Youichi Ui
Yōichi Ui (Japanese宇井 阳 一, Ui Yōichi; born November 27, 1972 in Tako, Chiba Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese motorcycle racer.
In his career, he was twice runner-up world champion in the 125cc class of the MotoGP World Championship.
Career
Yōichi Ui won the 1995 Yamaha on the Japanese 125 cc Championship, the same year he made his debut at the Grand Prix of Japan at Suzuka in the 125cc World Championship. From the following season, he raced short permanently in Team Yamaha in the 125cc World Championship with 36 points and reached the 18th World Cup ranking. In 1997, the Japanese grew to the twelfth place overall, in 1998 he reached eleventh place in the World Cup.
For the 1999 season changed Yōichi Ui for Italian manufacturer Derbi, where he was on the side of Pablo Nieto pilot plant and in the first year again WM Eleventh. In the 2000 season Ui succeeded at his home Grand Prix, the first Grand Prix victory, the course of the season, four more followed. In the overall standings, he had to so with 13 points behind only the Italian Aprilia riders Roberto Locatelli beaten. The following year Ui even get six wins. After an exciting season final sprint, in which the Japanese the championship leader Manuel Poggiali San Marino almost caught up, jumped in the standings but again only out of second place. Ui presented so that the sr by Kenny Roberts. 1983 established record for the most wins this season without winning a world title. 2002 did not make it Yōichi Ui to build on the results of the previous two years. Second place in the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello, it was only a podium finish and closed the season as Thirteenth.
2003 Yōichi Ui went for sterile Garda Racing and the Free Soul Racing Team Aprilia Gilera or at the start and again reached the 13 World Cup ranking. In 2004, he played only the first half of the season in the 125 cc class and was 22 overall. In the second half of the season, he raced four times for Harris -WCM in the MotoGP class and could retract his only point for the British team at the Japanese Grand Prix. As of 2005, Ui concentrated again to the Japanese championship. 2006 and 2007, the Japanese went in his home race on Yamaha in the 250 cc class at the start, but was able to achieve any significant results. In 2007, he won with Yamaha in the 250cc category 's second Japanese championship, followed in 2009 in the same class the third title.
In the 133 motorcycle Grands Prix, which denied Yōichi Ui in his career, he succeeded in eleven wins, 22 podiums, 17 pole positions and nine fastest laps.