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Katsuyuki Nakasuga

{{short description|Japanese motorcycle racer}}

{{Infobox motorcycle rider

| name = Katsuyuki Nakasuga

| image = Katsuyuki Nakasuga JSB1000 Motegi 2016.jpg

| caption = Nakasuga in 2016

| nationality = Japanese

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1981|08|09|df=y}}

| birth_place = Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

| Current team = Yamaha Factory Racing Team

| Bike number = 21

| website =

| MotoGP Active years = {{MGP|2011}}–{{MGP|2018|MotoGP}}

| MotoGP Manufacturers = Yamaha

| MotoGP Championships = 0

| MotoGP Last season = 2018

| MotoGP Last position = 26th (2 pts)

| MotoGP Race Starts = 9

| MotoGP Race Wins = 0

| MotoGP Podiums = 1

| MotoGP Poles = 0

| MotoGP Fastest laps = 0

| MotoGP Total Points = 65

| 250 Active years = {{MGP|2002}}–{{MGP|2004}}

| 250 Manufacturers = Yamaha

| 250 Championships = 0

| 250 Last season = 2004

| 250 Last position = NC (0 pts)

| 250 Race Starts = 3

| 250 Race Wins = 0

| 250 Podiums = 0

| 250 Poles = 0

| 250 Fastest laps = 0

| 250 Total Points = 4

}}

{{Nihongo|Katsuyuki Nakasuga|中須賀 克行|Nakasuga Katsuyuki|born 9 August 1981 in Fukuoka Prefecture}} is a Japanese motorcycle racer.[http://race.yamaha-motor.co.jp/sp/2011jrr-suzuka/team-rider/ Yamaha team rider profile] Retrieved 13 April 2012. {{in lang|ja}} He races a factory Yamaha YZF-R1 in the JSB1000 class of the All Japan Road Race Championship. He has won the Suzuka 8 Hours four times (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018) and the JSB1000 championship title twelve times (2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023).

Career

A former average competitor in the MFJ All Japan Road Race GP250 Championship between 1999 and 2004 (25th in 1999, 11th in 2000, 20th in 2001, 5th in 2002, 8th in 2003, 5th in 2004), Nakasuga moved into the All Japan Superbike Championship with the SP Tadao Racing Team in 2005, still with average results initially (12th in 2005, 9th in 2006), before joining the YSP Yamaha factory team in 2007 and finishing 4th. He then revealed himself as one of the most successful Japanese riders of all time, winning an amazing 12 JSB1000 titles between 2008 and 2023 for Yamaha (2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023) losing the title only to Honda's Kousuke Akiyoshi in 2010 and 2011 (Nakasuga 4th and 5th), to Honda's Takumi Takahashi in 2017 (Nakasuga 6th), and to fellow Yamaha rider Kohta Nozane in 2020 (Nakasuga injured finishing only 7th.

Nakasuga had his premier class Grand Prix start at the Valencia circuit at the final race of the 2011 season as a replacement for the injured Jorge Lorenzo, finishing a creditable sixth place. In 2012, he made a wild-card appearance for Yamaha at his home race at Motegi, finishing ninth, before making another appearance for the factory team at Valencia, this time in place of the injured Ben Spies. Taking advantage of a wet circuit and numerous retirements ahead of him, Nakasuga was able to finish a distant second behind race winner Dani Pedrosa, becoming the only Japanese rider to score a podium finish in any class during 2012.

He won the Suzuka 8 Hours a record setting four times in a row, in 2015 with Pol Espargaró and Bradley Smith, in 2016 with Espargaró and Alex Lowes and in 2017 and 2018 with Lowes and Michael van der Mark.

Career statistics

=Grand Prix motorcycle racing=

==By season==

class="wikitable" style=text-align:right

!Season

!Class

!Motorcycle

!Team

!Race

!Win

!Podium

!Pole

!FLap

!Pts

!Plcd

{{MGP|2002}}

| 250cc

| Yamaha

| Technospeed Nakasuga

| 1

| 0

| 0

| 0

| 0

| 4

| 31st

{{MGP|2003}}

| 250cc

| Yamaha

| SP Tadao Racing Team

| 1

| 0

| 0

| 0

| 0

| 0

| NC

{{MGP|2004}}

| 250cc

| Yamaha

| SP Tadao Racing Team

| 1

| 0

| 0

| 0

| 0

| 0

| NC

{{MGP|2011}}

| MotoGP

| Yamaha

| Yamaha Factory Racing

| 1

| 0

| 0

| 0

| 0

| 10

| 18th

{{MGP|2012}}

| MotoGP

| Yamaha

| Yamaha YSP Racing Team
Yamaha Factory Racing

| 2

| 0

| 1

| 0

| 0

| 27

| 18th

{{MGP|2013|MotoGP}}

| MotoGP

| Yamaha

| Yamaha YSP Racing Team

| 1

| 0

| 0

| 0

| 0

| 5

| 22nd

{{MGP|2014|MotoGP}}

| MotoGP

| Yamaha

| Yamalube Racing Team with YSP

| 1

| 0

| 0

| 0

| 0

| 4

| 26th

{{MGP|2015|MotoGP}}

| MotoGP

| Yamaha

| Yamaha Factory Racing Team

| 1

| 0

| 0

| 0

| 0

| 8

| 23rd

{{MGP|2016|MotoGP}}

| MotoGP

| Yamaha

| Yamalube Yamaha Factory Racing

| 1

| 0

| 0

| 0

| 0

| 5

| 23rd

{{MGP|2017|MotoGP}}

| MotoGP

| Yamaha

| Yamalube Yamaha Factory Racing

| 1

| 0

| 0

| 0

| 0

| 4

| 26th

{{MGP|2018|MotoGP}}

| MotoGP

| Yamaha

| Yamalube Yamaha Factory Racing

| 1

| 0

| 0

| 0

| 0

| 2

| 26th

Total

|

|

|

| 12

| 0

| 1

| 0

| 0

| 69

|

==Races by year==

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

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

! Year

! Class

! Bike

! 1

! 2

! 3

! 4

! 5

! 6

! 7

! 8

! 9

! 10

! 11

! 12

! 13

! 14

! 15

! 16

! 17

! 18

! 19

! Pos

! Pts

2002

! 250cc

! Yamaha

| JPN

| RSA

| SPA

| FRA

| ITA

| CAT

| NED

| GBR

| GER

| CZE

| POR

| BRA

|style="background:#DFFFDF;"| PAC
{{small|12}}

| MAL

| AUS

| VAL

|

|

|

! 31st

! 4

2003

! 250cc

! Yamaha

|style="background:#EFCFFF;"| JPN
{{small|Ret}}

| RSA

| SPA

| FRA

| ITA

| CAT

| NED

| GBR

| GER

| CZE

| POR

| BRA

| PAC

| MAL

| AUS

| VAL

|

|

|

! NC

! 0

2004

! 250cc

! Yamaha

| RSA

| SPA

| FRA

| ITA

| CAT

| NED

| BRA

| GER

| GBR

| CZE

| POR

|style="background:#cfcfff;"| JPN
{{small|20}}

| QAT

| MAL

| AUS

| VAL

|

|

|

! NC

! 0

2011

! MotoGP

! Yamaha

| QAT

| SPA

| POR

| FRA

| CAT

| GBR

| NED

| ITA

| GER

| USA

| CZE

| INP

| RSM

| ARA

| JPN

| AUS

|style="background:#FFFFFF;"| MAL
{{small|C}}

|style="background:#DFFFDF;"| VAL
{{small|6}}

|

! 18th

! 10

{{MGP|2012}}

! MotoGP

! Yamaha

| QAT

| SPA

| POR

| FRA

| CAT

| GBR

| NED

| GER

| ITA

| USA

| INP

| CZE

| RSM

| ARA

|style="background:#DFFFDF;"| JPN
{{small|9}}

| MAL

| AUS

|style="background:#DFDFDF;"| VAL
{{small|2}}

|

! 18th

! 27

{{MGP|2013|MotoGP}}

! MotoGP

! Yamaha

| QAT

| AME

| SPA

| FRA

| ITA

| CAT

| NED

| GER

| USA

| INP

| CZE

| GBR

| RSM

| ARA

| MAL

| AUS

|style="background:#DFFFDF;"| JPN
{{small|11}}

| VAL

|

! 22nd

! 5

{{MGP|2014|MotoGP}}

! MotoGP

! Yamaha

| QAT

| AME

| ARG

| SPA

| FRA

| ITA

| CAT

| NED

| GER

| INP

| CZE

| GBR

| RSM

| ARA

|style="background:#DFFFDF;"| JPN
{{small|12}}

| AUS

| MAL

| VAL

|

! 26th

! 4

{{MGP|2015|MotoGP}}

! MotoGP

! Yamaha

| QAT

| AME

| ARG

| SPA

| FRA

| ITA

| CAT

| NED

| GER

| INP

| CZE

| GBR

| RSM

| ARA

|style="background:#dfffdf;"| JPN
{{small|8}}

| AUS

| MAL

| VAL

|

! 23rd

! 8

{{MGP|2016|MotoGP}}

! MotoGP

! Yamaha

| QAT

| ARG

| AME

| SPA

| FRA

| ITA

| CAT

| NED

| GER

| AUT

| CZE

| GBR

| RSM

| ARA

|style="background:#dfffdf;"| JPN
{{small|11}}

| AUS

| MAL

| VAL

|

! 23rd

! 5

{{MGP|2017|MotoGP}}

! MotoGP

! Yamaha

| QAT

| ARG

| AME

| SPA

| FRA

| ITA

| CAT

| NED

| GER

| CZE

| AUT

| GBR

| RSM

| ARA

|style="background:#dfffdf;"| JPN
{{small|12}}

| AUS

| MAL

| VAL

|

! 26th

! 4

{{MGP|2018|MotoGP}}

! MotoGP

! Yamaha

| QAT

| ARG

| AME

| SPA

| FRA

| ITA

| CAT

| NED

| GER

| CZE

| AUT

| GBR

| RSM

| ARA

| THA

|style="background:#dfffdf;"| JPN
{{small|14}}

| AUS

| MAL

| VAL

! 26th

! 2

=Suzuka 8 Hours results=

class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"

! Year

! Team

! Co-Riders

! Bike

! Pos

2011

| {{flagicon

} Monster Yamaha – YART

| {{flagicon|FRA}} Gwen Giabbani
{{flagicon|SVN}} Igor Jerman

| Yamaha YZF-R1

|style="background:#efcfff;" align=center| Ret

|-

! 2012

| {{flagicon|}} Monster Energy Yamaha – YART

| {{flagicon|JPN}} Noriyuki Haga
{{flagicon|GBR}} Tommy Hill

| Yamaha YZF-R1

|style="background:#efcfff;" align=center| Ret

|-

! 2013

| {{flagicon|}} Monster Energy Yamaha – YART

| {{flagicon|AUS}} Broc Parkes
{{flagicon|AUS}} Josh Waters

| Yamaha YZF-R1

|align=center| 8th

|-

! 2014

| {{flagicon|}} Monster Energy Yamaha with YSP

| {{flagicon|AUS}} Josh Brookes
{{flagicon|AUS}} Broc Parkes

| Yamaha YZF-R1

|align=center| 4th

|-

! 2015

| {{flagicon|JPN}} Yamaha Factory Racing Team

| {{flagicon|ESP}} Pol Espargaró
{{flagicon|GBR}} Bradley Smith

| Yamaha YZF-R1

!style="background:#FFFFBF;"| 1st

|-

! 2016

| {{flagicon|JPN}} Yamaha Factory Racing Team

| {{flagicon|ESP}} Pol Espargaró
{{flagicon|GBR}} Alex Lowes

| Yamaha YZF-R1

!style="background:#FFFFBF;"| 1st

|-

! 2017

| {{flagicon|JPN}} Yamaha Factory Racing Team

| {{flagicon|GBR}} Alex Lowes
{{flagicon|NLD}} Michael van der Mark

| Yamaha YZF-R1

!style="background:#FFFFBF;"| 1st

|-

! 2018

| {{flagicon|JPN}} Yamaha Factory Racing Team

| {{flagicon|GBR}} Alex Lowes
{{flagicon|NLD}} Michael van der Mark

| Yamaha YZF-R1

!style="background:#FFFFBF;"| 1st

|-

! 2019

| {{flagicon|JPN}} Yamaha Factory Racing Team

| {{flagicon|GBR}} Alex Lowes
{{flagicon|NLD}} Michael van der Mark

| Yamaha YZF-R1

!style="background:#DFDFDF;"| 2nd

|-

!colspan=5| Sources:{{cite web|url=http://www.motoracing-japan.com/result/spl/index.html#8h|title=Suzuka 8 Hours / 300km Endurance Results|work=Moto Racing Japan|accessdate=19 November 2020|archive-date=16 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170916010718/http://www.motoracing-japan.com/result/spl/index.html#8h|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.fimewc.com/results/|title=Results – FIM EWC|work=FIM Endurance World Championship|accessdate=19 November 2020}}

|}

References

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External links

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  • {{Sports links}}

{{S-start}}

{{S-sports}}

{{s-bef|before = Leon Haslam
Takumi Takahashi
Michael van der Mark}}

{{s-ttl|title = Suzuka 8 Hours
Winner|years = 2015–2018|with=Pol Espargaró (2015–2016)
Bradley Smith (2015)
Alex Lowes (2016–2018)
Michael van der Mark (2017–2018)}}

{{s-aft|after = Leon Haslam
Toprak Razgatlıoğlu
Jonathan Rea}}

{{S-end}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nakasuga, Katsuyuki}}

Category:1981 births

Category:Sportspeople from Fukuoka Prefecture

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