Yoshihide Muroya

Yoshihide Muroya, called Yoshi, is a Japanese aerobatic pilot who raced in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship and won its world title in 2017. Born in 1973, he began glider flight training in 1991 because it was an inexpensive way to fly, earned his airplane licence in the United States at the age of twenty, and then trained abroad for two months a year while working to pay for it. In 2009 he entered the Red Bull Air Race World Championship as the first Japanese and first Asian pilot, finishing sixth in the final race in Barcelona. He has flown some 170 air shows over twelve years, and in 2021 he partnered with Lexus to launch the Lexus Pathfinder Air Racing team.