Taro Sekiguchi

Taro Sekiguchi (関口 太郎, Sekiguchi Tarō, born December 5, 1975 in Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese motorcycle road racer. He was the MFJ All Japan Road Race GP250 champion in 2001 and the European 250cc champion in 2003.[1]

Taro Sekiguchi
Sekiguchi in 2016
Nationality	Japanese
Born	December 5, 1975 Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan
Current team	SANMEI Team TARO PLUSONE
Bike number	44
Motorcycle racing career statistics Moto2 World Championship Active years 2016 Manufacturers TSR 2016 championship position NC (0 pts) Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points 1 0 0 0 0 0 250cc World Championship Active years 1999–2002, 2004–2007 Manufacturers Yamaha, Aprilia 2007 championship position 23rd (13 pts) Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points 62 0 0 0 0 62

Career

Sekiguchi began his Grand Prix career competing in the 1999 250cc Japanese Grand Prix. He suffered a serious accident during the 2007 Czech Republic Grand Prix warm-up at Brno, where he struck Marco Simoncelli's crashed Gilera bike at full speed; he was airlifted to a hospital in Brno, where doctors confirmed he had a broken pelvis and two fractured ribs.[2] After losing his Grand Prix ride, Sekiguchi returned to Japan, to the MFJ All Japan Road Race GP250 Championship. He moved into the MFJ All Japan Road Race ST600 Championship in 2009, before switching to the MFJ All Japan Road Race J-GP2 Championship, where he finished as runner-up in 2011, 8th in 2012, 12th in 2013, 6th in 2014 and 3rd in 2015.[1] In 2016 Sekiguchi appeared again in a Grand Prix as a wild card in the Moto2 class in his home race. In 2016, 2017 and 2018 he was again the J-GP2 runner-up and in 2019 he moved to the JSB1000 class, finishing 14th.[1]

Career statistic

Races by year

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Class	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Pos	Pts
1999	250cc	Yamaha	MAL	JPN Ret	ESP	FRA	ITA	CAT	NED	GBR	GER	CZE	IMO	VAL	AUS	RSA	BRA	ARG			NC	0
2000	250cc	Yamaha	RSA	MAL	JPN 14	ESP	FRA	ITA	CAT	NED	GBR	GER	CZE	POR	VAL	BRA	PAC	AUS			35th	2
2001	250cc	Yamaha	JPN 10	RSA	ESP	FRA	ITA	CAT 13	NED	GBR	GER	CZE 16	POR Ret	VAL 17	PAC 9	AUS 12	MAL	BRA			22nd	20
2002	250cc	Yamaha	JPN Ret	RSA Ret	ESP 15	FRA 12	ITA Ret	CAT 16	NED 17	GBR 14	GER 16	CZE	POR	BRA	PAC	MAL	AUS	VAL			29th	7
2004	250cc	Yamaha	RSA 22	ESP 15	FRA 21	ITA 21	CAT 18	NED 19	BRA 20	GER 17	GBR 19	CZE Ret	POR 17	JPN 18	QAT 13	MAL Ret	AUS Ret	VAL Ret			31st	4
2005	250cc	Aprilia	ESP	POR	CHN	FRA	ITA	CAT	NED	GBR Ret	GER 18	CZE Ret	JPN 22	MAL 10	QAT 10	AUS Ret	TUR Ret	VAL 15			21st	13
2006	250cc	Aprilia	ESP DNS	QAT	TUR	CHN	FRA	ITA	CAT	NED	GBR	GER	CZE 17	MAL 13	AUS 19	JPN 18	POR 18	VAL 16			31st	3
2007	250cc	Aprilia	QAT Ret	ESP 17	TUR Ret	CHN 14	FRA 14	ITA 15	CAT 15	GBR 13	NED 12	GER 16	CZE DNS	RSM	POR	JPN	AUS 18	MAL 18	VAL 19		23rd	13
2016	Moto2	TSR	QAT	ARG	AME	SPA	FRA	ITA	CAT	NED	GER	AUT	CZE	GBR	RSM	ARA	JPN 22	AUS	MAL	VAL	NC	0

References

1. "JSB1000 #44 関口 太郎". superbike.jp (in Japanese). MFJ. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
2. "Brno MotoGP: Taro Sekiguchi breaks pelvis in 250 horror crash". motorcyclenews.com. Bauer Consumer Media. 19 August 2007. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
3. Taro Sekiguchi career statistics at MotoGP.com

External links

• Official website
• Taro Sekiguchi at MotoGP.com
• Taro Sekiguchi at AS.com (in Spanish)