Taro Sekiguchi
# 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.

## 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. 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. 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.

## Career statistic

### Grand Prix motorcycle racing

**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 |
