Takaaki Nakagami

Takaaki Nakagami is a Japanese Grand Prix motorcycle racer, born in Chiba on 9 February 1992, who competed for Idemitsu Honda LCR in the MotoGP class until retiring from full time competition after the 2024 season. He won every race of the 2006 Japanese Road Race Championship 125cc class, becoming its youngest ever champion, and later took the J-GP2 title. He won the Suzuka 8 Hours in 2010. In the Moto2 World Championship he rode for Italtrans Racing Team from 2012, took his first podium at the opening round of 2013 and finished that season eighth overall with 149 points, after four second places in a row. Since 2025 he has acted as a test rider for HRC in Japan and as team liaison for Honda's Japanese and Italian teams in MotoGP.