Yojiro Terada
Japanese racing driver
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::summary Japanese racing driver ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Yojiro Terada |
| nationality | JPN Japanese |
| years | , – |
| teams | Mazda Automotive, Mazdaspeed, Lotus Sport, Team Artnature, T.D.R., Courage Compétition, Autoexe, Welter Racing, Binnie Motorsports, T2M Motorsport, Terramos |
| best_finish | 7th () |
| class_wins | 4 (, , , ) |
| :: |
|name = Yojiro Terada |image = |caption = |nationality = JPN Japanese |years = , – |teams = Mazda Automotive, Mazdaspeed, Lotus Sport, Team Artnature, T.D.R., Courage Compétition, Autoexe, Welter Racing, Binnie Motorsports, T2M Motorsport, Terramos |best_finish = 7th () |class_wins = 4 (, , , ) ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/T2M_Dome.jpg" caption="Dome]]-Mader during the [[2007 24 Hours of Le Mans]]."] ::
Yojiro Terada is a Japanese former racing driver from Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture.
Racing career
He began his racing career in a Honda S600 in 1969, before he was taken on as Mazda's factory driver, a position he held through the 1990s including participating in the World Sportscar Championship and All Japan Sports Prototype Championship.
He also took class wins at the 24 Hours of Daytona on two occasions, including in the Mazda RX-7's debut race in 1979, scoring a GTU class win at fifth place overall. The other occasion was a fourth place overall finish and a GTO class win in 1982.
He is known for holding the record for the second most participations in the 24 Hours of Le Mans without an overall win (behind Bob Wollek), having run on 29 occasions (28 of which were consecutive) since . He is also third behind Henri Pescarolo and Bob Wollek for the drivers with the most participations. He scored class victories at the event in 1983, 1988, 1990 and 1996, while his best overall finish was seventh in .
Business interests
When he is not racing, he runs the Tokyo-based AutoExe () tuning business, specialising in tuning parts and accessories for Mazda. and instructs on driving at NATS (Nihon Automobile High Technical School)
Family
He is the father of voice actress Haruhi Nanao.
24 Hours of Le Mans results
::data[format=table] | Year | Team | Co-Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | JPN Mazda Automotive | JPN Yasuhiro Okamoto JPN Harukuni Takahashi | Sigma MC74-Mazda | S 3.0 | 155 | NC | NC | | | JPN Mazdaspeed | JPN Hiroshi Fushida GBR Win Percy | Mazda RX-7 253i | IMSA GTO | 25 | DNF | DNF | | | JPN Mazdaspeed | JPN Takashi Yorino AUS Allan Moffat | Mazda RX-7 254i | IMSA GTX | 282 | 14th | 6th | | | JPN Mazdaspeed | JPN Takashi Yorino JPN Yoshimi Katayama | Mazda 717C | C Jr. | 302 | 12th | 1st | | | JPN Mazdaspeed | BEL Pierre Dieudonné JPN Takashi Yorino | Mazda 727C | C2 | 261 | 20th | 6th | | | JPN Mazdaspeed | JPN Yoshimi Katayama JPN Takashi Yorino | Mazda 737C | C2 | 264 | 24th | 6th | | | JPN Mazdaspeed | JPN Yoshimi Katayama JPN Takashi Yorino | Mazda 757 | GTP | 59 | DNF | DNF | | | JPN Mazdaspeed | JPN Yoshimi Katayama JPN Takashi Yorino | Mazda 757 | GTP | 34 | DNF | DNF | | | JPN Mazdaspeed | IRE David Kennedy BEL Pierre Dieudonné | Mazda 757 | GTP | 337 | 15th | 1st | | | JPN Mazdaspeed | BEL Marc Duez DEU Volker Weidler | Mazda 767 | GTP | 339 | 12th | 3rd | | | JPN Mazdaspeed | JPN Yoshimi Katayama JPN Takashi Yorino | Mazda 767B | GTP | 304 | 20th | 1st | | | JPN Mazdaspeed FRA Oreca | BEL Pierre Dieudonné JPN Takashi Yorino | Mazda 787 | C2 | 346 | 8th | 8th | | | JPN Mazdaspeed FRA Oreca | BRA Maurizio Sandro Sala JPN Takashi Yorino | Mazda MXR-01 | C1 | 124 | DNF | DNF | | | GBR Lotus Sport GBR Chamberlain Engineering | GBR Peter Hardman DEN Thorkild Thyrring | Lotus Esprit S300 | GT | 92 | DNF | DNF | | | JPN Team Artnature | FRA Franck Fréon FRA Pierre de Thoisy | Mazda RX-7 | IMSA GTS | 250 | 15th | 2nd | | | USA D.T.R. JPN Mazdaspeed | USA Jim Downing FRA Franck Fréon | Kudzu DG-3-Mazda | WSC | 282 | 7th | 3rd | | | JPN Mazdaspeed | USA Jim Downing FRA Franck Fréon | Kudzu DLM-Mazda | LMP2 | 251 | 25th | 1st | | | USA Team D.T.R JPN Mazdaspeed | USA Jim Downing FRA Franck Fréon | Kudzu DLM-4-Mazda | LMP | 263 | 17th | 6th | | | FRA Courage Compétition | FRA Franck Fréon FRA Olivier Thévenin | Courage C36-Porsche | LMP1 | 300 | 16th | 5th | | | JPN Autoexe Motorsport | FRA Franck Fréon GBR Robin Donovan | Autoexe LMP99-Ford | LMP | 74 | DNF | DNF | | | FRA Rachel Welter | FRA Richard Balandras FRA Sylvain Boulay | WR LMP-Peugeot | LMP675 | 266 | 26th | 2nd | | | FRA Gerard Welter | FRA Stéphane Daoudi FRA Jean-René de Fournoux | WR LMP01-Peugeot | LMP675 | 245 | 19th | 2nd | | | JPN Autoexe Motorsport | USA John Fergus USA Jim Downing | Autoexe (WR) LMP-02-Mazda | LMP675 | 5 | DNF | DNF | | | FRA Rachel Welter | FRA Olivier Porta GBR Gavin Pickering | WR LMP01-Peugeot | LMP675 | 235 | NC | NC | | | FRA Rachel Welter | FRA Patrice Roussel FRA Olivier Porta | WR LM2001-Peugeot | LMP2 | 270 | 26th | 2nd | | | FRA Rachel Welter | FRA Patrice Roussel USA William Binnie | WR LMP04-Peugeot | LMP2 | 233 | NC | NC | | | USA Binnie Motorsports | USA William Binnie GBR Allen Timpany | Lola B05/42-Zytek | LMP2 | 326 | 13th | 2nd | | | JPN T2M Motorsport | FRA Robin Longechal JPN Yutaka Yamagishi | Dome S101.5-Mader | LMP2 | 56 | DNF | DNF | | | JPN Terramos | JPN Hiroki Katoh JPN Kazuho Takahashi | Courage LC70-Mugen | LMP1 | 224 | NC | NC | | ::
References
References
- [http://www.teradayojiro.com/about/ 寺田陽次郎公式ウェブサイト » 寺田陽次郎について] {{webarchive. link. (October 5, 2007)
- [http://wsrp.ic.cz/imsa1979.html World Sports Racing Prototypes – IMSA 1979] {{webarchive. link. (September 19, 2007)
- [http://wsrp.ic.cz/imsa1982.html World Sports Racing Prototypes – IMSA 1982] {{webarchive. link. (October 24, 2006)
- "The Most Regular Competitors". [[Automobile Club de l'Ouest]] (ACO).
- {{in lang. ja [http://www.autoexe.co.jp/SozaiTopPage/indexShincyaku.html Welcome AutoExe Page] {{webarchive. link. (November 17, 2007)
- "Mazda Roadster by Autoexe, HDTV : Nihon Car .com".
- {{in lang. ja [http://www.nats.ac.jp/pc/history/point.html 学園の10大ポイント] {{webarchive. link. (November 10, 2007)
- "Yojiro Terada". [[Automobile Club de l'Ouest]].
- "Yojiro Terada Results". Motorsport Stats.
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