Hiroshi Takagi

Hiroshi Takagi (born on February 17, 1946 in Fukoka, Japan) is a retired racing driver from Japan. He drove for Tyrrell in the 1979 Formula One season, having a serious feud with Mario Andretti that year. Andretti notably collided with Takagi four times in three races, and following this and Andretti's lackluster results, he was replaced with Derek Daly from Canadian round onwards, ending Takagi's feud with Andretti (although Takagi ended up crashing with Daly in the finale of 1979). In 1980, Hiroshi stayed with Tyrrell and declared war against McLaren and Merzario as well as saying that Andretti was cursed (actually turned out true).

After retiring from motor racing, he set-up a racing team, the Takagi Motor Racing Team, which later Kazuhiko took over after he retired too, rechristened as Takagi Racing Enterprises, which is currently competing in IFRC, having previously also running the team in other various series, including Super GT and F3RWRS. Hiroshi is currently married to Yuki, a (retired) singer, and has two sons, Kazuhiko and Tetsuya, both racing drivers.

Results

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	WDC	Points
1979	Candy Team Tyrrell	Tyrrell 009	Ford Cosworth DFV	ARG 2	BRA Ret	RSA 9	USW 11	ESP Ret	BEL 8	MON Ret	FRA Ret	GBR 8	GER 6	AUT Ret	NED 9	ITA Ret	EUR 5	CAN Ret	USA Ret	AUS Ret	13th	17
1980	Team Tyrrell	Tyrrell 010	Ford Cosworth DFV	AUS DNQ	RSA DNQ	BRA 11	BEL 8	FRA 10	MON Ret	SUI 8	USA Ret	CAN Ret	IRE Ret	GBR 8	GER DNQ	EUR 14	AUT DNQ	ITA 15	JAP EX	USE EX	30th	0