Satoshi Sakeyama

Satoshi Sakeyama (born 7/4/1991 in Japan) is a Japanese driver who has competed in the F1RSTC series before retiring at age 24.

Career

Sakeyama went into motoracing at age 12 when he went entered the local kart championship. Immientaly he struggled to gain any teams attention after failiing in his first two years. The struggle in those early years was the motavion for the up coming years in kart and it delievered with a 8th place finish in the championship in 2005 giving the youngster hope.

After that season, Exceed Motorsports offered the Japanese driver a two year contract to compete in the Japanese Formula Three championship. Four rounds later, and he would be evently dropped from the team to be replaced by Satoru Okada who would come in 13th in the championship. Satoshi was once again without a race team to compete with.

After a brief apperance Team Cerumo in the Formula Nippon and Super GT for Cusco Racing, he was out of options. That was until a surprise offer from Wiechers-Sport in the WTCC gave him a shot in the Round of Japan. Satoshi delievered with a 14th and 12th in both races. Both results delievered the stay of his seat for the Asian rounds the next year in which he would deliever his first point in Macau after getting past Franz Engstler on the last lap in the second race.

Results

F1RSTC

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	DC	Pts
2015-16	Massive Motorsport	Holden Commodore VL	BRA 8	BIR 3	GRO 25	LUX Ret	HOL Ret	AKR 13	AUC 15	CLY 22	BTH 14	20th	15

Career Summary

Year	Series	Team	Position
2003	Japanese Junior Kart Championship	Independent	19th
2004	Japanese Junior Kart Championship	Independent	17th
2005	Japanese Junior Kart Championship	Independent	8th
2006	Japanese Formula Three	Exceed Motorsports	15th
2007	Formula Nippon	Team Cerumo	NC
2008	Super GT	Cusco Racing	NC
2009	World Touring Car Championship	Wiechers-Sport	NC
2010	World Touring Car Championship	Wiechers-Sport	22nd