Haruki Noguchi

Haruki Noguchi was a Japanese motorcycle racer, born on 20 June 2001 in Nara Prefecture, who rode for SDG Honda Racing. He began riding motorcycles at the age of five and studied at the Faculty of Industrial Sociology at Ritsumeikan University alongside his racing. After his first win in the Idemitsu Asia Talent Cup at Suzuka in 2017, he placed second in the Asia Talent Cup standings in 2018 and third in the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup in 2019. In 2021 he won the Superstock 600 category of the All Japan Road Race Championship, and in 2022 he moved up to the Superbike 1000 class, finishing second in the Asia Superbike 1000 section of the Asia Road Racing Championship. He died in August 2023, at age 22, after being injured in a road race in Indonesia.