Takaaki Nakagami
Takaaki Nakagami (Japanese中 上 贵 晶, Takaaki Nakagami ); Born February 9, 1992, Chiba, Chiba prefecture) is a Japanese motorcycle racer.
Career
Nakagami began early pocket bike to ride. The Japanese Poket Bike Championships, he won three times. At the age of nine, he started on a mini bike to train.
In 2006, he became the youngest 125cc champion in the Japanese Championship. In 2007 he moved to the Spanish Championship 125 cc class. At the end of the year he was on the twelfth place overall. In the same year he played his first World Championship race in the 125cc class of the MotoGP World Championship.
2008 Nakagami drove his first full season in the 125cc class on an IC Aprilia. In the final classification, he finished with 17 points 24th place overall. His best finish was an eighth place at the Grand Prix of Great Britain. 2009 Nakagami improved its performance in this class. Both the Grand Prix of France, as well as the Grand Prix of Great Britain, he came fifth. The end of 2009 he left the motorcycle world championship and went back to Japan. There won Nakagami 2010, together with Ryuichi Kiyonari and Takumi Takahashi, the 8- hour race at Suzuka. In 2011 he won the Japanese Moto2 Championship. In the Japanese Grand Prix, he represented Claudio Corti at Italtrans team and made his debut in the Moto2 class at.
In the 2012 season, he played the entire world championship for this team. His best finish this year was a fifth place in the Grand Prix of Spain. Overall, Nakagami was 15th with 56 points at the final evaluation.
2013 started Nakagami in his second full Moto2 season. In the opening race at the Grand Prix of Qatar, he was third. In qualifying for the Grand Prix of France, Nakagami took his first pole position. During a warm -up for the Dutch TT at the TT Circuit Assen he crashed heavily and broke his left collarbone.
Statistics in the Motorcycle World Championship
(As GP of Czech Republic, August 25, 2013)