Satoshi Motoyama

Satoshi Motoyama
Satoshi Motoyama
	Motoyama in 2010.
Nationality	Japanese
Born	4 March 1971 (age 53); Tokyo, Japan
Super GT career
Debut season	1997 (GT500)
Current team	Nismo
Car number	23
Starts	104
Wins	12
Previous series
1990–1995; 1995-1997; 1996-2008; 1996	All-Japan F3; JTCC; Formula Nippon; JGTC GT300
Championship titles
1998, 2001, 2003 and 2005; 2003-2004; 2008	Formula Nippon; ; JGTC (GT500); Super GT (GT500)

Satoshi Motoyama (本山哲 - Motoyama Satoshi; born March 4, 1971 in Tokyo) is a Japanese racing driver.

Career

Motoyama gathered an impressive resume of results in his native country, winning the Formula Nippon championship in 1998, 2001, 2003, and 2005. He also competes in the Japan GT Championship and won that series title in 2003, 2004 and 2008, sharing the car with Michael Krumm, Richard Lyons and Benoît Tréluyer respectively. Motoyama and Tréluyer won the 2008 championship with 3 wins in 9 races. Motoyama is a Nissan driver, and he has competed in the JGTC / Super GT for Nismo and Autech with the Nissan Z-car, Nissan Skyline GT-R and Nissan GT-R.

The closest Motoyama has come to Formula One was a Friday test for Jordan at the 2003 Japanese Grand Prix, and a pre-season test session with Renault in 2004.

Motoyama has competed at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the main sports prototype class. He drove a Nissan R390 GT1 works car in 1998, finishing 10th, and he retired in 1999 with a Nissan R391. In 2012, he will drive the Nissan-powered DeltaWing experimental car for Highcroft Racing, joining Krumm and Marino Franchitti. Also in 1999, he won the 1999 Le Mans Fuji 1000 km in a R391.

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
2003	Jordan Ford	Jordan EJ13	Ford V10	AUS	MAL	BRA	SMR	ESP	AUT	MON	CAN	EUR	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	ITA	USA	JPN TD	—	—

Year	Class	No	Tyres	Car	Team	Co-Drivers	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1998	GT1	33	B	Nissan R390 GT1 Nissan VRH35L 3.5L Turbo V8	Nissan Motorsports TWR	Takuya Kurosawa Masami Kageyama	319	10	9
1999	LMP	22	B	Nissan R391 Nissan VRH50A 5.0L V8	Nissan Motorsports	Michael Krumm Érik Comas	110	DNF	DNF

Sporting positions
Preceded by Pedro de la Rosa	Formula Nippon Champion 1998	Succeeded by Tom Coronel
Preceded by Toranosuke Takagi	Formula Nippon Champion 2001	Succeeded by Ralph Firman
Preceded by Ralph Firman	Formula Nippon Champion 2003	Succeeded by Richard Lyons
Preceded by Juichi Wakisaka Akira Iida	Japan GT Championship Champion 2003 - 2004 with:Michael Krumm **with:Richard Lyons	Succeeded by Yuji Tachikawa Toranosuke Takagi
Preceded by Richard Lyons	Formula Nippon Champion 2005	Succeeded by Benoît Tréluyer
Preceded by Daisuke Ito Ralph Firman	Super GT・GT500 Champion 2008 with: Benoît Tréluyer	Succeeded by Juichi Wakisaka André Lotterer

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