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.
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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 |