup, where he started in the Repsol Honda team. After a short familiarization period the Japanese succeeded in finishing third at the Grand Prix of France in Le Mans, his first and only podium finish in the World Cup. In the second half of the season Aoyama was a regular in the top six, thus securing eighth place in the overall standings.
The 2007 season was not quite as positive as the previous one for Shūhei Aoyama. He did not reach the podium and only the twelfth World Cup ranking, which is no longer -driven development, he was mainly 250 cc two-stroke on the part owed by Honda. Only with the pole position at his home Grand Prix in Motegi, he could put an exclamation point.
Superbike World Championship
For the 2008 season Shūhei Aoyama moved to the Superbike World Championship, where he piloted a Honda CBR 1000 RR Team Alto Evolution Honda.
Achievements
- 2003 - Japanese 125 cc champion
- 2005 - Japanese 250 cc champion