Yukio Kagayama

is a Japanese professional motorcycle road racer. He began his motorcycle racing career competing in the Japanese national championships before racing internationally in Grand Prix motorcycle racing, the Superbike World Championship as well as in the British Superbike Championship. Kagayama raced Suzuki motorcycles for the majority of his career.

Motorcycle racing career Kagayama was born in Yokohama Japan. He began motorcycle racing in 1990, competing for many years in the All Japan Road Race Championship, finishing fourth in 2001. He also contested four 250 cc World Championship races in 1997 and 1998, finishing in the top-eight in all four races. He returned for the start of 2004, finishing third in the championship despite not being at full fitness early in the season (a further crash caused a broken collarbone).

For , Kagayama joined Superbike World Champion Troy Corser in the Belgian-based Alstare Suzuki team in the Superbike World Championship, and won races on the GSX-R1000, riding on largely unfamiliar circuits against some of the world's top riders. He finished fifth overall, and did enough to retain his ride for . nearly doubling his points total in one weekend. He came seventh overall in the series. Also in 2007, Kagayama teamed up with Kousuke Akiyoshi to win the prestigious Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race for Suzuki. For 2008 he switched his racing number to #34, as used by former 500 cc World Champion Kevin Schwantz. He once again had an injury-hit season, and was easily the lowest-placed of the three works Suzuki riders in the standings.

In 2010, Kagayama returned to the British Superbike Championship riding for the Worx Suzuki team. His teammate was Tommy Hill. He finished 15th overall with one podium finish.

In 2011, Kagayama launched his own team "Team Kagayama" for a full season in the JSB (Japanese Superbike) class of the All Japan Road Race Championship. He is the owner and sole rider for the team, and the team's bike is the Suzuki GSX-R1000. Kagayama could not record a win this season and ended up fourth in the championship.

Kagayama and the team are in the 2012 championship as well and recorded a win in the sixth round at Sugo. It was the first win for Kagayama since his full-season comeback to Japan in 2011 as well as for Team Kagayama since its launch the same year.

Career rankings 1995: 11th, All Japan Road Race Championship Superbike Suzuki GSX-R750

1996: 11th, All Japan Road Race Championship GP250 Suzuki RGV250

1997: 3rd, All Japan Road Race Championship GP250 Suzuki RGV250

1998: 13th, All Japan Road Race Championship GP250 Suzuki RGV250

1999: 16th, All Japan Road Race Championship Superbike Suzuki GSX-R750

2000: 7th, All Japan Road Race Championship Superbike Suzuki GSX-R750

2001: 4th, All Japan Road Race Championship Superbike Suzuki GSX-R750

2002: Suzuki MotoGP Test Rider Suzuki GSV-R

2003: 7th, British Superbike Championship: Rizla Suzuki Crescent Suzuki GSX-R1000

2004: 3rd, British Superbike Championship: Rizla Suzuki Crescent Suzuki GSX-R1000

2005: 5th, Superbike World Championship: Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra Suzuki GSX-R1000

2006: 7th, Superbike World Championship: Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra Suzuki GSX-R1000

2007: 13th, Superbike World Championship: Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra Suzuki GSX-R1000

2008: 11th, Superbike World Championship: Team Suzuki Alstare Suzuki GSX-R1000

2009: 12th, Superbike World Championship: Team Suzuki Alstare Suzuki GSX-R1000

2010: 15th, British Superbike Championship: Worx Crescent Racing Suzuki GSX-R1000

2011: 4th, All Japan Road Race Championship JSB1000: Team Kagayama Suzuki GSX-R1000

2012: 8th, All Japan Road Race Championship JSB1000: Team Kagayama Suzuki GSX-R1000

2013: 10th, All Japan Road Race Championship JSB1000: Team Kagayama Suzuki GSX-R1000

2014: 5th, All Japan Road Race Championship JSB1000: Team Kagayama Suzuki GSX-R1000

2015- 12th, All Japan Road Race Championship JSB1000: Team Kagayama Suzuki GSX-R1000

2016- 8th, All Japan Road Race Championship JSB1000: Team Kagayama Suzuki GSX-R1000

2017- 10th, All Japan Road Race Championship JSB1000: Team Kagayama Suzuki GSX-R1000

2018- All Japan Road Race Championship JSB1000: Team Kagayama Suzuki GSX-R1000

Suzuka 8 Hours 2000 - 22nd (Team Suzuki / Atushi Watanabe / GSX-R750) 2001 - 3rd (Team Suzuki / Akira Ryo, Atsushi Watanabe / GSX-R750) 2002 - DNF (Team Suzuki / Akira Ryo / GSX-R750) 2003 - DNF (Yoshimura Suzuki / Atsushi Watanabe / GSX-R1000) 2004 - 2nd (Yoshimura Suzuki / Atsushi Watanabe / GSX-R1000) 2005 - 10th (Yoshimura Suzuki / Atsushi Watanabe / GSX-R1000) 2007 - 1st (Yoshimura Suzuki / Kousuke Akiyoshi / GSX-R1000) 2008 - 4th (Yoshimura Suzuki / Kousuke Akiyoshi / GSX-R1000) 2010 - 6th (Yoshimura Suzuki / Daisaku Sakai, Nobuatsu Aoki / GSX-R1000) 2011 - 2nd (Yoshimura Suzuki / Josh Waters, Nobuatsu Aoki / GSX-R1000) 2012 - 15th (S.E.R.T. / Vincent Philippe, Anthony Delhalle / GSX-R1000) 2013 - 3rd (Team KAGAYAMA / Kevin Schwantz, Noriyuki Haga / GSX-R1000) 2014 - 3rd (Team KAGAYAMA & Verity / Dominique Aegerter, Noriyuki Haga / GSX-R1000) 2015 - 3rd (Team KAGAYAMA / Ryuichi Kiyonari, Noriyuki Haga / GSX-R1000) 2016 - 6th (Team KAGAYAMA / Ryuichi Kiyonari, Naomichi Uramoto / GSX-R1000) [Year] - [Result] ([Team] / [Teammate(s)] / [Bike])

FIM Endurance World Championship By team Year Team Bike Rider 2012 Suzuki Endurance Racing Team Suzuki GSX-R 1000 Anthony Delhalle Freddy Foray Vincent Philippe Yukio Kagayama Takuya Tsuda 1st

Suzuka 8 Hours results Year Team Co-riders Bike 2007 with JOMO Kousuke Akiyoshi Yukio Kagayama Suzuki GSX-R1000 1st

British Superbike Championship (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Bike 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Pos Pts R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 2004 Suzuki SIL4 SILRet BHI3 BHI5 SNE1 SNE4 OUL1 OUL1 MON4 MON5 THR THR BHGP4 BHGP3 KNO3 KNO5 MAL2 MAL15 CRO2 CRORet CAD3 CAD1 OUL3 OUL3 DON14 DON5 3rd 335 Year Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Pos Pts R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 Suzuki BHI12 BHIRet THR3 THR11 OULRet OULDNS CADRet CADDNS MAL MAL KNO KNO SNE SNE21 SNE10 BHGP8 BHGP8 BHGP7 CAD7 CAD7 CRO16 CRO14 SIL13 SIL14 OUL13 OUL13 OUL11 15th 92