Katsuyuki Nakasuga


Katsuyuki Nakasuga is a Japanese motorcycle racer. 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 and the JSB1000 championship title thirteen times.
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Career

A former average competitor in the MFJ All Japan Road Race GP250 Championship between 1999 and 2004, Nakasuga moved into the All Japan Superbike Championship with the SP Tadao Racing Team in 2005, still with average results initially, 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 losing the title only to Honda's Kousuke Akiyoshi in 2010 and 2011, to Honda's Takumi Takahashi in 2017, 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.
Nakasuga 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

Races by year

YearClassBike12345678910111213141516171819PosPts
2002250ccYamahaJPNRSASPAFRAITACATNEDGBRGERCZEPORBRAPAC
12		MALAUSVAL31st4
2003250ccYamahaJPN
Ret		RSASPAFRAITACATNEDGBRGERCZEPORBRAPACMALAUSVALNC0
2004250ccYamahaRSASPAFRAITACATNEDBRAGERGBRCZEPORJPN
20		QATMALAUSVALNC0
2011MotoGPYamahaQATSPAPORFRACATGBRNEDITAGERUSACZEINPRSMARAJPNAUSMAL
C		VAL
6		18th10
MotoGPYamahaQATSPAPORFRACATGBRNEDGERITAUSAINPCZERSMARAJPN
9		MALAUSVAL
2		18th27
MotoGPYamahaQATAMESPAFRAITACATNEDGERUSAINPCZEGBRRSMARAMALAUSJPN
11		VAL22nd5
MotoGPYamahaQATAMEARGSPAFRAITACATNEDGERINPCZEGBRRSMARAJPN
12		AUSMALVAL26th4
MotoGPYamahaQATAMEARGSPAFRAITACATNEDGERINPCZEGBRRSMARAJPN
8		AUSMALVAL23rd8
MotoGPYamahaQATARGAMESPAFRAITACATNEDGERAUTCZEGBRRSMARAJPN
11		AUSMALVAL23rd5
MotoGPYamahaQATARGAMESPAFRAITACATNEDGERCZEAUTGBRRSMARAJPN
12		AUSMALVAL26th4
MotoGPYamahaQATARGAMESPAFRAITACATNEDGERCZEAUTGBRRSMARATHAJPN
14		AUSMALVAL26th2

All Japan Road Race Championship

Races by year

YearClassBike12345678910PosPts
2025JSB1000YamahaMOT
2		SUG1
1		SUG2
1		MOT1
2		MOT2
2		AUT1
1		AUT2
1		OKA
1		SUZ1
DNS		SUZ2
DNS		1st185