Taro Sekiguchi

Taro Sekiguchi
Sekiguchi in 2016
Nationality	Japanese
Born	(1975-12-05) December 5, 1975 (age 41) Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan
Current team	MISTRESA with HARC-PRO
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 23th (13 pts) Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points 62 0 0 0 0 62

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.

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.

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